It is very late here and I am not happy about having to collect my thoughts to write this.
I would remind everyone, yet again, that everyone is entitled to express their opinions and that everyone has total control over their posts.
Some people express their opinions more forcefully than others find comfortable. Some may not be aware that others find the way they express their opinions to be uncomfortable, others revel in the fact that people find their mode of expression uncomfortable and some deliberately set out to discomfort others.
I would have thought that by now most people would be able to recognise these differences and make allowances for personality traits without being ‘instantly’ offended. However, what I find most difficult to understand is why those, who deliberately set out to be provocative, should complain when others respond in kind. “As ye sow so shall ye reap” comes to mind.
Nor do I understand why people have a problem with Authors removing comments that they don’t want on their posts – they are the rules, they have always been the rules and I’m not changing them. Scream all you like about “free speech” – my answer will be “You may have the right to speak – I have the right not to listen.”
I try to run a ‘relaxed’ site. I may seem to make ‘rulings’ on the run, but they are well considered decisions, nonetheless.
I have no intention of allowing this site to deteriorate into the MyT mode of “He said this” and “I said that”. Any further posts that I think fall into that category will be deleted immediately.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Boa, it must also be said that undisguised aggression against another blogger can be unpleasant for both the individual targeted and the reader. Some recent incidents have looked like ambushes.
Time is a great healer.
They do indeed, Janus. However: “why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” 🙂
There’s only one way to deal with an ambush – blast straight through it. Dither in the killing zone and you’re dead.
Good post, Boa, wew should all know the rules by this time.
Spot on Boa.
If you dislike it here then go. Post and be polite. I don’t agree with all posts even some from friends, but I ignore them rather than start a row.
Besides we are all entitled to our opinions (as long as they agree with me 😉 )
Finally as I have said many times, none of us are real anyway, we are all part of the great computer brain, and it is have a breakdown.
I fully agree, Boa.
I don’t come to blogging for contention, so I usually give it a wide berth.
Dammit, seem to have missed it.
Never mind, I expect there will be another one along!
I equally surmise that the probable answer was not 42 and that ‘the only good one was a dead one’!
Going off to spin webs for the day akin to that old spider, better than prozac.
I’m not completely up to speed with recent events, but my garden is looking distinctly better!
Don’t disagree with anything you say, Boadicea.
She’ll be right, all’s beaut at the true blue ettamogah, nought but piss-weak XXXX but they tell me there’s cold gold buried out there somewhere …. in the outback ….near the back of Bourke.
I shall lay a wreath for the fallen wicket and drink a toast to the sand flies while old Lucy sits on me tucker and guards me esky as the Magpies sing along all day long …..Come on Ozzie, come on, come on, Come on Ozzie, come on, come on
Australia Day coming up!!! 🙂
Absolutely right, Boadicea. If you don’t want to read someone’s post, then don’t. It’s quite easy, I find. No need for any “wailing and gnashing of teeth” or breastbeating either.