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Old Mon Dec 11, 2006, 01:34pm
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Originally Posted by Old School
Yes, I read them and I thought they where very good points. However, you choose to insult me rather than focus on the issue. My grandmother once told me, if you got nothing good to say, then don't say nothing at all. You should consider my grandmothers thoughts. What my grandmother really meant was it is best to remain silent and not create an enemy.

Maybe one day, if lucky, you will get to be a grandmother.

Peace
And talking about your grandmother is supposed to help me focus on the issue?

Okay, here's the issue. You asked how to handle a disagreement with a partner. You prescribed how you would do it, and think others should do the same. Several people have told you that that's not what the book says, and that's not even how it's handled in most of the country, but you keep insisting you know what's best. You keep asking questions that others keep answering, and then you are not answering the questions that people keep asking you. The issue has been focused on, answered and repeated, again and again.

Part of "the issue" is your authority to insist that you're right and everyone else is wrong. Where do you get your authority? What book citations can you give for your position? What kind of ball do you work? WHat associations do you belong to? I am having a hard time focusing on the issue of your disagreements with JR and others, because I'm having a hard time keeping you as a referee in focus. You could help with that. What are your reffing credentials?

btw, I am a grandmother. And I do indeed feel fortunate. I was lucky to be a mother at all, because of some physical difficulties, and now I'm a Nonna. Way, way past lucky.
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