You are all prewriting history. For people who admit not to knowing what happened, you sure have enough opinions as to what happened. And for people who don't know each other, you sure have a lot of opinions as to the attitudes of others.
Roy, I have an opinion, too. I think this thread had gone way off track, and is non productive. You may delete my post, if I am out of line.
I don't know how in the world a post about surgery ended so far left.
Really? You can't point to a post and say "yup here is where this went wrong"?
Me, I think it was a serious lack of humor on some people's part that started it.
No, I don't see how a post about his surgery started jokes and then prompted talk about his pending case. But I think you'd have better idea than me seeing that exchange between you and kgainez about race and what not (out of left field).
You are fairly new here.
Threads, often out of nowhere, devolve into jokes or other subjects sometimes. It happens every single day on this blog. If joking starts, you can have a sense of humor about it, complain to a mod about it because you feel it inappropriate or post in the thread that you want it to stop.
Starting to accuse people of racism or making fun of mentally ill people or condemning their jokes because they lack some sort of information is not the proper way to handle it.
Heck, even Roy, the head mod here, agreed that kgainez comment was out of line.
And handling the jokes in that manner is what started it all. THAT is how easy it is to see where it went all wrong.
And with that, I expect a lock on this thread fairly soon.