brian, perhaps you're more interested in starting a clique or cult than an open discussion board, all you've done here is try to be offensive & make assumptions, you've suggested i'm dishonest, cowardly & a trouble maker thats been banned in the past etc & for what? to get me to bite & debate with you?

you feel that because you're name is attached to the comments that it makes you brave? like i said, i dont know you from adam, the name brian richie could be made up for all i know, you're the other side of the world in louisville talking shit about me & at me from behind a screen yet you think you're actual name next to your post makes you credible or brave?

it's good for yourself that you're content being considered an arsehole but it's hardly something to wear with pride like a badge of honour, yet you seem to think it is, potentially you've either some sort of screw loose(who cares?), an individual with an enthusiasm for being abrasive, just for fun or how did you say it? to start a conversation? or you've just never had a really good punch on the nose, perhaps you have? & that's why you act like this behind a screen?

with regard to my anonymity, here's some personal information, with my family name there's probably less than a handful of my family with the same surname in the uk, there might be a few more in europe but not many, i was also the victim of identity fraud/theft 7/8 years ago & was bumped for close to £1k, so my name isn't smith, jones, brown etc where even by posting my actual name i still retain some form of anonymity, i don't know a lot about the internet, therefore i try my best to protect my identity for my own personal security, i'm not scared of anybody pal especially anybody on here, why should i be? its as simple as that

now would i trust somebody such as yourself with my personal information?, probably not, because you're already sharing pubclicly what little information that you do know about me & also making public assumptions about me, i've not really had any grief on here, nor did i have a bad word to say about yourself until you made these assumptions about me, there's plenty of your types in the uk, it doesnt mean you're brave it says more about how you've been brought up & what you think you can get away with & from my experience with this type of person when they do get a slap they usually whine about how its an over reaction & how they're entitled to act like numpties

by putting my personal information up here i'm then more likely to take things more personally & potentially being wound up & for what? because somebody with a personality disorder or just ejits that think its a laugh to insult people want to entertain themselves? the amount of shit on here is enough to put anybody off, i mean i've read about ax members family being slagged off, phone calls at all hours, bullying, gun threats etc etc

you've annoyed me with some of your assumptions & comments brian, & i dont even have my real info up here, i dont believe & i've had you confirm this that it would make the blind bit of difference if my name was genuine or not...as you say you only want verified members that are known in the community, so thats more of a clique or a cult & you think you can be as offensive as you see fit as long as you converse afterwards

the problem with your site is a minority of the actual members you wish to retain, the same members that have filled in their id's yet make another id to harrass or antagonise other members, yet it suits you to point the finger at me or people in a similar position as myself, there's a minority of goons on here & i too would like to know who they are, i try to be courteous to most on this site & most of my posts are wishing people the best of luck, if i was aware that some of the people i'm sending regards to acted like ejits then i'd be less likely to offer words of support in the future, in other words they'd lose a fan here, & i'm a nobody so perhaps my views are irrelevant but if there wasnt a degree of truth in what i was saying then you'd see these business owners & fighters talking tripe under their real names rather than signing up again to harrass & annoy with anonymity


i would have suggested that perhaps by taking a nominal payment for access you'd have the verficiation you needed, however after sharing what little info you know about me i dont believe you should be trusted with too much personal information, after all, you're proud of being an arsehole & would probably think you could get away with it because you're name is next to your post & you state where you're from, i'm hardly gonna fly over to the states & pay you a visit, i wouldnt even get a visa for starters but why should i be made to feel like i want to see you face to face just because you seem to think you're abrasive personality has some sort of endearing quality, like i say you've either not been taught to keep your negative assumptions to yourself or you've never had a good punch in the face...perhaps its even because you've done some martial arts & think that you can talk how u like

i believe people that do share their information & are then insulted by members are partly responsible for sharing their own details, it doesnt excuse the behavior of those trying to annoy & insult them but a certain level of responsibility has to be taken by the people that have shared this information & made themselves vulnerable

i dont understand the internet to the same level as somebody like yourself or many others, i imagine there's millions of young teens that know loads more than myself, i was on the net back in 1997 & used it more as a resource for information & occasional chats in yahoo, i then travelled for a good few years & hardly used the internet at all, i missed out on being part of this facebook generation as i wasnt sat behind a screen to embrace it when it took off, in the past few years i've posted on a couple of forums... mainly boxing forums & a few others but i consider myself a relative novice, the forums i've posted on have been mostly members with nicknames rather than actual names but i still attach somebody as a numpty to a nickname if their behavior fits, i've never really felt the need to know all the in's & outs of who somebody is

i'm close to 31, not that old but i've had a hard life & feel my age & am getting more grey by the day, i might be 100% grey by my mid 30's so it feels daft trying to use the lingo that i may have been more likely to adopt had i been 14/15 , i've never been banned from your forum, i've never even had a warning for my behavior, i dont feel i've previously acted in a manner that would warrent such a warning, if you feel my response to you deserves such then that's your call

as for my ip address changing? like i say i dont know the ins & outs but i have moved address since being a member here & at my new address i've switched broadband providers, i dont think i've posted on here when i've been at friends houses, i may have posted from thailand or spain but i cant remember now, if i had it would have been years ago, perhaps some of that can identify where my ip address has changed but again i dont know enough about it, but it says more about you & how you think, that rather than look for a simple explanation you look for something more sinister & then feel that you've some sort of gotcha moment to expose me, after all you're all the way over the other side of the world acting like this & thinking you're brave, if you had handled yourself a little better & hadnt posted what little information you did know about me on the forums along with your assumptions then i may have been inclined or baited to post up some of my information or at the very least send you a pm about who i am, it wouldnt make a difference, as i explained i'm nobody in this scene, just a guy that's done a bit of training, stayed in thailand a couple of years that has an interest in muay & thailand

however if you feel you can share my other usernames? with a verified i.d as you suspect then go for it, again i dont understand a lot but i'm guessing 1 of these ip addresses that i've commented from would 100% match up with some verifed member, if you can match it up, go for it, but i know myself & i know thats not the case

my comments about a sandwich board displaying personal information were more about facebook than here, so if you're site is all about fighters & gyms & only this then that's fine & i guess i am in the wrong place & i hold my hands up to that, it has opened my eyes being on here though, there's some really nice people in the community but theres a small group of numpties too with some back stabbing & lots of politics that mostly fly over my head, from my point of view it hasnt been a complete waste of time, i'm a little wiser about the industry & sport that i have an interest in, i've trained a wee bit at a uk gym & met a numpty or 2 but most of the little training ive done has been in thailand so perhaps i've just been lucky & met some decent people over there or just met people when they've been on their best behavior, i've only met a couple of ejits that were slagging of thais & thailand when actually training at a thai camp & that was a couple of yanks at sityodtong, but it seems there's a few self serving types in the sport that share their negative views on thais in general, so it's been an eye opener

my comments about, so what if you were offended wasn't too hard to join the dots, i dont think you sat there & thought out a way of addressing the situation without being contraversial & offensive, hey it's how you like to debate, good for you but i only tend to act/respond like this when i'm annoyed & its not my general manner

best wishes & i'm sorry to anybody this post may offend even if its just because its too long haha

all the best