QG didn’t say that’s the only way to gain life experience, just that it’s the way she gained it.
Well, interesting response - to something I never said.
No idea why you said that, either. Noplace did I say I didn’t get along with women. I get along with them just fine, thanks. Men, too.
Um, no. I figured that just by the outlandishness of the statement it would be obvious that it’s tossed out tongue-in-cheek.
It seems a concept too difficult for some to grasp that there are degrees of meanness and I’m anti- the extreme degree. BTW, have you yet seen me say to anybody
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I’m not suggesting that she said it was the only way to gain life experience. What I’m suggesting is that the reverse of that quoted statement implies that you can’t gain lots of life experience if you have siblings and are the average bear.
What is your glitch? I was asked my age and whether I have life experience. I do. Plenty. I saw no point in blathering on at length about my ‘life experience’. I chose not to and tossed out a few things that caused me to learn about life.
I ‘complained about it’ in a thread about how things that are supposed to be great in others’ eyes are not. Just like the people who were ‘complaining about’ being too attractive. :rolleyes:
I don’t say, nor do I think, that I’m ‘smarter than the rest of you’. If you must be all snarky, at least try to find something I actually said to snark about.
Um. This is not my thread. Yeah, I’m answering because it’s about me. I didn’t make it about me. You are displeased with a thread about QG, then go talk to the dude that began it in the first place. If people quit posting to it, I’m gone, too.
How in heaven’s name did you understand ‘only only children are smart’ from what I wrote? I said nothing of the sort, nor did I even imply it.
You’re kind of dull. Watching you try to defend yourself against charges of lying and hypocrisy? Kind of fun. Because, despite your alleged smarts, you can’t do it. The truth wins out over blathering bullshit. Everyone (with the few exceptions of people with your tongues in their asses) knows what you are.
Zoe: I write like a man? Is that a compliment or an insult? I’ll take it as more backhanded sexism. 
Huh? Why would you reverse the statement? What do you gain by deliberately reading something into what I wrote that was never there? Being an only child is one way to gain life experience; hardly the only way. Are you next going to play what I wrote backwards and accuse me of saying ‘Paul is dead’? 
Ruby, dear, really, take up knitting. You badly need a hobby.
No, it was said jokingly, she was comparing the US to Soviet Russia and that seemed so over the top, that I thought the only response was an old and tired joke. I don’t get paid to be a comedian and you can see why.
Boyo Jim, I am sorry you feel that way, I wonder what else I have done to annoy you. If by any chance you want to PM me about it, I would appreciate the feedback.
Quiddity Glomfuster, you can take this pitting in two ways. This can either be a simple pitting where a bunch of posters complain about how you come off as extremely condescending or you can take to heart that you often come off as extremely condescending and try to do something about it.
I listed a bunch of recent posts by you. You have a tone that is nasty and yet you constantly complain about the vileness of the pit. This is all up to you; many of your posts are innocuous or even insightful. You are much too quick with mocking and smug posts though.
Don’t take my word on it, I spend too much time in the pit. I am not a very nice person overall. However, if posters like **Sarafeena, Anaamika & twickster ** are taking note of your tone, you may want to consider this worthy of your notice.
BTW: I am not an atheist and I do not hate Christians. I am an agnostic and I do dislike many of the churches that lean towards fundamentalism in all religions.
Jim
I’m thinking early- to mid-twenties. It usually takes until late-twenties to early-thirties before it REALLY starts to sink in that no one outside of your family gives a rat’s ass how extra-special or bright you are.
A lot of people on this board have probably been given a hard time for being “too smart” in the past, but they’re grown-ups now, so they’ve let it go. A lot of people also probably had the little bit of culture shock that comes from being told that you’re a rare gem all through school, and then being Just Another Waste of Oxygen when they get out.
Yes, she has every right in the world to say whatever she likes in the Pit. That’s been established. However, as was mentioned earlier, everyone else in the Pit has the right to say what they like as well. Most people in this thread seem to feel that calling Quititty Glititty names and sneering at her is a satisfying use of their time and words. That’s their call. Neat, huh?
Me, I skim the Pit and read the rest of the board even less, and yet Quid-Pro-Glo has caught my attention and pinged my “someone else could be using that perfectly good skin” meter.
I listen to talk radio a lot, and even though I do not know them and will never meet them, and I know the magical little talking men in the radio-box can’t hear me, I still yell at the radio - “AAGGGGGH, you stupid COCKSUCKER…how the fuck do you remember to BREATHE, you genetic deformation? DID YOUR PARENTS HAVE ANY CHILDREN THAT LIVED???” - when they say something particularly annoying. I know it doesn’t matter to THEM, but it makes ME feel a lot better.
Fortunately for Quikkily Beflustered, she’s not particularly important and not at all famous, so the only people who wish she would erase her carbon footprint are we jagoffs on the SDMB. At least the fact that, unlike Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and Savage, she gets to see what people are saying about her gives her the entertainment advantage, no?
As a note, I know it’s incredibly lame and stupid to mock someone by making fun of their handle, but since it’s (imnpfho) even more lame and stupid to make PMS jokes and think a spelling correction is a “gotcha!” I figured I was allowed this time.
You forgot sanctimonious bitch. How convenient.
I’m done feeding this troll, she’s backpedaling and trying to mask, tone down her personality in this thread . Unfortunately, I don’t have the time today to try to invite her to reveal her true colors. Which , in her response to Ruby, is actually quite entertaining.
You are good at this, I give you credit for that, Quiddity.
I expect this will be the first pitting of many.
Agreed, you said nothing of the sort, and it wasn’t my point. What you did say is that you have lots of life experience and it comes from being an only child and smart. When I first read that I thought, “Yeah? Well I have lot’s too, and I’m the opposite of you.”
Quiddity, I have no beef with you beyond this thread. I’m merely trying to point out a flaw in the logic of this statement, or at least what I see to be a flaw. Then again, I’m an average bear, so I’m a little slow sometimes.
On preview, I don’t have to accuse you of anything. I know Paul is dead, as it was I that killed him in the first place.
I’d encourage QG to ponder why it is that she is perceived this way by a lot of otherwise level-headed folks here, and encourage her also to consider that it may be a flaw in the way she communicates, not a flaw in all those disparate posters.
When my nurses tell me I’m regularly acting curmudgeonly, abrupt, and condescending, I don’t start telling them why their perceptions are wrong, I look at my own behavior to see how it is that I’m conveying such a message, even (especially) when I don’t think such is my intent.
I think she is a very good example of someone who, for whatever reason, has developed a very strong overestimation of her strengths and a fairly poor estimation of her weaknesses.
That is probably related to her inability to follow through on a debate or discussion that she is failing to defend well. Generally she’ll fall back on diversions or simply withdraw altogether. She was very, very willing to tell one and all exactly what Richard Dawkins has to say in his books, until I asked her whcih books of his she has read. It turns out that it is none of them. However, she wouldn’t answer that in the thread in question, but simply stopped posting there. When I pressed her in a different thread in the pit, she finally answered that she was familiar with his writing through some short unspecified article and a correspondence she claims to have had with him.
QG, you really aren’t all that bright, nor are you especially interesting. You are, on the other hand, painfully obvious and, honestly, fairly pathetic. I hope you are able to do a little reflection based on this feedback and do find some ability to grow and mature from it a bit.
You’d best tell him, then. He seems to be under the impression that he’s still very much alive.
My experiences come from lots more than being an only and a ‘brain’ as classmates would say. Those were just the things kick-started the ‘life experience’ business. I could prattle on about all the things that have happened to me, but to what end? Either people read experience into what I write or they do not - one lesson among many that I’ve learned is that people will cling to their perceptions even in the face of faultless logic (and no, I’m not saying my logic is ‘faultless’ 
) so beyond a cursory attempt to correct them, the exercise is generally futile. The detractors either think I’m young and stupid or old and stupid - whatever floats their boats
“Only child” and “read a lot” tend to make me think that “interacting with other people such that I get some feedback on how I come across to them” isn’t among your life experiences.
Oh, and BTW, it’s “hare-brained,” not “hair-brained.” Gotcha ya!
And Hama – I agree. My guess would be no older than 25, but probably at least 20.
I fully understand why some people think that way. It is not my goal in life to get the planet to love me. I do tell it like I see it and sometimes it sounds harsh. Oh well. People don’t like that I don’t like how they eviscerate others in the Pit. Too bad. I’m not impressed by people who fight for the right to attempt to slice people into tiny shreds and I’ve no desire to win the liking or respect of anyone who thinks that’s a grand way to live one’s life.
People IRL used to accuse me of being abrupt, etc. I mended that. I tend to try to be brief when I answer people because I don’t want to take up too much of their time - turned out that my attempt to not impose on them was taken to be dismissive. I didn’t want them to feel that way so I changed. It made a big difference.
I don’t write the same way. I have found that some people on message boards seem to want a long song-and-dance about one’s life story and all the information behind why a person thinks the way she does. I don’t see the point in that and don’t plan to change that about how I post. I offer my opinion, and if people don’t like it, oh well. I have plenty of fans; really more than I ever expect to have, and that fact always humbles me. I don’t need masses more.
The people that ‘get’ me are generally the ones I’d hope would ‘get’ me. I’m content with that. As I said to Mellivora capensis, it’s quite evident that people like who they like and won’t be persuaded otherwise so it’s not really worth trying to win over detractors.
The salient point, for me, is that when people on a board think I’m male, they respond very differently to me. That very thing is a reason I don’t plan to change. It’s offensive to me that my opinions are admired so long as I’m not female and holding them.