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pixie, what was the response to irrational carpool girl? -- nm

Posted by kare (aka kare) Jul 18 '11, 12:38

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prudence sez . . . - moles Jul 18, 12:41 37
- rar! -- nm - b. Jul 18, 12:58
- Prudence is the hot co-worker obviously. -- nm - Inigo Jul 18, 12:48
- obviously homelife must be so unpleasant/disfunctional that he is loath to leave the peaceful car to enter into the hell within the house -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 12:46 6
  - nothing indicated he was spending extra time int he car. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 12:47 5
    - right. that was just pixie getting it ALL WRONG - kare Jul 18, 12:47 4
      - where did i read that he sat in the car talking for 90 min? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 13:25 2
        
        oh wait, i must have confused it with a pyschic message from madonna -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 13:27
        
        it's called commuting -- nm - oblique Jul 18, 13:27
      - dear prudence, this "acquaintance" of mine on an online message board is constantly misrepresenting things - oblique Jul 18, 12:49
- whoa - thats the most aggressive thing I've seen her write -- nm - Pippy Jul 18, 12:45 9
  - Hmm, she's usually pretty in-your-face. -- nm - nubby Jul 18, 12:54 3
    - not really - she always soft sells it and then wants the readers to back her play - Pippy Jul 18, 12:56 2
      - I mostly watch her animated letters. A lot of times she surprises me with her directness. -- nm - nubby Jul 18, 12:57 1
        
        There's direct and then there's rip someone's spine out...this trends toward the latter - Will Hunting Jul 18, 13:02
  - bordering on defensive. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 12:46 4
    - I don't get the defensive as much as "I've had to listen to this shit for years, have you people learned nothing?" -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 18, 12:52 2
      - sick and tired of it on some level, anyway. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 12:54 1
        
        This would seem to be a bad trait for an advice columnist -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 13:06
    - " WE WERE ON A BREAK!!" -- nm - Prudence SI Jul 18, 12:51
- yow. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 12:45
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- heh! -- nm - kare Jul 18, 12:44
- Is this level of sarcasm standard in an advice column reply? Yeesh. -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 12:43 13
  - depends on the column. you write a column, you want readers. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 12:45 12
    - Sorry. Spitting venom and making an obvious effort to make your reader feel stupid is no way to dole out good advice. -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 12:59 11
      - feel stupid or try to make them see just how irrational they are being by borrowing trouble in a huge way? - b. Jul 18, 13:12
      - Well, sometimes they should feel stupid... - Stephen Jul 18, 13:05 4
        
        Call me crazy, but I think stupid, misled people should be allowed write in for advice and not receive irony and sarcasm in return to decode. -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 13:13 2
        
        people should read answers from advice-givers before writing to them. some give touchy-feely stuff. some are more direct. if someone wants the - b. Jul 18, 13:20
        
        is this like a constitutional right now? columnists whose job is presumably to grow readership need to be more dry and less entertaining? -- nm - TFox Jul 18, 13:16
        
        it's like the people that called into Dr. Laura. - Reagen Jul 18, 13:08
      - alternatively, don't write into an advice columnist known for her snarkiess if you don't want the potential for a snarky answer. -- nm - Reagen Jul 18, 13:02 3
        
        I don't think she's normally that snarky. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 13:06 2
        
        honestly, it read as pretty direct, but it didn't seem shockingly out of the ordinary to me. i was surprised by everyone's reaction. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 13:08 1
        
        Really? I was a bit shocked, to the point I thought poxie made it up. -- nm - Spawn Jul 18, 13:09
      - *shrug*. she seems to be doing just fine. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 12:59
- Wow, and I thought I was being kinda harsh in my thoughts of this lady. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 18, 12:42

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