From: "Mike Sims" mikiedlov@yahoo.com

To:

Subject: Pen_Pals_From_Around_The_World Tricia & Kathy

Date: July 6, 2006 2:45 AM

Kathy shame on you for being rude to a youngster who has yet to learn that some of us enjoy letting each other know our ages and interest's so people of the same interest will know we may have some thing in common. And Trisha here is a pal club you may like aspoiledyoungerkid-withsellfishways@fewfriends.poo

 

Tricia wrote:

Man, if that's how you feel, I'll leave Nicola's group then.

*heads to the mainpage to quit out of Pen_Pals_From_Around_The_World*

Kathy kfletch@uky.edu wrote:

seems to me that someone ought to look at some of the posts of today- if we are not supposed to be rude to other members- or call them out??????????? well maybe someone ought to look at Tricia- she is extremely rude and seems to find fault with everyone she is talking too.... I guess we are all not perfect like her>?>???? or maybe I just shouldnt' be a member of this group if that is how you are treated.

Thanks-

From: Capri

To: Pen_Pals_From_Around_The_World@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Pen_Pals_From_Around_The_World Tricia & Kathy

Mike do you own that poohead group? This post is trash. A perfect example of what "extremely rude" is. If you can't handle yourself better than this, shut up!

Capri

-He actually makes a not too bad attempt at an apology, but if he hadn't acted like such an idiot in the first place, I'd be a lot more impressed. He didn't take back the dumb crap, though. He only admitted to acting like a "spoiled brat" himself.

From: "Mike Sims" mikiedlov@yahoo.com

To:

Subject: Re: Pen_Pals_From_Around_The_World Shannon S

Sorry about how you took my telling Kathy shame on her , I was being facetious, to Trish I was not I guess being the age I am I just write to everyone and if I find someone who says I would like to correspond with the following and I'm not in that slot OK I just dont write them nor do I open anything they have written. But I do not write to the group and chastise the writer for having a preference, I guess what I should have said to Trish was there are many groups out there that are for ( under 18, 18 to 25 , over 30, over 40 and so on .. The reference to the fictishous e-mail group I told her to join was a little rude I guess I was trying to say she was acting like a spoiled brat and in dioing so sounded like one myself So again sorry for most of what was said MIKE (PS) I don't mind if you answer me and chew me out I have been chewed out a lot in my life BUT WRITE IN BIG LETTERS I AM 70 AND DON"T HEAR TO WELL SOME TIMES HA

"Shannon S." wrote:

Okay. I dont knwo if I want to be in this group, LOL. First of all, mike..You yell at kathy for being rude but then you turn right around and be rude also? You tell trish to go join a group called "aspoiledyoungerkid-wishselfishways@fewfriends.poo "? What is that about.?

-But that wasn't the one and only dumb flame post he made, so was he really sorry or just lying?

From: "Mike Sims" mikiedlov@yahoo.com

To:

Subject: Re: Pen_Pals_From_Around_The_World Re: ??????(Kathy Capri Nikie )

Oh my goodness I am 70 years old and I have what is called old skin --if you look at me I turn purple and bleed but when trisha quit the group was the first time i realized that young folks had the same affliction MIKE

Kathy wrote:

Capri-

NO it wasn't "you hurt my feelings"- whaaaaaaaaaa-

I don't get my feelings hurt easily- but I do know what I am being bi***** at- and over something so minimal- yes- I agree - it was probably a big misunderstanding- but I am in other groups and have always posted like that - and NO ONE has made such a big deal out of it- I appreciate you trying to help- I really do...thank you- but don't think it was a hurt my feelings thing- I took it as she was being rude...and I have been in situations where I know rude or not-

I mena I hadn't even posted anything but my intro- and then she jumped me and told me that I should do it as 35+ instead of 35 and up....said she didnt' understand that- hmmmmmmmm- ok- well fine- but

then the next post came and really blasted me out- so be it-

if I am not welcome in here- then I will be glad to leave- but I am sure that some of the people in here feel the same way I do over

being talked to like that....

no hard feelings please.....I am not out to cause turmoil at all....I just wanted to make some friends and get to know some people for pen-paling.....I hope I have not upset you in any way=if I have I apologize ....really I do....

Kathy in KY

--- In Pen_Pals_From_Around_The_World@yahoogroups.com,

"Capri" wrote:

>

> Way too much is being made of what's probably just a huge misunderstanding.

>

> Let's get this straight.

>

> Tricia would like more clarity on stats, either you care about age of penpals or not.

>

> Kathy said she didn't care about the age but said she feels she has more in common with 35+.

>

> I personally take that to mean she'll penpal with anyone of any age but since she is in this age group, she just has more in common with them than she would say, teenagers or seniors.

>

> No problem.

>

> Tricia would like people not to use her posts as a springboard for replying to somebody else's posts.

>

> Besides the grievances Kathy said were done to her by Tricia's emails, this was the only other thing I could find that could be constrewed as criticism of anybody.

>

> But it isn't, not really. It's a reasonable request to me, especially after the experience I had on a different list where Person A was writing to Persons B and C about a certain area of the US where I have never been, so can't post on the subject.

>

> But some days later Person A did not get any responses to her qs from B and C, so she got upset and wrote she was leaving the group because nobody was paying attention to her.

>

> The kicker is that she didn't reply to her own message and keep it in the thread that was about her, Persons B and C and that location in the US.

>

> Instead, A took a message of mine that was completely unrelated and in a different thread, and posted that she was leaving cuz nobody was noticing her and answering her qs.

>

> And I was like - huh? Was there something I was supposed to have answered!?

>

> There wasn't. I looked back through my mail and found she hadn't even noticed me before this "Wahh I'm leaving!" message as a reply to one of my posts.

>

> It bugged a few others on that list as well.

>

> But seriously people, I don't think Tricia meant any harm, she wasn't "extremely rude" and I've been on the net a long time, I have seen what "extremely rude" is, believe me. This was just confusion and perhaps very mild annoyance from her, and a huge "You hurt my feelings!" fest from Kathy.

>

> Good grief, please!

>

> No, there is nothing wrong with specifying a certain age group of penpals if that's what you want, I don't believe anybody said there was.

>

> I personally don't do that because I'd rather just make friends spontaneously, whoever I happen to get along with, regardless of age or gender, you just never know, and unless people actually come out and tell you their age, sometimes it's really hard to guess how old they are.

>

> Capri

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-Conclusion: Kathy needs to get a slightly thicker skin, and Mike Sims needs to grow up, stop talking out both sides of his mouth, or go away and shut up.

Subject: EMailPalsAroundTheWorld Mike's profile

Name Mike Sims

Age 70

-Yeah, right...

Location Arizona/Mexico

email address mikiedlov@yahoo.com

Interests Fishing,Scubadiving,Horse raceing,Pretty girls,

-Figures. *Rolls eyes, dirty, immature old man.

Cold beer,

-Naturally...

Penpals

Dislikes Rude people,

-Boy, he's cornered the market on being rude!

porno on net,

-Why? Because the pics are fake? Because the girls aren't nekkid enough? Because he'd rather watch porn on video or look at Playboy maybe?

Do you want Male, Female or both as penpals Both

Do you want penpals from particular countries Everywhere as long as you don't ask for money

Do you want penpals of a certain age group As long as their mature

*Rolling eyes like mad* HAH! "AS long as they're mature" That's a pathetic joke coming from Mike Sims, who wrote this flaming crap in support of Kathy Fletcher, who threw a huge tantrum over nothing in an attempt to stir up trouble on a list: