There was an article on one of the news sites that has said that all types of arguing and public displays of anger have increased since Sept 11.

The theory being that a lot of people were so upset by what occurred on Sept 11 but had no constructive venue to vent that frustration. I don't know if that's what's been going on in our community lately or not. But it's still interesting.

I think Russ just wanted to use the vomit emoicon.

Hurry up and make my desktop pretty, Russ!

Or could Russ be presenting this case as a precurser to further the expansion of his biking time
hehe, just kidding Russ, a little levity here won't kill us and might help (plus I'm an avid mtn biker as well and can never find enough time to ride...not to mention its getting darn cold here in Manitoba to ride).

Actually Valhalla summed it up nicely

Why bother posting / sharing / participating at all?
by Dangeruss - 10/24/2001 4:54:42 PM

what another one? oh brother! Russ stop complaining like everyone else and just go make China some skins!

I'm with you Russ. I felt the same way coming here today. I think Brad has a point that the events of Sept 11th and the ensuing uncertainty has made for a lot of raw nerves, deep sadness and inapropriate responses.

I was in a 7.2 earthquake (Lomo Prieta in '89) and the entire downtown area (Santa Cruz) was destroyed. All the buildings came apart, the power was out for over a week, the roads in and out of the area were wrecked, 20,000 homes were wiped out, another 40,000 homes were severly damaged and it seemed that everyone lost all their dishes, their TV and their chimney (if they had one). People were afraid to be indoors and slept outside, even when it started raining.

The point of this is most people were pretty strange for quite a while after. Most folks reffered to it as 'bouncing off the walls'. Doctors reffered to it as 'post traumatic stress'. It became clear that it was best not to judge any one harshly for their behavior or what they might say because most people were not themselves (wether they were aware of it or not). It lasted a long time, months in some cases. but people eventually returned to normal.

I'm not sure, after Sept 11th, that it's ever going to be normal again.

ok a sentence got lost somewhere. I wrote "She handled it with class" and i repct that. Thats how it shoudl have read. sorry.

actually a whole paragraph got lost. The kist was she took the criticism and handled it with class and i respect that.

Maybe some sleep will help, Jesha

Hiya Jesha

actually your as wrong as i am. i meant to say gist haha

gist (jst)
n.
The central idea; the essence.

Hmm, it seems I missed a flame somewhere... craeonics goes look

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