(part 2…)
I get the impression that you are going to dodge the point at hand, here. For one thing, you continue to fail to address one particular question that continues to arise. I’m not going to bring it up again. Feel free to pick it up on your own, after all, it is YOUR party. Surely you know what I’m getting at, Ed.
I may not have been around as long as you or most others around here, but I’ve been around the block more than my fair share. Do NOT underestimate my right to speak my mind on this forum because my first Fling experience was at II with my father.
I am not alone, here. I am speaking for many other people when I bring up ideas like scaling back the Fling a little. And how many times have I said, Ed, that none of this is intended as an attack on you.
See, one lesson I’ve learned in my life is that if you say to someone, “Hey I need to talk to you about something,” and they respond with, “I didn’t do it! Why are you blaming me for it!?” then by gosh, they did it.
Why are you so defensive? Hey, maybe the FLING did evolve as you say it did, at OUR hands. So what? We want it back to where it was. If it was OUR opinions that got it to where it is, as you say, then let it be OUR opinions that take it back to where we want it, now. Ed, I’m really struggling with why the group of us standing up and saying, “We want it to be a little different” is eliciting such a defensive and dramatic response from you.
To be sure, my response back is pointed and a little heated. You are questioning my right or my substance by saying my first fling was III, which is wrong, but irrelevant. I don’t have a Sideoiler in my cobra, but I know more about them than Clay Foushee. Sorry Clay, the example just fit the bill.
It doesn’t mean I can’t talk about them.
This is all I have negative to say, Ed. It’s all I’ve EVER had negative to say. It’s all I EVER WILL have anything negative to say if you respect me and others who are just trying to help the good of the cause.
However, if you insist on being disrespectful or trying to take this public discussion offline, I’m going to come right back just like this time.
I like you. I have since I met you. I have no vendetta here. But I’m not going to sit around and get spit on because as timing would have it, I don’t have as much Fling experience as some others.
Respectfully, but with patience thinning already…
JP