the thread that wouldn’t die. geez.
I’m so new here, I practically have a sheen… . (joking to lighten the mood)
having seen this thread for ages now, checked it all out.
can’t understand why this thread won’t die.
Seems obvious to me (a complete outsider, hell hardly ANYONE ever replies to my posts…):
in my experience, communication works best if the info I submit is the same as you recieve. Stuff happens in between that all the time. Vocal inflections (“you said it sarcastically”), body language (eye rolling etc.) or for the electronic medium emoticoms or the lack thereof. There’s also at times, language barriers where slang in one area may mean something completely different in another.
when this happens and some one misunderstands either what you said or your intent, back off. simple as that.
allow me, please, to tell a little story. I work with convicts. one of them, prior to her being locked up, would hang out with her friends, and they’d call each other “Bitch”. “Bitch, get me a coke” and so on, without rancor, much as others might say “girlfriend”. No problem, until she got locked up with inner city women who didn’t take to being called “bitch” even if she meant it in the nicest possible way. She got beat up alot, cause it was HER position that she wasn’t doing anything wrong, they were just not taking her words the way she intended.
Take the lesson Mr. Lizard, please. Even if you MEANT it in the nicest possible way, others took serious offense.
Now, as to the others who are keeping this whole thing alive. geez again. Apparently, it isn’t getting through to him that his words upset people and that’s bad. If you can’t convince him that pissing off other people is a bad thing and should be avoided, ignore him.
and I meant that in the NICEST way 