Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThere are private forums where you can engage in chat sans interference.
Why the de rigueur...
Why the de rigueur of attacking other members, hijacking honest threads and reducing relaxed chat to the lowest possible common denominator?
Your insights?
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You post in public forums, you takes your chances.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyGod, you make a thread about not attacking members and staying on topic and you don't even get off page one before you go off about spelling and gramma.
Fixed. Correct spelling still matters, even on RHP. Please awaken out of your customary illiterate stupor... not for our sakes but for your own.
Oh irony, thy name is Bobby!
The quest for status is part of the human condition. You can't expect a group of status-seekers, shrouded by the veil of interwebz anonymity, to restrain themselves when there's a peacock in a turkey suit strutting around the forums with a target painted on his back. Add to that the fact the said strutter is about as funny as a root canal - and everyone knows a root canal looks funnier with an arrow sticking out of it (especially if you or your friend shot it) - and suddenly it all makes sense.
If you don't believe me, try posting on a different website more geared towards your feel-good posts with mild Christian undertones (like a Peanuts website, for instance), and see the type of reaction you get. My guess is that niceness will be more of a status symbol than meanness there, so the first guy to slag you off is probably going to take the shunning of his life. An interesting experiment, even if I'm wrong.
At any rate, I'm guessing the staunch defiance-and-preachiness defense is going to have you chewing granite here for some time to come. However, if you've got some zingers up your sleeve, we may see a comeback!
Good luck.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI've never been a proponent of herd behaviour. I like people that think for themselves. I don't particularly care for people that take your approach and dictate to people what is acceptable, what they should do, say or think. I like people that speak plainly and don't fluff up every sentence with pseudo intellectual crap, again, such as you are prone to doing. I shouldn't have to sift through your posts for a hint of meaning some small iota of sense. You write like you're brain damaged.
Pontificating pap. Face facts. Those engaging in herd acceptable and encouraged behavior will more likely than not become the objects of
public or tacit praise. Here's the straight of it, Hand. None of us are in a position to pass harsh judgement on another RHP Member. Yours
truly for one is painfully aware of his limitations, excesses, lapses i ...[text shortened]... daily, both vertically and horizontally. Zozo I do owe an apology. Two of us enjoy sandpaper.
The idea that "none of us are in a position to pass harsh judgement" is a ridiculous statement to me. I can hand out judgement or praise as I see fit and welcome the same in return. Why do you think there should be a free pass for anyone? Especially on the internet of all places? This forum resembles the OK corral more than anything else and you seem to be looking for a polite society tea party. Get a grip.
Originally posted by uzlessPlease note my posts #6 and 12 on page two. I'm still wide eyed open enough to see my errors and tall enough to own up to them. Apology sent
God, you make a thread about not attacking members and staying on topic and you don't even get off page one before you go off about spelling and gramma.
Oh irony, thy name is Bobby!
earlier this morning to Zozo regarding my "conduct unbecoming to a gentlemen." How's the view from up there on your self-righteous high horse?
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyOne of the thread's several topics seems to be the definition of de rigueur, either as an adjective or a conscripted noun.
Illuminating. Thanks as always, Andy, for your insightful and thoughtful arms length/touch-me-not contribution to the topic of the thread..
Your sense of humor abandons you, just when you need it most.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI can almost see your mountain top from up here. Hard to use an umbrella in the rain while riding him though. Hey....what makes you think my horse is self-righteous? I feed him 2 apples and shave his balls every day. We call him Baldy at the stables.
" How's the view from up there on your self-righteous high horse?
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