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in reply to a message by BookEm'Danno
Our relative ages have nothing to do with it. I would say the same thing to someone my age or older. Yet you seem to believe that because I am significantly older than you are, somehow that means I lose the right to advise you on a breach of etiquette, that it automatically makes it "silly" and "sad" and I should "know better."
You know what that is? It's rank ageism at its worst. "Go back to your knitting, Grandma, you can't talk to us young people." Isn't it "sad" and "silly" when old people in their dotage who have lost all of their marbles try to argue with the young folk? Doesn't it feel good, doesn't it make you feel better about yourself, when you can shrug off what they say because what they say doesn't matter, because they're old and you're young? Doesn't it make you feel better about yourself that in all likelihood the older person is closer to the grave than you are?
Oh, maybe I shouldn't have put my birth year on my profile page. Maybe I should not have wanted it to be possible for anyone to find out how old I am, especially given the fact that I know that the vast majority here are a lot younger than I am. But I guess I had this silly idea that it doesn't matter, that as long as another person has reached the age of adulthood we can talk like equals.
I treated you like an equal but that wasn't good enough for you. You had to make a pathetic attempt to be my superior.
You being a "newcomer" has nothing to do with it, either, even if you were a newcomer. I'd say the same to a long-time regular. But you're not even the "newcomer" you claim to be. The fact is you've been here a long while. You've changed your posting name four times.
Yes, you have the right to word your posts however you like, but if you keep wording them in snotty condescending ways, after you've been warned, the owner of this site has the right to kick your ass to the curb and I hope he does. Before your latest post, I wouldn't have wished this, as I considered you nothing more than annoying, but your age-related prejudice has opened my eyes to the kind of person you really are and it goes beyond just annoying.
To answer your rhetorical question, at this point, it has nothing to do with the name Dakota. I don't feel bad for OPs when their posts lead to arguments which they themselves are not involved in. The answers to their question are still there and others are still free to give new responses. What difference does it make?
And yes, "Goodbye" at the end of your post was just as offensive as it was the first time around. Your rant didn't change that.
You know what that is? It's rank ageism at its worst. "Go back to your knitting, Grandma, you can't talk to us young people." Isn't it "sad" and "silly" when old people in their dotage who have lost all of their marbles try to argue with the young folk? Doesn't it feel good, doesn't it make you feel better about yourself, when you can shrug off what they say because what they say doesn't matter, because they're old and you're young? Doesn't it make you feel better about yourself that in all likelihood the older person is closer to the grave than you are?
Oh, maybe I shouldn't have put my birth year on my profile page. Maybe I should not have wanted it to be possible for anyone to find out how old I am, especially given the fact that I know that the vast majority here are a lot younger than I am. But I guess I had this silly idea that it doesn't matter, that as long as another person has reached the age of adulthood we can talk like equals.
I treated you like an equal but that wasn't good enough for you. You had to make a pathetic attempt to be my superior.
You being a "newcomer" has nothing to do with it, either, even if you were a newcomer. I'd say the same to a long-time regular. But you're not even the "newcomer" you claim to be. The fact is you've been here a long while. You've changed your posting name four times.
Yes, you have the right to word your posts however you like, but if you keep wording them in snotty condescending ways, after you've been warned, the owner of this site has the right to kick your ass to the curb and I hope he does. Before your latest post, I wouldn't have wished this, as I considered you nothing more than annoying, but your age-related prejudice has opened my eyes to the kind of person you really are and it goes beyond just annoying.
To answer your rhetorical question, at this point, it has nothing to do with the name Dakota. I don't feel bad for OPs when their posts lead to arguments which they themselves are not involved in. The answers to their question are still there and others are still free to give new responses. What difference does it make?
And yes, "Goodbye" at the end of your post was just as offensive as it was the first time around. Your rant didn't change that.
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