On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 6:10:31 PM UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 6:04:56 PM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Saturday, 22 August 2015 08:19:40 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 10:24:50 PM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Friday, 21 August 2015 20:24:03 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 4:04:15 PM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Friday, 21 August 2015 14:09:47 UTC+1, wrote:
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 19:57:09 UTC+1, wrote:

He was talking about tomorrow's weather (now today obviously) and he just started rambling aimlessly. Can't remember the exact words but it was along the lines of - it will be a bit sunny and a bit wet, rather a mish-mash really all in all. Quite average.

And the odd thing is that he's one of the few of the weather presenters around the place who have the Met degree from Reading. Just goes to show a brain doesn't necessarily mean you have the skills to impart information to the public.

My two penneth is that Peter Gibbs is (was?) the best, closely followed by Helen Willetts.

Richard

I certainly agree about Peter Gibbs but not Helen Willetts. She seems to be perpetually on the verge of giggles as if someone is pulling faces at her in the studio or waving a giant plastic phallus about. Most of the other female presenters are pretty good. I'm talking about Radio 4 here.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Quote from another thread;

"I don't usually watch the TV forecasts"

hughes.

shakes head

.....My presence completely addles your brain, it seems.....

And now Mr. Obsessed tries projection. Ever get the feeling it's not going well for you hughes?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Nope, rather the opposite. Read Freddie's words in this thread and you will see that you have been rumbled. You made a deliberate and dishonest attempt not to let the facts get in the way of a good smear.

In the last few months you have descended quite a way and are now little more than a troll, someone with less interest in the weather than in being rude to people and stirring up trouble.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Mr Obsessed tries different tactics. Yawn.

How many people are obsessed with you now? There's a bit of a pattern here isn't there? Lack of capitalisation, obsession, throwing back questions you refuse to answer, it's quite boring really, almost obsessional behaviour. Idiot.

On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 6:10:31 PM UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 6:04:56 PM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Saturday, 22 August 2015 08:19:40 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 10:24:50 PM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Friday, 21 August 2015 20:24:03 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 4:04:15 PM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Friday, 21 August 2015 14:09:47 UTC+1, wrote:
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 19:57:09 UTC+1, wrote:

He was talking about tomorrow's weather (now today obviously) and he just started rambling aimlessly. Can't remember the exact words but it was along the lines of - it will be a bit sunny and a bit wet, rather a mish-mash really all in all. Quite average.

And the odd thing is that he's one of the few of the weather presenters around the place who have the Met degree from Reading. Just goes to show a brain doesn't necessarily mean you have the skills to impart information to the public.

My two penneth is that Peter Gibbs is (was?) the best, closely followed by Helen Willetts.

Richard

I certainly agree about Peter Gibbs but not Helen Willetts. She seems to be perpetually on the verge of giggles as if someone is pulling faces at her in the studio or waving a giant plastic phallus about. Most of the other female presenters are pretty good. I'm talking about Radio 4 here.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Quote from another thread;

"I don't usually watch the TV forecasts"

hughes.

shakes head

.....My presence completely addles your brain, it seems.....

And now Mr. Obsessed tries projection. Ever get the feeling it's not going well for you hughes?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Nope, rather the opposite. Read Freddie's words in this thread and you will see that you have been rumbled. You made a deliberate and dishonest attempt not to let the facts get in the way of a good smear.

In the last few months you have descended quite a way and are now little more than a troll, someone with less interest in the weather than in being rude to people and stirring up trouble.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Mr Obsessed tries different tactics. Yawn.

You missed out shakes head and random ^*(.* Keep up Dawlish.

On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 8:27:09 PM UTC+1, Freddie wrote:
Freddie Wrote in message:
Dawlish Wrote in message:
On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 4:04:15 PM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Friday, 21 August 2015 14:09:47 UTC+1, wrote:
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 19:57:09 UTC+1, wrote:

He was talking about tomorrow's weather (now today obviously) and he just started rambling aimlessly. Can't remember the exact words but it was along the lines of - it will be a bit sunny and a bit wet, rather a mish-mash really all in all. Quite average.

And the odd thing is that he's one of the few of the weather presenters around the place who have the Met degree from Reading. Just goes to show a brain doesn't necessarily mean you have the skills to impart information to the public.

My two penneth is that Peter Gibbs is (was?) the best, closely followed by Helen Willetts.

Richard

I certainly agree about Peter Gibbs but not Helen Willetts. She seems to be perpetually on the verge of giggles as if someone is pulling faces at her in the studio or waving a giant plastic phallus about. Most of the other female presenters are pretty good. I'm talking about Radio 4 here.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Quote from another thread;

"I don't usually watch the TV forecasts"

hughes.

shakes head


Isn't that why he said "I'm talking about Radio 4 here" in the
final sentence of his post?


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Sorry Freddie,

Missed your comment amongst the avalanche of hughes insults.

Yes, Which is why I said this: The majority view in the hughes head is that no presenter, **on any programme** is good enough. Hence my comment.'

My comment was; 'Well would you believe it?', because all hughes ever does is complain about presenters, Radio 4, or TV (which he 'hardly ever watches' - his own comment, but he always knows enough to criticise the presenters). He never has a decent word to say about them and misses the point completely that he is not their target audience.

On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 10:02:01 PM UTC+1, wrote:
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On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 6:24:24 PM UTC+1,
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On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 9:28:02 AM UTC+1, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Monday, Augus

Surely nobody here is as self opinionated as you

I know this has been raised before , but seriously just visit
Tripadvisor.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/members-reviews/PaulGarvey

I have to ask Paul, do you actually goo on holiday for the holiday,
I
mean that wouldn't be so bad but even if you visit the local fish
and
chip shop you feel compelled to let the world know what you think.
I
can imagine a couple of reviews but 66!!!!!! You really are so
full
of yourself that its almost Narcissistic.

Tripadvisor has 84 million members worldwide, who have posted a
quarter
of a billion reviews. To review is extremely helpful to everyone and
I
don't book places that don't have good trip advisor reviews. I
believe
it forces up quality.


Really, helpful to everyone eh.

Take a look at a place in Helston A small guesthouse, 31 reviews,26
excellent! Then comes Paul Garver with terrible. The poor owner had to
reply of course, as everyone gets stirred up to do so with you.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Rev...l_England.html

Do you ever think that if everyone else (bar 1) thought it excellent or
very good that something might be down to you? Or how much people who
try
hard to run a small business well are upset by attitudes like yours?

No, of course not.

My wife was once driven to tears by someone like you - though not quite
as
bad obviously.

The vast majority of Paul's reviews have been very good or excellent
though.
Perhaps he just had a bad experience. It happens, even in places that are
normally rated as excellent.
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What the 'eck has this got to do with Schafernacker as per thread title?
As a holiday let owner myself, I agree wholeheartedly with Graham. Some
customers are simply moaners.


If the majority of the reviews were bleating and moaning then I think you
would have a point, but they are mostly very complimentary, 'glowing'
even.
OK, perhaps the sarcastic tone was unnecessary but a bad review is meant
to be just that. It's not intended to make for comfortable reading.


We got a bad review recently about the cleaning in our cottage. But I know
for a fact that the place was spotless, the customer had clearly had bad
weather and was just having a pop. Pointless and unhelpful. Most of our
reviews are either excellent or very good overall. Yes some make useful
comments, but single outstanding good or bad reviews are often safely
ignored :-)

Will
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http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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I find it simply amazing that even people who have killfiled me want to talk about my (overall hugely positive) **Tripadvisor** contributions.

This one writes: 'What the 'eck has this got to do with Schafernacker as per thread title?' in one post, then can't resist venting his spleen about one review he's received on Tripadvisor, in his very next post.

Just, literally, unbelievable. laughing

Just, literally, unbelievable. laughing

Unbelievably unbelievable, but you forgot &^@@+ again. laughing even harder than you

"David Mitchell" wrote in message
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Just, literally, unbelievable. laughing

Unbelievably unbelievable, but you forgot &^@@+ again. laughing even
harder than you


Temperature +11.4C in Haytor and raining.

Will
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On 25/08/15 00:58, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Monday, 24 August 2015 19:57:22 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 6:50:45 PM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes
wrote:
On Monday, 24 August 2015 08:58:00 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 5:19:22 AM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes
wrote:
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 23:39:26 UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins
wrote:
Surely nobody here is as self opinionated as you

I know this has been raised before , but seriously just
visit Tripadvisor.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/members-reviews/PaulGarvey

I have to ask Paul, do you actually goo on holiday for the
holiday, I mean that wouldn't be so bad but even if you
visit the local fish and chip shop you feel compelled to
let the world know what you think. I can imagine a couple
of reviews but 66!!!!!! You really are so full of yourself
that its almost Narcissistic.

And another thing, he photographs diesel locomotives,
diseasels or clagboxes as we call them. That truly is sad.
I notice he hasn't visited the refreshment room at East
Croydon station. That would test his anti-racist
credentials, what.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Do I? Now there's an interesting one, not known to me, but I
suppose hughes knows better. he usually does in these things.

Any evidence? Or like your imaginary stack of emails, is it
just whatever comes to mind, now, hughes?

You'll get an answer when you spell my name and everybody else's
with a capital. All this practice of yours does is to confirm to
all and sundry your puerile and ill-mannered nature, as if they
didn't know already. Why you do it is quite beyond me. It's as
if you've given up.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

'**everyone** else's' Really hughes? Or are you a part of a small,
select few? Oh yes, you are, aren't you. Do actually read my posts,
if you are going to criticise, won't you?

Tell you what; I'd love to see these photos I've taken of 'diesel
locomotives, diseasels or clagboxes as we call them.'. How
fascinating that you are a part of a group that calls them that. I
do hope you are all happy. Do post/link to some of these imaginary
photos of mine, won't you? Maybe I can join you all? 😃

Ever get the feeling that everything you say just isn't hitting the
mark, hughes? In fact, you are resorting to making things up now in
your flaccid attempts to denigrate. It's just not working is it

Go on. Continue your obsession and dig your hole deeper. Make
something else up about melaughing......

lower-case therefore no reply

Hughes


?
You've just replied !
'no reply' would be not to reply

On Monday, 24 August 2015 22:02:01 UTC+1, wrote:

We got a bad review recently about the cleaning in our cottage. But I know
for a fact that the place was spotless, the customer had clearly had bad
weather and was just having a pop. Pointless and unhelpful. Most of our
reviews are either excellent or very good overall. Yes some make useful
comments, but single outstanding good or bad reviews are often safely
ignored :-)

Tripadvisor would be a lot more useful for measuring quality if you could trim out those who have review fewer than, say, 5 times, or indeed select your lower bound of reviewers' review count. I actually went to the lengths of suggesting this to them!

Often one single review will be either a knee-jerk moan, sabotage, or someone trying to big up their own place. I'd rather isolate it to reviews of people who actually use TripAdvisor regularly to write stuff and should (hopefully) be a little bit more level-headed.

Richard

On 25/08/2015 10:40, wrote:
On Monday, 24 August 2015 22:02:01 UTC+1, wrote:

We got a bad review recently about the cleaning in our cottage. But I know
for a fact that the place was spotless, the customer had clearly had bad
weather and was just having a pop. Pointless and unhelpful. Most of our
reviews are either excellent or very good overall. Yes some make useful
comments, but single outstanding good or bad reviews are often safely
ignored :-)

Tripadvisor would be a lot more useful for measuring quality if you could trim out
those who have review fewer than, say, 5 times, or indeed select your
lower bound
of reviewers' review count. I actually went to the lengths of
suggesting this to them!

Not sure that culling the low review counts ones helps all that much.
The dodgier ones are those mass produced positive reviews from the same
IP addresses under different pseudonyms.

Often one single review will be either a knee-jerk moan, sabotage, or
someone trying to big up their own place. I'd rather isolate it to reviews
of people who actually use TripAdvisor regularly to write stuff and
should (hopefully) be a little bit more level-headed.

Always worth topping and tailing the distribution and looking to see why
if something has exactly 3* average made up of half 5* and half 1*.

My favourite in 2012 was a particularly nice Estwing geologists hammer
that due to a moronic survivalists review was languishing with a 2*
rating. It wasn't very good as a ice climbing tool apparently!

The main reference work for JPEG has a similar bimodal distribution of
scores with experts rating it 5* and beginners 1*.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 10:40:49 AM UTC+1, wrote:
On Monday, 24 August 2015 22:02:01 UTC+1, wrote:

We got a bad review recently about the cleaning in our cottage. But I know
for a fact that the place was spotless, the customer had clearly had bad
weather and was just having a pop. Pointless and unhelpful. Most of our
reviews are either excellent or very good overall. Yes some make useful
comments, but single outstanding good or bad reviews are often safely
ignored :-)

Tripadvisor would be a lot more useful for measuring quality if you could trim out those who have review fewer than, say, 5 times, or indeed select your lower bound of reviewers' review count. I actually went to the lengths of suggesting this to them!

Often one single review will be either a knee-jerk moan, sabotage, or someone trying to big up their own place. I'd rather isolate it to reviews of people who actually use TripAdvisor regularly to write stuff and should (hopefully) be a little bit more level-headed.

Richard

They are the ones I look for too. And I'm sure that's what people see in my own comments.

Tripadvisor is a terrific site to inform decisions as to where to stay/go. If someone gets a poor review, it is highly likely that they did not meet the needs of that particular customer. Multiply that bay 50/100+ and it tells you; don't book/go here. One bad review certainly wouldn't put me off; I'd make my decision based upon how the business had met the needs of the many, not the one.