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Originally Posted by patrick_777
You tell me!
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Please pardon me while I "jerk" a hijacked thead over here........maybe that will get me more votes!!
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Originally Posted by mrlmd1
I just don't understand where all this hostility is coming from, and it's not particularly directed at me, and I'm not alone in sensing it. It's the way you guys talk.
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I guess you REALLY don't understand it so I will TRY to explain it, hopefully without causing (too much) further hostility:
Just because you PERCEIVE it as hostility, doesn't mean that it is INTENDED to be hostile.
It's a guy thing. If you have never spent time on an amateur sports team or chugged a few beers in a "red neck" bar, then I guess you have no frame of reference. Guys bull-shit each other.......a LOT. Most women I know even understand that. Maybe prim and proper males don't or they have forgotten it along the way ??
Now, I am aware that in this current, femanized society, a lot of "guys" won't understand that......and it's OK.....but you don't have to get HOSTILE about it either. I think a member or two needs to have a Doctor extract that bug from their butt......and I'm not the only one sensing THAT either.
And one last point: An educated person (especially) should not be in the habit of saying "never" when he really means "almost never" or "rarely". Language and phrasing are important in conveying your ideas accurately.
And......just to cover all the bases, new users get what they dish out. If they charge in here like a bull in a china shop and take offense at the first thing that doesn't exactly match what they think they want..........they get REAL hostility, richly deserved. It is pretty easy to tell which people will be entertaining and which will be real disruptive assholes. Of course, sometimes that analysis takes a bit longer.
Going to WAR over an innocent comment accomplishes nothing useful.........well, except maybe for providing Patrick some entertainment. He can, I'm sure, entertain himself in other ways.