Look, it’s another mindreader.
I gave her the opportunity to clarify, and even told her that that very interpretation could be made. She declined.
Personally, I don’t believe that’s what she meant. I only said it was interpreted as a threat of one or the other, which it has been.
As she said, don’t put words in her mouth. She’s perfectly capable of doing that herself. (except on this issue, apparently)
I just renewed my charter membership a few days ago. After having read that post, I honestly wish I hadn’t.
I don’t understand why the Board administrators and moderators are unwilling to see that this isn’t just the disgruntlement of a few bad apples here.
Obviously I’m not psychic, but it seems to me that you’re confused between “mindreader” and “reader.” When I read someone’s words describing their intent and infer an intent from those words, that’s just basic literacy, that’s not mindreading. And if I say your inference is wrong, that’s slightly more advanced literacy.
I may confidently say that Tubadiva was not promising catsix a batch of double-stuff Oreos. I am equally confident saying that she was not promising her physical harm. Neither conclusion requires reading minds–just reading words.
Daniel
Aren’t you the guy who interpreted the sentences ‘Fuck off and die.’ and ‘You should be pecker-slapped to death.’ as serious death threats?
I’m not sure that your inferences are the ones we should all be using as a benchmark.
Actually, while you do make a good point in that it isn’t as extreme as mindreading, it’s not so simple as just “reading”, either. For you to have got that from plain reading the comment would have had to have been something like this;
What you’re doing is reading between the lines, based on a) your personal history and experience of Tuba, and b) your own assumptions of what she would/wouldn’t say. As you say, you’re taking an inference - but the very nature of an inference is that it is not spelt out in plain language. There’s room for many inferences, some which may be totally contradictory.
I don’t agree with your proposition as surely as you do - although i’m attempting to keep an open mind, and I certainly believe it’s a possibility - but to describe your inference from what Tuba said as a case of “just reading words” is false.
No, I’m not, actually.
Daniel
I could’ve sworn you were the whiny little pussy who was thanking the mods for banning Greathouse after he suggested the pecker-slapping.
That must’ve been some other panty-waist, eh?
Is being such a bitch a natural trait of yours, catsix, or do you have to work at it?
Never mind . . . 'twas a rhetorical question.
Yay, a new mod!
What’s your position on the Tuba issue, Cajun Man? And what’s your opinion on Dex’s contentious last post?
Well since asking logical, fact based questions only gets me falsely accused of being a liar and being told that there are “promises” that certain people would like to make me, I thought maybe you all were using reverse psychology.
Seriously though, this is the Pit, and I thought Left Hand of Dorkness richly deserved that for his whining about a couple of throwaway colloquialisms used by the former Greathouse.
My opnion of that is that someone in that scenario is a lot like the kid who whines to teacher that somebody called him a butthead on the playground.
Are we going for the full set? Will this be the only thread ever to have all the mods/admins posting in it?
My opinion, FWIW - I don’t give a fuck.
Oh and just out of curiosity, Cajun Man, was that your opinion as a poster, or as a mod?
Just curious, since you all got my fifteen bucks already.
Unlikely. I’m sure there’s been one before, and this isn’t exactly a mod magnet.
About what part (or all of it, I suppose), and why?
I have a feeling even if we get all the others, one will be suspiciously absent. . .
Isn’t that what you’ve been told from the get-go by everybody? I remember saying it, I remember a bunch of others saying it…
You may continue with your crusade now, futile as it may be.
It started out a couple of bitches slapping each other and degenerated from there.
I believe you just called Tuba a bitch. Was that your intention?
:rolleyes:
Sorry for me being stupid in not getting it. Just wanted clarification, really - care to give it another go?
