For the record....
 

I was one of the lucky ones - Dave was lovely to me, personally. He PM'd me with a welcome, nothing heavy or accusatory about others, just a plain ol' welcome.

We have PM'd occasionally since and he has let me into a tiny bit of his personal world and personal life worries on certain issues - and I have sympathised etc.. and cant blame him for worrying considering those issues - but they are private, so wont go into it, if you dont mind.

Humour wise, I guess people can take umbrage cos as we all know, humour perspective is relative to culture and/or where you live in general or how darkly you think!

For example, as soon as we have a natural disaster where thousands are wiped out in seconds, before ya know it, all those jokes go round (you know the ones I mean) - some people find them funny, some people find them in bad taste - its all about perspective.

In some cultures, you stick your thumb up as an approved okay, but in another culture it means *uck you!

It can be easy to misunderstand where someone is coming from if their humour is different to yours.

Guys, I am fairly new here and havent experienced the full on Dave thing - and for those of you who have testified to the more unsavoury side of Dave - then, as I say... I've been lucky that I wasnt pulled into it. One sign of something ugly, you wouldnt see me for dust! Well, maybe a blast of verbal slaughter directed at him first, then I'd run :cool:

Anyway, it's a shame cos I liked the guy - but then I havent been injured by anything he did. And I am old enough to see manipulation when it rears its ugly head - more impressionable people may be sucked in - and those are the ones that need protecting - so I guess the MODS are doing the right thing!

I have to trust them that their decision to ban him was justified, right? :)

Ok, I just read the first pages, but I haven't time to read it all....

I feel kinda sick from reading it....

Dave used to pm me a lot, I know he used to be off his head on soma and morphine and other drugs most of the time, he said he had a car accident, and they were for the pain....


Not that I have a problem with drugs, but when they arecombined with the context of this story, it gets a bit wierd.....

He told ME he was working in a radio/tv store with his korean wife.

I'm beginning to doubt everything he has told me...

I just want to scream ..ARRRRRRRRRGH!! :o
dave this
dave that
dave go the fuck away !!


there i feel better now.

In fairness - some of us didnt know what was going on behind the scenes and was rather shocked to find out the truth - and sometimes the only way to get it off one's chest, is to get it off one's chest with a post here!

I feel better too now :D

so was it anyone on this site specifically that he targeted or was it something we found out about? That's the bit I'm unclear about.

still waiting for a proper answer to my query

Read this thread from the beginning again, kiddo. Especially the AsylumSeeker post in Page 3.

just read it. pretty...disturbing

I guess this is why OMC would never post a picture of himself, though we all know what Tripping looked like...