Eric Margolies said:
Man, a guy goes out for a few hours of exercise and comes back to this? Yeesh! Already took a shower after tennis and I feel like I need another. Who is this guy? Been a member since 20003, but I don't really remember him... certainly nothing like this. The "my ticket is punched" talk is just the same ol' same ol' that Doug and Robin used to harp on and thankfully seem to have lightened up a bit (at least in volume of posts), but the outright bigotry? Well, there's still plenty of bigotry on the forums, but this makes me think I'm in Taliban country.... or Uganda.. or as Eric pointed out, Laramie.
Not much else to say. It's sad and disappointing.
Rick
Rick, Eric, Chris, Steve, Mike, John, Clyde, Rich, Robert and all the other good souls:
I'm Mr. Continuity you know. I've never been banned and I read most everything posted in these forums. I have
never seen a post as outrageous and despicable as Tom's "him-her-it" thing. This is an entirely new level of low. I'm literally shocked and embarrassed for the community.
Herb must have missed it - he deleted all of Doug's posts a few months ago for alleged gay bashing and Doug's post was entirely innocuous compared to this:
http://www.astromart.com/forums/viewpost.asp?forum_post_id=756910&poll_id=&news_id=&page=
I can all but guarantee what happens next. Herb shows up and the innocent get whacked along with Tom the troll. Eric is taking the high road as he should. Let's all ignore Tom's hate filled and terribly un-Christian gender baiting. We all know a bigot when we see one. Nothing good can come out of us reemphasizing the obvious truths about Tom.
I'm not sure I'll be back at a computer tomorrow - I've a very busy day. Hope you all have a great Memorial Day weekend with your loved ones.
Jim
