How often do you decide to 'pull' a message?

Often for me, I'm famously irascible (though very nice really) and often write a post in haste only to click on the back button and erase it.

Anyone else do the same? Examples?

Quite often, believe it or not. Usually when I have reread the post and realised I've rambled or gone off topic or am just repeating what someone else said, with less eloquence.

[Scrooge]

My current thing is to pop my sleeping pills, then for some daft reason come on here and answer a question that has not really been asked, needless to say it gets deleted pretty quickly, but every now and again I head off to bed happy in the knowledge that I have gone forth and spread a little bit of knowledge...Of course I wake up and think 'oh s**t' did I really posts that !

I've done it a few times when posting something that is plain stupid, unfunny or, as Sealink says, simple repetition.


For posts that get my goat in terms of a particular statement or opinion I try to stick to a 'one hour' rule - if tempted to write something taking umbrage, leave the keyboard alone for an hour. I had one example I still cringe about where I railed against someone on a music list over a message about preferential ticket allocation for a concert only to find that he'd had to do a two part message and I'd only seen the first part.

Paul

I propose The Scrooge Theorem, which states:

There is a direct correlation between pulled pints and pulled messages.

Some mathematicians at the University of Dublin have suggested The Honey Lamb Proposition, which replaces pints with G&Ts, but these results remain inconclusive.

All that said, my posts spring forth fully formed and brilliantly infallible so I rarely pull a post (thought I have pulled, to be sure!), although some mods have done me the favor in the past.

Carry on.

GJ

[honey lamb]

There's no such thing as the University of Dublin. You have Trinity College, Dublin, University College Dublin (which along with University College Cork, University College Galway and Queens University Belfast form the National University of Ireland) and Dublin City University.

So there [:p]

[Scrooge]

And that after 6 G&Ts

[:w]