Justalaxdad wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:47 am
But it won't stop others from using it, in this or any other sport, no matter how much attempted shaming, browbeating or demonizing occurs.
ONW - I do hope you realize you question people all the time, yet when someone questions your comments, you go grab your thesaurus and try and be cute with your responses, which typically have the tone of “how dare you”. Above is your over the top response (hyperbole). “Shaming, browbeating, demonizing”. It’s typical deflection and and attempt to confuse that’s often included in your comments. “Demonizing”? Come on dude, be for real.
It’s almost impossible to have a civilized conversation with you because you get so defensive and then go into the incessant reposting of old quotes, stupid memes that aren’t even clever or funny and then the whole conversation devolves into nonsense.
Sometimes you give great content and great comments, most of which I appreciate and enjoy. However, most times you are just trying to stir the pot.
I skimmed this at work and didn’t give it an undistracted read until a little while ago.
One thing I’d like to address is the thesaurus remark. Ignoring the obvious negative implication, I will tell you that I love words and I find them endlessly fascinating. I know a lot of that was given to me by my dad.
My father was an intelligent man. I can’t hold a candle to him in that respect but I am an unwitting recipient of some of his genes. My father had a love for words which he passed on to me in a number of different ways. One was sitting around with he and his friends when a word in question would come up. My dad would get a dictionary and read the definition aloud. Invariably one in the group would puzzle at a word that was used to define the word, so my dad would flip to that word and read
that definition aloud. This sometimes went on for 20 minutes. I always found it compelling. It had an edifying effect on me. Ultimately, it fueled what was already a part of me—that I loved words in a very similar way to my father. My dad would also occasionally correct me in a conversational tone as to usage, tense, etc. I always appreciated him doing so. In addition, he inspired me along with others, to read a wide range of literature over the course of my life. All to say, your insulting remark about me needing a thesaurus was unnecessary as well as false. And you wonder that I get my back up. I’m sorry that I don’t choose to have discussions with those who address me in like manner as you have here. I asked you for feedback, not bile. Insulting also are the generalizations, assumptions and false accusations which are also found in your comments. I find the prospect of responding to them exhausting. So I’ll choose not to.
As to the hyperbole, "demonizing" was over the top, I give you. But the two other words were spot on, especially considering that I didn’t make the initial choke remark which occurred in the banter between the opposing Maryland and North Carolina factions.
I’m very glad to enjoy FanLax. I’m happy to write and be creative here. Thankfully (and obviously), you don’t speak for everyone who reads what I write and views what I create in the video category, though you give a good impression of group spokesman. No one is compelled to read or view what I post.
In closing—if folks are civil with me, I’ll be civil with them. Those who address me as you do here, will largely be ignored.
