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I have a REALLY radical idea! How about NO

Posted: Mar 16, 2010

more name calling, personal insults and the like in response to posts!!!! It is childish, silly and makes it miserable for everyone else here on the board. I get on here some days and scan just the subject lines and am just floored! How about WE ALL grow up and act like adults and refrain from the above. No more responding with one-liners, insults about intelligence or sarcasm just because we disagree with someone else. Frankly, this forum has sunk pretty low due to posts from the majority of the people on here.

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I agree - just me/hmmm

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I frequent the board less and less because of the reasons you stated. It has become more of an argument and name calling board than one where we can get info.

That's because one person's "info" is another person's propaganda. Works bo - Not going to change

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This is not a good place to get "info."

We can still address each other like adults - Colleen

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and just agree to disagree sometimes. It can be done. If it can't, and we are what we are seeing across the country, then none of us have any hope or any real future, because no one is going to get along with this kind of discourse. Maybe it just comes down what our moms taught us-"If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all."

Colleen, I think that everyone is especially testy this ....sm - oldtimer

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week with the healthcare bill finally coming to a vote, the Dems praying they have enough votes to pass something of consequence, the Pubs hoping it will fail.....very ugly all around, and I can only hope that what is passed is not so watered down that the insurance companies benefit further and/or some restrictive language is contested as being unconstitutional. Like I said, everyone is on edge.

But a lot of folks just like to stir the pot then sit back and watch and laugh, too. - SM

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That's more likely the case in most instances here. Someone getting their jollies by riling up the others. That's why I say this is not the place to get "info." The old adage about not discussing politics in polite company predates this board and obviously still holds true. If someone is offended by the "quality" of the discussions here (and I used quality in the loosest sense of that word, obviously), the only sane thing is to stop visiting.

I agree. Just seems like it has been especially - Colleen

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bad lately, like in the last couple of months. I remember at one point posting a cartoon, and not an offensive one, and I was immediately surrounded, called all sorts of names ranging from ignorant, stupid, crazy-it was all over the place.

BTW, I think this bill is worthless if it does not have a public option or something along that line. I hate the idea of starting over as so many people are suffering while we wait, but this bill as I understand it is pretty much pointless. I am getting pretty disgusted with the whole process now so I understand being testy. This has just been going on for awhile and it seems to have picked up steam and has grown into some really out of line hatred. Would like to be able to state an opinion without my intelligence, my values, and in one case, my husband being insulted. Anyway, maybe it will get better.

Me too! Seems sometimes like there is nothing - Colleen

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I can post that does not get an instant insult or being called a name. This board has become nothing more than a place to say horrible things to each other and nothing more. We are ALL guilty of it. Time to grow up.

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