Wild Dog wrote:Whew, let's end this thread here now that we have a warm fuzzy moment, shall we?
At the risk of leaving anyone to believe we (you and I) have any part of a warm fuzzy moment. Re-read my words directly and empathetically my simple feeling is that you are eat up with CS.
Aw, Butch, what an ugly thing to say. Does this mean we can't be friends? I'm not sure I could bear it if I thought we could not be friends. But exactly what is CS?
I am again calling you out one man to another to spare the rest from your clear personal attacks Well written though it is which even offends me more because I cannot imagine why you would take an apparent ample intellect, analytical ability and writing skills to do this. Regardless of your underlying intent I am calling you out directly and personally.
Okay, I'll come clean. My real intent is to try to make some sense of your posts.
For about 2-3 years, I've read your posts here and elsewhere, sprinkled with allusions to in-depth studies and quotes from the who's who in hostadom and PhD's that I've never heard of. However, none of it made sense, and in my very first interaction with you, I asked you three different times to give me a citation to the research you were referring to. You finally gave me some links to research articles that had nothing to do with what you were saying, and you confused an awful lot of people. That's not teaching, it's confusing.
Now, 2-3 years later, in this very thread, you've dug up the exact same quote you used when I first asked you questions to try to make sense of what you were aggressively saying was the "only way to do things." That quote still hasn't applied to the topic being discussed, at least not with the way it was presented.
Many moons ago, when I told you that you might want to consider being a bit nicer, especially to new people on these forums who are just starting to get excited about hostas, you said you didn't care about being nice because the rule of 1/3rd's comes into play. Remember? 1/3 thinks that how you are acting is okay, 1/3 doesn't like it, and 1/3 just don't care.
Well, by my way of thinking, hostas are the friendship plant, and I've made a lot of friends both here at Hallson's and elsewhere because of hostas. I even offered to buy you a beer when you got all bent out of shape the first time I disagreed with you. The rule of 1/3rd's just doesn't cut it here.
However, when a personality disseminates speculation as fact, and does so in a manner that scares off other friendly people in an effort to build up that person, I guess I might get a little territorial and defensive about keeping a safe haven for those newbies looking to explore this great community. I guess that's because I remember how excited I was 6 years ago when I found Hallson's, and I put myself in the shoes of other people that are given questionable advice in a gruff tone.
In all honesty, my first two posts in this thread were simply to try to get you to give me some solid research to support your point so that I could study it in more detail and understand where you were coming from.
I had hoped that the leopard had changed his spots when he came to Hallson's . . . but it does not appear that this is the case. Feel free to make personal challenges and offers to crazy contests, but this is a forum where we come together to try to find answers to questions and talk around different ideas and concepts. I'm not interested in a urinating contest, or in speaking with you on the phone. You lost my interest when you introduced the rule of 1/3rd's.
Good day.
