Angel Adams, 37 yrs old with 15 kids and complaining about lack of gov't assistance

[VictorCharlie]

To channel Kirkland

[Gandalf]

TBH, I don't really have any problems with you, VC. I would just like you to not label me a bigot in every thread. I don't hate American people and it is something I get tired of defending myself against. You get the charge again and again, and yet considering all the revelations and degradation of recent years politically, it has been pretty much the only fall back on for some as much of what I have been saying about the bigger picture has been proven correct. On this welfare issue, we clearly disagree, but that is no problem. We are ideologically quite different. I prefer cultures where tipping is not needed and I prefer cultures that offer a competitive basic wage for their workers. It doesn't mean I am a bigot for disagreeing with the American model, it just means I disagree with that model.

The person who does bother me is, Lyle. He parades himself around beyond all bounds. In Klitschko threads he is being absurd and all the while insulting posters left right and centre. He will throw around horrid insults to people on the main boards calling them weird things like 'panty stains', how the Klits would 'bitchslap' posters who criticise the fight. He turns public threads personal with all kinds of savage personal attacks, he jumps into threads randomly just to insult you. All the while he will say that nobody likes you or wants to hear anything you say. And yet he isn't talking about himself?

He will say things like 'you are beyond all redemption'. I mean really, what have I ever done to anybody to deserve that kind of accusation? It makes me sound like Jack the sodding Ripper. And then he will throw around lies such as I can never apologise? It just isn't true as you know and others know. Walrus is a recent case in point and he received a PM in which I said sorry for being rude to him in an attack that was actually instigated by Lyle. Now where are Lyle's apologies for his arrogance, conceitedness and rudeness?

I get on with everyone here. I can be prickly and I do have my points of view, but you don't see me having to put up with this nonsense from other posters to such a degree. Lyle will constantly denigrate my line of work which is work that requires a great deal of experience and study to do well. It has become an obsession with him. I would love to see him come out here and do what I do, to survive in a different culture, to do the work well despite its obvious difficulties. Oh, you are just an English teacher...well, what the heck are you then? I'm giving young adults skills to help them in the workplace, what are you giving people?

Lyle gets a free pass to be as outrageous as he likes and to say what he wants to anyone and I am usually the target. Now if he said the stuff he says to Missy, he would be banned, but because I am an opinionated person, he can say what he wants. Everytime I log in I have to grimace at yet more insults? Most of the time he plays the dawn chorus just to snipe and be a tosser.

There is nothing wrong with having opinions, but does it have to get personal and insulting all the time? And it is all the time.

[VictorCharlie]

I thought you weren't responding to me?

I would just like you to not label me a bigot in every thread. I don't hate
American people and it is something I get tired of defending myself against.

Miles, you clearly don't see how you come across in threads. You have NEVER been here and have almost NO understanding of what Americans are like, our culture, our economy, our government etc. That being said you wade into thread after thread with an uninformed opinion and a hypercritical attitude telling us Americans how terrible and jacked up we are and if only we were as enlightened as you. You ignore the factual information that is provided on the US and dismiss the people who actually live here. If it is about US foreign policy then my often times first hand accounts of things have no bearing b/c of my profession. If it is about domestic issues then due to my cultural brainwashing and inferior education I don't really understand and shouldn't be trusted. Bigotry is defined as 1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed , belief, or opinion that differs from one's own. When it comes to your posts regarding the US I find this pretty spot on. If you don't like this adjective for your posts then maybe you should take a moment of introspection.

On this welfare issue, we clearly disagree, but that is no problem. We are
ideologically quite different. I prefer cultures where tipping is not needed and I prefer cultures that offer a competitive basic wage for their workers. It doesn't mean I am a bigot for disagreeing with the American model, it just means I disagree with that model.

Cultures don't provide comeptitive wages. Employers offer them to people with marketable skills. I prefer a culture that believes in voluntary exchange and not coercement.