The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #153942   Message #3611935
Posted By: Steve Shaw
22-Mar-14 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Cosmos
Subject: RE: BS: Cosmos
Hmmm.I take it that the post of mine that you refer to is this one:

Well they changed their OWN names fer chrissake!! I'm not going to compound the deception of a nom de plume by abbreviating it, largely because I'm broadly sane. If that's your idea of "convention" well it ain't mine. I suggest you would do far better to target the multifarious inanities, disgusting prejudices (including misogyny and homophobia), misrepresentations (of self and others) and lies of some of the participants here rather than attack a bloke who merely falls a little short of charming at times by being a little direct. If someone is being a clot on a public forum they deserve to be called a clot. There is a particularly egregious and long-standing example on this board of a religious fundamentalist who has been indulged and who, as a result, takes the piss out of reasonable people here and beyond here all the time. That's what happens if you call a spade a manual digging implement. I've been sworn at and called names and insulted and misrepresented and lied about far more times than vice versa, in particular by the man who I assume you're trying to defend the most by asking me not to call him names, and I do not complain. And I remind you that you will never find me using the F or C words. I don't recall seeing you having a bash at the people who do that. If you are a mod (I haven't a clue) and you want to clean up this board a bit, you have far more important targets than yours truly. Steve Shaw, or SJS if you like, no p in front of surname, since 1951. Thank YOU.

Kindly note the emphasis. I do not complain. I often fart in the general directions of, but I do not complain. No moderator could ever tell you that I've ever gone offlist to complain about anything or anybody. I do not whinge then get told to fight my own battles, because I don't fight battles. I state my case and call a spade a spade and a twat a twat because there is no other way to deal with fools. Putting the record straight on patently unfair practices is not complaining. I am not victimised and I can't be bullied because my transaction with this place is entirely tangential to my normal life and is predicated only on what time I have available to come here, which is severely limited. I don't live over my keyboard like Jack The Sailor, etc. This place is somebody else's gig, not mine. Go on, whinge on and get the whole bloody place shut down if you can. Alternatively, put some thought into your contributions and stop misrepresenting people.