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Originally Posted by Zeraph
{mostly good words}
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Here's the problem though. The reason why I refuse to relent to people like this online is because they don't act like this in the real world. If this was a bar and this happened, I most certainly would have politely, as I did here, corrected him. My correction was polite. It would have been a bit more polite if it was in a bar, or a night club or at a party at someone's house, but reread my correction of his error, and you will see that it was polite. I didn't bully him, nor did I suggest he wasn't educated. I merely corrected an error. If I made an error like that, I would expect someone to correct me as well. Hell, my wife has practically made a career of correcting minor conversational errors like that made by me.
And then observe his next response. The first thing he did was to impugn my education, in a somewhat elliptical way.
In subsequent posts he continued on this same theme, becoming more and more clear in his implication that I am not educated and his insistence that I failed to recognize a simile with each post. Finally he just bluntly stated that I didn't know what a simile was until he did me the favor of explaining it.
Now, do you think that he would have behaved this way if we were at a party together at someone's house? No, of course not! Why? Is it because I am some immensely built, terrifying looking brute of a man? Not really, though I am not a small guy, but the reason is that he isn't that much of an asshole in real life. He's only an asshole here, where he doesn't have to deal with the consequences of his behavior.
It didn't have to go this way. He could have said "You are right" or if he meant that as a simile (which I don't believe for 2 seconds) he could have said "No, sorry, I should have been clearer, I meant that as a simile. I was writing figuratively." But no. almost the first thing from his keyboard was a fairly well composed version of "UR DUM LOLZ".
If anyone here wants to blame me, that's fine. I get blamed for shit I'm not responsible for all the time, so why not get blamed for this. It's just a forum. If anyone here is really taking any of this THAT seriously, they should probably log off.
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Originally Posted by Intense1
even when I thought he was at his most nuttiness, I never even contemplated responding to his post with a "fuck you, you little dipshit".
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Has he ever presumed to educate you on a subject that you have known about longer than he has been alive?
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Originally Posted by Intense1
Are you sure TFP is for you?
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No, of course not. Especially after this. Why would I want to hang out with assholes and asshole enablers?