delirium - you're being ridiculous. Come on! You're taking merlyn to task for:

...for stating that his comments are globally never personal attacks, when a few examples of crossing that line exist. I'm so confident that he was technically correct regarding the coding involved, that I'm not going to try to analyze that.

to me, it sounds like you're whining that you didn't get a lollipop after going to the doctor.

Please let me know where I appear to be whining. After re-reading everything I've posted today, I feel as though I'm being objective and sticking to my one point: Declaring you won't do something and then doing it is committing an untruth.

As I stated in the first post in this thread, heated debate and name calling are humorous, and I enjoy them equally when I am the object of defamation and when some other fool is.

I declare that saying you won't do something, and then doing it is being dishonest, and Merlyn has done that. Given the preference, I would prefer the removal of the declaration of "nothing personal" to changing the habit of yelling at people for whatever reason suits you.

Keep yelling at me, just don't yell at me and say that's not what you're doing.

In reply to Re^6: A modest request of Merlyn by delirium
in thread A modest request of Merlyn by delirium

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