Originally posted by divegeesterYes, HandyAndy certainly. Always economical and telling with his interventions and observations. Other worthy posters would include JS357, Ghost of a Duke, Deep Thought, Kewpie, avalancethecat, and Shallow Blue - to mention a few - there are many. Too many to list really.
Exactly. And by the way you also should have been in the subsequent list of posters I generally find to be worthwhile contributors to this forum. I guess that means I fancy you too.
There are three kinds of people posting in this thread.
- One group are "intelligent and articulate". Their posts are worth reading.
- Another group are seemingly devoted to school-age taunting, with an apparent inability to read let alone understand the posts of the first group.
- The third group mostly lurk, watching the other two groups with amazement and disgust. Occasionally they'll put in a word when the mismatch between the other two groups becomes ridiculously obvious.
It's almost as if there is a payment available for every post, some of the insanely repetitive and stupid mud-slinging can have no other purpose. Unless the posters have such passive and powerless lives that they need attention - and any attention will do.
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Originally posted by KewpieDitto.
There are three kinds of people posting in this thread.
- One group are "intelligent and articulate". Their posts are worth reading.
- Another group are seemingly devoted to school-age taunting, with an apparent inability to read let alone understand the posts of the first group.
- The third group mostly lurk, watching the other two groups with amazement and ...[text shortened]... ion will do.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyFor what it's worth, I would say that the group that is seemingly devoted to school-age taunting and who have an apparent inability to read (let alone understand) the posts of the intelligent and articulate group (whose posts are worth reading) ~ as Kewpie put it ~ is the group from which your vociferous supporters are drawn, Grampy Bobby. What is more, I think you are fully (and perhaps somewhat uncomfortably) aware of this. . 😀
Ditto.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIf you don't agree that the "school-age taunting group" are the ones who've been fighting your corner on this thread, and that your vocal supporters are instead the "intelligent and articulate" posters that Kewpie mentioned have been active in this discussion, why not just come out and say so directly, Grampy Bobby? Why hide behind somebody else's words - while taking great care not to address the unoriginal copy pasted material to anyone ~ or any post ~ in particular?
"One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con.
In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone." ~David D. Burns
Originally quoted by Grampy BobbyYou included this text in a post addressed to me on page 104. You even used bold font for the word "sexuality".
Do not harass other members of the community. Harassment is any unwanted conduct including insults, jokes and any remarks affecting the dignity of another. Such conduct could relate to gender, race, nationality, sexuality, religion, disability or other similarly sensitive issues.
The apparent reprimand did not apply to me.
Does it apply to any of the posts of robbie, Startreader and GHOST HUNTER on the last several pages of this thread?
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Originally posted by FMFHmmmm....so, so interesting....
What do you make of your supporters' resort to personal remarks about divegeester's and my sexuality?
So it seems that another poster has accused Dive of having some sort of attraction to you...and both of you deem this to be an inappropriate and unwarranted assumption...
And yet, when Dive accused me of having some sort of attraction to you...that was an okay thing to do? He based this on nothing....just threw it out there in his typical mean-spirited manner. His personal remarks were both inappropriate and unwarranted.
Such hypocrisy.
Originally posted by Landisqueen170Not so. I don't have any problem with homosexuality or homosexuals. I find it difficult to empathize with people who are "anti-gay", like GHOST HUNTER. What I do question though is why they think innuendo about homosexuality works as a deflection when two people they don't agree with happen agree about things. What kind of debating point is it, I mean really? Neither divegeester or I have, for example, suggested that robbie's or GHOST HUNTER's defence or admiration for Grampy Bobby is explained by homosexual attraction.
So it seems that another poster has accused Dive of having some sort of attraction to you...and both of you deem this to be an inappropriate and unwarranted assumption...
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Originally posted by FMFI'm simply noting the irony here.
Not so. I don't have any problem with homosexuality or homosexuals. I find it difficult to empathize with people who are "anti-gay", like GHOST HUNTER. What I do question though is why they think innuendo about homosexuality works as a deflection when two people they don't agree with happen agree about things. What kind of debating point is it, I mean really? Ne ...[text shortened]... or GHOST HUNTER's defence or admiration for Grampy Bobby is explained by homosexual attraction.
Dive dished out a similar comment to me. More than once. But that was apparently ok.
Now someone else has done very much the same to him and you two are carrying on about it.
Originally posted by Landisqueen170Well it's not something I would have said to you myself so I don't see how I am being hypocritical about it on account of the fact I am unimpressed by homophobia. But you can hardly criticize me for saying nothing about something "inappropriate" divegeester said to you at some point, when you have so far said nothing about something "inappropriate" robbie et al. said to divegeester and to me. It would make you a hypocrite, surely?
... when Dive accused me of having some sort of attraction to you...that was an okay thing to do? He based this on nothing....just threw it out there in his typical mean-spirited manner. His personal remarks were both inappropriate and unwarranted.
Originally posted by Landisqueen170But you have said nothing about robbie, Startreader and GHOST HUNTER's comments which we can therefore presumably interpret as meaning that those comment are apparently OK to you, right? ...to use your own reasoning.
Dive dished out a similar comment to me. More than once. But that was apparently ok.
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Originally posted by FMFI don't care to get involved in these battles. They are repetitive and negative and serve zero purpose from what I can tell.
Well it's not something I would have said to you myself so I don't see how I am being hypocritical about it on account of the fact I am unimpressed by homophobia. But you can hardly criticize me for saying nothing about something "inappropriate" divegeester said to you at some point, when you have so far said nothing about something "inappropriate" robbie et al. said to divegeester and to me. It would make you a hypocrite, surely?
I was specifically speaking to something that was said to me just as it is now being said to Dive.