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stevie23b Wrote:

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da silva good post !


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This was DaSilva's post, for those who have forgotten:



"Daily Mail, Mumsnet - I think you might be onto something Pinecone. If I were you, I'd just ignore the EDF's pitchfork-wielding yokels. They just don?t want to have to imagine their cosy, bucolic domain could potentially be disrupted by an icy blast of urban reality - especially when they?re having to fork out so much money to live in this little corner of God?s earthly paradise".



I really can't understand why either of you are posting on here, since you both seem to have such a low opinion of other forum members.

That's a novel perspective to take, Sue. If you look a little more closely at the previous posts on this thread (including your own execrable efforts), I think you'll find it's other posters - not me - who exhibit 'a low opinion of other forum members' by subjecting them to a deeply unpleasant campaign of playground bullying.


Hence, to paraphrase one of your juicier quotes, 'perhaps you should engage your brain before posting - if you have one'.

This is awful to read . Someone has been stabbed boy or girl woman or man good citizen or awful drug dealer and as always the subject has to change into a different subject and personal bickering and attack . Why don't the people on here who feel they have to hijack each subject or question just meet up and go to a pub and sort it out or start your own forum !

dimples Wrote:

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> No sue not at all but I agree with the last

> message OTTA left , a lot of the messages on here

> do tend to become a slagging match don't you think

> !


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Well, it's a forum. That's what happens on forums!

Sue Wrote:

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> Well, it's a forum. That's what happens on forums!


Not necessarily. I know of at least one that is always good humoured and well mannered - and very informative and entertaining.

It can be done, honestly.

EPB Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

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> > Well, it's a forum. That's what happens on

> forums!

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> Not necessarily. I know of at least one that is

> always good humoured and well mannered - and very

> informative and entertaining.

> It can be done, honestly.


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I'm sure it can be done!


But I'd be willing to bet that the forum of which you speak does not consist of members whose main if only thing in common (grammar?) is that they live in roughly the same geographical location - am I right?


And I bet it's very heavily moderated so that trolls and unpleasant people are kicked off it at the first sign of not being good-humoured and well-mannered?


This forum, because of its nature, is bound to have members with a wide cross-section of views and personalities, and therefore disputes are bound to arise.


I think it generally has a good balance - really vile people are banned, but otherwise posters are able to state their opinions freely on the whole. I think that's a healthy thing. It would be worrying if they couldn't.

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