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Message:: [QUOTE="chip, post: 930086, member: 19122"]I agree with travis, we do need to have a bit thicker skin, but there are some personalities who if they perceive that they are being dismissed or insulted will answer in kind, and when two such personalities come to odds, they tend to escalate, tho I am sure both feel that they are answering in moderation and merely responding to provocation. It reminds me of the old joke, a man marries his bride and is taking her home, on the road the horse strays off the path and into some brambles, the man gets off looks the horse in the eye and says that's one. They go a little further down the road, the horse sees a snake in the path and rears up almost throwing the man and his bride. The man stops, gets off, looks the horse in the eye and says, "thats two" They are almost home and the horse deliberatley goes under a low branch almost knocking the man and his bride from the saddle, the man gets down, looks the horse in the eye, says "thats three" pulls a pistol and shoots the horse dead. The Bride is horrified, "how terrible, you shot the poor horse, how could you be so cruel, I do not know what made you do such an awful thing" The man stops, looks squarely at his bride and says "Thats one"[/QUOTE]