I'm very confused by all of this. My natural inclination in such situations is to start banning people.

I apologize, but I didnt bring up the subject in the first place. What we have here is a bleed over of angry miata.net members looking to vent their angst towards my apathy regarding the subject.

I would have liked for the subject to have never come up :)

this thread is filled with fail all around. Offensive and uncalled for...

Here at MiataTurbo.net, offensive is our middle name.

Well, technically Turbo is our middle name. (Or maybe "dot", if you consider MiataTurbo to be one word.)

But you get the idea.

If not, you (and I use the pronoun "you" here in a nonspecific sense, meaning any random person who happens to be reading this) don't, then you (ditto) are cordially invited to go fuck yourself. (Yourself, of course, being necessarily recursive to the implied "you" earlier. I'll be damned if y'all are gonna turn this place into a Roman Orgy.)

(unless I'm invited.)

I don't really have a problem with beating up on the Jews.

Or the spics. Or the blacks. Or the crackers. Or the Poles. Or especially those dirty, good-for-nothing Canadians.

But God help the newb who starts taking things too seriously in the BS section. :D

Colorful language.

WOW, that's gotta be a first... m.net guys coming over here to bitch? I never thought I'd see the day. Next thing you know, they'll be headed to the Malibu forum for sensitivity training.

Joe's always looking for some way to work the "rainbow" into this forum!

I appreciate MT's general offensiveness and sarcasm as much as anyone .... for example it was pretty funny to see how the Holocaust suddenly entered this thread in the process of someone making a point (Godwin's Law) .... however if I encountered the term "Jewed" in a real post and in a non-sarcastic/humorous use (i.e. if the poster honestly believed that's an okay term to use), then yes, I would be sincerely offended and probably call you out for it.

On the other hand, I got banned from the MSM forum for writing "fuck" .... I didn't even technically write it; I wrote "WTF" and the top moderator there (SilverMiataRacer) decided the locals can not stand for such language. I believe the real reason for the ban was because I kept saying "Megasquirt" every time people cited Hydra/Xede as the ONLY viable ecu options for our cars. :jerkit: