Paul Begg's Point to Ponder

[Doctor X]

Uh . . . what?

"Signals from the Colony?"

". . . confused in his role as an individual that did not recognise another gender, he then regarded the other gender as a danger to the community, and killed them."

What?

Seriously.

What?

Yours confusedly,

--J.D.

[Cap'n Jack]

Then your memory is short, Ally.
You'll remember my 'Colony' model.
Just press search, old archive.
I put together a very radical argument for the Whitechapel Murderer being a 'soldier' working at the behest of signals from the Colony, confused in his role as an individual that did not recognise another gender, he then regarded the other gender as a danger to the community, and killed them.
That is when you killed me, and probably set back suitable and sensible discussion about this case for about twenty years.
Hope you proud.

[Ally]

Uhm AP, I could care less if you speculate that the Whitechapel murders were homosexual in nature. I'll start a thread right now for you and you can pontificate on that all you want. As far as I know, I have never had a post or a thread of yours cancelled or banned because the only posts I have ever reported were spam, teenage "help me with my homework threads" and troll posts. And while you are often an irritating little sht, who is prone to hysterical over-exaggeration, don quioxte complexes and persecution dramas of exhausting banality, I don't think any of your posts have ever fallen into one of those categories that I single out for reporting. So if one of your posts or threads was banned, it wasn't instigated by me, and I sincerely doubt it was based solely on your speculation that the killings were homosexually motivated.

[Cap'n Jack]

Ally, you seem to have never forgiven me for speculating a long time ago that the Whitechapel Murders were inherently homosexual in their nature and purpose.
You'll remember that post.
The one you had cancelled and banned.
I would guess that your vim here is based on your long term guilt and shame for banning and cancelling such a perfect and beautiful insight into these remarkable crimes.

[Supe]

What I have found most interesting (albeit predictable) about the discussion to date is how some people have managed to insinuate into their posts the same old petty grievances and personal enmities that have disrupted many a thread and which we all profess to deplore. Way to go gang..

Don.

[rjpalmer]

The current idea of Ripperology is to be reverential to what is, after all, a failed effort. In the meantime, laissez-faire doesn’t work. As much as I enjoy Cap'n Jack's romantic notion that the historian Gibbon will inevitably rise to the top, it’s just as likely that the historian Goebbels will rise to the forefront. Eventually all conscientious historians give up, knowing the hordes have breached the wall; they then retreat to Tibet and become Buddhists.

[Mike Covell]

Before Sundays show I was lucky enough to speak to Mr. Paul Begg on a couple of occasions, and discovered he was actually a bloody nice bloke, knew his stuff, and was extremely funny.

It was a pleasure having him on the show, but I don't think the podcast has discovered the boards weakness, just provided another topic for discussion.

[c.d.]

I just wanted to add, the idea that someone new cannot be involved in diary discussions is a falsehood, many regulars on the dairy boards were firmly established when I first started posting on them, now I am firmly established.

There are dairy boards? Wow. I can't wait to post. Moo-hah!!!

c.d.

[Jenni Shelden]

Hi all,

I just wanted to add, the idea that someone new cannot be involved in diary discussions is a falsehood, many regulars on the diary boards were firmly established when I first started posting on them, now I am firmly established.

Also, all forms of media have limitations, they are useful for what they are desinged for. The Casebook, is the most useful intereactive website on the Ripper (indeed on any subject, that I use the web for). Of course there are limitations, but if someone is an idiot or is wrong, they are still an idiot or wrong, whether eveyone else tells them so or not.

[Ally]

Aces. So as long as someone speaks well, is polite and listens to others for an hour, you think they are keen.

You and Ted Bundy would probably have been soul mates.

P.S I am not comparing Paul Begg to Ted Bundy, I am just saying that AP's method of choosing who he's going to like today is retarded.

[Cap'n Jack]

Not really, Ally, I like him for his manner of gracious speaking, his inherent politeness, and his willingness to listen to the arguments of others.
That will do for me.

[Ally]

Or it could just have exposed the weakness of your own mind, will and tastes that you will choose to dislike someone you have never met for various reasons, then choose to like them for other various reasons, none of those reasons actually being based on anything relevant or real but instead on how you think he is based on two limited forms of communication.

[Cap'n Jack]

It's a funny old world isn't it?
I thought I didn't like Mr Begg. I thought he was a bit of a snob and a fanny, but after I listened to him talking on the podcast, and what he had to say, I like this guy, a lot.
I think the podcast has exposed the weakness of the message boards.

[Sam Flynn]

I am, however, prepared to go for the throat of the next person to start a 'bolster' thread.

Pillow fight!!

[steje73]

Personally I think the diary is bobbins, but it was the longest debate I could remember off the top of my head.
I am, however, prepared to go for the throat of the next person to start a 'bolster' thread