01-09-2009, 11:18 PM
Dawn Meredith Wrote:Since I seem to have "started" this mess with my post to Paul I want to take this opportunity to apologise to him again. For the name calling. It is totally unlike me. I took offense at him putting down Bob Groden who has sacrificed so much for this case. I have known Bob dating back to the mid 70's and he is NO Gary Mack. Mack sold out.
I don't know where Seamus has emerged from but telling CD to "get fucked" is off limits. And the posts themselves are far from educational in value. They are more like crass attempts at turning DPF into a slime party.
Please cease and desist.
Dawn
That's very gracious of you, Dawn, but really, there's no need for any apology. You had a strong view and expressed it forthrightly; and that's that. No offence was taken. Having watched half a dozen derbies from the Kop wearing a blue and white scarf, I rather suspect I've heard it all by way of insults.
On the more general point of such vigorous exchanges, I can only observe that it would be a damn dull website which didn't enjoy occasional flashes of passionate disagreement. After all, we come at the gloriously diverse topics abroad here from very different angles, and with sometimes profoundly irreconcilable conceptions of what is, and isn't, true and/or pertinent. So be it. The real tests remain - what are our grounds for holding the views we do? Do they constitute a coherence; and can they withstand scrutiny?
Paul