Passive aggression - Page 5

ZEZOZE · #**101** 07-26-2007, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Crumb

I think you have a hyper-sensitive bully detector.

lol...hats off to that one

ZEZOZE · #**102** 07-27-2007, 12:39 AM

well i will just leave this thread with this...

there are bullies here. there are bullies on almost all forums like this. it is often hard to recognize it, when the bullies are on your side.

i understand what groupthink is and i do think it happens here. people are 'encouraged' to conform and when they don't, a push to make that happen occurs that is full of crap- like labeling people as insane, or passive aggressive, etc...lies to keep the vibe the way it should be

this is not an indictment of this place. this is just an observation. it happens everywhere. i've even been guilty of it, be it the overzealous treatment of others to silence their pov, or allowing other bullies to get away with behaviour i don't agree with, to strengthen my faith in what i believe...

and that's wrong.

Crumb · #**103** 07-27-2007, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by InTheServiceOfZeke

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crumb

I think you have a hyper-sensitive bully detector.

lol...hats off to that one

If I post

in response to that will you take it badly?

ZEZOZE · #**104** 07-27-2007, 12:44 AM

oh probably

Crumb · #**105** 07-27-2007, 12:47 AM

I won't then.

ZEZOZE · #**106** 07-27-2007, 12:55 AM

phew.

viscousmemories · #**107** 07-27-2007, 02:58 AM

There are also people who thrive on conflict, and who see "fitting in" as something to be avoided at all costs.

ZEZOZE · #**108** 07-27-2007, 03:31 AM

i agree.

Shelli · #**109** 07-27-2007, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by viscousmemories

There are also people who thrive on conflict, and who see "fitting in" as something to be avoided at all costs.

I hope they enjoy a relatively lonely life then.

Angakuk · #**110** 07-28-2007, 06:29 AM

If I had my way I would spend my days lying around in pajamas, eating chips and watching the television. Does that make me agressively passive?

JoeP · #**111** 07-29-2007, 05:32 PM

I put muckthink on ignore. Does that make me passive aggressive? I'm not sure.

I also used the :plonk:

smilie when I did it. Is that passive aggressive?

Wait - I just misspelled his user name in a derogatory way, but I still have him on ignore. How about that? Getting closer?

Or maybe these are all just cheap insults. Apathetic-aggressive.

JoeP · #**112** 07-29-2007, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Shelli

Passive Aggressive Traits

Viewing that page requires javascript to be enabled. I have enabled the minimum possible (in the :firefoxglomp:

noscript extension). Is that passive aggressive? Am I getting there yet? Perhaps I should have refused to view the page at all.

Corona688 · #**113** 07-29-2007, 08:23 PM

A friend of mine put it like this. "She doesn't beat a dead horse, she purees it."

Corona688 · #**114** 07-29-2007, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by InTheServiceOfZeke

these people like to see themselves as the self-appointed guardians of a site...

I tried that gig for a while, and y'know what? nobody listened to me. I think your worries are vastly inflated. Self-appointed guardians of truth, justice, peace, honor, and glory like me, you, mick, whatshisface, and whatsisface's real-friend-and-not-a-puppet-honest-for-real just get mocked, even when I'm right

The real power comes from, y'know, actually administrating the place, and those two seem rather reluctant to use that in actual discourse.

Awareness · #**115** 08-08-2007, 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by mickthinks

Normally I rarely meet anyone who uses the term "passive aggressive" and I've never needed to know what it means. Suddenly I'm here and everyone is bandying it about as if it was important. Does it mean anything? Should I be worried about it?

Mick

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JoeP · #**116** 08-08-2007, 08:30 PM

I refuse to read this thread. But I need to tell you that.

mickthinks · #**117** 08-08-2007, 08:53 PM

Hello viscousmemories

No ['passive aggression' is not disagreeing and arguing nicely], pretending to be nice, when in context it's obvious that you're not being nice.

When I said 'Thanks viscousmemories!' I wasn't pretending to thank you. I was really thanking you. The way you describe it, one person projects their feelings of hostility toward another onto the other's posts and calls it "passive aggression".

Mick

ChuckF · #**118** 08-08-2007, 08:54 PM

I thought of this thread in passing while having breakfast this morning. I had a muffin and coffee. Make of that what you will.

mickthinks · #**119** 08-08-2007, 09:00 PM

Hello JoeP!

I refuse to read this thread. But I need to tell you that.
LOL! I hope I'm not the ony one enjoying your wry comments here. You have a cool way of demonstrating just how pretentious and inconsistent all this earnest condemnation of 'passive aggression' has become!

Mick

Leesifer · #**120** 08-08-2007, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ChuckF

I thought of this thread in passing while having breakfast this morning. I had a muffin and coffee. Make of that what you will.

I'd pour the coffee onto the muffin to make it soggy and make it into a muffin mountain, like in Close Encounters.

Sock Puppet · #**121** 08-08-2007, 09:43 PM

I can certainly understand why one would think of this thread while passing. Bran muffin?

ChuckF · #**122** 08-08-2007, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Leesifer

I'd pour the coffee onto the muffin to make it soggy and make it into a muffin mountain, like in Close Encounters.

Oh you English!

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Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

I can certainly understand why one would think of this thread while passing. Bran muffin?

mickthinks · #**123** 08-08-2007, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

Bran muffin?

Stick to the shit jokes, Sock - that's what you do best!

viscousmemories · #**124** 08-08-2007, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by mickthinks

When I said 'Thanks viscousmemories!' I wasn't pretending to thank you. I was really thanking you.

Of course! You sincerely thanked me for my post then implied that I should take my comments and stick them up my ass. No doubt a perfectly congruous response in your muddled mind.

Incidentally when I posted "plonk" in response to one of your posts it was to signify that I was putting you on ignore, so if this post is an indication that you've been directing comments to me all the time since, I've missed them (unless someone else quoted them). I've just now taken you off ignore because I'm enjoying some of the responses you're getting and seeing your comments makes it easier to follow the threads.

mickthinks · #**125** 08-09-2007, 12:58 AM

If the 'Ignore' feature can be an insult, (and it seems pretty clear, from all those who like to declare with triumph that you have been 'plonked', that this is how it is commonly seen) then it follows that receiving a reasoned and thoughtful response is atually quite a compliment. I am grateful not to be ignored and I think that thanks are entirely appropriate for any response which isn't plainly abusive. That doesn't mean that everything in a non-abusive response is welcome.

You sincerely thanked me for my post then implied that I should take my comments and stick them up my ass. Not exactly. I suggested that you might apologise for your unprovoked "Don't be silly!" ad hominem, and that I'd treat your complaint about my ad hominems with contempt if you treated mine the same way. I still don't understand why you were so stubborn about refusing to reciprocate. Instead you started to resort to plain abuse and things spiralled downwards. You may not have noticed, but I stopped thanking you for your posts around then.

No doubt a perfectly congruous response in your muddled mind. More silly abuse!

Mick