--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > If you rail about George Bush invading a country, why is it > allowed for Turq to walk into a bar and use all his powers > "just because he can?" It is allowed, yes, because it would > be so hard to police, but where is Turq's moral authority -- > who can look in a mirror and say with a clear conscience, > "Heh heh, I got that stupid short-bus guy to buy this lemon > car from my shady used-car dealership." Or, "That girl is > so stupid, it's like she's permanently drunk, so that'll be my > easy-lay for tonight!"
Edg, stop. Just stop. Barry's said explicitly that he was just enjoying the conversation with this woman, not trying to get into her pants: "And yeah, she is 'way cute, and I would be the luckiest guy on earth if I were fortunate enough to be hittin' that. But that really wasn't on my mind. "What was on my mind was the rarity of finding a kindred soul on this blue-green ball in black space -- in the most unlikely of locations (a basement Irish bar) and in the most unlikely of bodies. I can tell already that this young girl and her sister and I are going to become really good friends. And I don't develop really good friends that easily. "So to those of you who have fallen for all the 'poking the near-dead to see if they've still got a spark of life in them' language I sometimes use on this forum, and have been convinced that I'm just a lowlife scum without morals...well...you're probably right. But I *do* have ethics, and my ethics would never allow me to do *anything* to harm this cute young thing in any way. "While it might be really enjoyable to ball the 19- year-old's sweet little buns off -- or even those of her slightly older sister -- that's almost certainly not going to happen. What *might* happen is that we'll have *great* conversations. And if anything I can say in them can help to keep these two as OPEN to life, and as ALIVE as they are now, and not let that aliveness get all worn down and OLD by interfacing with the world, I will be content." I don't trust Barry any further than I could throw him, and *I* believe him when he says that's all he was doing--as nauseatingly juvenile as I find his ostentatious self-congratulation. All your rants against him on this topic have been based on a premise that *you made up*. Either come up with some really solid reasons why we should assume he was lying, or *get the hell off him*. Rant all you want about men's sexual predations on women, but stop personalizing it to Barry.