Goodbye Rune,
Have a good life if you can.
That's just venting. Talking at me instead of with me. That's not a functional conversation. I refuse to be an enabler for your dysfunctional attempt at conversation. And I make it quite clear I don't play the insult contest game. At all.
We are done.
Seeing as how this is the last thing I will ever write to you, I'll just take a moment to expound. Not about what you said, but how you said it. It was disrespectful. You're no longer worth talking to, regardless of political views; it has nothing to do with that. You can't be trusted to offer simple respect. I'll have nothing to do with you. I come here at my pleasure, not for abuse.
It's inappropriate language. It doesn't matter if allowing it keeps forum moderator duties minimal. That doesn't make it right. Having the ability to do something, and watching others do it, does not make a wrong thing right. If we had a president who spoke like that in public, it would be an outrage.
I hope telling me off really did you good, made you feel a lot better, I really do, and I hope that great feeling lasts a lifetime, because that is how long you will now be on my Ignore List. You won't get another chance to post anything I will ever read. As a matter of fact, anything else you've already written to me will go unread as well, so all of that was a total waste of time.
You seriously had to know this would be the result of mouthing off at me like that. I've made no secret of my strict policy concerning internet abuse from the moment I entered this forum. I only talk to people who are polite to me.
And I would also like to invite anyone else who isn't already on my large Ignore List, and wants to tell me off, to please go ahead and do it. I'd rather just get your name on my permanent Ignore List as well, which will save the wasted effort of trying to have an honest dialog when there is no point.
Hey. Some people, you can talk to. Others just want to vent. They come to places like this looking for targets to dump on.
I don't want to waste what precious time I spend here being a target for venting. I want actual functional conversation. Imagine that.
It's sad that I have to be so strict in order to fulfill my purpose here but I have found my rules very effective in creating the experience I enjoy. And I really do enjoy the polite conversations, thanks to so many of you who also appreciate good old manners.
But here's the thing. Anybody can tell me off once. That's on them. If I don't cut it off right then and there, the next time is on me. And worse, a dysfunctional abuser/enabler relationship is then established. Right there, in that moment. I'd be a fool to let that happen. I don't have that in my life and I don't want it. That would be like going backwards. I love my life. I've got it good. I take care of myself. This rule is part of that.
That's the way it has to be. No exceptions. If I allow it, then my rules become meaningless. I have to be true to myself and my rule has to stand for something.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.
I'll leave you with a song.