A Community Statement

[narfforc]

Being possibily one of the only members on this site to have met both Davem and Lal on a number of occasions, I can only say what a pleasure it was. They are both sensible, articulate, friendly and funny. It grieves me to see what has happened to Davem, I for one enjoyed his threads, I enjoyed even more his humour. I think the main reason for this is that we are both of the same ilk, the type of humour employed by Davem is quite localised to the North of England, and we just do not see sarcasm as an almost physical attack on another, as some people quite obviously do. I have no doubt in my mind that had Davem known he was causing peoples personal worlds to collapse around them, he would have desisted, in the same context I think some have taken things he said too literally and blown it out of proportion, react first and think later. Davem would be the first to admit that on reflection, he may have gone too far. I have many of the same beliefs that he has, yet this is not the place to use them as a battlefield against those that don't, I may as well try to convince a door that it is a window. Nothing at all has been achieved by that post other than The Banning of Davem, everyone still thinks there own views, and the same ideas are still going round and round, only now there is no-one to contest them, how banal..........