Yeah. One person, as far as I can see, decided to hijack a useful and thought-provoking thread here about a very important subject and turn it into his own personal venue for carping endlessly about a very trivial matter...presumably because he got his feelings hurt somewhere along the way.

For heaven's sake, get over it.

I have had, oh, three or four threads which I launched on this forum censored and removed in the past three years. (and I thought they were entirely harmless threads, and hopefully quite funny, which was how I intended them to be when I posted them). So?

Was I irritated about it at each time when it occurred? Yes, definitely. Surprised and quite irritated...and I PM'd Joe Offer and complained about it to him personally, and explained why I was irritated about it. And what did he say? He said more or less this: I know where you're coming from, LH, and I know you don't mean anything wrong by that thread, but there are some people who just won't get it and it could cause a real problem because of that, so I thought it was best not to continue with it.

I didn't entirely agree with Joe on that, but I understood his position perfectly...as he understood mine.

Furthermore, I balanced my momentary irritation over other people's emotional hangups against the fact that I LIKE this forum the other 98% of the time!

And I got over it (in a day or less) and I continued enjoying this forum. And I did not hijack a whole bunch of other threads and keep harassing people in general with my hurt feelings.

Does that suggest anything useful to you, Shambles? I mean, really, what in God's name are you doing going on and on about this for on a thread that was intended to be about fascism in World politics?

- LH