Not sure if I'm the one you were talking to, but if you were, I didn't say anything bad about it. I knew it was a good thing for her, so I did my best to act excited for her. I said something like "that's incredible. You must be so happy"

That is my fear as well, that childish members would tag anything posted by someone that disliked HOWEVER, if it were like the +5 method instituted with the Evaluation Panel, it might work. I'm not speaking about being booted from the site, although some of the recent crap seems to sound like the ghost of mandy658.....

I'm really tired of seeing stuff posted from "both sides".

This is one of the few times I agree with JustWill. If you truly don't want to hear from another member, blocking him/her is best. The problem with that, and it happens to all of us, is that we are hooked wanting to know what the blocked member is posting and in particular, about you. You do it JustWill does it, everyone does it. Then, we can't let it pass. We have to, at least, make a wise ass remark.
At the top of every post there's an avatar with the member's site name on the left corner. If you want to mind your own business, if you don't want to read that member's post, why not skip the post?
Every one of the posts I post that are nasty, mean, uncouth, and that cause a shit storm is because, far back or recently some asswipe, or asshat, or twat (familiar words) has tweaked my nose. 2 yrs and 6 months ago, after being here for 6 months I discovered the forums. I saw that this one had hundreds, if not thousands, of hits so, I started following it. Almost immidiately CC54 disliked one of my views and told me I was dumb, I didn't know what I was talking about, and to mind my own business. As usual, when I deal with asshole, I told him to go fuck himself. That's when you, JustWill, Jamie (I think) and a few more took CC's side. Soon I was saggy tits. Fake account. Got a nice one from Mrs CC to stop leaving a snail trail. Since then, even though JustWill says he doesn't follow me, he always has some comment about me, along with his insistence I'm someone else. Don't come at me that I play the victim. If it sounds like that, it's unintentional. What I aspire to be is your worst nightmare in the forums until such time when all of you return to that place under a rock. Block me, don't block me, I don't care. You'll probably say I lost it again, but, one way or another, in one form or another, I will bring it to you. Or, you can just ignore me, stay in your forum, don't read my post, insult each other or some other poor fool.
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And yes, I made it my own. You were doing well when you said "both sides" You couldn't help yourself"

Even that motorcycle of yours?

You have a genuine need, many people who own these in the UK never even leave the road. Those are the people I am referring to.

I have survived my whole life without 4x4,except for my tractor.It is 4x4. once in a blue moon i might could have used 4x4 but there was a winch or another truck to help out.
I think for cars, the traction from the front wheels supposedly helps in handling? But for most, it is a fashion statement. Most of the idiots with 4x4 desiel trucks, have no idea how to operate it off road,and when they do try,they tear it all to hell and hollar for the warrenty to fix it

I'm looking at cars, AGAIN. The cars that are comparable to what I have are FWD. There's no visible difference in the body design of the car so that I feel like I have a new/different car, I want to pick a different body color and I decided on "red". The red auto has AWD, costs more and gets less gas mileage so that's why my question.

My previous cars/SUV's have been FWD and I'm happy with their performance. I'm not sure what AWD is good for UNLESS it gives me special driving privileges that allow me to use the shoulder of the road as MY dedicated lane. 😉

Sorry,I thought that I was clear that it is the city folk with their huge 4 x 4s that I was referring to and not those people who genuinely require them.

"Ew" to the buying...

You're quick enough between the ears to make money off your dirty knickers then good on you I say.

I can't explain that.I can't even agree with you. You are mixing two wrongs that have nothing to do with each other. That American women are raped is true, but, this is true in every society in the world. Rap.e is not sexual, it's an attack to harm, like a beating or shooting. The rapist has some hatred towards women. You claim Bengalí customs are widely known, I assure you, this may be in your country, but, in the US, it's mostly what we get from Douglas Fairbanks Jr movies of the 1930s. I believe that people are the same everywhere. They grow up, try to earn a living, raise a family, love that family, try to be good neighbors, and be kind to the less fortunate. Skin color, language and especially, religion is not what's important. We all encounter short sighted people or people that are possessed by the devil. Don't give up. Most of us would be happy to be your friend.

1. Some Indians live outside of India - in Canada, US, England, etc, they are not blocked from registering on the site.
2. No block works 100%, some may slip through even if they are registering from India. I'm not hunting down such accounts on purpose. They are too few and such are not causing problems after I blocked India so it's good enough for me.

I was under impression that in India the society is still very divided and education and culture of a man is heavily affected by his heritage - those who come from former Shudras and untouchables usually have bad education and manners. As I said, I understand that any particular man should not be judged by his heritage, race, nationality or color. Higher class people can be sometimes just horrible and people from lower class can be very decent, but on average usually there is a strong correlation between man's background and his manners. People from ghettos are usually more rude and less respectful due to more harsh conditions they were grown up in.

Anyway, India is a huge country with a population of over 1 billion people. So there can not be any definitive stereotypes. I'm quite sure that someone can deal with Indians all their life and encounter only intelligent and well-mannered people. Regrettably it was not my experience with this site. Members often complained to me about behavior of members from India, I had to read their conversations, and it often looked like they are just slightly above animal level. I have seen such poor manners in people of other nationalities indeed - for example in rural Russia or in ghettos of Latin America, it's just that they usually can't speak English, so they do not come to this site.

Because you specifically asked about Indian MEN.

Why flip the direction of your concern/thought provoking question from how you and or Indian men are perceived by an Australian woman to American women being raped? I found your response to Madam Hotpussy peculiar; "But the problem lies in the fact that we are being called "dirty rapist pigs", as if American women never get raped. Why this wrong assumption about Indian men?"