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Rather, I hope that was just sock puppets. The rest of you can identify the pointless meanness on the part of the original poster.

pius 19y ago
huh?
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DanielBMarkham 19y ago
I was just trying to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving in an unoffensive manner as possible. I thought if I just said Happy Thanksgiving somebody might say "yes, but (insert reason for life sucking here)" so I added some extra text. Apologies if my not trying to offend people, offended people. Geesh. I don't understand the sock puppet comment. If somebody could translate, that would be great.
- mynameishere 19y ago
  in an [in]offensive manner as possible Don't play stupid. Here is an example of an inoffensive comment, for those of us unfamiliar with the nuances of the English language: "Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Have a safe trip home." Here is a bitter one: "Happy Thanksgiving. Good luck putting up with your miserable relatives. Oh, yes [sarcasm]you're supposed to be thankful[/sarcasm] [sneer][/sneer] I didn't quite understand why anyone would go out of his way to post such a comment on a public board. It should have been instantly buried, but since it got upmodded I called it out.
  - DanielBMarkham 19y ago
    You have not described what was wrong with the original comment. I'll stop wasting everybody else's bandwidth. Either you can explain what you didn't like or you cannot. The only reason I replied to you was that pg made an attempt to reason with you (which he deleted). I still have no idea what crawled into your maw. I'm honestly not playing stupid -- I just wanted people to have a happy holiday. So go have one already. You can trash me on another topic if you like. But if you do you'd better be more descriptive than this if you'd like me to reply. Perhaps you're implying that I didn't want people to be thankful? Gosh -- not at all. I simply meant that being thankful seems to be the last thing we think of, instead of the first, even though it is the most important part of the day. If I failed to communicate I'm sorry, but I gotta say your comments seemed cryptic as heck to me. I didn't even know what you were talking about. Humor is very tough to do, folks. Please do not try this at home (as I did)
    - mynameishere 19y ago
      You have not described what was wrong with the original comment. LOL. You're just egging me on now. It doesn't really matter, obviously. When I read your comment I just heard pure snark coming through it. Maybe you thought you were being clever. In that case, it's best to attach a wink at the end: ;) I think I'll just unilaterlly apologize and move on with my life...
      - DanielBMarkham 19y ago
        Let's review -- did I get this right? Since I said something like "and oh yes, we should be thankful" you took that as meaning that I thought we shouldn't be thankful? That I was making fun of the holiday or something? I'm serious -- I still have no idea what the heck your so pissed about.
        mynameishere 19y ago
        The hard truth is that most of us (genuinely, without any sarcasm allowed) have much to be thankful for. I spend a lot of time around people who are just me-me-me in their demands of the world--pure ungrateful selfishness--and the worst is that they have no idea how good they have it. No perspective on the world or on history or on the sacrifices or troubles of others. I read that sort of attitude very clearly in your comment (viz, we're "supposed to be thankful", as if thankfulness was some sort of unpleasant duty), and it rubbed me wrong. ...however, I'll just take it on credit that my interpretation was incorrect. The end.
- mynameishere 19y ago
  If somebody could translate I think I know someone who can help you out on that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet Getting dowmodded for calling a jerk a jerk was shocking enough for me to assume that the same person was doing it. I'm probably wrong: A lot of people are too dense to have spotted the sneer in the original post.
  - DanielBMarkham 19y ago
    Sneer? WTF? It was a way of saying that although we think of giving thanks last, it's really the most important part of the day. There was no sneer. I didn't down-mod you. Although after you kept ranting I decided to down-mod you on subsequent posts as simply a way of asking you to do a better job of explaining yourself. I don't care if you don't like me or my comments -- you just need to learn to explain yourself better. If I want to offend you I don't think it will be a mystery to anybody -- I'm usually pretty good at it. But sneering and making fun of traditional holidays is not something that I usually do.

pius 19y ago

huh?

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DanielBMarkham 19y ago

I was just trying to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving in an unoffensive manner as possible. I thought if I just said Happy Thanksgiving somebody might say "yes, but (insert reason for life sucking here)" so I added some extra text. Apologies if my not trying to offend people, offended people. Geesh. I don't understand the sock puppet comment. If somebody could translate, that would be great.

mynameishere 19y ago
in an [in]offensive manner as possible Don't play stupid. Here is an example of an inoffensive comment, for those of us unfamiliar with the nuances of the English language: "Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Have a safe trip home." Here is a bitter one: "Happy Thanksgiving. Good luck putting up with your miserable relatives. Oh, yes [sarcasm]you're supposed to be thankful[/sarcasm] [sneer][/sneer] I didn't quite understand why anyone would go out of his way to post such a comment on a public board. It should have been instantly buried, but since it got upmodded I called it out.
- DanielBMarkham 19y ago
  You have not described what was wrong with the original comment. I'll stop wasting everybody else's bandwidth. Either you can explain what you didn't like or you cannot. The only reason I replied to you was that pg made an attempt to reason with you (which he deleted). I still have no idea what crawled into your maw. I'm honestly not playing stupid -- I just wanted people to have a happy holiday. So go have one already. You can trash me on another topic if you like. But if you do you'd better be more descriptive than this if you'd like me to reply. Perhaps you're implying that I didn't want people to be thankful? Gosh -- not at all. I simply meant that being thankful seems to be the last thing we think of, instead of the first, even though it is the most important part of the day. If I failed to communicate I'm sorry, but I gotta say your comments seemed cryptic as heck to me. I didn't even know what you were talking about. Humor is very tough to do, folks. Please do not try this at home (as I did)
  - mynameishere 19y ago
    You have not described what was wrong with the original comment. LOL. You're just egging me on now. It doesn't really matter, obviously. When I read your comment I just heard pure snark coming through it. Maybe you thought you were being clever. In that case, it's best to attach a wink at the end: ;) I think I'll just unilaterlly apologize and move on with my life...
    - DanielBMarkham 19y ago
      Let's review -- did I get this right? Since I said something like "and oh yes, we should be thankful" you took that as meaning that I thought we shouldn't be thankful? That I was making fun of the holiday or something? I'm serious -- I still have no idea what the heck your so pissed about.
      - mynameishere 19y ago
        The hard truth is that most of us (genuinely, without any sarcasm allowed) have much to be thankful for. I spend a lot of time around people who are just me-me-me in their demands of the world--pure ungrateful selfishness--and the worst is that they have no idea how good they have it. No perspective on the world or on history or on the sacrifices or troubles of others. I read that sort of attitude very clearly in your comment (viz, we're "supposed to be thankful", as if thankfulness was some sort of unpleasant duty), and it rubbed me wrong. ...however, I'll just take it on credit that my interpretation was incorrect. The end.
mynameishere 19y ago
If somebody could translate I think I know someone who can help you out on that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet Getting dowmodded for calling a jerk a jerk was shocking enough for me to assume that the same person was doing it. I'm probably wrong: A lot of people are too dense to have spotted the sneer in the original post.
- DanielBMarkham 19y ago
  Sneer? WTF? It was a way of saying that although we think of giving thanks last, it's really the most important part of the day. There was no sneer. I didn't down-mod you. Although after you kept ranting I decided to down-mod you on subsequent posts as simply a way of asking you to do a better job of explaining yourself. I don't care if you don't like me or my comments -- you just need to learn to explain yourself better. If I want to offend you I don't think it will be a mystery to anybody -- I'm usually pretty good at it. But sneering and making fun of traditional holidays is not something that I usually do.