Reading, or more accurately, TRYING to read that thread does terrible things to my blood pressure, pulse and respiration. It is nothing to me that such people scorn what others write. Their demeanor and mental blindness eliminate any concern I may otherwise have enjoyed for their opinions—should they actually devise some.
That people should be sufficiently educated to have some command of our language, yet be so ignorant of life in general and life situations other than the one or two they may have experienced (and perhaps even vaguely noticed and understood), is damning self-testimony to their miniscule comprehension that beyond their eyesight and vacuous “insight of the moment” there is life on our planet.
From a mere clinical standpoint, they fascinate me on the same level as watching a small mound of irritated (and irritating) fire ants. But to engage them in discourse, polite or impolite, on any subject of importance is beyond my level of interest in things pathological.
My time on earth to too limited for those people. They argue rather than discuss. Their goals, assuredly unachieved, are wit and domination rather than contemplation, thought, learning, or courtesy. That thread, if typical of that forum, is a great example of what mental decay there is in America and what TFL
could have become without the leadership of Rich Lucibella.
Frankly, Don, you have the patience of a saint for trying to cope with their apparently boundless lack of thought and all things civil in nature. You’re a saint.
Either that, Don, or perhaps you should change your last name to Quixote!
PS. Remember to wash your hands each time you leave that forum.
(‘Twas respectfully signed, Your Sancho!)
Dejavu! Who is that cornered rat? 