More bucolic than morbid

[muckefuck]

I feel like wandering through a graveyard or two tomorrow, when the weather's supposed to be good and monshu is busy, busy, busy. Who wants to come with?

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Playin' in Rollick's sandbox

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Teenagers are always like that. My friend Owlet (not the lovable rogue, but the bitchin' female who gave me a clever name to steal) had problems with one on the Brunching bb. He had real difficulty recognising that his actions had consequences for other posters. She basically had to hit him over the head with this fact to get him to change. This was essentially what I was trying to do with 'Roo boy, but I lacked the authority you did, since it's your livejournal. So I was glad you stepped in. And I agree that he didn't understand what he was being called on. ("Why are you still picking on me when I already gave you a grudging, insincere-sounding apology?") But if it happens again, he may begin to see a pattern emerge. If he doesn't, it's no skin off my nose. I'll just go on ignoring him or reading him For Amusement Purposes Only like before.

As you point out, it was an entirely different situation with nihlistic_kid. There it was a mixture of talking past each other and a clash of attitudes and argumentation styles. He didn't like mine and I didn't like his, but we were both adult enough to recognise this and stop arguing before we got pissy with each other. At least, that's how I read the situation; I've no doubt, given how much we disagree on, that he doesn't see it the same way. But he made me think hard about the issue and my attitudes toward it, whereas all flaggy did was teach me a little patience. (Though every little bit helps.)