I barred two members today

[void()]

Void,
What are you talking about? There is no post on this thread I consider a threat. Not that I remember (and no, i am not going to go back and read the whole bloody thread unless I absolutely have to).
But while I am at it, this thread has deviated so far from Drew's original post that we should all be disgusted with ourselves for hijacking his thread.
Commenting on what he wrote is one thing. This is ridiculous.
If people do not have enough courage of conviction to start their own thread, they need to shut up and stop hijacking other's threads.

It's pretty stupid to post an obvious threat in writing on a public forum. Law enforcement loves open and shut cases. In fact, it is such a stupid thing to do, I doubt you even have the intelligence to know HOW to take a screenshot (unless you are actually using a nikon and taking a picture of the screen).

You said it was a threat, yourself. I get so tired of people weaseling. You say you think it's a threat, you mean it's a threat. So, don't say "that's not how I meant it" or "you misunderstood". You said it. Not hard to read the word threat in your post. Not hard to use a dictionary either, plenty exist on the web and internet, as well as having hard copies via local library. So please do not insult me by saying I misunderstood what you said. It's right there as plain as day.

Simply put, just because one is mentally ill does not immediately disqualify them as a human being. Merely because they are mentally ill does not mean it is always they with the problem. And I'm tired of folks trying to denying what's said by suggesting mental illness somehow causes me to be disqualified from seeing, from comprehension of what is said. Like I said, you wrote it, black and white, plain as day. How could one misunderstand?

Guess you and pepper can be co-kings of that dung heap. Excuse me, wasted enough energy here.

[pepperjack]

Falcon I just had a really intense deja-vu whilst looking at ur profile...anyway

I actually started a thread of its own devoted to complaints of thread hijacking, which can be still searched for, this year some time. It was intended as a repository of thread hijacking comments so that threads wouldn't get hijacked by people who started complaining about people who hijacked threads. It was around around the time when loads of people were unwittingly hijacking threads by telling people not to hijack and to stick to the thread. The 'Hijack Thread' thread failed and was forgotten, but now, everytime someone mentions thread hijacking, it makes me chuckle. May I hazard a guess that people against thread hijacking alphabeticalise their Blu-ray/DVD collections, and can't stop reading a book in the middle of a chapter?

Sometimes threads work best as they flow onto other ideas naturally like word association games .. or conversation.. Also other threads require a slight deviation away from how intense, heated, and stressful they can become here (yeah) because, before you know it, somebody has dug their feet in, or got backed up against a wall and the word 'troll' gets bandied around and people go mental.

Thread hijacking may indeed be necessary to avoid a big flaming drama, just as a winking smiley is necessary after a lot of trite

I like this post and agree with it. I think what sometimes appears as hijacking is a normal, spontaneous straying from a topic because we all make different mental associations to said topic. This was recently illustrated on Falcon's thread where someone complained it was being hijacked to which he replied the spirit or essence of the topic were still intact.

[falcondfw]

You said it was a threat, yourself. I get so tired of people weaseling. You say you think it's a threat, you mean it's a threat. So, don't say "that's not how I meant it" or "you misunderstood". You said it. Not hard to read the word threat in your post. Not hard to use a dictionary either, plenty exist on the web and internet, as well as having hard copies via local library. So please do not insult me by saying I misunderstood what you said. It's right there as plain as day.

Simply put, just because one is mentally ill does not immediately disqualify them as a human being. Merely because they are mentally ill does not mean it is always they with the problem. And I'm tired of folks trying to denying what's said by suggesting mental illness somehow causes me to be disqualified from seeing, from comprehension of what is said. Like I said, you wrote it, black and white, plain as day. How could one misunderstand?

Guess you and pepper can be co-kings of that dung heap. Excuse me, wasted enough energy here.

Ah. That one. Sorry. Memory is not what it should be.
No reason to be snarky about it. Just point out what I said. I told you I did not remember. That was the truth. I also told you I was not going to read through almost 160 posts to find it. That was also the truth.
Did I say anything about you being mentally ill or about anyone being mentally ill? I know I didn't do that. So please, stop bringing things into the conversation that do not exist.
And please, don't try to insult me. It is far beneath you and way beneath me to respond in kind.
Yes, I did see it as a threat. Still do. How would you take it if someone wrote that to you (I know. They wrote it to Drew.)?

[void()]

Ah. That one. Sorry. Memory is not what it should be.
No reason to be snarky about it. Just point out what I said. I told you I did not remember. That was the truth. I also told you I was not going to read through almost 160 posts to find it. That was also the truth.
Did I say anything about you being mentally ill or about anyone being mentally ill? I know I didn't do that. So please, stop bringing things into the conversation that do not exist.
And please, don't try to insult me. It is far beneath you and way beneath me to respond in kind.
Yes, I did see it as a threat. Still do. How would you take it if someone wrote that to you (I know. They wrote it to Drew.)?

Actually already posted I thought it was a joke at best. Had it been directed to me, same response would have stood, a joke it is.

How is it sarcastic (snarky) to ask a direct question? I would like an answer to this question as well. I am aware some here use a derogatory ploy of suggesting mental illness causes others to not understand. You did not but you did use the same basic ploy, just a different label, sarcastic (snarky).

How does one misunderstand what is plainly said? That's the question at hand. I am asking it to illustrate a point as well as establish an answer. I would like an answer

Care to answer a direct question without tearing down the person asking, in any way?

[Gearbox]

Actually already posted I thought it was a joke at best. Had it been directed to me, same response would have stood, a joke it is.

How is it sarcastic (snarky) to ask a direct question? I would like an answer to this question as well. I am aware some here use a derogatory ploy of suggesting mental illness causes others to not understand. You did not but you did use the same basic ploy, just a different label, sarcastic (snarky).

How does one misunderstand what is plainly said? That's the question at hand. I am asking it to illustrate a point as well as establish an answer. I would like an answer

Care to answer a direct question without tearing down the person asking, in any way?

Sorry I did post a sarcastic reply to Dewi (if that's the right name). I sugested that she/they had stopped taking their medocation for paranoid schizophrenia.
Wasn't very tactfull of me but was insensitive. Sorry about that.

[pepperjack]

Sorry I did post a sarcastic reply to Dewi (if that's the right name). I sugested that she/they had stopped taking their medocation for paranoid schizophrenia.
Wasn't very tactfull of me but was insensitive. Sorry about that.

Thank-you, you very clever smart arse!

[void()]

Sorry I did post a sarcastic reply to Dewi (if that's the right name). I sugested that she/they had stopped taking their medocation for paranoid schizophrenia.
Wasn't very tactfull of me but was insensitive. Sorry about that.

No real worries, merely serves to set the point.

[falcondfw]

Actually already posted I thought it was a joke at best. Had it been directed to me, same response would have stood, a joke it is.

How is it sarcastic (snarky) to ask a direct question? I would like an answer to this question as well. I am aware some here use a derogatory ploy of suggesting mental illness causes others to not understand. You did not but you did use the same basic ploy, just a different label, sarcastic (snarky).

How does one misunderstand what is plainly said? That's the question at hand. I am asking it to illustrate a point as well as establish an answer. I would like an answer

Care to answer a direct question without tearing down the person asking, in any way?

Ok. First, this will be my last post on this thread.
I'm sick of the nit-picking, arguing, and fighting. Again, it hijacks the original intent of this thread, which was for Drew to inform us of why he banned aeon and the bivirgin. But it seems like a lot of threads have been hijacked recently. Rather shamelessly.

I get so tired of people weaseling. You say you think it's a threat, you mean it's a threat. So, don't say "that's not how I meant it" or "you misunderstood". You said it. Not hard to read the word threat in your post. Not hard to use a dictionary either, plenty exist on the web and internet, as well as having hard copies via local library. So please do not insult me by saying I misunderstood what you said. It's right there as plain as day.

How is it sarcastic (snarky) to ask a direct question? I would like an answer to this question as well.

I was referring to the statement about weaseling as snarky. You don't see the sarcasm and rudeness dripping from that statement? Hellen Keller would and she's blind. I told you plainly and simply I DID NOT REMEMBER. How much more obvious do you want it?

I am aware some here use a derogatory ploy of suggesting mental illness causes others to not understand. You did not but you did use the same basic ploy, just a different label, sarcastic (snarky).

Void, I have never brought up or used mental illness, yours or anyone else's. Stop painting with such a broad brush. Deal with one person. I am not fran. I am not pepper. I am not DD. I am not LDD. I am not Tenni. I am me. Deal with me when you address me.

Would you like to know why I don't bring up mental issues? Too bad. I will tell you anyway. My eldest son has issues. He has never been diagnosed with autism, but he exhibits a lot of autistic behaviors. He has, however, been diagnosed with a laundry list of alphabet soup issues along the autism spectrum. His mother (my ex) lets him get away with anything and enables him to use his issues as an excuse. He runs rampant over her. With me, he is well-behaved, he does well, he accomplishes things. Because I don't baby him or allow him to use his issues as an excuse. When they are really a problem, I recognize that and help him. But he does not use it as an excuse with me. I expect him to do his best on whatever he tries and he usually accomplishes what he is trying. He almost never accomplishes things with my ex.

You are an intelligent man and fully capable of dealing with people and issues. You don't need to use your issues or hide behind them. That is why I don't bring it up. It serves no purpose.

In answer to what I think is your question, that I have already answered at least twice, I did not misunderstand. I simply did not remember.

[SlimDandy]

Why can't all of us bisexuals get along? Hell! Half of you act like you've got something stuck up your arses! LOL

[darkeyes]

Why can't all of us bisexuals get along? Hell! Half of you act like you've got something stuck up your arses! LOL

Bisexuals like any group of people will have differences as to how they will see the world... differences as to how they view themselves and their kind.. sometimes these will come out as apparently petty, sometimes as cataclysmic... the infighting that falcon talks of is but symptomatic of difference.. we are human.. simply because peeps disagree and even sometimes appear to disagree bitterly, does not mean that on a personal level they hate each other.. tho sometimes being human that will be the case.. sometimes they will treat each other with the greatest of contempt and sometimes become too personal..and we could do with less or better, none of it... but how else do we gain understanding but by airing our differences? I am not bisexual as it happens, but do I think any less of them because they fight their corner? Nope.. not a bit of it.. as I do not think any less of lesbians or gays or trans or straight peeps for doing the same... once I did have a different view and not so long ago either.. but we change and gain different perspectives of how the world is and should be...

Falcon says he is tired of infighting and so on.. as do I, sweetheart, and often.. yet, it will never stop babes.. it will always be to a greater or lesser degree.. accept it and relish it...because we are human and because we all think differently and argue for our view of the world as is our right... and if I may say so.. why else do forums here and elsewhere exist? Why else do we hold freedom of speech and expression so dear? If only 2% of the people of the world are bisexual (just a random figure) and another 2% gay or lesbian, that means in my country 2.5 million people... in the US it means 15 million plus... now u tell me where within any group of people of such size there will be no differences of opinion, no dislike, no hatred and anger. no contempt.. no differences of how they see the world? U cant and u never shall.. live with it and in fact glory in it cos the freedoms u have now u may not always have... the best way to retain such freedoms is use them....wherever they exist..

[tenni]

Why can't all of us bisexuals get along? Hell! Half of you act like you've got something stuck up your arses! LOL

Not everyone who posts here is a bisexual. Some vocal posters are heterosexual or lesbian. Some who seek help here are partners of bisexuals and a few go overboard and become vocal with their viewpoint..not just seek advice on bisexuality. Some heteros give sage advice on being a partner of a bisexual. In the case of the two banned posters some are trolls and out to disrupt civil discourse by slurring bisexuals or other devices. I think that you need to keep this in mind and check their profile as it usually gives a clue. As dark eyes states even if we were exclusively a bisexual website, there would be differing views. I believe more cohesiveness would flow forward but that is the site owner's wish.

[void()]

Not everyone who posts here is a bisexual. Some vocal posters are heterosexual or lesbian. Some who seek help here are partners of bisexuals and a few go overboard and become vocal with their viewpoint..not just seek advice on bisexuality. Some heteros give sage advice on being a partner of a bisexual. In the case of the two banned posters some are trolls and out to disrupt civil discourse by slurring bisexuals or other devices. I think that you need to keep this in mind and check their profile as it usually gives a clue. As dark eyes states even if we were exclusively a bisexual website, there would be differing views. I believe more cohesiveness would flow forward but that is the site owner's wish.

* wanders by, gives tenni a hug just because, wanders along*

[biguy1940]

slip...youd better run quick..your home under the bridge is being flooded