briskgull4 said:Hey neonhound10!
Just wanted to weigh in on this, not just regarding the thread itself, but more about your specific posts...
You keep insisting that you aren't being offensive and that you're just joking around. But honestly, if people don't see the joke, they aren't necessarily wrong. Look, I mess around all the time and I like to think I have a decent sense of humor, but humor is subjective. Everyone has their own threshold for what they find funny and how they want to be teased. For instance, my girlfriend might not handle the same level of sarcasm that I thrive on; if she perceives my jokes as belittling rather than funny, should I just keep pushing it? I don't think so. If someone isn't vibing with your style, you simply don't do it.
You constantly lean on the concept of free speech, but let me ask you this: if I started poking fun at you and accidentally hit a nerve, would you actually enjoy it? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't... Just be fair and stop using insults. Even when it's framed as a joke, it still stings.
Best regards.
Right back at you,
I'm certainly not such an idiot that I don't recognize boundaries. Sometimes my humor gets so dark or crude that it’s really only meant for a very select group of people (let's call them the eccentric crowd)...
When someone tells me I've gone too far with a joke, I know when to back off and not dig any deeper, because of course I can realize when something I find hilarious might actually offend someone else.
I just need a heads-up on who's sensitive and who isn't.
The whole reason I wrote that was because certain people seem to think they're Nobel Prize-winning physicists and that their opinion is the only one that matters. Even if they are right, you still have to respect another person's right to disagree.
Later on, that same person ended up exposing their own hypocrisy by responding to my provocation.
Those types of people are the truly dangerous ones, not me, just barking at the moon.
And honestly, it's pretty tough to figure out someone's true colors through an online forum like this.
I'll always push back against narrow-minded people, simply because they refuse to look at things from every angle.
But I do take your advice to heart and I'll try to follow it as much as possible, because none of us deserves to be mocked.
The only thing that really bugs me is when "certain individuals" try to pigeonhole my thoughts in every single thread and link them back to something I said ages ago in a different discussion.
There's no mercy for people like that.
I could go on forever, maybe even talk about myself just so you guys can see that this is all totally normal for me, but the point is to have a provocative stance to keep the conversation moving...
🙂
