I got slated by the chimp earlier in this thread for suggesting that I believed this would be the case on the day of the Q&A session.
Apparently I was being anti-trust!
No you didn't twat. The board failing to answer questions is one thing, and you probably weren't alone in thinking that it might happen. But that isn't what you posted though, or what pissed me off.
I slagged you off for suggesting that the whole meeting was "staged", The word staged only has a couple of definitions in this context:
- To arrange and carry out
- To present a performance as if on a stage.
I guess you could have meant the first of these definitions, but it seemed a bit odd for you to be suggesting that the board had "arranging" the meeting was in some way a bad thing. Which only leaves the second definition, that the meeting wasn't a genuine attempt by a group of fans representatives to ask some questions and raise some concerns but was some kind of performance designed to make the rest of us think there was some open exchange of ideas going on and fob us all off. And this sort of implies that all those involved were playing along in some way, including that Trust and Supporters Club reps.
When I pointed that out you denied that this was what you meant when you used the phrase "staged", and I couldn't be arsed to force the issue at the time, so I just assumed you had some idiosyncratic definition of the word that the rest of the English speaking world didn't share, or had simply typed the word without really thinking about what it meant, and I let it go.
Clearly you're not able to do the same.
So fine. If you're clear in your own mind that you didn't mean to imply that the meeting was in some way a put up job, then I'm sure we're all prepared to believe you. But don't re-open the fucking argument with a total misrepresentation of what it was about when the whole fucking thing actually grew out of your inability to express yourself clearly.
Maybe you should try thinking before you hit the post button and checking your posting actually says what you mean, and doesn't unintentionally question to honesty of other people.
And BTW. Chimp? Are you colour blind or simply not up on the your higher primates?
