Guest guest Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Clay wrote: > > So there I was, checking in at my favorite > hangout, and then this terrible stink wafted > over the place....eeeeyeeew! Must have been Clay, he was the only one there at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 > So there I was, checking in at my favorite > hangout, and then this terrible stink wafted > over the place....eeeeyeeew! You know, I haven't heard things like this in response to another person since high school, and even if I find that person disagreeable, this style of talking about someone still makes me almost physically ill. I wonder how many of the people on this mailing list have heard the above words or something similar said about us when we enter a room. I know some of my earliest memories of other kids are of kids saying things like that when I got close (and I didn't even realize what they meant at the time). I don't think that not getting along with or just plain disliking someone means having free license to say things like this about them. (Note: This is not an attack on you or an attempt to be nasty. Please don't take it as one. I just feel compelled to speak up when people, even people I don't get along with, are being treated the way you're treating this person.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 wrote: Clay wrote: > > So there I was, checking in at my favorite > > hangout, and then this terrible stink wafted > > over the place....eeeeyeeew! > You know, I haven't heard things like this in response to > another person since high school, and even if I find that > person disagreeable, this style of talking about someone > still makes me almost physically ill. I wonder how many > of the people on this mailing list have heard the above > words or something similar said about us when we enter a > room. I know some of my earliest memories of other kids > are of kids saying things like that when I got close (and > I didn't even realize what they meant at the time). I > don't think that not getting along with or just plain dis- > liking someone means having free license to say things like > this about them. (Note: This is not an attack on you or > an attempt to be nasty. Please don't take it as one. I > just feel compelled to speak up when people, even people > I don't get along with, are being treated the way you're > treating this person.) I realized sometime after I sent it that it sounded rather NT-like, and in that regard, I suppose this was " learned be- havior " . I can't deny that it was crude and adolescent, but it did make my point that what he wrote simply stunk. The image I was evoking was that of the bunch of us in the Tree- house, when a most unseemly odor of nonsense and belligerence invaded the very air we breathe. This was the end result of a lot of failed efforts to help him understand the nature of ABA, that there are soft jeans on the market, just what an " A " shirt is, etc. The first description I gave him of the latter was that they were *underwear*, and if he had actually looked in the row where there are underwear, he would have found them. It was my way of saying that there's really no point in trying to give him a cogent response, because whatever you say, he'll find a way to throw it back in your face. What can you do with a schmuck like that? I know you sometimes disagree with my " methods " , and that's allright. Apparently, this is what I do when all else has failed. Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Clay wrote: I can't deny that it was crude and adolescent, but > it did make my point This was the end result of > a lot of failed efforts to help him understand the nature of ABA, > that there are soft jeans on the market, just what an " A " shirt is, > etc. The first description I gave him of the latter was that they > were *underwear*, and if he had actually looked in the row where > there are underwear, he would have found them. > > It was my way of saying that there's really no point in trying to > give him a cogent response, because whatever you say, he'll find a > way to throw it back in your face. What can you do with a schmuck > like that? I think it's pretty obvious who the smuck is here. I made one comment about finding jeans uncomfortable and here you are, weeks later still caught up in it. As to the a-shirts, where the hell do you think I looked for them, among women's formal gowns? Of course I looked for them in underwear! What a condescending attitude. You think you are the one that knows it all. The only point you made was that you are condescending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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