How is it any different?

[shereads]

So now you can start a list of the people who said what you meant to say.

Well it sure as f**k won't be in alphabetical order. These people won't cooperate.

Edited to add: I didn't mean anything as noble as what you said. I just meant he got bitch-slapped and it seemed like a good idea at the time. I agreed with the part where I thought he'd laugh about it, though.

sigh

 

[minsue]

Sher, your box is full

 

[shereads]

Sher, your box is full

And it's staying that way until I'm not scared of you anymore.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

It really was an honest question, guys....Sher? Doc? Anyone?

Well I'm sorry if you saw that pink belly thread as an attempt to humiliate Joe, because it was nothing of the kind, and I don't see anything humiliating about it. It was a tease. A pink belly's something you give to the teacher's pet when you catch him after school. Joe was playing his impervious, scholarly self on another thread, and I said to myself, "what this guy really needs is a pink belly!"

My post to Tolyk was meant to be funny and also to vent about something I don't like on the AH and wanted to test other peoples' feelings about. Apparently it hurt Tolyk's feelings and I apologized publicly to him.

There's nothing wrong with posting a list of your favorite people if that's what you feel like doing, but, speaking for myself, I am painfully aware of how it makes others feel who aren't included on the list, and it makes them feel bad; some more than others, but bad nonetheless. To my mind it just shows a great lack of tact and sensitivity if nothing else, and I think it's terribly impolite.

If Sack had suggested everyone give me an atomic wedgie, that would have been fine with me. But to say, "Here are the ten best looking women on the AH" immediately excludes the ones who aren't on the last and implies that they're not attractive. It's rude, tastless, and impolite. Plus, it smacks of currying favor and brown-nosing.

---dr.M.

 

[shereads]

But to say, "Here are the ten best looking women on the AH" immediately excludes the ones who aren't on the last and implies that they're not attractive.

In his defense, I'm pretty hot when I'm irate so his thread actually made me feel better-looking than I did before I saw it.

My bosom was heaving. My face was flushed.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

I have things to say but I really won't.

 

[The_Fool]

In his defense, I'm pretty hot when I'm irate so his thread actually made me feel better-looking than I did before I saw it.

My bosom was heaving. My face was flushed.

You are so sexy when you talk like that.....

 

[cheerful_deviant]

But to say, "Here are the ten best looking women on the AH" immediately excludes the ones who aren't on the last and implies that they're not attractive. It's rude, tastless, and impolite. Plus, it smacks of currying favor and brown-nosing.

---dr.M.

Thank you doc.

This is exactly what I was trying to convey in the Most Beautiful Men thread, but I don't think I had any effect so I abandoned the effort.

 

[shereads]

You are so sexy when you talk like that.....

Why, thank you, Mr. Fool. I am sexy, as it happens. Which is why sack's list seemed so impertinent. I'd frighten the lad if I revealed the extent of my latex accessories collection, and I daresay I look nice in latex and the better lines of fishnet, for a woman of my years. Boys of that ilk have begged to be allowed to remove chewing gum from the soles of my shoes with their teeth, but I don't take advantage of them, ever. It's not that I feel pity for them; I just don't like the idea of their inexperienced tongues on the soles of my good stilletos.

There. I'm glad we cleared that up. You men talk among yourselves and tidy up the buffet before you leave, okay? I'm off to bed; this corsette is killing me.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Dear lord people. We're acting like a bunch of damned ...

Authors.

So Sack said who s/he/it liked best. Sack does that a lot. As someone who, for complex and horsey reasons of my own, sets no stock by anything Sack has to say, I don't give a straw for Sack or Sack's lists. Ranting and complaining of favoritism in one individual's list of "bests" is ill becoming of persons allegedly engaged in intellectual pursuits - although admittedly, at least if Byron's letters are anything to go by, rather the standard for we "artistic temperaments." If one cares for the opinion of the person making the lists, then one examines carefully the works or characteristics listed and attempts to emulate them. If the topic is something like looks or wit that one cannot easily change, one gets over it in time. I assure you. One does carry on. Crushed though one might be for one's horsey and epicene charm to be slighted in the absence of "10 Most Beautiful AH'ers of Indeterminant Gender."

As for the Joe thread, I think Minsure raises a very fair question. Minsue generally does. I think it wretched to have one standard of polite behavior for those one likes and another for those one disagrees with. This is, of course, because for those one likes, one hardly needs standards - one's heart leads one to be kind and forbearing. For others, we exercise tact and gentility because we would hope to have the same extended to us and because it really makes for much more interesting social interaction. My hesitation to comment on the "pink belly" thread was partly due to ignorance and partly good hope. I couldn't precisely tell whether it was meant as good-natured ribbing or not, and in the absence of evidence of real malicious intent, I followed the adivce of - oh, do laugh if you like - Ms. Manners, who wisely advises us to pretend that people are being polite if we're not sure, in the hopes that they either are doing so or can be shamed into doing so.

Now, might we put this all behind us and get back to the business of reading? I say reading, of course, because I have a story awaiting posting and I don't want the lot of you galloping in and getting in the way of it ever getting read and posted. Once it's up, as you like.

Shanglan

(Edited to add - I had not yet noticed my inclusion on a list when I posted this, as I had been away from the AH for some hours. It doesn't alter my opinions on the topic.)

 

[sack]

oops, someone is not reading closely...

If Sack had suggested everyone give me an atomic wedgie, that would have been fine with me. But to say, "Here are the ten best looking women on the AH" immediately excludes the ones who aren't on the last and implies that they're not attractive. It's rude, tastless, and impolite. Plus, it smacks of currying favor and brown-nosing.

---dr.M.


In the first place, the thread was not called "The ten best looking women on the AH", it was called "The ten most beautiful women in the AH" and I immediately qualified beauty to go far beyond physical beauty. So, if people weren't on the list, and assumed they were not attractive, they seem to have a problem with reading. And of course, I cannot possibly know everyones' contributions/stories/poems in the entire AH...no one can. What I can do is mention people who are outstanding and whose character, stories, poems, etc. have enriched my life. There is nothing rude, tasteless, or impolite about this at all. And no brown-nosing is implied, as I expect absolutely nothing back.
I find the reference to high school rather surprising, as my lists had absolutely nothing to do with "popularity."...that was a word ascribed to them by others. Many, many people in the AH have written wonderful contributions, and that was never denied. But, in my unique circumstance and AH small world, some people did stand out as making wonderful achievements that should be recognized in public. That this demeans other people is nonsense...only you can make yourself feel bad.

Doc M. has said elsewhere he doesn't like this 1,2,3....list business. OK, then to be consistent, if your story wins a contest, and say is #2, you should be embarrassed and mail your check back. Is that what you do, Doctor M.? I don't think so. In a similar manner, some of your stories are near the top of the "top lists". Again,If you are being consistent, the 20 best stories are the most "popular" and imply the remaining thousands are poorly written. Why don't you write to Laurel and request that your stories be taken off the top list, since it so rude, tasteless, and impolite to imply that one person's story could possibly be better than another's?

Personally, I think Doc is just jealous that he isn't as good looking as CarsonShepherd's dog!


Sack

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Re: oops, someone is not reading closely...

...only you can make yourself feel bad.

Sack

Are you high?

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Re: Re: oops, someone is not reading closely...

Are you high?

I'm gald I wasn't the only on thinking this.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

Re: Re: oops, someone is not reading closely...

Are you high?

You know how many times I've had people say this to me?

Not being on sack's list makes me think I need to be less frank with people or something. Maybe I should wear more makeup or be really sweet or something.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Re: Re: Re: oops, someone is not reading closely...

Not being on sack's list makes me think I need to be less frank with people or something. Maybe I should wear more makeup or be really sweet or something.

Hey, Sack. How much you wanna bet she wasn't wondering any of this two hours ago?

~lucky

 

[shereads]

Re: oops, someone is not reading closely...

So, if people weren't on the list, and assumed they were not attractive,

Pardon me while I find my eyeballs, which just popped out of my head and rolled under the buffet table.

This is priceless.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

Sack, shit like this sells for small bushels about a dime a dozen. Do you know how much of this crap a lot of us either had to put up with or took part in during high school?

I doubt we're looking to do it over.

Regardless of intent, it hurts.

 

[shereads]

Uh-oh. Someone is under 18.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Please. There are thousands of registered users. How fragile is the ego that cannot handle a failure to hit the top ten? What do all of you do when your stories aren't in the top ten of the category - ritualistic suicide? I'm afraid to vote ever again.

Shanglan

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I doubt we're looking to do it over.

Regardless of intent, it hurts.

I wasn't...

and you're right, it does.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Please. There are thousands of registered users. How fragile is the ego that cannot handle a failure to hit the top ten? What do all of you do when your stories aren't in the top ten of the category - ritualistic suicide? I'm afraid to vote ever again.

Shanglan

I'm not upset to have been excluded from a list. I just think this place has been very polarized for the last six months, in a way that I feel is more destructive than growth promoting, and I enjoy the family feel more than the family feud feel. Was I the only one with weird game-show flashbacks tonight?

Figures.

~lucky

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

This place is turning into a mean-spirited, ego inflated, hurtful, agonizing place.

I'm not in any place to put up with this shit. I'd rather pack my bags and leave.

 

[cloudy]

I'm not upset to have been excluded from a list. I just think this place has been very polarized for the last six months, in a way that I feel is more destructive than growth promoting, and I enjoy the family feel more than the family feud feel. Was I the only one with weird game-show flashbacks tonight?

Figures.

~lucky

No, you weren't.

And, what surprises me most, honestly, is that he rarely posts, yet seems to find such glee in splitting us the way he has. I think it sucks.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I'm not upset to have been excluded from a list. I just think this place has been very polarized for the last six months, in a way that I feel is more destructive than growth promoting, and I enjoy the family feel more than the family feud feel. Was I the only one with weird game-show flashbacks tonight?

Figures.

~lucky

I suppose I must have missed the polarizing events. Granted, not everyone is on equally warm and intimate terms with everyone else, but in a crowd of this size that hardly seems likely. Myself, I've been too busy enjoying the new friends. I wish the same experience for everyone.

Shanglan

 

[shereads]

Face it, AH. Sack has zeroed in on our weaknesses and insecurities with laser-like accuracy and some of us just couldn't take it.

I don't believe for a second that he's underage! That's just bitterness talking.

He'll never let me service him now. I'm not worthy.






That was more fun that it should have been. I'm calling it a night before we all age-regress.