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how isn't this [ DELETED ] case frivolous to bring this up to the CMCF attention can somebody shed some light here?

Both references under "hearing" were each -- borrowing nexnews' words -- "is an idiomatic expression commonly used is English".

It's much ado about nothing -- so Ilmran and Commenters' are assured by Jeff's words -- don't lose sleep over this case.

My parting shot to Nexnews Ho, Guna and Nades -- What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Don't gun for Desi, okay! ~~ I'm merely using another English adage.

This is gonna get even more interesting...

I'm sure Nexnews bunch wont back down on this complaint, and Jeff has no reason to bow down to them either.

We'll definitely see more fireworks in the coming days.

Just because The Sun chooses to interprete something the way that is most convenient to them it ddoes not mean it ought to be universally accepted. Maintaining their present stand only seems to suggest motive for mischief making. And that is all that this storm in a tea cup is.

As easily as they choose to interprete the "shoot" statement to suggest a personal threat, so can anyone who may not be an english expert to take the "Gun to the head" to mean nothing but just that and to act on it. Considering The Sun is given away free, that paper coould fall in the hands on some of out politicians or other innocent citizens whose language skills could be wanting. They could take that statement literally and "choose" to act on it. You have to remember in boleh land anything can happen. Considering The Sun is freely available to all and sundry on the street including very impressionable people, the onus is on them to avoid such suggestive statements which can easily be acted on. They hae to remember that that statement could appear anytime in the next few years as a wrapping in a fish market and be read by the most unlikely of people and acted on. That dangerous suggestion still stands.

In the case of screenshots, at least you can be sure only a few will accesss the internet and even fewer who will access Screenshots. If that "shoot" statement is considered to be a threat, it may have been for a short time. But if that "threat" stands as continuing, only The Sun and Gunasegaran stand to be blamed as they are the ones who have chosen to have that statement published in print. Furthermore, that statement was issued by one who is not a wordsmith and obviously cannot claim any expertise in the use or misuse of the English language unlike Nadeswaran and Gunasegaran.

for making a mountain out of a molehill I can only say that Gunasegaran is making an idiot of himself. Oh Gunasegaran, just in case you don't like that word assigned to you, I just want to tell you that from where I stand, my view of the situation reveals an idiotic situation and the person causing it looks like an idiot.

Is there a stronger word to IDIOT? Because now their readership will fall like SHOOTing stars and readership for Jeffooi.com will fly up like a rocket.

if it's them:
not seditious, frivolous, idiomatic, taken out of context.

else:
seditious, urgent, threatening, and real.

to you jeff, "good luck", if that is the correct expression for the occasion.

from me, thanks jeff, for the effort.

Why MCMC complain bureau accept some idiocrisy act in the 1st place?

I'm actually quite interested to hear Jeff's stance on theSun, wether he will still be promoting/advocating/supporting/[insert word here] theSun in his blog like he used to. He's been pretty quiet about that, heheh.

although with all of these free publicities (that theSun is trying to get) you do get free bad-quality toilet paper rolls or alas buntut during picnics or alas nasi lemak everywhere around Malaysia, so great for the little people!

but seriously, the only way to hate or take action or vote against theSun is simply to ignore them, both in this blog and around their newsstands.

If he really feels threatened, has he increased his security in the past few days?

If he really feels threatened, does he honestly think an apology would quell the threat? (By the blogger no less, and not the commenter).

Are their idionmatic expressions any more valid than the commenter's "shoot him down" expressions, whose context was subsequently explained? (whereas they never explained his idiomatic context. Hence it's still fair to take them putting the guns to everybody's head literally).

The case is full of holes. You rightfully should not lose any sleep over it.

cheers

spot on, Observer. mountain out of a molehill. Guna should just quit and let real men like Nades and Jeff continue their quest for justice for everyday Malaysians. i hope by not including Guna in my list of real men, i'm not getting Jeff into more dung. I don't care if they work in the same building or not, but give me a Nades article or a Jeff blog piece over Guna's whinging any day. enough of this sucking up business la. it's doing nothing for my country. i'd love to use stronger language, but people like Guna encourage silence and curtail creativity of Malaysians. it's goons like that who aspire to continue the non participation of Malaysians in healthy discussions. lagi ramai pak angguk, lagi bagus. betul ka? i'm guessing the ideal scenario for these people would be for no one to read Jeff's blog and no one to say what they think. suma dok diam-diam bawah tempurung.. dapat?

There are all kinda folks out there. P. Gunasegeram is merely another who's yearning for the attention which he lacks. But then again, shouldn't he really be living life on a low profile basis these days, because he really believes now that there is someone out there who wants to blow him to smithereens just because the would-be prepetrator has been instigated to do so by one of the blog commentators here? Aiyo, P. Gunasegeram, you and your bunch of merry men from Nexus really needs to grow up. Whatever you write is the gospel truth and are mere idioms of the English language, whereas what others write is not and meant to cause you physical harm. Talk about double standards at its most blatant. You guys are ripe for the circus. BTW that last statement is merely figure of speech too. So please don't come after me when those bozos from the Ringling Brothers come a-calling at your residence wanting you to work for them, ok? I cannot believe that there are so many clowns amongst us in Malaysian society.

yeah rite mr guna,

how bout *shoot from the hip*
...

oh shoot...

it all become an issue just because u ppl choose to give it a convenient label that u deemed it to be meaning threatening to ppl's life whilst your own paper printed that "... it is an open secret that unless you put a gun to the heads of many of those in power, nothing will move”

if you were to chose to give it such an possible meaning, both statements are equally inciting ...