flipflop wrote:It's simple, check your inbox and see if there's a pm from me that doesn't have "Re" in front of it.
I'm back on functioning broadband, and it turns out you're absolutely right. I found all the PMs from you, and 2 of them had no antecedent in the box below - where it shows the message that's being answered. These 2 exchanges didn't have any, so I assumed you'd started the exchange following something I'd said on the board. But they all have Re in front. I don't know why if I wrote to you first it doesn't appear in those cases as it does everywhere else. So no, I didn't lie, nor did I intend to mislead, let alone upset or offend you, but I'll take your word that what you say is true. And, as usual, I apologise for getting it wrong.
Perhaps, since we agree that there've been a total of 4 exchanges between us over 5 years, you'll now acknowledge that I'm not hounding you with PMs, not stalking you, and never have been. And as I said once before, an apology for that would be nice, but not expected. (I've long learned that apologising is not in your repertoire - at least when it comes to me; I'm glad you apologised to young Shajuu having monstered him so viciously), however grave the offence given. Of those 4 exchanges, one was, as I mentioned above, to do with my concern over your long absence, and the other 3 were all to do with my attempts to bring some sanity and civility to our forum exchanges, or to ask (following what I thought was sensible advice) why you are so furious with me all the time so I could apologise and try to stop doing it. Which I have done. (Since I can't PM you, I can only say this publicly, but with as much reserve as I can muster in the circumstances.)
So I'd be grateful if you'd withdraw all your allegations of lying, stalking, paranoia and so on. Also of trying to push anyone off the board and of writing "countless whining pms" about you to people (I
have asked for advice as to how to deal with you, as you well know, which is rather different, since I find your vicious posts upsetting, as you also know). As for your many and varied other insults, I don't know why you should think the state of my tits or cunt, the fact that my husband likes sailing and has worked hard to earn the money to be able to buy a yacht, or whether or not I drink Pimms or lemonade, or how many cigarettes I smoke are any business whatsoever of yours. Especially since you claim to be "not interested in one fucking atom about you, your thoughts, anything".
I'd also take particular issue with "done nothing". I would
guess that apart from M-A, I have travelled more widely than any other woman on the board and a good proportion of the men (and yes, I'm older than most, so I've had longer to do it in). You can scoff all you like that in the last few years I've been on two short guided trips to Syria and Iran (among lots of other normal travel), but you conveniently forget that I was (as far as I could tell) the only young single western woman in Esfahan when I lived there for a year when you were barely into primary school (another guess), that I've spent some time in the frontier regions of Pakistan that none of you can go to now, where there was a period when I never saw another woman at all, that I travelled overland all round South America for a year a few years later, that I lived in Nepal when it was still a closed country and holidayed there with Sherpa Tensing among other privileges, that I had to leave Berlin in a hurry at the height of the cold war when my father's job was blown by a certain double agent (though I can't take any credit for either of those) among plenty of other more run-of-the-mill travels. So it's hardly accurate to accuse me of having done nothing.
Since you're so proud of the civility in the forum you moderate, you must be capable of spreading that civility a bit wider and do what I've repeatedly asked: to try to be civil to me and stop being so viciously crude. It really shouldn't be so difficult. Then we could stop arsing around with all this shit. You could start by not always putting the worst possible - and imaginary - interpretation on everything I say.
If you can't or won't, then it's back to the deal, which means either you stop making the sly digs without naming me, or I shall feel free to do the same, and we're back where we started, just without names. Which would be silly.
Shes never interfered with me. I have no complaints about her.
Same here.
Mega ditto.
I met her once and I found her to be a nice lady. Not kookey in any way.
Penta has always been gracious, kind and very sane in all my interactions with her.