Quote Originally Posted by morella888 View Post
and Brian - sorry, I know whenever anybody says something negative towards the community at large you take it personally. You shouldn't - a few people received a series of very nasty messages from me around the turn of the year when they made blanket statements about the community, and you in particular are the person I always point at to emphasize the fact when we use these monolithic terms a lot of good people get caught in the net. I have tried to avoid using the c-word and as much as possible, as well as anything that denotes I am pointing fingers at 'all' or even any 'one' in particular. It is possible I slipped up along the way.

Like I said in my msg to you, I like the Jim's crowd, we have fun. I also know that within that crowd there are several who have opinions that never bother to express them at large. But, that group is only one piece of the whole - and as regards this forum, they comprise an even smaller piece as most don't bother weighing in on these things - but they should as those people are actually exactly those who have the experience to make things better and obviously know how to work out differences amicably (over chicken wings preferably).

There is nothing personal in any of this - absolutely zero. Just my observations and suggestions. My opinions. If I had a problem with any one person, they'd have heard it by now in far less polite terms. As I said earlier - you're an absolute sweetheart. If this group was made up of Brian-clones, we would never need to have these discussions.
Brian is great