I was thinking turtles.
I’m not sure of the meaning here.
“Are you going to start making of that”? Did you mean “Are you going to start making fun of that”? Because that at least makes sense, in a sarcastic humor sense.
I worded it the way it worded.
So, tell me, who hollowed out the position? Did they use an ice cream scoop? A big spoon?
I’m sure you had a point to make, and I’m sure it was a spiffy bang-up point. You just didn’t make it. Sorry. Google doesn’t have a “word salad” language translator option.
I understood it but then I forgot to take my meds this morning. 
Miller the Maniacal Moderator. The only answer he would give to authorities as they caught up with him after his trail of carnage was a softly-spoken, “They were warned.” 
You know, a lot of people are accusing me of dancing too near the line (I assume it’s The Loathsome Line of “Warnings” they are referring to). But, I’m really not that good of a dancer. I can’t jitterbug near the line. I can’t do The Twist nor the Frug near the line. I could maybe do The Flamenco near the line—but, it wouldn’t be pretty.
The only dance I’m confident doing well is your basic box step (waltz, foxtrot, rumba), and only then, after I’ve got a few martinis in me. I always keep a respectful groin-to-groin distance between my partner and I when doing a box step (I, of course expect some hot monkey action with her after the dance). So, if I’m dancing too close to the Warning Line, I’m not jitterbugging toward it quickly, and I’m keeping a respectable distance from it. I may try to engage in a little flagrante delicto after the dance, but only if it’s consensual.
And, I really don’t like the sound of being a “patsy.” I wouldn’t mind being a “lackey” or a “flunky”, however—they sound much more cool.
For the love of God, just stop.
Penguins have a more consummate slapstick touch.
+1
All frivolity aside (at least for now), I can live with a note and I can live with a warning. But, in a real sense, I feel like I’m being called a liar: and that I wish not to live with. I do care about the perception of my integrity.
I’ve said, more than once, that I did not use DSeid’s fabricated Person B as an analogy, or a proxy for Snowboarder Bo. It did not, even for an instance, register in my mind as an association. It was apples v. oranges in my mind’s eye. Two separate scenarios, unrelated. You think the **“B” **in **Person B **made me think of “B”o? It didn’t. I had the image of a cartoon type character in my mind when thinking of Person B (a woman with a beehive hairdo, wearing a big hat, sitting in front of me in a movie theater). That is not the image I have in my mind of Snowboarder Bo.
I’d be happy to go into minute detail about why your accusations of my dishonesty are in error (logically and sociologically), but I find it offensive that I’d even have to do so. Look at my posting history for 10+ years. Have I ever given any indication of being a liar?
I can’t believe that you could possibly, even for one second, miss the analogy of DSeid’s post.
You’ve lost me. Please explain.
I think my point is clear. Please don’t play stupid.
No, it’s not clear. And, I’m not stupid. Can you explain, or not.
[Moderating]
Don’t call people stupid in ATMB.
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OK.
Well considering that DSeid meant no analogy to SB and did not mean it as a proxy either, I certainly can. While I can understand few bothering to actually read the thread, it is very clear to anyone who does that the discussion at that point was on AnaMen’s insistence that any telling anyone that their behavior is rude is “bullying” … or is if more than one does it … or whatever (it was not a particularly coherent argument). The target was not SB in any way.
Those who read it as being a proxy for SB read wrong. Tibby read it correctly.
It’s certainly how I interpreted your post, and I have a hard time seeing how it could be interpreted in any other way. You posted an analogy refuting the charge of bullying, and I can’t see how your post does not apply to the people involved in the thread. If the persons in your post cannot be compared to the posters in the thread, your post is pointless.
It was talking about the definition in a more general sense than in the thread alone.
Sorry that you think that discussion of the principle being claimed in a more general, NOT specific, sense, is pointless. To me generalizing the discussion, the claim of what bullying is, essentially declaring all of the Pit aimed at posters as “bullying” was not pointless. Honestly I gave little shit about SB and his mildly annoying tic. Defining any telling someone they are being a jerk as bullying was more the source of my incredulity.
An analogy could be made that my post applies to anyone who has been Pitted, but no Tibby was not wishing harm on all who have been Pitted across all time either.
So yes you read it wrong. Despite your “hard time” seeing it being interpreted any other way.