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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Those of you without it, can go here:
e-edition.metro.co.uk/home.html
and look at the e-edition.
Some of you, especially those girls who found pictures of cocks in your b3ta inbox, will be amused by this.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:24, 144 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

...It's not the first time I've seen someone I've bought a pint for in the paper after being sentenced.
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For sale: Snow shoes, hardly used £10
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:26, Reply)

in firefox I just get the logo, and in IE I get the paper with the pages flicking over and no way of zooming in or anything.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:32, Reply)

Edit: nope, can't see it. Am I to assume this is about Mr Meds?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:34, Reply)

e-edition.metro.co.uk/2009/10/12/?p=9&keywords=10
Requires an email address, just make one up
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:35, Reply)

crazy stuff. b3tans in the news again.
ugly bugger wasn't he
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:38, Reply)

over this one...was the phoney doctor a former B3tan....who gazzed the fairer sex on here with pictures of teh cock?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:49, Reply)

Edmund he was called, or Eds Meds for a while I think.
Said he was a fighter pilot, and was trekking to the Antarctic for charity, but couldn't go because he fucked his knee.
bigamist too.
thoroughly good chap, all round
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:51, Reply)

maybe he should have got a phoney doctor to look at his phoney sore knee and write a phoney prescription.
FANNY BAWS
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:55, Reply)

And I wasn't one of the girls who got those photos actually.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:49, Reply)

EDIT: Non-flash version at www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Fantasist_Army_doctor_who_treated_troops_is_jailed&in_article_id=750749&in_page_id=34
A fantasist who posed as an Army doctor and treated up to 40 recruits has been jailed.
Craig Alexander claimed he was a qualified medical practitioner and a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
The finance worker, who once wore full officer's dress with fake 'campaign medals' at a Remembrance Day dinner, actually had no training.
Jailing him for 16 weeks, recorder Stephen Dawson said: 'You are not a doctor, you are a man who lives in a fantasy world.'
He said it was 'reprehensible' that Alexander had sported medals for acts of bravery when Britons were losing their lives in Afghanistan.
Alexander treated dozens of recruits at the Territorial Army's 36th Signals, based in Ilford, Essex. His patients included signalman Mark Cox, who broke his hand while out on an exercise.
Alexander, 39, misdiagnosed the fracture as a dislocation and 'manipulated' Mr Cox's hand back into place, causing him immense pain.
He also fooled aspiring TA officer Georgina Miles, 30, and married her after a 'whirlwind romance' - despite already having a wife and children. The couple had moved into a flat which Alexander stocked with medical books while regaling her with phoney tales of his 'combat experience'.
But he had worked only briefly as a medical orderly in an Army hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during the 1991 Gulf War, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
His six-month stint as a volunteer doctor in 2006 landed the regiment with a £2,200 bill after it was forced to pay out for a civilian medic to re-examine all its troops.
Alexander, from Woolwich, south-east London, admitted pretending to be a registered medical practitioner, and battery in relation to Mr Cox's hand. Andrew Collings, defending, said Alexander was looking to further his career in finance. 'He's hoping to get back into risk management,' he added.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:53, Reply)

I thought he'd finally topped himself. He won't be out in time to do it.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:56, Reply)

and a job. I don't know what the job was though. Perhaps a nurse? Or a navigational officer?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 9:55, Reply)

and cakes.
How are you my dear?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:01, Reply)

Can't sleep though so thought I'd have a look and see what yous lot were up to. How are you then mrthegeordie?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:03, Reply)

I was at my soon to be brother in laws wedding at the weekend, and I can safely state, without fear of contradiction, that mine will be better.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:04, Reply)

I'm sure you and the goats will be very happy together.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:12, Reply)

Because that would be better.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:13, Reply)

but I'm now going to have to reconsider this. Will vicars where different costumes by request? I mean, they wear silly clothes anyway.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:16, Reply)

RAWK n roll wedding.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:51, Reply)

He is *now* your brother-in-law and not soon-to-be?
edit: unless you are marrying his sibling rather than the other way round. Never mind, carry on.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:13, Reply)

Bloody internet weirdos.
Can't trust any of them.
I find this very amusing.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 12:12, Reply)

And I can't stop giggling to myself.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:08, Reply)

It listed his surname as something else.
Hmm.
More lies?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:15, Reply)

and did it include a picture of said shrivelled appendage?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:17, Reply)

With some links to articles about him.
THEN I understood the Top Gun jokes.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:19, Reply)

clearly a mental.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:13, Reply)

it's working too well when all that's in my head are stupid history facts.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:24, Reply)

and therefore he has no choice about rescheduling. And his post below appears to confirm this.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:28, Reply)

You can have the other party cancel the date and still organise it for another day.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:29, Reply)

from a "friend" of mine. While I was at the cinema with that girl on thursday he was in her pub telling her that it was a date blah blah blah.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:26, Reply)

if not, then that is thoroughly reprehensible behaviour.
is it likely to be rearranged?
also, how does this leave my bet? you didn't cock things up, someone else did. In my view that makes me a winner.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:28, Reply)

I have no idea. I'm going to see her tomorrow so there's a posibility.
You'll have to check with kaol for the bet.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:34, Reply)

kaol's clearly going to side with himself. we need an independent adjudicator.
aside from the bet thing, surely she should have realised that it was pretty date-like anyway...
hope it works out
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:37, Reply)

but then you are a bit
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:33, Reply)

(torigraph)
Colclough, also known as Craig Alexander, who last year had charges of bigamy dropped against him, was barred from any Ministry of Defence, Army, TA, Royal Navy or RAF premises, or from contacting any members of the TA unit involved.
Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London heard on Friday that Colclough, 39, who became the TA unit's doctor through his wife, Georgina Miles, caused one soldier severe pain by attempting to treat a broken hand. He worsened the injury and cause the soldier to take four months off work and left him with a permanent lump in his hand. He had originally been introduced to Miss Miles' TA unit, the 36 Signals Regiment in Ilford, East London, at a Remembrance Sunday parade, where he offered to work as the unit doctor.
Following the sentence, Miss Miles, a meteorological scientist for the Government and trainee officer with the TA, explained that her suspicions were aroused when Colclough, who actually worked in finance in the City of London, failed to bring any guests to their wedding, claiming his best man had just committed suicide.
After searching for Colclough on the Internet, she discovered his past and left him two days after their honeymoon in 2007. It soon emerged that he had a previous wife, Gail Colclough, 40, from Lennoxtown, Dunbartonshire, who he divorced in 2005.
Miss Miles told The Daily Mail "When I met Craig, he talked about how he'd trained at Sandhurst and with the Royal Marines. He's got a very deep voice and can talk confidently on many subjects. He got us invited to a private audience in Parliament with shadow defence secretary Liam Fox where, claiming to be a doctor, he talked about post traumatic stress disorder.
"He also told me he'd worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Ethiopia. I couldn't quite work out how he'd fitted everything in, but I believe him and was very happy. I moved into his flat.
"He'd come home from what I now know was his finance office and tell me all about the psychiatric patients he claimed to be treating."
Jailing him for 16 weeks, recorder Stephen Dawson said it was "reprehensible" that he had sported medals for acts of bravery.
"You are not a doctor, you are a man who lives in a fantasy world", he said.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:18, Reply)

I'm a bully and a cocksucker and narrow minded to boot. I humbly apologise for any offence caused.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:21, Reply)

But you need to remember the human cost of this sort of tragedy - that's two wives, several children and a Polish girlfriend left without support.
If the bastards hadn't clamped my fighter jet when I parked it outside the court, I'd be plotting revenge in my polar base by now...
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:24, Reply)

mentalhealthisoverrated.blogspot.com/
I always read it as 'mental, heal this overrated blog'.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:23, Reply)

...the opening post on that blog:
mentalhealthisoverrated.blogspot.com/2009/05/introduction.html
( , Tue 13 Oct 2009, 14:23, Reply)

The other lies I could handle, but that's really low.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:26, Reply)

DiT showed it to me in the Metro this morning, it took me a few minutes before I realised!! Eeeeep!
Gazzed me a few times, no cock pictures though! *smugs*
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:28, Reply)

I bet you would have liked seeing a cock after all that time with DiT.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:29, Reply)

Look. You must actually stop this because its starting to hurt my feelings, I know its B3ta and its all a laugh but you're actually being quite mean now! :(
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:32, Reply)

He tries to hurt you because he feels worthless.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:41, Reply)

You need some SUPERVISED peer-based group therapy, immediately.
*experts*
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:47, Reply)

you now NOTHING about the complexities of peer based pyschotherapy.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:47, Reply)

*rips up certificate*
Unless I've had three sessions of counselling from the NHS because I'm really fucking sad about something, I can't possibly give a reasonable psychoanalyst viewpoint.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:50, Reply)

that all you need to be able to give out good psychological advice, is having a problem and getting over it yourself. By the same reasoning, I once had a nasty dose of flu, but I'm better now, and consequently I'm performing open heart surgery next tuesday.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:53, Reply)

I had a very satisfying shit yesterday and have subsequently put in a planning application to build a sewage processing plant on Wood Green high street.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:55, Reply)

I approved something once, and as such am granting full planning approval to your application.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:57, Reply)

mrthegeordie! You were supposed to reply 'aww sorry, have I really hurt your feelings' and then I was going to reply 'NOOOOOOOO - Mwahahahaha'... you ruin all my fun! :(
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:42, Reply)

I ain't falling for that again. If I upset anyone from now on, they can just fuck off.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:43, Reply)

I was hoping to catch you out again - twice in a few days would have been rather clever!
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:44, Reply)

He's wise to our games now, there's no point trying again for at least another week.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:59, Reply)

'little bit strange' is the understatement of the century.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:10, Reply)

so have had to reserve judgement. Aside from minor eccentricities you seem like one of the most normal people on here.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:11, Reply)

she came along to a b3ta bash and drank a pint and then left before 10pm. Now if that's not the most abnormal thing you've ever heard of I will eat my lunch.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:12, Reply)

my friend was a lame-oh and had to get up early the next day - next time I'll be around until the wee small hours! *trigger fingers*
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:14, Reply)

Some guy has been jailed, connected to b3ta (by the looks, related to OT). Something to do with sending pictures of cocks, polar expeditions and pretending to be a fighter pilot... can anyone give me a quick briefing please?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:39, Reply)

that and what it says in the article
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:40, Reply)

(Edit: not that he's posted here for months, but he's the only person on my ignore list) He is obsessively still in love with his ex and apparently plans to top himself in December.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:43, Reply)

McDonalds. Urghh. Like earing Jade Goodey's buttered decomposing buttocks.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:48, Reply)

Is that another unrelated Edmund posting above somewhere?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:27, Reply)

When Edmund changed his name to Ed's Meds, some blighter nicked his username for highjinks and funtiem.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 12:11, Reply)

Especially to help him play hide the sausage.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 10:55, Reply)

then b3ta is surely the best place for him to get some counselling.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:01, Reply)

( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:03, Reply)

This has made my week.
I hope he gets sent to one of those "Your cellmate is Big Bubba, and he done thik yer got a purdy mouth" kinda prisons.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:20, Reply)

He tried to woo me proper without cocks and that.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:33, Reply)

So we were both wooed without cocks? We must be classy ladies then! :D
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:42, Reply)

We is proper classy.
It was a short exchange but within about four gazzes he'd tried to find out where I lived, invited himself to Liverpool, and asked if I'd pop down to London that very weekend.
I just stopped replying. Then Kaol said he was a proper mental, and I realised I'd had a narrow escape from teh cock.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:46, Reply)

He gazzed me when I first started posting on B3ta and when I quizzed him about a few bits of info he stopped. Then he tried again when I started posting on OT and asked me about Patents etc. I was informed he was a mentalist and ended the convos.
*fears*
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:54, Reply)

as an astronaut with mind powers and penchant for the B3ta men?
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 11:59, Reply)

But I'll be at risk because I'm really a man.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 12:02, Reply)

Or he doesn't.
Probably not, considering he was somewhat if a bullshitting freak.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 12:06, Reply)

I should be a bit more guarded, there are some proper weirdos out there. I remember chatting to him a bit because we work in the same industry, both Scottish, both ex-researchers. Except I am all those things, god knows what tin foil hat shenanigans were going on there e.g. I didn't believe his claim that he could predict which banks were going under during the credit crunch based on his revolutionary new financial modelling system.
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 12:08, Reply)

That's probably what he wanted to talk to me about, he was banging on about protecting some idea with a patent - madness!
( , Mon 12 Oct 2009, 13:09, Reply)
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