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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:52 pm    Post subject: Out of line comments here Reply with quote

This is not an aviation topic, but am posting it here as everyone accesses the topic "Civil Aviation" first.

I want everyone to read this.

Just want to say that many of the comments --- and the gradual degeneration of the quality of these comments --- about Indians and the states they come from, their mannerisms, customs and culture, how a particular state sucks, how its nightlife is sickening, how they look, is getting way out of hand.

It's insulting to say the least even if these remarks and comments are not personal at all.

It's time the moderators step in and do what they are meant to do --- moderate.

Lock the threads and warn members.

If members here find what I have said here to be out of line, then would like to say that this may be the last time I am here in this forum.

I also want to say that there are quite a few members who will join me and leave this forum as well.

What many of the members who post these comments seem to lack is an evident pride in this great country even if it has a million faults.

Remember India is India
East, West, North, South.
It's truly a great country.
Whatever its faults may be.
Be proud of it.


Thank you.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh relax. There's plenty of room from everyone from Texdravid to Jaysit on the political spectrum.

Look, this isn't the forum of Indian astrophysicists or the New England Journal of Medicine. This is where we talk airlines, AI, India, and everything else.

It's a place to sit back and laugh your butt off at some of the hilarious comments.

Don't take it so seriously, man. Just have fun and roll with it. This isn't life and death. This is Airliners-India. Very Happy

Don't leave by any means. We need all personalities right here!!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is out of line to one is not out of line to another.

Why is it that people in this world can't grow a thicker skin and look past things they don't like instead of complaining about them?

Obviously the moderators are watching and if they haven't deleted anything then they must feel it is acceptable.

KCM, you provide great content to this board, why not continue that and ignore that which you don't like?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is not about having or growing a thick skin or thicker skin.

And this is not any attempt at judging how popular I am or for that matter any member.

Am here out of sheer love for aviation.

What is shocking is the comments posted here about India ... and the way it's being taken apart, totally insensitive remarks especially directed out certain geographical parts of India that cannot be allowed to be passed or brushed off and that must be challenged in a dignified way.

What is being posted is clearly crude and offensive. And must stop.

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Would also like to say that some of this material can land you in apot of trouble.



Everything cannot be laughed off. Am sorry.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Who mentioned anything about popularity? Who said it should be laughed off? Why does everything have to be politically correct? If you don't like it, don't read it. Just keep scrolling.

People will say what they feel. By forcing them not to type what they feel doesn't change the fact that they feel that way and you create a false image. It would be better if things were talked about and different views heard with healthy debate. I agree that most of the stuff you are talking about should belong in non-av but it should not be censored.

What kind of trouble can it land you in??
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not about being politically correct as well.

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A guest in this forum is the editor of a daily in India.

Was alerted by him about the possible defamatory nature of some of these comments and resultant legal action.

Have you woken up now?

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By just using the word "pariah", which is a legally offensive term and constitutionally banned, in an innocent context, a leading luminary in India almost landed in jail.
Fortunately, the level of discussion here hasn't come up with such terms or descended to such a level.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

KCM, ignore those zone-specific comments! Sometimes we get carried away and write something which we really don't mean!!

Your scoops on AI are irresistable! Don't quit!!!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

karatecatman wrote:
A guest in this forum is the editor of a daily in India.

Was alerted by him about the possible defamatory nature of some of these comments and possible legal action.

Have you woken up now?


It's just a message board where people state their opinions. People make comments about people (of the defamatory type) all over the world without running into legal trouble, why should this board be different? Are they going to waste money chasing someone around the world who uses an anonymous name on a message board?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

karatecatman wrote:

By just using the word "pariah", which is a legally offensive term and constitutionally banned, in an innocent context, a leading luminary in India almost landed in jail.


The word pariah is illegal? What kind of nonsense is that?

Good thing this message board is not based in India!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sammyk wrote:
If you don't like it, don't read it. Just keep scrolling.


I would have, if it was any other comment.

But when my country is being attacked, I can't rest.

Especially when an NRI brigade that has lived off the fat of this land suddenly deems it fit to start attacking and condeming everything here.

Why doesn't this NRI brigade then just cut off all links with this land? Write away its property here and cart away all its belongings?

Don't come back to India.

You will be doing the rest of us true Indians here, a big favour.

Make your comments, but do it in a dignified way.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just got to know that certain members here who are posting these offensive remarks were BANNED from airliners.net for precisely the same reason.

Their comments were deemed racist and offiensive.

Interesting, isn't it?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sammyk wrote:
The word pariah is illegal? What kind of nonsense is that?


This was a part of the High Court judgement

“The caste system of India placed pariahs, also known as Untouchables, very low in society. The word pariah, which we have extended in meaning, came into English from Tamil pa raiyar, the plural of pa raiyan, the caste name, which literally means “(hereditary) drummer” and comes from the word pa rai, the name of a drum used at certain festivals. The word is first recorded in English in 1613. Its use in English and its extension in meaning probably owe much to the long period of British rule in India”.

Calling a person who belongs to the Scheduled Caste by his caste name is an offence under the Prevention of Atrocities Act 1989 . The Tamilnadu government once booked a case against former central minister and Janatha Party president Subramaniam swamy under P.C.R Act when he called the L.T.T.E chief Pirabhakaran as “International Pariah”.

Though our Acts prohibits the derogatory usage of the words such as `pariah’, people in media still continue to use it in a casual manner. They must learn some lessons from countries like America where the Blacks were called once as `nigger’. Now they use `African Americans’ to identify Black people.

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"The use of the word pariah is a constitutional offence and will now entail suitable imprisonment and a fine to those guilty."


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sammyk wrote:
It's just a message board where people state their opinions. People make comments about people (of the defamatory type) all over the world without running into legal trouble, why should this board be different?


Deragatory and offensive comments that offend fellow members here cannot have a place here.

The reason you have given is laughable and definitely not a reason and an excuse to continue this nonsense here.


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May be it's time to get a sense of the Forum on this --- to use that term in the nuclear deal. --- A sense of the house.


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Every public forum generally has the line in fine print asking its members to desist from making insensitive remarks that may be deemed racist or discriminatory for the simple reason that it has the potential of stoking trouble.


Am sure it's in the forum rules here too.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well now we know that we shouldn't use the p-word among fellow Indians.

Thanks for explaining the context within which that word is considered offensive in India.

Although if the Indian legal system, Indian attorneys and Indian law enforcement officers have nothing else to do with their time but to go about enforcing an arcane law against a little-known website frequented by Indian aviation enthusiasts most of whom are <21 and many of whom reside overseas then there's no hope for India.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just as there will be foul smelling people on the plane, there will be people who spew hate and vitriol. I like the open culture of the net and unless a person really gets out of hand there is no reason to censor him/her. Saw no reason to lock the earlier thread which prompted this thread. Whenever a free speech is gagged, we will see people leave en-masse, much more than if there is one or a few people who do not, let's say, stick on the narrow path.

Tex was banned from anet? No wonder I don't see him over there any more...
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VT-NYC wrote:
Saw no reason to lock the earlier thread which prompted this thread.


To be fair, that thread had gone way off topic and was closed the split into a new thread in NonAv where the discussion continued.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey KCM,

I understand your sentiments, but you have to realise that this is an online forum, where people are free to share there thoughts and opinions, just because we dont agree with some doesn't mean we ban them or anyone. Nor should we start leaving. And I really hope that you do not leave this forum.

And as tex and others mentioned, some of the comments do need to be taken lightheartedly.

Being Indians and people of Indian origin we are proud of India and its achievements, but that does not mean we ignore harsh realities and problems. Being politically correct is not a goal of this forum or any forum where honest opinions are desired.

Cheers

PS - I am not a law expert, but I would think that since this forum is not based in India; legal action cannot be taken against this forum. Nor can it be taken against participating foriegn citizens not residing in India. Am I correct?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

KCM does have a point here. Let us avoid nasty remarks against other forum members. We should try to avoid crude language and language that consistently pokes fun at specific part of the country or a particular segment of society . Along with freedom ( of the internet ) comes great responsibility.

But I do recognize that we need to have some fun too. Otherwise we won't be here. Some of the satirical comments are very funny, I must admit. I would only urge the posters to exercise a little more discretion before hitting that "Submit" button. This applies to me too. I will think twice from now on before posting anything.

KCM, please don't leave. We need you here, and we want you to have some fun as well. Your contributions are greatly valued.

Cheers and best wishes to all.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PS - I am not a law expert, but I would think that since this forum is not based in India; legal action cannot be taken against this forum. Nor can it be taken against participating foriegn citizens not residing in India. Am I correct?

Libel and defamation laws, as well as other arcane laws that restrict free speech vary by country. That having been said, application of such laws to the internet is extremely difficult, and law enforcement systems of most democracies will not attempt to enforce such laws on their own volition. Usually you need to have an aggrieved private party who has been slandered, maligned, etc., etc. to launch a law suit. Then you need to have the court review the case and be willing to issue an injunction with respect to the supposed illegal act. Its hard to do in the US, and almost impossible to do in India where the legal system is backed up well into the next century, and perhaps even the one after that.

Also, no one is going to go about screaming Constitutional violations for airing one's views (however obnoxious or ludicrous they may be) or for using a less-than acceptable word on the internet. Such things are done only in places like China and Burma.

As for the Indian authorities, I suspect they have bigger fish to fry than the censure of a site on which a not-too serious discussion on the supposed Aryan-Dravidian divide was posted.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

For your information, karatecatman, I was not banned from A.net. I self-deleted on my own accord. I refuse to be part of a forum that has ANCflyer as a moderator. Talk about a pot calling a kettle black. It is the inmates running the asylum.

Being banned by A.net is a badge of honor is some ways. Look, our guru of Air India, B747, ala Mendis is banned indefintely. Jaysit is banned currently. If it's good enough for Mendis or Jaysit, it's good enough for me.

As for you, you have got to be the most thin-skinned individual I have ever seen. Your comments are so laughable, I rolling on the floor.

Look, as my signature says, I reserve the right to comment/make fun of AI/India all day long. You have the right and absolute right to call me on it, challenge it, debate it, discuss it without crying about it.

I may disagree with Jaysit 99% of the time, but I know he will give as good as he gets. I know I post something he doesn't agree with, he will come back with a strong argument that I respond to. Sure, sometimes we get out of hand, but it's all fun, and many a night I have rolled around laughing at Jaysit v. Texdravid. Believe it or not, this forum will be poorer if he left, as his witticisms, whether you agree or not, are something to read!

You are making a mountain out of a molehill, and you constantly complaining about it only makes you smaller.

As for some "fear" that anything spoken in an internet forum is liable to criminal/legal attention is also being paranoid. I live in the United States and thus my behavior is governed by the laws of the U.S. Being in the U.S. gives me the absolute right to make fun of a political official, India, AI with impunity.

I got many things to worry about. Getting sued for libel by Jayalalitha or Thulusidas or AI is not one of them!!

Go Jet. Go Paramount. Go Air Deccan. Go Kingfisher.

AI sucks. Indian airlines suck. Thulusidas, AI and the entire GOI and the Tamil Nadu government suck.

See, that's not hard is it?

Peace, bro.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another thing, KCM.

In your utopian world, no bad word can be said against Mother India whatsoever. How hilarious!! So according to you, Jayalalitha can cheat, steal, and kill but because she is C.M. she is above criticism.

Similarly, AI runs a terrible service but because it is the national airline, it should not be ridiculed? How hilarious!

As for your anti-NRI rant, this reeks of simple nativist frothing.
Look, I didn't get fat off of India. I got fat off off America. I owe India nothing. I owe my parents and America everything. They helped me in so many ways. What did India do for me, or for my father, by the way?


Despite that, how do you know what I do for India or its poor? Do you have any idea? I don't like to toot my horn on these matters, but because you insist on this anti-NRI tirade, I must say that my largesse has put up a hospital and paid for tuition for many youngsters. But no, you wouldn't know, because you're too busy getting your kicks putting down that AMRIKAN TEXAN, the one who makes fun of your precious Air India and the Indian government.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

texdravid wrote:

Go Jet. Go Paramount. Go Air Deccan. Go Kingfisher.

AI sucks. Indian airlines suck.


Did you mean to say "Indian Airlines sucks"? I hope you are referring to IC and are not bracketing all the airlines in India under the banner "Indian airlines".

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WOW Tex a few massive posts. Even lurve with Jaysit.


Hmmm. Interesting. And I thought you didnt give a rodent's posterior.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:23 am    Post subject: Re: Out of line comments here Reply with quote

karatecatman wrote:
It's time the moderators step in and do what they are meant to do --- moderate.

Lock the threads and warn members.

Hi KCM - as always - moderators are there to help with moderation, but need our members support to contact us as and when they find something going out of hand.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

texdravid wrote:
I self-deleted on my own accord. I refuse to be part of a forum that has ANCflyer as a moderator.



Well, the information is that you were locked out.
And you are the kind of guy or rather doctor or superspecialist who went about bragging by saying that "you anaesthetise your pateints by getting them to smell your armpits." Quote unquote.

What really got my goat is your sweeping generalisations about the city you were once a part of. You have no idea about how it runs and how efficient it is.
The city works and thrives, like the rest of the state.

I wouldn;t have minded what you said but when you brought in caste and creed into it you had to have your mouth sealed.
Discuss such sensitive issues within the four walls of your house, but when you are in a public forum, observe a minimal standard of acceptable behaviour.

You are one of those NRIs who keeps crawling in and out of the city like vermin and then passes strictures about whats right and wrong when you are clearly confused about your own identity and live in a different age.


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In your utopian world, no bad word can be said against Mother India whatsoever. How hilarious!!
Similarly, AI runs a terrible service but because it is the national airline, it should not be ridiculed? How hilarious!

As for your anti-NRI rant, this reeks of simple nativist frothing.
Look, I didn't get fat off of India. I got fat off off America. I owe India nothing.


You seem to have lost track somewhere. No one ever said don't comment.

Say what you want, but in a decent and dignified way. It was just that your language and tone was getting out of hand. Somebody had to point it out and wrap your knuckles.

You were also making specific remarks and comments against a particular community which were not in good taste, and which was also encouraging a few others to join in. It was clearly not funny any more.

I don't want to repost those comments. Revisit those threads and read them again. And don't brush them off as having fun.


I don't care if I am one of the most thin-skinned individuals you have seen, but you are not going to get away with some of your foul-mouthed comments.

There's is a limit to your comments. Don't rub it in and irritate others. We know the faults here.

... guess the same thing applies to you. Your anti-Indian ranting reeks of simple nativist (white American) frothing, as you say you lived off the fat of America.


Be Proud of India.
Accept its faults
Believe in it.

Remember this Tex. For someone so eager to embrace America, you seem to forget that whatever your achievements in the US, you will always be a second class citizen. That's how white anglo-Saxon America is. Indian Americans will always be a fringe community.

Look at what happened after the Anand Jon Alexander episode.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

KCM.....
Let me assure you that this topic is being discussed between the mods & being monitored.

I feel If someone has a different opinion of our Nation,Its for us to correct that view.Although Agree that things going overboard needs to be nipped.

But without debate....Discussion/Forum has no value.

Members should not cross the line,choose their words well & debate the topic.

We value all members & their smallest inputs to this forum & would wish all continue this assocation/debate/discussion for years.

About any NRI who cares a damn for India,theres always many Indians that do the same for them too.

Money isn't everything.Values count too.By sponsoring a poor kid in this country does not make a huge achievement.There are many others that do so,but no one knows.

Many a famous developed nations owe their progress to those very Indians that work there.The same for the many Indians that chose to work back home for the country.

Its We as Indians that will & can make India progress.

Each one has their own opinion.I personally am happy with my country & hope to see it Improve every day.And Im sure it will.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"And you are the kind of guy or rather doctor or superspecialist who went about bragging by saying that "you anaesthetise your pateints by getting them to smell your armpits." Quote unquote. "

That's a good one. Too bad it's completely false. Who did you hear that one from. Well, it's good satire, at least.

It's so obvious from a casual observation of this whole episode that everyone was having fun until you, KCM got involved.

Look, no one insulted you personally or your family or your wife/children. No one insulted you as a Hindu/Christian/Muslim, or whatever you are.

I and many people were discussing AI, India, and the like. Some critical, some funny, some nice. Just like the real world.

You are unfortunately one of many people in India who take legitimate criticism of India and its many institutions as some sort of libelous, traitorous action. I am in perfect position to comment about India. I am not the NRI who last visited India in 1975. I visit every 1.5 years and spend a good deal of time in several Indian states and fly various airlines there. I have a better handle on India than you do of the west and Amrika in particular.

Look at America. There are literally hundreds of books, websites, radio/tv shows that poke fun of, humiliate, denigrate all sorts of government institutions, people and public personalities. There are hundreds of others blindly supporting those above institutions.

I believe that everyone's posts have some value, whether there are funny, satirical, or serious. The line is whether you personally insult a man with an expletive, insult one's religion, etc. That line was never even close to being crossed and you know it. You damn well know it. But yet you insist on this pity party as some aggrieved person against some NRI agitators.

P.S. I, despite my blackness,darkness, foreign name and foreign religion, am a highly respected member of the community. People seek me out for medical care and involve me in out of hospital activities. I go their homes, their functions and in no way am a second class citizen.

Try again with your "white man keeps us Indians down" theme. Indians who come here can become anything they want to be.

I am completely comfortable in my skin, as are thousands of Indian-Americans. We are Americans who have an Indian heritage. How hard is that? Just because you have issues with us is none of ours concern. None whatsoever.

Now, back to your pity party....
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guys, grow up! Stop ranting. We need to stop this diatribe.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You lack comprehension. That's very obvious.

Right in the beginning, -- if you scroll up to the first post --- I made it absolutely clear that even though there was nothing personal in the remarks made by some members, it was getting out of line.

Second, we are getting a bit tired of hearing how many times your wife was groped and how you will not tolerate it, and how you eventually link it up to life and so-called ground reality in India.

If I were you, I'd look at it in a more positive way. That the guy who did it was doing you a favour by pinching and pulling your out-of-shape better half into something recognisable.
You also seem to have been posting that story quite a few times in airliners.net. I remember, as quite a few of us here, that anecdote or story or whatever quite well.


So spare us your whining ... and eventually how America is good and India bad. And spare me the lecture of how you know India and America better than me. It's just that I choose not to show off about my travels around the globe.

Once again you seem to have missed the point --- that you were unnecessarily trying to inflame feelings here. And to use your line --- You damn well know it.

texdravid wrote:

I am completely comfortable in my skin, as are thousands of Indian-Americans.


I should think so. You are a human right? Or are you a moulting insect?


P.S. And maybe you can change your taglines also. Makes you look rather infantile.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"If I were you, I'd look at it in a more positive way. That the guy who did it was doing you a favour by pinching and pulling your out-of-shape better half into something recognisable."

Let it said that YOU, and only YOU were the first and only person to denigrate someone's wife. That is personal and YOU are the first and only person to do it. Thus, you now invite yourself to unrestrained return fire. Maybe by me, maybe by someone else. You opened this new door and now you will have to live with it.

Please take note, I have NEVER mentioned your wife. Never! You will regret your untimely and unfortunate antics.

Whatever points you had about your country being insulted just lost all their meaning. I mean in one hand, you think that the comments have gone too far and now you post something that every decent man would have trouble with...insulting his wife. You broke the very barrier you were complaining was broken down.

I think you just won hypocrite of the year hands down!!!
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tex,

Pl. stop being dramatic like a soap opera.

You should get the award -- for stupidity. You have been the one most stupid enough to post the most salacious details of your personal life --- and then, stupidly enough, link it to Indians.

Talk about discretion.

You have, unfortunately, only reinforced the sad image/caricature of the (South) Indian that we see in most serials and films --- of being stupid.

Checkmate.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

karatecatman wrote:
Discuss such sensitive issues within the four walls of your house, but when you are in a public forum, observe a minimal standard of acceptable behaviour.


karatecatman wrote:
Say what you want, but in a decent and dignified way. It was just that your language and tone was getting out of hand. Somebody had to point it out and wrap your knuckles.


karatecatman wrote:
I don't care if I am one of the most thin-skinned individuals you have seen, but you are not going to get away with some of your foul-mouthed comments.


Who died and left you king? Who are you to dictate what others talk about and where they talk about it? Who are you to define what acceptable behavior is? Sorry, the world does not rotate around your likes and dislikes. If the forum owners find it acceptable (which they appear to) then that is all that is needed.

karatecatman wrote:
If I were you, I'd look at it in a more positive way. That the guy who did it was doing you a favour by pinching and pulling your out-of-shape better half into something recognisable.


Hypocrisy indeed.

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Guys, grow up! Stop ranting. We need to stop this diatribe.

Cheers!


Uh, if you don't like then don't click on the topic.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Huh!! Another (American) pop-up!
The site is crawling with them.


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guys - I'm forced to lock this thread - it's now taking a turn for the worse.

Let's move back to discussing aviation please Cool
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