L is for Let's parlez Franglaise avec la Madame Pompidou! Non-non-non! Zoot-allors; je swi toot-mere-light, nous parlex avec la Madame Pardeilhan - pour elle es't la!

Le quote pour la 'eroine . . . non-non, nes le poppy-juice pas, le fine upstanding mademoiselle du France, no less!

"Pardeilhan

--- la collectionnite est une maladie parfaitement avérée ; bénigne chez la plupart, elle atteint chez d'autres des degrés très élevés de crétinisme.

Je ne connais aucun des membres de ce forum mais j'ai, au fil des sujets, pu lire les propos et même croiser les photos de certains d'entre eux ; ils me paraissent tous relativement sains.

En revanche, je fus il y a une bonne vingtaine d'années un collectionneur très investi (de miniatures automobiles, BDs, Vinyles etc.) et il m'arrivait de tomber dans des bourses d'échange sur de pahtétiques individus qui présentaient des troubles psychologiques certains.

Allait avec leur personnalité un physique généralement plutôt ingrat, un vestiaire triste, étriqué, limite élimé et un comportement à la fois fouinard, dédaigneux et hautain.

Une anecdote pour finir : j'ai un jour pris un de ces phénomènes en visite à mon domicile par la peau du cou et par les fesses et je l'ai littéralement jeté dehors (oui, exactement comme dans les westerns quand le gars se fait éjecter du saloon et se vautre dans la poussière quelques marches plus bas).

... et un jour, sans aucun amour propre, il est même revenu !

Je hais ces individus imbus de leurs hautes connaissances dans des matières dérisoires."

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A Google-translation later  . . . I loved Bablefish;

but it failed to keep up!

 

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--- (three dashes? Look out people; something vital to the sum-total of human-knowledge is about to be defecated, by an expert (defecator), I fear) collecting is a perfectly proven disease (really? Empirically? Where are the scientific papers?); Benign in most, it reaches in others very high degrees of cretinism. You're not wrong Madame Doctor - heal thyself!

I do not know any of the members of this forum (bit of a loner then?) but I have, over the course of the topics, read the words (she reads!) and even cross the photos of some of them (her eyes work!); they seem to me all relatively healthy. The members, the words or the photos?

However, I was a good twenty years ago a very invested collector (miniature cars, comics, vinyls etc ..) And I happened to fall in exchange scholarships on pathetic individuals who had some psychological disorders. Individuals (with an 's'); sounds like she's a serial poor judge of character?

With their personality went a generally rather ungrateful physique, a sad wardrobe, narrow, limit removed and a behavior at the same time tinkering, disdainful and haughty. Unlike Mdm. Pardeilhan and her - underlined - arch-modesty!

Those of you who know me will admit (I hope!) that I'm hardly ugly, not too scruffy, albeit a tad too 'casual' sometimes (!) and happy to help without forcing myself on anyone, we all know the annoying geeks and I like to think I'm not one, although I'm patient and polite- enough with them when they collar and start lecturing me at shows!

An anecdote to finish: I once took one of these phenomena visiting my home by the skin of the neck and by the buttocks and I literally threw it out (can you picture it, readers? Well; just in case you can't -) (yes, exactly like in the westerns when the guy is done eject saloon and wallow in the dust a few steps down).

... and one day, without any self-esteem, he even came back!

Try it . . . try grabbing - and holding the skin at the back of your neck? Can't, can you? Pull your head forward an inch! And those of us with siblings all remember the day one could no longer pick the other up by the waist/belt, due to the twin forces of growth and gravity! The lady is a fantasist, and in case we don't get the fantasy; she explains that it's just like [the trained stuntmen] in the movies; western movies, mind!

I hate (hate will eat her up) these individuals imbued with their high knowledge in derisory matters. Err . . . she's saying all this on a site expressly dedicated to infant's toys! Is she happily claiming 'low-knowledge' for herself, in an act of supreme modesty? In which case why does she think we want her opinions on anything? Perhaps she should switch to a site/hobby dealing with less derisory matters!

Now some of the above will be distorted slightly, due to translation, but I think we get the gist of it? A potentially ugly, possibly smelly, likely scruffy, seeming (self-proclaimed) loner, is calling me an ugly, smelly, scruffy loner!

Having never met me, not knowing me from Adam, and for no particular reason, other than she feels the mob-thing to do is side with TJF and his crew, the Vichy, the three idiot Aussies and the AFD.

She also seems to be calling me a know-it-all, which is ironic as TJF has spent over two-years going to some effort, trying to convince the rest of you I don't know anything! And doubly ironic as it's TJF who bangs on about his working knowledge and legend, I've never made any claims for myself.

Human nature; that mob-mentality, the ostracizing of the 'other', the tribal bullying and internecine strife of small, single-issue groups, the petty jealousies and rivalries of people involved in "derisory matters" dictates that the more of these inadequate, slightly thick, chip-carrying, self-aggrandisers there are affiliated to the PTSM; the more who decide to get off the fence and join Paul Standinger's war against me; the more fuckwits that attack the site here at Small Scale World; the more personal-insults flung at me without aim or reason by envious little tick-turds; the more plagiarising of this site and its imagery; the more following-up of this site's posts with similar posts or posts of the same subject/material - the more sure you can be, that I'm doing something very, very right . . . right-here! Right?

And the fact that around seven-hundred and fifty of you pop-in here, most days, to see exactly what I am doing, would appear to be only further proof of that?

 

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The quote above appeared after I had passed on the news of the Vichy's shutdown over Easter in News, Views, Etc . . . Forthcoming Events Friday 19th - Friday 26th April 2019; it appears they don't like being the news, how childish!

Now I'm sure it hasn't escaped your notice that a lot of the players in this war of TJF's are not only very stupid, but also almost totally lacking in a sense of humour? It's odd but the whole point of 'News, Views Etc...' is to cover items that might be considered newsworthy to some or all the rest of you (900-odd) readers, so when someone/something in the hobby becomes newsworthy, I'll try to make it news!

The closing of a Toy Soldier site, even a shitty, locked one, because the members have fallen-out with each other, IS newsworthy . . . however, it was also humorous, I should [would normally] say (pushing modesty to the fore) 'supposed to be' humorous, but . . . as I'm being accused of suffering from the 'cretinism' of 'high knowledge'; I'll say it WAS humorous.

I'll be the first to admit that the French may not be familiar with the long-running Let's parlez Franglaise thread in Private Eye magazine (but there is always Google!) or its modern EU'phemisms descendent, but then again; if you don't 'get' something on a foreign-language site; ignore it! But, as it (the 'NEWS' item) pertained to a French site - it was funny. Let-down/l'et downe - it's funny; they love their apostrophes and add 'e's to everything! A 'contretemps' is what Brit's say when referring to a hissy-pissy handbag-fight!

Mathias Berthoux is not 44 years old, nor was he born in 1944, yet he uses the handle 'Breizh44' on Vichy (where he is Glorious Leader*) which looks silly and pretentious to me; so there's about four jokes in one line there, while 'makeitup's-man' is a reference to he who makes it up as he goes along, channeling shaky-hands man . . . from Banzai, another cultural reference.

*Another joke!

I'm not going to explain all of them but the alliterative list of other places beginning with 'N' seem to have particularly exercised their bile; again - a lack of a sense of humour! And - worryingly - a lack of an ability to work it out for themselves.

While the final point is valid, PSR and HäT's ETS are 'where it's at', no-one could give a stuffed-fig for Small Scale World, nor Stadsshite, and especially not the locked-down, plagiarist, talking-shop that is Vichy, Treefrog for instance; ignored the newsworthy event!

But the Vichy still got on their high-horses and spewed-forth bilious crap, like little bitches on heat, rubbing their dribbling-arses on their own bed! The irony of these dullards getting hysterical over things which have clearly flown over their heads like an aeroplane! The hypocrisy of accusing me of uppityness while declaring their own 'investment'?

To be honest, I'm getting very bored with these very stupid men; the three or four AFD (Germans), the - now - three Australians, the Vichy French and the idiot-force in Pennsylvania, they have no real case, any beef they've got is as a result of what I've said in response to their idiocy, and they are going to have to get up very early to 'pin one' on me.

But then they are also lazy types (as well as both stupid and humourless), which is why they have these chips on their shoulders and also why they plagiarise and/or sit in other people's dust, but then get further upset when that's pointed-out to them! And they've all backed the loser, and they know it.

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As to her first "...collecting is a perfectly proven disease" point; as I understand it, all the leading scientific evidence is that primarily, collecting is an expression of our primeval desires as hunter-gatherers, we having spent 800,000-years looking for 'vital' stuff, and only 10,000-odd living in communes, calling ourselves sapiens and behaving as anything but!

A second 'strongish' theory concerns our questing minds and desire to annotate and classify 'new' things . . . even if they are old! To stamp our authority on the world around us, and the things in it, control-freak'ery on a sub-conscious, but supra-species level - if you like.

There is further, minor - psychological - evidence that it is a method employed by 'inadequate' people, to prove themselves capable of achievement to a percived 'peer group' or parent/s, but I don't consider myself inadequate, and there is far less evidence-for or agreement-of that theory, than for the hunter-gatherer/questing ones.

If you are in the hobby and don't consider yourself an inadequate loser, you are probably on my side whether you recognise or like the fact, or not! As that is the level of idiocy I am dealing with after Stadinger's decision to start a war.

The unutterably stupid, ill-thought-out insults of idiot-men, shouting; not at me, but at the whole world. We are all collectors, and we collect for all sorts of reasons, and should be free to so without fear of competitive, belligerent shadowing, plagiarism or the jibes of the jealous hypocrites - who probably are inadequate, for reasons that have little to do with their collecting 'habit'!