I'm not exactly sure what the posting before this one was about. I think I can make out some of it that you were offended by some teasing and some jabs. I'm guessing the intent, but maybe a distorted view or paranoia too.
The occasion for me to be offended, insulted, etc. on an internet message board in particularly this one is exceedingly rare. The only time I ever came close to what would be described as offended or insulted was when some know-nuttin, wanna-be-spin thrift, wordsmith attempted to challenge the fact that I served in the military.
And that was only out of respect of the people I served along side of that I felt offense.
Not sure you how you could ever arrive at a conclusion that I was offended from what I posted. Especially since between the two us I have posted exactly 0 times to date the feeling of insult by post as compared to several accounts posted by you.
There is very little I can think of that I could remotely take serious enough (in mere words here) to be offended by. I don't even understand the type of person that could relate to feeling such away over what someone posts on a board.
I don't take nor haven't taken offense to anything you've stated. That was a misread of my post. Maybe I have been disappointed at some posts that I thought didn't serve what I believe your intellect to be well but maybe that was a misread of your intentions and or intellect on my part.
My post was an attempt to glean an understanding of people who get offended by tongue-in-cheek, comparitively harmless quips and snipes. "Why so serious?" People taking serious harmless snipes and an inability to simply laugh when someone is poking at them is the problem as they turn something this simple and harmless into insult-a-thons. I don't get it...this is a goofy internet forum where there are limited rules and people engage in semi-serious debate on contentious matters.
Again though, I will admit to having very little patience for people who act willfully ignorant and purposefully deceitful in trying to support their arguments. Stating a position derived from rank ignorance is forgivable assuming the person is able to simply acknowledge their error.
However, a person with the presumed knowledge and/or education to post reasonable appraisals of the facts then forgoing that in order to post what serves a viewpoint deserves to be ridiculed IMO. I will never change my opinion on that.:dunno:
I spend more time here than some and less time here than others. You spend more time here than some and less time here than others.
In coming days I won't be around much for two reasons;I have something hot right now. And it would seem the board is in even better hands with the contributions of accountantNOT here. The 'Hot Mega' version 2.0 (if that's not an insult to the man) as his posts are quite prodigious IMO and he has proven more than capable of holding down the fort. There was a time where the Hot Mega approach was necessary to beat back the shrillary.. That subsiding, there is probably more room for his less confrontational but extremely effective, reasonable approach to doing the same work.:2 cents:
Could be simply the interpretation you and some of your friends here have of 'insult' is just different from what other people consider it.
Strange though that your interpretation seems to be confusingly liberal considering your self professed affinity for degradation.
But I leave room for the possibility that I'm simply too ignorant on the subject of erotic degradation to know there is a distinction from someone who likes degradation sexually but is hypersensitive to what they perceive are personal 'insults'.:dunno:
In either case the point of my post wasn't to bury any proverbial hatchet as I wasn't aware their was a hatchet between you and I in need of burying. :dunno: