hard to say, Al.
I am a little despondent, a little bit maimed by the cutting off of that other forum from discussion, and would like to take it up here, but the pansies that bant aren't settling up here, and why should they? They got what they wanted, and any fuss carryover to this forum is just swallow instead of spit, it doesn't work here because the setup isn't made up of their ilk.
You know I don't really have any goal of making this forum less hospitable by creating meaningful discussion here, but that is how they play it, and hey, they do stuff I can't like throw GTG and host community activities, so I understand if you feel obligated to push me out based on a sense of what is owed, all I can do is give people some room for more, uh, outlier process, or perhaps unconventional viewpoints, here in the off topic.
You've been supportive even as you approach me using tentative, language...
and that's fine. I figure if I'm such a dangerous, unapproachable quantity then it's a shame that I can't see it, I don't believe it.
I guess any attempt at producing a fun, exchange of ideas-type debate forum will brand me as starting trouble, and if you think my tender purchase here leaves this forum wanting, then measure me up and I'll abide.
If there's even just a tinkle of unsatisfactory that comes with me being bant here, then hear me out even if those that control the other place seek to control here. Maybe that's really all there is to it, when you get down to it. They don't want me saying anything because they get bad press as a result, I asked for a reason why I was bant and they couldn't give one, maybe that's just because I don't understand people, or that not giving me a reason is the reasoning, or something totally alien to me, being no different than anyone else who likes to communicate and share words on stereo or life or various other topics...
well, I'll let the facepalmers get their kicks, it seems like an invisible army of puddlers are ready to throw down, but be visible enough to debate a topic or whatever, maybe not...
and thanks again, Al. You probably understand everything and just want my inclusion to come with no other negativity but how could it, if there is at work here a cabal of gloating goats, that make up a bigger pile of positive-slant than I could offer, even as we conservative-minded folk keep the wagon circle tight enough, constantly bombarded by political correctness contrary arrows...
doesn't it seem that way, isn't it really like that, I'd like to know if you see it too.