Foxy,

SR wrote:"Please don't ever concede to mhaze,"

See even your BFF knows you originally conceded that you'd fudged the data, only to deny it later.

Then you wrote a little love note to SR "I noticed you've been posting less on the forum."

Well there's a good reason for that. A few threads ago SR made some wild and utterly stupid claims about Trump that even he, with his usual illogical vitriol, couldn't defend when I challenged him on it. So he did what he's done quite a few times before - he took a sabbatical and waited for that thread to run its course.

Whenever you notice SR not posting its a pretty safe bet he's badly screwed up somewhere and is avoiding scrutiny while waiting for the air to clear.

mhaze,

If you really think highly of the forum as you've
claimed - why don't you stick to adding something
of substance to discussions instead of nit-picking
and indulging in personal attacks? Because when you
do that you have to remember to be perfect yourself
and that's not an easy thing to do for anyone.

This is a discussion forum after all - we all make mistakes,
but why continue to dwell on them. How about pointing out
something that will add something to discussions or at
the very least make people feel better.

Be a voice - not an echo.

Just a few thoughts.

mhaze,

I take it all back.

My apologies, I just lost my cool with a poster
on another thread - so I'm in no position to
give advice to any one else.

I'll now go and sit in the naughty corner.

Mea culpa.

Foxy wrote "This is a discussion forum after all - we all make mistakes, but why continue to dwell on them."

I have a simple policy that I've learnt it best to follow. If someone has a mistake pointed out and they either accept that error occurred or don't dispute the post pointing out the error, that's the end of it.

If they, as you usually do, dispute that error occurred or try to rationalise it away, then I pursue the point. Otherwise the error will continue to be made and usually expanded upon.

"Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end"
Samuel Johnson

mhaze,

Making mistakes is better than faking perfections.

Or as George Bernard Shaw said:

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing".

Or as Albert Einstein stated:

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new".

Or as the old adage tells us:

If you are not making mistakes it means you are not
TRYING hard enough.

There that should do it.

I would never discourage my grand-kids from trying hard
enough.

Dear mhaze,

You write;

“I have a simple policy that I've learnt it best to follow. If someone has a mistake pointed out and they either accept that error occurred or don't dispute the post pointing out the error, that's the end of it.”

What sanctimonious drivel.

Even in this discussion I have shown that Trump is the subject of many more lawsuits than you claimed yet no admission of error from you.

When discussing the Covid statistics you wrongly claimed the Upper Bound Threshold for Excess Deaths was the 'expected number based on previous periods'.

You had made a serious blunder which was clearly displayed to you yet you never admitted your error.

Therefore it is patently clear the 'someone' you refer to can never be yourself.

Go be hypocritical elsewhere old chap, you are boring us here.