Anyone else getting tired of Una's delusions?

[billfish678]

@Martin_Hyde

**billfish678 **- I’m sorry no, people with money and jobs have no obligation to walk on eggshells just because a bunch of people are out of work and we have to be afraid of offending them. That’s like saying I should avoid needlessly walking or using my arms around a quadriplegic.

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Who said anything about walking on eggshells? How about just trying to not be a clueless dipshit. Una didn’t read the freaking two sentence OP and posted irrellevant shit. Then started a fight claiming stalking/something. Then snarked when she knew snarking was wrong (because she reported someone else for it). I doubt the SDMB rules allow for return defensive snark and she knows it.

To take you example and run (heh) with it:

Poster One. If you had no arms and legs would you be worried about trying to get a job?

Poster Una Two. I have arms and legs so I can get any job I want.

Poster Two looks like a dipshit to anyone that can read. And she aint winning any compassion points with the armless/legless crown either.

[Lobohan]

@Martin_Hyde

Holy shit, I have a lot to look down on in this thread:…
[snipped]
…What I wanted to say was “maybe next time you’ll be more careful when swerving between traffic on the interstate on a motorcycle.”

You enjoy that moral high ground, tiger.

[Una_Persson]

@Martin_Hyde

**Una Persson **- I mostly favor your side in this, but think it’s ridiculous you’ve shown so much emotion and caring about what people on the internet think or say about you. Who gives a shit that some bitch like Duke posts a whiny post?

I give a shit because Duke and his wife were good friends to us for many long years, and they are worthy of respect and being listened to and taken seriously by me. I know it’s online but I’ve never drawn a line between friends IRL and friends online, other than friends IRL might help you move or carpool with you or whatever. You may not relate to it, but I’m incredibly hurt over this incident.

[elucidator]

I see right there where you offered the olive branch. You’re doing the right thing, kiddo. Doesn’t always work, but is always worth it. Karmic upvote.

[bucketybuck]

@Una_Persson

this is another Sunday where I’m working all day

Oh yeah, rub it in why don’t you. :mad:

[Una_Persson]

@Derleth

For example: No major congenital disorders. No major acquired disorders. Very likely no major history of parental abuse/neglect/etc. No major accidents such as being hit by a drunk driver and left mentally negligible. And so on.

People don’t like to think of how lucky they had to have been to even be as well-off as they are.

On what authority are you making these claims about my life?

[billfish678]

@bucketybuck

Oh yeah, rub it in why don’t you. :mad:

I wouldn’t be so jealous. With all her posting I think its more like part time Sunday work. Plus remember she is working for free on weekends! Least you are getting paid nothing to do nothing

[Una_Persson]

@bucketybuck

Oh yeah, rub it in why don’t you. :mad:

Holy crap.

[Una_Persson]

@billfish678

I wouldn’t be so jealous. With all her posting I think its more like part time Sunday work. Plus remember she is working for free on weekends! Least you are getting paid nothing to do nothing

I can be on a conference call and yet still type on a message board.

[Martin_Hyde]

@Una_Persson

I give a shit because Duke and his wife were good friends to us for many long years, and they are worthy of respect and being listened to and taken seriously by me. I know it’s online but I’ve never drawn a line between friends IRL and friends online, other than friends IRL might help you move or carpool with you or whatever. You may not relate to it, but I’m incredibly hurt over this incident.

No I’m totally on board with online friends being just as “real” as offline friends; I met people in the late 80s/early 90s in early online text-based games that I’ve become true life long friends with for example.

I’m not even going to pretend I have a healthy or even productive way of interacting with people who are my friends, but I guess for me if a friend of mine decided instead of talking to me about something that upset them they were going to years later bring up their beef with me in front of tons of strangers to embarrass me the last thing I’d be thinking is they deserve my respect. But like I said, I’m not a good model for having a great and productive relationship with friends as I’ve cut off contact with many friends over the years over minor dustups because I have extremely low tolerance for BS like this.

[Martin_Hyde]

@Lobohan

You enjoy that moral high ground, tiger.

I think if I had actually said that I would have abandoned the high ground, but yeah, in that scenario I don’t think it was offensive that we were talking about people eating pizza with a fork just because one guy at the table had to eat pizza with a fork.

[Martin_Hyde]

@billfish678

Who said anything about walking on eggshells? How about just trying to not be a clueless dipshit. Una didn’t read the freaking two sentence OP and posted irrellevant shit. Then started a fight claiming stalking/something. Then snarked when she knew snarking was wrong (because she reported someone else for it). I doubt the SDMB rules allow for return defensive snark and she knows it.

To take you example and run (heh) with it:

Poster One. If you had no arms and legs would you be worried about trying to get a job?

Poster Una Two. I have arms and legs so I can get any job I want.

Poster Two looks like a dipshit to anyone that can read. And she aint winning any compassion points with the armless/legless crown either.

Her post in that thread was a little off topic but not up to the level of “being a clueless dipshit.” Every thread in the history of the SDMB has somewhat off topic posts in it.

That thread was about interview policies really, not a “pity party for out of work people.” If the thread had been a “pity party for out of work people” and she had made that post in it, I can see the legitimate claim that it was a threadshit, but that’s not what the actual situation was. I don’t think people with jobs should have to be hypersensitive to the jobless in any thread tangentially related to the job seeking world.

[hajario]

@Una_Persson

Holy crap.

bucketybuck was pretty clearly joking.

[Una_Persson]

@hajario

bucketybuck was pretty clearly joking.

See, this may be part of a long-term problem for me - I really couldn’t tell without additional context.

[billfish678]

@Martin_Hyde

Her post in that thread was a little off topic but not up to the level of “being a clueless dipshit.” .

She missed the KEY point of the thread. Then she got very mildly snarked for it. Then she went off the wall. So, yeah IMO in that thread she was bad. I don’t think its was even pit level bad until she doubled down here in the pit. And, AFIAC stuff like this isn’t her normal mode of operation.

But she screwed up. In more ways than one in that thread. And then she claims “what else could I do?” And I say an apology might have been nice (cause you know, she fucking asked). Next thing we according to her I am DEMANDING an apology and her crawling through BROKEN GLASS wouldn’t be enough for me.

JESUS CHRIST. Layoff the Redbull and put down the Soap Opera for Dummies book Una.

[RaftPeople]

@Martin_Hyde

Holy shit, I have a lot to look down on in this thread:

**Duke **- I’ve never noticed you on these boards before, but you come off as a whiny little pussy. You’re whining because you feel like some check you mailed to someone with no strings attached wasn’t sent under the exact circumstances you erroneously believed it was. You’ve then acted like some sort of person who has committed some monstrous offense when you were called out by the person that was the target of your screed, saying things like “oh I deserve to be banned for my horrific behavior.” That’s retarded.

**Una Persson **- I mostly favor your side in this, but think it’s ridiculous you’ve shown so much emotion and caring about what people on the internet think or say about you. Who gives a shit that some bitch like Duke posts a whiny post?

**billfish678 **- I’m sorry no, people with money and jobs have no obligation to walk on eggshells just because a bunch of people are out of work and we have to be afraid of offending them. That’s like saying I should avoid needlessly walking or using my arms around a quadriplegic.

This reminds me of an incident years ago when I was eating lunch with some people (pizza) and I brought up a story about how my grandmother never ate pizza until she was 80+ years old and when she did it was with a knife and fork because she was unaware of how it was normally eaten. I then brought up I was annoyed when people eat pizza with a fork since it’s traditionally hand food. Incidentally a guy I knew who was eating with us was nearly quadriplegic (paralyzed from the “shoulders down” and in his arms he only had movement of his triceps and two fingers on each hand, so not full quadriplegia but close) and he kind of bitchily brought up “well it’s a little hard when you have only two fingers on each hand to use.” That’s a bullshit thing for him to bitch about and I was under no obligation to avoid certain topics of discussion just because he might get mad about it.

I think I ended up saying “well you have an excuse, that’s not what I’m talking about.” What I wanted to say was “maybe next time you’ll be more careful when swerving between traffic on the interstate on a motorcycle.”

Now I am pissed off.

I’ve been reading this thread, weighing each post for validity and trying to create a model of what I think was really going on behind the scenes. Sometimes I may take a poster at face value, sometimes I think there might be something I can pickup “between the lines” as they say. I see a lot of emotion coming from a both sides, sometimes warranted sometimes not.

Then, I hit this post and I am absolutely fucking stunned. I can not believe what I have just read and my blood begins to boil. I am seriously foaming at the mouth right now and trying to control my temper, but I am losing that battle. And you want to know why I am so fucking pissed off?

I eat pizza with a fork.

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

@Lobohan

I am not a number. I am a free man!

Oooh, +1 for the Prisoner/Iron Maiden reference.

[Una_Persson]

@billfish678

JESUS CHRIST. Layoff the Redbull and put down the Soap Opera for Dummies book Una.

But then what? Face a life free of taurine and tears? :eek:

[Morgyn]

I miss scotticher. She’s one of the most loving, caring, wisest people I ever met. I see she’s still a Charter Member, but she hasn’t posted or visited in just ages. I’m sorry I lost touch with her IRL.

Duke, Una, I’m equally sorry a stupid misunderstanding seems to have bolluxed up what used to be a good friendship. It can’t ever be the same, I know, but the latest posts from both of you make me think it might be possible to mend things a little bit now that the air is cleared. I hope so. There are enough bad things in the world. Losing a friendship over a stupid miscommunication shouldn’t be one of them.

[Old_Eel]

I guess I might be ridiculed for saying so, but I don’t understand the level of nastiness on this board. I like the Straight Dope, but the board itself is enthusiastically cruel at times. I’ve been here a year but I don’t post very much because it’s like walking in a minefield.