In response to Re: Re In memorium - Grand Sicko (Doctor Strangelove)

Since the board is for all appropriate people, I'll follow up on this gravestone attempt.

There is a whole publishing industry (mags for lads) that encourage men to be assertive and not to be conned. Any guy who's "been around" can identify the gold-digging women. Some rich men don't mind either. It's their choice, their lifestyle. They can have a "trophy wife" to put on display or in the worst cases attend a United Nations meeting. I'm curious as to where these generalizations come from, " a lot of men". How do you know this?

Although I understand your curiosity doesn't address me, I believe the forum is for all fit (or cretin) users. I discern men are much more likely to lose to women in cases of divorce and that especially when there're kids. Money and the rights who keeps the children are some of the most important issues of our societies when it comes to the assertiveness or to which one gets the boot. Chinese, for instance, have half-half deal when divorce settlemnt is drawn but kids are for a hard bargain. Men, which is not only in China, are forced to sign for that half and half compromise; however, they end up with alimony on top of the agreement. How tough this may be for some divorced males who pay and see their ex-wives with new studs is fortunately unimaginable to me. Most importantly here, Silverboy may be one of those unfortunate men who's got quite likely an axe to grind, but he's demonstrated his grievances awfully to say the least.

The issue remains, however, of appropriateness, as other posters have also noticed. I am not in the least interested where Silverboy proposes to park his penis in the Philippines provided what he is doing is not illegal. I'm not a prude or part of some moral majority. There are specialist websites I'm sure for sex tourists and where they can publish their experiences. But there are also students of English who come to this Board from across the world looking for resources. It is not just a closed-group of teachers or former teachers.

However there are other posters on, there are few who notice what is going on here. In short, the board's taken advantage of by all sorts of characters from the ones with vested interets to the ones with mental disorders.

Is the jury still out on HIV/AIDS? Maybe the hysteria of the 'gay plague' days has died down but it is still a dangerous virus, certainly in parts of Africa. I would be convinced by a sound scientific argument that it is all a 'hoax' as Silverboy claims. We seem to live in an age where expert opinion is discarded in favor of fake news, (global warming and climate change is an example) and so those with the loudest and most persistent voices or Tweets are heard. According to Trump, climate change is also a hoax, invented by the Chinese to gain economic advantage.

Sticking to deranged Silverboy who the forum now is projecting as a hot commodity, I would be surprised if he were really departed. SB's unpleasant body odor is evident in the current contributions on this very thread.

Silverboy has shouted-down dissenting voices on this Forum for years. Using terms like 'feminazi' for one female poster, who was far too open about her identity, and who exposed his lack of knowledge of English language teaching. And after that it became very sinister, with someone on this Forum setting-up fake profiles on Facebook for her and contacting her European employers. To be fair to Silverboy, I don't think it was him.

There're fakes everywhere on the internet unfortunately; this site isn't any different. What's sad is that most of the real posters have lost confidence in the forums for the fakery, and complete disregard for topics and messengers.

In a nutshell, the fixer-upper attitude may only work if the majority of pseudonyms that come to write here now improve their relationships with each other, focus on teachers' issues and give respect to one another unconditionally. Let me begin by saying that for a limited period of time i'll accept SB's stinky breath or Turnjakunen's high horse approach even if they are reincarnated. Be forewarned, however, that my last post for FTinPRC which I've written prior to my pledge here has been submitted.

Regards to all doctors, psychos and hard working teachers everywhere
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