timelord
30 May 2003, 17:36
This requires an explanation.
FRED: A gross over-reaction to nothing much.
I find this remark offensive, and I will explain why.
MONG: What I am finding complicated is timelord's logic. (That last bit was a joke, in case I get reported)
Not funny, Mong.
DAVE W: Well I'm sorry if what I said has scared timeload off bigfooty. He is normally a good contributor to the Regional Board. I just found what he was saying in this thread misguided and wrong. So I argued the toss with him - nothing unusual in that. I don't know why he couldn't hack that. In my eyes, he's denigrated himself by his childish behaviour in these last couple of days.
I was NOT scared off. I was offended and no one was doing anything about it or even paying attention to the fact that I was - and am, so I left in protest. I brand the label of "childish behaviour" as discriminatory. What I couldn't hack was the application of complicated mathematical jargon that was not required to explain th SA percentage system.
Now then, here's why I have every right feel the way I do - and Kev already knows about this, however Fred's note has forced me to go public.
I have a disability. It's called Aspergers Syndrome, an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Where it has affected me in this case is simply a different thought line. What is simple to some is complicated to me - and sometimes vice versa. When I find it hard to get my point across I get very frustrated, especially when I get ignored (hence my accusation of ignorance in my complaint to Kev). That ignorance was also wilful - and therefore rude. The fact that Dave W has labelled a disabled person with "childish behaviour" requires an immediate apology - now that I have come clean.
Now I'm not posting this to make excuses. I'm posting this to make sure you guys know exactly what you have done. I have done nothing wrong - and certainly nothing to warrant the personal attack perpetrated on me by Dave W in his overly complicated efforts to convince me that the SA system is better AND simpler.
My comments were NOT misguided and certainly not wrong - except when I got the calculation wrong to start with (and I admitted that when I realised it by checking the SANFL ladder). I believe in the AFL system, because I see the system as simple. The SANFL requires an extra calculation to get their percentage - the addition of the for and against. And I consider that to be unneccesary because it makes no difference to the ladder no matter what.
This is now up to you guys, especially you Kev (I hope you got my email). I will be noting the responses but not replying for now - until I know that I have been heard and understood. Whether or not you agree with me is immaterial. Understanding is the key. If I have that understanding, then apologies should follow.
If not, then my departure stands firm - and Big Footy.Com will have to live with a label in my eyes (and maybe in the eyes of others like myself) forever. Especially if this thread is deleted.
PHIL GLUYAS
http://philsworld.iwarp.com/as/index.htm
(For more on my disability)
FRED: A gross over-reaction to nothing much.
I find this remark offensive, and I will explain why.
MONG: What I am finding complicated is timelord's logic. (That last bit was a joke, in case I get reported)
Not funny, Mong.
DAVE W: Well I'm sorry if what I said has scared timeload off bigfooty. He is normally a good contributor to the Regional Board. I just found what he was saying in this thread misguided and wrong. So I argued the toss with him - nothing unusual in that. I don't know why he couldn't hack that. In my eyes, he's denigrated himself by his childish behaviour in these last couple of days.
I was NOT scared off. I was offended and no one was doing anything about it or even paying attention to the fact that I was - and am, so I left in protest. I brand the label of "childish behaviour" as discriminatory. What I couldn't hack was the application of complicated mathematical jargon that was not required to explain th SA percentage system.
Now then, here's why I have every right feel the way I do - and Kev already knows about this, however Fred's note has forced me to go public.
I have a disability. It's called Aspergers Syndrome, an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Where it has affected me in this case is simply a different thought line. What is simple to some is complicated to me - and sometimes vice versa. When I find it hard to get my point across I get very frustrated, especially when I get ignored (hence my accusation of ignorance in my complaint to Kev). That ignorance was also wilful - and therefore rude. The fact that Dave W has labelled a disabled person with "childish behaviour" requires an immediate apology - now that I have come clean.
Now I'm not posting this to make excuses. I'm posting this to make sure you guys know exactly what you have done. I have done nothing wrong - and certainly nothing to warrant the personal attack perpetrated on me by Dave W in his overly complicated efforts to convince me that the SA system is better AND simpler.
My comments were NOT misguided and certainly not wrong - except when I got the calculation wrong to start with (and I admitted that when I realised it by checking the SANFL ladder). I believe in the AFL system, because I see the system as simple. The SANFL requires an extra calculation to get their percentage - the addition of the for and against. And I consider that to be unneccesary because it makes no difference to the ladder no matter what.
This is now up to you guys, especially you Kev (I hope you got my email). I will be noting the responses but not replying for now - until I know that I have been heard and understood. Whether or not you agree with me is immaterial. Understanding is the key. If I have that understanding, then apologies should follow.
If not, then my departure stands firm - and Big Footy.Com will have to live with a label in my eyes (and maybe in the eyes of others like myself) forever. Especially if this thread is deleted.
PHIL GLUYAS
http://philsworld.iwarp.com/as/index.htm
(For more on my disability)