Dan, you've done quite well speaking for Ford up to this point. Give it a shot.

What I WILL ask is a simple question of Shaun. At what point (which thread, if you will) did I become a d***head and an a**hole in your mind, and no longer (in YOUR words): "da man"? Just wondering, since I seriously doubt you treat anyone else with such disrespect and contempt as you seem to have for me and Ford.

It's no more off topic than half of this thread, and I think it would enlighten people (myself included) as to the cause and source of Shaun's bitterness and contempt towards me. Something, I might add, I think I deserve to know. Don't you?

You certainly are a puzzle! I can't find any consistency in your rules and your manner of conduct. It's like a daily guessing game with you, to figure out which way you're going to go!

And since you obviously don't care why Shaun thinks of me the way he does - and you seem to be ENCOURAGING that behavior, btw - I wonder why you bother to instate rules if your "inner circle" is going to be excempt from them. What do we have to do to get into this exclusive group?

Oh, gee. Well, since you say that you banned him it MUST be true. Gosh. I guess I can sleep easy! Thanks Peter! You're swell!

Of course, if you're lying and he isn't banned, don't you think that speaks to your credibility?

Dan

I have been called on (not by Dan G.), about my attitude towards Dan in my post.

So I will address it, being the gracious politician:

I would like to apologize to you Dan, if my words came across as a bit harsh.

But the context of what I wrote remains, and I stand by it, on the demerits of your previous posts.

I don't know what has been exchanged privately, and it's none of my business, and truthfully, I could give a flying phuck.

Now, as for me, I am temporarily retiring from these abysmal boards.

you can't defend anything or anyone, without pissing certain people off, so screw it.
Here, I'll just make this blanket statement:

EVERYONE IN THE WORLD IS A COLOSSAL ASS

I don't care what one person "feels" about another. I don't. If that makes me an *******, so be it. I can live with that.

All webmasters are self-important to a degree. I don't blame them. Why not be proud of your work?

but at the same time, you don't have to be a colossal dyck to promote or denigrate a website, or dare I say, another message board poster.

you people are all intensely immature and backstabbing, and I will have none of it for the time being.

In short:

GROW UP.

stinkin' website for cryin' out loud.
good God.

now that I've wasted an hour of my life answering email and responding to this most horrid of threads, I will retire for the evening.

Dan

It's interesting to me that Shaun is the one who has to get it in the teeth, rather than the relentlessly (and, granted, equally) provocative Mr. Goldwasser, who is also (and this is less forgivable) ridiculously disingenuous. I agree with everything Shaun said about him and more so, although I hold no personal animus towards the fellow, and hope he drives safely, avoids falling meteorites, and so on.

However: If Shaun Rutherford is banned, then this will have to be my final appearance here. I disagreed enough with the banning of vulcantouch, and was astonished to learn Lou Goldberg had been banned, for whatever period of time that was; and simply put, enough is enough.

And how (pray tell) am I dinigenuious? I feel I've been nothing but candid and straightforward in my posts.

As for Shaun, I wouldn't be surprised if he started posting again once this thread vanishes in 2 days (as per Peter's decree).