Please bring back the owl.
Thanks, Jasper. I'm going to speculate as to why I was banned. It's not something I said, it's something I did.
In "The Pork Poll" thread, page 4, post #77,
https://www.hubgfe.com/community/sh...want-Pork-in-every-thread-in-The-Lobby7/page4,
oldguyzer responded to me.
In post #78,
Wild Bill temporarily closed the thread.
I copied
oldguyzer's post, pasted it in the Pork room, and replied in #21379 on page 1069
https://www.hubgfe.com/community/sh...want-Pork-in-every-thread-in-The-Lobby7/page4 Nothing I posted on December 13 was removed or edited, and there's nothing nasty said in any of my posts that day.
I saw
Wild Bill's post, but I misunderstood it. I wasn't looking to continue a discussion with
oldguyzer; it wouldn't make sense to do that, at 12:53 AM; he'd be asleep, and I'd be doing something else by the time he got up. I don't debate in the pork room, I just make a statement, every so often.
While not provocative in motive, I did technically defy
Wild Bill's order. I would guess that I was either banned by
Wild Bill himself,
OR another mod banned me on
Wild Bill's behalf, and
Wild Bill did not agree with him/her. Both assumptions are logically consistent with the facts.
I don't dispute it. A call was made, by someone authorized to make the call. I did my pinch, and I'm back. A one week ban is nothing to me. I get banned from the
Yahoo! News, and I don't even post comments. When I was banned most recently from
the red board, I didn't even inquire about it to 'the Zee Man' until more than eighteen weeks had passed, because my first ban was two weeks, and my second was six, so I figured they tripled each time.
When
Aleem Dar's finger goes up on an lbw shout in a Test match, you don't see
Jacques Kallis calling for
DRS, to see if the
Hawkeye simulation will get him off the hook. It doesn't matter if less than half the ball would have clipped the off stump. He walks back to the pavilion, as a man should, when judgement has been passed. That's the end of his innings, whether or not it should have been.
John McEnroe was a great tennis player, but did you respect him as a man, when he presumed to do the umpire's job? I didn't. A great player shouldn't need to have the benefit of calls that could go either way. Had I been the umpire in one of those matches,
John would not have questioned my judgement, a second time.
Maybe I could have come back earlier, I didn't check. When you get tossed from a baseball game for calling the umpire a cocksucker, you watch the rest of the game from the tunnel, or on TV in the clubhouse, while taking an ice bath. You don't put on a fake beard disguise, and try to sneak back in. Not if you're a
man.
Proverbs 13:24 teaches us:
"He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes",
and if I was banned by
Wild Bill, it would have been for exactly that reason.
I didn't dispute that, because I sometimes apply that same logic, when I
chasteneth others within this forum, and it would be hypocritical to apply a code of conduct to others that I do not apply to myself.
