Ed – thanks for posting to the SDMB. I appreciate your commentary and the work you do for Cecil, the SDMB, and the TM. My enjoyment of the SDMB has always been enhanced by its admin and moderators.
I read Ed’s post and confess that I missed all the innuendo that many other readers picked up. Call me naive but I thought it was just a little tongue-in-cheek (no pun intended) repartee.
Events such as these highlight the fact that human adults have control over their own emotions. No one can “make” a human adult angry – anger is internal, not external. So it is with all emotions – they come from within. That being said, the folks who were angered or offended throughout this thread may want to take a moment for some self-examination. This episode may be an ideal opportunity to determine what internal stimulus led to such an intense emotional discharge.
If, before, during, or after this self-examination, anyone feels the need to absent themselves from the SDMB, I will regret the loss.
Hey! I finally agree with kelli- please unregister her asap.
Both of Ed’s posts here have made me smile little- and when I read kelli’s posts I am suddenly intensely aware of my ulcer. As far as I’m concerned, Ed is the Tylenol in this thread and kelli is the headache (metaphor- okay??). And I don’t hold mods, et al. to any higher standard. In my eyes, they are just members with the additional responsibilities of babysitting & house cleaning. Hell, they should be allowed to dump on us at least once a month for all the mess we make in their house. I don’t act any differently towards them just because the word mod or admin shows up under their names when they post.
I, for one, would be D-lighted to be on the receiveing end of a Zotti-Zinger®. I’d zing right back, and then everybody would have a hearty chuckle and move on to the next topic. That’s the way these boards should work, and I hope that’s the direction they take as certain members slowly begin to unregister- it’s natural selection as applied to message boards. Darwin would be proud.
Come on now. Nice attempt at spin, but you are totally discounting external stimulus as playing any part in the realm of human emotion. If what you are saying is absolutely true, then it’s obvious that there’d be no need for a “Don’t be a jerk rule” because, hey, what would be the harm of being a jerk?
I’m a living, breathing example of external stimulus and let me tell ya…some people don’t exactly enjoy having their internal emotion controls tested by my external stimulus.
I would like to bring everyone’s attention to the following thread wherein kellibelli does, indeed, complain that her lover will not go down on her. Pay particular attention to the post stamped 09-12-1999 07:45 PM http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/002253.html
You know I like and respect you Drain, but I didn’t see it as lesbian reference either.
Once more thing Kel, go play the martyr somewhere else. Your act is getting tiresome. If you don’t want snide comments made about your sex life DON’T FUCKIN POST THEM FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE!
I also failed to see the lesbian reference. In fact, I took it exactly the way kellibelli herself said it in the original post–she said he was a he, and she said it was purely sexual. She appeared to be upset at making assumptions–Ed clearly was assuming that the male individual referenced by k. as joining her in a sexual relationship was not her boyfriend, just as she had stated!
And I have to agree that this is one of the more amusing threads. Fighting ignorance indeed…
Now, we can split hairs all we want about the difference between “sexual well being” and plain ol’ vanilla “well being.” But suggesting that Ed first forged the link between Kelli’s beau’s aversion to oral spelunking and Kelli’s state of mind is cutting those words pretty finely.
Sorry, I’m going to have to overrule Goldie’s objection.
