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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Phil Harrison, post: 879097, member: 11507&quot;]I&#039;ve responded brusquely to curtness and dismissal, cheerfully to humour and hijinks, respectfully to courtesy and politeness. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve scolded the subject of my complaint and no-one else. Others, to whom I&#039;ve directed no criticism or censure whatever, have in turn scolded me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been absolutely at pains, whenever levelling crisicisms, to offer justifications, explicitly and in detail. They have been systematically ignored.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve taken people, very deliberately and precisely, exactly as I&#039;ve found them. </p><p><br /></p><p>It could just be the &#039;our friends&#039; part of the equation that is the problem here. </p><p><br /></p><p>Tell me something - if your community were to become a clique, if those defensive impulses were to mutate in the direction of something less familial, less wholesome, do you think you&#039;d recognise it? </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes an outsider might just see something you don&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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