There are others, Joe, who blatantly accuse other people for things they would not do.
This place is a discussion forum, and I generally discuss. I do not post to threads that don't interest me and I have NEVER been the first person to wittingly hurl an insult. But if someone wants to take issue with me over something I am not guilty of; make comments about what they think is impaled up my nether parts, I have no hesitation whatsoever in telling that person where to get off.
I mentioned my alter-alter ego further up the page in what I thought was a moment of levity. And, of course, it went down like a ton of bricks, even if I did explain that my second incarnation occured BEFORE all this furore broke out. It seems I was too quick to thank God for small mercies, because now somebody has made it an issue.
I don't really know what 'Spaw was saying, but what does it matter what your name is, as long as it is not GUEST, and as long as you mean no harm.
But it seems to me that the ones who are complaining about social decency are among those who who sink to it's lower forms to express the higher forms of it.
That is a severe case of the pot calling the kettle black in my opinion
I have nothing against Healing Threads. I did after all live with a white witch for many years in the west of Ireland. The reason I don't post to them and pass on my vibes to the afflicted; you see I do read them I just want to leave youse in peace to get on with it.
It is quite ironic really. Take the "Anarchy Rules" Thread. A blatant and unqualified attack took place by someone barging in there and giving his well voiced reason as to why the thread should not be there in the first place. Was that wrong? Or is it only in the healing threads that that rule applies?
As I said I only post to places that I have an interest in, be it Jake Thackray songs, finding a link for someone or whatever, the threads which concern my home etc. and those BS threads which often give a welcome break from the dreary drudge and dread of your average day.
But there are those people who drop in quite unwarranted and insult and fling sometimes quite vulgar invective, and all in the name of decency.
If you came here to discuss, well then lets discuss. If you came here to argue, well as an integral part of any discussion there are at least two of them, well lets argue also. If you came here to accuse people from behind the cloak of your own particular anonymity, and call them "Trolls", "personæ at the root of this trouble", "greaseballs" and all of that kind of thing, well then YOU piss off out of the thread.
When I want to talk about music, and as a full time guitarist I talk about very little else in my average day, well then I do so.
If, on the other hand, I wish to share a thought about a thread other than music, well then I do that also.

But when people start shooting at the preverbial 'piano player', THAT's what gets on my wick. And that's when I have to be careful. It is the one's who are looking for an enemy, rather than those who define one are the most guilty. And if they take a swing at me, by God I'll take one back. I stop short of peeling away the layers one by one. To do that would make me just as bad as the rest of the old aunties some of whom, I can imagine sow their wild oats, so to speak, during the week, and go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Whatever one person (who I don't know) has an argument with another person (who I also don't know), I's none of my business.
But if by my silence, or ambivalence in the issue, I am branded as a fence-sitter (I would have thought by reading your repetitive posts on the subject, you would have welcomed fewer interlocutors), and therefore as a greaseball or worse, then I think some people have some very strange values.
As I have said before, I am an Irish Traditional guitarist and music is what I do. and I find it a very calming experience, and activity like that tends to leave you more or less at peace with the world.

I would suggest that some of you should take it up.

Breandán MacÍomhair