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In response to "I don't understand how 'fueled' amd 'filled' are any different in how offensive they are?" by Subversive

You (and others) are reading WAY too much into my original comment.

Posted by secretslacker Jun 21 '09, 13:38

I mean, do you really think I spent hours thinking of the perfect wording or the repercussions from five simple words? I'm just amazed you're STILL talking about it even after saying you were done.

No.... amoxy said he was being banned from going downstairs, and obviously, it's cause it's Father's Day and his kids were planning a surprise (which probably happens in millions of households) and I made a simple joke based around that idea, completely oblivious to a.) how old his kids are; b.) whether they had any sort of past with drugs or sexual addiction; c.) that Amoxy was touchy about jokes about his kids due to a previous incident.

In fact, my comment had nothing to do with amoxy or his kids.. it had to do with a father, ANY FATHER, being banned from his kids from going downstairs. That is ALL.

Responses:

you're still hung up on the idea that it's about the wording. It's that you made the joke, period. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 13:44 16
- No, I just don't like being misquoted and having negative intentions layered over my innocuous off-hand comments. -- nm - secretslacker Jun 21, 13:46 15
  - your mistake continues to be that there would be any context or wording that that would make it non-offensive. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 13:47 14
    - and if I may elaborate, the reason you see anger at that is that others here see your response as a high liklihood that you'll repeat your error - Reagen Jun 21, 13:51 11
      - Maybe you can find some precedent for this statement. - secretslacker Jun 21, 13:55 10
        
        It's not *about* you. If any other person had said it, it would have been just as offensive. - Reagen Jun 21, 13:58 9
        
        This whole thing could have been handled better. - secretslacker Jun 21, 14:03 8
        
        Well if you would have offended him in an email and not a public board. We would have known nothing about it. - Redmond Jun 21, 14:09
        
        Bery said to you quite politely that he thought you should apologize to amoxy. Your first response? "What? It was a JOKE!" -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 14:06 6
        
        Yes, but that's because I hadn't read the B2 responses and wasn't aware of the previous incident. - secretslacker Jun 21, 14:08 5
        
        but as liiouo mentions above, and as others have mentioned since, that previous incident isn't what flipped the switch on what made the joke offensive - Reagen Jun 21, 14:13 4
        
        Well, maybe explaining it 8 or 9 times is reasonable, but now that we're up to 15 or so, it's really gone beyond the pale. -- nm - TFox Jun 21, 14:14 3
        
        It's called "making an effort"... which is more than most of my critics deserve. -- nm - secretslacker Jun 21, 14:17 2
        
        Psst, idiot. He's not complimenting you. -- nm - Subversive Jun 21, 14:23 1
        
        I'm aware of that. I'm just saying that if someone honestly meant to offend in the first place, they would not be making the effort to resolve this. -- nm - secretslacker Jun 21, 14:25
    - Your mistake continues to be that you can't understand why my original statement was funny. - secretslacker Jun 21, 13:51 1
      - you and Lenny Bruce. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 13:51
Your joke was inappopriate and you *refused* to apologize for it.. - Subversive Jun 21, 13:43 3
- I apologized both on the boards and in a separate Email to Amoxy. - secretslacker Jun 21, 13:45 2
  - Most times I use simple numbers. If I don't have a single person defending me. I might, just might be wrong. - Redmond Jun 21, 13:52 1
    - Correction - Redmond Jun 21, 13:54
"That pitch was juuuuuust a bit outside." -- nm - Bob Uecker Jun 21, 13:40

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You (and others) are reading WAY too much into my original comment.

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