Well, for fuck’s sake, get back to work already! It’s the middle of August!
Just let me celebrate the 200th day of Christmas, okay?
I’m full of shit because I’ve never heard the phrase Christmas Holidays? Of course I’ve heard the song you twit. Nobody mentioned 12 days of Christmas, it was a quote that said Christmas Holidays. Say them out loud, the 2 kind of sound different when spoken.
So what else have I experienced in life? You seem to know pretty well all the phrases I’ve heard. What else?
For what it’s worth, duffer, I thought your comment was an innocent inquiry about a phrase you hadn’t heard before, and dropzone’s response was unnecessarily snotty.
'Tain’t really Pit-worthy, but I agree he done you wrong.
Yes, yes, you are.
But you’ve never heard of the Christmas holidays… and I’m the twit. Riiiight.
If someone celebrates the Christmas season over 12 days, wouldn’t it be safe to call those days “the Christmas holidays”? Or is that too much of a stretch for you?
No sense of proportion, that’s what you lack in experience, obviously. But hey, call me some more names, since that you obviously are experienced at in life.
I believe you too, duffer, because I’ve known the same sort of thing to happen to myself and others. For example, my ex had never heard the phrase “wax poetic” before and this is after almost 15 years with me (an avid reader) and at an age of 42, with a bachelor’s degree. So it’s not like he’s some oaf without nary a social grace. Also, we used to play softball with a guy (another mid-life adult) who’d never been exposed to “hot dog” before in the context of showing off. Lastly, it wasn’t until I saw the movie Spanking the Monkey that I became acquainted with it as that particular usage and I was probably about 35 at the time.
Therefore maybe I should just stand over here with you, also being full of shit. Whadaya think?
Would you freak out on someone for saying one of the phrases you’d never heard, open a Pit thread cussing him up and down, and then refuse to admit you’d overreacted? No? Then don’t stand over there with him.
No, I wouldn’t, and I do think he overreacted. But at the same time, if his initial inquiry was honest then I can at least understand the feeling behind why he did it. However, the reason I responded (and it’s not to pick on you Rubystreak – I apologize that it came out that way), is that I’ve seen a lot of this in the Pit lately… where someone makes an assertion based solely on their belief, only to have another call them on it definitively, and yet everyone involved knows the outcome cannot be proven either way.
Most recently that happened with one member swearing up and down that a guest was a sock. No matter what response was given, it was shouted down with ‘hosiery’ innuendos and the like. I’m thinking in that case, the then posts should have been reported to the mods if it was so all fired important. Here, object all over the place that duffer’s pitting was lame/that he needs to grow a thicker skin/whatever, but (grudgingly if necessary) allow the benefit of the doubt that, as unlikely as it may seem, he’s telling the truth.
I mean, I’ve seen him take quite a beating on the boards and always come back for more. I don’t feel he’d lie to further himself, especially over something that had been such a trivial thing anyway. Hope that makes sense.
There’s someone in this thread who’s overreacting, but it isn’t duffer.
It does. You did a better job of it than the OP. I retract anything I may have said to imply or assert that duffer was a liar. I do think, though, it might serve him well to consider first if maybe it was his own ignorance rather than freak out on someone. I’m sure dropzone thought that duffer was being deliberately obtuse about the Christmas holidays comment, and that’s why he snapped at him. “The Christmas holidays” is by no means a rare phrase in my experience. Thus, rather than post a very nasty Pit thread, ask a question of the person first, no?
No harm, no foul between us, faithfool. I think you’re a cool chick. I don’t have a particular problem with duffer either, I just feel like this thread is ludicrous.
Ah Rubystreak, you’re pretty cool yourself. (Oh noes!! Hugs in teh Pit!!11!eleventy-one!) We’re all good. And I do completely understand where all parties are coming from, I think. It just amazes me though how we all have such similar experiences in life and yet it’s all so unique. (Read in a Keanu voice: “Whoa. I feel like I need to now go contemplate the complexities of my hand.” 
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Now we can all be the mostest uniquest together. Hopefully we’ll all have a peaceful (nay, Silent) Night. 
I thought he was a rapper. Now he’s a thread?
Huh?
I said it on the first page; I’ll say it again. People, grow a skin, and don’t make the board your life.
Then you’d be wrong. I thought he was demonstrating both his ignorance of a very common usage AND of the first rule of passing yourself off as an intelligent person: you try to figure something out on your own before you ask about it. (“Christmas I know about, then there’s New Years and a couple Eves in there. I guess you could think of it as a plural, though I don’t recall hearing it before.”) And I thought his initial question was unwarrantedly snappish.
Were I in a bad mood, rather than enjoying watching Duffer flail in this thread, I might assume he had some nefarious, right-wing agenda about the murder of Christmas by secular humanists, though “Happy holidays!” was common greeting long before people were concerned with political correctness. But that would require deliberate obtuseness on his part and he does just fine without trying, mistaking my playful slaps, ala Muhammed Ali, for roundhouse punches. I accused him of racism? Not seriously, but he thinks so. He can’t land a solid punch but he thinks I’m sweating as hard as he is. Rather sad, actually.
You had to post this thread in August, when there are NO freaking Holidays, didn’t you?!
asshats
(asshat day-August 33)
Dude, that’s why you save vacation days (I have ten left, BTW Bronx cheer).
I just realized how impolite I’ve been! Thank you, duffer for only the second time I’ve been formally Pitted. Particularly odd, considering all the shit I say. Usually people are satisfied ripping me a new one in the the thread in question, though. Instead, you chose this amazingly stupid thread, and for that I thank you.
OK, fair enough. I agree that he should have asked a question of you before claiming he’d never heard the term before. Me, I still find it hard to believe anyone might not have heard of it before, not to mention figuring its existence on his own before having to question you about it, but if he didn’t, he didn’t. I’m not sure what that says about him, but along with this silly OP, I think it’s nothing good.
You’re being a pretty good sport about being Pitted, btw. He really went after you in that OP. I only jumped in after Ludacris called me up and told me about it. 
Ruby, I’ve said dumb stuff that deserved pitting and said dumb stuff that didn’t. THIS was so over-the-top that I was flabbergasted (and I put the “flab” in “flabbergasted,” to head off the obvious comparisons) he’d bother with a formal pitting. I see it as a symptom of mental illness and plan to use its memory as reason to write off anything else Duffer says, assuming I didn’t already. Which I pretty much do.