Okay, but what if Breck started talking to dropzone and then he told her about SDMB? Then she is telling the truth when she says she knows him ‘‘outside the board.’’
It really depends on how you define ‘‘know,’’ ‘‘friend,’’ and ‘‘outside the board.’’
I considered Asimovian one of my best friends long before we actually met face to face. I met him through the Straight Dope, but if someone asked me if I knew him outside the board, I would say yes, because we talked for hours on Messenger.
If that were the case, then in the thread I linked to, he wouldn’t have said “I don’t know you”, “Are you M or F”.
Regardless of all that Spice, I do want to take a minute to thank you for all your recent posts. A lot of the news recently has been triggering me and your posts show a strength I wish I had to speak up with.
Since this thread started about octopus, it’s like to point out that his effectively downplaying /defense of accused abusers like Roy Moore is being repeated by some (but not all) liberal posters in the thread about Al Franken. Shame on them, too. It’s not unique to one side.
That actually might have been the beginning of the online friendship, right there. I’m only speculating. He sent me an email this morning that identified Breck as an online friend of sorts. I would consider dropzone an online friend of sorts, I don’t know him well but we’ve communicated periodically through PM since the death of his wife. He is taking a self-orchestrated break because the stress of her death put him in danger of violating the board’s rules. He is still reading the boards and sending his thoughts. One such message to me he relayed through Breck. Then Idle Thoughts messaged me about Breck. That’s how I got dragged into this!
I’ve never met either of them IRL. I find it unlikely he would be relaying messages to me through **Breck **if she was a sock. I recently (like, yesterday) enabled email communication in my settings, so now he can contact me directly.
Sure thing. It’s been triggering to me too (back before the word was hijacked by angry conservatives to make fun of liberals, that word actually had a meaning specific to PTSD. It’s lovely to hesitate to even talk about a basic symptom of PTSD because it will open you up to being accused of snowflake-ism.) This is one of the ways I cope.
I’d like to piggyback on what you wrote in that thread and I’ll do it here so I don’t derail something in the Elections forum: Joseph Biden needs to openly acknowledge his behavior before speaking out against sexual misconduct.
Has Biden done anything bad enough to merit being a pariah, I don’t know, but he has been documented touching women in ways which could easily make a person uncomfortable. He’ll be a liability for the Dems if he keeps this up.
I’m guessing that you’re not a hockey player. There are not many high-speed contact team sports in which all the players are armed with a couple of blades each.
BigT is the one who can’t hold back. Nothing anyone can say to him will change his compulsive sanctimonious behaviour, for he’s messed in the head.
Option (a): put up an umbrella and ignore his little balls of deficate derision that he spews down on you, his bewildered adversary, for he’s messed in the head.
Option (b): try to rationally discuss his behaviour with him while you put up an umbrella and ignore his little balls of deficate derision that he spews down on you, his bewildered adversary, for he’s messed in the head.
Option (c): textually blow the god-damned pyramid bird out of the sky and put your umbrella away until he crawls out from his basement again, for he’s messed in the head.
Mix and match the options for frustration relief, but realize that BigT is what he is, and because of what his is, he is incapable of behavioural change concerning his sanctimoniosityousinessness.
Neither (a), (b) or (c) will have any ongoing effect on his behaviour.
Whatever your intentions, by my reading, your words were effectively downplaying/defending/implying dishonesty in the accuser, which isn’t okay barring actual evidence of dishonesty. In any case, several liberal posters were doing that to the same and even greater degrees for the Franken accusations, which also isn’t okay. Shame on them too.
Not at all. My position is that I’m not going to automatically believe any accusation from 30-40 years ago. That’s not defending, downplaying or excusing behavior. Does it imply dishonesty? No. It explicitly means that there is a *possibility * of dishonesty and judgement shouldn’t be rendered quickly or capriciously.
I never said I knew him in real life (NEVER). Period. As for Idle thoughts, I haven’t first clue. He blasted me for nothing. I am not privvy to anything that happened. Just don’t know. Period. Thank you Spice, for clearing up (kinda lol) your part in this…IDK, thing! I don’t know a ’ Breck’ though
Look, it don’t stinking matter. In the real scheme of things, that is. I can imply or joke or, perhaps have a secret or 3, at my own disgression. I was clumsily trying to protect dropzone, alittle.
And, Spice call me what you will, it’s fine with me. Mostly I am just a wreck!
Expressing doubt in general wasn’t what I criticized you for. But we went through all this, and you didn’t actually respond to my actual criticism before, so I doubt you will now.