I have farmed for 24 years. I lost my dad before I was able to farm with him. 10 of those years, Mainly in the last decade have been brutal weather wise, so I am making a shift into livestock...
And some are telling me to toughen up? That is sheerly, and highly laughable. I could not be any tougher. I can almost guarantee I am tougher, and have been through more crap in my life than most on here could fathom, at least from what I gather in the general posts on here. I have repeaetedly said I am not looking for sympathy, but understanding, and many have shown some kindness and understanding, but several still don't get it. Like those who think I should have tried harder, accepted help, or just bought a dryer with the state of my farm these days. I am sick of being tough. Tough has got me no where. I HAVE fought. I am sick of fighting. I guess that makes me thin skinned and weak to some?
A few points for those who do not understand, and then I will move onto the topic of BTO.
It has been brought up that I should have accepted the help I was offered to get the harvest done. I would have, if there had been a window to harvest. But there was not. We have had 5 snows, and many more rains since the offer by the good and kind Klause was given, and a couple of my neighbors as well. 8 inches of snow, is not conducive to harvest. We are not like most of the prairies, with no snow cover, and plus temperatures. Our highest temp was plus 2 the other day, which does not magically melt 8 inches of snow.
Onto BTO.
It is obvious what my thoughts are. I think it is "tougher" to read and face the idiot, than simply ignore him and run away. When he slighted me personally for losing my dad, my mentor, my idol, my best friend, it cut deep. Only a fool would say toughen up, fight on, after someone distastefully mocked someone else, like losing your dad is a minor little easily worked through detail. Well, it is not. It may be a long time ago, but I am not healed, I am not, "over it". You don't get "over it". It affects you so profoundly, so deeply, and I am man enough to say so. His death has had far reaching emotional affects on me, that last to this day, and will last to the day I too die.
So when BTO used my dad's death to beat me over the head and tell me to suck it up, it hurt. And it is not what a normal forum would put up with.
But worse. He belittled a hutterite family who lost their 10 year old son. I have an 11 year old son, so I am sensitive to his complete lack of regard for a precious young life.
Finally, I am appalled that several of you seem to think this is all fine and dandy for a forum, to have a mocking, cruel, foul mouthed idiot, be a part of a site like this. You all know he would never have been allowed back on in any other forum that is even halfway civilized. But NOOOOOO on agriville idiocy trumps shutting out a repetitive rule breaker.
I stand by my ideals. If this site allows such an idiot to remain, I quit. Not because I am somehow "untough", or I should simply ignore him. Everyone could ignore his posts, but he is still there, spreading his filth, his cruelty, and his idiotic and unbridled swearing.
I hope this is not how out to lunch the agriville community has gotten. To let someone like him tarnish an otherwise very good site.
That some of you fail to see it is unreal, and a symptom of our society as a whole.
Ban him for good.
And some are telling me to toughen up? That is sheerly, and highly laughable. I could not be any tougher. I can almost guarantee I am tougher, and have been through more crap in my life than most on here could fathom, at least from what I gather in the general posts on here. I have repeaetedly said I am not looking for sympathy, but understanding, and many have shown some kindness and understanding, but several still don't get it. Like those who think I should have tried harder, accepted help, or just bought a dryer with the state of my farm these days. I am sick of being tough. Tough has got me no where. I HAVE fought. I am sick of fighting. I guess that makes me thin skinned and weak to some?
A few points for those who do not understand, and then I will move onto the topic of BTO.
It has been brought up that I should have accepted the help I was offered to get the harvest done. I would have, if there had been a window to harvest. But there was not. We have had 5 snows, and many more rains since the offer by the good and kind Klause was given, and a couple of my neighbors as well. 8 inches of snow, is not conducive to harvest. We are not like most of the prairies, with no snow cover, and plus temperatures. Our highest temp was plus 2 the other day, which does not magically melt 8 inches of snow.
Onto BTO.
It is obvious what my thoughts are. I think it is "tougher" to read and face the idiot, than simply ignore him and run away. When he slighted me personally for losing my dad, my mentor, my idol, my best friend, it cut deep. Only a fool would say toughen up, fight on, after someone distastefully mocked someone else, like losing your dad is a minor little easily worked through detail. Well, it is not. It may be a long time ago, but I am not healed, I am not, "over it". You don't get "over it". It affects you so profoundly, so deeply, and I am man enough to say so. His death has had far reaching emotional affects on me, that last to this day, and will last to the day I too die.
So when BTO used my dad's death to beat me over the head and tell me to suck it up, it hurt. And it is not what a normal forum would put up with.
But worse. He belittled a hutterite family who lost their 10 year old son. I have an 11 year old son, so I am sensitive to his complete lack of regard for a precious young life.
Finally, I am appalled that several of you seem to think this is all fine and dandy for a forum, to have a mocking, cruel, foul mouthed idiot, be a part of a site like this. You all know he would never have been allowed back on in any other forum that is even halfway civilized. But NOOOOOO on agriville idiocy trumps shutting out a repetitive rule breaker.
I stand by my ideals. If this site allows such an idiot to remain, I quit. Not because I am somehow "untough", or I should simply ignore him. Everyone could ignore his posts, but he is still there, spreading his filth, his cruelty, and his idiotic and unbridled swearing.
I hope this is not how out to lunch the agriville community has gotten. To let someone like him tarnish an otherwise very good site.
That some of you fail to see it is unreal, and a symptom of our society as a whole.
Ban him for good.
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