mac Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Always good for a laugh, and left us all "Shaking with rage" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Difficult poster to forget he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigC Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 That was some tale! I have to admit to being completely taken in by the boy & stuck up for him when folk had a go. When he fessed up I read back some of my posts from the day before... *cringe*. I wonder what the guy is doing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambo1961 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Was he Godsajambo's Bro Now he didny half take a few in on here One of his best lies was him being being mugged and those on here who swallowed his lot OMS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obua Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 6 minutes ago, BigC said: That was some tale! I have to admit to being completely taken in by the boy & stuck up for him when folk had a go. When he fessed up I read back some of my posts from the day before... *cringe*. I wonder what the guy is doing now. I missed it what happened,was he outed as a hobo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holyrood_Hearts Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 http://www.scotsman.com/news/anger-as-tragic-jambo-tale-revealed-as-hoax-1-1323753 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worthing Jambo Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Did he no win a telly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambo1961 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 3 minutes ago, Worthing Jambo said: Did he no win a telly? Sure it was a spit roast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chester copperpot Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 To think a Hibbee did a parachute jump to raise money in his honour still makes me laugh to this day ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Internet Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 39 minutes ago, Holyrood_Hearts said: http://www.scotsman.com/news/anger-as-tragic-jambo-tale-revealed-as-hoax-1-1323753 Creag Macallanniach People thought this was a real person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highway Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Morgan said: Difficult poster to forget he was. In all fairness, it seems before June the 5th this year, it seems you didnt know him either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiler Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 4 minutes ago, highway said: In all fairness, it seems before June the 5th this year, it seems you didnt know him either LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holyrood_Hearts Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 5 minutes ago, Mauricio Pinilla said: People thought this was a real person? Yeah. A 30 year old boxing champion & self made millionaire, married to a Bollywood star. What’s not to believe?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamboelite Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Great times on JKB back then.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjack Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I was on the forum back then but for some reason i dont remember it happening. I do know the story though as I've read about it on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iantjambo Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 As I said on the classic thread, I’m gutted that I wasn’t around during that whole saga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungalow Bill Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 29 minutes ago, chester copperpot said: To think a Hibbee did a parachute jump to raise money in his honour still makes me laugh to this day ??? One of the funniest things ever. Cracks me up to this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 24 minutes ago, Mauricio Pinilla said: People thought this was a real person? In fairness, the spelling in the quote was wrong. It should be Creag Macallannaich. https://myspace.com/irvinejambo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazzas right boot Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 28 minutes ago, Mauricio Pinilla said: People thought this was a real person? Coppercrutch got a mention as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iantjambo Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Hi everyone, my name is Creag MacAllainnach. I'm a 6ft4 former heavy weight boxing champion. I am also married to an Indian Bollywood actress although i'm not telling her name (she might be one of the my myspace friends though - nudge nudge wink wink!!!lol lol roflmao lol) I used to live in America but i had to leave because i knocked out a Police officer. He did make me see the error of my ways and I found Jesus who came all over my life like a big wave of euphoria. Sadly i only have one baw. I love Heart of Midlothian and Scotland and i really really love the SNP. Alex Salmond is my homeboy. I'm independantly wealthy because i sold my chain of gyms (Big Boy Shufflers inc) and now live on the profits. I also do some work as a lecturer on a wealth of topics as i have 11 university degrees. I never let my missing baw hold me back in life, i just felt the other one, enjoyed it, smiled and then got on with my life and achieved!!!!! Peace and good will everyone but especially Hearts fans and the Tartan army. I love you all Creag I know I pointed it out on the classics but seriously guys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Never heard about this before but the fact he got people donating to charities on the back of a prank is superb. Good job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 8 minutes ago, iantjambo said: I know I pointed it out on the classics but seriously guys? Written and created by a JKB member after the fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redm Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Probably my favourite week ever on Kickback went it all went down. It was something else, and pretty much impossible to summarise now. That said, the man wasn’t well. I hope he got the help he needed in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highway Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 What he may have looked like now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redm Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index.php?/topic/35979-ive-just-googled-irvine-jambo/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redm Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index.php?/topic/12587-irvine-jambo/&page=3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamboelite Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 5 minutes ago, redm said: http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index.php?/topic/12587-irvine-jambo/&page=3 Genius!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazzas right boot Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 34 minutes ago, iantjambo said: I know I pointed it out on the classics but seriously guys? That's brilliant. I never let having one baw hold me back... 11 degree's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deek Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 1 hour ago, chester copperpot said: To think a Hibbee did a parachute jump to raise money in his honour still makes me laugh to this day ??? Quagmire!! Think I gave him money!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo_Gaz Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Coppercrutch was a good poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meadows Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Didn’t Therapist have more wealth ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Lager Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 1 hour ago, chester copperpot said: To think a Hibbee did a parachute jump to raise money in his honour still makes me laugh to this day ??? One of Kickbacks greatest moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToadKiller Dog Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 18 minutes ago, Meadows said: Didn’t Therapist have more wealth ? A swimming pool in his mansion in the sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamboelite Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 This thread lead me back to the classics forum where i’ve just read the embarrassing moments one with John Mitchell, if ever you need cheering up thats the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worthing Jambo Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 A lesson to those who take this place far too seriously. its an Internet forum posted on by people who don't (in general) use their own name! Lighten up and enjoy the variety and range of opinions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 2 hours ago, highway said: In all fairness, it seems before June the 5th this year, it seems you didnt know him either 2 hours ago, smiler said: LOL Yeah, very astute and funny. I’d heard of the guy on here but had never read or knew the whole story. Read back what I said to Ian on the infamous 5th of June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notts1874 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 The week where he was found out was genuinely must watch. Shame the original thread has gone now. Therapist was an annoying so and so but my god he was superb during this nonsense. Lets turn this into an old posters thread. Bavarian Jam Tart!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Just now, Notts1874 said: The week where he was found out was genuinely must watch. Shame the original thread has gone now. Therapist was an annoying so and so but my god he was superb during this nonsense. Lets turn this into an old posters thread. Bavarian Jam Tart!!!! Kenny M and JamboRobbo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Fredrickson Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I mind it well and his outing was unbelievable. I still dont know how the folk who outed him managed it. ie comparing posting styles between forums etc - hats off to them as I was/am clueless on such matters. IIRC didnt his mum force him into making an apology? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebo Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 2 hours ago, Jambo_Gaz said: Coppercrutch was a good poster. Pretty shite at predicting Edinburgh house price trends, though. Shame, as that seemed to be his/her obsessive focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notts1874 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Lets face it the Ihe Irvine Jambo was peak JKB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redm Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Carl Fredrickson said: I mind it well and his outing was unbelievable. I still dont know how the folk who outed him managed it. ie comparing posting styles between forums etc - hats off to them as I was/am clueless on such matters. IIRC didnt his mum force him into making an apology? JKB is pretty good at investigating a case when need be but this was something else. Even my work colleagues at the time were glued to their screens and they’d never used a forum before and weren’t Hearts fans or anything. It was ridiculous and amazing and awful and completely and utterly mesmerising at the same time. I didn’t really interact with him at all, I found him a bit of an arrogant show off and couldn’t be bothered. Looking back his stories just look mental and people must wonder why members fell for any of it but what you can’t now read about are the amazing and intricate lengths he went to in order to try and convince people he was the real deal. He went to quite astonishing lengths to present himself in a certain way. It was a lesson learned for all of us in loads and loads of different ways. Therapist had him pegged early on, but nobody really grasped the full extent and depth of his deceptions until it all started unraveling. It was just....mental. Basically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigC Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I think that the main misunderstanding of the episode is that people think he deliberately created a whole person a just to fool people. That's not how it panned out. He just created an account as himself, then started exaggerating his life achievements, but then he got to a point where a West of Scotland supporters bus was being created and he fancied going on it, but realised that he would be outed as a fantasist. So he decided to kill off his online persona and come back as his old persona's nephew instead of as a new person completely. I think that he didn't want to let go of the old persona completely because he'd built up a lot of relationships on here and it would be easier to reintroduce himself as a relative rather than starting from scratch. It was when people started enquiring about his "dead uncle", that he started spinning a web of lies and got caught up in them, digging deeper and deeper. I got caught up defending him because I was going on holiday to Riga and he had just been, and he PM'd me loads of useful info. (This was as his new persona, Craig_WoSH after the "death" of IrvineJambo and before the "outing" of Craig/Creag as the same person). In that interaction he'd come across as a really nice bloke I remembered reading a few of the original (old persona) IrvineJambo posts but hadn't followed him that closely. I used to ge more involved in the religion argument threads back then so that's where I mainly came across him. We were on different sides, but he was always courteous in his discussions. So when everyone piled on the newer Craig as a fantasist, I didn't believe it, because there was no motivation to make up the lie unless you were incredibly mentally unstable, which he didn't appear to be (but that's how it turned out). Crazy times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjambo Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 5 hours ago, jambo1961 said: Was he Godsajambo's Bro Now he didny half take a few in on here One of his best lies was him being being mugged and those on here who swallowed his lot OMS Irvine Jambo is unforgettable, but I don't remember that particular story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjambo Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 3 hours ago, ToadKiller Dog said: A swimming pool in his mansion in the sky. Therapist Towers, iirc. I actually enjoyed Therapist's posts, although his views were completely opposed to mine - if you had a go at him then he didn't get abusive back at you (probably because he didn't have time to as he was always "jetting off business class to some exotic destination or another" ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 1 hour ago, Peebo said: Pretty shite at predicting Edinburgh house price trends, though. Shame, as that seemed to be his/her obsessive focus. There was someone else, whose username I unfortunately can't remember, who was a sort of walking apologist for the tobacco industry. It was around 2005-2006, and he posted regularly to say that a lot of the stuff about the dangers of smoking was nonsense, and also claimed some kind of expertise in statistics to back up his opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor FinnBarr Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 7 minutes ago, redjambo said: Therapist Towers, iirc. I actually enjoyed Therapist's posts, although his views were completely opposed to mine - if you had a go at him then he didn't get abusive back at you (probably because he didn't have time to as he was always "jetting off business class to some exotic destination or another" ). Mostly to Asian GPs with him being a biker of course. At the end of the day the guy was an out-and-out bigot and deserved to be punted And fantasist of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambothump Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 "Shaking with rage" was IJ, Inspector Jambo, totally different person, IJ is now educating the immigrant nation across the Atlantic , it is to be hoped. Irvine Jambo, hopefully young man you are not still going to Asda stores at midnight buying cat food (didn't have a cat) etc. All nonsense but for most part fun, serious concerns about mental health of the young boy who invented this persona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gards Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 What this also brings back is some of the great (albeit controversial) posters of the time who I would welcome back to this big family. Copper. IJ. Acey. Dexter and many many more who were part of a jamboskickback era. Did they cross the line at times, yes, did they make valid points at times, yes....we seemed to go through a phase where the easiest thing was to ban/isolate them. Would be nice if at some point we could all come back together and appreciate the differing views we may all have. Work within that and not alienate those who don't buy into the majority. Peace out :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juho_Makela_Goal_Machine Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Yeah just goes to show that the internet is full of very weird people. Kickback is no exception. If someone is doing your head in on here just remember that they are probably as sad as this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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