What a relief it must be for you, you’ve run the gauntlet and got your bit in, such clever Minion you are.
Wpw. Stuff I said six years ago, fourteen years ago. You guys keep scrapbooks on me, pasting in your favorites? Share them among yourselves, do you? Kinda flattering, I guess, in an icky sort of way. Long as there’s no fan-fic involved…
I don’t suppose there’s a mechanism for pro-active “ignore”? Like, I touch a button and another poster no longer is burdened with the dreadful choice of deciding whether to read something I said. Apparently, they can’t make such a choice on their own. I mean, I hate licorice, the liver of candy. Took a bit when I was about fourteen and haven’t touched it since, anise is about as tasty as anus, far as I’m concerned. So I don’t touch it.
But here I see people who have hated reading my posts for decades! Why? Stern duty demands? Read the name, and move along, simplest thing any moron could accomplish! You guys can make your own oatmeal, right? But you can’t make a decision like that?
I don’t need you, you don’t need me, let’s call the whole thing awful.
And the mean man didn’t buy Elucidator lunchbox and it scarred him for life.
What you are overreacting to are comments on a message board.
Like you I am protecting myself according to the protocols set up by the authorities where we are working with the public, and IF I want to add on layers of protection for myself I will if not I’ll quit volunteering.
Your rant is non productive, non essential, and does nada in containing covid19.
Didn’t say that.
Nope. Not that either.
Batting a thousand.
Quote me saying any of this. Should be easy enough, but you can’t seem to manage it. And that’s just on this one page!
Now, what I did say, and will still say, is that in conditions of extreme shortage, safety equipment should be prioritized for medical workers who are in direct and immediate danger. Does it need be said that the scarcity should be solved as soon as humanly possible? Well, of course! But recognizing a cold and ugly truth does not make me a monster.
Saying things that aren’t true, however, would make me a liar.
I agree that you did not actually say those things, elucidator.
I don’t know, maybe it’s not what you said but how you said it:
What do you think? This goes back to that lack of self-awareness thing I was referring to.
I will reflect on that.
Unlikely.
If you actually wanted cooler heads to prevail, then why did you throw in that last post that attacks everyone? A parting shot indicates you want people to stay upset.
As for the rest of your post: you’re just ignoring shit. The post is quoted in the OP, where luci attacks grocery workers for wanting supplies, saying they shouldn’t get them until all the medical people get them first. He curses them out for wanting them.
Then, in this very thread, he posts about how he really does want them to die. Others claim he was being sarcastic, but he hasn’t. He’s just went on to attack everyone who is upset at him–the opposite of how someone who is contrite about hurting someone would be.
This isn’t complicated. If someone doesn’t intend to hurt someone else, then, when that person is upset at them, they will respond with a contrite apology an explanation. They won’t mock them (with sarcasm) or say horrible things. They definitely won’t go on about how horrible everyone is for calling them out.
Even if you don’t think he was being so bad initially, his actions in this very thread are only ones that fan the flames and make people more angry. Up until his last post, everything he posted was about trying to piss people off more who were angry at him.
And, FYI, if you’re sympathetic towards grocery store clerks, it isn’t a good look to attack one for being angry. We should respect them, not belittle them. They do a hard job, so don’t attack them for being angry. That’s something people only do to people they hold in utter contempt.
Because, again, attacking someone for being angry doesn’t make them less angry. It’s about fanning the flames and enjoying them being angry. I refuse to believe that most people are stupid enough to actually think it helps, so it can only be that you intend to piss them off more.
If you actually cared about someone’s mental health, you would contact them privately. Saying it out in public, especially in the forum for attacking people, is just a personal attack, not actual concern.
(Granted, **CairoCarol **did the same thing, but she seems compassionate enough that I think it was just a lapse in decorum, not an intentional attack. You, on the other hand, clearly intend to attack Broomstick.)
And it’s 2020. You should know better than to use a word with sexist baggage like “hysterical” for a woman. The term’s etymology literally comes from female sex organs, implying that someone who is hysterical is acting like a woman.
And, again, attacking someone for being upset isn’t about helping them not be upset, but showing them contempt and thus making them even more angry. It shows that you hold Broomstick, a grocery store worker, in contempt for being upset at the implication she doesn’t need supplies or upset at a guy who keeps on attacking everyone for daring to think his post was shitty.
The whole thing could have been resolved easily, as I said in my first post. “Sorry. That’s not what I meant to imply. Of course you should have PPE. I’m just upset that our medical people don’t have enough of their special stuff, and yet some people seem to forget about them.”
But some Dopers have too much of an ego to just apologize. They enjoy the attacking people in the Pit, rather than care about resolving problems.
Based on your post, I suspect you are one of them.
Expecting people to remember posts from four years ago is silly.
(After those other two posts, I thought maybe a minor gripe would be refreshing.)
In B4 the inevitable “BUT I AM A WOMAN SO GOTCHA YA TRIGGERED SNOWFWAKE!!1!!”
This is a gentle reminder that another gendered insult for an unpleasant woman is “flapping gaped out obnoxious cunt in need of punting.” That’s my PSA for the day.
On most browsers I believe there is such a feature, whether on a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smart phone, and it tends to be shaped like an “x”. The trick is, you write out your post, and then instead of selecting “submit reply” you click on this “x” function towards the top of your screen. A pop up may appear and ask you to confirm, if so select yes. Alternatively, if you’re on a PC, I believe alt-F4 will achieve the same end.
I wanted you to read this post, so naturally I did not avail myself of either option.
What’s stopping you from putting them on ignore, so you don’t have to read their posts? It seems like that would be easier, and more effective, than continually demanding that people stop reading your posts if they don’t like you.
Yes, elucidator would like it if everyone who dislikes his posts would ignore him so the poor dear doesn’t have to read their criticisms.
Maybe he’d be happier on Facebook or Twitter. He could block anyone who disagrees with him, and delete his old posts so that nobody can remind him of something stupid he said 14 years ago.
No, we know how to use a search engine. Don’t flatter yourself.
No, Fecal Nugget, you don’t get to do that. You are not allowed to make choices for other people. You are not allowed to silence other people. You are not allowed to escape the scrutiny of people who are wise to how truly awful and sadistic you are.
Are you satisfied with how many people have died keeping civilization glued together or is your bloodlust not yet sated? You still haven’t answer the questions I’ve asked you.
No, we make different choices than what you want us to make.
A piece of licorice sitting on the table just… sits there.
You, on the other hand, are an asshole spewing diseased santorum wherever you go. Your actions leave a mess even though we’d rather you go elsewhere and bother other people.
How about I call you cockroach shit.
You are a sick, sadistic fuck of a shitstain. You said:
You wish harm upon other people and claim that you would be gleeful when people are sick, miserable, and irreparably harmed.
I’m not calling you a liar. I am calling you the inner pus of a diseased carbuncle on the collective ass of humanity.
If he doesn’t want people to read his posts he could, I dunno…
stop posting them?
Typical abusive personality, it’s always the other person’s fault. You know, like “Your honor, my wife forced me to punch her and break her jaw!”
How come assholes never seem to have any self-control? It’s a wonder they have enough sphincter control to make to the toilet without filling their shorts.
I want to thank everyone else who is pitching in, by the way - due to working at something useful for society it is a bit hard to keep up with a useless dingleberry who has nothing better to do all day than to sit at home and figure out new ways to be annoying in between wishing harm on people who work in grocery stores.