Buckety, I’m not awarding him any points at all. Not at all.
I am just expressing how irritating it is on this board, when one admits they were wrong on a topic that they were so certain they were right about, that people have to condescend to them. It doesn’t annoy me if you rub their noses in it. If you say, “Damn right you were wrong, suckaaaa!!!”
It is only grating when people start to talk to intelligent posters as if they are drooling idiots.
“Well, done, Dio! I’m soo proud of you for being able to comprehend the error of your ways. Doesn’t that feel great? To join the land of the Right and Correct? See? We knew you could do it!”
Sometimes these affirmations come from posters to posters that could easily bust their ass on any number of debates in GD and does so on a regular basis. Please spare them the patronizing nonsense. That is what I’m saying.
And I was really commenting on that phenomenon in general, and using this as a single loose example.
All right, he said he was wrong. Now did I miss the part where **ivn **posted, “Oh shit, I didn’t read the link in the OP, and just rapid-fired off a response about how annoyed I get whenever people say ‘assed.’”?
Huh. So if someone were an asshole in the face of a mistake, that wouldn’t bother you, but someone saying “well done on admitting your mistake” bugs you because that’s “condescending”? So bad behavior = acceptable, but an attempt at good behavior = unacceptable. How are people supposed to know this?
They don’t need to know it. It is just an annoying thing, that’s all. I can suffer an asshole worlds better than I can suffer a patronizer, because I think that is the assholiest form of assholism.
But again, that is just something that irritates me.
ETA: MeanOldLady, the funniest thing is, he didn’t just rapid-fire it off. It was an incredibly well-written, entertaining, beautiful piece of prose…and just dead-ass wrong. Ha!
Oh, I didn’t say it wasn’t funny or well-written. But hey, had he read the link in the OP, we may have never gotten that bit of hilarity. I say it’s still an overall win for the readers.
I drafted a post to point out that since the comments were neither to you nor about you, you really don’t have a dog in this fight, but then it occurred to me that neither do I.
I’m sure Idle Thoughts can take issue with you himself if he chooses, and I’m also sure if Dio feels condescended to, he can handle that himself as well. So I think I’ll leave it to them.
During a rugby game, you generally try to physically destroy the players on the other side.
After the game you shake hands, then get together to get shitfaced drunk, sing truly disgusting songs that offend even yourself, and cavort together in various states of undress while trying to gross out each other. There’s nothing condescending about it. (Juvenile, obscene and infectious, yes, but condescending, no.) Think of it as a form of closure that attempts to repair the interpersonal damage done during the violence of the match.
Alrighty: You’re a bit of a pain in the ass to just stop by to drop a turd on someone else’s attempt to be nice, just because in whatever warped mean little world you happen to live in, anyone trying to acknowledge that you’ve done the right and difficult thing, must be “condescending” to you.
Jodi, how about if I promise to never drop by IMHO, MPSIMS, CS, GD or the fucking BarnYard and 'drop a turd on someone else’s attempt to be nice"? Would you reconsider that maybe I’m not a pain in the ass in a warped mean little world then? Because I swear an oath to never ever do that.
This is largely why the sport is so minor in America, and so common in nations where the male population is predominately alcoholics and/or homosexuals.
Let Dio march to the river, there to perform the ancient Albanian rites of repentance, accompanied by a chorus of bitter virgins, intoning dirges of woe and humiliation.
How about this: In the apparent spirit of this thread, I will say that Dio was the original sinner in the “assed” incident, and that it appears, upon further consideration, that Muffin was possibly merely guilty of failing to use quotation marks or some other method of drawing attention to his sarcastic use of the redneck vernacular.
In my defense, I did glance at the linked post, but it triggered an incipient case of narcolepsy and/or African sleeping sickness. I “couldn’t be assed” (see how that works?) to slog through it, but suffice it to say, I was unaware of the alleged mocking tone of the OP.
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