Off to the states... am i mad?
#61
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Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
I only get touchy when I'm personally attacked for doing the right thing!
You can all have your fun. I just thanked the guy for putting his life at risk, not for the rights and wrongs of why.
That is all - have at it and leave me out of it from now on. If you don't agree, he fought for that right too!
I'm done in this thread.
You can all have your fun. I just thanked the guy for putting his life at risk, not for the rights and wrongs of why.
That is all - have at it and leave me out of it from now on. If you don't agree, he fought for that right too!
I'm done in this thread.
Nobody made a personal attack, they just pointed out that it was presumptuous of you to speak on behalf of an entire board of people about whom you know little, if anything. I don't see you thanking any firefighters, EMTs or policemen - all of whom put themselves in some degree of risk to help others and they don't have to fly halfway around the world to poke their noses into international affairs to achieve it either ...
(I attack the organisations BTW, not the people. I'm sure many soldiers are very nice blokes but I'm sick and tired of the arselicking.)
#63
Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
Oh do please untwist your knickers. If anybody fought for anything it was our grandfathers in the second world war and they didn't run around expecting everyone to kiss their arses - they just did what they did and got on with it. This is as bad as that bloke in the other thread claiming he's single handedly protecting us from terrorists. Well, no.
Nobody made a personal attack, they just pointed out that it was presumptuous of you to speak on behalf of an entire board of people about whom you know little, if anything. I don't see you thanking any firefighters, EMTs or policemen - all of whom put themselves in some degree of risk to help others and they don't have to fly halfway around the world to poke their noses into international affairs to achieve it either ...
(I attack the organisations BTW, not the people. I'm sure many soldiers are very nice blokes but I'm sick and tired of the arselicking.)
Nobody made a personal attack, they just pointed out that it was presumptuous of you to speak on behalf of an entire board of people about whom you know little, if anything. I don't see you thanking any firefighters, EMTs or policemen - all of whom put themselves in some degree of risk to help others and they don't have to fly halfway around the world to poke their noses into international affairs to achieve it either ...
(I attack the organisations BTW, not the people. I'm sure many soldiers are very nice blokes but I'm sick and tired of the arselicking.)
#64
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Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
Nothing's out of control, mate - I'm just pointing out that nobody speaks for me, but me.
#65
Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
I don't care either way, just pointing out why some people thought it was presumptuous to be thankful for everyone on the forum, when a personal thanks alone would have conveyed their message just fine
#66
Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
My comment was not lighthearted, though not demeaning. Somebody projecting their emotional response onto thousands of others, regardless of their own views and feelings, is presumptuous. I say this regardless of the fact that I very much admire what individual service men and women put themselves through. If the poster wishes to thank somebody on behalf of his family and friends, whose views he does know, then that's fine.
#67
Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
My comment was not lighthearted, though not demeaning. Somebody projecting their emotional response onto thousands of others, regardless of their own views and feelings, is presumptuous. I say this regardless of the fact that I very much admire what individual service men and women put themselves through. If the poster wishes to thank somebody on behalf of his family and friends, whose views he does know, then that's fine.
Last edited by Michael; Mar 7th 2012 at 4:02 pm.
#68
Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
I guess we all perceive things differently. I originally took his "thank you from everybody" as just trying to be funny since I didn't think anybody would thank someone for someone else (except maybe their mother) and didn't think he really was thanking him for everybody on BE. So I guess I was the one that took his post the wrong way.
#74
Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
Until today, I'd never actually heard (or technically, read the words of) a talking arsehole (...or several)!
#75
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Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
If you think we're the worst example of such a phenomenon then you're rather lucky ...