no matter WHAT group you belong to or whose functions you attend..(including your own family)!...there is always someone on YOUR side who you wish were on the OTHER side, because they don't do, think, act, respond..etc., like you would wish!....It is a very useful skill to have to be able to filter out the stuff that is offensive, boring, stupid, wrong, petty, off-topic, and just plain silly **TO YOU** and to not respond unless you can do so in a positive manner...and even then it may not work, as it is too easy to be misunderstood..especially in a print medium like this with no facial, tonal or body signals to help.
and lets face it...given the same sentence, people WILL respond differently. There were lots of ways that the first post here could affect folks, and we seem to have hit most of them...
once again, I am constantly amazed and buoyed that it continues as well as it does...remember Max lets us squabble among ourselves and almost never intervenes. He simply does NOT require anyone to label threads in any particular manner, he merely provides an easy way to use some of the common labels....
some folk seem to have a hair-trigger regarding some of their personal sacred cows..(I'm kinda delicate in a few areas myself..*grin*)...but I have been SERIOUSLY restraining myself from dragging out the soapbox every time....."go thou and do likewise"...(hope THAT does not offend anyone!)