Just came across this today. Bit of a delay.. I’m surprised that it was seen that I was saying you weren’t allowed to have a non PC opinion. It was an emotional opinion and one that evoked an offended emotion in me. Reason being, I live with a Spanish person and I’ve seen the stereotypes being a little hurtful. That’s all. I was defending my own..

Fact is, I think there is much more pressure in the other direction which disallows a negative reply. It was against my better judgement to say what I said. Putting my name to a negative (non flaming) comment on your own site, one with a huge readership and respect, made me think that it was going to be quite risky for my own name (online anyway). In hindsight, I think that turned out to be true. Especially with, the ip hider “Fergal/Conall” who posted as me and pretty much makes me look like a flamer. Hope no future employers see it that way..

As for non PC blogs, I read loads of them and enjoy them without being offended. But if they did one day poke me the wrong way, I certainly won’t be telling them in their comments. It’s just not worth it.

As much as I love you, I could never stick 5 days a week of FOI requests and broadband posts. That said, when you do post things like that, I pay attention because as the exception rather than the rule, I weight them with more significance.

I also find that you can feel compelled to stick to one style of post that seems to gain more interest from your readership or whatever, I try to force myself away from it but the lure is definitely there.

When it goes to long, I just separate it into parts… I done a post a few months back about the Leaving Cert that I absolutely loved, but it must’ve been about 2000 words long so i wound up turning it into a 2 parter, I thought it was weaker as a result but it would’ve definitely damaged my readership a lot by posting the full thing.