Now I feel nauseous.
Poop may have worked better.
OTOH, for many people, once they poop on the buffet table (better analogy? 
), and other people remark about their evident gaucherie, they cannot help themselves: they must defend their action, and as each of their defenses is in turn picked apart by the crowd, they must defend each of those failing flailing defenses.
Soon it looks like a scene from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with ever more multiplying tit-for-tat bickers of futile defense. Meanwhile the footprint and notoriety of the original table-poop is growing explosively like diarrhea after too much spicy buffet food left out in the heat a bit too long (better analogy? )
I’m reminded of the kid who grasps the cat’s tail then tells the cat “I’m not pulling, you are.” The cat ain’t gonna buy that argument and will make its displeasure known. The kid’s not gonna get the cat to quit pulling, and as long as you’re defending, you will draw continued counter-attacking fire. What an odd game; the only way to win is not to play.
When you F up, and we all do eventually, either just give it the Sgt. Shultz treatment: “Zat never happened; I zee nooooothiiiing”, or make your apology and STFU. No matter how much follow-up crap you get.
Boy that sounds so easy.
Yeah, that works. /s
Too much time in The BBQ Pit leads to vomiting and diarrhea.
Film at eleven.
Usually it does, though.
No s.
You have to go somewhere else to get a salad or some fresh fruit or something every now and then.
I mean look what happened when I did it earlier in this thread.
I posted something I didn’t like when I read it a few hours later. Then I apologized for it.
The way people ganged up on me for hours and days, through hundreds of messages. It made me determined never again to take anything back I’ve ever said I these boards.
/s
@thorny_locust is correct - it usually does.
I’ve relied on that method occasionally, when I’ve made a really stupid post.
And I’ve learned that the sooner you fess up and apologize, the less damage you do to those you offended, and to your own reputation.
Yes, I learned that the hard way. I often go a day without Doping, only to return to a thread and think “Crap, I didn’t mean HIS mother was a hooker, just that some are!”
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that, except for ‘bring your kids to work’ day…)
Oh, I’ve been told I apologized only to get more attention.
And “oh, here she goes, made a mild mistake/was misunderstood and was abused for days and days, then she apologized to get more attention. Such a drama queen!”
Or “all the martyrdom and feeling sorry for herself, just more drama”
Why don’t you say “watch her squirm, so entertaining!, yay! Do it again, beck!” ?
(Here we go …
)
You mean like how you are currently making the unforced error of explicitly making a general comment by LSLguy all about you, deliberately shining the spotlight on yourself yet again? The spotlight in your torture chamber straight out of Orwell?
Predictable…✓
Ow, my poor irony meter. It was a top of the range one too, but it couldn’t handle that.
Oh, you always say that. Silver tongue-typing, and all.
Yep…
Predictable #2…✓
I’m not normally one to make cutting remarks at many people, but HOLY SHIT are you getting tiresome.
Both my irony meter and my bullshit detector have long been overloaded and burnt by Beck’s posts.
(I predict to get a “Predictable”)
You must be keeping your narcissism meter stored in a lead box.
No, that*s also broken, the only one of my electronic sensors that’s still untouched by Beck is my gaydar.
The guiding aphorism where the Dope is concerned should be ‘it’s better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth (or post) and remove all doubt.’
Unless, of course, one isn’t a fool at all.