VEGANGELICA

I think I can tell you! It's right there in your post, actually, Cunning: people have different opinions about what constitutes an attempt to gain attention (is it "attention whoring" or "simply saying goodbye") and whether or not attention-seeking bothers them. End result? A long thread. Viva la argumenta! (That's fake French, I think.)

I'm on the side of those who are glad Sam said bye, otherwise I'd be asking people, "Hey? Where'd Sam go? Is he dead? Did he have an engineering experiment go horribly awry? WHERE IS SAM!?" It gives me a chance to put differences aside and say goodbye, too.

Plus, I liked him because we got along so badly. Mostly. Except when it came to the goals of free range agriculture, where Sam and I found an actual overlap in our opinions.

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