I dont think this is appropriate Techchick, shouldnt you take it to email???
Hey! Nice to see you again! You’re looking well…well…well-marinated, actually.
First, techchick68 said:
All I ask is that if you hate me that much that you get off my ass and go about your merry way.
Hrm. As was stated pretty clearly in the [cue scary music] OTHER THREAD, I don’t care about you anywhere NEAR enough to hate you. You use doubly-inflammatory language in an effort to get the kind of response that will let you come across as “poor wounded Techie,” and then try to weasel a way into making it sound worse than it is when people fail to rise to the bait. “Hate” is a very strong world, and most of us don’t live in black and white.
Then:
Look. I don’t hate anyone here, I have no need to.
Me neither. And a lot of other people, too. But nooooo, you can’t let anyone ELSE not hate anyone…they have to HATE you if they don’t LOVE you. :rolleyes:
Further:
So cut me a break and if you can’t handle my complaints then move on and go about your business.
Then stop posting in the Pit, genius. If you want to rant and don’t want your fragile ego scraped, come up with more creative and less profane cuss words, and leave it in MPSIMS.
And then…
< shaking head over this…all over a rant about quoting other posters >
No, all over your attitude in a rant about quoting other posters.
If you’re going to try to martyr yourself, for the love of God, at least get the reason right.
And more…
I mean come on, I don’t post strictly in The Pit yet some feel I do.
Show me anyone…ANYONE…who has said that, or anything like it. Come on. I’m waiting for that whole “I can admit when I’m wrong” thing that you keep babbling about. Except you never really “admit” it, do you? It’s never, “OH, damn…I was wrong. My bad.” It’s, “Well, I’m SO SORRY if you blah blah blah, but I blah blah blah, and if you hate me then blah blah blah, but I schnert phlurmph pomegranate.” That’s not an admission of imperfection; it’s a yodel for attention and it’s EXACTLY what people are bitching about.
Sigh, and further…
I want to know the truth.
No, you want to have an excuse to say that everyone hates you so you will have an excuse to feel bad again. No one likes a martyr, though. Sorry I use that word so frequently when referring to you, but you’re not giving me a very big pool of nouns from which to pull.
AND FURTHER…
I am sick of this veil of secrecy…
What veil of secrecy? Who’s not telling you what they think? Oh yeah, that’s right…by implying that people are keeping things from you, you can make people think everyone’s out to get you again. You really ought to get that nasty persecution complex looked at. It’s a doozy.
Fer cryin’ out loud…
But I am sick of walking around this board with eggshells under my shoes.
SO DON’T. I mean, damn. Fuck 'em if they can’t take a joke. What, you think in five years any of this bullshit will MATTER? Good god. Melodramatic much?
…
so I don’t need people thinking this about me behind my back.
WHO IS DOING THIS? ANYONE? ANYONE? EMAIL ME IF YOU’RE NOT TELLING TECHIE EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK OF HER AFTER READING THIS THREAD. ANYONE? ANYONE? HELLO?
…:rolleyes:
It is a selfish thing but if they hate me so then I prefer to know so that I don’t have to waste emotion on them.
You don’t HAVE to do ANYTHING. And since when is any emotion “wasted?” For crying out loud. Wait…this is the Pit. Oh, for FUCK’S sake.
This is where I bang my head on the wall because it will feel so good when I stop:
Shit right now I could give a rat’s ass about what people are thinking about me.
Yeah, for THIS five-minute period. Are you manic-depressive? I mean, seriously. Because if you are, they have meds for that.
She the wrenched a hand off of an iron nail to type:
I am a foul being not worthy in your eyes to suck a breath of air or to post on these boards…
Where did oldscratch (or anyone else) say that? Where? Point it out. We’re fighting ignorance here, techie, and you’re not immune. Where? Show me. I’m very curious.
Second verse, same as the first:
People are so quick to show their truth, kinda scary considering I have never said I hated anyone in the SD or elsewhere.
and
God you people amaze me. I don’t hate a one of you but you are quick to judge others…
hatehateblahblahpoormeblahblah
I am not quick to judge others, but I know that everyone hates me.
But I’m not quick to judge others.
But you all hate me.
:rolleyes: again.
techchick68 went on to babble…
Just now a joke…that’s all it is…
And in the next breath:
Seems I am a horrible person, can’t live my life outside of this on the boards. Seems that all I do is bring up horrible shit. Seems that all I am about is, to them, that I am can’t be something but a bitcher.
You said it, sweetmeats, not me.
It really and truly boggles my mind that anyone can be this egotistical and this self-effacing at the same time. It stuns me that ANYONE can spend so much time reading between the lines that they miss the actual TEXT. And it makes me laugh until the tears roll that techie can be handed her ass on a platter and ask…nay, BEG…for seconds, thirds, and forths, while leaving most of each plate untouched.
You’re a broken record. At least get some new lines. I mean, DAMN.
A closing note, for this post, anyhow…I have stated REPEATEDLY that I don’t hate you, and that you’re not worth the time and energy it would take to get to know you well enough to hate you. The thing is, I have my own mind, any judgement I have made about you has been based solely on YOUR behavior, and not on what ANYONE else has said about you. I understand that this (several times-) aforementioned persecution complex doesn’t allow you to comprehend that I’m not part of a Big Evil Coordinated Plot to Derail your Self-Esteem, but, well, I’m not.
THIS is honesty. You keep begging for it; here it is, baby, in all of its technicolor glory. I have never fed you a line of bullshit. I have never played up to you in one place and degraded you in another. I have never pretended to be your friend.
If you really want honesty, you’ll take this as the (well, somewhat) constructive criticism that it is. I know this won’t happen; I know this will get filed away in the “everyone hates me” folder (:rolleyes:), and the reason I know this is because I have been watching it happen SINCE I WAS A LURKER…and I joined up seven MONTHS ago.
It’s obvious that the ladder didn’t work.
I’ll save my money and buy you a trip on the Goodyear Blimp. You can see your football games from the air, so there won’t be any commercial interruptions, and when the game is over perhaps you can get them to fly somewhere above 30,000 feet so you will MAYBE, just MAYBE, have achieved enough altitude to GET OVER YOURSELF.
Liz,
Do you want to know the real reason I go butting into your fights? No, it’s not because I’ve got delusions of being a knight riding to rescue a damsel in distress. No, it’s not because I don’t think you can take care of yourself. It’s because I’m your friend and it pains me to see you self-destructing on my computer screen.
Yes, I do try to make you mad at me so I can deflect your rage from someone who will take it personally. Yes, I do sometimes say mean things–a guy can get frustrated and pissed off, especially when he is up past his bedtime. Other times I say the truth, then back down when you respond, even though I wish I could just stand up to you. You have a powerful personality and I don’t.
You have pissed off a lot of people. Some of this is because they see you as a very self-centered person. You often look that way to me. Please don’t take that quite as badly as it may sound at first. I am also a very self-centered person. But you have burned more bridges than I have, probably because you’ve been here longer than I have.
On the other hand, please try to see that there is a large group of people here who like you and want you to learn to work out your problems. We are happy to help. I, for one, appreciate your opening up, like you did at Fathom. I have developed a better understanding of you.
Please stop the self-immolation on the board. If you want to vent, or just talk, I’m as close as your email. I listen better in a one-on-one situation than I do here, where it is more like a conversation. As you might have guessed, I am not good at conversation! I also consider my replies more.
mike/drop
::pokes head in the door::
Just seeing what all the noise is about. Carry on folks
::closes the door back shut::
Tech, why do you look so mean in your peoples pages photo?
I was SO tempted to quote Hamadryad’s entire post…
techchick, I don’t hate you. I just don’t care. I don’t get involved with people’s problems on a MB.
I pretty much echo what Drop said. For god’s sake, Liz, let it go, please? nobody likes to see a friend inflicting pain on themselves…
Techie –
I’ve never been involved in any of the Pit wars that you have been involved in, but I’ve read several of them. Please take this post as constructive criticism from someone who has only had positive interactions with you.
You don’t let things go. 99% of the threads which allegedly cause people to “hate” you start out as a minor little thing, in which someone disagrees with you, and then you beat it to death. And beat it some more. And some more. The thread then devolves into a bitch-fest. Of course, with what has gone before, the process is now in hyperdrive, witness **Silver Fire’s ** immediate response to your OP. Related to this is that you can’t stand to concede. Little things become huge because you refuse to admit you may be wrong, or even that something ain’t worth fighting about. Using much hyperbole, at times you become the JDT of your (and others) personal life.
Most importantly, you take everything here waaay to personally. I post a decent amount in the Pit, almost always responding to someone’s rant that I think is out of line. I don’t hate the ranter – in fact, their possible personal character rarely crosses my mind. I only respond to what they say, not who they are. Someone disagreeing with something you say here does not reflect how they feel about you as a person.
Sua
As usual, my esteemed collegue says it better than I. You can see why he’s paid to talk, write, and nudge and I’m paid to draw.
Hey, Shut Up and Party, how’s it going? I think you were perhaps looking for another thread. Here, let me help you out:
Enjoy.
Oh, dear…
When last checked in, tech was probably sloppy drunk, but at least temporarily happy.
Dear, go see someone - a professional. You sound at least depressive, if not borderline passive-aggressive. Therapy and/or happy drugs might do you a world of good if you’re going through some stressful times.
And let’s all take a deep breath and say together, “It’s just a message board.” Lord knows we all need a reminder of that from time to time, even me.
Esprix
I don’t remember your name, except from the photo threads, but I’m sure you haven’t insulted me. I don’t insult easily, and certainly not at a message board. You’d have to be a real loser to mope over anything said on one anywhere.
Just kick back and enjoy it. Paranoia is a self-feeding beastie.
Techie, I wasn’t going to say anything but I feel you may need someone in your corner.
Be who you are, and if they don’t like it, they can ignore you. I for one, don’t want you to be another one of those “me too!” posters. I respect your individuality and balls. And even your quirky behaviour.
So next time someone gets down on you for being yourself, think of them as a mindless drone (even if they’re not). It’ll help you hold on to whatever sanity you may have left.
Well, to spare everyone else (like the extremely thoughtful person I am) I’ve taken this pathetic little squabble to email. (Tech, check yours.)
I do want to say, though, that I never once said I liked you, Techchick. I never once said I hated you. I never said that I wanted you to leave this message board. I never said that I wanted you to stay. Why? Because I don’t give a damn. But, in my opinion, this is a pathetic thread that you never should have started. You should, by now, have a pretty good idea as to who doesn’t particularily like you. So what, exactly, is the point of this thread? Well, in my opinion, it was a shameless attempt to gain attention. And you got it. I guess now I know what to do when I’m feeling unloved and ignored. :rolleyes:
Being oneself is highly overrated, kid. If I were myself all the time, or even part of the time, you folks would have shot me a long time ago. In my case, what you see is an elaborate construct, designed for a certain degree of sociability. I don’t like to talk to the “real” me, and I don’t think you would, either. (Waiting for the inevitable quote with sarcastic “I don’t like talking with you, anyway” response.)
If a conscious effort to get along with other people makes me seem like a mindless drone to you, that’s too bad. But for me it is better than being my naturally sociopathic self. And it’s an effort some of you would be advised to make.
First: please don’t call me “kid.” I don’t call you “boy.”
Second: if you really want to use the internet to be someone completely different, fine. go ahead.
Personally, I prefer to be who I am at all times, with all my petty insecurities and foibles. (foibles. foibles. it’s a funny word, ain’t it?). If I were to try to be someone else, that would be just plain dishonest. When I want to put on a false face, I’ll go into an aol chatroom disguised as a lesbian.
Call me boy. I really don’t care. I call everybody “kid,” by the way, when I’m in a hurry. It’s usually not meant disrespectfully, although I can see how it would. It’s just faster to type than Balessedwolf.
As for my affected personality, it’s the same one you’d get IRL, even in private. Many people would benefit from doing the same. My biggest problem, besides falling out of character at importune times, is that the one I’ve developed is not a big enough improvement over my natural one.
Call me boy. I really don’t care. I call everybody “kid,” by the way, when I’m in a hurry. It’s usually not meant disrespectfully, although I can see how it would. It’s just faster to type than Blessedwolf.
As for my affected personality, it’s the same one you’d get IRL, even in private. Many people would benefit from doing the same. My biggest problem, besides falling out of character at importune times, is that the one I’ve developed is not a big enough improvement over my natural one.
One of these posts is not like the other,
One of these posts just doesn’t belong.
Fair enough. Bles. or bwolf is acceptable too. But I won’t worry 'bout it if you call me “kid” from time to time, knowing that it’s not an insult.
Then why go with the fake persona? Even if I don’t like someone because they’re an asshole, I’ll respect them for being a genuine asshole. Of course, those who are phony about it, just to get a rise out of people, I’ll ignore.
Because I’d rather not be an asshole all of the time. But this should go to email, since it is a complete hijack. Unless you don’t have anything more to say, because I’m pretty much done.