I wrote a couple of comments in a thread about the economic collapse, started by mimiboo... This morning I received a couple of emails from kind and warm-hearted POLers who wanted "to apologize for that awful behavior on the economic collapse thread" and "encourage you not to let it bother you", as well as explaining "that narrow-mindedness is not typical of all Americans" which I know very well. Thnk you so much for your kindness!

But hey, the thread had disappeared! I did not have a chance to read the nasty stuff and insults that were thrown at me!

Don't worry about me, I am very well aware that we are all individuals regardless where we come from. And I am wearing a flame-proof suit!

no, no -- it's still there, thanks to our moderators who deserve a lot of credit for their conservative approach on this one. Look up -- it's called Why Are We Doing THings Differently or something like that.

Yes, it's still there. And my In box has been flooded with equally kind and warm-hearted POLers who thanked me for what I said, for which I'm also grateful.


Mods, perhaps this topic should be merged with the post in question, since it wasn't, in fact, deleted?



Mary

Oh it was there all right! Thanks! Like mimiboo said "I find the over reaction to this thread bizarrely amusing and actually quite ridiculous" and I must agree. It was in a way amusing to see how people did not listen to what was said, did not want to understand what someone else was saying, fanning the flames by themself and revealing how over-sensitive they were.

Now you can delete this thread.

LOL

Actually, allure, I don't think there's a lot of oversensitivity. Tone is difficult to convey in writing, and people reacted to the perceived tone as much as to what was said.

...and they ended up like a flock of cackling hen. End of discussion for my part.

LOL (sorry, there was no cackle icon)

Good points, Ms. Deev

You know what they say - birds of a feather flock together.

Might be a wise idea.

Most excellent idea

What is freedom of expression?

Without the freedom to offend it ceases to exist.

Sir Salman Rushdie

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
~~John Viscount Morley

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."

- Mr. Ed aka Sir Edmund Equus

'I like to boogie.'

Marc Bolan

"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Robert Duvall as LtCol Bill Kilgore

"NOTHING is over until we say it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no, and it ain't over now!"
~~John Blutarski (John Belushi), Animal House

'It's only words
and words are all I have
to take your heart away'

The Bee Gees

"We'll always have Paris."

2008 Tabloids

oops, I meant

Humphrey Bogart as Rick in 'Casablanca'

"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Smell my finger!"
- Altodiva

"Okay!"
- besotted

I'd like to agree with this, but it might upset my karmic balance.

"What the?" -

Rufus aka A No-Nothing

"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart."

...Anne Frank


(Unfortunately, I don't believe that, and I doubt that had she lived, Anne would either... )

I KNOW it will upset mine, so I won't agree with it!

That's very, very sad ... I guess I believe that good people are really good at heart - not all people

Reality proved her wrong.. intelligent and honest she would have lost her faith in humanity, had she lived.

" Hell is other people"


Sartre

Can't resist. Sorry.

"Hell is for children" ~~Pat Benatar

Marriage is a chief cause of divorce .


Groucho Max

LOL Oh I love that one.

"The important question is, how many hands have I shaked".


George Bush

"Marriage makes for strange bedfellows."

Here's my quote:

"Leo, I think I just fell in love with you."

Ellennyc

I thought this said, "I like to Boggle."