I hear last season they really took it on the chin when they engaged with Ball State.
Well its happening now,my fine young bucko!
I happen to think, er that is KNOW that the O.P. isn’t actually the O.P. but someone else.
So THERE hah hah,got you eh!
Also as **zoe **can quite confidently tell you I myself am NOT me!
I’m not myself today.
From another thread
Huh.
Interesting. Ignorance has never stopped Zoe before. I’m also pleased to see her admit that her negative feelings towards Rand Rover caused her to make her ignorant accusations. That’s exactly the point Fenris was trying to make in this thread: Zoe accuses people not because she has any actual evidence, but because she has a personal grudge against the person and seeks to discredit them by any means possible, even if she has to fabricate something. I think that’s pretty much the textbook definition of mean-spiritedness, something of which she has accused me of (among others) many times. I hope her apology to Rand Rover is an indication that she has begun to self-reflect about this tactic and will think twice before using it in the future.
I have the same thoughts as Rubystreak, and would like to add that Zoe owes a few more apologies in the same vein.
Well, if Zoe is taking this pitting to heart, then good on her. It’s always a pleasant surprise when a pitting has a positive result.
I don’t know if I could match Rand Rover’s graciousness and all-around forgiving, affable tone.
If you tried really hard you might come close. Give it a shot.
If she ever apologized to me, I think I might die of shock. I highly doubt it will ever happen, as I’m sure she doesn’t believe she did anything wrong in accusing me of lying about being a woman, or a teacher. In fact, I PM’ed her about how her accusations made me feel, and she was quite callous and unrepentant about it, going so far as to insinuate that the fact that I cared what she thought proved that there was something to her allegations. With logic like that, there’s no room for compassion or rationality.
However, if she ever did apologize, I’d accept it. One gets so few apologies in life, one can’t afford to turn away any that are remotely sincerely offered.
Apparently apology deflation is less prevalent in Rand’s area.
Aw. come on, Rubystreak, you’re killing me here. At least you can keep her on tenterhooks wondering how her apology will go over with you. Accepting in advance takes all the tension from the act of composing the apology for her. I like to think of her worrying “If I say this, will it seem snarky? How about that? Maybe if I put this word in, no one will notice its ambiguity…” (Not that it’s happening anyway, but still…)
That story doesn’t surprise me, but I wish I could say it did. There’s an aspect to Zoe’s character I just don’t understand…clearly, she’s spent her life caring for and helping others, and she has made it a point to stand up for what’s right. This I truly admire. But around here, God help you if you show the tiniest bit of human vulnerability around her…she will use it as a weapon.
I don’t want to be part of a pile-on here, but if you read the post, I’m not sure anything has been taken to heart. Zoe appears to be apologizing to Rand Rover only because she isn’t qualified to judge whether or not he is really a tax lawyer, not because she has decided it’s wrong to keep speculating on people’s identities, as she has done to other people in the teaching profession, which she may still feel qualified to judge. Maybe I’m reading too closely, and if so, I apologize to Zoe, but I don’t think I am.
Zoe, if you’re still reading at this point, you know most of our interactions have been positive and I’ve appreciated the supportive things you’ve said about my brother over the last couple of years. Do you not see what the problem is here? It’s true that people have occasionally tricked the board, or tried to, and been called on it. That stuff does happen online. Trying to call out impostors in public is stupid. When I think somethings up I try to figure it out and then *keep it to myself unless I *know - not intuit - that I am right. It’s harmful to the people you’re wrongly accusing, and I’d be seriously embarrassed to get this kind of thing wrong even once, let alone multiple times.
At the risk of encouraging tattling, if you actually think somebody’s a fraud, tell the mods instead of going after them in public.
The first time I saw her do it was right after the whole Kaitlyn/NumberSix fiasco, as I think I mentioned before, and I thought, WTF? I thought it was completely out of character. And yet, since then, I’ve seen her pull it again and again, and I’ve really, really lost a lot of respect for her. Zoe can be nice-but unfortunately, she has this really nasty, hateful streak. And it’s not just in playing detective. She’s right-and everyone else is wrong.
(She was actuallying calling up universities, didn’t she say, to check out prr?)
I ejaculate female sperm.
There. I said it. Before Zoe does.
Oh no, not the “wonderful woman sperm” again!
:eek:
The thought of someone crazy in the way that Zoe seems to be, educating (deprived) young people, is rather unsettling. I wish her students all the best!
And of course, she’s still reading…:rolleyes:
Come on Zoe, say something!
Oh yeah, I’m really worried about keeping her on tenterhooks. She thinks I’m a hateful, mean, awful, rotten, evil person, possibly a troll if I’m just pretending to be who I say I am, and I deserve whatever degrading cruelty she throws my way. I’m also a liar, a deceiver, and not even a woman. So really, I expect nothing but silence from her in this thread, and from what I’ve heard, snarking on me behind my back where she knows I won’t respond to her. It’s too bad, because like I said, I accept sincere apologies.
If she wants me to expire from surprise, though, she might apologize as a way of snuffing me out. That would be a clever strategy indeed.
Yep. There are times when one should choose to remain ignorant. That was one of them. 