That was a pretty long-winded way of saying that I'm right, you should just say "You're right, JCC".

Oh, sorry for thinking that perhaps you had enough left in your head to consider other people's feelings.
I predict your next response to involve several slaps regarding how people who take anything online serious are losers.
You know, perhaps we are. Would it kill you to consider other people's feelings online just a slight bit? To be a good person in any relation?
I actually think you are a considerate and interresting person in real life, but you are like many convinced that you can say or do anything you want to do as long as you are behind the monitor, people won't care.
Now, if you don't care what I just said, so be it. I just thought I would give it a shot.

That's actually not what she said.

I am considerate both online and in reality, just only of people who merit consideration. That is to say, not of Crying Crimson Tears.

Pretty sure the implication is that she finds this arrangement acceptable.

My step dads relatives made a huge ass bonfire today!!! I danced around it like an indian....^_^ cuz I'm a dork.

I observed it as that he made a joke about doing it at anniversaries, but you may well be right, I have no idea.

Incorrect. That was me proving once again how wrong-headed you can be. But I can't fault you much for your adolescent inexperience.

On the other hand ...

... is not even close to the same meaning as:
I note with my years of experience reading English as a means of communication that there is a vast difference contextually between you expression "fine choice" and her designation that he should save that kind of thing for anniversaries "only". Note that "fine choice" indicates an interest or willingness to receive the item in question, perhaps even a longing for it, while "only" sounds like the equivalent of "give it to me that one day a year, if you must."

So the fact that you parsed this "implication" this way, along with the fact that you characterized the gift as a "joke" when clearly it upset her, lets me know who the clueless poster on this subject is.

You think you're just yanking people's chains for a laugh? All I can hear is your knuckles dragging every time you come out of your cave.

What the fuck are you talking about? Seriously, if this post is any indication, I probably have a better comprehension of Ancient Greek than you do of English. The idea that 'only' always connotes grudging permission is plainly absurd-- what about "only wear white shoes before memorial day and labor day?" Do you read "but it's best to never wear white shoes" into that? Don't you suppose that rather than an unqualified affirmation that 'he got the hint', CCT, given her propensity for whining, might have appended something to the effect of 'I guess that's the best I can hope for with him" or "we compromised", if she really was just utterly repulsed by the very notion of receiving lingerie from her boyfriend?

Right! "Upsetting to idiots" and "joke" are mutually exclusive concepts!
Is English your second language? Ancient Greek is my fourth. Ei ou mala sophos.

I've known many arrogant, insensitive people who know multiple languages. And some of those people know the meaning of the words but fail to understand what people are trying to express. And some very smart people can listen to entire statements and because of their own prejudices hear something else. You can be insensitive in 10 languages and I'm still gonna call you on it if I see it.

You characterized the gift as a joke. It was clear it wasn't received that way. Fake vomit and whoopie cushions are gag gifts. Only men of a highly insensitvie order would think lingerie is.

You characterized her as an idiot for not getting that it was joke and said he's an idiot for sticking around if they're not fucking already - "why else would he stick around". Still makes you look clueless to me.

But I'm not here to try to bring you enlightenment. Hopefully you've already got that certain someone who doesn't mind you clubbing her over the head and dragging her to your cave.

By the way, I only speak 2 languages, but I am studying English As A Second Fucking Language.

Wow. You peoples make me laugh, by your tendencies to stray far far farrr away from the subject of this thread .


OH . EM . GEE .

I just had the most fantastic idea !
Let's stop talking about a cyberstranger's lingerie and discuss what made our days all the more worthwhile!!! Which is, by the way, what this entire thread is about.

So. Let's get started, shall we?

What made my day was that everybody all day long kept unknowingly saying extremely perverted statements such as,
"It's a white Christmas!"

and

"It's going to be a long, hard winter!"

Which made me laugh. ^.^

Yeah, that's an improvement.

exactly .

follow the tradition.

I love being insensitive. I love being insensitive because when I'm arguing on an internet forum and the person with whom I'm arguing makes a long post, I I initially assume I'll find in that post tons of inflammatory bullshit, and that I'll feel compelled to break down said bullshit into points and painstakingly address it. Then, to my indescribable delight, the bulk of the post turns out to be about how I'm insensitive, rather than whatever the individual in question and I were discussing.

Well, the gift itself isn't what's funny, it's the 'this present is for me too' aspect, the one that CCT found to be so unconscionable. I'm not saying it's comedic genius, but it still attests to a sense of humor on the part of the boyfriend, as JCC said. Lingerie is actually a far better gift than fake vomit, since it's actually of use to the recipient, and will continue to be of use to her long after this 'engagement' has ended-- certainly nothing over which any reasonable person would be upset.

No, I think even she got the joke. I'm characterizing her as an idiot for being upset by it, and for pretty much every other post she's ever made.

I'm clueless?
Moses, have you read CCT's posts? Who except an idiot would date her for the conversation? And don't say a murderer, that's cheating.

Although I'm by no means the primitive misogynist your stale jokes hold me to be, I suppose I would rather be so than believe
"Hey sweetie, I used my money to buy you a nice gift! Although this one is sort of for me too, hehheh!"
"WHAT? You and I might BOTH find pleasure in this? My boyfriend must get me things I ALONE CAN ENJOY. UGH, MEN KILL ME!"
is the sort of exchange that takes place in a healthy relationship.

*sigh*

and the battle continues


well
at least your arguments are rather amusing


witty banter is always fun to read

Moses, eh? Ha! You make a fair point about my not being familiar with the bulk of her posts, so I can't argue that I'm more aware of the larger context. I still don't figure you can say lingerie is a joke, especially since that whole "it's a gift for me too" premise is kinda old school chauvinistic in nature. But I'm not figuring you or JCC will be changing your mind about that anytime soon. Maybe some of the women here will speak to that point.

You know, I wanted to rebut how you keep reinterpreting her statements, adding things she didn't say or stating you're sure she knows things she didn't speak to, but frankly I found this statement so fricking hilarious that I really don't want to any more. That really is very, very funny.

Dude, are you fucking kidding? Have you ever spoken to any of the women on this board, or are you just assuming that because they have tits they are shy, delicate and twee? I can't imagine any of the other female members being offended that their boyfriend both has a sense of humour and shows that he appreciates his girlfriend sexually. I mean, you and CCT can choose to keep interpreting this gift as the calling card of a manipulative domestic rapist if you want, but I'm astounded that you see this moral crusade of yours as logically consistent given your propensity to propound, often at length, your sexual desires on the board, turn many discussions around to the subject of sex despite how disparate the subjects may be and choose a gyrating half-naked woman as your avatar so you can jerk off and let your finger give you a colonoscopy as you browse the boards. You're not exactly Andrea fucking Dworkin, bud.

Nice. Very tasteful. You just proved my point about you.

'Location: Oh yeah, baby, right there!'

Yo, what was that you were saying about tasteful? I think it was along the lines of 'Ben Lahnger is a hypocritical fat fifty year old Don Juan who posts holding his chubby in one hand'.

Sleeping in made my day.

JCC, your last post = more of the same; proving my point about you again. In fact, you're doing such a good job of making yourself look bad that I'm just gonna let you carry on by yourself.

What, you're not even going to ask my cup size?

*I can't resist*

I figured you weren't old enough to need an athletic supporter yet.

LFC are playing like chumps again. Sure is great.

I think Ben's "hah, the posts in which you utterly thrash me and my arguments are actually enforcing my points in some vague way on which I refuse to elaborate" tactic has officially established him both as the oldest person to achieve self-satisfaction through trolling an online message board and as the worst troll in the >40 age bracket.

^^^^ That made my day.

Anarasha, did you mean to post that in the "Furries" thread?