Ok... so I'm guessing here that something else is behind this discussion and it's really not about bullies and such.....

But..... back in the day..... as kids, we'd have our fistfights and spats over this or that, and in a few weeks or months at most, we;d be back playing with each other like nothing ever happened. Best friends again. 

that was how it was. fight one day, friends the next.  With the kid I referenced, I think we had 2 big fights over the entire time we knew each other. Probably close to 10 years we knew each other. Most of that time however, we were hanging out and having fun. Playing in the woods, riding bikes, building forts in the woods, wrestling without incident, just being boys.

I'm gathering from other threads here that there is something else going on..... I have a good idea what is happening, I've seen it, and while it doesn't bother me one way or the other, perhaps you guys involved will work it out and we can all remain friends. 

I enjoy reading most of the threads posted here. When I feel I have something to add, perhaps a bit of insight, or a comical thought, I will post that. Mostly though, I simply read and if I have nothing worthwhile to add, I simply say nothing. 



On this current page... the coffee house main page...of all the threads here , I have read them all and posted in only 5. 

While I don't spend near the time downstairs as some have I do have a certain perspective on both the CH and this issue of "bullys and gangs".  I don't think I've ever seen or read anyone taken to task, cold shouldered or made to feel in any way unwelcome in any thread for NOT using the nonsensical yet harmless jargon we sometimes use downstairs or for NOT replying to every non-sequitir "fred" that comes down the pike.  In fact, quite the opposite.  As in the thread above while several have disagreed or didn't understand Shad's posts most everyone has shown a willingness to listen and think about his points.  I just don't get either the bullying or gang analogies at all as regards the CH...but that's just me.  I am a dimbulb afterall.  I honestly thought that the CH was created so folks could have a place where they DIDN'T have to be serious or "on topic".  That with very few exceptions almost anything was OK to cuss, discuss and/or joke about.  Did I have that wrong? 

In any case, I'm too stuck in my ways and self-absorbed to go changin now so you're stuck with me just like I am.  Tough titty said the kitty.

And, if we actually DO have gangs I'd like to request that I'm a Jet.
Cause when you're a jet, you're a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dyin day.  I ain't lyin, Hortense.