Observation

[LukkyKnight]

You're better off leaving, and I don't post that just to make you read on. I am NOT sober, and I admit it without meaning to excuse what follows. You're welcome to argue, or post your own inane observations here as well. I'm lobbing out something you've almost certainly already realized, but hey, you peeked.

One of the curious sociological things which happens (to me) here is that I've gotten to the point I think I've got a fair read on many of the regulars. Some, obviously, I've got almost no real sense of... and so:

Every so often, including today, I wander into a thread where there turns out to be a fairly hostile conversation in place, and I find myself thinking, "Wow; I must not have seen something" because a person I've come to think of as balanced and aware is ripping somebody else a new asshole even though I can't recall the rip-ee being particularly offensive or ignorant.

Forces me to go looking at things I don't really care a lot about just to see if I can find that one of them has blown a gasket or if I am really clueless. It's not important in the real world, but my brain just wants to resolve the dissonance. Is person A having one cranky-ass day or did person B who I don't know nearly as much about actually fool me, or what?

Didn't I tell you not to bother?

 

[Guest]

I'm not leaving. You make a lot of sense.

 

[cybergirly]

I am sober and it makes sense to me.

 

[tswyk]

Cut the crap - who is "A" and who is "B"??????

 

[Raina]

I peeked.


I'll probably peek again too. So nyah!

And I have to agree with what you say. It makes total sense to me...but then, I have been drinking tonight too.

 

[koalabear]

http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/drink6.gif

 

[Guest]

 

[riff]

At dinner I listened to my friends more than I spoke. This is natural- they are all musicians and I am not. Even so, they take me seriously as a friend and I appreciate it, so I patiently listen to them banter on about who said what about whom and so on and so forth.

I told them that they were the biggest gossips I had ever seen. "Only amongst ourselves," said one. Sounded like a good explanation to me.

Then I said- I am going to try to cut out as much bullshit out of my life as possible. By that I mean crap. Negative, senseless, destructive crap.

"I think that's a good thing to do." said one whose sensibilities have have great admiration for. Another asked me- "Does that include you?"

"Absolutely," I replied. "I don't have to justify myself to anyone, and I don't have to take crap from anyone."

I have no idea what you are talking about, but it makes sense to me.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Cut the crap - who is "A" and who is "B"??????

OHhhhhhh no, ms sexy pants, I may be drunnkish, but I am not yet so far gone as to take leave of my senses even though you are surely correct in inferring that I had a specific matchup in mind at the moment... It has happened before, and so here in philo 101 it came up tonightish.

Nice try.

 

[tswyk]

Damn!

 

[Cheyenne]

Yup, it happens. I always assume I've missed something somewhere, and usually will post exactly that to the thread where I don't know what is going on.

 

[Guest]

 

[Saint Peter]

This is all a product of Survivor type TV shows. We want and need to know more, why, where, and with who. Instant gratification via "this just in" news.

I find myself asking the same questions and looking for the same answers Lukkyknight. I feel your pain.

Lit is a very public place to have a fight. The involved parties must know this so it must be OK to watch. The drapes would have been drawn is they didnt want us to see them fuckin.

Pass the bottle.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Oh I almost always keep my thoughts to myself on those, there's so much that goes on I can't have seen... I have leaned in at times with a WTF in a PM, but stepping into the middle of a tongue-lashing should only be attempted by a trained professional (unless, of course, it's not THAT kind of tongue-lashing, and I am trying not to hijack threads at the moment so I'm NOT going there....)

 

[cybergirly]

Alot of times in the small world of lit it's a good thing to know what's going on, so you don't inadvertently post something that will just make matters worse.

 

[cutie pie]

I understand where you're coming from here, LK. Though I, myself, am not really sober enough to throw in my .02. . .It must be the heat. . .I've noticed a fair number of heated discussions amongst people that I wouldn't have considered troublemakers.

Now, somebody pour me another drink. . .

 

[Laurel]

Huh? Who? Where?

I always miss the good stuff.

 

[Dillinger]

Not only is it impossible to keep up on everything posted on this board - all the interactions - but who the hell knows everything that's going on behind the scenes? In Pms, email, chat clients. And yes - sometimes people just have a bad day and here, of all places, its so easy to mistake an offhand comment with no ill intent as a slam against oneself.

So we try - most of us - to give the benefit of the doubt - to maintain balance.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Well it's not me this week. I've been a good Muffin and not gotten engrossed in any flame wars.

And don't tell me who's involved or what thread, either. I'm too nosy to keep myself out of it. Since my discretion can't be relied upon, your closed-mouthedness is appreciated by all.

Thank you.



And you make perfect sense. Are you sure you're tippling? You don't seem like you are.

 

[Never]

I never have that problem. It's odd but I always know what's happening... I mean, what's happening when I'm here.

Take MP for instance, I wondered around Lit for a month before someone told me she had left.

 

[Laurel]

So we try - most of us - to give the benefit of the doubt - to maintain balance.

Fuck balance. Bring down the house!!

 

[Dillinger]

Laurel - do you mean.. TEAR THE ROOF OFF THE SUCKA?

 

[Laurel]

Fuck yeah.

ANARCHY!

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[LukkyKnight]

sober is over-rated

Fuck balance. Bring down the house!!

Note to self: Never try to predict what Laurel might say.