Somehow, I missed out on that bit of excitement. It must have happened during one of my (many) self-imposed vacations from that thread. I give myself vacations from the coronavirus thread too.
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We were discussing lawnmowers in this thread. I used to check in on the beer thread every once in awhile. I happened to do it around the same time. The denizens of the beer thread spent several posts remarking how beer was much more interesting than lawnmowers. Since those comments proved to me that the beer folks actually read this thread, I posted something here along the lines of - if you want to talk about nothing, join us, if you want to talk about beer, talk about beer, but don't come here and steal our ideas for talking about nothing and put them in the beer thread. Post in the LTE what belongs in the LTE. As far as I know, that comment was not taken as a playful poke but more as a gauntlet thrown.
What that guy did was egregious. Many innocent people went to jail because of him. I watched The Staircase, I'm not convinced Peterson is guilty. Deaver's involvement in the case certainly muddies the waters and when the waters are that muddy, there is reasonable doubt.
Also, the statistician's hat, if someone testifies in court all the time as an expert witness for the prosecution and never, ever, ever comes back with "your premise of the case is wrong", that person is not expert witness, they're a hack paid by the state to get convictions. If I am ever on a jury and it is established that an expert witness has made testifying for the prosecution a side hustle, I will discount every single word they say.
Speaking of lawnmowers, I'm debating getting one of these:
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Reel mowing provides a better cut, but once the grass gets thick it is very tough to mow with a manual reel mower. In May and June, I was spending 3-4 hours a week trying to cut my grass. Out came the powered rotary mower.
I don’t intend to relitigate the beef between threads. I will simply say that those that helped provoke it know who they are, or surely should. And that we are worse off for having lost a number of very good posters and people.
Sorry to the extent my post may have led to the issue resurfacing. That certainly was not my intent.
There is one dude on the plague thread I ain't responding to. Y'all have at it.
I mean, I provoked it, I think, but I never felt like it was a problem. Sure, for awhile I wanted the LTE to live up to its name but in the end, when somebody wants something more than you do, accept defeat graciously. That's where I was when the Deebers left - graciously accepting defeat. If any of them left mad at me, I'm sorry that was the case. I wasn't mad at any of them.
Pregnant wife’s birthday so I’m in Starbucks ordering a decaf strawberry funnel cake blended Frappuccino with a straight face (behind my mask).