Tell ya one thing about being a veteran DUer here...
you are PREPARED for local-yokel FB-type message boards with morons (and morans) who think they can "best" you using tactics which are strictly amateur hour...
There was a post yesterday in our closed neighborhood/boro site on FB where a gentleman complained that the water was being shut off for maintenance precipitously on whole blocks without informing the residents. This is not the kind of post I respond to because there are enough folks who have an immediate vested interest in the issue.
What got me going was some idjit who's apparently head of the business-group who posted a retort that although perhaps people should be apprised of that beforehand the pipes are old and are in need of dire repair, and basically dismissed the OP. My turn: I posted that although the pipes were old, that had nothing to do with the fact that there are reasons why people should know that the water's being turned off in a reasonable fashion. I added (of course, as an 11-year DU Veteran should) that if the nation hadn't been sending hundreds of billions overseas to fight unnecessary wars, then there'd be fewer old pipes around if better attention had been paid to the infrastructure. Well, that must have hit a nerve somewhere because he came at me with the old "where do you live, does this even affect you" routine. My response was that my pool wasn't open yet and when it was, I'll let him know so he can come over for a swim, since he wants to know my address. I then followed by saying that if a utility company which is regulated by the Public Utility Commission and is thus working for both the customers and therefore the taxpayers is not treating said customers properly then it doesn't matter where I live, I am entitled to an opinion regarding their treatment of the masses. He then stated that if someone wanted to address the situation involving the infrastructure, then it needed a separate thread. My retort to THAT was that a new thread isn't needed to segregate the conversation, it's part of this issue which we are addressing in THIS thread. I then went on to tell him all about the infrasructure on 16th Street in Center City Philadelphia in detail and how we have had one catastrophe (and I mean catastrophe: fires underground, three blocks of leaking raw sewage, destruction of phone lines, perennial gas leaks) after another. Crickets...
It was like Hank Aaron playing A-League Ball! Fun to play with these amateurs to work on the swing, so I can come up here in the Majors...