Your animals aren't your kids.

I completely agree. The same happened for me. I love my cats but their importance in my life was superseded by the arrival of my kids.
My older cat is the best pet I have ever had. A friendly little fur-ball who actually comes when I call her and will ride on my shoulder.
She means a lot to me and I would do a lot to save her, but if I could only rescue one of my kids or my cat there is not even a possibility.

Though I am probably dumb enough to go back into a burning house to make the attempt to rescue her after my wife and kids are safe. :wink:

Jim

Of course you weren’t trying to make a point. You were just choosing to harp upon a trivial typo rather than take on the more serious issues at hand. This is not unusual around here. I repeat: you’re afraid, not to mention just freaking lazy.

You didn’t feel like entering into the fray again, you say, yet you chose to piggyback on an inane response from Quint. What did you expect?

Of course you have no interest in actual discussion. You’re too afraid, and lazy, to address the points in my first post. You made light of a typo to avoid addressing the real issues, which scare you.

That goes without saying.

Also goes without saying.

I clearly did not confuse you with Quint. I quoted your post in my response. Quint shall meet his comeuppance shortly.

Now, here’s what you do: you do the most disreputable thing that you can. You place me on your “Ignore” list. So, you save yourself the effort of confronting truths with which you cannot contend. It’s a sad state of affairs, but this is how things are.

drmark2000: Could I please suggest you go pit Ray in a new thread.

Jim

Yeah, and while you’re at it, see about changing your screen name to The Nihilist NOT. It has panache.

It has, it was, and no, no converts. A couple interesting side discussions, though. And in all likelihood, we’ll have it another 10 or 12 thousand times, because it’s part of the Pit lifecycle. This is the first one of them I’ve actually taken part it, and I have to say, I had no idea otherwise rational people could get as rabid as me.

What, be nice and mind our own business? :eek: Heaven forfend.

Didn’t it? Out of sheer, trembling fear you avoided the specific addressing any of the points I raised in my first post, and instead made a stupid comparison to some sort of television serial, of which I’m sure you’re a fan.

“Embarrassingly public.” You really live in a fantasy world, and more power to ya, I suppose. These are message boards. They afford us the inestimably valuable opportunity to express ourselves frankly and honestly. That’s what I did. But being neither frank nor honest in any aspect of your life (and you know it) you tried to turn it all into a lame joke. You are a blight.

And I am a PhD, not an MD. I never would have settled for a mere professional degree.

Now, Maureen, please don’t resort to the disreputable practice of contriving another’s screen name. You’re better than that, and you know it.

And has anyone else noticed that Trunk has been conspicuously absent of late?

I noticed this.

Trunk explained this all the way back in post #284. You only noticed it now, no doubt, because you were busy with Important PhD Stuff.

Sigh, it was a really interesting thread. What it is now evolving into I am not as sure of.

Jim

I think it’s drmark2000 drooling on himself.

Too late–you already woke up Nathan Thurm’s rabid Chihuahua.

Well yes, but I was try to remain polite and vague about it. :wink:

Jim

Out of curiosity, and with some trepidation, what do you have a PhD in?

You are going to be sorry you asked. He is, or claims to be, a psychologist.

#284 hardly counts as warning or explanation of anything. It’s just there, and then Trunk disappears. Too damn bad.

You’re just willfully being a jerk-off now. He quite clearly explained his further lack of participation. The only one it might be “too damn bad” for is you, love-chunks.

That’s one of the few things I’ve read on this website that has literally made me laugh out loud! I’m sorry, but I have no one on my ignore list. You are about to find that you can’t pick a fight with me (I’m really not sure why you’re trying.) I’m not afraid, or gutless, I just don’t care about what you say, at all.

It has had an influx of decency and intellectual integrity, via myself.

But like an old wino who is incapabe of tolerating any decent food, it is now vomiting up blood.

I don’t know what he is expecting here, lets see how he likes trying to punch a great big soft pillow.

It’s “too damn bad” for all us when an OP slinks off into the shadows out of sheer cowardice and laziness.