Let's agree to disagree.
And in hindsight I'm thinking tone should have been called "Point of View". Of which we have many.
You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone.
Giles ,'Touched'
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Elena's Husband - Mar 30, 2004 7:10:30 pm PST #8382 of 10005
I want miniature cheeseburgers!
P.M. Marc - Mar 30, 2004 7:10:55 pm PST #8383 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dude, you forgot
DRINK!
and
GIRLS!
Elena's Husband - Mar 30, 2004 7:12:06 pm PST #8384 of 10005
I want miniature cheeseburgers!
FECK! ARSE!
Are you implying something because of your deliberate dropping of 'girls!' ?
billytea - Mar 30, 2004 7:12:09 pm PST #8385 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
bon bon - Mar 30, 2004 7:12:20 pm PST #8386 of 10005
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Wait a sec, Shawn, are you saying that the poster is responsible for how other people react to the post?
Yes. Crazy notion, I know. If it's an unreasonable interpretation, then one is absolved. Otherwise, you take your lumps for what you put out there.
MechaKrelboyne - Mar 30, 2004 7:12:36 pm PST #8387 of 10005
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!
Why's everyone piling on the ecumenicalismocity?
Elena's Husband - Mar 30, 2004 7:13:19 pm PST #8388 of 10005
I want miniature cheeseburgers!
Look! There's Bishop Brennan. Go kick him up the arse!
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2004 7:13:24 pm PST #8389 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd like to think that you'd have given the benefit of this particular doubt to a new poster as well.
Maybe, maybe not. There'd be a larger context in which it all lived.
Fact is, that if I had no subtext, you just offended me. Fact #2 is, I don't think Elena would do this intentionally. And I would never have brought it up, except I thought it was a good example for the topic at hand.
Someone right in off the street? I may ask for clarification, but that would be after I got offended. That's how close the subtext lies to your text.
I like to think I have a fair amount of the milk of human kindness. Some days, it's just the whey of scrolling past. The more "benefit of doubt" I have to apply to an unknown, the less I'm getting to know them, and there's a relationship not made.
Trudy Booth - Mar 30, 2004 7:15:43 pm PST #8390 of 10005
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Intentional or not, you are coming across as incredibly patronizing and arrogant.
Maybe to you he is. He is to some others. He isn't to me. He isn't to several people.
bon bon - Mar 30, 2004 7:16:59 pm PST #8391 of 10005
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I like to think I have a fair amount of the milk of human kindness.
Hear, hear, if only because I like to think I know where ita is exercising a degree of discretion. As a side-note, in describing ita to Bob, he compared her to Wild Bill Hickok on Deadwood. I don't watch the show, so I don't know if the comparison is apt.