That's it... I'm starting it.

[greg]

(04-23-2012 02:11 PM)redbeardiam Wrote:  

(04-23-2012 01:13 PM)greg Wrote:  Redbeard/post 16/ thumbs up for pm'ing me - thumbs down for bragging about it

If you think you were being entirely reasonable, why did you apologize a few forums over? And if you admit that you weren't, why then attack everybody who reacted to your foolishness? Even one who responded in the manner you prefer?

I apologized for speaking too quickly regarding my posts on the new "forum format." That's all. Mainly my apology was to Darrell. I essentially "stirred" the you-know-what when it didn't need to be stirred, but certainly I can hold the over the top nasty commenters feet to the fire, in other words, because I spoke too quickly does not mean I "deserve" all of this vitriol, much of it coming after my "apology." Did I deserve the "shut the F up comment" from Natalie? Many here would say yes, I happen to disagree, are you following me?

I am fully aware that had I said nothing, then I would have recd nothing back, but I did, they did, and now I did back, ....oh that was fun.

I'll give an example. I'm a retired cop. Often I would go on a call where a 6'1" 220 pd man busted his wife in the mouth, sending her to the ER, well he said, she started it, and my investigation confirmed that. Ok "she" is 5' nothing and weighs 100 pounds, and as a matter of fact, she did hit him first, he still has a palm print on his face, but he responded "beyond" what her initial assault "called" for, thus he gets to take a ride with me to the jail. Yes I was at fault initially, but the blowback was excessive in my opinion.

How bad a "sin" did I actually commit? Are children going to bed hungry tonight because of this? Is global warming going to increase? Is Diachenko not going to be able to flaunt his homosexuality to the world?

Wow, just wow.