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The importance of being snarky

POSTED BY: DREAMTROVE
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 08:22
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 4:17 AM

Or an earnest dick.

Niki,

I'm sorry for being such an ass lately. I've been way too stressed, and flew off the handle. I took your comments as personal attacks and responded in kind, and there's no excuse for that. I shouldn't have lept to conclusions.

[nonetheless I have some excuses to hide behind]:

I would like to thank lack of sleep and an inner dickishness that lets me get into petty fights for this award.

I don't even know where this started, but it was likely with some sort of snark. I really need to start [/snark] on my snarks, or get a snark emoticon.

Oh, and one more: I'm really ticked at Obama, atm, and not just over the healthcare, a friend of mine being stop lossed back to Afgh. at the same time as we're talking about bombing a civilian city, it's sucking on both ends.

I would also like to thank Kanye West for showing me the true path to how much of a dick one can be ;) But seriously, I was out of line. Even at a perceived slight I should have let it slide, because perceptions are not necessarily reality.

[/excuses]

Okay, now I'm out of excuses. I should really react to an offending post by waiting a day before posting a response, then I'll probably cool off and not respond to a perceived attack with an attack.

Anyway, my apologies for being suck a dick.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 6:28 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Thank you for my shock of the morning, DT, that was wild. And thank you for backing off; no apology was necessary, you know. If we just could have come to some kind of agreement that I wasn't attacking you or even that PERHAPS you might have misunderstood or misconstrued some things, that's all I ever wanted. Everybody snarks everyone here, I can take that. But thank you, that was very gracious of you.

For my part, I'm guessing Byte is right, that I get oversensitive about some things. Everyone knows my feelings about PN, so saying I'm his equivalent was bound to send me over the cliff; I need to get past that somehow. Can't promise I'll ever manage it, tho'!

I would really like to know what's wrong with your health--I know I'm not the only one here who's worried about you and what's wrong. Maybe one or another of us could come up with helpful suggestions--maybe not, but I know we're concerned and I've thought about it several times.

I know what you mean about lack of sleep, believe me! My back has had two episodes of going out on me in the past couple of weeks, both brought on by the physical therapist, believe it or not! Right now I can barely move, it's the worst it's ever been. You'd have to imagine the kind of contortions I have to get into to stay on the computer; I don't THINK the pain is changing my perceptions, but it could well be making me more sensitive without me intending to be. So I certainly understand lack of sleep affecting us...it does everyone!

I want you to know that at no time was I saying or do I believe you're a liar, or that by asking for cites I was questioning you. I truly do like cites because they help me make up my own mind, as far as that's concerned, it doesn't mean I disbelieve ANYONE.

I guess my excuse for reacting as I did is mostly that I see you as one of the smarter people here, so coming from you, I was more vulnerable. There are people here who I can easily dismiss; you're not one of them. I discovered long ago that I tend to put effort into clearing things up with people I like or respect; I don't care as much, if at all, about those who view me as their enemy.

I'm glad we can get back on some kind of even footing and let this be water under the bridge. Thank you.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:15 AM

DREAMTROVE

Niki,

I'm sure I misunderstood/misconstrued things that you said, but there was a way in which I was more of a dick: I disagreed with you, which is no big news, we have so fairly large ideological differences. That in itself is not a dick move. What I *did* do was allow that disagreement to waste everyone's time. That was very dickish of me.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:22 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Well, while it went way too far on both our parts, I don't think it wasted everyone's time, in that it allowed Byte to make some very cogent remarks about the "battles" we continue to fight from our childhood. That was a good thing to be reminded of, for me and maybe others. I was also helped to understand the difference in posting styles and that I can get oversensitive; I appreciated both. So at least a couple of good things came out of it, eh?

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