It was a dig (#30), if it pleases you Brian, my reaction is irony and cannae be arsed to explain myself any further.
As for your 12 tear old reference,
your perceptions are your own marra
But not a perception held by a grudge? It's not of course
Yes his comment was a dig but not a personal one. You've set up the sort of thread that always brings optimists and pessimists together and when this happens you get these sort of comments, you know this, don't take it so personally, it happens all the time and happened before smug came to post on here. Don't know if you were on the old 606 but smug did it to people who weren't you way back then. He hasn't got a vendetta against anyone, he's just a pisstaker. He does it to me, on bad days I've snapped, but calmed down and remembered it's just his humor.
Aye, can only say how it looked to me. Just looks like Smug got to you with a nothing comment, you seem quite sensitive and intolerant to him. Smug always bashes pessimists, he likes to wind them up like many do. It's just forum crack.
I think the grudge card was hastily called there that's all. It needlessly adds what is a very unattractive forum atm, one i admit I've contributed to, something I should have handled better and for that I'm not proud of myself.
I remember a time where we could have an argument without grudges, Cest and I clash on opinions all the time, it gets heavy often, we don't accuse each other of grudges, he's a lovely man, I always take an interest in how he and his family are doing. I've clashed with Mackems Rule, Com, Wearside, Billy, Smug, you! All people I don't always agree with but posters I really like, knowing full well i'll probability clash with everyone again.
I think Com's spot on about the divide, To me it's group of people who don't get Smug at all, and another group who do get him. It's f**ing daft it's ripping the forum apart. But for every argument Smug has on here, there's somebody else arguing just as much. It takes two you see.
Can't we just all accept we like heated debate without it all being about the bloody daft blame game. This forum is getting far too political, to the point every thread goes to forum politics, can't get we just get back arguing about normal things? Far too personal on here.