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"Blunt" just comes off as puerile. Why should I take you seriously when you talk like a teenager.

quaquaqua1 7y ago
I would venture a guess that most (Americans) respond well to teenage-style messaging, given the number of people who voted for a man who made disrespect his mantra. Sigh
- Moshe_Cohen 7y ago
  That's one of the more creative opportunities I've seen to shoehorn an "orange man bad" in somewhere completely unnecessary. Get your T levels checked.
karatestomp 7y ago
You know different adults from just about all the ones I’ve ever met, I guess.
livealife 7y ago
I believe they are up for a noble cause. Please focus their self-quarantine manifesto rather than the "words" they used.
- jungturk 7y ago
  That's kinda the issue - the author has (surely inadvertently) diluted the focus of their point with the language choice. I say this as a person who prefers to speak as frankly and casually as the author does, but when going into broadcast mode it's worthwhile to ask yourself if your language supports your mission or not (for instance, by pre-empting the majority of the comments in post that are curious about the language choice).
kingkawn 7y ago
Because you’ve decided that being performatively uptight is not advantageous to a life fully lived
happytoexplain 7y ago
This is totally alien to me. I could understand - though not relate - if you were offended, or just thought the use of the word "fuck" here was awkward or tonally inconsistent. But "puerile" and "why should I take you seriously" and "you talk like a teenager" is an absolutely ridiculous reaction to me. I've honestly not met a single person in all my life who reacted like that to a superfluous curse word.
- sojournerc 7y ago
  This isn't superfluous... it's in the domain name. Smh
tomjen3 7y ago
Because it is not about who says it, but about the truth value of it - and the simple fact is that you probably do know some old people you would like to keep alive.

I would venture a guess that most (Americans) respond well to teenage-style messaging, given the number of people who voted for a man who made disrespect his mantra. Sigh

Moshe_Cohen 7y ago
That's one of the more creative opportunities I've seen to shoehorn an "orange man bad" in somewhere completely unnecessary. Get your T levels checked.

karatestomp 7y ago

You know different adults from just about all the ones I’ve ever met, I guess.

livealife 7y ago

I believe they are up for a noble cause. Please focus their self-quarantine manifesto rather than the "words" they used.

jungturk 7y ago
That's kinda the issue - the author has (surely inadvertently) diluted the focus of their point with the language choice. I say this as a person who prefers to speak as frankly and casually as the author does, but when going into broadcast mode it's worthwhile to ask yourself if your language supports your mission or not (for instance, by pre-empting the majority of the comments in post that are curious about the language choice).

kingkawn 7y ago

Because you’ve decided that being performatively uptight is not advantageous to a life fully lived

happytoexplain 7y ago

This is totally alien to me. I could understand - though not relate - if you were offended, or just thought the use of the word "fuck" here was awkward or tonally inconsistent. But "puerile" and "why should I take you seriously" and "you talk like a teenager" is an absolutely ridiculous reaction to me. I've honestly not met a single person in all my life who reacted like that to a superfluous curse word.

sojournerc 7y ago
This isn't superfluous... it's in the domain name. Smh

tomjen3 7y ago

Because it is not about who says it, but about the truth value of it - and the simple fact is that you probably do know some old people you would like to keep alive.