One of your supporters asked me politely why I was against the idea, so I took the time to respond politely and objectively to that post. As a result, along comes stinging criticism. If you don't want to hear the opinions of those with differing views, don't ask!
Indeed, this points out very clearly the danger I see in this. The new forum could quickly become rather doctrinaire and intolerant of anyone who expresses a different opinion. While I'm just one opinion among hundreds, I'm very much against splintering these forums in such a way.
At this point, given the level of intolerance that is emerging, I'm stepping out of this thread (good riddance, I hear you cry.
). It seems that supporters of this initiative want only to hear echoes of their own voices.
Don't be so daft. If you think that is stinging criticism, wait until I really warm up when I do get truly annoyed. You havn't ever seen that and I doubt you or anyone here, ever will, that's reserved for one or two very outspoken religious forums I post on now and again, where there exists a lot of bigotry etc.
Of course you are welcome in this thread, I would be the last one to want to drive you away. However, if I may say so, hmmmmmmm how to put this, so you don't get the wrong end of the stick, I'm struggling here, ok, I'm just going to write as I think, typical saggyhairyarse.
I might be wrong, but I seem to remember you were in this thread before me, and I don't personally remember asking you directly, if you had an opinion on a matter directly, though I could be wrong.
To be honest, this hmmmmm get out clause on this thread / reply above, seems to me to be a bit of a cheap way of backing out of the discussion with just a lil bit of projection going on to boot.
Earlier, I found one or two of your remarks particularly cutting, insulting even, but I wasn't going to convey that same attitude back at you, no, I'd much rather have kept a good strongwilled banter going on upon the subject, although obviously you are reading my comments way too seriously. I mean, the post in question, did start with the word piffle for petes sake. Surely from that much you could gather that the contents therein, were not stinging criticism as you have translated in your own mind? Hmmmmm, most odd.
Then you go on to point out yet again, that this is exactly why you think there is a danger in this etc.
Pardon me, but where on earth is this psychology coming from?
The association we have now is that a green business section is somehow, cultic, brainwashing even, something undesirable, dangerous by association, an underground movement - what a load of bumkum, you sound, convey yourself to me in a very paranoid manner, perhaps still reeling, I don't know, from someone elses previous remark, which you too took great umbrage at, read the wrong way, an insinuation that was not there, that somehow you felt as though what was being implied, was that your business was less ethical than a green business and I sensed then, that that got your back up.
For that reason, you've rallied against this idea wholeheartedly against all the other good people who would love to have this on the forum here.
I just can't understand your combined points why you should be so vehemently against such a thing.
If you don't like it, want it, that's completely cool with us, you don't need to post in there, if you do not want to, or have no interest in the subject, it's no skin off my back. But why put your foot down so readily, if you think already that such a thing wouldn't work? Why not just allow us others to have our own say and to have our voices heard for want of what we consider to be, a very good place for our combined needs?
Do you think all of us are somehow going to disappear into that part of the forum and not post elsewhere? Such a notion is preposterous.
It's just one more small part of the overall theme of what UKBF is all about, that's all, nothing more and nothing less. All this getting hett up, sweating the smallest of details, is just completely and utterly daft.
Maruby made some very valid points, those are just the sort of things we would like to access all in one place, that is all.
Crikey, what's the big issue here?
More annoyed with you that you've just taken up my entire lunchtime and my cup of tea has now gone cold.
Daft scallywags.
