Hmm...

aruru
2003-08-08 11:33 am UTC (link)

for using the phrase "...but I feel like drooling all over my keyboard and poking my eyeballs with a rusty screwdriver" (although she is quoting there)

She may be quoting, but she also prefaced that with:

"I was talking with a friend of mine and I think he phrased it best with..." (Emphasis mine.)

I think that's where people there picked up the whole "veiled insult" vibe from. Still, that's not truly where the wank is - if it had been me, I might've given the person the benefit of the doubt and just thought he/she was a little clueless on being tactful.

Anyway, this person's true colors (and the REAL wank, from all sides) on the subject begin to shine forth over on this thread of replies:

"I am one that is for the truth. I cannot stand lies. Whether you lie to yourself, to your friends to your co-workers, I don't care. It's a lie. Some of this sillyness just seems to be a big lie to me. You aren't your dog. Your dog doesn't care if it has a journal. It's just a big waste of time and I don't see any point to it.

Yet! I am opening myself up and allowing people to comment to me so that I too may understand what their goals are and why they enjoy this activity that I find to be drivel."

Wow... passive-agressively condescending, much?

Anyway, on the subject of these pet journals... *shrugs* ...I dunno, they just sound like any ol' role-playing journal to me, except with one's pet rather than say, a cartoon/game/tv/movie/book/real-person/original/etc. character. Nothing odd about that, to me. (Then again, I AM a little biased. ^_^;)

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mrslovett
2003-08-08 11:51 am UTC (link)

If you don't understand that, then I pity your life as an author, because you can not only mis-read what is written, nor understand it, but you misinterpret what is there and don't give any understanding to where I am coming from.

I'm pretty sure this sentence is in violation of the Geneva Convention.

I am one that is for the truth. I cannot stand lies. Whether you lie to yourself, to your friends to your co-workers, I don't care. It's a lie. Some of this sillyness just seems to be a big lie to me. You aren't your dog. Your dog doesn't care if it has a journal. It's just a big waste of time and I don't see any point to it.

"They made me read a whole book in school this one time, and I'm still bitter."

Yet! I am opening myself up and allowing people to comment to me so that I too may understand what their goals are and why they enjoy this activity that I find to be drivel.

"I'm giving you the chance to justify your sick sad lives to me. Why don't you love me?"

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	sepiamagpie 2003-08-08 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	your icon! o.o dear god, I just read that today. (Reply to this)(Parent)

pennycentury
2003-08-10 05:06 am UTC (link)

One could wonder how someone who proudly claims to have copped her user icon from Pornotopia after doing a Web search on "spanking" might have wandered into a dachshund community in the first place. What kind of Web search might that have entailed? ("No, not that kind of wiener dog!")

Mean fun, but coulda been wankier. It seems most of the doxie (ooh! another meaning-changing keyword waiting to happen!) people were just too easygoing to take the bait. Only zgrrl seemed inclined to prove that, being a dog lover, she knows bitch when she smells it.

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fairestcat
2003-08-10 08:08 am UTC (link)

Well as it happens, she does apparantly have a dachsund.

Personally my favorite was when zgrrl said:

It'd be like me saying "I don't mean to be offensive, but what kind of idiot would use such an inappropriate and tasteless icon in a place where children might see it?" How can you NOT take offense to that? I just called you a tasteless idiot!

I was so disapointed that azbutt3rfly didn't take the bait. That could have been much wankier.

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