With all due respect, no face rubbing has occurred. I transferred cb_46's quote into "General Chit-Chat" because there it could be properly chatted, because where cb_46 responded in the "We Are Real Fans" is not a subcategory of "Off-Topic" but a subcategory of "Valentino Rossi" and was the exact kind of chit-chat for which we ( Lux, Tammy, and I, etc.) were chastized as doing. cb_46's response had nothing to do with being "A Real Fan," as she was, true, responding to your comment.

Which leads me back to the post I made in the first place.

We all fall into it, including cb_46!

Just stating a diplomatic response followed by hugs!!!!

Yeah... mea culpa... I addressed what was written in the real fans thread because that was there everyone was making a joke of how fun it is to chat and be off topic. Therefore, her response there... I don't see it as a big deal. Just followed the precendent set by previous posts.

The point of this is that members who have a problem with chatting in threads, can't say anything because that would be construed as chatting?

And all youhad to do was move ALL the comments over to off topic and say that was what you were doing, IF that really was your purpose.

THere are ways and there are ways....

Chatting is back and forth exchange in a thread. One comment isn't chatting.

I'm too tired to chat any further.

The "chat" speaks for itself

Have a good day, Catty

that was the point of the sarcasm.

i wasn't making any point catty, just trying to suggest that may be things aren't that simple.

may be it's not just "peace and war" with peace meaning good things for most and war meaning atrocities and suffering for most and good things for the very few and mean members of some special interest group.

the thing is: the decisions of a government should be taken in the interest of its own population. now if america wouldn't be sucking oil from Iraq, say, may be oil in america would cost more and you'd have less money to spend in everything else.

and i'm not even saying that this is the case.
i was just asking to myself if people who demonstrate in the streets against (iraq or others) war then would be ready to let go anything that would impoverish their lifestyle.


as for the electric car i don't think the technology is so mature to replace the "normal" cars without some not minor drawbacks (perfomances and range in top). but yeah, they should definetely be taken into more consideration and definetely there are lobbies who are strongly against it. yet one day their time will come.

My post was only to ask what was meant and if you thought it was all the troops. Its fun to see how we americans are perceived sometimes.

How I feel about the war pesonally, I don't support it but I do support our troops. Which is entirely different. Our troops are there because its their duty. They are all voluntary and prior to the war alot enlisted but does not mean they signed up for this war. I know personally of what goes on their and what these men face when they come home and believe me all of them would trade the past years with anyone not to have seen and gone through what they had too as well as constantly relive it.

If you want to bag on the decisions made by our government, then I completely agree, but the troops themselves, I do have a hard time handling that because this war has changed their lives as well as their families and they will never be the same again.

That's what I was getting at.

Again, it's about chat in all the right places! Nothing more, nothing less. Certain threads have it and they shouldn't, other threads could carry a bit but they have way too much. Other threads, like this one... who's complaining about the chat here? The title is a warning to anyone who reads it, so if you don't like the chat in this thread, you completely get what you deserve.

I put this in my original post in the real fans thread. There is a difference between advocating no chat ever versus chat in appropriate places.

Actually, the electric car was doing REALLY fine... you should see the doco... I was surprised at how far the technology really has come along. The people who had leased the cars all wanted to keep them, but they couldn't. This is what makes it such a scandal.

Yes, a government should make decisions that benefit a population. Iraq, though, is not benefiting the amercian people... some corporations, yes, the people? No.

And american fuel was some of the cheapest in the world before the Iraqi war. Now we're all paying through the nose... yet the Iraqi oil pumps are churning out oil. WHere's it going? WHy is oil still so expensive?

I understood your point... as it is, we are living in impoverished times... as said, petrol dearer than ever, people knowing soldiers who are coming home maimed, burnt, blind, brain damaged. There is a price being paid for the war. Some are indeed, happy to pay it. Others aren't.

ANd it's not all about Peace and Love versus War. It's about war when what is at stake is so much more important than oil.

No one has a problem with War War 2. There was something at stake on a global scale. The iraqi war... it's just wanking.

hey people, come in chat, let's have a chat!

What would you like to chat about Lux? The fact that this site is turning friendly banter among Rossi fans into a battleground, the fact that everything you say around here is likely to to be jumped on by somebody and taken as a personal affront, the fact that some people need to lighten up and get out in the real world once in a while for a reality check or the fact that some people reading this will be sure I'm referring to them even though I'm just stirring it cos that's what I do....I could go on.....

Or perhaps we could just discuss the weather - whats with that these days?

hey i would but it does not work for me still so i'm on msn

poor jj

helen, actually what happens in chat stays in chat, thank goodness most times!