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What hate? Quite seriously I think you all need to lighten up just a bit.


Possibly.

But maybe you need to show a little more respect to your fellow posters by not constantly belitting them or filling your posts with vague indirect comments which come across as offensive to their reader.

Anyone who disagrees with me and thinks my assessment is wrong, do feel free to correct me.

I get the feeling you have a chip on your shoulder, manifested by way of subtle remarks which are often times not even related to the subject at hand but raised simply in hopes of aggravating the other poster. Maybe I'm wrong - but it does beg the question: why do I get this feeling in the first place?

I hate to say it, because I'm not a rude person at heart, but the proof is in the pudding. I'm not the only one who thinks you're being rude and nasty to others. Do you mean to say that we're all wrong? That somehow we've all misunderstood every one of your posts? Even if this were the case, and that we're simply misinterpreting your meaning, the fact that that is what we're all doing would suggest you need to adopt a different way of replying here. A lot of times I don't even know what you're talking about but get the eerie feeling that your words are secretly some semi-disguised (and other times blatant) insult. Maybe you don't feel that way, but if quite a few of us do then the problem still exists.

Sometimes we don't mean to be offensive to others but we come across that way regardless. It doesn't matter what our intentions may be but how our feelings are being perceived by others. If I'm rude and ornery and proclaim that nothing's wrong, that I'm in a perfectly good mood, so what if what I say is true? I'm still APPEARING rude and ornery and that's going to be translated by everyone else a certain way.

I'm not saying this to be mean. Just honest.