>
>I'm guessing that's pretty much what happened when MC posted. I don't
>think he intentionally meant to single you out. I think he had just had
>enough and wanted it to stop.
The way I felt about it was - that I understood he used asshole in the
plural, but that he did mean to include me in that group. Perhaps he
mistook my intention. It would be easy to think I was trying to get
some points on Skip, rather than trying to get him to shut up. In
fact, I think Skip is a little too far on the deranged end to bother
with what he thinks. In which case, it's better to communicate and
not just spew insults.
>
>You don't have to like the way he did it, but I think the charitable
>thing to do would be to cut him slack and take a look at the
>circumstances. If it were me (or Skip) you can pretty much expect that
>we're going to "go off" on a fairly regular basis. This is definitely
>*out of character* for MC, however.
No, I don't like the way he did it. I can handle being called an
asshole, if the person is right. However, if the person turns around
and does the same thing, that's hypocrisy. Now, after reading
jaybee's post, it seems that there is more evidence for what I
noticed.
Perhaps he has been upset about his missing friend, and took it out
on us. Some people are like that - when my mother broke her ankle,
and went into the hospital, she became even more nasty than her usual
self. She is somebody that I avoid anyway.
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>> He may feel free to refute that, and explain why he chose my
>> particular post as a starting point.
>>
>> I borught it up again, when I saw that after he called me an asshole,
>> he could not wait until all the dead are accounted for, to make a
>> political post himself. My apologies to the Brits present who have
>> a little more respect for their countrymen.
>
>"A little more respect for their countrymen." Now *you're* beginning to
>piss me off, Tracy. It was out of respect for his countrymen that MC
>wrote and posted his hurried messages. Even in the political message
>you pretend to find so offensive, MC basically apologized for his
>barely unchecked emotion. Just because you were incidentally insulted
>in another of his posts, in the heat of emotional exchange, you decide
>to question MC's intentions and love for his country? And you do this
>after taking time to cool down and reflect? That's small-minded,
>chickenshit and cowardly behavior in my estimation. Sorry, but I've got
>to call it how I see it.
Ron, you're looking at it in terms of my being manipulative. I'm
looking at it in terms of using the same parameters that MC set down,
and staying within them. You're cutting him all kinds of slack for
calling me names and being hypocritical, and when I face his argument
within the parameters he defined, you insult me too. I'm looking at
it as an argument constructed by MC, with parameters set up by him.
The parameter he defined was that it is disrespectful to British
people on this ng to make a political post on this ng, on the day of
the bombing. I disagree with his differentiation between red/blue
sniping and things political, and that it had nothing to do with the
bombing. It had everything to do with the bombing. I think it's
clear that Tristan sees that. So, it's ok for him, when he makes a
"political" post, but it's not ok for others, because then it's
"red/blue sniping." Do you see what I'm getting at?
Perhaps, to call it all red/blue sniping assumes a certain shallowness
on the part of the participants, when such may not necessarily be the
case (although I would agree with that when it comes to Skip's
comments).
>
>> I will now go write a screenplay about having more respect for one's
>> countrymen. Wait, that's too general a theme.
>
>Give me a break. Perhaps you should look into writing a screenplay
>about "getting over one's self."
Ahem, that was a "tongue in cheek" thing. I don't even actually have a
lot of respect for my own countrymen, just because they're countrymen.
I'm way too busy writing a supernatural thriller right now.
At least there's a higher level of intelligence on this ng than in
other places I could think of.