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slikk

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2,135 posts

272 months

Sunday 4th April 2004
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In the Web Site review in this months Sprint, it starts with this comment. Its a fairly written review, but do i detect a bit of "Site Snobbery" here?
or is it just the Conspiracy Theorist in me?

docevi1

10,430 posts

277 months

Sunday 4th April 2004
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for those of us you don't get Sprint, what are you talking about please?

slikk

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2,135 posts

272 months

Sunday 4th April 2004
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Sorry. They review Websites each month and the PH one this month starts with "Like it or not". Why would members of the TVRCC not like PH?

swindorski46

1,017 posts

312 months

Sunday 4th April 2004
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Aren't we privileged!!

Sprint hasn't even thought about crossing the watford gap for us grim northerners yet!

slikk

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2,135 posts

272 months

Sunday 4th April 2004
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I didnt realise it was "Smack Kim In The Gob Day".
Maybe that explains why some numpty drove into the back of me today.
Told you there was a conspiracy

edited to say: Some constructive criticism would be appreciated though

>> Edited by slikk on Sunday 4th April 23:24

docevi1

10,430 posts

277 months

Sunday 4th April 2004
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sorry, my post wasn't meant to be nasty, just I don't get sprint...

Without reading the review, I can't comment.

julianhj

8,868 posts

291 months

Sunday 4th April 2004
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Yeah, I noticed that comment - I wondered what was implied by that?

I found PH via the TVRCC Website a couple of days after buying my Griff. It's an absolute graveyard compared to PH - I hardly ever visit it, as you can guarentee a similar response to any query within minutes on PH, as opposed to hours or even days on the TVRCC site.

HarryW

16,003 posts

298 months

Sunday 4th April 2004
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I think the preference is to keep comments about the club in the club, i.e. on the club site.
I started a thread on the club site earlier, if you have any comments and are a TVRCC member please post them there.

Harry

JonRB

79,996 posts

301 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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I heard completely unsubstantiated pub gossip that there is "history" between the TVRCC and PH.

Besides, it can't have escaped the club's notice that the Gassing Station is extremely stiff competition to their own forums, so it's hardly surprising that they wouldn't give an unqualified endorsement to it.

yellabelly

2,258 posts

282 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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With regard to JonRB's comment, considering that the Chairman, Editor of Sprint, a number of Club Officers and most ROs post regularly on PH there does not seem to be a particular issue. Whilst you may get a fast response on PH a lot of it is well intentioned "sorry but I'm a technical numpty and I would like to know how to sort the same problem" type postings with a few 'expert' postings.
The TVRCC forum although slower tends to attract the more technically capable response.
There is room for both and they can and do compliment each other. In the past year I have learnt quite a lot from reading both. All IMHO

swindorski46, Sorry but I don't understand your comment?

julianhj

8,868 posts

291 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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Didn't mean to cause any offence with my last post - was just an IHMO kinda comment. I'm sure the TVRCC site is a decent resource

yiw1393

23,018 posts

290 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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Haven't seen it yet. Where's my Sprint?????


Must admit that I hardly ever read the TVRCC site, it looks outdated (I know it's being upgraded) and it takes forever to get a reply to a post. To be honest the password protected forum thing is a bit daft. Yeah, I know it's to stop the 'My Saxo is faster than your Griff' posters, but there's none of that on PH is there?

By the time I've logged in and found the relevent page, I could have got perhaps a dozen useful answers/links on PH. PH is not necessarily better, just more people read it and the response is qucker.

captain honesty

152 posts

271 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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with regards to the neil anderson interview,i have never met the bloke but he says he's not a team player,if someone likes football or rugby in an interview he wouldn't like it and would probably not give them a job!!he believes the UK is way behind the US in engineering motor skills and designand being part of a race team if your not the driver sucks!!

have i mis-interpretted his comments because to me he comes accross as being a complete idiot?i think going for a drink with osama bin laden would be more fun than neil anderson

the first half of the interview he comes accross very well but the rest of it..??

RichardR

2,907 posts

297 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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slikk said:
Maybe that explains why some numpty drove into the back of me today.
Hope that wasn't in the Chim Kim?

Slikk

Original Poster:

2,135 posts

272 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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Fortunately not, had just taken the Chimaera home and swapped it for the company one. :BIG PHEW smiley:

anonymous-user

83 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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"Friendly Rivalry" is the agreed terms by both parties.

RichardR

2,907 posts

297 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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Slikk said:
Fortunately not, had just taken the Chimaera home and swapped it for the company one. :BIG PHEW smiley:
Oh, well if it was the company car then that's ok!

DustyC

12,822 posts

283 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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HarryW said:
I think the preference is to keep comments about the club in the club, i.e. on the club site.
I started a thread on the club site earlier, if you have any comments and are a TVRCC member please post them there.

Harry


I'll have a look later (going home now!) but...

All this TVRCC/Pistonheads rivalary seems so silly.
Both sites are excellent and could work together very well if given the chance.
I reckon (thats like a guess) that the better ROs use PH for its advantages and still keep tabs on their members for events etc by what ever means they chose. Whilst the other ROs just whinge about PH and try and shut it out.

I read the comment in TVRCC and though "Why are there still TVRCC members that dont like PH?"
(I guess this is what the article writer was pointing out).
I thought with the article on Ted a few months back all this was going to stop and an alliance was forming.
Oh well, I guess some people just liek a good old fashioned whinge

As a member of both TVRCC and PH I shall continue to use both for their benefits which Im sure the majority of us do anyway.
They have both proved great so far.
Home time now, off to play in the Griff again

kend

144 posts

291 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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Slikk said:
Fortunately not, had just taken the Chimaera home and swapped it for the company one. :BIG PHEW smiley:


Hi Kim
Glad to hear it's not the Chimaera.Much damage to the Skoda Then?
Ken

Slikk

Original Poster:

2,135 posts

272 months

Monday 5th April 2004
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Not too much, Ken, the Megane that hit me is a write off, and the Forrester that i was pushed into suffered a scraped bumper. The front of mine would have been ok if we hadnt had to hacksaw the bumper to release his tow-hitch upon which i were impaled !