Well maybe SFG could have been nicer, but my mind is boggled that anyone is claiming that Una’s question wasn’t stupid to the point of being a satire of itself.
Gee whillikers, people are saying zany things. Does that mean they are being zany? On the Internet!? Wait, no one’s ever been pointlessly irreverent on the internet before, so it must be a “facebook thing!” Wait! Let me share with you how backwards/superior I am, by noting that I don’t have a facebook page, and I don’t know anyone who has one, in fact, I’ve never even heard of facebook! You kids with your faceyspaces!
Because lord knows, there has never been an internet meme, ever in her lifetime, and it is flat-out impossible to tell if the phrase “Cooks Source invented waterproof tea bags” is an attempt at humor unless you have knowledge of facebook.
Apologists, come on. It was a STUPID question that was perfectly mockworthy.
Hmpf. Una’s biggest problem is that she doesn’t post enough.
I neglected to attach the Appropriate Taoism Chapter in the last advice I posted, but I’ll toss it in this time. No, I don’t have an ATC for everything, I haven’t even thought about this stuff for awhile.
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The gentlest thing in the world
overcomes the hardest thing in the world.
That which has no substance
enters where there is no space.
This shows the value of non-action.
Teaching without words,
performing without actions:
that is the Master’s way.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single thread that you have participated in that has been better due to your posting.
Your shrill, whiny, and your sarcasm fails on an epic level.
There are many posters I disagree with on this board. There are many posters I don’t particularly like. Even though I do not like them all that much, they post things at times that at least make me think. You, however, bring nothing to this board.
As for the topic of this thread–do you really not get that all of us in this place are still people, who will still get their feelings hurt, and that we might not leave it in the Pit? There are still repercussions for what you say in the Pit.
You have a reputation for being overly blunt, but Una’s not going to know that since she doesn’t post here, anymore than she knows I’m not a troll because my opinions have changed over time.
Lately, you’ve been getting a lot of posts asking you to tone it down here. That’s not a good sign. As I pointed out in another thread, you can still be banned for trolling here in the Pit. Which puts to a lie your idea that this is the place where you are supposed to treat people poorly. That’s just a side effect of it’s real purpose–to let posters let off steam.
Una had no reason not to call your question stupid outside the Pit. There is nothing that says you can’t do that. In fact, as long as she doesn’t follow you around, she can respond every time she sees a post of yours in a way that is specifically designed to annoy you.
In fact, if I were her, I’d get a lot of satisfaction out of the fact that you got so upset you started another Pit thread. She’s only doing to you what you did to rachellelogram and others.
Really? You don’t think it’s threadshitting for someone to post in a thread for no other reason than to harass the OP, because they felt that the OP harassed them in the Pit? When they have literally nothing to say about the topic of the thread itself? Because if you can find a single phrase in any of Una’s posts in that thread that in any way address the topics of (a) why **Tuba **locked the previous thread or (b) whether moderators should be required to recuse themselves if they have a demonstrable interest in the discussion, I’d like to see it.
Of course it’s an adequate response. You just don’t like it because my behavior isn’t your behavior. When people say stupid things in the Pit, I’m allowed to point out that they’re stupid; and when I do so, you’re allowed to think I’m a terrible boor. Everybody wins!
I dunno, I like it.
No.
No, **Una **has said that it was a 100% serious question. She literally did not get that it was all a joke.
Exactly. How anyone thinks the question wasn’t worth of mockery is beyond me.
Then you need to get out more. Put me on ignore; I’m being 100% truthful when I say I’ll take it as a compliment, coming from you.
And the way I let off steam is by not keeping my mouth shut when I see people say stupid things. It’s not trolling–it’s just that I leave etiquette, politeness, and a general consideration for other people’s pwecious widdle feelings at the door when I come into this particular section of the boards. Because I *like *having one area where I can call a spade a spade, where I don’t have to smile and pretend that what someone just said *doesn’t *make me want to punch them in the teeth. (Well, okay, I can’t actually do that, because wishing bodily harm on others is against the rules–but I *can *call them out when they’re being fucking retarded.)
Agreed–but that’s not what she did. She also made personal attacks on me. Cited for your viewing pleasure:
100% of what I’ve quoted is about me. 0% of it is about my arguments in the ATMB threads.
Please show anywhere outside the Pit where I’ve attacked rachel. Oh wait, you can’t. Because I understand how to tell the difference between the Pit and the rest of the boards.
This bit reminds me of Bukowski’s short, Class. I can’t find a link to just this story, and I really don’t want to be responsible for the whole book, so here it is below. Sorry to paste an entire story, but I think you can see what I mean:
Great story. Is Henry gonna eventually beat up Una Person or Shot From Guns? Oh, I get it. Una Person or Shot From Guns is represented in the story by the society broad - rich, educated, nice body, nice face, nice clothes. But then in the end she turned out to be a shallow materialistically cheap slutty bitch.
So which one is she? Una Person or Shot From Guns?
