Apology

[Errata]

I owe a profound apology to both Robert and Ally for my conduct in a debate a couple of weeks ago. I prefer to think of myself as someone who can stay pretty level headed no matter the topic, and in this case I failed utterly.

Unfortunately my nastiness and hysteria was a symptom of encephalitis, which went undiagnosed until I collapsed not too long after my last post on the topic. I in fact just got out of the hospital a few hours ago (on the off chance anyone wondered where I disappeared to). However, I have never hidden the fact that I am Bipolar, and I am supposed to be able to spot changes in personality or shifts in emotion in order to control them. So despite the fact that there is a reason I was so poorly behaved, there is no excuse for it. I of all people should have picked up on the fact that I was overly emotional, and I didn't. And again, there is no excuse for that.

I hope that I can still stand behind the core of my opinion while seriously regretting my presentation and attitude.

So Robert and Ally, again I apologize. I had no right to blow up on you at all, and certainly not for expressing an opinion. We have disagreed in the past, and probably will in the future, but I have always looked on both of you with respect for your passion and articulation. I hope that you can accept my sincere regrets for what can only be described as my piss-poor behavior.

[DVV]

I too have to apologize

For having said once "go wank yourself" on boards.
It should have been : "go have a toss" and I am stll ashamed.

[Robert]

No worries on my part, Errata. Bipolarity isn't a very nice illness to have, and that's putting it mildly. Let's just forget it.

As for you, David, you are sentenced to one week of eating British cuisine.

[lynn cates]

no mercy

Hello Robert. What naughty thing must I do to receive such a lovely, er, harsh sentence? Have you no mercy?

Cheers.
LC

[Errata]

No worries on my part, Errata. Bipolarity isn't a very nice illness to have, and that's putting it mildly. Let's just forget it.

As for you, David, you are sentenced to one week of eating British cuisine.

Thank you Robert. I have worked hard for a very long time for my illness to not be a factor, and despite the fact that this time it was Encephalitis (which I can assure you is even less pleasant in the short term) the fact that all my years of training to notice these very changes just took a vacation is not okay. I appreciate your generosity.

[Roy Corduroy]

Hoping you get well soon, Errata

What naughty thing must I do to receive such a lovely, er, harsh sentence?

You could say "lad" again

Your ob serv,

Roy Lee III

[DVV]

Aaaarfff !!

[Robert]

Don't worry about it, Errata. I hope you're feeling better now.

Lynn, if you were ever naughty I would sentence you to buy a round of drinks.

[lynn cates]

Even if they DO say, "Jehovah."

Hello Roy. Thanks, lad.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

no fun

Hello Robert.

"Lynn, if you were ever naughty I would sentence you to buy a round of drinks."

You are no fun at all. (Darjeeling OK?)

Cheers.
LC

[Stephen Thomas]

I owe a profound apology to both Robert and Ally for my conduct in a debate a couple of weeks ago. I prefer to think of myself as someone who can stay pretty level headed no matter the topic, and in this case I failed utterly.

Hi Errata

You owe nobody an apology, let alone a 'profound' apology. I'm a big fan of Ally and also Robert, but in that argument you were right from start to finish.

Adults should not beat children.

[c.d.]

I can't help but feel somewhat responsible for all this since I was the one that started the thread. I swear to you that I never expected that a discussion on France banning ketchup would get so heated. My money was on the U.K. porn star thread.

I guess the moral of the story is that we should be glad we live in free countries where one is entitled to speak his or her mind and others, if they are so inclined, are entitled to tell the speaker to go pack sand up their ass. That is as it should be.

Errata, I thought your apology showed a lot of class. We would all do well to lighten up a little bit sometimes. Stay well.

c.d.

[Errata]

I can't help but feel somewhat responsible for all this since I was the one that started the thread. I swear to you that I never expected that a discussion on France banning ketchup would get so heated. My money was on the U.K. porn star thread.

c.d.

You certainly do not control the tangents of threads, and you certainly didn't give me Encephalitis (that honor goes to the x-ray tech who gave me a steroid injection in my lumbar spine and missed just a little). I don't even have the benefit of reacting out of a genuine emotional state which might be valid in a debate. It was an infection. Two weeks of antibiotics later, and I can't even figure out why I got so worked up. That's just embarrassing. Like drunk dialing.

[Stephen Thomas]

You Say Potarto

I swear to you that I never expected that a discussion on France banning ketchup would get so heated.

Yes that was quite a swivel, but here's a ketchup story.

I'm English and over here we call it 'tomato sauce'

In 1968 I found myself in Greenwich Village in New York and decided to try a 'hot dog' which was a totally unknown gastronomic delicacy in England back then. The young lady on the street stall (who was quite a babe if I remember rightly) asked if I wanted onions and I said 'Yes please' and then she asked if I wanted mustard and I said 'Yes, please and could I have some tomato sauce' At that, the said lady froze and gave me a very astonished look, then stepped back and said in a very loud voice 'Eeeeeeeooooh, could I have some tomarrrrrrto sauce' and nearby stallholders started repeating what she'd said.

[K-453]

This apology belongs into the category "Look-how-grown-up-and-reasonable-I-am!".