You are one of the most knowledgeable,educated and reasonable posters on this board. You have achieved great respect. But, if I may outline my problem with you so other readers can follow:
Note that I’m not pitting Contrapuntal. He’s been caught so many times with a serious lack of reading comprehension that any pitting would be clearly hopeless. But you are completely different.
So why did you have to add “hopefully” to the above statement? Are you impugning my honesty? That is the only reasonable conclusion that I can draw. If so, than I challenge you to come up with reasonable evidence to support your suspicion. Due to your high reputation, your words carry great weight. A righteous man of that calibre should hold himself to a higher standard of conduct when publicly judging others. I on the other hand can not afford to carry any unwarranted bad reputation that will undermine the effectiveness of my efforts around here.
I would have interpreted it as Tamerlane saying that it wasn’t completely clear to him, either, if the cat was given away or killed.
I know that we each carefully consider each word and nuance rigorously, but, ya know, sometimes, when you’re scanning through a thread, you may miss a detail or two.
So Contrapuntal is the one who posted that you killed the cat. Tamerlane corrected that, with a qualification based on his reading of your post. Contrapuntal apologized base on Tamerlane’s correction.
What’s the point of this thread? Why couldn’t this have been in the original thread?
Your efforts at what–being an ass? And can we get a link here for those of us who haven’t been following you around the board? (on preview I see that there is someone taking up your slack, Dutch.)
I agree with wring, that **Tamerlane ** was not clear one what you meant about getting rid of the cat who so dishonored you and he was hopeful that you meant you had re-homed it rather than killing it for having the audacity to piss on your leg.
I can just offer what went through my mind when reading that thread. I was taken aback to read Contrpuntal’s post, as I thought your post was crystal clear. I therefore assumed that his comment was based on some previous incident you two discussed in a previous thread. Or something else that transpired outside of that thread.
So, I can see how Tamarlane might have been less than 100% sure of what went down. I was, as well, until Copntrapuntal acknowledged his error.
Well, there was that whole sacking-of-Delhi thing. That wasn’t very nice.
As for the poster by that name, pitting him merely for adding “hopefully” to his statement (most likely, as others have said, due to some confusion because of the preceding posts) - that’s lamer than Timur himself.
The “hopefully” probably referred to the likely fate of a cat given to a shelter. Unless it was specifically a “no-kill” shelter, an adult cat was probably destroyed.
This may be the most pathetic Pitting ever. I think my reading comprehension skills are above average, but if people pitted me everytime I unintentionally misconstrued something, this would be the Jodi Memorial Pit (and Bowling Alley).
Any chance of a cite four 4 or 5 of those times I’ve been caught? Can I just go ahead and guess “No”?
As for pitting **Tamerlane **instead of me, you have to be the biggest dumbfuck this side of the moon. Tamerlane? Good lord. Have you ever read his posts? Has the man ever had an unkind word for anyone?
Criminy! My first pitting and **Tamerlane **snakes it from me.
Had to happen eventually, I suppose, what with my constant belittling and badgering of all you lesser mortals. Pity it had to be over such a triviality.
At any rate and for the record, this…
…is what I was referring to. I understood you took your pet to a shelter, not had it euthanized. But it is unclear from your story the nature of the shelter and whether or not it might have eventually been euthanized after failing to be adopted. Which, considering you were appeared to be playing some kind of bizarre ethological experiment/macho mind game with a family pet and hadn’t even bothered to try to ascertain the real cause of the issue, would strike me as kind of a shame.
Y’know, I’m really not a genuine bunny-hugger type. I love animals, but I’m not one to refer to them as “furbabies”, I don’t object to medically necessary vivisection practices, I’m not on board with the anti-zoo crowd, the anti-meat-eaters ( for moral reasons ), the extreme animal rights lobbies, nor do I otherwise treat them as fully equal to human beings. And I honestly wasn’t trying to be directly snarky when I made that comment. But I don’t think your actions in that episode reflect all that well on you. You appear to have admitted as much yourself.
