Is there an app for that?
Is there an app for that?
No we couldn't agree what smart phone was best.
Cougar - Moderator
We get an email with the body text you enter and a URL link. That's it. You can look at it as a convenient "contact the moderators" button if you like.
Well I'd guessed that bit; it was the following bits that I was hoping to have answered:
Do you tell individuals if they're being over-sensitive/unrreasonable ?
Do you always inform the original poster that it's happened at all ?
Charlie mungus is a paranoid delusional odd bod that just comes on here to argue with people that he doesn't believe are real and is actually frightened of
Paranoid? Where do you get that from? Delusional? You mean with a different view of reality than you? I'm sure that includes many people so am in good company. Odd? once again just different from you. I can see you are uncomfortable with that. I'm not here to argue, as stated earlier i came here to help and to educate. There are many other threads i could have visited if i were looking to argue. I chose to respond to one where someone said that they did not understand.
I'm not afraid of people i do not hink are real. I fear that these unstable and unpredictable people about whom i know very little, ever enter my real life and impact on that.
Summary: Seems it was all a misunderstanding. Neal said he didn't understand something, so i tried to explain it to him. What he meant was that he didn't agree with it.
It was fairly clear what my position was.
If you want to pretend otherwise then that's fair enough.
Anything to make you happy.
But again.......
you are not real and i have to protect myself from you becoming real.
why do you care so much about it ?
I fear that these unstable and unpredictable people about whom i know very little, ever enter my real life and impact on that.
that's a shame as i've met loads of the unstable and unpredictable folks of this forum for selling and buying stuff, chilled out rides, at races and general piss ups and I couldn't have asked to meet a nicer more diverse bunch of people from all walks of life.
This thread has been an interesting read. I'd actually seen the Fb page that started it off, did a 🙄 , and ignored it, but many on this thread have made some interesting points, far too many to go back over and c'n'p them, although I will point to tazzy's up there ?and say spot on. The whole cyberspace/meatspace argument does get into a whole philosophical area that can get very bogged down, though, and I prefer to think of any online social interaction, be it STW, Fb, Twitter, or whatever as being essentially the same as F2F, (face-to-face), and try to treat people the same irrespective of the circumstances.
If I think someone's talking bollocks, then I'll say so, but I'll try to avoid getting into a slanging match, or trolling, and just leave it.
None of us is perfect, and, as junky's rightly said, those subtle nuances that convey meaning in meatspace are totally absent in cyberspace, and missing punctuation, or an emoticon, or whatever can render a cheeky aside as something that can be taken very personally. It's happened to me where a little joke about someone's car, which most of my friends would have just responded to with a " you cheeky git'', was taken to heart and the person concerned was deeply offended!
It's a flesh-and-blood person reading what's on the screen, and offence can and will be taken, even if the comment was intended to be light-hearted.
The 'chinky' reference earlier on is a good point, and I may have referred to an incident where a friend asked if my then g/f and I had stopped off for a chinky when we were late getting to a wedding reception; we hadn't actually twigged what he'd said, and his flustered attempt to wriggle out of it by then saying 'or an Indian, or fish'n'chips or something' made us both laugh out loud. Kim being half Chinese, you see...
We used to refer to Chinese meals as having a Chinky between ourselves, so we laughed it off, but I can see how some could be offended, although I do sometimes think it's a case of getting offended on behalf of a particular group, ethnic or otherwise, who couldn't actually give a toss themselves.
Social interactions nowadays are becoming a real minefield, and, as I believe Cougar has said, we are rather slow in dealing with the consequences of things that we say online.
Again, one of the things I love about STW are the many and varied subjects that come up, and the fantastic amount of love and care that contributors will give to those suffering loss or serious health issues, alongside threads like this one, and I hope that it continues for years to come. Mods like Cougar make me think that it will, so thank you, everyone. 😀
Tazzy, you "MEAT" loads of ....... cannibalism?
why do you care so much about it ?
Well it varies. In your case it's because what you say and what you mean are completely different things. I'd find that a bit scary in real life. It makes you hugely unpredictable and a little bit mad. Not a good combination.
Tazzy, you "MEAT" loads of ....... cannibalism?
hmmmm? slight slip there, was still finishing off some nice long pig and bean stew...lean and Idave compliant
Well it varies. In your case it's because what you say and what you mean are completely different things. I'd find that a bit scary in real life.[b] It makes you hugely unpredictable and a little bit mad. [/B]Not a good combination.
Yes that is of course exactly what I am.
How do you make it though the day in the real world.
Just this morning I was talking to a client about vegetarian food ....
He said "I would rather die than give up eating meat, I just couldn't do it, I'd just top myself"
I ran for cover because he was obviously ....
hugely unpredictable and a little bit mad. Not a good combination.
Seriously, your making yourself look more daft every time you post.
Just this morning I was talking to a client about vegetarian food ....
Really? Were you? I'm not so sure anymore.
Seriously?
Still going?
FFS...
Really? Were you? I'm not so sure anymore.
It's easier to call me a liar than address the point I'm making obviously.
I'm out.
You are getting ridiculous.
Oh I'm sure they can get it to page 10
without any headway being made. Working on the principle that 9 pages have gone nowhere. Did I miss an invite to a fight somewhere?
Don't know what your point is. Not calling you a liar, just can't be sure that what you say is what you mean anymore.
Dr you are clearly a bright guy and I suspect you could use your talents in a wiser way for great betterment of mankind etc.
I am goin gto ask everyone I meet if it is you - but only if you promise to admit it is you if i get it right as I would not want to look stupid doing this
