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Neil, I know what many people think of the Observer now......it is nothing like the local paper that represented the town for so many years......it feels like it is being run by amateurs who have absolutely no interest in local issues.
I had reason to email one of the reporters listed in the Observer, she emailed back that she no longer works on the Observer, yet one month later she is still listed as a reporter. Its now a load of rubbish as far as Accrington is concerned.
Retlaw.
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Well, we've already had this conversation on another thread. I suppose that this is now a first - the first publically funded instance of 'Flash Mobing', ever, ever in the world. Maybe the money would have been better spent on 'Flash Flushing', whereby a thousand pounds in mixed denominational notes would have been flushed down the public loos in and by the Market Hall. The TV rights could also have been sold - maybe at a handsome profit.
Whatever, this is still an outrage. Accy is now a laughing stock, thanks to this stupid, stupid exercise.
Whatever, this is still an outrage. Accy is now a laughing stock, thanks to this stupid, stupid exercise.
I think you are making yourself the laughing stock with your narrow minded views on just about anything Gayle does, except of course when she was helping out Stanley. It's a shame that a few members on here can't see the true purpose of an event like this and just use it to have a moan. When you pull your finger out and do something for the area like Gayle does I hope you don't get a few moaning minnies whinging about your hard work.
Ignore them Gayle and promote your very welcome hard work for our towns somewhere else.
Lifes to short, we will all be dead when it hits the fan in Korea any way.
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ok so who would you rather watch? Aldo zilli who cost over 8 thousand pounds or something that has been put together in a great way (and gets accy folk interested) and only costs just over ONE thousand pounds? you accy folk really do need to see things for what they are......ah i know what it is, none of you have teenage children....now i get it, if it's not benefitting you you have to slag it off
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think this is a better example of what a 'flashmob' should be ... a bunch of local folks of all ages who decide to surprise the grazers at local a food court
I . It's a shame that a few members on here can't see the true purpose of an event like this and just use it to have a moan. When you pull your finger out and do something for the area like Gayle does I hope you don't get a few moaning minnies whinging about your hard work.
Ignore them Gayle and promote your very welcome hard work for our towns somewhere else.
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Absolutely spot on Neil, couldn't agree more mate.
well i think its a great idea, i think what Gayle does for Hyndburn is wonderful, who cares if it wasn't perfect, it's not supposed to be, its supposed to be as if everyone just joined in, it's keeping kids off street corners, giving them something to focus on and helping them have fun, i just wish we had a Gayle in Blackburn...... i think the negative comments about this are awful.... maybe you didn't have the chance to do this sort of thing when you where growing up...things have changed, it makes me so angry when people moan about things that are helping the future generations...GRRRRRR
Agree with you hon ... looks like a lot of fun, and I can't see why anyone would want to bitch about it. I would like to see something like that here in Kingston ... maybe on ice, on the rink behind City Hall
I thought the whole idea of flash mobbing was spontineity.
The people involved new and no one else then they all turn up do the flash mob and blend back into the background.
Wether Saturdays event was good or not, did anything for the town or not it certainly wasn't flash mobbing. I new about it weeks ago, and not through a text message. So call it anything you like just not flash mobbing.
There thats my bit said.