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| Topic Started: Dec 30 2016, 12:46 PM (461 Views) | |
| Lewis | Dec 30 2016, 12:46 PM Post #1 |
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Alright politically I didn't have much time for him. However he has been notable for his absence lately. I know that he has had some health issues but I hope that he is okay. |
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| Steve K | Dec 30 2016, 12:57 PM Post #2 |
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Sorry to say Lewis that I fear the worst but have been unable to confirm this using passive searches and I will not actively contact his family to find out But RJD hasn't responded to my emails and he was always very quick to do so - we got on far better in private than our combative posts might indicate If my suspicions are true it will be a very sad loss |
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| Lewis | Dec 30 2016, 03:01 PM Post #3 |
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Oh that is sad. Hope that you are wrong. It comes to us all, some time or another! |
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| Steve K | Oct 22 2017, 11:27 PM Post #4 |
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Sadly I now know what we all had feared. RJD died in early November last year, he had been very ill for several years having been diagnosed in 2010. A fighter to the end, he'd outlived the predictions and amazingly was posting here the same week he died. Roger was in his early 70s and had been a director for several Engineering companies in a long career. RIP |
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| marybrown | Oct 23 2017, 11:29 AM Post #5 |
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Sad news indeed...RIP..
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| Tigger | Oct 23 2017, 05:08 PM Post #6 |
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It is always a bit sad when someone you sort of know dies, to say we never really hit it off is a bit of an understatement! Our best clashes were over the merits of DIY gas fitting and the endless posts about the evils of socialism! I became aware or "RJD" through a person I'd had contact with through work, a chap called Bob Ambridge who some might know better as Twitter Troll Old Holborn, Bob was always amusing in real life and we had something in common, six kids each! Being the modest chap Bob is he directed me to various internet forums where he seemed to hold court, this is when I first "met" RJD, he was a member of the GOM forum and stood out from all the usual stuffed shirts on there as you could tell he was not originally from shall we say the managerial classes, his insults often betrayed his background and the spelling police often corrected him. I never bothered with internet forums and online debating back then considering it rather pointless and a waste of productive time, but then again it is fun isn't it when you've got some spare time on your hands and virtually bugger all to really worry about anymore. I could try and get the last word in here with Roger, it was always a struggle on the forum, but that would crass and insensitive and in real life I make an concerted effort to be neither, and yes it is a struggle at times! So here's to RJD, if there is something after three score years and ten I'll seek you out at some point in eternity and I'll be on my best behaviour when we meet! |
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| Steve K | Oct 23 2017, 05:59 PM Post #7 |
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RJD posted as oldrwb on the GOM forum. Here are most of his posts there: RJD, the early forum posting years Hopefully he wouldn't mind but here have a laugh at one of his early non PC ones:
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| Rich | Oct 23 2017, 08:04 PM Post #8 |
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I thoroughly enjoyed his "company" as it were and respected his years of experience in engineering and business matters I certainly miss him........RIP Roger.
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| Tigger | Oct 23 2017, 08:24 PM Post #9 |
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That's the sort of thing I used to like, so much to criticise! We could have an RJD theme day in November with threads such as, "Will Corbyn Open Gulags and Execute Capitalists?" You'll be told you don't know what you are talking about despite 12 links utterly disproving the claim, and I'll be reminded I'm uneducated and a mere tradesman so unqualified to comment! |
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| gee4444 | Oct 25 2017, 06:56 PM Post #10 |
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It's been quite a while since I last posted. Perusing the latest discussions I was sad to find this topic and felt it necessary to say farewell to a past debating giant of this forum. While it's fair to say RJD and myself had little time for each other's views and treated each other with little respect during our often heated head to heads, I'm sorry to hear of his passing. Hopefully he's in a better place, is having a few stiff drinks and is reminiscing with old friends. RIP. |
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| Affa | Oct 25 2017, 07:40 PM Post #11 |
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| Happy Hornet | Oct 26 2017, 07:12 PM Post #12 |
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Very sad news, we didn't always see eye to eye but I always respected him, a real gent. RIP Rodger. |
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| Lewis | Nov 5 2017, 06:38 PM Post #13 |
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Yes RIP Roger! I miss his eloquent insults. |
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