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Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Andrej Kacian wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:28:29 -0600 |
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>> Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> Thing is that kinda stuff just puts ppl off; i've seen you carry on |
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>>>> bugzilla but i always thought fair enough he's stressed and working on |
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>>>> loads a bugs; if you really wanted to say that crap to me, you could |
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>>>> have emailed me. |
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>>> Wow, somebody took that completely the wrong way. It was nothing more |
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>>> than a joke. |
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>> This is a fine example of how different people are in perceiving jokes. |
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Exactly; it's also about the context of the remarks; if they'd been said to |
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me on irc by someone i was chatting with i'd joke right back. I just didn't |
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expect it here and it threw me; I see this as public space, and it's like |
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some guy i didn't know just came up and started slagging me off. |
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>> BTW, I never understood why are certain people so touchy about |
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>> homosexuality, while others joke about it with their peers daily (and |
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>> very personally). |
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> The people who get all bent out of shape about a simple joke like that are |
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> either homosexual themselves (not a bad thing) or homophobes (definitely a |
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> bad thing). |
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FWIW I've calmed down now, that's why i shut up before i said something i |
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might regret in a public forum. masterdriverz explained it was a joke, ok |
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cool. I've never been spoken to like that by someone with whom I've never |
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actually conversed. |
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Can we forget about it? |
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(BTW I don't know any of you; dunno about you but i value my privacy, so if |
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i wanna discuss what i do in bed with you, i'll ask yeah? ;) |
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