The Dangers Of Assumptions

[PeterRS]

On 6/2/2025 at 9:03 PM, Keithambrose said:

The sort of post for which the word 'boring' was invented! Also, seems to me unnecessarily  vindictive.  

You have had a day and an evening to respond to my question -

14 hours ago, PeterRS said:

Oh really? And did you read the original - the full original posts? You mean one was not vindictive or any such similar word against me and my posts? I really do wish to know the difference.

- and no response from you who usually are pretty quick off the mark. But you may well have been busy. Still, I will appreciate knowing why you consider one post vindictive and the original post made by the other party is not? Or perhaps you did you not read the original post?

[PeterRS]

12 hours ago, Lucky said:

Wouldn't this be better handled in a private message to the "offending" party?

Fair point. I did send @bkkmfj2648 a PM response the same day that I first read his post which outlined my views in detail. Naturally PMs are private affairs and I asked that the matter not be dragged into the main forum. Please note I have had absolutely no response from @bkkmfj2648 to that PM which was sent more than five days ago.

[floridarob]

3 hours ago, PeterRS said:

how is my post above "deranged"? And how was my post in the Dangers thread "condescending"? Seriously, I am interested to know. As I have said, I accept all criticism for anything I write. But criticism has to have a reason - and you have made quite aggresssive comments but provided no reasoning.

Trump probably feels the same way.....but now you are beating a dead horse. You're making me feel like George Bush, not the biggest ass on the forum now 🧐

[PeterRS]

1 hour ago, floridarob said:

Trump probably feels the same way.....but now you are beating a dead horse. You're making me feel like George Bush, not the biggest ass on the forum now 🧐

@floridarob you are entitled to your opinion which I know you frequently express. You can also call me an ass or whatever you like. But when someone calls one of my posts "deranged", that poster clearly has a reason for it. In which case he has a duty to explain that reasoning both to me and other members to whom it has been expressed publicly. If he does not, @khaolakguy is merely showing his very distinct cavalier attitude to posting by other members without taking the issues expressed in them anything like seriously. He has covered up his obvious concern at his statement because all he has done is suggest others read the posts. That's just a cop out! Other posters have never used the word "deranged". He just makes himself appear foolish!

This may be a "dead horse" to you. It is not to me!

[Olddaddy]

I wonder why Americans use the word "ass" and not arse ?😳

 

[unicorn]

12 hours ago, floridarob said:

... you are beating a dead horse...

[floridarob]

4 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

I wonder why Americans use the word "ass" and not arse ?😳

 

https://grammarist.com/usage/arse-ass/

Which do you prefer, they slap your old daddy _______________ (fill in the blank)

[PeterRS]

On 6/3/2025 at 1:17 AM, khaolakguy said:

This post is deranged . . . Now this nonsense diatribe! Just nonsense. Delete it!

https://www.gayguides.com/topic/76260-the-dangers-of-colombia/

I note that @khaolakguy still backs off providing any explanation for his use of the word "deranged". His post was also a pitiful attempt to persuade others to read just one thread when my post had specifically - and very importantly - referred to and quoted from two threads, one written in February. His comments were selective and inaccurate, and he chickens out of backing them up.

[PeterRS]

On 6/2/2025 at 9:03 PM, Keithambrose said:

seems to me unnecessarily  vindictive.  

And @Keithambrose is another who has not provided any explanation. Taking all the accurate quotes in my post into account from various posts in various threads, his comment does not stand up. Without an explanation he merely jumps on the bandwagon of criticism. His post then becomes all but worthless.

[floridarob]

4 hours ago, PeterRS said:

His post then becomes all but worthless.

The Irony...STOP!

Even @gayinpattaya knew when to stop 😳

[PeterRS]

4 hours ago, floridarob said:

The Irony...STOP!

Even @gayinpattaya knew when to stop 😳

Now I wonder if even you have read the entire posting history! Somehow I doubt it. After all it is no doubt unfortunate that, as I have made perfectly clear, my post above does not refer back to one particular post. It refers to posts in three separate threads. I would have posted all three prior to my latest but that would have taken up almost an entire page. Quoting verbatim made and still makes sense.

As for the content of my posts, you have every right to put me on ignore and/or submit a complaint to the Moderator. Either or both are fine with me. 

[Keithambrose]

39 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

Now I wonder if even you have read the entire posting history! Somehow I doubt it. After all it is no doubt unfortunate that, as I have made perfectly clear, my post above does not refer back to one particular post. It refers to posts in three separate threads. I would have posted all three prior to my latest but that would have taken up almost an entire page. Quoting verbatim made and still makes sense.

As for the content of my posts, you have every right to put me on ignore and/or submit a complaint to the Moderator. Either or both are fine with me. 

Best thing, as suggested to me by others, is just  ignore your posts. I intend to do so. Life is too short!

[Olddaddy]

6 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

Best thing, as suggested to me by others, is just  ignore your posts. I intend to do so. Life is too short!

How long do you think you have left?😳😳

[Riobard]

“Turn turtle”? Them’s fighting words. Learn something new every day. 

[ToTheCore]

wow.  this thread and the obsession over it by eater peter is absurd and borderline psychotic.

There's another poster writing about certain retiree destinations who won't continue.  And I think there's a cadre of members here who wish he did. 

Everyone, PLEASE reach out to him and encourage him to come back and ignore the utter nonsense of this post. 

I really really hate letting a bully win. 

[PeterRS]

7 hours ago, ToTheCore said:

wow.  this thread and the obsession over it by eater peter is absurd and borderline psychotic.

Another poster who clearly has not read the detailed - and long - history behind my OP. This started, as he no doubt does not recall, with mutually very complimentary posts by myself and @bkkmfj2648 on 18 February, long before the disputed posts in the Dangers of Colombia thread. But then having to go back and read a series of more than ten posts made over more than two months is something clearly most posters contributing above cannot be bothered doing. And it was for that reason that I spelled out the detail in my OP above.

Now adding to "deranged" and "vindictive", we have a poster describing my factual series of events as "psychotic". I think it's time that @ToTheCore got himself to some expert to find out what the word psychotic actually means. I would also remind @ToTheCore of the Board Conditions of Conduct which point out that comments should refer specifically to posts and not to actual posters.

And who informed @ToTheCore that another poster has simply stopped posting as a result of this thread? After all, as @jason1975 already pointed out in that particular thread "maybe because 🥰🥰🥰 with boyfriend? 🤣🤣🤣" Until then he was on his own with not a great deal to do each day. I gave many of his posts 'likes' on that thread and I certainly hope he continues.

@vinapu has rightlly said that matters referred to above should be dealt with by PMs. I agree. So what would @ToTheCore do when a long PM has been sent to the other party on May 28 and that party fails to respond - even by June 2 - indeed even by today? How can an agreement or even just an understanding thereby be reached? 

[vinapu]

Reader and bkkmfj already fell silent, vinapu looks he  is unusually quiet. 

It feels like nuclear bomb hit this forum in recent times

[PeterRS]

26 minutes ago, vinapu said:

Reader and bkkmfj already fell silent, vinapu looks he  is unusually quiet. 

It feels like nuclear bomb hit this forum in recent times

@reader has been almost absent for several months with no apparent reason. One reason @bkkmfj2648 has not posted may be that his bf arrived near the end of last week after many weeks before then when I believe he was on his own and, I believe from his posts, had a lot of spare time. So maybe as jason1975 already pointed out in the Vietnam forum, the lack of posting "maybe because 🥰🥰🥰 with boyfriend? 🤣🤣🤣"

If he has actually been reading the forum and is annoyed with this thread, a response to my PM of 28 May might help clear muddied waters.

And is glass-half-full @vinapu in the best of health? We need his chatty postings! 

[Keithambrose]

6 hours ago, vinapu said:

Reader and bkkmfj already fell silent, vinapu looks he  is unusually quiet. 

It feels like nuclear bomb hit this forum in recent times

Perhaps  they are just bored?

[PeterRS]

40 minutes ago, Keithambrose said:

Perhaps  they are just bored?

Perhaps you can explain of what you suggest @reader might be bored given that he has not posted for months and his basic love, as he has himself explained, was posting cuttings from various media outlets? There has been a lot in the media worth posting here. Hopefully he is in good health.

[vinapu]

1 hour ago, PeterRS said:

Perhaps you can explain of what you suggest @reader might be bored given that he has not posted for months 

Hardly month, not months. His last days of multiposting was Apr 30 and May 1st

[PeterRS]

10 minutes ago, vinapu said:

Hardly month, not months. His last days of multiposting was Apr 30 and May 1st

Apologies. I had only just realised the lack of media excerpts which always seemed to be quite regular. I hope all is well with him.