I’m sure your daughter would be happy to know that you’re using her as a personal tool to attract attention. For a mother who is so selfless, you sure don’t appear respect your child’s dignity.
Guess what? We all have our shit. I have a neuromuscular disorder similar to MD, but I’m pretty wealthy. I’ll gladly sponsor you $5 if you can give me functioning muscles for a year. Yeah that’s right, I just played the pity card too. How’s it feel when it’s used on you?
Not the point of my OP at all. I gave an example of my personal “shit”? “Shit” that we all have, I agree, to illustrate to someone about differing situations. Some people are lucky, some are not. It has nothing to do with violating my child’s dignity. The people who post about their families medical problems are violating their family members’ dignity? I’ve asked in other threads about anyone who dealt with such things, is this also a violation of dignity? I defended my buying water when it was brought up, which wasn’t part of the OP, and that I have a right to defend if I want.
Why is bringing up an example in the OP considered “playing the sympathy card”? I shouldn’t have even responded to anything but my OP, that was my mistake. That’s where the OP got lost and bent out of whack. But I got the responses and I gave additional info… again, my mistake. I don’t think I need to say anymore on the subject and maybe a Mod can lock this thread. Dead horse beating.
Please. If you didn’t want sympathy, why didn’t you just go to the goodbye thread, say goodbye, can’t afford it, and leave?
Why didn’t you say “different people have different circumstances, I’d rather not talk about mine”?
Why did you start the thread IN THE PIT if you didn’t think it would cause a stir?
The problem is that this thread wasn’t started to Pit Sanguine (else I’d agree with those accusations of High Schooldom); Metacom didn’t attack her. He made a statement the point of which was that very few people really can’t afford the five bucks (meaning that they’d have to give up essentials to pay for it), most people who say that just have other nonessentials that come first. Even those in conditions much more austure than his or mine. Fair 'nuff choices for them to make, but not because of dire straights making a fiver undoable.
Sanguine Pitted him for that, saying essentially, hey buddy, you don’t understand how bad I got it, that five bucks would have to come out of care for my kid. And she then proceeded to illustrate that Metacom was exactly correct. Calling her on that is just.
I know what the point of your OP was. You used your daughter, who can’t fend for herself, as leverage to attack another member who did nothing to provoke you personally. And that disgusts me. You started the thread in the pit, and have often returned to it to keep the controversy from dying. Sorry, but you can’t call dead horse beating when you’re the one who started this thread and helped keep it going.
It’s five fucking dollars. You CAN afford it, YOU JUST DON’T WANT TO PAY. That’s fine – if you don’t want it, don’t buy it. No one is holding a gun to your head. What else do you want us to say?
Pay your daughter the respect she deserves and stop blabbing about how she’s draining your life. If she wants to speak about her own challenges, let her. When people discuss other peoples’ illnesses in relation to how they’re negatively affecting their own life, yes, I think it’s dignity robbing. But I guess that’s up to personal opinion.
::puts down whip, stands over dead horse::
::laughs manically in slow motion::
::grabs cat-o-nine-tails::
Get the squibs ready.
When did I ever say she was “draining my life”? I do what I do for her out of love, I’m a parent. I want the best for her future. I’ll respond to comments posted even after stating that this topic has gone off track. That’s not a evil plan for getting attention, just defense. Am I not allowed to respond? I put this in the pit for a reason, fully aware of the potential for abuse and hijacking. I respond to hijacks, it’s my right to do so. And you don’t seem to read the parts where I’ve admitted to assuming and apologized to the original person. You’re the one beating the deadest of dead horses here. Put your whip away. I even suggested a Mod lock this thread since it has no more to offer.
If you want a mod to lock it, you have to email a mod
If you want it to LOOK like you want a mod to lock it while continuing to bump the thread…keep doing what you’re doing.
First off, I’m not as board savvy as you are jarbabyj, haven’t been here as long. I, unforgiveably, don’t know all the proper courses of action to take regarding locking/unlocking threads so that attitude of yours is unwarranted. Can we say, “assuming”?
Um, that’s why I posted what the procedure was. You can’t just say in the thread that you want the thread locked, you have to email a mod.