Post what you're thinking right now.

[SleepyDragon]

[mea culpa]

Callaway and Sleeping Dragon are not really more than ring-ins prompted into having to defend themselves from the attentions of you two.

[mea culpa, continued]

Thank you, Les, for being brave enough and candid enough to post this. Otherwise I'd feel obliged to give you a stern lecture. 

The bit not edited out, though? I have a slightly different perspective on it. My involvement in this contretemps was completely voluntary on my part.

The whole point is that, oif someone has a problem with me or what I'm saying, I want them to come right out and say it.

I prefer to know exactly where I stand with people 

They put the invitation out there; it was my choice whether to respond or not. The invitation to Callaway was slightly more formal (i.e. she was called out ), yet she too could have "remained schtum" (as Bint puts it), had she been so inclined. Callaway, you may agree with this, or not; that's just the way I see it.

... And once again, what I'm thinking right now is that a week is a very long time on the Internet.   

[odeon]

I like that this place isn't run by little Hitlers.  There's no shortage of sites where the admins and mods are completely anal about off-topic posts and disagreements between members, and it makes those sites about as interesting as mashed potato and as liberating as a straight jacket.

Straitjackets can be very liberating if you are into that sort of thing.

[Al Swearegen]

You have every reason to vent now and again Odeon and I won't even call you emo if you keep it to a minimum.

[Al Swearegen]

[mea culpa]

Callaway and Sleeping Dragon are not really more than ring-ins prompted into having to defend themselves from the attentions of you two.

[mea culpa, continued]

Thank you, Les, for being brave enough and candid enough to post this. Otherwise I'd feel obliged to give you a stern lecture. 

The bit not edited out, though? I have a slightly different perspective on it. My involvement in this contretemps was completely voluntary on my part.

The whole point is that, oif someone has a problem with me or what I'm saying, I want them to come right out and say it.

I prefer to know exactly where I stand with people 

They put the invitation out there; it was my choice whether to respond or not. The invitation to Callaway was slightly more formal (i.e. she was called out ), yet she too could have "remained schtum" (as Bint puts it), had she been so inclined. Callaway, you may agree with this, or not; that's just the way I see it.

... And once again, what I'm thinking right now is that a week is a very long time on the Internet.   

A week is a very long time on the internet. One way or another things do resolve.

As for giving me a lecture. Always welcome. I won't pay it much attention and it will not influence me but I won't give you a hard time for it.
I do what I do because it is me and how I handle things my way. Not the same for everyone and not even the best way or the nicest, but it is my way, and to do anything different would not be being me. Does that make sense?

[SleepyDragon]

Yes, it does. Your insistence on doing things the "Sir Les" way comes under the rubric of "social coping strategies that have worked for me so far." If/when you decide to make adjustments to these strategies, it's because you've decided to do that on your own, not because some strange (in every sense of the word  ) individual has given you a serve online.

With regard to this earlier post of mine:

And?

We've all insulted each otherwith a lot of childish names.

I think anyone could see that anyway tbh

Yes. Well, maybe not "all," but "several." I had a discussion, once, with one of my sons about this sort of thing. I told him that he ought not to call other people idiots for disagreeing with him. I said, "Find a way to counter their argument without putting a label on them. Maybe something like, 'I disagree with you; I find your views unconvincing and your ideas lacking in credibility.'"

He thought about it for a moment, and then came back with, "But it's so much easier just to say, 'You're an idiot.'"

Wastes less time and bandwidth, too, I suppose.

That was a paraphrase from memory. I dug up the original of that discussion today.

Me: You can say someone is making an argument that is as full of holes as Swiss cheese. You can say their reasoning is fallacious. You can say they are basing their arguments on profoundly flawed theories. But you still can't say they're a moron.
Him: Look how many letters you had to type to say that
Him: All I have to type is
Him: "You = moron"
Me: LOL
Him: This is moronic
Me: But see, that ends all discussion. "Am not!" "Are too!"

Kids these days.

[Al Swearegen]

Got it in one. I won't even bother to apologise because I kn ow you have both not seen anything bad in what I said and realise there was no ill intent. Refreshing actually to have someone understand exactly what i mean and more importantly why. 

Thanks

 

[SleepyDragon]

NW.

[renaeden]

North West?

[Al Swearegen]

No worries?

[renaeden]

Oh!

[Celticgoddess]

^ :lol:

What I'm thinking this morning...wishing I was with the boy.

['andersom']

^ :lol:

What I'm thinking this morning...wishing I was with the boy.

Don't tell me that that is a new thought in the morning.

[Celticgoddess]

^ :lol:

What I'm thinking this morning...wishing I was with the boy.

Don't tell me that that is a new thought in the morning.

No, it's an every day 24/7 thought, but today was it was more consuming than usual.

Now I'm thinking about my new favourite car.

Ferrari Enzo

[Adam]

Roll on January 

[GalileoAce]

Roll on January 

Aye, second that.