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"It is best to remember that posters only use spitwads when they have no ammunition, count it a "win" and walk away."

Equating my posts with spitwads and implying that my arguments are without merit is hardly maintaining a neutral, but not entirely unexpected position. By the way, whatever happened to the admonishment about needing thick skin?

“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.” - Harry Truman

I post the "thick skin" speech frequently - and the "spitwad" speech when appropriate. They are both in the Religion Forum guidelines.

You may remember seeing it before. A poster no longer with us often threw spitwads involving white hankies and other imagery, word smithing (e.g. magicsterium) and graphics. Being righteously indignate and/or firing back at him rather than recognizing it as a spitwad, counting a "win" and walking away - encouraged the next spitwad and the next and so on.

The spitwad speech was appropriate back then and considering the "peeping Tom" imagery of post #50, it was appropriate here. But I don't use it as often as the "thick skin" speech.

If there was any substance to the post after the looking in the window of a house part, it was lost on me - just like anything beyond the use of white hankie imagery was lost on me.