Harmless banter Nick, should know me better by now.
Some of us might know you, love you, and understand your humour, but I'd bet many don't. That's my point: people base their opinions on their perceptions of what you write, not the sub-text.
We have people on this thread, in an obscure sub-forum (that was "banter", lol! [
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]), thinking CatC is a Club event. It's not, we have to pay from OUR membership fees for the Club to go there, and if you read the pretty damning comments in the board minutes we were hardly welcomed on the best site within the venue!
We also give it loads of advertising, and a cover photo and in-depth review. We have no way of making income from it to offset the costs, except through selling coffee, Club Shop, and new memberships. Club Shop and the memberships signed up at events are massively over-accounted, and they make far less
real income than the figures quoted.
There are some really strong feelings about serving Club officials taking big events outside of the Club for their own gain. Saying, as Lawrence does, that "I think if my memory serves me corrrectly, he was club chairman before Paul kelley? I would guess he feels he's done his bit for AGM's and workers confrences. ", is a huge insult to the other former Chairmen who have supported the Club through some hard times, and still do by volunteering on the advisory committee that liases between outgoing and incoming Boards to smooth the progress. I've never seen Fred at a single Club event in ten years, yet I've not been to a single Club event where Paul and Mary, David and Lande, Robin and Jo etc. haven't been at the front.
This thread has become a bit disjointed as some posts are removed, something we don't like on the PCGB forum but can't enforce. Jason is very perceptive as an "ousider", and I agree totally that opinions should be aired openly, and playing "Devil's Advocate" is essential. The Club would do well to crack down on the so-called officials who are encouraging the splitting of the Porsche community in to smaller groups: the outcry on PH about splitting the forums shows that most people want one Porsche community, and that was what the Club used to do through it's volunteers. [8|]