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Shootings Becoming a Little Too Common at Tyson/Industry

Econ101

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Man Opens Fire At Ark Tyson Foods Plant; Shot By Police



DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

Wall Street Journal

April 20, 2006



PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP)--A man entered a Tyson Foods (TSN) poultry processing plant in Pine Bluff Wednesday night and opened fire before police shot him, a state police spokesman said.



Arkansas state police spokesman Bill Sadler said he knew little about the extent of injuries in the shooting. But he said he had been told police shot the gunman. "That's my understanding, very preliminarily," he said.



Television stations reported that two people suffered gunshot wounds after a man entered the plant and opened fire with a pair of semi-automatic handguns, while other workers hurt themselves while escaping the building.



Television station KATV reported that the gunman fired into a crowd of workers Wednesday night. KTHV-TV reported that the gunman was among those wounded.



At the time of the shooting, about 500 people were in the plant, located in an industrial area on the city's north side.



Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat producer, is based in Springdale.



A plant manager referred questions to the company's spokesman Thursday morning. Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said that the plant processes poultry, but said he had few other details about the shooting. Pine Bluff police and Jefferson County Sheriff's authorities said Arkansas state police are handling the investigation.





wsj.com
 

fedup2

Well-known member
I fail to see the relevance of this post Econ. When people are unbalanced, they can lose ‘touch’ anywhere. The postal service has excellent pay, working conditions, benefits, and retirement. Yet it happens there and in offices, schools, etc. I have yet to hear the statement “He/She went Tyson!”
If you have a personal vendetta against Tyson, there are better ways to smear them than this. I am not happy with the way the packers run things either, but we damn sure need them.
 

Econ101

Well-known member
fedup2 said:
I fail to see the relevance of this post Econ. When people are unbalanced, they can lose ‘touch’ anywhere. The postal service has excellent pay, working conditions, benefits, and retirement. Yet it happens there and in offices, schools, etc. I have yet to hear the statement “He/She went Tyson!”
If you have a personal vendetta against Tyson, there are better ways to smear them than this. I am not happy with the way the packers run things either, but we damn sure need them.

When you have a company or industry where this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average, there just might be a problem.

In the case of the man in Bryan, Tx who shot the complex manager and wounded another manager, the news reports made the poultry grower (it was Sanderson Farms, not Tyson) out to be a psycho.

In the case of the Tyson manager in TN that supposedly committed suicide after the illegal alien case against Tyson, the Tyson manager they tried to pin everything on was found dead in a field near the plant. He already had another job and home, and also some kids. Many of the farmers in that area don't believe that was a suicide. No one would testify against Tyson although the justice dept. had a lot of video information. You need witnesses.

At that same complex, another man that worked at the plant went in and shot up the reception area before he was disarmed. He was out to get the managers at the plant that had pushed him too far.

fedup, there are a lot of things you just don't hear about. It isn't just Tyson, it is the industry.

I don't condone any of this, but it makes me wonder when I hear about a lot of this stuff when it relates to a specific company or industry.

Sometimes industries or companies may push too many people into being "unbalanced" as you say. Statistics are not to my knowledge being kept up on these things so the anectdotal information that comes out is all we have to try to see possible patterns.

When we don't have systems of justice or grievance systems that handle injustices, I think you can expect more of this kind of thing.

Just to make you think a little, the crime rate goes down when the economy is good---there are more opportunities for people to make a living. A good economy has a more positive effect on the crime rate than increased law enforcement. Maybe it is the same with corporate management.

We don't know a lot about this incident because it just happened. It would be interesting to see if were related to the way they do business or someone just going "postal" as you put it.
 

mrj

Well-known member
Econ101 said:
fedup2 said:
I fail to see the relevance of this post Econ. When people are unbalanced, they can lose ‘touch’ anywhere. The postal service has excellent pay, working conditions, benefits, and retirement. Yet it happens there and in offices, schools, etc. I have yet to hear the statement “He/She went Tyson!”
If you have a personal vendetta against Tyson, there are better ways to smear them than this. I am not happy with the way the packers run things either, but we damn sure need them.

When you have a company or industry where this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average, there just might be a problem.

In the case of the man in Bryan, Tx who shot the complex manager and wounded another manager, the news reports made the poultry grower (it was Sanderson Farms, not Tyson) out to be a psycho.

In the case of the Tyson manager in TN that supposedly committed suicide after the illegal alien case against Tyson, the Tyson manager they tried to pin everything on was found dead in a field near the plant. He already had another job and home, and also some kids. Many of the farmers in that area don't believe that was a suicide. No one would testify against Tyson although the justice dept. had a lot of video information. You need witnesses.

At that same complex, another man that worked at the plant went in and shot up the reception area before he was disarmed. He was out to get the managers at the plant that had pushed him too far.

fedup, there are a lot of things you just don't hear about. It isn't just Tyson, it is the industry.

I don't condone any of this, but it makes me wonder when I hear about a lot of this stuff when it relates to a specific company or industry.

Sometimes industries or companies may push too many people into being "unbalanced" as you say. Statistics are not to my knowledge being kept up on these things so the anectdotal information that comes out is all we have to try to see possible patterns.

When we don't have systems of justice or grievance systems that handle injustices, I think you can expect more of this kind of thing.

Just to make you think a little, the crime rate goes down when the economy is good---there are more opportunities for people to make a living. A good economy has a more positive effect on the crime rate than increased law enforcement. Maybe it is the same with corporate management.

This is so typical of you Econ! Why don't you cite the statistics that show "this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average", if that is, in fact, true/

Same for your analysis of the various tragic and/or criminal incidents you parade before us. You are judge and jury, it seems, and, no matter what charge or claim you dream up, apparently Tyson is guilty until they prove themselves innocent, in your eyes. What a way to live! NOT!!!!

BTW, crime rates announced not long ago for the year 2005 were generally down for most types of violent crime, as I recall.
 

Econ101

Well-known member
MRJ said:
Econ101 said:
fedup2 said:
I fail to see the relevance of this post Econ. When people are unbalanced, they can lose ‘touch’ anywhere. The postal service has excellent pay, working conditions, benefits, and retirement. Yet it happens there and in offices, schools, etc. I have yet to hear the statement “He/She went Tyson!”
If you have a personal vendetta against Tyson, there are better ways to smear them than this. I am not happy with the way the packers run things either, but we damn sure need them.

When you have a company or industry where this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average, there just might be a problem.

In the case of the man in Bryan, Tx who shot the complex manager and wounded another manager, the news reports made the poultry grower (it was Sanderson Farms, not Tyson) out to be a psycho.

In the case of the Tyson manager in TN that supposedly committed suicide after the illegal alien case against Tyson, the Tyson manager they tried to pin everything on was found dead in a field near the plant. He already had another job and home, and also some kids. Many of the farmers in that area don't believe that was a suicide. No one would testify against Tyson although the justice dept. had a lot of video information. You need witnesses.

At that same complex, another man that worked at the plant went in and shot up the reception area before he was disarmed. He was out to get the managers at the plant that had pushed him too far.

fedup, there are a lot of things you just don't hear about. It isn't just Tyson, it is the industry.

I don't condone any of this, but it makes me wonder when I hear about a lot of this stuff when it relates to a specific company or industry.

Sometimes industries or companies may push too many people into being "unbalanced" as you say. Statistics are not to my knowledge being kept up on these things so the anectdotal information that comes out is all we have to try to see possible patterns.

When we don't have systems of justice or grievance systems that handle injustices, I think you can expect more of this kind of thing.

Just to make you think a little, the crime rate goes down when the economy is good---there are more opportunities for people to make a living. A good economy has a more positive effect on the crime rate than increased law enforcement. Maybe it is the same with corporate management.

This is so typical of you Econ! Why don't you cite the statistics that show "this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average", if that is, in fact, true/

Same for your analysis of the various tragic and/or criminal incidents you parade before us. You are judge and jury, it seems, and, no matter what charge or claim you dream up, apparently Tyson is guilty until they prove themselves innocent, in your eyes. What a way to live! NOT!!!!

BTW, crime rates announced not long ago for the year 2005 were generally down for most types of violent crime, as I recall.

MRJ, I just said I didn't think statistics were being kept on this sort of thing.

Did you miss that between your cheers?
 

Tam

Well-known member
Econ101 said:
MRJ said:
Econ101 said:
When you have a company or industry where this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average, there just might be a problem.

In the case of the man in Bryan, Tx who shot the complex manager and wounded another manager, the news reports made the poultry grower (it was Sanderson Farms, not Tyson) out to be a psycho.

In the case of the Tyson manager in TN that supposedly committed suicide after the illegal alien case against Tyson, the Tyson manager they tried to pin everything on was found dead in a field near the plant. He already had another job and home, and also some kids. Many of the farmers in that area don't believe that was a suicide. No one would testify against Tyson although the justice dept. had a lot of video information. You need witnesses.

At that same complex, another man that worked at the plant went in and shot up the reception area before he was disarmed. He was out to get the managers at the plant that had pushed him too far.

fedup, there are a lot of things you just don't hear about. It isn't just Tyson, it is the industry.

I don't condone any of this, but it makes me wonder when I hear about a lot of this stuff when it relates to a specific company or industry.

Sometimes industries or companies may push too many people into being "unbalanced" as you say. Statistics are not to my knowledge being kept up on these things so the anectdotal information that comes out is all we have to try to see possible patterns.

When we don't have systems of justice or grievance systems that handle injustices, I think you can expect more of this kind of thing.

Just to make you think a little, the crime rate goes down when the economy is good---there are more opportunities for people to make a living. A good economy has a more positive effect on the crime rate than increased law enforcement. Maybe it is the same with corporate management.

This is so typical of you Econ! Why don't you cite the statistics that show "this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average", if that is, in fact, true/

Same for your analysis of the various tragic and/or criminal incidents you parade before us. You are judge and jury, it seems, and, no matter what charge or claim you dream up, apparently Tyson is guilty until they prove themselves innocent, in your eyes. What a way to live! NOT!!!!

BTW, crime rates announced not long ago for the year 2005 were generally down for most types of violent crime, as I recall.

MRJ, I just said I didn't think statistics were being kept on this sort of thing.
Did you miss that between your cheers?

Then HOW DO YOU CLAIM
When you have a company or industry where this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average, there just might be a problem.
What are you basing your claim of more than the statisical average on if statistics aren't being kept? :roll: :roll: :roll: more guessing to bash Tyson of wrong doing ?
 

Econ101

Well-known member
Tam said:
Econ101 said:
MRJ said:
This is so typical of you Econ! Why don't you cite the statistics that show "this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average", if that is, in fact, true/

Same for your analysis of the various tragic and/or criminal incidents you parade before us. You are judge and jury, it seems, and, no matter what charge or claim you dream up, apparently Tyson is guilty until they prove themselves innocent, in your eyes. What a way to live! NOT!!!!

BTW, crime rates announced not long ago for the year 2005 were generally down for most types of violent crime, as I recall.

MRJ, I just said I didn't think statistics were being kept on this sort of thing.
Did you miss that between your cheers?

Then HOW DO YOU CLAIM
When you have a company or industry where this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average, there just might be a problem.
What are you basing your claim of more than the statisical average on if statistics aren't being kept? :roll: :roll: :roll:

Because ANECTDOTALLY I am hearing of a lot of cases. Haven't heard as many "postals" as cases in this industry. Have you?

Tam, do you know what an anectdote is? When you find out, please tell MRJ.
 

mrj

Well-known member
Econ101 said:
Tam said:
Econ101 said:
MRJ, I just said I didn't think statistics were being kept on this sort of thing.
Did you miss that between your cheers?

Then HOW DO YOU CLAIM
When you have a company or industry where this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average, there just might be a problem.
What are you basing your claim of more than the statisical average on if statistics aren't being kept? :roll: :roll: :roll:

Because ANECTDOTALLY I am hearing of a lot of cases. Haven't heard as many "postals" as cases in this industry. Have you?

Tam, do you know what an anectdote is? When you find out, please tell MRJ.


Golly gee, oh self-esteemed one, aka Econ 101, I guess you will have to tell poor little Tam and I what "ANECTDOTALLY" means. My dictionary, and most likely Tams as well just won't tell us that!

However, my dictionary does tell me very much what I believed the word "anecdotal" means: "Pertaining to, characterized by, or characteristic of anecdotes". Further: "anecdote": a brief account of some incident; a short narrative of an interesting or entertaining nature".

BTW, do not try to claim "typo" here, because you spelled it the same way at least twice in your posts, once to me, and once to Tam.

ALSO, your cutesy use of the term "between your cheers" is also typical of your zeal to paint me or anyone who does not join in your packer bashing as "cheerleaders" for them.

My desire for fair play is broad enough to stand up for anyone unfaily attacked by such a story and your embellishment of it, thank you!

MRJ
 

Econ101

Well-known member
MRJ said:
Econ101 said:
Tam said:
Then HOW DO YOU CLAIM What are you basing your claim of more than the statisical average on if statistics aren't being kept? :roll: :roll: :roll:

Because ANECTDOTALLY I am hearing of a lot of cases. Haven't heard as many "postals" as cases in this industry. Have you?

Tam, do you know what an anectdote is? When you find out, please tell MRJ.


Golly gee, oh self-esteemed one, aka Econ 101, I guess you will have to tell poor little Tam and I what "ANECTDOTALLY" means. My dictionary, and most likely Tams as well just won't tell us that!

However, my dictionary does tell me very much what I believed the word "anecdotal" means: "Pertaining to, characterized by, or characteristic of anecdotes". Further: "anecdote": a brief account of some incident; a short narrative of an interesting or entertaining nature".

BTW, do not try to claim "typo" here, because you spelled it the same way at least twice in your posts, once to me, and once to Tam.

ALSO, your cutesy use of the term "between your cheers" is also typical of your zeal to paint me or anyone who does not join in your packer bashing as "cheerleaders" for them.

My desire for fair play is broad enough to stand up for anyone unfaily attacked by such a story and your embellishment of it, thank you!

MRJ

Good, if you can spell it, you can look it up.

You stand up for packers whether fairly or unfairly attacked. (You misspelled unfairly)
 

Econ101

Well-known member
This is the same basic storyline as the attempted shooting in TN at the Shelbyville Tyson plant. Here is the update:

Officials: Tyson Worker Shoots Co-Worker



Associated Press

04.20.2006

Forbes




A Tyson Foods Inc. employee who had just been suspended from his job returned to the poultry processing plant carrying two pistols and opened fire, wounding a co-worker before police shot the gunman, officials said.



The victim was shot in the groin but listed in good condition at a hospital Thursday morning. The 24-year-old suspected gunman was in critical condition.


The worker had been escorted out of the plant Wednesday evening but reappeared later that night with weapons, Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said. Between 400 and 500 people were evacuated from the plant.




Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said Jefferson County sheriff's deputies and local police responded. There was a brief standoff and officers from both agencies fired, he said.



Authorities were still sorting out a motive. Investigators had interviewed the victim once and planned to again later Thursday, Sadler said.



"That is part of the totality of the investigation, why this individual at that particular time," Sadler said.



A worker at the plant told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the gunman had a pistol in each hand and was looking for one employee in particular.



"He shot behind me and beside me," Shuntae Kye told the newspaper. "He had two guns in his hands, and he was walking through the plant shooting."



Kye said employees scattered, trying to hide or get out.



The suspected gunman, identified as Julian English, was in critical condition in a Little Rock hospital Thursday, a hospital spokesman said.



The victim, Ronny Smith, 34, was in good condition at Jefferson Regional Medical Center, spokeswoman Lisa Rowland said.



Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat producer, is based at Springdale.





forbes.com
 

cowzilla

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I was a Union Rep for many years in a plant where there was a lot of stressfull situations. Tyson Foods doesn't hold a monopoly in that department. Going Postal always makes the 6:00 news when it happens in these big Plants but often it also happens in rural areas too , small towns and family farms. That is a result of a bigger problem and not nessessarlly a money problem :roll:
 

fedup2

Well-known member
Econ, I typed 'shooting rampages' in google and came up with 92,400 hits!
I can show you where someone got shot in most every business, etc. in the US.

Here is a sample paper from a college student: "The United States is currently facing an epidemic of seriously violent crimes in middle schools and high schools across the country. At least thirty people have died in the past 18 months due to a series of high school shootings. These shooting rampages have occurred across the United States in 11 cities ranging from Pennsylvania to southern Mississippi and to western California."

You have made some good points on some of your posts but this is no more than a pi$$ poor witch hunt. I may not have the popular opinion all the time, but I call them as I see them.
Have a nice day.
 

Econ101

Well-known member
fedup2 said:
Econ, I typed 'shooting rampages' in google and came up with 92,400 hits!
I can show you where someone got shot in most every business, etc. in the US.

Here is a sample paper from a college student: "The United States is currently facing an epidemic of seriously violent crimes in middle schools and high schools across the country. At least thirty people have died in the past 18 months due to a series of high school shootings. These shooting rampages have occurred across the United States in 11 cities ranging from Pennsylvania to southern Mississippi and to western California."

You have made some good points on some of your posts but this is no more than a pi$$ poor witch hunt. I may not have the popular opinion all the time, but I call them as I see them.
Have a nice day.

fedup, it only takes one to make all the difference in the world to you.

As I said before, the stats to my knowledge are not being kept on these things. As in flounder's case, they should be. You can't tell if there is a pattern unless you have stats to show it. Other than that it is anecdotal, but not necessarily insignificant. Someone has to see a pattern before it becomes significant. Dots don't get connected by themselves.

I would be glad to hear stats that prove incidental occurrances. If you have them, bring them forth. Here are some industry watchers on the working conditions at the plants:

Workers in American beef, pork, and poultry slaughtering and processing plants perform dangerous jobs in difficult conditions. Dispatching the nonstop tide of animals and birds arriving on plant kill floors and live hang areas is itself hazardous and exhausting labor.1 After slaughter, the carcasses hurl along evisceration and disassembly lines as workers hurriedly saw and cut them at unprecedented volume and pace.

What once were hundreds of head processed per day are now thousands; what were thousands are now tens of thousands per day. One worker described the reality of the line in her foreman’s order: “Speed, Ruth, work for speed! One cut! One cut! One cut for the skin; one cut for the meat. Get those pieces through!” Said another: “People can’t take it, always harder, harder, harder! [mas duro, mas duro, mas duro!].”

Constant fear and risk is another feature of meat and poultry labor. Meatpacking work has extraordinarily high rates of injury. Workers injured on the job may then face dismissal. Workers risk losing their jobs when they exercise their rights to organize and bargain collectively in an attempt to improve working conditions. And immigrant workers—an increasing percentage of the workforce in the industry—are particularly at risk. Language difficulties often prevent them from being aware of their rights under the law and of specific hazards in their work. Immigrant workers who are undocumented, as many are, risk deportation if they seek to organize and to improve conditions.

Meat and poultry industry companies do not promise rose-garden workplaces, nor should it be expected of them. Turning an eight hundred pound animal or even a five pound chicken into tenders for the supermarket checkout or fast food restaurant counter is by its nature demanding physical labor in bloody, greasy surroundings. But workers in this industry face more than hard work in tough settings. They contend with conditions, vulnerabilities, and abuses which violate human rights.

Employers put workers at predictable risk of serious physical injury even though the means to avoid such injury are known and feasible. They frustrate workers’ efforts to obtain compensation for workplace injuries when they occur. They crush workers’ self-organizing efforts and rights of association. They exploit the perceived vulnerability of a predominantly immigrant labor force in many of their work sites.2 These are not occasional lapses by employers paying insufficient attention to modern human resources management policies. These are systematic human rights violations embedded in meat and poultry industry employment.

The whole article can be located here:

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/usa0105/

After reading the article, you might wonder why we have allowed some sectors of our labor to be comparable to third world conditions, especially when it could be avoided by people by not allowing the concentration game in our food industry. It seems only third world labor will put up with the work conditions. Maybe that is why Tyson has so many illegals.

To be "fair" here is the AMI's take on the report:

http://www.amif.org/News2005/AMIF-NEWS012405.htm

I think the incidence of worker violence may be an indication of the validity of the claims of fairness at these plants made by the meat industry. We need to keep better statistics on them, not just google's number of sites.

Here is the injury rate:

Industries with the Highest Lost Workday Injury and Illness Rates, 2000

(per 100 workers)

Meat packing plants 14.3
Ship building and repairing 11.7
Motor vehicles and car bodies 10.5
Truck trailers 10.4
Air transportation, scheduled 10.4
Transportation equipment, n.e.c. 10.2
Travel trailers and campers 10.0
Aluminum foundries 9.9
Plastics pipe 9.6
Public building and related furniture 9.5


Source:
http://www.coshnetwork.org/Background%20Info.htm

In the above link it shows that: "While fatality rates for all workers have steadily declined in recent years, the rate for Hispanic workers actually increased significantly."
 

fedup2

Well-known member
Econ: “When you have a company or industry where this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average, there just might be a problem”

Econ “Statistics are not to my knowledge being kept up on these things so the anectdotal information that comes out is all we have to try to see possible patterns.”

Econ “We need to keep better statistics on them, not just google's number of sites.”
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The number of hits was to point out how many cases and times these things happen & how much information is out there. I can use this the same way you tried to, to target any industry!
As far as your comments about this ‘happening more than the statistical average’ then following that up with ‘statistics are not to my knowledge being kept’. I don’t think I need to comment on that any further.
I believe we have both wasted enough time on this. It’s a beautiful day & I am heading out to enjoy it. I hope you do the same.
 

Econ101

Well-known member
fedup2 said:
Econ: “When you have a company or industry where this kind of thing is happening more than the statistical average, there just might be a problem”

Econ “Statistics are not to my knowledge being kept up on these things so the anectdotal information that comes out is all we have to try to see possible patterns.”

Econ “We need to keep better statistics on them, not just google's number of sites.”
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The number of hits was to point out how many cases and times these things happen & how much information is out there. I can use this the same way you tried to, to target any industry!
As far as your comments about this ‘happening more than the statistical average’ then following that up with ‘statistics are not to my knowledge being kept’. I don’t think I need to comment on that any further.
I believe we have both wasted enough time on this. It’s a beautiful day & I am heading out to enjoy it. I hope you do the same.

Well, fedup, the work related injuries were the highest in the U.S.. With the illegal aliens, it may be under reported. When people have a grievance process or get justice, they usually don't go "postal". It is only after they have exhausted all avenues of justice do they resort to such things. It ends up costing the people who do these acts a lot also.

The human rights/worker people are claiming that even the legitimate claims are not being paid. I don't know if that is true for everyone, but I do know of some instances where they have not been compensated, and other cases where they were compensated only after a long and expensive legal battle.

If you don't think workers are going to work and shooting up the place because of the workplace for whatever reason and that it should be noted, then don't note it. Read over it. You are free to enjoy your day as you see fit.

Just because the stats are not out there for shootings at meatpacking plants and a study has not been conducted, you can not deny that they are statistically out of the ordinary. I call them like I see them too.

You can keep calling them as you see them and still have a good day. Things hit lots of people different. That is part of the spice of life.
 

mrj

Well-known member
Econ101 said:
MRJ said:
Econ101 said:
Because ANECTDOTALLY I am hearing of a lot of cases. Haven't heard as many "postals" as cases in this industry. Have you?

Tam, do you know what an anectdote is? When you find out, please tell MRJ.


Golly gee, oh self-esteemed one, aka Econ 101, I guess you will have to tell poor little Tam and I what "ANECTDOTALLY" means. My dictionary, and most likely Tams as well just won't tell us that!

However, my dictionary does tell me very much what I believed the word "anecdotal" means: "Pertaining to, characterized by, or characteristic of anecdotes". Further: "anecdote": a brief account of some incident; a short narrative of an interesting or entertaining nature".

BTW, do not try to claim "typo" here, because you spelled it the same way at least twice in your posts, once to me, and once to Tam.

ALSO, your cutesy use of the term "between your cheers" is also typical of your zeal to paint me or anyone who does not join in your packer bashing as "cheerleaders" for them.

My desire for fair play is broad enough to stand up for anyone unfaily attacked by such a story and your embellishment of it, thank you!

MRJ

Good, if you can spell it, you can look it up.

You stand up for packers whether fairly or unfairly attacked. (You misspelled unfairly)

Econ, my misspelling of "unfairly" is clearly and easily identifiable as a type due to the fact that I DID spell "fair" properly in the same post.

That you cannot take correction of your obvious and glaring mistakes without hitting back at something as slight as an equally obvious and glaring type error, says unflattering things about YOU!

MRJ
 

Econ101

Well-known member
MRJ said:
Econ101 said:
MRJ said:
Golly gee, oh self-esteemed one, aka Econ 101, I guess you will have to tell poor little Tam and I what "ANECTDOTALLY" means. My dictionary, and most likely Tams as well just won't tell us that!

However, my dictionary does tell me very much what I believed the word "anecdotal" means: "Pertaining to, characterized by, or characteristic of anecdotes". Further: "anecdote": a brief account of some incident; a short narrative of an interesting or entertaining nature".

BTW, do not try to claim "typo" here, because you spelled it the same way at least twice in your posts, once to me, and once to Tam.

ALSO, your cutesy use of the term "between your cheers" is also typical of your zeal to paint me or anyone who does not join in your packer bashing as "cheerleaders" for them.

My desire for fair play is broad enough to stand up for anyone unfaily attacked by such a story and your embellishment of it, thank you!

MRJ

Good, if you can spell it, you can look it up.

You stand up for packers whether fairly or unfairly attacked. (You misspelled unfairly)

Econ, my misspelling of "unfairly" is clearly and easily identifiable as a type due to the fact that I DID spell "fair" properly in the same post.

That you cannot take correction of your obvious and glaring mistakes without hitting back at something as slight as an equally obvious and glaring type error, says unflattering things about YOU!

MRJ

MRJ, judgement passed by you is so hypocritical that it is a joke.

You assume a lot of things here, MRJ. You assume that I misspelled anecdote the second time accidentally to you and then asked you to look it up in the dictionary. Of all the words I have asked you to look up, you need to step back and think why that would happen (hint-this is the only word I have asked you to look up). How many times have I admonished you to THINK?

After being on this board for a short while it is easy to see what kind of person you are, acting all prim an proper, passing judgement on others and above all substituting your high and mighty opinion for others who might be more week minded and thus trying to control them in some way. It might work in the dried up country town you call home but then again it might just be that people see the kind of person you are trying to be and accept you a human as full of errors as anyone, on the high plains.

It is too bad that you have a tendency to point out the minor errors of others to maintain your appearance of superiority.

I will admit that at times I use words that without a little formal education may be a little hard for an average person to understand, but I never look down on a person for not knowning those words, especially if they ask. I have garnished more wisdom from people who can not read or write than some college profesors. I do have a problem with someone like you that uses their limited education to make yourself look better than others so that you can somehow gain some kind of control or sense of superiority so that you can substitute your thinking (or NCBA's) for theirs. I ask people to think for themselves, you try to get them to let you to think for them.

I came from a family of 5 boys and arguing was form of communication. I am very glad that fedup on the other post argued with me on the the shooting at tyson post. I sometimes pose things a little riske' to get a reaction. It created a dialog and hopefully better understanding. You on the other hand, use these type of things as weapons in your silly personality disorder.

I would rather dance with a circus chicken than a snooty cheerleader who thinks she is better than all around but who can't think.
 
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