Well reasoned.

I believe in the recent instances here the commenters are both (a) convinced of their own "correctness" and unwilling to permit others to disagree with them in "their" spaces, and (b) sufficiently wrong in both cases that they inevitably generate a large number of disagreements - at which point disputes ensue, and tempers rise. At that point, people will get surly, as anyone with even a brief acquaintance with human nature can verify.

That the surliness arises after repeated attempts to gainsay the straw-man "arguments" both repeatedly raise is a testament to both the good sense of the majority of posters here and the pigheadedness of the two comment-disablers in question.

And it is also a sign of cowardice on their part. After they have seen repeated refutations, and know that they have regularly put up assertions that are largely without merit, they still insist on doing so, while being unwilling to face up to being called out for it.

I, and others, do not feel the need to gladly suffer fools. When some bring the equivalent of simian feces-throwing to these environs, I will respond harshly, and so will many others. And when that happens, it is very often well-deserved. So to those who hide behind disabled comments - and you know who you are - when you come into others' threads, it's logical to expect to be ill-treated. You've invited it, in large measure, by your earlier behavior elsewhere.

As one previously driven insane by David Seaton, and guilty of profane explosions as a result, I am sorry that I have helped provide him with evidence for his lame excuse re: disabling comments (some of us bad people were too mean to him).

However, to anyone who ever paid attention to his posts and tried in vain to engage in dialogue with him, it is obvious that his primary reason for disabling comments is that he never gave a damn what anyone else had to say, unless they were kissing his preening ass.

Thanks for this comments enabled post, jsfox. I think we're working toward some sort of consensus here. Truthseeker77 put up a comments enabled post this morning. As far as I can tell, Seaton is the only self-important nit left who insists on being allowed to pontificate without consequence. Well, fuck him. :) Oops, sorry. Not really.

Not sure I've seen a post offering such a difficult choice before JS. Hmmmm. Ok. If I HAVE to choose, then I select...

"Fuck off."

"Fuck off" just packs more punch than "You're full of it."

Besides, how can a poster still be "full of it" when they've just written a post? Surely the simple act or writing & posting would leave them down a quart. Or in some he case of some posters, maybe even a gallon.

I know I feel drained after writing a post. Need at LEAST a gallon of it to reach my optimum "it" levels.

Seaton may be the exception. I think he's overflowing with it. A veritable Shit-spring. Gotta be some way to harness all that biogas. A national asset, I'd say. ;-)

So far the comments have almost ALL been about COMMENTS! The title was 50% about underwear, and I would like to see equal time for that much-ignored topic! For example, Sarah Palin's children were said by her father to have lost their expensive underwear that the RNC made her buy them.

Today at work we almost ran out of a particular medical supply and I wondered out loud if we women-folk were going to have to rip up our petty-coats to make bandages -- I then confessed that I don't own any petty-coats. Aha! Another underwear reference!

I was checking out the shoes on an internet site and someone walked by and noted that the shoes reminded them of "thongs."

I have more references, but since I work in the field of gynecology I will spare all of you.

Someone else needs to step up to the plate.

I'm not censoring you. You can write anything in your space that you want to.