Some of us just love our words SO much that we want to share them with you, Themis, whether you want us to or not.
But I agree, no paragraphs are a bitch. I’m a court reporter; we’re taught to try to keep paragraphs short just for readability. And that’s with a LOT of white space on the page. (Okay, it’s a racket, I admit it.)
The general and apparently increasing illiteracy level on the net is one issue, however; long posts are another. Sometimes a story CAN’T be told in a few sentences. Some of my favorite posts are the longest ones of all. Perhaps you need to train yourself to more patience in your reading? Reading is a Good Thing!
Too long, did not read? If you’re not going to read the package then you have to ask, yes, ask a clerk which condoms are smaller in size. That way there are no suprises when the moment of truth comes (so to speak, I really did not mean to make that terrible pun) and you try to pull out but you’ve shrunk already and the damn thing stays inside and you think “Jeez I wish I had read that package to know what size of condom I was buying; these things are Xtra Xtra Large and I need Teensie Teensie Small”. If you need more information about condoms I have a website and quarterly publication. Thank you, but read next time.
I’m extremely guilty of this. I have made a few posts which could be summed up as follows:
“I fixed a toilet last night”
“I think nonviolent criminals should be able to serve in the military to lessen their sentence”
“my dad is going in for surgery and I am scared”
“someone who I thought was B and my friend lied about is in shitty ways and so this letter is to her”
etc.
But I like to think that the effort I put into making those OPs interesting is borne out in … y’know, the OPs. And so far this is one of few complaints I can remember;)
But if it’s too long, you know … you can just scan it. Unless that would be too much of a strain or something.
If you skip over posts that you consider too long, how do you know they can be summed up in one paragraph? Or do you think that any amount of information can be compressed into one paragraph with no loss of meaning?
Perhaps true samarm, but this same logic could be applied to most of the BBQ Pit. As I understand it, the pit is exactly the place for this kind of bitching.
