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North Balti Zen

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That's due to banding set ups. Which is to be expected in some areas. And its really easy to tell why those areas are different in totals. That's not at all what I am talking about.

 

I'm not sure if you realize just how aggressive your posts often come off.  The one above isn't taken in isolation either.

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I'm not sure if you realize just how aggressive your posts often come off. The one above isn't taken in isolation either.

I'm not sure you realize how little I care what you or anyone else thinks. But thanks for offering up your opinion. Have a wonderful day!

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I'm not sure you realize how little I care what you or anyone else thinks. But thanks for offering up your opinion. Have a wonderful day!

 

At least this wasn't a passive-aggressive post this time.  Well done.

 

Seriously...do you snap at anyone who tries to provide you with constructive criticism?  If so, I suppose you really are just an aggressive, anti-social person, and it's not just an online persona.

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At least this wasn't a passive-aggressive post this time. Well done.

Seriously...do you snap at anyone who tries to provide you with constructive criticism? If so, I suppose you really are just an aggressive, anti-social person, and it's not just an online persona.

Of course not, I'd be miserable and alone if that was the case. I have no problem accepting criticism, it's life. If you do wrong, you should be called out for it and take it as a learning moment and do better the next time.

But, some criticism from a person on another side of a computer screen isn't high on my list of cares to be honest. You seem like a decent guy, we've traded kid stories and that's cool. But your overall opinion of me doesn't matter a whole lot to me. We aren't friends. We will never meet. So while I appreciate your opinion on how you feel my actions come off, I personally am not impacted by it.

I know who I am and who I am not.

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Of course not, I'd be miserable and alone if that was the case. I have no problem accepting criticism, it's life. If you do wrong, you should be called out for it and take it as a learning moment and do better the next time.

But, some criticism from a person on another side of a computer screen isn't high on my list of cares to be honest. You seem like a decent guy, we've traded kid stories and that's cool. But your overall opinion of me doesn't matter a whole lot to me. We aren't friends. We will never meet. So while I appreciate your opinion on how you feel my actions come off, I personally am not impacted by it.

I know who I am and who I am not.

It's disappointing to me that you took it how you did and how over the top you went. Nope...we won't be friends, and it doesn't really matter to me, but I thought that being friendly in a forum was something that an adult could at least aspire to. Perhaps I was mistaken.

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It's disappointing to me that you took it how you did and how over the top you went. Nope...we won't be friends, and it doesn't really matter to me, but I thought that being friendly in a forum was something that an adult could at least aspire to. Perhaps I was mistaken.

 

Here's the thing, I don't believe my post was at all aggressive to begin with. I explained why one example was different than the other.

 

Second, if you believe that we are friendly (which we have been), and you are shooting for an adult type of conversation, you certainly could have sent me a PM to point out that you believe I am being aggressive, since we have had private conversations before about our kids and such. But instead, you chose to make it public in a banter thread. Which is fine, that's what you chose to do.

 

However, my response is probably one that most people would have when being called out publicly for something, especially something they don't necessarily feel that have done. And the response is to not care.

 

Had you done it privately, my response may have been different.

 

But maybe I am mistaken in that you don't want to be an adult either. That you would rather air this for others to get involved in, perhaps you are still upset with my misunderstanding last night (that I clearly admitted to right away). Who knows.

 

So again, I appreciate your opinion. But my feelings still stand, we won't ever be friends. We can be friendly, banter together, trade kid stories, but you won't be someone I will go to when I need to talk to someone about something personal. That's just how it is. I don't expect you to come to me when something happens in your life.

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Here's the thing, I don't believe my post was at all aggressive to begin with. I explained why one example was different than the other.

 

Second, if you believe that we are friendly (which we have been), and you are shooting for an adult type of conversation, you certainly could have sent me a PM to point out that you believe I am being aggressive, since we have had private conversations before about our kids and such. But instead, you chose to make it public in a banter thread. Which is fine, that's what you chose to do.

 

However, my response is probably one that most people would have when being called out publicly for something, especially something they don't necessarily feel that have done. And the response is to not care.

 

Had you done it privately, my response may have been different.

 

But maybe I am mistaken in that you don't want to be an adult either. That you would rather air this for others to get involved in, perhaps you are still upset with my misunderstanding last night (that I clearly admitted to right away). Who knows.

 

So again, I appreciate your opinion. But my feelings still stand, we won't ever be friends. We can be friendly, banter together, trade kid stories, but you won't be someone I will go to when I need to talk to someone about something personal. That's just how it is. I don't expect you to come to me when something happens in your life.

 

I wasn't calling you out.  I was just offering an opinion, and I don't think what I said was any worse than what you say to people here on a regular basis.  My feelings still stand on that point.

 

Spot on.  I have plenty of friends and family members I'll turn to for big events in my life.  But I figure I can at least try to be nice to people I "meet" online.

 

This has been a fun discussion, but I think it's run its course.

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Someone take pics if these two run into each other at the conference.

 

Personally, I don't seek out friendship from message boards. Never have. If I end up meeting some folks by chance, great. If not, no big deal to me.

 

dammit.  i was hoping we could be beer bros

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