QUOTE(mbz1 @ Thu 29th December 2011, 11:15pm)
But where do you see embarrassment for Jimbo ?
OK, the user wrote a few idiotic articles like the one about gay baths regulars, uploaded a few images of himself in chains, voting to keep every image of every penis ... So what? Why Jimbo is going to be embarrassed. Greg
wrote a very good article, but was it embarrassing for Jimbo?
If yes, please tell me why.
If he was really proud of being bound up in chains, and had nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed about, then he would not have had the images deleted.
I suspect it was more the embarrassment thing. He has reinvented himself from gay bath house article editor, who uploads pictures of himself trussed up, to the venerable Mr Haeften who carries a stick, speaks at the Joint Committee hearing, runs the GLAM project that involves visits to the British Library manuscript collection. It's very embarrassing to have a picture of your hairy bottom, chained up on a persian rug.
So he used his influence to have the pictures deleted.
These are the really important issues.
I've put myself down for the visit to the British Museum mon 17th Jan, by the way, where Mr Haeften will also be attending, and will have the opportunity to ask him about his knowledge of late medieval manuscripts. I did 'collar' him (oops) on the subject at the last wiki meet but couldn't get anything clear or sensible. We shall see.
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