Fair enough Foxy, but I really think if you stepped back and didn't take Col so seriously, you would see the funny side of it all.

'we certainly don't deliberately try to demean other posters.'

I think that's exactly what CJ does a lot of the time. Talked to daggett lately?

'And please don't
use cheap shots like we belong to the "cafe latte, et cetera
set," that's so lame! '

Foxy that's no cheap shot. I'm actually a lot of those things. I like all those terms the righties use against the lefties, and I tried to use all the ones I could think of.

CJ Morgan,

I'm not here to change the world man, I'm here for entertainment and to stir a few people up, be stirred up and enjoy characters like Col. So sue me. I just don't take this site so seriously as some, I've no interest in all this patting each other on the back and googling for 'studies'.Some posters here really do think they are changing the world and even call it their 'work'. Good for them but I find that quite amusing myself.

Anyway I think you're the champion of 2 line snipes, not that there's anything wrong with that. I just find it strange you would object.

I find the quote 'sequential attacks on established OLO forum users' very interesting. How dare I touch the 'established' users. The high court of OLO is how I thought a few of you see yourselves, and it appears I am correct. There is a certain pecking order here with people striving for kudos and respect. It's part of what I'm interested in messing with on the whole really. Don't fret that I'd worry about being on the outer, I would think you could tell by my antics that, unlike some here I'm not out to impress anyone. Mission accomplished:-)

Dear Houellebecq,

Thanks for explaining things to me from your perspective.
Believe me, I've tried not to take things so seriously as
far as Col is concerned. I've leapt to his defence in the
past, I've even apologised to him, when I thought I was
out of line, I've done everything I could to make him
not view discussions as fields of battle.
But then he goes and says things
like, "Why don't you bugger off back to whatever pesthole
it is you originated from?" to Antonios, whose English is
not that great, and I cringe.

I know that some people are terribly touchy and thin-skinned
on the subject of any criticism, however an intelligent man
like Col could surely handle matters in a different, less
abrasive way. Using shoves, and put-downs will only be met
with anger and an equal reaction. Perhaps that's why Col
doesn't receive sympathy, when he cops it from others -
because he's so seriously out of line himself.

Anyway Houellebecq, I'll try to lighten up, as you and Antonios
have suggested to me. I can't promise that I'll always succeed
but I'll give it my best shot
(depending on Col's next comment).

However, I will try.

That's the best I can do.

Foxy
I've been reviewing some topics and one of Col's more 'colourful' posts is missing...I haven't seen his posts for a while hence my comment the king is dead? holidays perhaps?

Dear examinator,

One of Col's most 'colourful' contributions
(I don't know if that's the one you're
referring to), was the awful comment he
made about that mentally ill person.
Quite a few posters found that comment
offensive.

Col may be on holidays, but it could also
be that he's been 'sin-binned,' by Graham.
Col always said that Graham was the only one
who could tell him how to post. Graham may have
done just that.

Well, I guess this thread has now run its course.
Before I leave however, I'd like to end with two
quotes which I think are appropriate to the subject
of this thread, (it's by way of an apology to
examinator - for having de-railed the thread).

The first quote is by Abraham Lincoln on "patriotism."

"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have
strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every
battlefield and patriot grave,
to every living heart and hearth-stone,
all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus
of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be,
by the better angels of our nature."

John Dryden said it equally well when in "Alexander's Feast,"
he wrote:

"War, he sung, is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble.
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying,
If all the world be worth the winning,
Think, oh think, it worth enjoying."

All The Best,

Cool, Houellebecq. You rattled some of our chains. Congratulations.

Next please.