To everyone who I've pissed off

[TheEarl]

I'm sorry. I've had PMs with a couple of people who have taken offence at some of the things which I've said recently and it's left me wondering whether there are any more people who are annoyed.

I do have a very strange sense of humour and apparently it doesn't come over as well in text as it does face to face. Bear in mind that I hate being disliked by anyone and rarely mean to be nasty. If I say something that can be taken two ways and one of those ways offends you, I meant the other one.

I'll try and cut back on the ambiguous jokes. Either that or use hundreds of smilies.

The Earl

 

[openthighs_sarah]

If I say something that can be taken two ways and one of those ways offends you, I meant the other one.

What's that supposed to mean? And what if the other one offends me, too?

Personally, I've never been offended. But maybe I just wasn't smart enough to realize I'd been insulted. Either way, I don't see a problem.


~sarah

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

I shouldn't worry about it buddy! I never intend to offend anyone, I just turn up and people get offended...

I've come to the conclusion that most of us here are so open-minded it's pretty hard to offend without being deliberately nasty or accidentally hitting a raw nerve (which you aren't likely to know about unless you know that person, right?)

I doubt anyone will PM me if I offend them. From what I post here, people won't think I'm intelligent enough to form a decent apology and/or argument as a reply, so what would be the point?

smillies do have their uses for signalling non-offensive intent tho...

ax

 

[wildsweetone]

wow you've been that much of a bad boy and i missed it?! darn but i hate holiday weekends!!!!!



i'm sure that anyone who knows you TheEarl, knows you don't set out with the intention to offend.

i have to admit, it's kind of refreshing to see a posting like yours though. i hope it helps to clear whatever misty air is around

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

i hope it helps to clear whatever misty air is around

but misty air is gooood... I can lurk in it without being noticed...

ax

 

[wildsweetone]

oh grief


okay that's got me running!


it is still very misty here this morning... i'm sure the sun will burn it off though... maybe...

 

[gauchecritic]

Well I for one accept your apology TheEarl because I am offended by every single thing you post on ANY subject. I'm even offended by your apology.

Gauche

 

[jfinn]

I'm sorry. I've had PMs with a couple of people who have taken offence at some of the things which I've said recently and it's left me wondering whether there are any more people who are annoyed.The Earl

Aw sweetie, I still love you.

Seriously though, don't take it to heart. Frankly, I've never noticed you being deliberately snarky, but when you post on a board like this you're bound to ruffle some feathers occasionally. It's inevitable, but certainly not fatal. Give it a week and it'll be someone else who's under fire-- probably me.

Jayne

 

[openthighs_sarah]

I'm even offended by your apology.

I find that offensive.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Hey, are you talking about what you said about God wearing little white sox? Because anyone who takes offense at that is an asshole.

---dr.M.

 

[MathGirl]

Huh!

I find that offensive.

And I, in turn, find THAT offensive, highly offensive.
MG

 

[openthighs_sarah]

Re: Huh!

And I, in turn, find THAT offensive, highly offensive.
MG

Your mean.

(Wrong thread.)

 

[TheEarl]

And so on the next offensive, we're going to send quick ball out to the fly-half and pop the ball inside to the loose forwards, allowing them to run at the backs. Then we'll spread the ball to the wings and score!

Rugby joke. We need more rugby players on here.

The Earl

 

[gauchecritic]

We need more rugby players on here.

The Earl

Now I AM offended.

Gauche

(You wouldn't believe how much someone who lives in a town surrounded by rugby teams can really, really not like the game at all)

Slight pronounciation joke for TheEarl: I live quite close to a place called Wragby

 

[TheEarl]

What? You don't like the proper sport? Get out of my sight!

The Earl

 

[pop_54]

Hi mate

And so on the next offensive, we're going to send quick ball out to the fly-half and pop the ball inside to the loose forwards, allowing them to run at the backs. Then we'll spread the ball to the wings and score!

Rugby joke. We need more rugby players on here.

The Earl

If I were the marrying kind, which thank the Lord I'm not sir, the kind of.................................Sorry got carried away thinking about my favourite bit of the Rugby match, the after play refreshments.

Earl you'll find a lot of folks get puzzled by the strange British humour, not so much offended, well let's say they feel hurt until they suddenly realise it was humour.

As has been said, the kind of folks who frequent this bit of Lit are far too open and inteligent to take serious offence.
As for the kind of folks who frequent other parts of Lit, well fuck them

pops..............

 

[MathGirl]

F-ball

I once saw a football game in Australia. That game made rugby look like a game for jr high girls.
MG

 

[reohoko]

ROFL

oh someone please offend me... I might like it

and by the way
I dont' know much british humor but I had a wonderful time with a couple Brits in chat the one day...

Little innocent Reo, in regards to a tart "isn't that a donut like thing with jelly in it?"
Oh, but watching the screen go wild with a bunch of fumbling responses (*tries hard not to fall over laughing) was nothing compared to when someone made a typo and said woody, to which everyone laughed and of course I announced I did not know why, and three private tells as to what a woody was .

I LOVE my life .

Reohoko stands up cheering at her teammates as yet another horrible four armed creature falls to their feet dead.

"GO TEAM!!! HURRAY!!! GO TEAM!!!!" she shouts and shakes her pom poms and wiggles her bottom.

"Reo, what ever are 'pom poms'?" the gnome next to her asks with a smirk.
"And sit down, you are half the reason we keep getting adds."

(adds=more monsters attacking you, for all you non online gamers )

 

[MathGirl]

Huh?

I must be too tired. I read the above post twice, and I still haven't any idea whatsoever what the hell it was about.
MG

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Hrmph!

I go away for 5 measly days, and when i come back, there's only TWO threads I recognize in Author's Hangout - BS' about looking up women's skirts and B's about Something Totally Different...

You guys and gals have been busy, haven't ya?

I'll better go and see if I can snoop up some HP-news to post on J-Le's Harry Potter Fics thread...


Oh, and Earl - I looooooooooooovw English humour! Much more than American. Vive l'Europe!

 

[oggbashan]

Re: F-ball

I once saw a football game in Australia. That game made rugby look like a game for jr high girls.
MG

I've played rugby and Aussie rules, both in Australia. 40 years on the results are keeping my physiotherapist and osteopath in business.

Our school had a visit from a US's school's football team. They took one look at an Aussie rules game and their coach banned them from trying it.

So they played the Rugby team. We beat them at rugby and then at their own game mainly because we thought armor and helmets were for big girls' blouses. Not surprisingly we were faster. We suffered one a dislocated thumb and a broken arm which was lower than the injury rate for our normal game of rugby and much less than an Aussie rules match. Neither injured player left the pitch until the end of the game.

We suggested lacrosse. They declined. They played a mean game of golf.

Og.

 

[reohoko]

MG, I am sorry you find me so incomprehensible.
I suppose I should try harder to make my posts much more readable.

It's a thing, much related to speech patterns of english. For instance.... I do not consider Ghetto to be a language and somehow it appears to be just that.

I do not know what a "sod" is however I can guess.

I am not a english major, nor a teacher, nor much of any of that. To be exact I am an artist who found herself a new medium.

My online board and chat experiences are a direct result of Everquest- a Sony online game. I am not used to people who cannot follow my speech patterns, anymore than you are used to people that write with mine.

It is sort of like taking someone from the Bronx and sticking him in the center of downtown Tampa Florida. It is likely to cause language barriers.
(note: I was a New Englander put into the heart of downtown FL, my teachers could not understand my thick accent and I did not understand theirs)

 

[reohoko]

OH MY GOSHNESS!!!

I have a new title. Though, I am quite certian I should still have the virgin one.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Re: F-ball

Originally posted by oggbashan I've Our school had a visit from a US's school's football team. They took one look at an Aussie rules game and their coach banned them from trying it.

I asked a guy about the rules of Australian football. He had to think for a while before he said he thought maybe firearms were illegal.
MG

 

[oggbashan]

Aussie ?Rules

I asked a guy about the rules of Australian football. He had to think for a while before he said he thought maybe firearms were illegal.
MG

Hadn't heard of that rule. I knew that death was the only excuse accepted for not continuing to play (and that only excused the corpse).

Og.