The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167703   Message #4048669
Posted By: Steve Shaw
26-Apr-20 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mudcat: family, or territory?
Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat: family, or territory?
Not sure which of my comments you refer to, Bill. I've always fully recognised how two-dimensional any online forum is. As such, I switch very quickly between what happens on here and the realities of normal life (in case, I'm glad to say that they are mostly pleasant realities, apart from this bloody bad back...). As such, your remark about personal grievances is a bit off-beam. If that's the way I felt about anyone around here I'd be off to my psychiatrist (I'd have to find one first). What I do feel is irritation about being a recipient of gratuitous insults, directed both at me and at others. I can guess at the motives of the offender but I don't regard him as anything like an important enough part of my life to be arsed about that. The fact that he prevents normal (yet feisty and lusty) discussion about controversial matters is very disappointing and frustrating. Irritation, frustration, annoyance definitely, and I don't mind being direct about it (often a mistaken approach, I admit, but I am very much a head-above-parapet bloke...). Grievances and vendettas on the other hand are soul-destroying. He's not worth it...