Recent Happenings Discussion

Darce · Post by **Darce** » July 18th, 2007, 10:34 pm

We're cleanin up this here town

Post by **limecat** » July 18th, 2007, 10:36 pm

Having talked to Bitter about this via email, I'm happy to put it down to a misunderstanding and to remove the ban.

Thanks for mediating, McCloud.

Slipper1 · Post by **Slipper1** » July 18th, 2007, 10:37 pm

limecat wrote:Having talked to Bitter about this via email, I'm happy to put it down to a misunderstanding and to remove the ban.

Thanks for mediating, McCloud.

Pah! when are you next up for election

Bitter As a Lemon · Post by **Bitter As a Lemon** » July 18th, 2007, 10:41 pm

Thanx Limecat......I only hope that the posters here heed your warnings. Not a nice way to re-pay someone for volunteering to bring them a place to voice their opinions and get the latest news, with a bit of craic to boot.
Keep up the good work, and hope to see you in Cork and Dublin for a beer or thirteen.

Dave Cahill · Post by **Dave Cahill** » July 18th, 2007, 10:43 pm

Bitter As a Lemon wrote:Thanx Limecat......I only hope that the posters here heed your warnings. Not a nice way to re-pay someone for volunteering to bring them a place to voice their opinions and get the latest news, with a bit of craic to boot.
Keep up the good work, and hope to see you in Cork and Dublin for a beer or thirteen.

Ban him!!!!

Post by **limecat** » July 18th, 2007, 10:46 pm

Bitter As a Lemon wrote:Thanx Limecat......I only hope that the posters here heed your warnings. Not a nice way to re-pay someone for volunteering to bring them a place to voice their opinions and get the latest news, with a bit of craic to boot.
Keep up the good work, and hope to see you in Cork and Dublin for a beer or thirteen.

Damn...he's discovered my one weakness...beer

Dave Cahill · Post by **Dave Cahill** » July 18th, 2007, 10:48 pm

limecat wrote:
Bitter As a Lemon wrote:Thanx Limecat......I only hope that the posters here heed your warnings. Not a nice way to re-pay someone for volunteering to bring them a place to voice their opinions and get the latest news, with a bit of craic to boot.
Keep up the good work, and hope to see you in Cork and Dublin for a beer or thirteen.
Damn...he's discovered my one weakness...beer

And pieces of string dragged slowly

Post by **limecat** » July 18th, 2007, 10:49 pm

Dave Cahill wrote:
limecat wrote:
Bitter As a Lemon wrote:Thanx Limecat......I only hope that the posters here heed your warnings. Not a nice way to re-pay someone for volunteering to bring them a place to voice their opinions and get the latest news, with a bit of craic to boot.
Keep up the good work, and hope to see you in Cork and Dublin for a beer or thirteen.
Damn...he's discovered my one weakness...beer
And pieces of string dragged slowly

harryp · Post by **harryp** » July 18th, 2007, 11:40 pm

Well done LC.

Tara · Post by **Tara** » July 18th, 2007, 11:49 pm

combatlogo wrote:
Witchfinder general wrote:what i think would really help is if certain individuals grew up and realised that for most of us leinsterfans is a valued source of news chat etc and that abusing it and pi**ing off the people who run it on a voluntary basis is neither big or clever.
Not to mention the piss poor impression it gives to casual or new users.

At the end of the day what we all need to bear in mind is that what we're dealing with here is a couple of people who value drama over friendship. The overwhelming majority of people who post on this site are entertaining and engaging and have no axe to grind, in addition to which there is a whelmed minority of one who manages to engagingly and entertainingly grind his axe.

The one aspect of recent happenings that has really bugged me is the concept that anyone who engages in debate with troublemakers is tarred with their brush and dragged down to their level. It's the classic liberal dilemma that if all arguments are equal, all arguments have equal merit which is, not too put too fine a point on it, BS.

This site is bigger and better than each of us (with the exception of Duff Paddy), but no better than all of us combined (although for the avoidance of doubt it should be noted that it is still not better than Duff, unless of course he is here in which case it presumably must be, unless of course the presence of others diminishes it). We don't need to all get along, but if we want to be nasty, we don't need to share that with the world.

epaddy · Post by **epaddy** » July 19th, 2007, 12:04 am

Can you be entertaining and engaging with an axe to grind?

Tara · Post by **Tara** » July 19th, 2007, 12:08 am

epaddy wrote:Can you be entertaining and engaging with an axe to grind?

You can eeps, but only you.

epaddy · Post by **epaddy** » July 19th, 2007, 12:09 am

Tara wrote:
epaddy wrote:Can you be entertaining and engaging with an axe to grind?
You can eeps, but only you.

Duff is going to be so upset.

Tara · Post by **Tara** » July 19th, 2007, 12:10 am

epaddy wrote:
Tara wrote:
epaddy wrote:Can you be entertaining and engaging with an axe to grind?
You can eeps, but only you.
Duff is going to be so upset.

Umm, he made me say this?

sarah_lennon · Post by **sarah_lennon** » July 19th, 2007, 9:32 am

Tara wrote:
combatlogo wrote:
Witchfinder general wrote:what i think would really help is if certain individuals grew up and realised that for most of us leinsterfans is a valued source of news chat etc and that abusing it and pi**ing off the people who run it on a voluntary basis is neither big or clever.
Not to mention the piss poor impression it gives to casual or new users.

At the end of the day what we all need to bear in mind is that what we're dealing with here is a couple of people who value drama over friendship. The overwhelming majority of people who post on this site are entertaining and engaging and have no axe to grind.

The one aspect of recent happenings that has really bugged me is the concept that anyone who engages in debate with troublemakers is tarred with their brush and dragged down to their level. It's the classic liberal dilemma that if all arguments are equal, all arguments have equal merit which is, not too put too fine a point on it, BS.

This site is bigger and better than each of us, but no better than all of us combined. We don't need to all get along, but if we want to be nasty, we don't need to share that with the world.

Preach sister!

Duff Paddy · Post by **Duff Paddy** » July 19th, 2007, 6:56 pm

Tara wrote:This site is bigger and better than each of us,

speak for yourself

Tara · Post by **Tara** » July 19th, 2007, 10:10 pm

Having received a number of complaints I have edited my post of yesterday evening to emend the passages which unintentionally caused offence to a couple of prominent posters.

Post by **limecat** » July 19th, 2007, 11:41 pm

Tara wrote:Having received a number of complaints I have edited my post of yesterday evening to emend the passages which unintentionally caused offence to a couple of prominent posters.

rekolb · Post by **rekolb** » July 20th, 2007, 4:25 pm

limecat wrote:
Tara wrote:Having received a number of complaints I have edited my post of yesterday evening to emend the passages which unintentionally caused offence to a couple of prominent posters.

This love-in bores me...

BlueBlue · Post by **BlueBlue** » July 23rd, 2007, 12:14 pm

good call