Opus Finale .... A Warts an' all Exposé of Paintball's Very Own Megalomaniac
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Tom, I'm pretty sure it's verbatim from the 20th century source but as you suggest, it has two possibilities from the original though I prefer the 'weary' usage as the alternative sounds a bit out of place ...
Al - You got it mate - it's classic Shakespearean but made more famous [arguably] by Willy Wonka [Gene Wilder] ....
Al - You got it mate - it's classic Shakespearean but made more famous [arguably] by Willy Wonka [Gene Wilder] ....
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Crunching some numbers:- in three weeks, we've had another 31,000 views and another 30 odd pages of people's comments, a lot of which were mine I know but I'd ask you factor in my vested interest which of course is to alert people to any 'news' items in much the same way as I'd warn someone they're about to step in some dog-sh!te ....
It seems our resident narcissistic megalomaniac has a certain news value but unfortunately he can't cash it in to help pay for his paint and so I'll have to save my tears for another time.
Addendum: I wonder who will sell either sables or barnett some paint - the only things we know for certain are, barnett has no money/credit and so sables must be the primary purchaser ... it's getting awful close and news hasn't yet broke as to which company might be lined up to supply paint to barnett via sables.
Answers on a postcard please .....
It seems our resident narcissistic megalomaniac has a certain news value but unfortunately he can't cash it in to help pay for his paint and so I'll have to save my tears for another time.
Addendum: I wonder who will sell either sables or barnett some paint - the only things we know for certain are, barnett has no money/credit and so sables must be the primary purchaser ... it's getting awful close and news hasn't yet broke as to which company might be lined up to supply paint to barnett via sables.
Answers on a postcard please .....
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Dare I mention Beadles name at this point? I know he has his own brand relatively recently set up and hosts the MSPL at his site for TB. I know he prefers it politics free, so possibly would supply paint in not caring about the current situation... (this is purely conjecture, and my thoughts alone, not trying to discredit Beadle in anyway shape or form)
Steve - I cannot think that anyone in our industry who will be unaware of this situation and they will be equally aware that it would be seen as somewhat inappropriate for a company to supply either barnett or sables with paint.
We've already witnessed one example of altruism from John Payne in declining to sell paint to either of them but the lure of a few hundred quid may well prove too much for some .. ethical restraints have buckled for a lot less money than that in the past.
The one abiding advantage we have here is the sheer scale of interest this thread has incited.
I was dumbfounded when I first realised the response this was generating both from player and industry alike.
Our industry will realise that selling them paint will have a premium attached to it and that is forever being known as 'The company who sold paint to people like barnett and/or sables'..
That's not an indictment that most companies would relish and would be hard to shake.
At this point, I'd normally suggest something with a political tint to it, something like, ' ....but who am I to judge people' .... but in this situation, anyone in our sport can judge, this situation demands we should.
We've already witnessed one example of altruism from John Payne in declining to sell paint to either of them but the lure of a few hundred quid may well prove too much for some .. ethical restraints have buckled for a lot less money than that in the past.
The one abiding advantage we have here is the sheer scale of interest this thread has incited.
I was dumbfounded when I first realised the response this was generating both from player and industry alike.
Our industry will realise that selling them paint will have a premium attached to it and that is forever being known as 'The company who sold paint to people like barnett and/or sables'..
That's not an indictment that most companies would relish and would be hard to shake.
At this point, I'd normally suggest something with a political tint to it, something like, ' ....but who am I to judge people' .... but in this situation, anyone in our sport can judge, this situation demands we should.
He could turn up with a million pallets of paint and none of it changes the fact that he's a cheap-ass conman who screws people over.
Oh I'm sure there'll be people who will ditch any notion of principled business practice for money and I'm sure they will know the consequences of such a moral dereliction.
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