Hey, anybody that can get a good bender going well before noon on a monday is somebody to be admired.
Bah, some of us are still drunk from Friday night.
I Heart GusNSpot.
Let’s not jump to conclusions. As I recall, the venerable GusNSpot has been quite vocal in his opposition to helmet laws.
I Agree
Calling her on it was the least of his intentions. What does accusations of misrepresentation and mishandling of funds have to do with calling somebody out for a snarky comment on a message board?
That’s like saying, " Oh she stepped on my toe and three years ago she killed my dog, burned my home and nuked my hometown. But, hey folks, all we’re talking about is the toe here."
So after he brought up a pile of shit from their history and dumped it on her she can’t fire a shot back? Did you ask him to back up all of his claims in the OP too?
Yes, I agree that was a stupid response. What she should have said was,"Take a look at Post # 1 of this thread. "
Then it looks like you have your positive proof that she’s delusional. Of course she might just be so rattled by the whole issue that she doesn’t want to answer.
If she had started the shit storm I’d agree with you.
Here’s a little social experiment. Go smack somebody upside the head and then quickly apologize. Smack them real hard now.
Quite possibly after you smack them they might say, “You Asshole!”.
At that point, jump on your high-horse and demand an apology from them for making such a terrible accusation about you.
Let us know how that works out for you.
I think you are confusing DSeid and Duke.
You didn’t read the thread very carefully did you?
There were three different issues being discussed by three different people/groups.
Una claiming DSeid was stalking her and Dseid (and others) thinking it was BS
Myself (and some others) thinking Una was being a jerk in the other thread but regarding jobs/joblessness/career greatness/something.
And somebody else miffed that Una stole money from orphans to buy a Corvette.
DSeid had little to nothing to do with the second and third group complaints. For that matter there wasn’t even much overlap between the three groups.
Though I think being able to piss off three different groups about 3 different things just from a handfull of posts in one short thread is something of accomplishment.
dammit!
I keep posting like this I may match that and go for the record.
Holy cow…Euty is here, and Scotti, and fierra?
It’s a reunion!
Margaritas all around!
Happens to the best of us sometimes. Do I still get to go around slapping people and claiming it’s an experiment? 'Cause I know a few folks who really could do with a good slapping…
Well, if you follow my instructions, I think that now you will have to slap one person and then apologize to another. But hey, I’m game if you are.
Right?! It’s like old home week here at the Dope.
I know! I’m totally making banana bread. And I’m taking requests for whatever y’all want to throw on the BBQ. (It is the Pit, after all.)
I just read your link to the comments on the calorie counting and the obese, Post 46 all of sudden you are getting all kinds of defensive and finger pointing and sounding paranoid as well.
ANyone getting tired of Dseid’s delusions about his delusions?
Write it all down, call it your manifesto, then go tell it to the judge!
I just read your post (this one, the one I quoted). For the first sentence you seem really rational and calm
Suddenly in sentence 2 it’s like BOOM!, you’re all defensive and stuff.
This post 46? Where after Una with no provocation from me referenced my earlier questioning the column as “the snark from some,” and then went on to state that if I wanted to criticize the column I should “Direct any further questions or comments about the due diligence of the column to either Cecil or his editor, Ed Zotti” I responded with:
is paranoid to you?
Well you are entitled to your assessment, but at least I am willing to point directly to the comments that I felt justified my words.
It is pretty clear that my criticism of that column a year and a half ago is what got me on Una’s enemies list. I stand by what I said there that she was having a problem dealing with disagreement about the column, and further by my assessment at the end of our interaction in this post
No doubt Una already upset that someone was calling her work inadequate did not take well to being told that the poster also felt that someone who could not tolerate having their work beat up should consider whether manning the “Comments about Cecil’s Columns” forum was a role they were suited for.
You may agree or disagree with that assessment, you may think I was mistaken in my positions, fair 'dat, but they were based on actual comments made, on events that actually took place.
Una’s belief in my stalking her however has NO basis in reality. It is based on her butt hurt over my having called her report inadequate a year and a half ago, and nothing more.
You must be a reader of P.G. Wodehouse! It’s the only other place I’ve seen this phrase used.
I really don’t get the whole anti-Una sentiment. Granted, for her to respond initially by pointing out that she’s sitting pretty job- and careerwise wasn’t entirely within the hypothetical framework set out in the OP, but so what? It’s an IMHO thread after all, and in no way was she threadshitting that I could see.
Sure, she’s been lucky in some ways; one way that applies to the vast majority of engineers, besides innate ability, is knowing they want to do this early in their undergraduate careers, in contrast to most of their undergraduate peers.
But as has already been pointed out, she’s been unlucky in other ways.
I think you could say the same about most of us.
Well Damn.
GusNSpot has turned into a drunk after 20 years of sobriety?
Thanks to those of you keeping score and paying attention for letting me know.
What a surprise.
I’m even married to him, live with him, and understand him perfectly.
It isn’t that difficult.