And my post was supposed to post like half an hour ago. Sorry if I was salty too.

Yeah, but no one wants to hear me getting salty about a term they find perfectly useful, either.

Eh, if the guy's posting in your FB comments using language you've told him you find dismissive, a bit of salt seems called for. I wouldn't go into a stamp collector's comments discussing collectorfolk, even when their event was keeping me from a desperately wanted bahn mi. I'd complain here about it, though--sorry.

Eh, if the guy's posting in your FB comments using language you've told him you find dismissive, a bit of salt seems called for.

Absolutely. Your space - you get to vent about what you want!

I love your use of the word "salty," Steph. Too rarely used, imo. I'm neutral on sportsball.

I was doing the deposit at work today and every time I came across a ten-dollar bill, I said, "Your name is Alexander Hamilton." Just, you know, because I could.

I like some sports. I like watching baseball. (I also like watching figure skating and gymnastics, and diving, and some other sports, but those don't seem to count as "sports" usually.) When my old upstairs neighbors were watching some sports thing and being really loud about it, I didn't really care which sports thing it was, any more than I cared which video game they were playing when they were being really loud about that.

Speaking of which, those guys moved out a little while ago, and the landlord has been showing the apartment to new people. One of them, the landlord stopped with him on the front porch and told him to look at the view, and he responded, "Oh, we know some very attractive women who live in that house over there, so I know that we will appreciate this view a lot." I really hope they don't move in.

Timelies all!

Got to daycare and was told the little guy has a fever. I know he's been fighting something, with a runny nose and coughing. Fever's a new addtition, and means one of us will have to stay home from work tomorrow, as daycare's policy is for kids to stay home until 24 hours after their temp is back to normal. I'll talk to Gary about this when he gets home, including if the little guy should go to the pediatrician.(He's sounding a bit congested.)

It is dismissive and said by a lot of people in an elistist snobby way to point out very clearly that they don't watch or care about sports.

It just doesn't bother me because we all tend to be like that about something.

Yeah, I'm not in favor of being dismissive of something somebody loves even when it's not my beautiful cake. I try not to do that anymore unless your thing is eating babies or whatever.

Also:

"Oh, we know some very attractive women who live in that house over there, so I know that we will appreciate this view a lot."

Gross.

Huh. It is just me

No, it can bug the shit out of me, too. Some people definitely use it in that same irritating way "Kill your television" people would. With a sneer, like, "I'm far too weird to like anything a Normal would like."