Cool, could be you just added a great deal (more than shit too!) You reacted emotionally to a 'pet peeve' and commented instinctively. Thats probably what a lot of members do - they respond instantly and in the heat of the moment may not represent themselves in the same way than had they considered the thread a little longer. I know Ive done it many times, flown off the handle and made some sleezy, snide remark intended not to add anything constructive to the conversation but goad somebody who just pissed in my cornflakes!
I think this is what I was getting at with this post. Im sort of betting that the famed War everyone is talking about isnt nearly as epic as we would guess by reading through hastily structured, emotional posts.
Thanks.
Well, first, we're back to my first post in this thread... "People overreact to shit. It's what we do as a species."
Secondly, EVERYBODY, as you point out, has a pet peeve. Something that just gripes their wagger, as Dogbert says. So there's that.
Thirdly, as C.S. Lewis says, it matters "greatly whether he is fresh or tired, well or ill." Somebody has a shitty day at work, don't be surprised when it shows up on their keyboard.
Fourthly, what else is going on in somebody's life? Tonight six hours away, some of my oldest and dearest friends are continuing a campaign I started in as a player back in 1977.
Meanwhile, I'm stuck in a fucking shitass jerkwater half-baked turd bucket of a town in the middle of the Godforsaken prairie. I have to drive more than an hour to get to anything other than cornfields and soybeans. If I never see another cowboy hat, or never hear country/western "music" again, it will be an infinity of millennia too soon. I'm living in a fucking house trailer because the fucking parish is too fucking cheap to pay for anything fucking better.
We are here because my wife is an Episcopal priest and this is her parish. She's been looking for three years for a new one, but is still looking. We both hate it here. But in the Episcopal church, at least, if a priest leaves a parish before they have another, they will never work again. Effectively, if not technically, she would be abandoning her orders.
I''m 62 years old. If I'm lucky I've got 30 good years left. I don't want to spend any more of it rotting away in this fucking shitheap of a town. I'm thoroughly miserable,
and there is no direct action I can personally take to change it. I don't want to divorce my wife, I don't want her to abandon her orders, and I can't find a job for her.
I wasn't always a grumpy old fucker. But yeah, it affects the tenor of my posts.