Cheryl wrote:
> On 4/5/2013 7:18 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:48:35 -0400, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> She has so many EWWWW food quirks (okay, let's
>>>> call them "intolerances") she can't possibly think no one is going
>>>> to comment.
>>>
>>> I often wonder what she's doing here in the first place.
>>
>> Oh really? It's a FOOD newsgroup! I come here to discuss food! And then
>> it would seem that any post that I make always veers off
>> into something else. And yes I know about thread drift and all. But
>> these things seem to go to the extreme!
>>
>>
> Because you feed into it. If you didn't offer something that makes
> the discussion "veer" off into something else, it wouldn't happen.

I do feel the need to respond when someone attacks my parenting skills or
makes nasty comments about my family. And that is quite often what happens
here. I make an on topic post or reply and someone else goes off in another
direction here.