I’m amazed. I’ve searched for so long to find you guys who must live in a world where nothing out of the ordinary ever happens :rolleyes:
I bowed out after page one so I apologize for my ignorance, but if anyone cares to recap I’d love to know how a “creepy guy” story is still continuing after 8 pages!?
Or not - either way.
Right on, dude!! 'Cause that’s exactly what they said.
Hey, you know that coffee shop just down the street from your place? I hear there’s an old man sitting there nursing a cup. Why don’t you go see if you can “win” a conversation with him.
Short answer: lots of people (largely dudes) saying either that it didn’t happen or that it wasn’t creepy and she should get over it, plus some weird random digressions into other bits of her past that seem largely irrelevant but are being used to demonstrate that this event either didn’t happen or that she should get over it.
I wish the idiot moderators had granted her request to close the thread because I think everyone would have been better off having been spared this monstrosity but them’s the breaks.
So, you are trying to say that expressing doubt that someone is telling the truth is not the same thing as saying they are lying?
Showing again how little you know on the subject. Shrug.
Try to keep up Sugar Tits. That’s what I’ve been calling you, you’ve claimed on this page that you’re a man, and now your claiming you’re a woman.
“Out of the ordinary” is one thing. Her story is pure bullshit. Ignoring the school-wide vendetta horse shit part of it, taking karate won’t allow an otherwise non-trained fighting “little girl” to beat the snot out of group of motivated boys, regardless of their skill level. Being able to lift 150 pounds over your head won’t help either. Different muscles - different skill set.
Folks have to live by their words here. My guess is a lot of the reaction in this thread is based on her past posting history. Saving posters from themselves (especially in the pit) has never been the Dope way.
True, but photography existed and police records would still be around. This is where it really falls apart for me, setting aside the contradiction of you being simultaneously being a helpless victim and Batman. If something like this happened in my life, I would’ve kept pictures. I’d easily have 20+ Facebook friends who were witnesses to some aspect of the events, or could at least vouch for the story. Let’s be honest, I’d have a damn scrapbook. Batman surely has scrapbooks, or he would if he’s anything like me. Apparently he’s more like you, so I don’t know.
Not that producing a witness would immediately quell all doubts about your story. For some it would take a lot more than one new account on the SDMB backing up your story. And I can see that producing a police report or a scan of photos would be problematic-- if you leave enough in to prove ID, you have compromised your privacy. But it would be something.
I went back and read the thread that Bricker referred to, the “NO repeat NO want ads” one, and at first I thought:
See, this is my problem with Broomstick, it’s just that she’s a really, really, really shitty poster. Everything is typed OK, great syntax, but it’s all just so much bullshit. When called on it, it’s stonewall + how dare you + you don’t know because you’re not poor/a woman/from Mars. Plus the annoying habit of ignoring direct questions that were addressed to you. Not a single improvement in three years.
But that’s not so. You have improved. You didn’t flip out in this thread like your how dare you post where you called Bricker wormshit. Also, looks like the Pit has improved because neither Rand Rover nor Starving Artist showed up in this thread.
So, kudos. Gold stars all round.
Curlcoat, yes, you inimitable dummy, yes. That’s why there’s a difference between agnosticism and atheism. That’s why the phrase “beyond a shadow of a doubt” exists. Yes, stupid, there’s a difference.
Well, there are some loose ends to work out (“Honey, I gotta graduate first!”) and I’ll need to work out a few things career wise, but that’s the way things are headed quite quickly. My take-no-prisoners all-business dating plan was actually astonishingly effective, and helped me make build a partnership and shared vision of the future with a really wonderful guy.
Just out of curiosity, do you think that post asking to close the thread was justified? Where she said people were saying it was her fault, she was asking for it, etc?
Because while I was and am completely on the OP’s side when it comes to what happened, I did think those complaints were unfair considering what had been posted so far. Insensitive jokes (which is all that had been posted at that point) are not the same as saying it was her fault or that she was asking for it. Granted, there is a legitimate debate to be had about when jokes about something bad are ok.
You might want to rethink the thread title. ‘Working woman’ is a moderately common euphemism for ‘prostitute’.
Hey, I think I saw that movie.
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Please keep in mind that insulting moderators for their actions (or inactions, as the case may be) is against board rules, even in the Pit. You are still welcome to insult us for things we say as regular posters.
No warning issued.
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Thanks for the support, Shodan, but it’s clear many here are more intent on scoring points and being [del]bullies[/del] internet tough guys than actually discussing facts and truth.
How nice – you admit you’re wrong, but not a jot of apology for basically calling me a crazy liar for telling the blunt truth of how people address the disabled and their spouses. Typical.
Also, folks, please note how he tries to attribute this solely to my location or a particular store chain – another case of trying to limit this to just one place. No, Mr. Ducca, those sorts of comments are not limited to NW Indiana or Wal-Mart. They’ve occurred everywhere we’ve lived, and happen in the most upscale of places as well as bottom-discount stores. It happens in your area and your neighborhood, too, but you’re too clueless to notice. Or perhaps you yourself are joining in the “fun”?
Funny, too, how this moved from Mr. Creeper being a complete asshole to me at work to repeated attempts to discredit me, first with vague assertions that I make outrageous claims, then, when the “proof” is dredged up it is show that the internet tough guys are clueless and there is nothing made up at all about how people talk to me and my spouse. Sad, yes, but not made up. Then more flailing around looking for something by which to discredit me. Like dredging up my frustation at having trouble finding work a few years ago because, obviously, that means I’m totally not to be trusted when I say I’ve been harassed at work. :rolleyes:
Oh, and the attempted attacks on Mister Nyx’s manhood for daring to side with a woman? Also not cool.
Again, thanks for the support, and yes, clearly there ARE some people that desperate.
You forget to mention that bit about desperately trying to discredit me by any means available by dredging up totally off-topic threads about other shit that really happened to me in life. I expect they are also trying to prove the Moon Landing Hoax and the Alien Autopsies in Area 51.
Oh, by the way – this is one of the very rare threads where curlcoat and I are on the same side, which says a lot about people like Mr. Ducca and Mr. Hartwick. By the way, curlcoat, although we’ve had MANY differences over the years, and no doubt will again, I do thank you for being a voice of reason and support here.
You deny that bullying occurs? And where did I say “school wide”? Oh, wait, I didn’t – that’s YOUR contribution.
Never said I took “karate”. I took defensive martial arts. No “dojo”, no belt system, but lots of drills and “this is how you defend yourself”. Sort of like model mugging, which for purposes of defense I think is far superior to formalized school-type martial arts systems.
Second, I never said they were boys. You ASSUMED that. Some were boys, some were girls. Again, don’t let me stop you from making assumptions and filling in between the lines with bullshit you pull out of thin air. Of course, I will be dinged for not relating my ENTIRE life bio with fingerprints and names and video evidence, but like I said, I’m used to being told I made up being bullied never mind my own injuries at times. Again, it’s dredging up anything and everything, nitpicking to discredit someone so you can ignore their victimization. Either they’re lying or it’s their fault, right?
Except the school never reported this shit, they tried to sweep it under the rug – just as often happens TODAY.
“Excuse me, my attackers, please put the pummeling on hold so I can get a group picture. Smile! 'K thanks you can go back to beating the snot out of me.”
Yeah, right :rolleyes:
You do realize that Facebook is a recent invention? We’re talking about events from 35-40 years ago, before camera phones were ubiquitous, or even invented.
And there you go again, making assumptions – why do you assume there were no witnesses?
So… you bitch I haven’t produced witnesses, then state that witnesses wouldn’t make a difference. In other words, you just flat out don’t believe me and no facts or evidence will change that. OK… so why do you bother?
Ah, so you want a police report that doesn’t exist because, like so many schools, it was swept under the rug, and you want me to publish private details (which you will no doubt use to find further things to attempt to discredit me even if you must continue to twist facts and words) and put them here in violation of SDMB rules… I see. You wish to make it easier for people to harass me, this time in real life, and violate board rules.
Well, guess shows what kind of internet tough guy you are.
Try this: “I’ll be damned if I publish my personal information in this very public forum in order to satisfy a jerk’s request.”
You searched only three years of my posting history? I’m almost disappointed in you.
There mere fact that that “working woman” is another way to say “whore” is a sad fact about our society, and illustrative of how women are viewed as anything other than equals to men. A “working man” is to be praised, a “working woman” is a whore. It might also explain why Mr. Creeper and his ilk are so convinced that [del]working[/del] employed women are there to be their sex toys.
Just to recap:
An asshole came to my place of employment, said he wanted me to be his girlfriend. I said I was not interested, happily married, etc. He said that didn’t matter, “corrected” my pronunciation of my own name, said he wanted me to fuck him, and he’d do a better job of it than my husband, and wrote out his phone number on a piece of paper and demanded I call him later. I told him to get the hell out of my store. The next day he came back, upset that I didn’t call him. I told him to get the hell out of my store again, and was pleasantly surprised when he left. I found it upsetting and was foolish enough to post the tale on the internet. Shortly, some internet tough guys showed up to threadshit and attempt to discredit my relation of these facts by attempting to discredit me.
Ya’ll can go home now. The rest is just repetition.
Except for the part where you were an utter, uncalled-for bitch cow to sandra_nz and still haven’t apologised to her.
Or is it fine for you to be a bitch, but nobody else?
I’ll just make a list.
- If you were male, somebody would’ve called you an internet tough guy by now, so, irony.
- Actually, I’m a little annoyed at how people are willing to believe that strangers openly insult you about your husband’s disability, just because they’re working class.
- It was a glaring omission on AqualungBats5th’s part to point out a straw man but ignore the various scarecrows you’ve stuffed.
- Bricker’s contribution was not off topic, because the topic eventually became the tendency of your trousers to combust.
- Skepticism is a part of board culture. You’re the one making a claim that is, in my opinion, not so far off from seeing an alien in your backyard. I refer to your highschool exploits, not the harassment. The former is hard to believe, the latter not. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, or, pics or STFU.
- Nice work being deliberately obtuse, but you know exactly what I’m talking about. A large percentage of any middle-aged Facebook users friends list is likely to be from high school, simply because FB makes it very easy to find people who went to school for you.
- I’m sorry, I guess I got the false impression that you don’t think your privacy is very important after you gave away details like where you live, your current job, where you work, and where you went when you looked for work.
- The referenced thread was from three years ago, Jesus Christ can you really be that stupid?
- You’ve discredited yourself, nobody did it to you.
See, here’s your problem.
That’s not an accurate summary at all, either of the conversation three years ago or the reason it was mentioned now.
The conversation three years ago was about your making a claim that was, literally, untrue, and the increasing caustic exchange that result from the efforts to clarify whether you meant it as hyperbole or fact.
The reason for mentioning it now is that once again you’ve made claims that are, at the very least, unusual, with respect to your fighting prowess, and once again it’s unclear if those claims are meant to be literally factual or hyperbole.
Do you understand what this post means?
I ask because you seem to miss or mischaracterize points.
Yeaahhh, okay, my take after reading this entire trainwreck (look, I’m bored and it’s the weekend) is that while there may be many grains of truth in Broomstick’s stories, her tendency to embellish and exaggerate makes it hard to take some of her wilder-sounding stories seriously.
Also:
Yikes.
I’m just glad I haven’t embellished any of my stories here (my cite? The fact that they’re not all that interesting!).
If I had, I’d be fessing up and apologizing right away, knowing they could be dredged up three years later. Seriously, it just hit me that stuff’s archived forever, and people’ll be able to quote me back to myself and say “Whoa, wait a minute. You’re playing the victim card and claiming you were just a lackey, when in this post from 2001 you make it sound like you’re running the whole company.”
Followed, of course, by “Why should we believe you now about fending off an undead Karl Rove in a back alley?”
(because I still have the Jimmy Carter Inaugural Crucifix that I burned him with?)