Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Chris Waugh,
to behave like complete arseholes to random strangers just because they could
But isn't that absolutely what happens? Humans behave, often, appallingly badly towards people they have no connection with - people they don't know - whereas when they do know them, because there's a connection there's a disinclination to be offensive.
It's easy to be rude about them because they're not one of us.
And I don't think you should apologize for bringing China into it at all. It's very interesting.
Sacha - because I've been away from my computer for hours, I didn't see your comment until now. Not sure I know quite what you mean, but maybe I wasn't very clear earlier. I'm quite slow sometimes at framing what I want to say, so by the time I've written, corrected, proofread, re-corrected and posted, a million people have posted before me. With some really good, well-thought-out replies and responses. And that often makes me feel very stooopid.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to BenWilson,
We’ve all experienced being made to feel stupid for our contributions
My feeling of stupidity is generally self-induced, right after I've hit "post", but before I've caught up with the rest of the thread.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Russell Brown,
But still, maybe 10,000 reading some discussions. So many! Who are all these people? It's like the visible part of the universe versus the dark matter.
Do you know if they're all separate individuals or are they the same people coming back repeatedly? Is there some way of knowing? NB: I'm showing total ignorance about how these things are tracked. NB2: I'm one of those who has a look often during a day.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Josh Addison,
6000 people is too many to be standing in my front yard
Pedant here again. I wouldn't say that. I'd say "6,000 people are too many to be, etc." Like, there are 6,000 people, and that (fact) is that too many...... (trails off, wondering, is this the thread talking about those new things that make you forget where you were?)
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Emma Hart,
I remind myself that I don’t really care, and last night I wrote a paragraph about how I don’t care about the less/fewer thing…
Mmm. Just say "I couldn't care fewer".
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Jo S,
lurkers being arguably a lot less annoying in general than trolls or tinks
And very much more invisible, except to themselves. EDIT: Speaking as a long-time lurker before I ever dared to post. And occasionally, when there's a fascinating ping-pong conversation between two or three, and one doesn't want to interrupt.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Emma Hart,
Feck. I fixed that, which means this is the earlier draft. Oh cock...
Ah ha! Too much merlot!?
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to matthewbuchanan,
Third, it’s “fewer”, not less.
Bless you.
Oh, yes, I said "Hooray!" when I read that.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I wrote my performance appraisal, using big words. Sure to impress.
That's the spirit!
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to HORansome,
within days he was trying to teach me the error of his ways.
Ha ha!