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Shaman · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Hammertown

It sounds like everyone is out of step but you, Teacher Lindsay. Don't ask questions if you aren't prepared to accept the answers.

Shaman

johnslat · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject: I felt free

Dear Teacher Lindsay,
My opinions are in the mail (PM, that is).
Regards,
John

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Teacher Lindsay--

The fact that you cannot see what is so mean-spirited about this thread says an awful lot about you.

You have singled out one person, based, as stated in one of your follow-up posts, only on a select few of her postings--not even a clear picture. You have stated a negative opinion of her (humourless), and you have asked other posters to agree with you. Like you're trying to get the forum to gang up on her or something. How can you NOT see the mean-spiritedness in those things?

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ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Uh oh. Someone's cranky and needs to take a nap... Rolling Eyes

Teacher Lindsay · Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Luxian, Sichuan

Shaman

Have I rejected any answers?

Johnslat

I have received your PM, thank you.

Denise

Are you suggesting that it is improper for any forum contributor to comment upon the writing style or demeanour or actions of another forum contributor?

Have you seen the threads "Why are there so many old white dudes marrying young chinese", "IN DEFENCE OF WHITJOHN", "In Defence Of Roger In Defence Of Whitjon!", "Who is Victoria?", "Cowboy Pete Sent Me This PM....", et al?

Is650

I always have an afternoon nap.

Cheers

Ludwig · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 12:33 am Post subject:

Well, at least her posts are not taken directly from chain emails.

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

TL--

You have not answered the question. Instead of explaining why you don't think this thread is mean-spirited, you've turned around and questioned me, bringing in half a dozen unrelated threads.

To answer your question: I believe that any thread that negatively singles out another person (regardless of who started is or who it is about) is mean-spirited. Where's the healthy debate? There is none. It's just a one-sided attack.

By mentioning those other threads, are you suggesting that just because others have done it before you, it's OK for you to do it too?

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khmerhit · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 12:59 am Post subject:

Yes we've had quite enough ad hominem posts in the past few weeks (that's Latin, Aramas Surprised

). Do we really need more, Teacher? Not to mention ad feminazi'ems.

But don't you go there girlfriend!

kh

P.S. In case my post about Capergirl being conservative or whatever was misinterpreted, and i see how it might have been (I mean we all get a bit tetchy at times, even the best of us)-- let me be categorically clear: CG is the coolest woman there is. I know, and I aint even met her....

Shaman · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Hammertown

Ludwig · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 1:13 am Post subject:

'Teacher Lindsay', you have quite a habit of this, don't you? I refer the reader, for example, to your 'post' entitled 'One for Ludwig', presumably because I dare employ words of more than one phoneme.

By the way, which part of your TESOL course, exactly, makes you a 'teacher'?

Or perhaps you feel it was those thirty-odd years you spent peddling insurance from door to door.

Teacher Lindsay · Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Luxian, Sichuan

Ludwig

Is it wrong to post a message comprising a joke that someone sent me as an e-mail?

Denise

Is there not a healthy debate underway as to whether certain posts are inappropriate?

khmerhit

Should the forum have a limit as to the number of particularly themed threads?

Shaman

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

TL--

Round and round we go.

Nobody has agreed with you. Several people have spoken up in Capergirl's defense. Do those two facts answer your initial question?

You have not answered the questions posed to you. Why not? You have turned them all around and questioned us. Please be so good as to answer some of the questions addressed to you.

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anthyp · Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 1320 Location: Chicago, IL USA

Not that I like what you're doing here, Teacher Lindsay, indeed I think it is quite mean - spirited, and not at all like you ... but that thread about Ludwig's writing style was kind of funny. I think you all need to take TL a little less seriously - probably the OP was intended as nothing more than a joke, but nobody got it.

Teacher Lindsay · Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Luxian, Sichuan

Denise

Have you answered my initial questions? Should I answer any of your questions before you have answered mine?

anthyp

Yes. On May 2, I wrote:-

James_T_Kirk · Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 357 Location: Ten Forward