Mr Nibbler

I've not been in here for ages but as I work with Major T I knew all about this. A very sad and unexpected day for all concerned, particularly Mr Snail and Mrs Major T. As you know our thoughts are with you. Sleep well, Mrs Snail.

I'd just decided that a few TB dogtags was the answer then I looked up the Pathtags website. Combine the two and there we have it. Oh dear oh dear - I wish I'd just ignored his email now

I must say the TB option was my initial thought

In the absence of any advice thus far I've found "Oakcoins" which seem dagnabed (sorry - just heading off the bad word filter at the pass) expensive for runs under 50 coins. Any comments or am I on my own?

Well done on the luring him in LollyB and a genuine warm welcome to Seiko Bill and the geohound. As for J Eeyore - you had him at a disadvantage whilst he could not escape and you brought him across to the dark side....very very well done!!! Seriously though - welcome SB.

My younger lad (Mcd1) is at an MOD boarding sixth form college and has asked me if I think a Geocoin with the college crest on would be a good idea. As an old (ok - very old) boy I think the answer is yes. I have seen discussion before as to how to get coins produced (in not vast numbers) without breaking the bank but am jiggered if I can find them tonight. Any pointers? I suppose a TB or two with suitable attachments would be good too, but Geocoin he said, and he DOES know the difference. Cheers folks

Kevenh - maybe see you there - we're off to Valletta for 10 days as of this evening. I would recommend Windy Cove for a bit of a challenge: start from the car park on the cliff is my advice! And do the two on Comino - great island to walk around.

Unlucky - hope it turns up safe.

Within minutes of leaving the airport you could grab GCTTWJ which is in the service area on the M11 - you may have to take a sub-optimal route to the motorway to get it as a fast-track to the M11 southbound has recently been added. Enjoy your holiday.

Major Trek & Co more than passed the 200 mark at the Shrops event this weekend: looked like a lot of fun. Very well done indeed to the three of you, and here's to the next hundred

Big ups guys - well done indeed.

My middle child, and the second of the caching sons, has naffed off on holiday for two weeks with a school chum and family. When he gets back his caching is going to be very curtailed as he has just been informed that he has won a place at a boarding sixth-form college starting in just over three weeks time. The college is surrounded by good caches (I did one in March the day we visited the college to have a look around, just after he went through the selection process) so he might get some done except for the fact that he is hardly allowed out of the gates – it is a very restrictive place indeed (and no, it isn’t a borstal, before you ask). Any ideas how he can persuade the college (very outdoorsy in outlook) that caching is a good thing for students to do? He has already done DoE silver so he can’t claim it as a skill thing – perhaps tell other students (175 in his year) about caching and get enough interested for an official trip out? Edited to add - it isn't Harrow, Eton or other posh places - honest guv! Don't want anyone to get the wrong idea.

Very very well done indeed to the pair of you

If you like NN - I'd love to - I'm now trying to ditch this thread so I'm not badged as some sort of old, middle class, tory reactionary who hates everyone!! Because I was a bit that way to a dodgy post I'm now dead in the water. Bugger, bugger and bugger again

Obviously I'm an oversensitive wassock. Let's kill the thread

The Golem, It's all down to experience I agree - and thanks for your response but I am still seething at the bloody rudeness of some of the US cachers - have you seen Team Cotati? Why some of the Scots cachers are still here is beyond my understanding. I need to go and have a cup of tea, a good night's sleep then shout at someone at work

Blue Duece Me too, but when I think it's important it gets to me. The Golem I think you may be right. I'm seething but should I close it? Probably.

I supported the US reaction to EU objections to Jeep doing their thing with Groundspeak - big ups to whoever gets the 2006 Jeep in their driveway. I hate being told to naff off from allegedly worldwide forums because I'm not in the US. I'd be the same if England started ignoring East Anglia, or GB/UK started cutting out Scotland. Wouldn't you?

The thread title should perhaps have been "Over-Reacting?". The Jeep thing is neither here not there, what Mercedes/Jeep/Chrysler etc want to do to promote their excellent product in the lower 48 States of the US is not the point. Icons are not the point. Rudeness is.

I tried to keep my cool (and nearly failed on a mainstream thread), then a moderator responded without acknowledging me. The words TERRORIST CACHER seemed particularly badly chosen and it's all about some numpty nicking TBs which is bad but unavaoidable. I really do object to being ignored because my sig doesn't have a State two letter acronym. OK - I know the bulk of cachers are in the States but it does not automatically enable rudeness, does it? If I'm wrong I'll crawl back into my post-empire cave and quietly slap myself on the wrist. Oh, and the rudeness of the other European cachers about the marketing drive of Jeep (Mercedes to us cross-ponders) was blinding!

I'm glad Eartha said all that - apart from not knowing Groundspeak had already banned them (although I guessed it) - the rest of my post was obviously of no value whatsover.

I look a lot like Captain Mainwaring I'm told (but not as much as my late Dad who was his spitting image). Thank God I have no suitable pictures and the video of me rebadging my company (RAOC) to squadron (RLC) in 1993 doesn't work here as it looks like Arthur Lowe in DPM combats!

Just spotted this LFD - if you want a presence in the UK I am more than happy to accommodate - and I'll pay (Paypal or something) for the cost of 5 Feeps, TB tags and postage if you want to send them to me. I could probably find a lame prize for a cacher in the EU as well - lava lamp perhaps or something equally dated?

Sadly if this eeejit (Ulster-speak) wants to play silly beggars with us cachers they will continue to do so no matter how many times they are banned. These people, who get their kicks out of ruining other people's fun, are in all hobbies and pastimes. Perhaps not discussing them in forums would reduce their gratification. And I'm sorry, I know you are in a litiginous environment, but what could you sue them for? If you leave something out in the open it is fair game for anyone to purloin - a thought I've had over my own TBs and caches. In summary my sympathy is with you, but I don't think there is much that can be done apart from ignoring them, cutting your losses, and getting on with what you enjoy. [edited for spelling]

I'm lifting my reply almost directly from the UK forum thread - with some edits!!!! I'm Robin - I used to chat a lot on IRC - I used Nibor (Robin backwards). A few folks worked it out and I spent far too much time explaining (usually to our cousins across the pond) that I didn't like being "hit on" as I was NOT female and it is an almost exclusively male name here. Most of them did not like this response and said some very un-PC tings to me. I liked the Nib bit so moved to Nibbly, and as Miss N and Mrs N couldn't care less about caching, and sons no.1 and 2 cache in their own right (The Amazing Spider Man and Mcd1) I'm now Mr Nibbler, as Nibbly seemed to be taken.