The Glade 4.0

Rynar:

There's a lot of difference between telling a friend an unwelcome truth and just kicking someone when they're down.

I don't see how anything Michael said was even the slightest bit constructive. Constructive things are not necessarily pleasant or agreeable; That's understood. But there was no "I think you should do x..." or even "I think you should stop doing y...". It was just, "here's some painful and embarrassing things about your life right now. In conclusion, you are less of man. P.S. You must have psychological issues. I can tell from the ponies, and from having quite a few armchair psychiatry sessions in the past".

I'm debating whether I should really say anything more. Quite honestly, you hit a major nerve with me, and perhaps it would be better if I just kept my mouth shut.

I'm just going to point out that I've been through a lot of really painful, embarrassing, and just plain dark stuff in my life, and I've been fortunate that things are finally starting to look better. I've learned a lot of things, but perhaps one of the most important is that you can take the facts of a person's life and string them together into many different narratives. It's really easy to convince yourself that a given narrative is true because it's based on truthful facts. I've spent a lot of sweat, blood, and tears being dragged down by just exactly that kind of "loser narrative". So, yeah ... it kind of pisses me off. But much more importantly than that, I speak from personal experience when I say, "this is not helping".

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

See, I get what you're saying, but I totally didn't take it that way. I genuinely like the Moose, but I'm fairly concerned for him. Whenever someone I respect has something like that to say to me, I've always tried to reevaluate, and its served me well. Maybe its a difference in personality. I've never know Michael to be mean, so I took it as a constructive offering.

That said, Arafys, you'll pull out of this, and I'm pulling for you. I'm sorry that my part in the offerings weren't taken as intended.

As much as this pains me...

/brohoof

Sweet! Camel toe from Müs!


Ummm... On second thought...

Yeah. Noone wants to see that.

Besides, it'd be a mooseknuckle anyway.

Do ever want to just grab someone and say...WTF is wrong with you?

That's... pretty harsh.

Nah. Knowing Micheal, not meant to be harsh at all, just a friendly peckerish jab. If we were all sitting around a few shots of tequila, we'd laugh at that crack and you'd fire one back at him and we'd all be looking for hot chicks. Eez all good, bro.

I was rather surprised that Ara didn't fire back at him here, glass houses and all. Respect.

A lot of things can depend on someone's mood...I know when I've been in a good mood, I've taken jabs and given them and walked away from the computer laughing. On a bad day, an innocuous comment can bring me to tears. I try to take other Gladers long-term reputations into consideration on posts that I'm confused about...it helps when I'm feeling down to not take things so personally.

Curious to hear back from Micheal as to the impetus for such uncharacteristic postings.

Also, those were his last two posts and it has been about a whole day since. Also very uncharacteristic of him.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

I thought the entire thing was tongue-in-cheek from the beginning, just because of the comments about the ponies and the man card. Granted, it was rather rough even for tongue-in-cheek, but it didn't seem like it was intended as some sort of brutal personal insult.

That wasn't the part I took umbrage to. The personal life stuff was.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Are you trying to say I somehow did something (i.e. the same insults basically when I was dissing your Holden Monaro) with more tact than Micheal? I dunno man ...

Those ponies ...

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

But it costs your parents money which they should be allocating elsewhere at this stage of their lives. As such, it demonstrates a lack of maturity and a penchant for selfish behavior unbecoming someone who wishes the world to consider them to be a mature adult.

But it costs your parents money which they should be allocating elsewhere at this stage of their lives. As such, it demonstrates a lack of maturity and a penchant for selfish behavior unbecoming someone who wishes the world to consider them to be a mature adult.