On 7/17/2015 10:28 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:55:38 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>

>>>
>> You forget I'm not Welsh. ;-)
>
> I'll tell my friend Pete - who is - that you said that. ;)
>

Then he will know what I mean and he can pass the reply to you.


>>
>> Snow is bad but cold, wet and windy can make life miserable too.
>
> True, I had enough of that.  Cold doesn't actually really happen here,
> either, though.
>

Go away, then.. :-P


>> I understand. Sometimes it is just too inconvenient to do the green
>> thing.
>
> Or at least too inconvenient to plan to do the green thing.
>

Surely you can plan when to plan. Remember it is better to plant green 
things by the light of a new moon.



>
> Heh.  I've had similar accusations leveled at me.  I moderate a closed
> political discussion group, and while I tend to be fairly "left", it's
> always interesting when a right-winger gets out of line and I put my
> moderator hat on and moderate (because we don't want "food fight"
> political discussions, we want "civil" discussions - comes from the group
> name), and I have been accused of being authoritarian and of abusing my
> moderator power by some whom I've moderated.
>
> Except I moderate people whose politics I more closely align with just as
> much.  Because when it comes down to it, when you call someone a
> shithead, it doesn't matter what political persuasion you are, it's not a
> *civil* debating tactic, and whether I agree with your politics or not,
> when I'm moderating, I'm going to moderate.
>

Yeah! moderating can be a thankless task.


-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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