In touch? I received a PM.
Anyway, I've made my opinion of you quite clear, by moving on I was suggesting to stop interacting which is what I will now do, it's up to you whether you carry on with insulting posts about me.
Could you point out where in this post I have insulted you?
By the way. When I called Shona a lush I was not being unkind for the sake of it. Shona probably doesn't know this, but that was a paraphrased quote from Lamberton on his forum. Before she went over there he referred to her as "That lush Shona". Now that is not an exaggeration. That is God's honest truth. If she has any sense she will come away from that forum. Why?
NOTE TO SHONA
Well because
(1) I apologise unreservedly for my joke about her and her pugs. I didn't realise that I had offended her because my post was made in a jokey way. I admit that I was also being sarcastic, just to make her realise that some of the remarks that she had made were offensive as well. But nevertheless I apologise to her here in open forum.
Just as a side note she had sent me pm's telling me that I was a fair moderator and she also said this in open forum if I remember rightly?(2) There is a proverb if I remember it well which goes, "He that walks with the wise man shall be wise. But the companion of fools will be destroyed". The meaning is evident and I think (according to someone who looks at that forum) Shona is becoming increasingly nasty in her posts towards everyone on the forum. Their forum is fueled by hate, hate towards members of this forum and you know this hartley because you have tasted that hate and have been a victim of it. If she remains there much longer she will become like them eventually.
NOTE TO HARTLEY
and lastly. To not avoid conversing with each other is still no solution. But in order to demonstrate that I do respect you I will forget all that has been exchanged between us so far. So that we may both have the opportunity to show respect for one another.
I therefore apologise to you unreservedly and will endeavour not to insult you in any way, or make snide comments about you.Just one more thing. All of us on this forum do not really know one another. We are to all intent and purposes two dimensional images. It is therefore very hard for any of us to convey the times when our comments are meant to be humorous or not.
Moreover, we all of us only reveal part of ourselves to others. And as a consequence we have a distorted view of one another. This is 95 percent of the problem as far as I can see. It's when we have an altercation with another person in a car. We may gesture this and say the other from our insulated little world. Until the other fellow gets out of the car and we realise that he is other 7 foot tall. It's the same in cyberspace. We can all be what we like and nobody really knows what we are really like.
