Sorry I'm Off

Anyone interested read the last thread I started.

If anyone else would like their family members linked with ISIS as a joke just ignore it.

 

See ya

 

racist ****.

 

Sorry I thought you were British. My bad

 

I think you need a lay down feller. I fear you may not be actually annoyed at some rather innocuous comments on a forum but rather some external pressures. No other reason to immediately resorting to threatening to "beat the ****" out of someone. I hope whatever the real issue is gets sorted pal! See you after you've had a sleep.

 

Say all these family insults to my face.

I'll meet you in person.

 

Thought I could smell something.

 

Are you mistaking me for someone else? Only I haven't insulted your family once and nor have i said anything even remotely racist.

 

You got aggressive with me for having a diffrent point of view to yours. si thi

 

Proper über-flounce.

Look at me! Look at me!

 

You need to be careful, he has a cousin, you know?

 

All deserters will be shot.

 

I'm chuffing gutted he's not called Kevin

 

I thowt it was a sister Intercontinetia I do believe she was called

 

Good. Get some anger management classes and develop a sense of humor while you're away. Full respect to your cousin John by the way.

 

Grow up JP, it's 2015 ffs.

 

Nothing like blowing a joke comment out of all proportion, chill out man.

 

Hope you've calmed down and hope you come back.

threadstopper had absolutely no intentions of insulting or disrespecting you or any member of your family. He said what he did, not to make you laugh exactly, but to make light of the situation and hopefully make you (and the rest of us) smile. It wasn't a joke at the expense of either you or your cousin, just a (witty) observation on the times we live in, when a western man, who shares a Christian name with your cousin, will travel to Syria and commit such atrocities.

The sheer horror of what has taken place in the middle east since the first gulf war in 1991 is beyond our comprehension. And it's spread, to Europe and America: bombings, flying aircraft in to buildings, gunning down civilians like the latest attack in Paris, mass immigration and people travelling to the middle east to fight, on both sides, or one of the many sides. We could debate all this seriously, and often we do on this very forum. We could spend every second of the day thinking about the nightmare that has been created and deliberating on how to get out of it. If we did, I think we'd all go mad. There's got to be more to life, there's got to be humour and enjoyment, otherwise nothing is worth fighting for. Sometimes you've got to make light of the situation and you've got to tell a joke. IMHO it's our most human and humane characteristic and proves there's more to us as a species than what we see on the news.

That's not to say you should have found the comment funny. We all have a different sense of humour. You didn't have to appreciate it either. No one can tell you what you should and shouldn't like. I would have hoped you could identify the comment as a humorous one, without the intention of offence, but if you didn't, that's OK too. You're allowed to be offended, you're allowed to take offence. But it's not OK to be intentionally abusive and it's certainly not OK to threaten violence. The only reason that the situation in the middle east continues to escalate is because people vow revenge. Both sides. You're against that, yet on here you're acting exactly the same.

There's only you with the power to end this particular spat. You can do it without losing any face and you'll come out of it with a hell of a lot more respect from other forum users than you've got right now. You just say, "Sorry for my comments yesterday, I was way out of line." And that's it, it will be over. You can do that even if you still don't appreciate the comments and by doing so it makes you a better person. You can't stop the war in Syria, none of us can, but you can put an end to this nonsense. Little victories.

 

My God you can't half waffle on Mr Jay

 

Good post Jay, over to you JP