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Member postings for Toby Clark

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Thread: If starting again, what would you buy with a budget of £5k?
11/03/2019 23:31:53
Posted by Hopper on 11/03/2019 22:48:03:
Posted by Toby Clark on 11/03/2019 18:25:35:

Hi Lee:

Thanks for your post. As a newbie (and a journalist) myself, I thought that was an eminently sensible, open way to phrase your question - and let the respondents frame their replies according to how they enjoy the hobby! I didn't expect the firestorm of ennui, suspicion and grumpiness you got back.

I'll certainly think twice before asking for help here...

Courage!

Welcome to the forum. And as a fellow journalist may I point out that "firestorm of ennui" is a contradiction in terms? Ennui means listlessness. Or did you mean innuendo? Sorry to be so critical (and suspicious and grumpy!) on your second post on the forum, but really.

Like Alice, I mean what I say. It's an oxymoron.

And I reckon Lee means what he says, too: he asked, "If starting again, what would you buy with a budget of £5k?" - a nice open question, inviting you to say what YOU would buy and why. And yet lots of respondents took it as a vague request for consumer advice, and loosed both barrels at him.

Sorry to be so negative in my last post on the forum, but really...

11/03/2019 18:25:35

Hi Lee:

Thanks for your post. As a newbie (and a journalist) myself, I thought that was an eminently sensible, open way to phrase your question - and let the respondents frame their replies according to how they enjoy the hobby! I didn't expect the firestorm of ennui, suspicion and grumpiness you got back.

I'll certainly think twice before asking for help here...

Courage!

Thread: how many postings
11/03/2019 17:54:18

I don't know - I'm new too - but I'm hoping this will up my total!

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