My Public Apology!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Ming
Gee... I don't see an apology from MOBIUS.... bummer.

I guess this site will just have to apply the equality that he seems to be demanding...

See Ya Mobius... you are restricted.

You're the one being an ass, Ming.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
The difference was that your thread was obviously in good humor, whereas IR's thread looked like genuine anti-semitism.

Some people didn't think it was obvious at all... and some were very offended by it. I guess everybody didn't get his "experiment"...

[Ming]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
You're the one being an ass, Ming.

Whatever... he's the one that was taking pot shots at the owners... he got the same level of respect he was dishing out. Think what you want.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Ming
Whatever... he's the one that was taking pot shots at the owners... he got the same level of respect he was dishing out. Think what you want.

He dished out the same level of respect he got.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Winston


MOBIUS

No he's not, by any means. You may be able to accuse him of many things, but he is neither a spoilt brat nor expressing anything like megalomania...

[Ming]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
He dished out the same level of respect he got.

I can only assume that the management of this site was so embarrassed by this implied hypocrisy that they felt compelled to wipe out all trace of it...

Yep... he was showing just TONS of respect with that one...

[Winston]

Provost,

Difference of opinion then.

He thought he could outsmart everybody by posting a thread insulting French people and then carry on his eternal crusade against the mods here, while in the proces taking a badly concealed stab at Jewish people and the folks who aren't as antagonistic against Jews and Israel as he is. It's about the only thing he does anymore.

And all he got from it all was the knowledge that somehow, mysteriously, Ming wasn't out golfing on a Saturday...

[Whaleboy]

Oh for heavens sake, some of you people are so full of crap today. The thread was deleted because it was causing offense and upset, not least to me. If it wasn't, if people are robots and don't get offended about everything, then why not have complete free speech here? The reason is that we're not robots, we're people with sensitivities, as much as the male-dominated culture of geeky machismo here would like to deny it.

I explained earlier why people are likely to view it differently. With Mobius's example french joke, if the French had been subject to the holocaust or there were French people who don't want to come online every day and be reminded of such things... then that joke would also have been toast.

Ming

[Ming]

Originally posted by Winston
He thought he could outsmart everybody by posting a thread insulting French people and then carry on his eternal crusade against the mods here, while in the proces taking a badly concealed stab at Jewish people and the folks who aren't as antagonistic against Jews and Israel as he is. It's about the only thing he does anymore.

That actually sums it up pretty well... it's been his SOP for a long time now. If he want's to play his silly games... fine, but he will pay for playing them.

[Sava]

Ming is right

[Heresson]

Mobius, I don't think theres any hypocrisy. If a third of the population of France had been wiped out in the space of less than a decade, or such "jokes" used to literally ruin the lives of Poles for years on end, then you could expect the same reaction to jokes about France or Poland. If members of your family had been tortured and killed, and half a century later your family are still under attack from people using these "jokes" then you can bet that when you grow up, you'd have a bad reaction to it.

Hm, didn't Poles suffer enough during the war?
6mln dead is not enough?

[Nubclear]

Or the nearly 16 million (up to 30 million) civilians killed in Russia? Every nation has their claim to this sort of thing.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Heresson
Hm, didn't Poles suffer enough during the war?
6mln dead is not enough?

It's not a joke about killing poles, it's a joke about their competence (or lack thereof) at the art of war.

[Whaleboy]

Hm, didn't Poles suffer enough during the war?
6mln dead is not enough?

I said the jokes were crossing a line... by your reasoning we wouldn't be allowed to make jokes about Jews at all, which is not what I'm saying.

Also with reference to WWII... the attack on Jews is still ongoing as I know from aforementioned personal experience.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Sava
Ming is right

No one likes a kiss ass.