Different opinion? Nope, that doesn’t set-off my Batshit Crazy Meter. I regularly engage with folks who have different political, social, religious and ethically different opinions to me, and whilst we might agree to disagree, apart from that there’s no angst from either side. It’s what normal people do in their daily social intercourse.
But you’re a bit different curlcoat. It’s not that your opinion is odious, it’s your ability to argue your POV that falls into the crazy category. Y’see, you can’t. You think you’re clever and oh so adept at debating, but you’re out of your depth on this board. And the harder you try to get your point across, the deeper you fall into the guano pit.
You start off with dodgy premises, try to draw conclusions from those, and when called out on them you cry foul. Maybe you should take your ‘Entitlement Sunglasses’ off and take a look at the world with a bit more perspective and a goodly dose of reality.
This is a common problem for people who have that special combination of stupidity and unpleasant opinions. They tend to stupidly believe that any criticism leveled toward them is simply due to terrible prejudice, rather than taking at look at themselves and wondering why almost everything they say is met with insults. They also tend to share their poorly reasoned thoughts without understanding the inevitable negative responses that are mostly due to their poor reasoning and often subpar communication skills.
Curlcoat has the added issue of especially vile opinions, a nasty vicious attitude, and an almost unbelievably small vocabulary. Honestly, I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered another full grown adult who was capable of writing so much while actually saying so little.
I don’t really get it. If I came upon an internet message board populated by people who had ideas I almost universally disagreed with and many of whom were more or less constantly telling me that I was stupid and unwelcome - particularly if it consistently made me so angry that I found myself lashing out at nearly everyone present - I would leave. And yet, she persists. What’s in it for her?
Well, I’ve argued in certain threads without very many people agreeing with me and nobody sharing the entire set of premises that supported my contention. I still feel that exposing other individuals to novel vantages (even if only so that their arguments against them are refined) is a worthwhile task. Perhaps she feels accustomed to this forum or is interested in a particular subset of threads? I know I’ve found it difficult to leave forums where I was loathed as they contained some interesting information.
Hell, perhaps there aren’t any forums dedicated to modern eugenics?
Oh, I understand that. I’m sure we’ve all had threads where we felt that we were fighting against the masses. Hell, there are some subjects that come up here regularly and I know I’ll disagree with the basic premise right off. But for most people it happens only occasionally, not all the time.
I’ve never received the kind of vitriol that curlcoat receives regularly. Now, I understand that she thinks she is getting that response because we’re all a bunch of awful meanies and that she doesn’t get that she is bringing the vitriol on herself. Regardless, I think I would stop hanging out somewhere if I frequently got the kind of responses she gets, especially if it got me as worked up as she gets. But maybe I don’t see the appeal of the kind of recreational hatred she seems to enjoy.
No its not just a different opinion. I’m a (mostly) conservative on a very liberal message board. If I felt that way I would be calling everyone around here crazy. You are special.
It’s really pretty simple. She just enjoys the attention she gets. Look at the way she bumped this thread back up after it had gone idle, just to stir things up again. I get the sense that getting involved in multipage flamefests on the SDMB is her primary social outlet.
What does that have to do with anything? Either there is someone posting in there that is crazy (doubtful) or you have decided they are crazy because they don’t match some prior decision of yours. Or, I suppose, you could have made them crazy if they care about your opinions.
That does sum you up pretty well, doesn’t it? You aren’t smart enough to understand what is being said, and if you don’t happen to like the opinion, that person must be smashed under the weight of your witty insults. Such as…
Almost none of this is true of me. Simply because you and a few others think an opinion is vile doesn’t make it so, I have certainly never just dropped into a thread to attack you (or anyone else) and spread lies, and as for the small vocabulary, well gee I’m sorry that I have trouble with language but since you seem to have a lot of trouble understanding small words why would I go looking for big ones?
Little of that is true; again, you just don’t seem to be able to separate your feelings and opinions from fact. There are plenty others who have some of the same opinions I do (unlike you, I would never expect another person to agree with me on everything) but they either don’t have the time or the stomach to put up with your nastiness. As for you calling me stupid and unwelcome, I merely consider the source. Angry? Never. Maybe frustrated or irritated, but there isn’t anything in here that I care enough about to get angry over. Try reading without putting *your *emotions into my posts. Or realize that you are merely a way for me to kill time while I wait for my back to quit hurting or I’m resting or whatever. I am assuming that you bother with this just to kill time at work, but if you are actually this sort of person IRL, I worry about you. And any childless people around you.
Not to mention all the threads on other subjects that I start/post in that you seem to ignore…
The major reason why I post about pregnancy, babies and children is because the whole attitude surrounding them these days is so alien to me. I don’t like any of it and over the years the fact that I’ve been vilified for it has turned the “not like” into a more active dislike and avoidance. But of course I’m not allowed to just ignore pregnancy and kids, I’m required to accept them into my life whether I want to or not. So, on one hand I push back, trying to get some peace from it all, and on the other hand, I try to figure out why anyone would think that they have the right to force their personal decisions off onto me and my life.
As most folks dedicate themselves to having and raising children, I’ve done that with dog sports. Aside from the fact that what is extremely important to us is considered to be unimportant by those on the outside, we are also facing a lot of restrictions, bans and problems while children run amok over the landscape. Frustrating. People have three kids and then insist that I reduce my carbon footprint. Irritating. Woman across the street has two toddlers that she cannot be bothered to watch then comes over to complain to me that my dog is laying on my lawn. Potentially a major problem. People with/who love children are very much in the majority so they have no problem trampling on other peoples rights.
And, I try to understand the mindset. The same way most people seem to feel about babies, I feel about kittens - nothing will make me smile and melt faster than a kitten, and nothing will trigger my rescue instinct faster than a kitten in trouble. I would never support the decision to put a kitten into a bad situation, yet people throw parties to celebrate a pregnancy that is going to have a baby born into a bad situation. Don’t get it - do they merely like the idea of babies? Does their love of babies blind them to all else, or make them believe everything will work out? Are they unable to learn from the mistakes of others? I really don’t get it. For some reason despite the fact baby-lovers are in the majority, far too many of them are hyper sensitive to any questions or criticisms to be able to discuss it in any sort of rational way - the most common answer I get is “that’s the way it is baby hater!”. Yeah, that’s intelligent.
To be fair, I don’t think this thread is a valid example, if that is indeed part of her motivation. I don’t see a single post of hers in this thread that was more than a day after the previous post. Maybe that counts as “bumping” to you, but I think that description is a stretch.
As for the rest, I can’t really get behind this pitting. Sure. some of her opinions seem to be odious, and she flails when she tries to argue, but so what? I find it easy not to participate in her threads.
I do agree with MsWhatsit that you are giving her more attention than she warrants.
Roddy
Just can’t stand having the focus off you, huh? I think MsWhatsit is right, you really get off on this.
Anyways, as you very well know, you have ‘dropped into’ threads just to insult me on several occasions. Notably, the ‘loud motorcycles’ thread already mentioned - you brought up something totally off topic and tried to send that thread off the rails. I know you’ll insist once again that it wasn’t off topic, but that doesn’t make it so.
I think you also know that I have no trouble at all with ‘small words’ - when I don’t understand your posts, it’s because they often appear to be written by a chimpanzee under the influence of strong barbiturates. I know you’ll think that this is just a random insult, but it’s not - you seriously have an exceptionally small vocabulary for a grown ass adult. I think this is particularly noticeable because of your tendency to write giant screeds.
See, this is the problem. This has been explained to you over, and over, and over again for pages and pages and pages. This is why people dislike you - you can’t say “hmm, that’s interesting but I disagree” or “huh, I never thought of it that way before”, you always just say “but whhhyyyyyy? Whhyyyy can’t everybody else just live exactly the way I think is right?”. The way you argue makes you appear stupid and stubborn. I personally think that you are an asshole, but more importantly, you argue like an asshole. if you changed your behavior, you’d get different results. Nobody is saying that you have to agree with everything, and nobody is saying that you are not entitled to your opinion. It’s the way you go about it that’s the problem. Your inability to tell the difference is mostly just sad.
And you insisting that it was doesn’t make it so either. Plus, that was one thread, singular, whereas you seem to follow me about hoping to be able to spread more lies.
Shrug. No body seems to have trouble understanding me IRL or in other threads. As a matter of fact, I think you might be the only one claiming you cannot understand what I post, but even if it is true that my posts could be difficult to parse, the adult thing to do would be to ask for clarification, not poke fun. Do you also point and laugh when you come across a, say, Downs person?
Cite that I have ever said that, or something even close. I won’t hold my breath tho, since I still haven’t seen any cites for any of the other things you claim.
As for whether anything has been explained to me, when people insist on going off topic, throwing around insults and just generally acting like jackasses, that is not explaining anything.
Another shrug. You having a problem with how I debate has become zero interest to me. I doubt you have been anything but rude to me from the beginning, so I really fail to see why I should be concerned with your opinions on anything I do. Meanwhile, back at the other thread, there are people who are actually addressing my questions and doing so without being jerks. Amazing huh? You should try it.
And you have been not only no help, you have been an active hindrance. Way to fight ignorance.
Really? You find it doubtful that a thread which was active for over six months and was 72 pages long had someone in it that was crazy?
I’ll give you some clues. There were guesses that maybe Sandusky was teaching a boy how to shower. Or maybe he and the boy were playing keep-away with the soap. The thread went on for 23 pages after this shit was posted:
I think she just means she is forced to coexist with other human beings, and some of them have the audacity to become pregnant and have kids, even though Queen Curlcoat has decreed that it’s a bad idea.
I find it doubtful that any poster who has been on this board for more than a few weeks is crazy, as I think the mods would cut them out of the herd pretty quick.
Well, that was gross, I’ll give you that.
I raised two of my brothers, but it’s obvious that you know that isn’t what I meant.
I actually have no dog in this fight, as I know you and I are never going to be on the same page WRT babies, kids, or a woman’s right to breastfeed in public, and that’s just how it is and will always be. But the fact that you think the mods would do anything about someone just on account of their being crazy is bemusing.