Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
Blimey! If I may say this again.... I don't want anyone falling out on my part. Maybe a sign of weakness but I did offer fulsome apologies last time around. Though to be fair I have only knowingly offended a person who we aren't allowed to mention in here, but he did have a tendency to show up on Wednesders in our previous home. I have never intended to offend anyone currently residing here. I did bristle slightly though when it was suggested that our temporary guest had "put me in my place." Let me tell you all that when you get to my age it is real life occurrences that put one in a place. Virtual stuff doesn't hack it.
I can't see the original post which hurt me so much - deleted? It was a thread about pet hates etc. I posted something like on US TV and increasingly here - people force themselves to appear to cry in an obviously false way - like it was expected of them.
I was shocked to read your reply dripping in sarcasm about me having owned the thread, I was just what the forum needs and so on... something about Alma Cogan etc. There's a difference between dry wit and ribbing someone, and sarcasm clearly intended to put someone down. It was a snide and unpleasant post. I don't know why you picked on me - but you did - and it wasn't the normal type of oh-its-just-GJ's-type-of humour post, which people here are assuming it was. I remember it and I don't make up lies about FMs. It happened. It was towards the end of last year. That was followed by constant nitpicking from you.
"Maybe a sign of weakness but I did offer fulsome apologies last time around"
I don't accept your aplogy/apologies as being genuine or heartfelt. Denial of any intention and selective amnesia on your part is not a true apology; its just a let out clause.
I'm not overly sensitive. I've had major disagreements here. Sometimes I ended up becoming friends with FMs as a result - like with Erin say, who I understand much better now. Though we have very different views, I ended up respecting her more.
I will stay out of the BB forum. Like you, I also have more important things in RL. A week ago I learned my father's bowel cancer is terminal and he'll never be able to eat again. This latest argument seems so unimportant.
However the general principle remains. I have no respect for people who don't take responsibility for their actions and develop selective amnesia.
Well done to Peter for coming back and standing his ground I hope he stays around... Putting you in your place was an overly harsh comment from me, I apologise GJ. I shouldn't have made that offensive comment.
It would have been better to say: Peter certainly knows how to argue back. Picking you up on fine grammatical points and out-pedanting an arch-pedant was quite comical to see.
Apologies to all I offended