And I am looking at my collection of take out menus since I shopped for tomorrow but not today.
I likely don't do my bitching about the wacky Republicans here because I get it out of my system at home. I did have to give my son a talking to before my brother visited to temper his comments. I worked it out with Jim by agreeing to O'Reilley in exchange for him watching Rachel. All the rest of my family and closest friends are on the left Democrat side. My customers mostly Republicans. I just keep the audience in mind. But at home they know without doubt how wrongheaded I find a number of our candidates and elected folk.
Nah, it's just that it's so subjective...I thought I was being funny and some people thought it was gross or mean or something. it felt like anything I would say would read like "Was not!" although I guess I said it anyway.(shrugs)
Some things that are obvious snark have been taken rather seriously.
All in the name of zero tolerance, I suppose.
All in the name of zero tolerance, I suppose.
That doesn't seem like a fair assessment of this board. (That is, it hardly needs to be said, my own opinion, based on my experiences here.)
I think so, Connie.
Thanks for saying it clearer than I did.
I tempered my posting here years ago when it started being a more and more snark free zone.
a more and more snark free zone.
I also don't think that's a fair assessment of this board. (Same disclaimer as before.)
So they don't get scolded?
Some of the people who are shutting up are shutting up about feeling scolded. I don't think that's fair. Republican Buffistas have spoken up before about feeling uncomfortable about general negative statements made about Republicans that
obviously
didn't include them. Because they're supposed to understand that no one would mean them. It's the other Republicans, you know, the dumb ones.
And if *anyone* ever dared swap black into the above paragraph, it would be perfectly acceptable to have a apoplectic rage.
I hate to think that the board is made an uncomfortable space for people who don't share the majority politics or other viewpoints because there's some apparent tacit understanding that Buffistas are exceptions to every rule, because we're cool like that. That doesn't really apply.
I can't think of a good reason why Republicans are an acceptable target of snark and everyone should be given a pass to say mean things about the group as a whole, but not, say any other group that Buffistas tend to be more sympathetic to because of our own demographics. That's groupthink.
Connie, do you think there are "obvious snark" comments I could make about, a group you belong to that you should give me free rein to post?
If you go back to the beginning of this conversation, though, Maria simply pointed out that some people who have military ties here might not love the remark about "military intelligence." She was straightforward about it, and not snarky.
This was what seemed super-snarky in response, erika:
it's totally awesome how much finger-shaking and correcting and looking to be offended goes on on this board these days.
And since you weren't the one who made the original "military intelligence" remark, I'm not sure why you were so heated. Maria said people *might* not love it, that's all, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Caring that people we like and spend a lot of time with might get hurt isn't something to rail against. And in the beginning, that's all it was -- a simple reminder.
