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cheri1122 · Oct 20, 2008

I'm with JJ - if we get outraged over every remark that includes stereotypes, or perceived prejudices, we'd be bogged down in recriminations all the time. (No more blonde jokes, or disparaging references to mothers in law, either!)

Sometimes you feel the need to speak up, but Wallytrucker & TennesseeHawk's remarks didn't reach that level, IMO.
I just noticed that in Laredo, even the stop signs now include a translation in Spanish, and I am outraged about that. Accommodating the language and customs of every immigrant group that chooses to come here, is a very bad idea, IMO. I welcome the diversity, but they need to adapt to our culture, not vice versa.

scottanhelen · Oct 20, 2008

jaminjim said:
Blud Said:
try to get the info you need from the site and join the many who are known as "lurkers and drivebys", i certainly have, it'll keep your blood pressure down.

I don't understand why anyone would go to a web site that they don't like, or that would cause them aggravation. That does not seem like a good (fun, enjoyable) way to pass your time.

I totaly agree with Blud if I posted more i would probly get in to it more with alot of people on here. So I just am just a "lurker" getting some helpfull information and alot of intertainment form the rest.

cheri1122 · Oct 20, 2008

scottanhelen said:
I totaly agree with Blud if I posted more i would probly get in to it more with alot of people on here.

You say that like it's a bad thing, lol.
Seriously: discussion, debate, and disagreement are all a necessary part of communication, if it's to be effective. We just have to focus on keeping it civil, and then it's a GOOD thing, yes?
Not that I'm averse to entertainment, intentional or otherwise.

jaminjim · Oct 20, 2008

scottanhelen said:
I totaly agree with Blud if I posted more i would probly get in to it more with alot of people on here. So I just am just a "lurker" getting some helpfull information and alot of intertainment form the rest.

Why, do think that it would be necessary to get "into it with a lot of people" on here? I don't understand that logic. I hardly ever feel the need to go keyboard to keyboard with people on here, but that does not mean that I agree with what they post. If you are coming here to keep up to date with what's going on within the industry, and are in fact learning from this site, who would you get into it with? (not by name) To coin the phrase of some of the others: I still don't get it!

What do some of you lurkers find so distasteful? I rarely read people in the full attack mode on here. Even this discussion has been without people attacking one another, unless you want to count the newbie calling someone here a jerk.

I really don't have a dog in this "fight" but if you were to read back, way, way back you would understand what fight here means. There have been some very good people forced to leave this site, by newer people coming on board and starting a bunch of nonsense, which resulted in far better people leaving here. So some of the members that remember that far back don't want to see a repeat of that. If you are unaware of what I'm talking about PM me and I will be happy to give you some screen names to read up on. The old saying "Those that forget history are bound to repeat it" (or something like that) applies here.

Turtle · Oct 20, 2008

The way I read it was, he doesn't necessarily think it's "necessary" to get into it with a lot of people on here, but he knows himself well enough, and he knows the site well enough after lurking here, that if he did post more on here, his opinions would likely be such that he'd get into it with a lot of people on here (read: he's commie liberal), and, at Blud's suggestion, in order to keep his blood pressure readings down, he is, at least for the time being, going to remain on of the countless millions of lurkers who are here for information and the entertainment at watching the conservatives stumble all over themselves trying to avoid the inevitable.

scottanhelen · Oct 20, 2008

Turtle said:
The way I read it was, he doesn't necessarily think it's "necessary" to get into it with a lot of people on here, but he knows himself well enough, and he knows the site well enough after lurking here, that if he did post more on here, his opinions would likely be such that he'd get into it with a lot of people on here (read: he's commie liberal), and, at Blud's suggestion, in order to keep his blood pressure readings down, he is, at least for the time being, going to remain on of the countless millions of lurkers who are here for information and the entertainment at watching the conservatives stumble all over themselves trying to avoid the inevitable.

Thank you Turtle

Very well said