Ah, I finally see why Slip Disc thought I was comparing him to Pat Robertson!
On Jan 16, 6:19 pm, Twirlip <[email protected]> wrote: > Although Slip Disc's response to my OP seems like a thoughtless and reflex > one, OK, so I mentioned and criticised him. > I have to make allowance for the context of the tragedy in Haiti. Here I was attempting to make some allowance for the context, in the last few days' terrible news, in order to partially explain and excuse his response. > /If/ I had posted my OP with any intentional reference to that > tragedy - I didn't, it only referred to the smaller tragedy and comedy > of my own life, and I don't see any need to apologise for that - it > would have been the almost the height of bad taste. (Only 'almost'; > for the real thing, you need Pat Robertson.) I thought it was clear that my excuse for SD's response was that IF I had been referring to Haiti (which of course I wasn't), then MY post (the OP of this thread) would have been "almost the height of bad taste". Perhaps the sentence structure was too complex or awkward. I have frequently, and justly, been accused of clumsy and verbose writing, to the point of unreadability, although I can't really see it in this case.
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