Fauve Aeon

If anyone did this to me more than once or twice, I’d really question not only the dynamic between us but also their ‘well-meaning-ness’.

How did you do it, please? I want to do mine!

I’m out too, when someone thinks is ok to not only repeat themselves blue but admittedly disregard other posters in favor of hammering on with their agenda, for me the ‘discussion’ is long over.

I think both Carson and Letterman have a deep abiding curiosity for human weirdness and holding things up for an audience to decide about, with admittedly, some jokes and pokes from them as a kind of impromptu peanut gallery. That said, people agree to be on these shows, knowing full well what they are getting into, are paid for their appearance and often visit a second time. So who’s to say, really? Oddly, I like both of them but do not like Seinfeld (or Jason Alexander/George Constanta) and I can’t even really say why off the top of my head. I watched the Seinfeld show for Kramer and Elaine. 🤣 My humorous adulation belongs to Juuuuuudy Tenuta though. and a bit to vintage Margaret Cho bits about her mom. And Judy is guilty of the religious humor, high ridicule as sin made into Very campy art. Not even sorry for this. My favorite bits are not actually her Pope material but I did laugh (and laugh and laugh).

I also think it was a hateful sign. If someone’s religion is against homosexuality, I’d advise them, in following it, to refrain from homosexuality. 😉 But to condemn others publicly with hate speech on a sign for not following their religious belief, I do consider a hateful act. So I agree with that much. Your reaction however probably did not mend anything at all in their hatred so it just seems self-serving, not in any way effective, educational or inviting dialogue. So I can’t say I’m a fan of your reaction because I don’t find that kind of opportunistic sniping amusing regardless of the circumstances.

For me, what they were doing was not funny or ok in the slightest but what you did was a form of trolling, maybe ‘justified’ by the fact that what they were doing was not ok in the first place? Two wrongs and all...you know how that goes... unless the sign was a public danger in its damaged state, you were ‘reporting’ it just to create your opportunity to give them tit for tat, right? In that case, I don’t like their MO but I don’t think yours was ok or justified either. For me it says something about me how I respond and reply, if even when I disagree and am exasperated if I can manage civility, an explanation, keeping my cool or as my grandma would have said, remain couth. I don’t always manage it. But I continue to try to do it better. 😉🤣

For me it’s in the repeat action, and once informed of a Negative pattern, in whether the MO is changed afterwards. If someone is kindly told that bludgeoning people over the head by repeating same old same old as their MO is not a very good or acceptable thing to do (besides not getting any headway in the conversation at all) yet they continue to do it... well then there is some information to digest, isn’t there? Maybe the person did not intend to do it and stops. That’s ideal. But if they continue to behave this way, once informed, well, I am afraid I do see that as a form of trolling and I won’t engage with them anymore.

Lol, tomato basil sorbet and cucumber sorbet are both tasty, at least to me. I hang out with experimental and historical cooks though so our idea of tasty, well, ymmv. But we ALSO seem to make the best pickles too so there’s that. 😉

Aws! Kitty hugs are best hugs! Yay!

Everything is possible, and tomato IS a fruit...

That’s why I made my posts, expressed my doubts as to whether or not it’s trolling (I have no way of really knowing) but also tried to provide something helpful too. Then left it alone. For me that’s a fair course to follow.

I know several ULC ministers like you, a kind of ministering angel for sure. It makes me really happy that many states and places recognize and register these credentials. I’ve thought of getting them myself because I know there would be situations where they would benefit friends in the days to come. I just might.

Here’s something from my own experience. When a priest has said that ‘God speaks in the everyday’ he has deliberately made a reference to ridiculing things like the toast signs, and references it as a perfectly normal reaction because to someone who is not taking it as a sign, it is a bit ridiculous and that is OK, it is their interpretation, the toast is not ‘speaking to them’ as it were. It’s like seeing things in clouds or thinking a vegetable resembles something else. Not a denigration of someone’s faith to think seeing Jesus in toast is ridiculous. Plus Jesus did have an affinity for good bread, it’s referenced. I know a Latina who has a great big Buddha in her dressing room. She feeds him rice every day and swears he makes her lucky at weekly bingo and if she skips feeding him, she loses more. She’s a great Catholic but sees the huge humor in herself with that idol. People are funny. What they do is funny. It’s not always meant as a hurtful thing to acknowledge that and often times it even brings discussion of weird things we have seen, giving a feeling of closeness, not hurt or ridicule. So there’s always another side.

Maybe your brightness, contrast or night settings can be tweaked enough to make it tolerable.

Yes, of course most of us will reframe occasionally. But when you repeat yourself multiple times in multiple threads on multiple topics and are still misunderstood in the same old ways but by different people, you also shouldn’t be surprised when you get handed a mirror.

Salem🦋 Funny in the moment but uncanny valley in execution. very unfortunate...but still funny.

Could be, and I do get sucked in by this kind of thing sometimes because it just seems...so...genuinely dense and stubborn and ‘un-self-aware’ I guess? Beyond oblivious. Ah well...I give up, not my problem and I’ve said my say.

It has to do with Implying you know more about something in a conversation via an irrelevant reference and getting called out on it. My mother is a psychologist but it just lets me know how much I do NOT know, not tells me I have some special knowledge. humor...is...subjective. We get it, there are specific things you do not find funny... you told us, and then told us again a few more times...saying it in yet another way one more time is not getting your point across, it’s just annoying more and more people. You can’t see this?

O...M...G...IT’S A SIGN!!1111one

Fun with selfies

I’m on a theme, it seems...mid-seventies summer songs