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Alex Rivers

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What happened to this guy?
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I exposed him as a paedophile and he fucked off back to his bedsit.
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According to his youTube website ,http://www.youtube.com/SpiritmanProductions Alec was planning to do some travelling. He hasn't posted there for 2 months either. (must have gone somewhere completely off the radar)
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I am possibly one of the few who are concerned. OK so I don't know him well but he did me a youtube clip of my experience on Countdown and then I met him at Co:Lin and he was very pleasant and someone who I could speak to easily. I sent him a message through facebook about a week ago, basically asking him if he was OK, and I haven't got a reply yet. His page is completely inactive. Most recent facebook statuses:

Alec Rivers: "is seriously considering jumping on a plane and sodding off somewhere."

Alec Rivers: "It's a depression thing. 'Nuff said."

Ryan Taylor: ":( Everybody suffers from depression (that is my theory)"

Alec Rivers: "Re your theory: There is normal feeling-shit-about-a-few-things depression and then there is clinical depression which is a biological condition. No matter what sufferers do, the condition severely brings them down."

His last status update: Alec Rivers: On my travels soon! :D

Sorry Alec if you did not wish this information sharing, but every person who has a Facebook account must not care too much for privacy.
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Ryan Taylor wrote:Sorry Alec if you did not wish this information sharing, but every person who has a Facebook account must not care too much for privacy.
I don't think there's any problem sharing that, Ryan. It's all very public, and I, for one, had seen them all.
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Ryan Taylor wrote:Alec Rivers: "Re your theory: There is normal feeling-shit-about-a-few-things depression and then there is clinical depression which is a biological condition."
Yeah, not really.
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Michael Wallace wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:Alec Rivers: "Re your theory: There is normal feeling-shit-about-a-few-things depression and then there is clinical depression which is a biological condition."
Yeah, not really.
"Not really" to what? I can't imagine you are suggesting everyone with depression just cheers up a bit?
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Matt Morrison wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:Alec Rivers: "Re your theory: There is normal feeling-shit-about-a-few-things depression and then there is clinical depression which is a biological condition."
Yeah, not really.
"Not really" to what? I can't imagine you are suggesting everyone with depression just cheers up a bit?
I think he is actually referring to the argument that depression, as a clinical condition, actually has been shown to have a biological origin or it could be a reference to anti-psychiatry, qua Foucault, which complicates our understanding of binaristic distinctions between sane and insane.

PS Actually, I have said actually a lot which means I am pissed, actually.
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David O'Donnell wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:"Not really" to what? I can't imagine you are suggesting everyone with depression just cheers up a bit?
I think he is actually referring to the argument that depression, as a clinical condition, actually has been shown to have a biological origin or it could be a reference to anti-psychiatry, qua Foucault, which complicates our understanding of binaristic distinctions between sane and insane.
Pretty much, yep.
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Ryan Taylor wrote:I am possibly one of the few who are concerned.
Yeh I wondered where he went too. Spoke to him on msn a couple of times. Hope he's happier wherever he is anyways.
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Any news?
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Maybe he's just waiting for someone to call him Alec. :lol:
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Unfortunately, not far from the truth:
Matthew Green wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:44 pm I exposed him as a paedophile and he fucked off back to his bedsit.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone ... rs-205130/

This disappearance in 2010 likely coincides with his first jail term.
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Conor wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:04 pm Unfortunately, not far from the truth:
Matthew Green wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:44 pm I exposed him as a paedophile and he fucked off back to his bedsit.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone ... rs-205130/

This disappearance in 2010 likely coincides with his first jail term.
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Is this the same guy ?
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Marc Meakin wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:43 pm Is this the same guy ?
Almost certainly. His c4c profile shows his age to be 50 matching the 49 when the article was written, and Cheriton is a suburb of Folkestone.
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Matthew Green wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:44 pm I exposed him as a paedophile and he fucked off back to his bedsit.
Matthew Green was such a piss taker I assumed this was a joke
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Conor wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 9:23 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:43 pm Is this the same guy ?
Almost certainly. His c4c profile shows his age to be 50 matching the 49 when the article was written, and Cheriton is a suburb of Folkestone.
And I'm pretty sure he was a social media specialist, and I remember his face. Chilling.
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Another convicted ex-apterite, who was playing children during his time here in 2010.

https://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/n ... x-offences
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Wow... that is horrendous.
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Another member of the rogues gallery.
To be honest though, out of many thousand former Countdown winners, we haven't had that many evil bastards.
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Michael Wallace wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:09 pm
David O'Donnell wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:"Not really" to what? I can't imagine you are suggesting everyone with depression just cheers up a bit?
I think he is actually referring to the argument that depression, as a clinical condition, actually has been shown to have a biological origin or it could be a reference to anti-psychiatry, qua Foucault, which complicates our understanding of binaristic distinctions between sane and insane.
Pretty much, yep.
All of what DoD said? Or just qua Foucault?
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