TomZap message board is a lunatic asylum

Fast Eddie - our local crackpot

In Melaque/Barra Mexico

The latest is a number of people don't like negative restaurant reviews and others think diners experience should be shared. They end up being quite rude to each other .... and then a bunch of new people accuse them of acting like 12 year old's (which they are).  Amid all the mayhem in comes Fast Eddie with a totally non related and nonsensical post about me getting him Moderated. He's right because he was carrying on like an idiot.  Retired Gringos in Paradise

Fast Eddie's crazy post .....

it seems as though im being moderated because of a certain poster and he knows who he is complains to nancy and zap im moderated,, i asked him to put my post on hide messages but he is to nosy i guess and he didnt like what i argued about and of course he has more influence than me with nancy . i really doubt that this post will get posted but there are some on the board that carry alot more weight than others, its a crime to to argue with some posters and yet some posters can argue as much as they want willow, you had better watch your words, f---ing idiot, name calling not aloud and d&d you are may get moderated by above poster if he doesnt like what you write, of course its toms formum so they can do what they want but like i said before DONT RUFFLE some posters or they will get you moderated by complaing to nancy , oh and by the way i asked him to hide my messages but he just could not resist to see what i had wrote, THIS IS DIFFENTLY not a forum of free speech,, there is a old saying STICK AND STONES MAY BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT WORDS NEVER WILL,, not so the case on this forum no cuss words , and dont argue with certain posters.

Poster #1

What a happy little place. Sounds like not everybody has a Feliz ano in Melaque. A poster complains about service in a restaurant and everyone jumps all over them !

Poster #2

When physically in Barra/Melaque it seems like the average gringo/expat is around 65. When I read some of the posts here, it seems like a bunch of 12-year olds, lol! Not referring to the original post, but the rather juvenile responses of some. Sigh.

Poster #3

Hola, everyone.....this is my first/virgin post...and what a thread I chose to read FIRST!!!!! Made me nostalgic for the old days on What's Up Maz (a Mazatlan forum, which has now pretty well died). Seems things do not change, wherever expats get together and one up each other. Yup....a bunch of 12 year olds.

I'm on this forum for the information it can provide; hope there will be lots of that. :))

Feliz Ano!

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A reformed person I guess

Was asked to remove this post about a scammer

Another Gun Nut bites the dust

Will Hayden - Rapist

This character has/had his own GUN Show on the Discovery Channel that rapidly got canceled after Hayden was arrested for the rape of his own 12 year old daughter. Really makes me think that real Gun Nuts are basically completely Nuts and perverted.

Will Hayden, was arrested in Louisiana on child molestation charges involving his 12-year-old daughter. Although he was released after posting bail, Hayden was arrested again on Tuesday with an added charge of alleged aggravated rape of a child.

Church Hate Groups - That's American for you

The Westboro Baptists Church is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The group has gained notoriety in recent years for staging remarkably cruel protests at high-profile events and funerals, waving signs that read "God Hates Fags" and blaming every tragedy they encounter on America's perceived endorsement of "sinful" (read: LGBTQ) lifestyles.

Some very ugly people

When Adam Hills heard this group was going to picket Robin Williams funeral he made an offer. In what was likely meant as a throwaway joke, he suggested on his show, The Last Leg, that if WBC members were so bent on preserving the so-called Christian way of life they should take their rallies to Iraq, where IS members have claimed responsibility for "exiling thousands of Iraqi Christians" and others, and "killing those who fail to leave," according to the Advocate.

Hills offered to fly all church members to Iraq where they would meet certain death but later changed his mind and instead donated the flight money to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a charity Robin Williams actively supported.

Way to Respond to Open-Carry

Walk the fuck out ..... get out of whatever establishment allows them in.  Don't pay, don't make a fuss and if the occasion arises .... say something to the staff.  Just tell them them  the Open-Carry  crazies are responsible for you leaving ...... and leaving in fear !!

The news: How should you respond to open-carry activists who carry firearms into public areas to demonstrate their love of guns? According to the blog Philosophical Questions Every Day (PQED) it's simple: just walk away.

Noting there is really "no legitimate way of determining intent" when suddenly confronted with the presence of men with guns, here's what is recommended:

My proposal is as follows: we should all leave. Immediately. Leave the food on the table in the restaurant. Leave the groceries in the cart, in the aisle. Stop talking or engaging in the exchange. Just leave, unceremoniously, and fast.

But here is the key part: don't pay. Stopping to pay in the presence of a person with a gun means risking your and your loved ones' lives; money shouldn't trump this. It doesn't matter if you ate the meal. It doesn't matter if you've just received food from the deli counter that can't be resold. It doesn't matter if you just got a haircut. Leave. If the business loses money, so be it. They can make the activists pay.

The only thing that makes us notice [the activists] at all is that they have guns and truthfully, that’s why they carry them in the first place. They want to be celebrities, heroes, and the centers of attention.

There's One Simple Way to Respond to Open-Carry Gun Rights Activists