Originally posted by SuzianneIf you'd used the web site's message facility to send me stuff like this, I would have kept it confidential.
Dog and Pony Show -- Wikipedia
"Dog and pony show" is a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends. Typically, the term is used in a pejorative sense to connote disdain, jocular lack of appreciation, or d ...[text shortened]...
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Originally posted by FMF".., exactly what was the nature and content of the message."
Well, you know as well as I do (along with a fair few other people) what was in the message. And you therefore know, as well as I do, and them too, exactly what was the nature and content of the message.
"Exactly" what is the nature and content of the message?
It's not threatening or abusive. It's something else. I'll know more, of course, when I see the PM you spread around to your "friends".
Originally posted by josephwHuh? So you know what the nature and the content of the message WASN'T... but you haven't seen it yet? How does that work?
It's not threatening or abusive. It's something else. I'll know more, of course, when I see the PM you spread around to your "friends".
Originally posted by BongalloJoeBongallo Joe,
Guys, drop it. Does it really matter who is right? Its not like you're gonna be remembered by this thread. Cmon.
Nobody likes arguments. All this does is waste time.
You appear to be new to me, at least I don't recall noticing you in the forums. Everyone who posts in here likes to argue, that is just the way it is. Personally I love to pull chains. 😉
-VR
Originally posted by KewpieKewpie,
Oh, for heaven's sake. This "he said - she said - I'm right - you're right" belongs in the schoolyard, and not with the big kids either.
All of you, go and get your books and get back into class, pronto!
You been around here long enough to know everyone who chats in the General forum loves to argue, or we can call it debate if you wish. Even you love it yourself although I don't know if you would admit it. 😉
-VR
Originally posted by chaney3What makes it a "private, personal message"?
Stop acting like a dipsh't, it's a private, personal message. The sender is relying on the receiver to treat it as such.
FMF broke protocol and needs to apologize. Period.
Your opinion?
There is obviously no consensus on this forum.
I don't think FMF needs to apologise.
Whereas using "dipsh't" is generally considered childish and offensive.
Perhaps you need to apologise?
Originally posted by FMFIs that question meant to redirect, or did you honestly misunderstand what I meant when I said "it's not threatening or abusive"?
Huh? So you know what the nature and the content of the message WASN'T... but you haven't seen it yet?
I obviously read it or I wouldn't have said it's not threatening or abusive. To which I added "it's something else".
It's the "something else" that really concerns me.
Originally posted by josephwThere's a doctored version of it in circulation, apparently. sonhouse has been quoting from it ~ I have no reason to believe he was the one who doctored it. Perhaps you have also been manipulated in the same way.
Is that question meant to redirect, or did you honestly misunderstand what I meant when I said "it's not threatening or abusive"?
I obviously read it or I wouldn't have said it's not threatening or abusive. To which I added "it's something else".
It's the "something else" that really concerns me.