Say what? Are you really, truly, honestly this fucking dumb, or are you just yanking my dick? My response to lisacurl (for the 900th time) was a direct reference to my first post in the thread, made with the assumption that whoever read the second would have read the first, put the two together (since they were made by the same poster,) and concluded, with the help of my little faux-vBB tag, that I was modifying or elaborating on information provided in the earlier post, possibly in a light-hearted manner. This. Is. Not. That. Complicated. Nor is it terribly unusual for the SDMB for someone to indirectly reference an earlier post in the thread (or even a set of facts or posts in a completely different thread, providing that set of facts is weel-known enough around the Board.) But my God, I’m not even asking you to draw on Common Knowledge or board culture. Just read the thread and think a little, would you?
In short, this is a direct reference to this, which appears a mere ten posts earlier.
You really are this stupid. Of course every post in a thread references every preceding post. It’s hardly a weasel to claim that they are thematically related, since, by all that is good and holy, they are thematically related, and therefore reference each other, as I said way back here: “It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that each and every post is somehow thematically related.” My God. What the living fuck is wrong with you? Some naturally directly reference others. Some only indirectly reference others. I feel like I’m trying to expalin the concept of “orange” to someone who is convinced that I’m talking about “plantar warts.”
You read what I’ve said and got THAT out of it? Good grief. Maybe you should stop yelling at Contrapuntal about how to define a thread and actually listen to what he’s saying.
“Thematically related” does not equal “references” no matter how red your face gets when shouting it. All of your bukllshit has been based on this false theory that what is not stated is implied, and therefore you are free to bandy about terms like “attack” and 'yelling" and attach them to other posters comments on the unbelievable premise that since everything that is not stated is implied, and what is implied in one is implied in all, due to the Thematic Relationship Principle, that everyone who reads a thread is responsible for not only knowing every direct reference in the thread, but every indirect one and implied one as well, including the ones you made up. Brilliant.
I apologize, then. You didn’t get it. I still feel you should have. As I said, the two posts were only 10 posts apart.
As for what Contrapuntal is saying, well, what the hell is he saying? He’s saying that I wasn’t, in fact, referencing my ealier post? He’s saying that it was clumsily done? WTF? It is as plain as the nose on your face. It could not have been plainer. Seriously. I have exactly one response to the thread before that, a few short posts upstream of my response to lisacurl. Anybody with half a brain should be able to put them together, especially in light of the fact that I included a giant, honkin’ clue to it in my second post. Good lord. Do you people sit around at parties and take every single comment made by someone else as a completely separate, independent entity, or do you actually remember things and form connections?
Moron. I am saying that 1) second post referenced my first, and 2) that my wife does not have the right to direct her anger and pain at me during PMS, since I am not allowed to direct anger or pain at her, regardless of the state of my health. All your other “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is” horseshit is a ludicrous attempt to muddy the waters.
And yes, by God, if you go off half-cocked at me without fully understanding the thread and my responses in it, especially when they were made within such a short span of the thread, you’re fucking worthless. Go drool somewhere.
I was not yelling at lisacurl, and never was. The only person in this thread I’m yelling at is your idiotic ass. Christ. Learn comprehension.
You also said that every post in every thread referenced every preceding post. You can hem and haw and waffle and weasel all you want, but your very words betray you.
Ooh baby baby. You are so convincing when you spit foam.
Everyone understood you but me, eh? Hah!
Grab yourself some of that comprehension and point out where I, or anyone, has accused you of yelling at lisacurl.
They do, but this is hardly relevant to the point of the thread. It’s a continuing mystery why you are harping on it.
I don’t know if they did or not. They certainly should have. It wasn’t that much of a reach.
So you’re offended why again? Does it have anything to do with the OP, or anything I actually said, or do you just like incompetently nitpicking random posters? I was expressing frustration with my wife’s behavior during PMS, which I have a reasonable right to do, since that’s what this thread is about. I did it in way that fried the circuits in your brain. Get over it.
Humor me. Prove it to me. Show me how the posts I cited refernce every preceding post.
It’s in the thread, isn’t it? By the Thematic Relevance Principle it must have something to do with the OP, right?
You said you never yelled at lisacurl. Perhaps my response should have been "Who said you did? Or, “What does have to do with the price of tea in China?”
You also said in it response to a quote of mine. Please tell me I am allowed to infer that if you are directly responding to me that it somehow relates to what I said. I mean if all kinds of unspoken, indirect, counter-intuitive stuff is in every single post, surely the overtly stated stuff is there as well.
Geez… look at all this ranting and short-temperedness and taking things out of proportion! Ya think some folks here are running really short on estrogen as of late?
…what?
i wonder why p.m.s. wasnt at todays levels when nobody knew about it ?at least not so that other people would notice ! it sounds like a nice little cop out for bullying and tantrum throwing to some of us !if youre in court for assault and give the genuine excuse that youve been a 60 a day smoker for 10 years but gave up 3 weeks ago (no not me !its an example!) and youve been suffering major withdrawal symptons ever since !the court would say tough ! thats not a mitigating circumstance ;youre a grown up show a bit of self discipline ! but p.m.s ? i do believe as a self fulfilling prophecy some women get the symptons cos they expect the symptons (phycosamatic condition) but i wonder how many women would claim to be unable to control their behaviour if the law said "fine youre not able to behave like a sane person for 4 or 5 days so youll have to spend that period in solitary out of society EVERY month of your life while fertile ? i bet the poor little dears d be falling over themselves to show that itd made no change to their behaviour !and ladies it`s not cute or sweet to start crying over imbecilic things for no reason ,just a demonstration of lack of self control.
First, Ogre, I got that you were referring to projecting your own issues onto Lisacurl, but I didn’t get that it was from the first page, because I read that yesterday, and read the second page today. So I do agree with you that your faux vb tag was cool. I don’t agree with you that everyone should remember every thing that has been said upthread - I usually read every post in a thread, and I still miss things. I’m human.
Second, you have my complete sympathy for having a wife that takes her hormonal issues out on you. You are absolutely right when you say you don’t deserve it. As husbands and wives, yeah, we should and do cut each other some slack, but we should also be careful not to use the people we’re close to as convenient punching bags.
As a result of this thread, I told my husband that I have PMS - he didn’t know. So yeah, it is possible to control your shit, if you want to, and I do. I recognize that my husband is not the cause of my problems, and doesn’t deserve to pay for them.
I’m not sure I’m on board with the idea of expecting people to leave you alone for days at a time - life doesn’t just stop because a woman has a hormone issue. Is it more difficult to be civil when you want to scream and cry? Hell yes. Are you still expected to do it? Hell yes. Welcome to being a part of a society.
Okay, let’s redefine “normal, rational behavior” as “squishy and sweet” and “oversensitivity” to “normal”. There we go; the worst that “womenfolk” ever get is normal; therefore, they are morally superior and, given that their ordinary behavior is “squishy and sweet”, the bouts of “normality” must be tolerated. QED.
Similarly, let me define the “70%” I got on my last exam to be a “90%”, and the “90%” on the first exam to be a “110%”. Grade problem solved!
I don’t think that a lot of Dopers, at least, will give the percentage of men who are like PMS’ing women “all the time” a pass, so I don’t see why that should be an excuse.
Oversensitivity and pointless aggression are bad no matter who does it or the reason.
A well-adjusted human being is someone who says, “I’m in pain, please leave me alone.” A self-centered asshole is someone who hears that and continues to annoy and aggravate that person. You said you were projecting your own issues here, so you’re obviously not responding rationally. Poor dear, you probably have PMS.