just ignore and let this one die

Hiya Brenda,

Yes, I assumed that coming from you it would be Star Trek related.

However, I rarely pass up the chance to put in a plug for Little Big Man.

No you were being your usual A-hole self.

You mean like this?

Yeah... he kind of has a Jennifer Anniston bob-thing going on there, doesn't he?

I commented critically but fairly on Elora's picture. She over-reacted over-emotionally (as is the wont of quite a few of the "females" around here) and used excessively inappropriate language. Love joined the bandwagon as well. So who is *that* down to?

Then I pointed out that Clover had been extremely rude about Lexxi's tendency to post images excessively, so her Mistress piled in in a pretty incomprehensible fashion presumably in an attempt to distract attention from her sub's mean humour, or just because it is the fashionable thing to do when bored. Who was *that* down to?

Pep (Read the posts; it was the idiot "females" that got ugly even before 3Ring decided to dig up the body.)

PS I have just found out that a close friend has got cancer and probably has less than a year to live so I'm probably not a person you might expect to back down at this moment - if I ever was.

Actually, I think Worf would look better if his forehead were...oh..right...we don't talk about that.

Your photo comments were mean and out of line. Nobody else comments like that. If you like someone's photo then say so. If you don't, keep it to yourself.

Your assesment of what Clover said was dead-on wrong but you are either too stupid to realize it or not enough of a man to admit you made a mistake.

Maybe get off the forum and reflect on your friend and honor him/her instead of picking fights.

A cross between Worf and Jennifer Aniston? The mind reels...

This is the problem. None of you...none...are willing to just stop. You all have to keep coming back at each other. Snip snip snip...needle needle needle...poke poke poke... Sometimes it is the better person who can just walk away.

I'm sorry to hear about your friend, Pep. I hope the doc's are wrong and he goes on to live happily for many more years.

(ETA: I quoted Pep as those words highlight the point I wanted to make...not to single him out personally.)

The third option is that he's simply stirring up shit. He knows what gets reactions, and is sticking the fork in.

You know, trolling.

I'm sorry to hear that, but I'd expect the opposite behavior. Are you saying, "I've had shitty news, so I'm going to be mean?"

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Now that would be a interesting combo.

I can't decide if I would put it in the appealing or disturbing category, but it would certainly be interesting.

Your right to say that, Eli, but I wouldn't want Pep to leave.

There have been times when I was honestly glad to see him weigh into some threads that were going badly, and times when he was quite kind.

But Pep, sometimes you are mean.

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And people just can't resist taking the bait. I'm calling foul on everyone.

Have at it.

And why should we have to tolerate the bait in the first place?

Right, because he's welcomed here. So you get him, and the reactions to him, equally. You can't have your cake and eat it too, as the saying goes.

So who died so you got to be the forum policeman and guardian of old wives' sayings? My version of it is "If you can't say anything nice, say the truth". To demonstrate your toothlessness I shall now initiate a program of commenting accurately on every image that goes up here until you concede you are impotent.

I was dead on correct. Clover has not been around long enough to realise how sensitive Lexxi can be. And you wouldn't have had to be too sensitive to see her comment as considerably more insulting than my opinion on Elora's fashion disaster.

And maybe you should go camping with 3Ring for a few months now that she has been freed of her previous encumbrances.

Pep (If you dare to think you can successfully tell me what to do you must be dumber than you have already demonstrated yourself to be.)

btw...Brenda...

don't laugh too hard, but for days I thought your new logo was the Accidental Aviator, not Avatar.

...since I know how much you like planes.

*pouts* I am running out of distracting pictures and videos to post... if I have to go to WTF pictures, I'm sure to get everyone distracted, right?

I was taught by my father to make sure that the fight was over before you walked away from it, Jerboa. Especially ones you don't start. You'd think even the most illogical emotion-driven "females" would have worked that out about me by now!

Pep (Thanks for the kind words about my friend; I am doing what I can for her from 5,000 miles away.)

WTF pictures sounds like the cure to me!

And everyone else here is 100% nice?

Pep (I know that's not true.)

Of course not. But everyone *else* here manages to stay civil with each other - until you step in and stir the pot.

Sometimes it is the better person who is able to walk away. Let it go.

Le Fin

-----insert wavy lines indicating a flashforward to the future------

....and many years later when the final analysis of the "never ending thread" was written it concluded with this simple statement,

"It turned out that a little mouse was the wisest of them all."