Here’s your chance to finally understand this explanation, in case Yllaria’s response went over your head. I said nothing about what I look at while at work, only about what I type. Remember the original complaint was about people posting things like f**k.
I am free to browse most websites while I work without trying to put one over on anyone. A few sites are blocked, mostly social networking sites and band-width hogs. What I do need to be careful of is what I type, not what I read. Many companies have key-stroke recording software that is awakened by keywords, usually profanity, sexually-oriented words, and racial epithets. This may be installed for any number of reasons, but one of them is certainly what Yllaria said, the company has an interest in what goes out from its systems. Triggering this software would attract attention I don’t want, and the care I take to avoid awaking it in no way impinges on what you post here. Others may complain about that, but that was not the subject being discussed.
In addition, many who work in office environments get used to a huge range of filters on email servers which can prevent delivery of emails to friends at work. It becomes easier to bowdlerize in advance than to play email filter roulette, and it becomes a habit.
I see. I mistook it as a complaint about cursing. That makes sense. Although - who exactly would be checking what curse words are being typed from a particular company? I’d think most of a company’s customers wouldn’t be in a position/have the technology to check such things. Or is it more a corporate espionage issue?
I owe you and apology. The fact is, your OP has all the panache and intellectual anemia that characterize all of your posts. I’ve seen them littered throughout GD these last few years.
No, you’re not tired at all. This may be your finest work. Press on. If you can’t carry the day in GD on the merits, you know you can always come to the SDMB time out room and insult people.
Nah, he just popped up in a relationship thread over in IMHO complaining about people sending him mixed signals, and making him think they’re interested in him.
The last six or seven replies to this thread have been enough to make me spit out my drink all over the keyboard and almost choke on my sandwich…oh man, you all are too much. Wheew. Haven’t laughed like that in awhile.
This is why I love this place.
You’re also a lot older, and have indicated that you actually get psychiatric help.
But, even if you weren’t clueless as a kid, Curtis has given no indication that he isn’t, as far as I know. Maybe he’s just worse off than you. I do know that all of his behavior I’ve seen does not imply that he had malicious intent. And I’m wholehearted against Pitting someone for something if they weren’t trying to be a jerk. Doing so is jerkish behavior in and of itself.
BTW, I suspected you had Asperger’s, but I’ve kept it on the downlow since I didn’t think you’d revealed it. At least two of my best friends in school were Aspies (which is why I’ve done a lot of research on it), and the combination of comorbid disorders, posting style, facial blindness, and the fact that one poster claimed you had said you were asexual–all of that just screamed out at me.
I did see the memo about his age but I missed the one about the Asperger Syndrome, possibly because I stopped reading his threads when I learned about his age.
