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10/12/2019

Turns out it's no better in Australia when it comes to facts versus fiction. Still before that lets catch up with today's local fake news.

Starting with our Anorak Reporter Frederick Rant who informs us that... You will discover for yourself that it was Jim who started digging at Paul's involvement with IoMIB. I AM NOT Admin or Moderator - i took exception to one individual using 'Weebly' forum to post many FALSE comments about Radio Caroline I have NEVER published because the same person has Venomous hatred & outright jealousy of Peter Moore having community radio licence on 648kHz following substantial application in October 2016.

We ran this through our stupidity checker and it scored a perfect ten, but sadly our spontaneous rant monitor is beyond repair (and for new visitors here Peter Moore does not exist - it's a fake name).

Next up with have the three week attendee of the 'how not to do radio academy' the pro himself who tells us.... For the avoidance of doubt, I did not place the locked post at the top of here. I should think the Admins did so after they too simply had enough of me being an Aunt Sally for the bully boys? The pitching of unrelated questions about my earnings while casting insolent aspersions about my qualifications and experience (and then expecting an answer) is outrageous behaviour.

The text in the forum's top post is something I think I wrote, but clearly it was many weeks ago. I'm grateful for all publicity for the book, and publicly thank the Admins for putting that up. I'll continue to answer reasonable questions, but won't be intimidated by jeers and heckling from anyone who seems to be too ashamed to identify themselves. Save your keystrokes & bandwidth; the garbage strewn about the threads is a bit like flytipping - a scourge.

We have used Google Translate applying the selective memory filter, and the monumental ego reduction resistance mode to modify this news item as follows --- For the avoidance of ridicule, I did not place the locked post at the top of Mount Everest. I should think the Censors did so after they too simply had enough of me being a target by the truth seekers. The pitching of unrelated questions about my knowledge and sources while casting insolent aspersions about my lack of spelling qualifications and in-experience (and then expecting honesty) is normal behaviour.

The text in the forum's top post is something I think I wrote, but clearly it was many weeks ago. (thankfully my recall from three weeks at sea in 1973 in practically perfect) I'm grateful for all publicity and money for the book, and publicly thank the Admins for putting up with that up. I'll continue to answer chosen and ego boosting questions, but won't be intimidated by jeers and heckling from anyone who seems to be to want factual answers about the glaring errors. Save your keystrokes & bandwidth; the garbage strewn about the threads is a bit like fly fishing - a Trout.

Anyway lets take a trip down under and see if the Southern Hemisphere has escaped the Fiction Lovers, it appears not.

25 Comments

Mervyn Hagger

10/12/2019 10:44:40 pm

Mike - I watched the video and I also listened to Rush dissect the major Report that was issued yesterday that really debunks all of the wild and stupid allegations against Trump. But the headlines? They tried to turn it into a pro-anti-Trump message by saying that the false allegations (which originated in London at MI6 with payment by Hillary Clinton!), well, they were not partisan wild allegations and therefore the wild allegations are true - when they are false. The world has gone bonkers. But you began your editorial by referring back to the subject of Radio Caroline. Well, it may come as a surprise but not one book published to date has a bone fide timeline with source notes that covers the actual history of Radio Caroline 1964-1967. Instead, there are piles of anecdotal stories from people who were not the people behind the scenes and not the people who raised the money. Not one single book. Instead just a lot of waffle and now we have a waffling bible to add to the pile of bilge. So the Aussie commentator is right. No one cares about the facts ... or do they? Certainly the morons at street level do not. But the courts still function and people are still being sent to prison. So somebody cares. It's just the noisy morons who do not, but like all cycles theirs is probably going to come to a screeching halt fairly soon because right behind that Report that was issued on the 9th, there is still a criminal investigation that is under way, and hopefully the loonies will soon find themselves behind steel prison bars, and certainly off the so-called news shows. Our research? Yes, it is also continuing and it will come as a huge blow to members of the Cult of Caroline to learn that as members, they have all been conned. The world is not coming to an end and Ronan O'Rahilly is and always was a con man and a fraud.

James M

10/12/2019 11:56:37 pm

Where do all the EXPERTS come from? on TV Everyone with a 2.1 is an expert with their opinion knowing everything about everything. The only reference book you need is full of blank pages and you write in it and you write how you did it and what you have experienced and learnt. When you are too old to make use of that accumulated knowledge you will be regarded as an authoritative ex - spurt. Juve Tubers will buy copies of your diaries and then be convinced that this relating of experience is somehow knowledge of power by proxy server and the qualification to sit in a TV studio saying yes Hugh, of course and the problem, and what a difficult time, and what needs to be done and the situation is and the polls say this and this is what will happen and this is what should have been done and this is what must be done now and do I need to hire a PR consultancy to boost my profile of appearing to the left of newsreaders and talking booolocks. Did my teeth, tits? and glasses look good on that shot, will the channel keep me on as a retainer/can I get a career, book, show, awe from the neighbours and smile of recognition from a Japanese girl on the Earls Court Tube out of this or am I a know nothing Ex Spurt who has made a career out of second hindsight rewriting and revising the lives of everyone else? Personally I suppose in my own very personal way yes but I am not talking to John Snowflake and making predictions apart from that we are all living longer. The Murdock press may well have a backlash of the demonization. Everyone loves an underdog and being social media savvy will be thinking what are they so scared of?
The more he is caricatured so we can only see red we actually no longer see in black and white and can see the rainbow with pride. Some people can only view blinkered and tinted with sepia brown noses, tanked up and hanging the developing film up in the dark room and then wondering why the photos are foggy and they don't like what is becoming clearer through the Leica Len FrintonLens. Some people are standing on a glass plate and the enlarging glass is soon going to show the whole total picture was crap.

James M

11/12/2019 02:06:15 am

While I am on one, before it wears off and I get cardiac arrested why do loads of people, public broadcasters or not keep calling Aspergers Assburgers There is no b in it. Lorna Wing coined the term from Hands up Hans (back to the Nasties again- mild interest of mine important world history like the frigging history of the war and the problems Gerhart Luger had wrestling the patents from the original ideas of Hugo Borchart ) in 1976 and died a few years back I obsessively remember reading her obituary in the Times which is now and then 1.44 UTC Uncoordinated Time Currently. Nutter me - No way
Crisps, chocolates, snacks, sticky stains on seats. Encyclopedic recital of every Hapless Heartfelt Anorak Pamphlet posted since 1968 and hero worship of something now demonstrably more fictitious than truthful. Yes way. Might even come out of the closed mind Camelot Camp yet Mervyn. Sometimes the truth is often stranger than fiction and Uncle Malc said that, so it must be true

James M

11/12/2019 05:11:08 am

It won't go down it's like Viagra or something.
Can you Mike find a video about the new gin craze for people to draw a parallel with people listening to music from ships at least a century ago I just put the local paper news site on. What do you think it is? more fooking gin bars and more pubs promising to sell more interesting varieties of Fing Geneva Juice. Is there anyone who can walk five yard out out the house without discovering a hipster new enclave of the flavoursome grain. Is this some super freaky Nostrdamus potent that the world is going back to 1743 due to impending poverty. Is it because daytime people think they can go back to work with a pack of airwaves and no one will know. They will! it smells just like grain does 2 star petrol. When is this ridiculous meow meow puss scratch scratch gin mania going to end before we all go up in discombobulated self combusting flames mother? Mother are you there are you detonating the Nostromo Mother. Mother switch the con of the air back on. 50 KW from the Ross in central London just Like Johnny Walker promised. Mother you are very read on the screen are you saying that RCORRR is a busted flush and when you have finished venting steam the ship will detonate. Let me get my life preserver (gin of course) and blow the acidic blooded one out of the air lock and rest for 50 years - until the sequels of course, the connections, the roots, the bloodlines the franchise the bible. It's not like the old days order a mug and a T shirt from See a gullible sales and then wonder why it never arrives because you are the prime bone head of china. Hurray for Brain Blessed Spoons going apeshit and swearing in front of Felicity Kendall (that will p off James) thinks the busted bus station announcer, unaware that other people are also very much aware of nutters who get jobs driving public transport despite of a drinking gin problem HAA
Professional gambler - I buy a scratch and sniff every week. Today I am mostly smelling panic in the 648 house, the dark house, the pale ale house, this syte house for sure and it's not just me blowing off and thinking opps gone to far followed through there. I have been playing the long ball with you I knew Merve was right from the start but wanted to see how he would play the game. In his own way he has Sister Sledged and near as dammit won the ashes. Don't know what he wants to do with the ashes, keep them in an urn and gloat but he is coming he is coming he is coming

Testing 1.2,3

11/12/2019 09:48:49 am

"He is coming ,he is coming". no he's not , no he's not, you've been dragged into his b**l sh*t.His book won't see the light of day .XX

Mervyn Hagger

11/12/2019 10:45:48 am

Wow! You are scared silly (I was going to use a another word, but I thought I would be polite instead.) If you read my various comments you will discover that I have already posted a lot of material that will be in the new book, and that Mike has actually posted a conundrum involving Joe Meek's life which makes a lie out of the recited claims by Ronan O'Rahilly concerning his failures! Why are you so scared of the truth coming out?

James M

11/12/2019 11:26:32 am

I guess we are both two sides of the same coin

My therapist says I am an over thinker

The Kings of Wishful Thinking that's us Bud

Looking for surreal meanings of life that for sure are so surreal they are not even there and just in our imagination

https://youtu.be/XBZUz4C6kqk

Mervyn Hagger

11/12/2019 11:37:34 am

That may be you, but it is not me. I am recalling from memory, my own personal memory, events I lived through and people I have met, not imagined. I knew Allan Crawford and Don Pierson and many other others in the offshore radio community. But I also knew many others whose names you would know that I won't mention here, but I will recall for text purposes in 'Dial 999 for Caroline'. You may be a dreamer, but I am a realist.

James M

11/12/2019 11:42:46 pm

Me: Doctor I can't cope with reality,in the brave new world of overthinking disinformation and downright dangerous advice. Sometimes I just feel like walking in the middle of the road

Doc: Have you thought of buying curtains

Me: No why to shut the world out?

Doc: No so you could pull yourself together

Me: This is rubbish I am not paying for therapy like this

Doc: You don't have to as directly as such it is on the NHS

Me: That's super awesome smashing, I'm living in the future moments already what else can get for the pretence of it being free

Doc: Would La Bottom E ring any bells with you

Me: A bell, a ships bell? Oh yes life is suddenly worth living again after WW2 which gave the impetus for the cradle to the gravely ill NHS I can talk for hours about the bell I could write a book about the bell every day for the rest of my now meaningfully fulfilled life

Doc: You are cured the diagnosis is Incurable Anorak living in the past. Go home and read the bible

https://youtu.be/W4V3l0owL_8

https://youtu.be/HxfZSEboVM4

https://youtu.be/M-uy3xHzdL0

https://youtu.be/hZNhWmr_X5k

https://youtu.be/_yE-wA24xJ8

https://youtu.be/LlyEIaRw010

Me: Doctor you have run me over

Doc: Yes It was the kindest thing to do

Kevin H

11/12/2019 11:42:20 am

Why would anyone be scared of anything you may dig-up on matters that occurred over 40 years ago? What different will it make to anyone's life? You seem to have no grip on reality.

Mervyn Hagger

11/12/2019 12:10:50 pm

Because those "distant" events tie-in to the UK General Election taking place tomorrow, and which no one else, I do mean no one else, has noted - so far. They will be noted in the book which you keep insisting (hoping?) will never appear.

Kevin H

11/12/2019 12:19:38 pm

"They will be noted in the book which you keep insisting (hoping?) will never appear." - No I don't, once again you are demonstrating how confused you get over very simple things, occurring over a fairly recent & short time period.You are confusing me with the poster known as 'Testing 1.2,3'. If your memory function is so poor when dealing with such recent happenings, why would anyone trust your memory going back 40 odd years?

Mervyn Hagger

11/12/2019 12:28:12 pm

I am not confusing anyone, but you seem to think that your duopoly of posts will do so.

Testing 1.2,3

11/12/2019 05:01:30 pm

"Scared silly"? Give me a break! There's only one person who will be"scared silly" .XX

Mervyn Hagger

11/12/2019 05:59:54 pm

Your comment makes no sense whatsoever: ""Scared silly"? Give me a break! There's only one person who will be"scared silly" .XX" - unless you are referring to yourself? Bye the way, stop sending me kisses.

Mervyn Hagger

11/12/2019 06:57:01 pm

I am not sure what's going on here but there is a time-coordinated campaign to rescue 'The Caroline Bible'. I have become a personal recipient of a message on behalf of this campaign, but I won't explain that comment further. Then within the same sort of time period this has been posted on the Garry Stevens' Board by Garry Stevens: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Posted by Garry Stevens on December 11, 2019, 6:26 pm, in reply to "Re: Radio Caroline bible post"
Edited by board administrator December 11, 2019, 6:31 pm >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Re: The Caroline Bible it was I who posted it at the top of the home page and locked it there. Nothing in life is ever perfect and I know for sure Paul would be the first to acknowledge this and would be only to happy for fair opinion’s re it but the nasty spiteful way it was being pulled apart was both unnecessary and unfair. I myself have enjoyed reading it and due to its existence have a greater wealth of facts and happenings during the stations existence for which I am both grateful and thank Paul for his hard work and dedication which in turn made the book possible. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That is such a load of hypocritical rubbish Garry! YOU were the one who made me an Admin, and YOU were the one who told me that Paul Rusling is an Admin. YOU were the one who attacked Malcolm Smith's tribe with a tin pot licence and rusting hulk, but calling them the 'Church of Caroline' and YOU were the one who told me to ATTACK THEM! Then you suddenly switched - without telling me why - even after i repeatedly asked you. Then when others got the Rusling book which they had paid for and started posting negative reviews, YOU made it possible to delete those comments and now you have turned your own site into a giant billboard to sell the Rusling book which spreads more misinformation about the origins of Radio Caroline which is NOT linked to the tin pot licence and rusting hulk. Garry YOU are the CAUSE of this total state of confusion. What YOU called the "Joke Board" took the Caroline cult members, and now YOU have brought them back. This hypocrisy of yours seems to know no end. Now I am being privately posted asking me to shut up. Well Garry, the buck stops at YOUR door. YOU created this mess, now its up to YOU to fix it by telling the truth about why YOU did what YOU did. No one else did it - just YOU!

Testing 1.2,3

11/12/2019 09:50:41 pm

" unless you are referring to yourself?" Remove the blinkers from your eyes. Bye Bye XXX

James M

12/12/2019 07:27:00 am

Forgot the link for that of course due to being pissed of a matter of course

https://youtu.be/EosWw5RfLE8

Kevin H

12/12/2019 07:15:51 am

Another auto-rant from Hagger, displaying his usual obsessive behaviour. Why are you so obsessed with this 'Radio Caroline Bible'? Just calm down & get on with your own book.

Testing 1.2,3

12/12/2019 10:16:59 am

He always likes to get the last word in but he knows fully well that his will not be the last word if he publishes the novel. It will not be published never mind how much he rants as it's a smokescreen.

James M

12/12/2019 07:20:27 am

Another marvellous sense of what it means to be British.
South African villagers having one over on the Sophisticated townsfolk . Makes you proud. Never mind there is still Phathos of Offshore 1 2 3 & 4 in 1964 for you all to raise a glass and have a good hand shandy to the fond memories..

Mervyn Hagger

13/12/2019 06:00:26 pm

If no one here is going to admit it, I will. The UK has just revealed the news media as lying organs of disruption and destruction, and now its time to say: well done Donald Trump - the Corbyn crap is no more and soon, the US Democrat dung will be no more. What I would love to see in the near future is the toilet termination of the Ronan O'Rahilly repugnant cult of Caroline.

Ed Abovewater

14/12/2019 10:30:32 am

Not sure what you're congratulating Trump for here.

James M

13/12/2019 08:10:03 pm

Greeting to everyone who wonders why they have not woken up in a socialist paradise today. This is because you misread the Final Exist Troll instuctions and did not take enough sleeping pills. The suicide website you should have been bookmarking is Labour Party.org. But the is still time for many more attempts if you want to be detained under the mental health act

Regarding the other believe my manifesto bog roll, I do venture to suggest some on here flush thinking of strangers they hardly really know as well

James M

14/12/2019 12:46:30 am

https://youtu.be/qv3oSS1t1fg

I am also unamused and can find no comfort, sucker or satisfaction of purpose in the headline of page 7 of the populist Sun Scroll in what is now yesterday in what is nearly soon yesteryear. Go for it have it large in the year of our Lord Arnold Schwarzenegger Anno Domino's all work party Friday 13 Twenty one and 9
Adios Amigos

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