I suggested that you take your issues with me to the thread that *already existed *in the Pit for people who think I’m a whiner (a thread started because of another personal attack in that ATMB thread). I didn’t bother to link it, since I figured you were smart enough to find it on your own. Whoops, big mistake! You missed it and bitched again about me snarking at you in that other Pit thread, further demonstrating that you cared entirely about personal attacks and zero about the topic of the actual thread. So, here’s the link to the thread in the Pit that’s actually about me. As I mentioned, though, you might want to be careful about trying to mock me in it, since apparently it’s turned into a big lovefest about how generally amusing I am.
Una, I think you’re generally a very insightful poster and I respect the work you do for the column that gives us all a reason to be here. But right here, right now, you are being a fucking retarded bitch. Apparently you’re having a bad day/week/month in your life–I get that. In which case, maybe you should *stay the fuck out of Pit threads *where people are going to point out when you say something stupid. And as for you to drag your complaint with me out of the Pit, into ATMB: **what the fuck were you thinking? **It’s patently obvious that you don’t give a shit about the topic of the thread and your only point in being there is to try to snark at me the way I snarked at you. Well, guess what, honey: I did it in the Pit. You did it in ATMB. So what does that say about the two of us?
You’re embarassing yourself. Go take a nap, drink a juice box, and calm the fuck down.
Guns has referred a few times to a Catholic upbringing, I think. I might be mistaken, I got my stalker notes for all the Doper women mixed up a while back.
The question that seemed so stupid to you three days after the fact was answered politely by two other posters right after it was asked, in posts 85 and 87. I think you were needlessly snarky, that the question wasn’t stupid at all, and that treating the question the way you did was an assholish thing to do. And now, as seems to be your habit lately, you can’t seem to let go of it or anything else. You’re not a whiner, but you’re a first-class jerk. Why don’t you take a little rest?
Um…sweetie-pie-honey-bunch? Ya know I mostly dig ya and stuff. But there was no reason for you to blast Una the way you did. She’s obviously not hip to the culture of wherever the remarks she asked about were posted. For that matter, neither am I. You could have just answered the question without going all bitch-kitty on her.
Think of it this way…suppose somebody came in to the WoW thread and blasted Quasi that way for one of his questions. You and I would be in a footrace to be the first to rip that poster a new asshole, wouldn’t we? Cuz we like Quasi, and we don’t like it if people fuck with him for no good reason.
Now I didn’t read beyond the initial question/response and followup from a reasonably bewildered Una, and I don’t know what else may have transpired between you. And I’m a fair man. Perhaps you two should work this out between you by wrestling in jello? Topless, even? Cuz that would be fun to watch…
Yes, it’s an attempt to change the results of Google searches for my name such that people think I’m Christian.
Correctamundo. However, I also make no bones about the fact that I’m a firm atheist and have been for years.
It’s the fucking Pit. If people don’t want to be made fun of for stupid questions, they should ask them elsewhere. And if you think the question wasn’t stupid, you are ipso facto as internet-ignorant as Una. Ipso facto ipso facto ipso facto. I love saying ipso facto.
I also find it interesting that you have no comment on the fact that Una dragged a conflict from a Pit thread into another forum, something that I, apparently a complete asshole, have the class to never do.
What do you mean, “lately”? I’ve always been a stubborn bitch. And if you want to hire me to do nothing around the house all day, so I can do something fun like read a book, play WoW, or get wasted, I’d be more than happy to take you up on the offer. Until then, I’ll continue to post from work as I please.
Thanks for the new title, by the by.
ETA: Oak, her question was in the fucking Pit. That’s not remotely comparable to someone mocking **Quasi **in the WoW thread, because (a) he has a fucking excuse, unless **Una **also has EOAD and hasn’t told us yet, and (b) that’s not in the fucking Pit.
She dragged (or at least continued) a spate from the Pit into ATMB, and then when Shot From Guns mentioned that, Una told SFG: You probably shouldn’t bring business from the Pit into ATMB.
A juice box or cup of honey tea might well be called for in this case.
She hardly “blasted” her - it was just some silly snark. Which apparently Una couldn’t handle. Her response in ATMB was clearly aimed at seeking some kind of retribution and was completely over the top.
The Pit is where we’re allowed to attack people. Doing so is not required, and doing it to people who are simply trying to follow along is just being nasty for its own sake. You like that, apparently. I don’t.
You are right, I have no comment on Una’s posts in the ATMB thread. I’m glad that interests you.
By lately, I mean that I haven’t noticed you much before, but you seem to be everywhere I look right now.
And as for me being internet ignorant, I have a couple of comments. Claiming that I am internet-ignorant based on my opinion of Una’s question assumes that I didn’t know the answer to her question, which is an incorrect assumption. It also assumes that your experience of the internet is some sort of universal standard. It isn’t. And finally, I make my living writing software for online bill payment (on the internet) for a big company based right in your home town. I’m pretty sure I know a bunch of things about the internet that you don’t know and have no need or desire to know. That doesn’t make you internet-ignorant. By your apparent definition, everyone is internet-ignorant. It’s a big place.
My god, you’re right! I’ve seen the error of my ways! From now on, I will follow everyone around in the Pit spreading sweetness and light and telling them what beautiful flowers they are and how fabulous their gripes are and how clearly everything about them is wonderful and any bad things have nothing to do with anything they’ve done! And when someone asks a question that a five-year-old could answer, by gum, I’ll just smile and say isn’t it wonderful that they have retained the likeness of a child, like Jesus wanted! And kittens! I shall shower everyone with kittens!
Wait, no, sorry, that’s a terrible lie. Guess I’m still a bitch.
It’s relevant because if you ask a stupid question in the Pit, I’m allowed to tell you it’s stupid. **Una **dragged the issue out of the Pit, into another forum entirely, where she paid no attention to the topic of the thread and instead made a personal attack on me. (I’m pretty sure we call that *threadshitting *and/or trolling. At least when it’s not being done by a member of the staff.)
It’s like **Una **and I were in a boxing ring, and I punched her in the head. She didn’t like being punched in the head, but tough shit–she shouldn’t have gotten in the ring. But because she didn’t like being punched in the head, she then followed me to the bar down the street, where she proceeded to stand there and jab me in the back repeatedly while I was just trying to have a drink, where if I turned around and punched her again, I’d be arrested.
You seriously had to have this explained to you? Seriously?
Shot From Guns, you’re clearly a pretty smart person, and you provide plenty of interesting and even amusing posts. But i sometimes wonder if you turn your computer on in the morning and ask yourself, “OK, how can i be the biggest possible douchebag to the most people possible today?” I know you seem to have embraced the “I’m the hip and snarky chick around here, so you all better get used to it” persona, but when you do it all the fucking time, it sort of loses its verve and piquancy, and just becomes tiresome.
And i say this not because i’m innocent, but precisely because i sometimes tend to do the same thing, and it’s something i try to avoid, because i recognize that acting like this makes people perceive you not just as an asshole (everyone can be an asshole at times), but as nothing but an asshole. As Crotalus suggests, it’s almost impossible to turn around lately without seeing a post in which you ream someone out for some minor offense. There’s nothing anyone can do to prevent you from doing this, and i’m sure you’ll carry on as before, but after a while it just becomes noise.
mhendo, what does any of that have to do with **Una **chasing me around the forums with a personal vendetta? And in response to some very, very mild snark? (I mean, seriously–I didn’t call her a retard, I just suggested that she had a problem recognizing something that was intended to be funny, which is exactly what happened.)
Really? You can’t just go read the thread where I already explained this? Fine, I’ll help your lazy ass:
Because to anybody who’s remotely familiar with the way people behave on the internet should recognize the behavior as a general tard pileon. There’s nothing about it that could possibly be influencing search engine results. It’s all about hyperbolic one-upsmanship: who can come up with the most ridiculous insult, the most incredulous accusation of perversity.
There is, AFAIK, *no way *to change anybody’s Google page rank or search returns by posting on their fucking Facebook Wall.
This is also a phenomenon that you don’t need to be on networking sites to appreciate. I’m sure we’ve seen things like it happen in this forum.