quinterbourne wrote:Please, people, I was asking about practice mutes and such. Tubenet is not a political forum, it is for discussion about the details surrounding the playing of tuba/euphonium. The forum owner has explicitly ordered that politics not be discussed here.
I do have opinions on the topic of "Target and such" and I will PM those who have been discussing this, to voice my opinion. Feel free to send me (and maybe those guys who started it/responded to it) a PM about it as well, but please, NO MORE public posts about this on my topic thread.
THANKS!
Please don't send me any additional PMs quinterbourne. Hiding in PMs and then posting the above reminds me of the "cheese-eating surrender monkey" comments some people make. Your lumping all "Americans" in together and calling me a hypocrite when you know nothing about me is uncalled for. I don't support McDonald for various reason, nor Wally-Mart for their union busting approach (many union teachers feel the same...). The Target comment is just topical and not necessarily political. I said nothing about the national origins of the ownership and only stated an opinion.
You post was quite political, to say it was just topical is absurd. It has absolutely nothing to do with my topic at all, and it's sole purpose was to incite political debate.
I'm not "hiding in PMs." What I am doing is using PMs for discussion of topics and ideas that are inappropriate to be used in this public forum, since the forum owner does not allow it. My PM to you is what it was, a private message, and I would appreciate if you treated it as such. If you wish to respond to my private message please do so, privately. As you have requested that I not send you another PM, I will have to state for the (public) record that I was not calling you a hypocrite, but making a statement that the views against Target may be considered as an hypocrisy.
If you wish to continue discussing the topic, please PM me or start a new topic thread. Thanks!
I don't understand why you've asked me again to refrain from sending you additional PMs. I DID NOT send you any additional PMs and I clearly indicated that I would not be sending you another PM. You almost make it sound as though I have flooded you with PMs. I sent you one, only one!
Your comments have absolutely nothing to do with my topic. If you wish to make such comments, please do so elsewhere. I don't understand why asking people who use this forum a question about practice mutes has to be turned into this!
You ask me to "Go debate else where." Well I'm not debating this topic here, you are! Just because the subject is on the TV and in the papers does not mean that it is appropriate to debate it here, and that's why I decided to not publicly announce my opinions. That's why I choose to voice myself in a PM, which you, for some reason I can't understand, decided to share with the public.
I would very much appreciate it if we could stop discussing this altogether.
WALMART offers both the euphonium and tuba models...They even have them outside on display during the month of December... 
