whats with the pig?  

'niceguy', can we ask you to...
'niceguy', can we ask you to put aside Ark when you come on the forum?

your wish is my desire
Patrick and Alix,
I will heed your request. My intention was to supply further information about the Moooi pig by Front Design.
I did not begin the discussion on Rhodesia and I made a positive comment regarding a legitimate elected government official of that country and their protective services.
I was apparently misunderstood by an overly sensitive individual who uses abusive language (Brit dickheads) in their postings and harbors resentments over long past issues.
I regret that you have had to take your valuable time to deal with this subject and I can assure you that I will stay clear of any political or religious issues.
Thank you for your guidance.

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Do you know about the violence, torture and murder that occured there, on both sides? It was a 'small' conflict but that makes little difference, my father (a Brit, I too have dual nationality) still won't talk about it and my family left there with a few things and one thousand dollars, we knew virtually no one here and much as the Australian government infuriates me being here has given me a quality of life unimaginable by most, you intruded on a sensitive area, that should have been obvious to anyone with the barest understanding of conflict or a few neurons running around.
I did not begin a discussion about Rhodesia, you did by your comments. I briefly reminisced about a family pet in better times, it had NO political content.
So thats some background for you. When you make a stupid comment like 'all hail' and claim they were a peace keeping force you just look ridiculous, why did you make that comment?
I have removed the 'dickhead Brit' comment, not that one implies the other or that it is remotely comparable in terms of being offensive to your comments.

agree to disagree
Heath,
I have better knowledge of the problems that occured in this area than you think I do and my opinion is very different than yours. Let us just agree to disagree on this subject and consider the matter closed.

No.
...for the sake of the forum and to head off a pointless and inflamatory exchange I'll drop it,
But I do think you're a fool, a fraud and a narcisist and have no idea what you're talking about.