t natter Offering pillow and head pats for Betsy t /natter

Caroma--I remember it well. You are clearly in the minority politically on this board, but I am always glad to hear a different opinion--and kudos to you for sticking up for yourself in a place where the numbers are against you. (I occaisionally post on a board where I am in a minority myself, so I know how it feels.). I don't agree with you politically, but I certainly respect your views--I don't agree with specific Buffiistas on many things, from religion to culture--and thank god for that! When things go from dealing with ideas and opinions to personality is where it gets problematic. It felt like that's what happened with this discussion and that was uncomfortable for me, at least.

the only thing I miss are the wonderful Emmett stories. Hope the little guy's doing well.

Yup. His front two teeth are coming in. He wants to see TTT again. He's bummed that Christmas break is over (he spent most of it bouncing balls, building castles with his blocks or swordfighting me with his plastic LoTR Sting sword and whacking my knuckles).

FWIW, I enjoy your posts (so smart and lively) but wasn't comfortable with that particular exchange in Natter. But I didn't think you needed to absent yourself. Sometimes folks get testy and snappish even in bucolic Buffistaland. Fortunately, people tend to voluntarily back away rather than escalate such frictions. That's our culture. But I'm always glad to see your posts.

I think this poster didn't mean to post this in Natter, the post is duplicated in the show thread. Maybe someone can delete it...

ZoieFinch "Natter 6: We're wearing the cheese RIGHT NOW!!" Jan 2, 2003 8:42:40 pm EST

Caroma, watch & post wouldn't be the same without you.

I'd leave it Laura... to my read there's nothing spoilery for anyone who's seen the latter half of Angel season 3 (most UnAmericans are past that point now, right?), and ZoieFinch has been pointed to the NAFDA thread for further discussion of the topic.

Laura, was it spoilery, or just misplaced. If it's spoilery, I can white-font, but I'd rather not delete. You could just ask Zoie to do it.

I wanted to weigh in on the differing opinion discussion. I have a hard time believing that the Buffistas would ever ban someone for a differing opinion. If so, I would have been banned a couple of times. I've learned some of my hot buttons and do avoid certain topics because of it, but that's what I need to do. For goodness sakes, we have more than 600 registered users on this board. If we all agreed, this would be an extremely boring place. So, anyway, I've read both hashes of this discussion...both here and at WX. I think the Buffistas are one of, if not the, most conscientious and fair communities on-line. I think that the events of this week have proven that we'll stay that way for a very long time.

I wasn't sure where unAmericans were with Angel. Just being cautious.

We've just had an exhausting and draining fight. I don't want to try to change anything else right now. I just want to rest for awhile.

I'm with Betsy.