[0762]

Take a breath of fresh air 0762 and back away from the keyboard for a little while.

I respect (most of) your opinions because you are entitled to them just as much as me or anyone else on here, but you do go a tad over the top occasionally.

Think about it.

There's a few of the younger generation on these boards but most of us have been round the mill a few times and you and me are amongst 'em.

Theo. A member of this board went "way over the top" with certain downright lies, not just smears - that is the issue. And AC knows that - a fundamental breach of conduct against another Sb member, a long term one at that and one who also gladly "forked out money" in good faith to help this Sb board during times of hardship. Also note just out of curiosity I've carried out my own check on activity by this member and it transpires AC rarely contributes to the Abstract Chat at all apart from adding the odd "like" to a thread (just like your one!!) that is either negative against the SNP or the Scot FM or it has some kinda criticism or negative aspect against me or another Scottish member who says something that doesn't gel with AC's position re Scotland or some other kinda Scottish/Brit govt/Labour Party related issue or comment that AC regards as disagreeable. Suddenly AC "appeared out of nowhere" on the Abstract Chat to utter certain extreme remarks. But one can detect a certain theme and bias to the behaviour when scrutinising it more closely. Hardly uttered a word on Abstract Chat in months n months n months......prob well over a year and then this sudden charade of outrage!!!??? Huhhh!! I just wanna reiterate I didn't do anything that drastically wrong in the first place and I think that advice of "taking a breath of fresh air" applies as much to AC for causing such an unnecessary furore albeit one must add it was "just an opinion"! May I also add I'm no "shrinking violet" and I'd describe quite a few members in the same context. However, I am not even close to being a serial "ranter" of any sort as being implied/exaggerated!! I'm sure most of us have the odd "moment of reflection" now n again - I'd challenge anyone to count through all my threads/OPs down the months/years and calculate a % of this kinda critical text - you'll find it is MINISCULE!! It doesn't make us "bad people" or "bad members" esp when it involves complicated or intractable issues that make for more interesting debate and it is not easy to arrive at a common consensus point anyway - all about opinions and counter opinions plus information to back it up, plus deserved respect. Sure, we're bound to "fall out" now n again. But I'd say most veterans of this Sb board just "dust themselves down" and move on very quickly - life's too short to do anything other than that.