jGilder wrote:
*P.S. Murphy, you know I love you but for feck's sake you're posting too many threads about what's wrong with the Pub. Don't you think about anything else? I'm having a real hard time finding the political threads with all these whining threads you keep posting. Go learn some tunes or something.
*Brought to you by the Taste of Your Own Medicine Department.
jGilder, speaking of medicine.
What I am taking away from this thread and the other MurphyStout started is that you aren't really up to message boards. You are too quick to take things personally, everything is always about you, you can't handle well-meaning criticism, and you keep going on and on about your perceived grievances. Now, I have no business saying this sort of thing, so here are three reasons why I say it anyway:
You're probably the nicest guy in person, and it's hard to do this in an online medium. All I have to go on is your posts, and how they come across. It's not about you, it's about your posts.
I only post this after about a week of witnessing your unwillingness to even cede the smallest points, for instance, that you have changed the character of the chiffboard (and that people may well be nostalgic without being mean), or to concede that you, too, are human and don't get everything right every time (although you are certainly a better man than I and aren't wrong nearly as often as I am).
Finally, nearly all your posts here are about debates and controversies. For better or worse, "facts" only go so far to resolve debates and controversies (if you want to know why, try
this link), and we are dependent in society on our ability to debate and argue. You debate and argue a lot around here. Finding now in an area that I feel I have something useful to add (the chiffboard), that you don't listen to criticism (and not just the crude overstated criticism, but also the careful & respectful), that you don't handle subtlety well, that you brow beat those around you, and that everything anyone seems to say is a reflection on you personally (after you were singled out), makes me feel that if you can't debate or argue, perhaps you shouldn't.