Philips:

Honesty is in the eye of the beholder. Of course you are going to label me dishonest. The opposite is too unsettling for you to accept.

Erm, no, it’s not, phanto.

<<Honesty is in the eye of the beholder.>>

You’re thinking of beauty. Dishonesty will often be demonstrable, and I only make the accusation when I can demonstrate it.

<<The opposite is too unsettling for you to accept.>>

And what would this alternate conclusion be? That all your past accusations really do apply to me? Good luck in demonstrating that.

You’re at it again. The amateur psychology and slander, I mean. Although, they’re often the same thing, aren’t they phanto?

<<Dear Foxy,

Don’t feel like you’ve caused anything. No one’s forcing phanto to make strange comments (or forcing me to respond to them), and nor should anyone be expected to foresee them, given how off-the-planet bizarre they can get.>>

Please Foxy, DO NOT, fall for any of these people's postings on this topic. They are both using you for their own advantage, as they see this website as not much more than an a amusement ride at a country show.

You deserve better treatment than that!

There you go, phanto. There’s an actual example of someone using someone else. In this case, to take yet another irrelevant swipe at me because they’re still pissy about how a discussion went for them on a different thread.

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NathanJ,

I have always given you the benefit of the doubt. You have always seemed to me to be such a sincere and thoughtful fellow that I have gone out of my way to brush your attacks off as merely a sign of you being a bit of a sensitive soul. But I’m growing rather tired of it all now.

If you have an issue with any of my claims, then, by all means, challenge me on them. But if you cannot do that, then it does not necessarily follow that my intentions are insincere, and I would challenge you to find an example of any insincerity on my behalf, with an explanation of why what I said or did was indeed insincere, rather than just sitting on the sidelines cowardly sniping at me like a stroppy child.

Grow up.

Thanks NathanJ for your good sense.

It's demeaning when Foxy's polite and reasoned posts are being met with such ignorant and issue-ducking ad hominem rudeness from a psycho troll by "You are a liar".

It's similarly a shame that AJP's patient, well-mannered explanations of what the English language actually means are drawing the same ad hominem rudeness from the same troll.

NathanJ:

It is very patronising of you to think that Foxy is incapable of speaking for herself.

EmperorJulian:

It is also patronising of you to think Foxy needs you help or are you just using the exchange between her an I to vent your spleen about something that may have happened to you. Likewise Philips does not need you to stand up for him either. You sound rather bitter and resentful despite the fact that none of this concerns you.

If you have a problem with me then confront me personally and stop being such a coward.