I really didn’t think this thread would get any replies, and it wasn’t posted expecting any, I should have made it more interesting. So I will try to now
I did see the replies a couple of days back but unlike A&J my delayed response was because I was actually just busy.
The poll was a gathering of other peoples views over the last few weeks and all answers were previous statements made on the forum by others not me, plus a couple of neutral ones to balance it. I am sorry A&J if you didn’t like the results, but I am not responsible for how people voted.
For those of you who thought it was a personal attack, then why would I make the very first option in the poll a good one for A&J - quote " I find A&J helpful" allowing people to express a positive opinion thereby silencing the critics. Its a shame that particular option only got one vote.
I mentioned at the time that this was a poll for A&J and unlike the one he did for CMS, I was posting it before he left.. A&J the comment was meant to be ironic, i.e. it was BETTER to do it while you were still around, so you could either reply to your critics, or revel in your popularity, not wait till after and get some macabre entertainment out of someone else’s demise.
Ian Gourlay:
I am glad that you chose to lay claim to the removal of the poll. However of all the reasons you could have chosen which would have been correct, you apparently made your decision on one which was completely incorrect. We missed the big picture again didn’t we or did we!!
If I wanted to make a personal attack, wouldn’t I have just gone for it, not mucked about with the effort of a poll, which could have gone either way. Perhaps YOU felt uncomfortable with it, seeing how the results were going and chose to
USE your position. If you were that offended why didn’t you stop it sooner, you were on or should I ask - "what did
you vote", I think there is a word for this!
Lastly with regards to A&J's school yard challenge. The difference A&J between you and me is I know exactly who I am and what I am. I care nothing about what people think I am on here (CMS had the same problem as you). I have an old saying which goes :
"I am my own worst critic, everybody else comes in as a poor second" simply put "you don’t matter" my only interests here relate to one of the following:
Benefit, Entertainment, Contribution (and sometimes)
Pity. Friendships are reserved for a special group called
Real People, I will let you decide what keeps my interest with you.
I will confess that at the start of A&J’s poll, two of us were going to start a poll on each other for a laugh with nothing but really bad headings, however since Ian Gourlay has enforced his moral opinions (apparently) on everyone it seems A&J and others have missed their chance.
never mind I will think of something else so A&J can vent, and this time survive intervention until at least the nappies full
