[OldSchool]

It may be ambiguous to say "negativity from the loo crowd," but he certainly didn't say everyone from the loo is negative so it doesn't make a lot of sense to presume that's what he meant...

The poster did explain that he did not mean all, but my point was---grammar/phrasing. As a phrase "the loo crowd" is a way of designating everyone from St. Louis. That's whether that's the intended meaning or not. So if I said "canadians are evil" you have no way of determining I only mean "some" unless I directly say so. It has to be added.

The way to NOT court misreading is to add qualifiers. Like "those Loo fans who are still [choose negative characterization]." That way it is directly stated that a sub-group is meant, not the entire group.

And even then you have to wonder why people both say they want to be inclusive but then keep referring to all the fights they had with some St.L fans...I mean, what's the point of that? In terms of how a board comes across, doing that can end up alienating many St.L fans who wonder why it keeps getting mentioned.

I humbly suggest that if people want to be inclusive they don't qualify it in any way shape or form. Let the past go, move on, be inclusive.

Though again while I did see some board wars on some sites between some LA fans and some St.L fans, my own experience was that there were also boards where that never happened at all, not even in the slightest, and where you lived was never an issue at all.

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Or not make assumptions off one post when throughout this whole ordeal I've been one of the more tolerant of the pro LA fans. I'm sorry that my post on an iPad was shortened so that I could make it quicker. I really don't like typing on them or my phone to make posts but I so on occasion. Like now when I'm on the road for some Dodgers spring training fun.

[snackdaddy]

There was a time when a Rams fan was a fan no matter where they lived. But the whole relocation saga has divided many. The jilted fans are angry and lash out. The other side feels the need to defend the team. And there's harsh things said on both sides.

Its all still new and its the offseason. It will go on for a few months. I imagine once the season starts and it becomes all about football, it will die down. Some fans will go away and others will remain along with some new ones. Then it will be about the LA Rams. Life as a football fan.

[Hacksaw]

Life as a football fan.

Life as a RAMS fan. !!

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There was a time when a Rams fan was a fan no matter where they lived. But the whole relocation saga has divided many. The jilted fans are angry and lash out. The other side feels the need to defend the team. And there's harsh things said on both sides.

Its all still new and its the offseason. It will go on for a few months. I imagine once the season starts and it becomes all about football, it will die down. Some fans will go away and others will remain along with some new ones. Then it will be about the LA Rams. Life as a football fan.

Yeah, some lash out, in some places. In some they don't...they instead express their feelings without attacking others, and that in turn is responded to sympathetically by both LA fans and nomads like me.

In some places, SOME lash out at LA fans, and then SOME LA fans magnify that and dwell on it.

Life as a reader of the internet.

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[Elvis]

Or not make assumptions off one post when throughout this whole ordeal I've been one of the more tolerant of the pro LA fans. I'm sorry that my post on an iPad was shortened so that I could make it quicker. I really don't like typing on them or my phone to make posts but I so on occasion. Like now when I'm on the road for some Dodgers spring training fun.

So all's well with the nephew situation? Excellent...

[OldSchool]

Or not make assumptions off one post when throughout this whole ordeal I've been one of the more tolerant of the pro LA fans. I'm sorry that my post on an iPad was shortened so that I could make it quicker. I really don't like typing on them or my phone to make posts but I so on occasion. Like now when I'm on the road for some Dodgers spring training fun.

So all's well with the nephew situation? Excellent...

Yes, thank you for asking. He's home and working through situations.