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And beebs, apology accepted, although I admit no wrongdoing (except for the SDMB rules I’ve broken in this thread–no moral wrongdoing, I mean), thanks to your laughable but irritating “blackmail” game. Time will tell whether you’re whooshing me. For now, I believe your apology is sincere, and I commend you for rising above the level of he-said-she-said, which many of us (myself included) sometimes struggle with.
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I am serious, although I apologize if you are somehwat dubious. I run into this a lot, I tend to be far more sarcastically toned than I really mean, so when it comes time to actually say something serious I run into the problem of “the boy who cried wolf”.
And in your defense, I thought I was going to try to continue fighting with you too. Unfortunately/fortunately when I sat down to write a proper post in the Pit, I just really didn’t have it in me. I’ve gotten into fights before, and they never really end well. It’s not a trainwreck or anything, it’s more of a simple frustration with issues never being resolved or talked about. What’s the point?
I wasn’t under the impression that I was actually somehow annoying you. I’ve traded similarly toned PM’s with the likes of **What Exit ** and Autolycus with nary a worry. Hell, even my pitted pal QED has sent me some of the funniest messages I’ve ever gotten, even though he’s admitted to me in the past that he finds me mildly irritating.
I’ll know from now on that I should tread more cautiously around you. I’m not trying to be critical, I’m just saying that I sometimes have a hard time understanding how my behavior appears to others.
Back this past Novmeber I acted like an ass and got myself suspended. Was I trying to? Hell no. And it wasn’t until after it happened, and everyone went, “hey bbs2k, what the hell were you thinking?” that I could actually go back and see that a couple people were noticing a bizarre and dramatic change to my posting style (ETF, and the now departed Sapo are the two I have in mind).
So yes HD, I am being serious. I’m not going to put you on my ignore list, and I’m not concerned about shying away from threads you or I start. If I am bugging you though, I’ll do my best to knock it off.
In the future though, if you enjoy accusing people of trolling, both myself and others, please come up with some more evidence than just a couple poorly toned personal messages.
(Christ, no one is every going to want to trade PM’s with me again, how the eff do these things alway manage to get out?!)