# Guinastasia, Walk Away from the computer **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 15, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431 "2006-03-15T07:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/281 "2006-03-20T03:39:32Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > …I couldn’t care less if you were eating flaming balls of poo and washing them down with rubbing alcohol… She’ll never get laid _that_ way! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/282 "2006-03-20T07:31:26Z")
> [@stochastic](#): > > Naw. See, while Guin is gunning for the highest post/day record, I’m shooting for the low end: least posts per day by an active member (does the post rate thingy even go below 0.1?) … Sorry friend, you’re not even [close](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=305268&highlight=yetilurker). ---
**Author:** ![korkiemb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c5a1d2/32.png) [@korkiemb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/korkiemb)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/283 "2006-03-20T15:05:41Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Just wanted to say congratulations **Guin**. I know that being in a similar boat, I long to hear of others doing really well. And hope that I can someday (soon?) say the same thing. Good luck with continuing down the right path! Yeah - What the fool said… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/284 "2006-03-20T21:23:12Z")
What I really want to know is… How did the date go, **Guin**?!?! 🙂 Seeing as how you were sharing and all… [sup]Yes this is very MPSIMSy, but I don’t give a flying rats ass - it was brought up here, I’m following up here. Don’t like it? Tough titty.[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/285 "2006-03-21T04:33:05Z")
Fine. It wasn’t a romantic date, mostly a get together with a friend. Except I ate too much greasy food-ugh. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/286 "2006-03-21T05:12:38Z")
I’m just coming in to say that I enjoy **Guin** ’s posts, even the ones I don’t agree with. Why does anyone on this board want to censor another poster? It’s contrary to the spirit of the fight against ignorance. Isn’t it great to be able to post what you want without being filtered or censored? Remember the Golden Rule, and it’s not the one that says “He who has the gold makes the rules”. All of this has been said before, and undoubtedly will again. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/287 "2006-03-21T14:53:49Z")
> [@The Mad Hermit](#): > > Why does anyone on this board want to censor another poster? It’s contrary to the spirit of the fight against ignorance. Like when **Guin** told another poster not to listen to **AHunter3** (not battle him with contrary information, but actually say “don’t listen to him”), then create a Pit thread telling him to [SHUT THE FUCK UP](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=362400) about a topic he does have intimate knowledge of, just because his ideas disagree with hers? I generally enjoy Guin’s posts, but that was one of the most egregious shutdown tactics I’ve seen here. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/288 "2006-03-21T16:09:07Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Especially when you consider that this is the guy who has a website devoted to keeping track of all of our little upsets and foibles, complete with cross-references and links to our profiles, listing Pittings, and meltdowns. :dubious: Guin, you slammed me a couple of years ago on one of those sites when I had a meltdown. > [@Guinastasia 2004-04-14 23:38](#): > > Oh bullshit. > > elmwood is acting like a world class fuckwad. For all we know, Sis could have some serious issues of her own, and for whatever reason, this may be the best. > > Elmwood didn’t even give them a chance before he went apeshit all over the place. > > No one OWES anyone a relationship here. > [@Guinastasia 2004-04-15 01:23](#): > > [snip] > > He said he’s the classic “nice guy”, and he fits that to a T. The needy, manipulative, passive-aggressive jerk who goes around whining when no one likes him. > > Yeah, I feel bad for him, but I’m tired of everyone giving him hugs and validation. The situation was hard for everyone involved. But all we heard about was HIS pain, and how he HAD to strike back. I was sympathetic until he started saying he wanted to cause her to have a breakdown. > > The man needs help, and he ain’t gonna get it by people hugging him and validating his childish actions. Pot. Kettle. You know the rest. Off-board issue, I know, but it’s the only way to point out your hypocrisy. By the way, fuck you. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/289 "2006-03-21T17:19:18Z")
Keep off-board stuff _off_ our board. That applies to both **Guinistasia** and **Elmwood** in this particular instance, as well as anyone who’s tempted to track more mud on our carpets. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/290 "2006-03-21T17:33:40Z")
Well now. That’s one way I didn’t expect this thread to go… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/291 "2006-03-21T22:23:56Z")
I said that off-board? Maybe it came up on the SDMB LJ community, or Fathom. But I don’t go behind peoples’ backs to talk about them. **davenportavenger** , my problem with **AHunter3** is that he tends to make generalizations, and is extremely biased. I don’t blame him for his experience, but it tends to get on my nerves at times, and he seems a little too vocal about it. To be fair, I was probably pretty snarky, and I could have been more tactful. I appologize for that. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/292 "2006-03-21T22:44:59Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I said that off-board? Maybe it came up on the SDMB LJ community, or Fathom. But I don’t go behind peoples’ backs to talk about them. See, exactly my point. You don’t knowwhen toshutup. Have you met FinnAgain? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/293 "2006-03-21T23:11:37Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > **davenportavenger** , my problem with **AHunter3** is that he tends to make generalizations, and is extremely biased. I don’t blame him for his experience, but it tends to get on my nerves at times, and he seems a little too vocal about it. To be fair, I was probably pretty snarky, and I could have been more tactful. I appologize for that. Well, I’d use the term “opinionated”, but yeah I’m far from neutral and disinterested. As for making generalizations, well — > [@](#): > > my position is that the ultimate legitimacy of theory depends upon the art (not the science) of generalizing: to see your own personal situation as a situation that could be occupied, interchangeably, by other people, and their situation by yourself, for that matter. A sense of what is meaningful, good, right, or socially permissible runs the high risk of being self-centered in a micro-level version of ethnocentricity unless it can be abstracted so that what is right or meaningful is understood to be a product of context and interaction, not just of who happens to be contemplating the specific action at a specific time under specific circumstances. Although there are ethical problems with the process of generalizing, I think that there are definitely problems also with not doing so. (from my paper [here](http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/RFvLitCrit/content.html)) So, anyway: I finally get Pitted! Rite of passage and all that rot. (Actually, I got pitted [once before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=74621) but it was mostly over a misunderstanding. The board was theoretically going to completely get rid of threads that hadn’t been posted to since some cutoff date, and **Ed Zotti** told us to bump any threads we wanted to preserve before they did so. This is the first time I’ve been pitted where it felt “for real”). No hard feelings. I may not agree with your opinions, either about psychiatry or about my posting habits re: matters psychiatric, but I’ll try to listen nevertheless. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/294 "2006-03-21T23:12:53Z")
Well, fair enough then. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/295 "2006-03-21T23:17:32Z")
This thread isn’t composting. It just keeps stinkin’ up the joint. Enough already. Closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431.md?page=14)