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"The real joy in life is acceptance and empathy for others regardless of their flaws."

Are you serious? What "joy" is there in accepting [and empathy] the company of bores, imbeciles, and nutjobs? :rolleyes:
 

Lucretius said:
"The real joy in life is acceptance and empathy for others regardless of their flaws."

Are you serious? What "joy" is there in accepting [and empathy] the company of bores, imbeciles, and nutjobs? :rolleyes:
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Well, uh, gee, Lucretius, we accept you... :cool:
 
Lucretius said:
"The real joy in life is acceptance and empathy for others regardless of their flaws."

Are you serious? What "joy" is there in accepting [and empathy] the company of bores, imbeciles, and nutjobs? :rolleyes:
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As a psychotherapist I would wonder why you bother with people (and, by extension, this forum) since you appear to find so many of us to be seriously flawed? Perhaps you derive some enjoyment in feeling superior at their/our expense? Not very Christmassy. Happy holidays anyway. Lol.
 
I feel kids should know cursive because IMHO it's faster and more professional than printing. Then again we won't even talk about prescriptions that not even the pharmacy can decipher. There's a course they should teach in medical school...how to write clearly. You can perform complicated surgery but not write a legible note.

But it is sad, if some disaster befell the new generation and there was no electricity it would be the end of civilization...they would be helpless. It irks me seeing packs of people all in that same pose, hunched over and gazing into their electronic screen, maybe talking to it as well.
 
You must also bear in mind re spelling that what is correct in one country is incorrect in another. I write British and my computer corrects it to American after a while the lines become blurred and one doesn't know which is right
 
Not everybody has had a good education, people who were school age during war times for instance, they should feel just as welcome, comfortable and important as anybody on these sites, the fact that a fellow member would criticise them for a lack of knowledge says a lot about the critic .....
 
Not only spelling. During coffee break in a rather important and high-brow meeting the conversation got round to school systems and in particular how in the UK a public school was a private school. When I mentioned that while I attended such a school I was required to be a fag for a sixth former there was a look of what can only be described as shock and horror.

A fag in this case is a younger ppupil who is assigned to undertake such tasks as cleaning sports kit for the senior.

At the same meeting I learned that what in the US is a rubber is not a thing to clean a whiteboard with.
 
Wren said:
Not everybody has had a good education, people who were school age during war times for instance, they should feel just as welcome, comfortable and important as anybody on these sites, the fact that a fellow member would criticise them for a lack of knowledge says a lot about the critic .....
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Indeed.
 
Jeannine said:
You must also bear in mind re spelling that what is correct in one country is incorrect in another. I write British and my computer corrects it to American after a while the lines become blurred and one doesn't know which is right
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I have the same trouble. When I add French, often the accents don't show up, or it doesn't recognise the spelling without a fight. Lol.
 
Lucretius said:
LOL...oh yeah girl, I remember you from the 'Haight'....banana in your hair and empty Kleen-X boxes for shoes! But, hell were you smart!!! You wouldn't give me a 'tumble' cuz of my wooden leg. :playful:
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Passive aggressive behaviour thinly disguised as humour is still needling. Some of us are still hippies at heart, and have managed to contribute to society in a variety of ways, however eccentric we may have been in our youth, or in my case, still are. Lol.
 
Oh sorry, is acerbic humor or harmless persiflage now in the DMS-V?

"Men/women will always be mad, but none are madder than those who set about to cure them".

And.. Kitties...."mean"? Yikes...thin skin...humorless. I must have made a wrong turn?
 
Lucretius said:
Oh sorry, is acerbic humor or harmless persiflage now in the DMS-V?

"Men/women will always be mad, but none are madder than those who set about to cure them".

And.. Kitties...."mean"? Yikes...thin skin...humorless. I must have made a wrong turn?
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Who issued you a mandate to be the sole arbiter of what is appropriate on this forum? You just got here. As for a lack of humour, Kitties has far more humour it seems, than you have empathy/ethics. My father was a Welshman, and a master of the fine art of British humour, but he never crossed the line into outright cruelty. With respect, I call you out for gaslighting.
 
Acerbic humour? Sounds like some forms of inflammation of the elbow! As for persiflage,until, I checked it out on Google I suspected it might be some form of sexual perversion which did worry me slightly because I really really thought that those I had not engaged in I had at least heard of!

On that subject I once engaged in flagellation, necrophilia, and beastiality but soon gave up because I realised I was just flogging a dead horse.

Now back to imbicility on the interweb thing
 
aeron said:
Acerbic humour? Sounds like some forms of inflammation of the elbow! As for persiflage,until, I checked it out on Google I suspected it might be some form of sexual perversion which did worry me slightly because I really really thought that those I had not engaged in I had at least heard of!

On that subject I once engaged in flagellation, necrophilia, and beastiality but soon gave up because I realised I was just flogging a dead horse.

Now back to imbicility on the interweb thing
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That was funny!
 
Wren said:
Not everybody has had a good education, people who were school age during war times for instance, they should feel just as welcome, comfortable and important as anybody on these sites, the fact that a fellow member would criticise them for a lack of knowledge says a lot about the critic .....
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Higher education is not the true benchmark re intelligence. Some of the peeps I met in grad school had the social skills of a spastic gerbil on steroids, and the common sense of a muffin. They could only function in the rarefied world of academia, and were very limited in their conversation once they were out of their comfort zone, ie their area of expertise.
 
Curious how you ascribe so much to me, viz., 'arbiter', cruel, passive-aggressive, etc. Who designated YOU to dish out gratuitously insipid, specious analysis?

I guess the 'mad m.d.' quote gotcha, aye? :(
 

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