# Talk about avoiding reality.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-avoiding-reality/624615
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 9, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-avoiding-reality/624615 "2012-06-09T13:57:06Z")
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### Author: ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-avoiding-reality/624615/86 "2012-06-11T11:48:41Z")

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The whiney, hysterics like BigTard, Oakminister and Tripolar are making me just vaguely nauseous.

Yes, it’s wonderful to have a housepet around, and I know you miss your housepet, but Quasi is an adult with dignity and intelligence, not a fucking animal or child who needs to be coddled.

Not too long ago, Quasi wrote

> [@Me, My Dementia, And What I Write](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-my-dementia-and-what-i-write/617348/1):
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> But more and more often it [it=“his posts”] comes back _here_ to my office. I _know_ it does, because I see its ghost and it’s telling me I had better damn well reread my post which, I at first thought was so articulate, (to me) humorous and hard-hitting.
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> So I _do_ read it again, and as I sit here and _cringe_ at my words wonder (out loud sometimes) how I could’ve have written something so vulgar as a reply which the OP didn’t expect or maybe even wanted to read.
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> This happened today with the “do you guys miss the toilet bowl and hit the wall?” thread." I could have written my post in a hundred different ways, but no, I had to embellish it with vulgarisms having nothing to do with the answer expected.
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> Oh, I know: it happens to some of y’all as well, right? And I shouldn’t beat myself up over it?
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> It _bothers_ me, guys and ladies, it really does, and that’s why I wrote _this_: to explain the processes and the outcome. If I’ve made you uncomfortable or upset, I apologize. A lot of the time it happens to me as well, but it happens too late and I don’t know how to fix it. (Genie out of the bottle, etc.)

This is a man, _not a goddamned pet you can keep around for your own amusement_ who has the self-awareness and intelligence (despite the confusion his dementia causes) to not only know that he’s embarrassing himself\*, but that this isn’t the person he wants to be known as. Do you really think he enjoys “cringing” at what he wrote?

Read what he wrote “I sit here and _cringe_ at my words”; “It _bothers_ me, guys and ladies, it really does”. He was smart enough, and he had enough dignity and self-awareness, to leave when he was ready to go and before he said something he couldn’t take back.

Mhendo’s second post (the “stupid old douchebag” one) started with a nasty comment back to Quasi after Quasi said some pretty nasty stuff first, but…and this is key…he also spent like 10 lines rebutting Quasi; treated Quasi like an adult, who’s opinions were worth rebutting, not a child who gets patted on the head and told “Yes, yes, now run along. Your opinions are very cute, dear.” And unlike BigT, Quasi didn’t want special treatment–he asked for help when needed, but he didn’t want the board wrapped in cotton to ‘protect’ him.

Quasi showed class in how he left (temporarily or permanently) with his head held high. His “supporters” would do well to try to support his decision and emulate him instead of running around shrieking and wailing.  
\*If only BigT had half that self-awareness.

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