09-10-2022, 07:25 PM
(09-10-2022, 06:42 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: Not that we don't argue, it would be weird if we didn't, but even the arguments are respectful and if feelings start to get hurt most back off and agree to disagree (except that one asshole who I won't name).
That's family for you. There may be knock-down drag-out disagreements, but if they're carried on with a modicum of respect, it's all good, and then we come back together and have a beer over it.
That asshole is no more at R-N3. His incivility made Guohua so damned mad that she could have eaten carpet tacks and shit out railroad ties, so she hung back and allowed me to handle him, because she was too mad to handle it, and didn't want to say or do something she might regret later. I tried, I really did, to give him every chance available to calm his ass down and rejoin the discussions, but he was having none of that, so I eventually had to ban him - the only person EVER banned from R-N3 in it's six years of existence. What y'all didn't know is that he continued trying to bait me and draw me into an argument after his ban, via e-mails. I never replied, because when I'm done, I'm done. There was no further incentive to keep that argument going, as he was permanently gone by that point.
She allowed me to handle it, I think, because I'm one of those people who, as Robert A. Heinlein said, "can shoot his own dog if necessary".
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’