sniffy:
I'd say it was more of a demand for answers. But never mind.
I can certainly be demanding! And James here's the thing... I think you can
say whatever you like. However I'm sure you would agree that saying things sometimes has consequences that we might not anticipate..... that does not however mean that saying them is illigitimate.
'When sniffy opened her mouth/until sniffy opened her mouth'
implies something to me.....
A case in point I live in the UK and recently there was a rather massive incident involving the government and expenses that lead to a number of disgruntled voters, journalists, observers and mischief makers to
demand answers. Sometimes people who have something to hide don't like people who are demanding....
Let me make it quite clear here I am not suggesting that you James or Plazma has something to
hide..... or indeed that this is an issue about
voting....
And yes I do realise that this is a private website on the internet with terms and conditions that we can all read before we sign up and that if we don't like that we can all just go away......
You know what a patronising tone is, don't you sniffy?
Why yes James; yes I do..... see the scenario above about the UK government above and try to work out where 'patronising' fits in.
As it happens, I have also had professional involvement in employee recruitment, both paid and voluntary, so I think we can safely assume that we both know what we're talking about. Thanks for the primer, though.
Really? Perhaps you might like to think about the full implications of this.
In other words you saw the thread a week too late and it pissed you off. Is that it?
LOL! I knew you would try to pin that one on me! I refer you to the 'All in Moderation' thread where you will see a conversation going on. I am intelligent enough to know that if this were the case I could shoot off a PM to a couple of people. It would probably go something like this:
"Hey Plaz/Stryder/James/et al! See you are 'recruiting' at the moment. Missed the nomination thread but you know I'd love to be considered for moderator of free thoughts/art & culture. Hope it's not to late. By the way you don't usually do it this way......"
For the record I happen to believe that there are people here who are more deserving of the role. I don't think I'm up to the role and I lead a very busy life which means I may not be able to give the necessary time to such an important role. Also
who'd be a moderator right? You can't seem to be able to do right for doing wrong........
This is all hypothetical. You're making an argument in the abstract on behalf of a hypothetical group of people who may have nominated themselves and been upset by the process. But the funny thing is that they are not complaining. It's just you.
Well yes it is hypothetical, isn't it? But then you might want to hypothesize about a time something has been done to you that others didn't think would upset you to realise something about this assumption....
Sniffy is so sensitive isn't she? Sniffy reads betweens the lines and makes connections. Sometimes sniffy reads the wrong things and makes the wrong connections. Sometimes she
doesn't...
Oh, and Gustav is always up for joining in any complaint involving me, so he's with you of course.
I suggest you take that up with gustav not me. And for the record gustav has recently gone up in my estimation but not because he's had a go at you James. As I said sometimes sniffy makes the
wrong connections. Sorry gustav......
I'm not sure what the point was with your script, but I hope it helped get it out of your system.
Read it again and try to
unpick it James if you can be bothered. If you haven't got the time or the inclination then there's nothing I can say further other than it's not always about YOU James......but it is open to interpretation.....
I think I've encouraged you to open your mouth. In fact, I invited you to discuss the matter in this thread (or by PM).
All credit to you for that James......I took you up on the invitation didn't I?
You reffered to a 'public spectacle' ....words/spellings to that effect.......
I've truly sorry to hear that. You have my sympathy.
Empathy is
probably a better word but I don't want to appear patronising for what might be a genuinely expressed sentiment. I do wish you'd posted my entire quote though.
The experience of losing someone to cancer was truly one of the worst I have ever experienced but I can't say it didn't teach me something about the value of life and the value of having one. When a person loses a life (depending upon your religious sentiments, of course) it is pretty difficult to get it back.
Pretty, pretty, pretty difficult. A bit like a reputation. If ever one had one.....
Of course the word 'reputation' has many different meanings. It helps to know the context though doesn't it?
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I don't know James; are we? I don't
think we are......yet.
Assumptions make arses out of us. I would even stick my neck out and say we are all guilty of making assumptions but instead I will say that most people make assumptions most of the time.
James and Plazma I'm
sorry if I made an incorrect assumption about something or more that one thing. I can only go off the evidence presented as to what things are about.
Paranoia about
something/s is a possible assumption which may or may not be correct.
