Does AA not realise that indulging trolls loses it members? Has Simon been asked to return?
Another update - The Dandy's obvious sock-puppet Augustus has returned to posting, though his glory is much diminished and he is now merely inane rather than splendidly trollish.
See http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1075182&postcount=7 for instance. He's scaled back his pretentions from "heir to throne" to "mysteriously uneducated sounding boarding school twit."
I've written to the ones where I have an email address of a real person because they are the companies I've done business with and I know it will get through to someone who actually exists. Given that I can't realistically ask them not to advertise with Tubs Gilchrist, I have suggested instead that they do not give him any exclusive offers and that they require him to make it clear that the offers are available in other circumstances as well. I've also asked for whatever discount they give Blandy to be offered to syndicates of more than a particular number of people.
So far, 3 yesses, 2 no replies yet, and 2 saying yes to the discount and discussing the exclusivity thing. Also 1 saying (although I asked for nothing of the kind) that they thought the moderation was heavy handed and were reviewing their position. Only a cynic would think that it was because they compete with that funny little man who looks like a 1970s hotel musician and says he makes shirts...
Aaaaaand The Dandy/Augustus is back in a new form, "Virtuti":
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104063
You may ask what top-notch detective work led me to conclude that this is the same old troll - he refers to himself, in the most natural manner conceivable, as "a simple student and armiger,"
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1086248&postcount=39
And Kabbaz has suspended him! The wheels of justice turn slowly and very stupidly.
Recalling AAAC and participation is like those T.V. ads for musical collections from one's youth. Nobody will admit to once feeling deeply touched by Donovan singing about Atlantis or looking at Janis Joplin's topless photo.
Buying the 'forum' pocketsquare when I couldn't afford gasoline was almost my knight errant (error) coat of arms, like the H.S. Letterman's jacket proudly worn until the football team half killed a friend they decided was gay because of a speech impediment.
It should have, could have meant something. Now it's a nice square made by a nicer friend.
Andy is the man behind the curtain never to see Kansas again alive ( he once posted burial in California was to expensive so he and the missus had adjoining plots in kansas) because the munchkin Kabbatz sewed his balloon and all the cruiser hot air leaked out.
I snap bigger collar stays than Andy.
Last edited by ckav (2010-04-17 23:18:04)
"You like him then?" Andy is like a girl you dated once in the 7th grade and utterly forgot about until the mysteries of anesthesiology gave the OR nurses something to giggle about in the recovery room, asking you who Roxanne was.
I suppose I did once. When a MODERATOR'S tie company turned belly up leaving some forum members emptyhanded ( and now I get periodic emails from that same concern) Andy should have gotten a clue about how vulnerable he was. My breaking point was a anonymous poster making insulting remarks about our POTUS. I have this odd belief obout respecting our leader's. So, this guy gets political and anti american in the clothing forum, Malinda is AWOL and I get in his cyber face.
I get a email from Andy asking if I am off my meds and mistaking his forum for a biker bar AND my comments were racist, a inartfull attempt to mimic my writing. I never did figure out the race card, started a measured reply, realised it was all B.S. and told Andy he wasn't worth it and I had to go take a piss, a much more satisfying experience than talking with him. I then received a simultaneous email from Malinda making a physical threat that had me shaking in my Park Avenues. I replied that #1 having foolishly purchased Andy's CD via a Postal Money Order ,and I #2 had a physical address and was maybe 2 hours drive from a reply in kind.
I was banned. Then I get a automated birthday greeting! I replied asking for my name to be removed and dealing with AAAC was like negotiating with a Kansas city whore. Andy replied I had not been banned and oh, by the way my wife is from Kansas city. If the #8 Allen Edmond last fits.....
This is all much ado about nothing, except FNB seems to receive refugees who need peer empathy they did nothing wrong refusing to genuflect before the shroud of Kabbatz showing Andy in his moment of transfiguration.
Last edited by ckav (2010-04-19 16:25:30)
I've been regularly following AAAC since before the days of the Trad forum. I have a theory that Andy has been behind much of the trolling himself, probably more so in the early days than now since enough people have been corrupted to do the job for him. The more traffic there, good or "bad," the better it is for business. He and the site just need to maintain plausible deniability.
Last edited by khakijeans (2010-04-22 14:18:52)
The issue isn't so much denial as relevance. The premise, aside from income for Andy is a dialog about dressing well; how to understand the concept, find the resources, assemble within one's financial ability the wardrobe and finally actually dressing without parodying a Jesus Freak growing his hair and beard out to look just like Jesus or WORSE ; Cary Grant, Charles POW, James Bond. Don Draper or Feareless Fosdick.
AAAC has become one of the homes you see on the news; 100+ cats living among piles of fast food trash, saved newspapers and boxes of bric a bat stacked ceiling high. Only AAAC is full of Cruiser's fanfare for the mediocre and denim clad man
and inane questions like white baseball cap sources.
3 days housecleaning and the mighty Oak called AAAC is a Bonsai about to die.
Last edited by Russell_Street (2010-04-23 01:53:07)
Moved to 'The Curriculum', posted here twice.
My best to you, Tommy.
Jim
Andy Pandy was a soppy British TV puppet from which it is rumoured AskAndy derives.