What were you THINKING?

Isn’t he the same guy who was aggravated cause his grandkids didn’t play with the blocks like he thought they should?

What a buzz kill.

I don’t think any of that is an especially sincere argument. It just comes down to “stop reporting, it’s interfering with my ability to get away with shit!”

Generally, I actually get along with the guy reasonably well on the board.

But, when I get told I’m a “tattle,” a “busybody,” and a “junior mod,” and when my flagging a hijack is characterized as, “Teacher! Someone is breaking a RULE in a way that does not affect me!”, yeah, it’s pretty fucking rude.

We don’t believe that’s what you did @kenobi_65.

I think you’re probably one of the most level headed even-tempered posters on the Dope

You’ve not seen some of the stuff I’ve written, and then thought better of it before actually posting. :wink:

That’s what makes you so even tempered.

We all think things.

Agreeing with @Beckdawrek . We all think things.

I’m trying to think and nothing’s happening!

I think that’s pretty much the definition of “level headed”.

The faster I start responding and typing, the more time I spend re-thinking before sending.

When I skip taking that the extra time, bad things routinely happen.

Sme of us are more reliable about that extra time, and some are not. Some have no idea it’s even a good idea to think twice. Those folks are tiresome.

Isn’t the thread for people who THINK things?

I believe I just did the thinking but not THINKING in @Czarcasm coffee pod thread. I just Googled the largest pod. Not knowing the difference in machines. Should not have posted my findings, at all. But I thought I was being helpful. Dumb me.

The title of the thread is incomplete.

“Thinking things” isn’t the problem. “Blurting things you just thought” is the problem. The thread is a celebration :face_with_diagonal_mouth: of posters with no filters.

Yeah. More like “What were you not thinking when you posted THAT?”

Beck, did you never hear the phrase?

I’ve very commonly heard the phrase “what were you thinking?” used to mean “why on earth did you do/say that? you should have known better!”

Emphasis generally on the last word, as it is in the thread title.

My Daddy would say “Yessir, like we all have assholes, we all have thoughts. Don’t need to know what’s coming outta you!”

But he was rude.

I grant I have things to say. My brain always thinking random shit.

I really really am trying hard not to be a buttinski on the Dope.

Alot of you know I don’t speak vocally often. It’s hard for me express myself live and in person. So I don’t have conversations with people. The Dope was the first place I felt like I was having a conversation with anyone. Ever.

I understand many don’t want to have a visit with me. I get that. I’m a bit exasperating at times. And not nearly as smart as any other person here.

I do know a few things.

I’m trying folks.

I shut up now. :upside_down_face:

(My logo: Real Cherries. May contain pits)

For what it is worth, I’ve noted that you’ve improved a lot and I was one of your harsher critics for a while.

Owning up when you fucked up, and apologizing for it, that’s not easy for most people.

I prefer to think of it as growth. One of the points of the thread. You, a general you that is, goes on with your life, and every once in a while, you blurt out something, or double down defensively, or otherwise go off your personal rails because not enough coffee / missed meds / too much :beer_mug: / not enough sleep.

And they you get the backsass. Leaning from constructive criticism can be extremely hard. Leaning and applying it consistently is even harder. I, like most of us I suspect, am a “three steps forward, two steps back” when it comes to consistency. Doesn’t mean I don’t keep trying, and I hope all here do the same.

– heads out before the next poster comes in with the traditional “F*** all you huggers and rational people in the Pit” jocular response.

It helps if, like me, you’re prone to typos and have to keep going back to fix things, which leads to reconsidering and editing wording and phrasing, which leads to reconsideration of the meaning as a whole, which eventually leads to something perhaps rather removed from the original draft.