The point is made, but I still have some things in mind:
This upset me mostly because I didn't expect to read stupid shit like that from people I talked to and considered friends. We shared something nice we experienced, after all, this is a forum.
After the initial thread post and a few responses to toasties that posted, we let the subject drop. It's not like we sat here and obsessed over the thread, making sure that each and every toastie reads and responds to it.. In fact, we completely forgot about it till we read those ridiculous posts today..
There was no reason to "tone it down" because there wasn't any boasting to begin with. Tisk tisk, people should just learn to understand what they read before they start blabbing about it. Or just ignore it, like we do when we don't like the contents of the thread/blog/bulletin or where ever someone posted.. Because we don't go around telling people to stop bitching about the all the sad and horrible things going on in their lives, or indicate that they can't post/"boast" about happy stuff because we're feeling down. Either we try to help/congratulate or leave it be..
I'm not as upset about it anymore, specially after reading through this thread and knowing that there are people who understand. [Thanks Stoss and to those who had positive comments on the other thread, I appreciate it
] I just felt like I had to let things out since I've kept quiet until now.