Oh, that’s priceless. Let’s see how that flies for anyone else.
No, all scumbaggery was mine. Another mod responded to picunurse’s post report and cced the other MPSIMS mods; I didn’t realize that the email was to picunurse, I thought it was just an FYI to the mods on a decision not to act on something, so I hit “reply all” and said something obnoxious.
And, yes, the old saying is “even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while,” I wasn’t specifically calling picunurse a pig.
Just generally?
I’ve gotten mod emails by accident before. After the alcoholism thread incident I got an email presumably meant for Twicks congratulating her on well she’d handled herself. So, mods, be more careful in who you send your emails to!
Twickster is a shit mod. You know it, I know it, Cecil knows it, Ed knows it.
No one can truly be surprised by this turn of events, I’m certainly not.
When it comes to this Mod it appears there is nothing that is ‘too much’, to those in power. A shame the customers don’t get a say. I think we all know who’d get voted off the island!
I don’t believe I’ve bashed any customers today, but there’s still morning left to go through so let’s see what happens. 
We are all members of this community and I hope that we treat one another with respect. It’s possible to disagree with someone and not be ugly about it. Moderators are tasked with pointing out infractions of the rules and doing so in a civil fashion.
The way you answered drachillix’s question without actually answering it, I think you’d do very well in politics.
Why don’t you tell us all the times you thought the moderators were wrong and you guys see where you agree? That would be fun.
Maybe you are. Maybe your (in the opinion of the mods) hit rate is very high. Or maybe they say all kinds of shit about you off the record. Or about me for whatever I do that some must hate. I don’t know. None of the possibilities would shock me. One mod thinks picunurse reports without cause too often. And expressed that thought, presuming privacy, with an old fashioned metaphor. It got out (by her own fuck-up). She apologized. And the big shit is?
picunurse is a big kid now and I would hope can take that some other kid said something mildly unflattering behind his/her back.
I nominate this for the Congressional Non-Answer of the Year Award.
It’s a very common phrase, and all it means is (rough description)that someone who does something over and over again is bound to get it right eventually. I think it’s an old Italian saying, but I could be mistaken.
I like cheese.
More than anything, I’m just baffled why you would even want to send a snide e-mail about her in the first place. Has **picunurse **ever been anything but nice? Ever?
Then I am glad that we have different definitions of “fun”.
If they do, I just gave myself a nice nickname for them to use!
Well now the blind pig dug up some truffles. Can they serve that too?
Had the email picunurse mistakenly received been followed, say an hour later, by another wherein Twickster, still unaware of the additional cc, apologized to the other mod for the snarkiness and explained it as a result of her mood for the day, I’d be right there with you. If something came out wrong, or you were uncouth due to temporary circumstances, the right thing to do is to proactively make an apology to anyone affected. In this case, Twickster thought she had sent a snarky comment to a fellow mod, so the comment about having a bad day should have been sent to the fellow mod, unasked for. The fact that picunurse was an unknown participant in the conversation should not have altered this pattern of behavior. A follow-up which said something like “[fellow moderator], I shouldn’t have said that about picunurse, I can only beg forgiveness and explain that it’s been a really crappy day. Thanks again for passing the report on to me, I’ve taken care of it.” This preserves the relationship with the fellow moderator, who doesn’t want to be a source of stress by trying to help out and redirecting reports, and is the right thing to do with regards to a remark made out of frustration. If you have a genuine issue with someone’s reporting of threads or other attempts to assist in keeping the community running smoothly, then approach them with it openly instead of snarking about it behind their back. They’d probably be happy to receive some guidance on what is move-worthy and what isn’t.
The apology coming only after the revelation of picunurse’s participation in the correspondence makes it unclear if the motivation was remorse or face-saving. The former deserves consideration and sympathy, the latter deserves derision and apathy.
Enjoy,
Steven
I’m Italian with an Italian father and Italian Grandparents, I grew up working in my dad’s store surrounded by Italian customers…I’ve never heard it.
I don’t know the phrase, but Googling “blind pig looking for acorns.” yields three results. One of them being this thread. Do you know how hard it is to get three results on Google?
What’s the exact phrase?
No, you weren’t calling her a pig, you were calling her stupid. That’s much less offensive.
Well, it’s not a big deal that someone says shit about another poster. What stings is that picunurse thought she was being helpful and was slagged off for her trouble.
And Czarcasm, are you running for mod or something? Geez.