[HushTX]

There’s no accounting for taste.Wait, wait! That's making it personal!

I felt left out, since everyone else seems to be on that track.

But I'm serious. I have rarely seen as much tasteless, tactless, arrogant and disrespectful verbal vomit as I do on these threads. I want to turn away, but it's like a car wreck. It's so hard not to peek.

[Quix]

There are LOTS of illustrations of LOTS of things on such threads.

The discerning and wise learn more than the undiscerning and unwise.

In most respects, it’s a somewhat intensified subset of normal reality in some contexts on such matters.

I’ve been impressed and encouraged at the discernment many folks FREEPMAIL me with . . . many times, I hadn’t noticed the interesting and perceptive points they articulate from such vigorous exchanges.

I doubt Paul on Mars hill was equal to a British afternoon tea with cup raised and little finger in the air.

Certainly Christ railing at the white-washed tombs, vipers, sons of satan RELIGIOUS RULERS 2000 years ago was not very polite discourse in a lot of respects.

I find vigorous exchanges often more real and candid than things that are layered in umpteen layers of obfuscating, inoffensive wimpy statements and the like.