In reply to Robert Durran:
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> And cut out the stupid smilies. Pretending your offensiveness is now just something you can laugh off won't get you off the hook of your own making.
When I offended, it was deliberate retaliation for you offending me. I'm hardly going to "man up" and apologise for something I neither regret nor think was not justified. I'm not on any hook I can see.
You have a go at someone on these forums (or any forum), you're probably going to get it back. To think otherwise is somewhat wishful thinking.
Your latest posts appear to be trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube and say you totally agree with it being wrong that my cams were nicked after you've (somewhat gleefully, it appeared to me) said that if you came across them it would be a particularly satisfying bit of crag swag.
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FWIW, I've lost count of the number of people I've said "NO, I
didn't say that" to on this forum. If I got deeply offended each time I'd probably never post here.
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I'll re-iterate my opinion on "crag swag". If you didn't buy it, its not yours. Hence by all means remove it from the crag, but then post on here (or similar) and at least make some effort to return it.
My view is that anything else is a poor excuse for taking someone else's property with no intention of returning it.
I also think that for perfectly selfish reasons using a bit of gear where you don't know its history is dodgy. It might look all right, but that sling which I found at a crag a few years ago might have spent half its life sat in a pool of brake fluid. I don't know, and its not worth my life to find out.
Hence it's useless to me, and potentially useful to the original owner, hence they are welcome to it back, quite apart from my view that the person who bought it wasn't me, hence I have no claim on it.
We differ in this, which is fine. It would be a boring world if everyone thought the same.
Of course, you win both ways with your opinion. I find a nut/cam/sling/etc of yours, I'll post on here, you'll get it back. You find similar of mine, you'll pocket it and depart with a clean conscience into the sunset.
In any case, I'm going to potter off this thread now, and leave you the pleasure of the last word. Enjoy