Vox Humana wrote:
"zxcvbob" wrote in message
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Vox Humana wrote:

"paghat" wrote in message
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In article , zxcvbob

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Doug, Vox, et al,
Could y'all go masturbate somewhere else? Maybe take it to email or
something. This group is supposed to be about gardening.

Regards,
Bob

Bushes are garden plants & loony rightwingers have vegetables where the
rest of us have brains, so it IS all about gardens.

But you don't like a measily one off-topic thread, don't read it. Your
kvetching about it is doubly off-topic -- being off-topic for the
off-topic.



I suspect that the problems isn't so much that it is an off-topic thread

as

much as that it isn't flattering to organized religion. Bob accused me

of

lying about the percentage of priests that were gay a few months ago.

When

I posted a link to a study conducted by a faculty member at Johns

Hopkins

University that supported my assertion, not so much as a "sorry" was

posted.

http://tinyurl.com/46thx
http://tinyurl.com/532dy


Interestingly, Bob found it just fine to post a message about his

fondness

for Fox News to Rec.Food.Cooking just last week - sounds off-topic to

me.

http://tinyurl.com/5b96p

And a message about how Germany was "screwed" prior to WWII - to
Rec.food.cooking
http://tinyurl.com/3mzqj

And a message about how USA today declined to print a column by Ann
Coulter - to Rec.food.cooking
http://tinyurl.com/6998o

Now, I'm not saying that Bob shouldn't have posted the messages. I just
find it interesting that he has a problem with others posting to

off-topic

threads here while he posts to off-topic threads on other news groups.




This Bush thread has been going on for days and has accounted for about
half the messages in this group lately. Doncha think that's enough?


Actually, 28% of the messages ... but I don't keep track unless someone
brings up the subject. I don't think the length or longevity of the thread
is of any consequence. I read and post to threads that interest me, and
skip the rest.



In each the above examples, I posted one or two messages in an
existing off-topic discussion thread.


It was a quick search, not an exhaustive one. I don't care if you post
hundreds of messages to off-topic threads all across Usenet. I just don't
think you can be critical of posting to off-topic threads when you do it
yourself. I do think that you are more likely to confront posters who
disagree with your political point of view.

I'm not saying that's a *good*

thing, but I hardly see how it compares to you and Doug saying pretty
much the same rants over and over and over and over and monopolizing the
group.


I'm not monopolizing the group. I don't have that kind of power. I have
responded to messages posted by others. I guess I crossed some invisible
line or something! Somehow I bet that line wouldn't have materialized had I
been advancing the RNC point of view.


Get a room or something.


Consider skipping threads that don't interest you.




I skipped this for a couple of days, then checked to see what y'all were
still yakking about.

"Somehow I bet that line wouldn't have materialized had I been advancing
the RNC point of view." I think it would have. I don't *care* what
your politics are. I also don't care about your sexuality or your
religion (and I don't want to hear about them). I am concerned about
your anti-religious bigotry. I would much rather be able to respect
your opinion on gardening or cooking or whatever, but I have more
respect now for Sheldon. I don't like Sheldon, but at least he is just
base and offensive, he doesn't try to feign this smug superiority like you.
Even your examples of my off-topic posts were distorted and dishonest.
I didn't remember posting anything about Ann Coulter, so I went back and
looked it up; I didn't say anything about AC, I tried to referee an
argument that was breaking out in an off-topic thread started by your
buddy Nancree. In the message about Fox News, I said (in a thread that
someone else started) that I like them but don't trust them as a single
source of news. If you were really looking for an example of my
off-topic posts, you would have mentioned my "A shot rang oujt" post to
r.f.c., but that one doesn't help you marginalize me so you skipped it.

This is my last post in this thread for a while. Hopefully it will die
out soon; I don't really wanna contribute to keeping it going any more
than I have to. Some things just have to be confronted, and your
extended offensive off-topic tirade was one of 'em.

Regards,
Bob