severnside gull
Well-known member
Jimbo. Great that you want to say thankyou to a club employee for a job well done and no problem doing so on here as many have before and will again.
Unfortunately the similarity of the title to your recent, somewhat ascerbic, and inappropriately placed message to the chairman has clearly put many people on full "jimbo alert". Mentioning that you have been ill.....not a problem. Mentioning that Michelle has been ill......maybe not totally appropriate but no harm either meant or done I am sure and she certainly wasn't doing more than her job in helping you out.
So what is it about you that people find so irritating?
Maybe it is the fact that you saw the need to make it clear that where more ordinary folk would have dealt "with the club" you deal with the top man's secretary no less! You have history for what may be construed by many as "bigging yourself up" and there is something in the English psyche that finds this uncomfortable. On a similar tack there is that repetative sideways reference to your charitable do-goodedness and you must know that, for most people, personal acts of charity are best undertaken rather more humbly. Sure it's a cultural thing but if you don't feel the need to comply you are, I am afraid, going to attract an adverse reaction as often as not. Does that help? Probably not. Despite clearly being a well intentioned chap I am sure you simply don't see what to others is so glaringly apparent. I wonder if that offer to stop posting was genuine?
Unfortunately the similarity of the title to your recent, somewhat ascerbic, and inappropriately placed message to the chairman has clearly put many people on full "jimbo alert". Mentioning that you have been ill.....not a problem. Mentioning that Michelle has been ill......maybe not totally appropriate but no harm either meant or done I am sure and she certainly wasn't doing more than her job in helping you out.
So what is it about you that people find so irritating?
Maybe it is the fact that you saw the need to make it clear that where more ordinary folk would have dealt "with the club" you deal with the top man's secretary no less! You have history for what may be construed by many as "bigging yourself up" and there is something in the English psyche that finds this uncomfortable. On a similar tack there is that repetative sideways reference to your charitable do-goodedness and you must know that, for most people, personal acts of charity are best undertaken rather more humbly. Sure it's a cultural thing but if you don't feel the need to comply you are, I am afraid, going to attract an adverse reaction as often as not. Does that help? Probably not. Despite clearly being a well intentioned chap I am sure you simply don't see what to others is so glaringly apparent. I wonder if that offer to stop posting was genuine?