I, for one, was offended by Martyn's post. As a biologist at WDFW, I am
often referred to as an idiot. It goes with the territory and you get
use to it. Actually, I wish people would be a little more creative with
their name calling as idiot get kind of old. Something like "no talent
ass clown" would get honorable mention from me, but people rarely get
that creative. As a graduate of Evergreen I was once called an
"infiltrator" in state government, which I though was pretty good.

His description of hunters was pretty rude and prejudicial. I am not a
hunter, so that is not what offended me personally. I was offended to
the core as a beer drinker. I know a lot of hunters and a lot of beer
drinkers (I know of many in the birding community) and none of them
behave in the manor that was described. I generally consider comments
such as those posted as "overly passionate and under informed" and
usually brush them aside. Everyone's entitled to their opinion,
however, I would rather not read such opinionated non-birding post on
Tweeters.

Russell


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On Jul 2, 2004, at 8:59 PM, Scrubjay323 at aol.com wrote:

> Joe et al,
> ?
> I, too selectively read posts and I find Martyn to be a bore and a
> bigot. He would not be the first person on this list to lose his
> posting privileges for not meeting the protocol of such a diverse
> population.
> ?
> My impression of his posts are much ranting with little factual basis
> except his personal prejudices.
> ?
> I've handled this situation my own way. He is now in my spam file and
> blocked from my email.
> ?
> ?
> Phil Kelley
> scrubjay323 at aol.com
> Lacey, WA
> 360-459-1499
>
> "We were few and they were many, now we are many and they are few."
> Confucius
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