MM, the "clumsily worded but inoffensive remark" was on the heels of a long series of "people who don't like the kind of tv I do are stupid" posts that I, personally, found to be quite offensive. In all three show threads. So while, yes, the specific remark he brought up here may have been relatively innocuous on its own, iin context it was just one more obnoxious remark from someone who had been pissing me off all week.

So it's the "straw that broke the camel's back" argument?

I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.

Yikes. I guess the divide is wider than I thought.

My read was that people disagreed with the characterisation (to which I'm sure unfamiliarity contributed). In my eyes (as you can tell by the fact I spoke up) one went over the line.

What continued in here was the "But no one should have been offended! How could anyone have been offended! Your feelings sure get easily bruised!"

That's what I thought got the avalanche rolling, up to and including accusing Shawn of lying.

I think it was also the "don't get your panties in a bunch" statement and the conversation that followed that got more people upset.

eta or what ita said.

I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.

I don't think that's what she was saying. It's a legitimate point that when you make 6 obnoxious statements in a row, people react more strongly to the 7th.

I don't think that's what she was saying. It's a legitimate point that when you make 6 obnoxious statements in a row, people react more strongly to the 7th.

Thank you, Brenda -- that's what I was trying to get across.

Ah. Well, then, there goes most of my conversation.

slap, slap

MM, admit it, you like the bitch-slapping. At least a little.

I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.

It was poor timing coupled with his inability to quit beating his dead horse. And his poor timing.

I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.

WTH?

Rob was told to cool it. (S. came here and asked someone to tell Rob to cool it. Which, YMMV, I personally think was kind of theatrical overkill, but which isn't the point, just my opinion--I'd rather it all been handled in thread) Mixed in with all this is the whole is-he-or-isn't-he-debate (S as M), when M had been banned.

You want to sort through this all and tell me how it could have gone differently?

You want to sort through this all and tell me how it could have gone differently?

All right, tomorrow I will.

Tonight, Kevin Smith will be on Table For Five in fifteen minutes.

Rob was told to cool it.

And -- I feel this is the important point -- he did.