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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 10:11am
winter wrote: What the ex-pickle said. Our negative Neds/Nellies are noisy, and it's easier to ignore them than to call them on their nonsense. One could even say they were nattering nabobs of negativism. If one had a flair for alliteration. Or was William Safire.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 10:10am
BlueHeronDruid wrote: Ooooh oooh! I can do this! I can do this! Ginger garlic paste. STAT! Now you're just being acutely obtuse, with your triangular logic. And the Latin isn't helping.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 10:09am
ptooey wrote: Omnipresence of one or two participants in question, for one. That coupled with the constant negativity affects the participants' general attitude, IMO. Understood. What is the remedy or solution?

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 10:09am
It's all good.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 10:08am
winter wrote: I have no idea what you are talking about. None of the above? Ginger garlic paste? Thursdays at 7, except where pre-empted by local programming? You choose. Ooooh oooh! I can do this! I can do this! Ginger garlic paste. STAT!

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 10:04am
ptooey wrote: Omnipresence of one or two participants in question, for one. That coupled with the constant negativity affects the participants' general attitude, IMO. What the ex-pickle said. Our negative Neds/Nellies are noisy, and it's easier to ignore them than to call them on their nonsense.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 10:04am
ptooey wrote: Omnipresence of one or two participants in question, for one. That coupled with the constant negativity affects the participants' general attitude, IMO.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 10:02am
BlueHeronDruid wrote: I want a trip to Costa Rica. Or some cool stereo equipment. Is that so wrong? Does that make me a jerk, an asshole, or a dick. Inquiring minds, n'at. I have no idea what you are talking about. None of the above? Ginger garlic paste? Thursdays at 7, except where pre-empted by local programming? You choose.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:59am
steeler wrote: Then the question becomes: Why are the actions of a few having such a disproportionate impact? Omnipresence of one or two participants in question, for one. That coupled with the constant negativity affects the participants' general attitude, IMO.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:57am
BlueHeronDruid wrote: I want a trip to Costa Rica. Or some cool stereo equipment. Is that so wrong? Does that make me a jerk, an asshole, or a dick. Inquiring minds, n'at. makes you one of us.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:56am
BlueHeronDruid wrote: I want a trip to Costa Rica. Or some cool stereo equipment. Is that so wrong? Does that make me a jerk, an asshole, or a dick. Inquiring minds, n'at. Dipshit?

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:54am
winter wrote: Exactly. There are no cute/funny/basically decent on the inside jerks: there are people who act like jerks, and then there are non-jerks. I want a trip to Costa Rica. Or some cool stereo equipment. Is that so wrong? Does that make me a jerk, an asshole, or a dick. Inquiring minds, n'at.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:53am
steeler wrote: Then the question becomes: Why are the actions of a few having such a disproportionate impact? It's generally easier to knock things over than it is to build them up. Like lined-up dominoes or a house of cards, it only takes one entity to knock it all down.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:51am
steeler wrote: Then the question becomes: Why are the actions of a few having such a disproportionate impact? That is the way of the world; the most obnoxious are usually the ones who get heard. You follow politics, don't you?

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:45am
winter wrote: Agreed. (But not with that Twix-offerer.) Then the question becomes: Why are the actions of a few having such a disproportionate impact?

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:30am
JrzyTmata wrote: buzz is pretty cool :yes That's why I'm here.

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:27am
Coaxial wrote: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine. buzz is pretty cool :yes

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:26am
sirdroseph wrote: Oh yes and I think most of us regulars know who they are and their numbers are certainly relatively few. I guess that is the point I am trying to make, the egregious, habitual offenders of good sense and civility are really not that many and stick out like a sore thumb IMO. Oh and Coax, tru dat! Agreed. (But not with that Twix-offerer.)

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:24am

winter wrote:

If someone is truly just getting worked up and goes off, odds are they'll back down and cool off when they're called on it. I'm not saying we write them off the first time. I've said some jerkish things here from time to time - we all have.

But it's too easy to let stuff slide with the whole "passionate" argument. As adults, we all learn how to control our emotions and behave appropriately. If someone is behaving like a jerk, the fact that they're passionate isn't much consolation to those on the receiving end of their jerkery.

I'm more concerned about patterns and repeat offenders. If people can't be bothered to act like grownups by showing respect to others even if they're Totally And Completely WRONG, or if they find amusement in being jerks, I have a problem with letting them off the hook.

Oh yes and I think most of us regulars know who they are and their numbers are certainly relatively few. I guess that is the point I am trying to make, the egregious, habitual offenders of good sense and civility are really not that many and stick out like a sore thumb IMO. Oh and Coax, tru dat! {#Arrowd}

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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 9:21am
All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.

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