Miss Bungle, you've won your own thread!

The BBQ Pit
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In DAVEW0071’s thread, You’ve shafted my daughter one time too many!, he describes how:

Miss Bungle’s initial reaction is somewhat subdued:

Of course, this indicated somewhat dubious reading skills, because Dave made it clear in the first paragraph of the OP: “She’s always dreamed of having a substantial part. Alas, this hasn’t happened, and she’s been disappointed, but it hasn’t dimmed her enthusiasm or her willingness to be involved any way she can.” IOW, she hasn’t always gotten what she wanted, but when life has handed her lemons, she’s done her best to make some lemonade.

Miss Bungle couldn’t just leave it at that, however: in her second post, she reiterates her first post, and digs a bit further:

  1. Once again, Bungle, the lesson that you don’t always get what you want has already been learned.

  2. If there’s any indication in the thread that Dave has made a habit of fighting his daughter’s battles for her, it’s missed my scrutiny. In fact, I came away with the opposite impression: that, despite previous disappointments, this was the first time in his daughter’s theatrical experience that Dave figured the situation called for a meeting with the principal.

  3. “this is all a blessing really”? WTF is this all about?? Sure, it’s not the worst thing that ever happened, but no, it’s not a blessing.

Or maybe you have a nonstandard definition of ‘blessing’. In which case, mind if I come over and ‘bless’ you with cowshit? :rolleyes:

  1. You’re right, we should never bitch about anything that is less than life-threatening. So when I dump that truckload of cow patties on your front step, I’m hoping that I can count on you to live up to your Pollyanna-ish expectations for Sakura and Dave.

After a couple more minor posts of hers that didn’t add anything specific (but maintained the tone), Dave responded, “MissBungle, you are cordially invited to bite me.” Pretty restrained, I thought.

Bungle responded:

  1. There’s a reason people react with dislike to your posts, Bungle. It doesn’t seem that you care for people. If you can figure out an excuse to bring someone down, it seems you find it.

If you think it’s just us, my recommendation would be that you try another board. Really. If you don’t like the people here, and you feel they don’t like you, why are you hanging around?

  1. Your post was untruthful, in the sense that it made false implications. It suggested that it was about time Sakura found out life wouldn’t always go her way, because Daddy had kept that from happening up until now.

What a bunch of horseshit.

  1. “Considering your response to my post…it scares the shit outta me that you are raising a child. There is no other way to put it.” What, for one rather restrained response to your four bullshit, nastily insinuating posts?

It would scare me if you ever were given any minute power over people’s lives, let alone children’s lives.

  1. “a sign that perhaps her calling is NOT the stage life.” Dave made it clear in his second post in the thread that Sakura’s not considering such a career.

The thread goes on, and Bungle has more nastiness to add, but I need to move on here.

Bungle, I suggest you:
a) quit looking for excuses to be nasty to people; and
b) learn to read.
Thank you.

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I hate pile on the bandwagon me-too posts, but…

Well done, RT!

Posting something here is inviting unsolicited advice, to be sure, but, Miss Bungle, is it too much to ask that the advice be directed at the situation that was actually described?

Yeah, once or twice I’ve had to tell somebody wallowing in self-pity that the situation is not really that bad, and you don’t always get what you want (even if you’re part of the Rolling Stones).

But the point here is that an expectation was given and then withdrawn, for reasons having nothing to do with the behavior of the person thus disappointed. Will it be the end of the world if Sakura doesn’t get to play Elizabeth? Absolutely not. But was she treated fairly? Not on your tintype – given what DaveW described the situation as. I will allow that under the circumstances, it could be represented as Miss Mouthoff was promised the part back if she apologized, given what RT quoted DaveW as having reported the director as saying. I think this was a major mistake on his part, and an injustice to a child who has been asked to do a quick study for a major role, put forth major effort to do it, and then had it taken away from her.

I’m sure others will point out the number of other occasions when you’ve come off with some platitude instead of helpful advice and encouragement, or even a good swift kick in the pants where it seems advisable. I’ve noticed them, but haven’t been moved to comment.

Myself, I think you owe DaveW and Sakura an apology.

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http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=167931

No Fair! I thought that you had to wait six weeks before you could win again to give others a chance. Why does she get to win twice?

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I disagree. Miss Bungle may be curt and rude, but we can’t all be MandaJo, now can we? Sometimes snarkiness is appropriate. Specifically in the DaveW thread, Miss Bungle made a point that otherwise wasn’t being considered. That point was – even if expressively dismissively and derisively – how could DaveW characterize the director’s gaffe as a learning experience for his daughter? Realistically speaking, it’s impossible for the director to remedy his thoughtlessness, and so DaveW’s daughter has to learn either to be willing to go to the mattresses or to take it on the chin. And if she learns so now, while still in high school, so much the better.

But all this is irrelevant. I just don’t like to see these pile-ons just because someone’s online persona is a bit rude. MandJo, FairyChatMom, and the like have the “good/kind advice” role covered, and lieu, SPOOFE, and their ilk have the TMI angle covered… so there’s got to be room for the rest of us. Miss Bungle hasn’t been a one-trick pony or a troll; you could legitimately see where’s she’s coming from when she says the things she says. Do you really want to see her banned?

I don’t know. Maybe I’m just full of crap. I still feel guilty about the whole The Hamburglar thing.

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MissBlungle already has her own thread, mainly having to do with the same thread but also her inability to not to be insulting and mean outside the pit.

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RT, you know I think you’re great, but as has been stated, she’s already been pitted.

As I stated in Dave’s thread, she didn’t bare her teeth (in that thread) until she was invited to bite.

She’s being abrasive, yeah, but y’all are giving her less chances than you’ve given a lot of other folks, and for less cause. I’d probably be even bitcher than she’s being - albeit FAR more eloquently - if people had crawled that far up my ass with that little actual cause.

Fuck. Chill.

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Ya know, I’m not particularly a big fan of Miss Bungle, but I have to agree with Hama - I didn’t realize we were all required to be nice-nice and make friends with everyone here.

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So, wait, I’ve been doing all this mollycoddling and cozying up to you bastards for nothing!!?!?

FUCK! SHIT! ASS!

YOU CAN ALL SUCK IT!

::feels better already.::

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porcupine: I don’t think anyone’s saying that we all have to be nice-nice to everyone all the time, but Miss Bungle consistently posts nasty comments in threads. I could cite you probably 20 posts of her’s that are unnecessarily sarcastic or nasty.

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Now, now … please be nice to MissBungle.

After all, someone just dropped a house on her sister.

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I just discovered Vanilla Coke doesn’t hurt nearly as bad as regular Coke does spurting from my nostrils.

It’s just as sticky on the keys, though.

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I have absolutely nothing to add but this was too funny not to note.

:smiley:

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I can’t help but feel a bit resposible for the OP.

In the thread he referenced, I acted like a jerk.

My first post was nasty and inconsiderate, the second was an apology for the first, the third was utterly nonsensical, and the fourth was an apology for the third.

I can’t escape the feeling that I may have opened a door in that thread that would have been better left closed.

I’ve been posting here for a year, and if I can’t follow the Cardinal Rule, I don’t feel comfortable chastising someone else for not following it.

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**Exgineer, ** you weren’t a jerk, and **Dave ** has stated so repeatedly. Don’t sweat it.

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Euty, I know your heart belongs elsewhere but I love you.

That was fucking hilarious!

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She got me my first reprimand froma mod :smiley:

I guess now I truly belong?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168472

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samarm, I’ve seen a lot of her posts, and yeah, some of them are kind of rude. I just don’t think they merit pit threads. Just my opinion.

But chastising someone for sarcasm? Here?

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It appears to me that MissBungle’s defenders are ignoring the offensiveness of her crack about cancer, but I have expressed my opinions on that point in detail in the other thread already.

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As much as it’s fun to complain about all of this…has anyone stopped to think she might actually be getting her jollies from being pitted? After all she ** bumped her own pit thread ** fer cryen’ out loud!!!

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You know, there are kids starving to death in Ethiopia who would LOVE to have those brussels sprouts.

Go ahead. Pit me.

:rolleyes:

I’m not ignoring it. I just didn’t find it particularly offensive. shrug