Default User wrote:
> Bob (this one) wrote:
>
>> Default User wrote:
>>> You two are getting very tiresome.
>> I'm sure we are. But this - which you obviously didn't read - wasn't
>> anything like the previous posts. Take a look. You might even get a
>> grin.
>
> I don't think there's anything either of you could do right now after
> your behavior that would make the least amused. And no, I won't bother
> reading it.
> Brian

I prostrate myself before your perfection.

No, seriously...

Pastorio

Bob (this one) wrote:

> Default User wrote:

> > I don't think there's anything either of you could do right now
> > after your behavior that would make the least amused. And no, I
> > won't bother reading it.
> > Brian
>
> I prostrate myself before your perfection.

You really don't get it, do you?



Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

Default User wrote:
> Bob (this one) wrote:
>
>> Default User wrote:
>
>>> I don't think there's anything either of you could do right now
>>> after your behavior that would make the least amused. And no, I
>>> won't bother reading it.
>>> Brian
>
>> I prostrate myself before your perfection.
>
> You really don't get it, do you?

Of course I do, Brian. But we see the world very
differently. This is an explanation, not a challenge, not an
invitation to duel.

You assume that your pursed-lip condemnation should be
important to me. And that some unstated standard of behavior
acceptable to you is how I should comport myself. That
somehow, it seems, the form of the behavior is more
important than the content. Perhaps that I shouldn't
strenuously reply to moronic attacks, turning my restrained
shoulders away and walk a different path. That list is no
more likely to happen than for you to suddenly adopt my way
of being and doing.

You appear to think that heated contest is somehow
unsanitary, perhaps unseemly. And it might well be in
certain quarters. But this is an unfettered arena where
Sheldon can freely dispense his insane hatreds and
error-filled twaddle. A "venue" with few of the civilizing
elements that meatspace demands, so PVC can spew
stomach-wrenching vulgarities. And where people like Mark
can post scurrilous, unmerited attacks. There are several
choices in dealing with these sorts of events and actions.
My choice has sometimes been to wade in with sneers and
facts and lay waste the erroneous assertions - and the
person behind them, particularly when aimed at me directly,
as this latest electronic conflagration. Other times - most
times - let it ride.

Yes, I know, crude behavior. Yet it's all electrons on
screens. No bloodshed, no body bags, no families trying to
repair the slash in their fabric of life. The only
demolition is to external views of the posters involved.

And there's one other facet of it all. You are under no
obligation to watch any of it. It's as easy as filtering it
out of the incoming. Clearly you disapprove of some
components of this latest fiasco with Thorson - I don't know
which elements distress you. Perhaps just the general
"noise" level. Or the contempt dripping from the posts. Or
the rather straightforward combat. Or that it casts ripples
around this serene pond (that's soft sarcasm). I don't know
- exactly - what you want or don't want because you haven't
actually said.

I'm sorry that it causes you discomfort.

Pastorio