Posts by Emma Hart
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Thanks for the Manatees? Unfortunately, (possibly) the most disturbing manatee-related book title isalready taken.
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Time for an 'MSM' grizzle. Could the mainstream media journalist please stop describing Mellory Manning as a 27 year old prostitute, when she could be more accurately described as a dead 27 year old person, that had been engaging in prostitution when she was murdered.
I was pleased with 3's report on her funeral the other night when they talked to her brother about how she'd bought them Christmas presents and how they'd be dealing with missing her - just like she was a real proper person. Much less impressed with Stuff's sterling headline: "Murdered prostitute had criminal record". Still even they've come around, they used her name and everything.
But. We do live in a country where the police work hard to solve the murders of prostitutes and the public actually try to help. Given some of the stories I've read this year, I'm deeply grateful for that.
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And I love the way people say that just before they're about to be disrespectful, in general.
I've very occasionally used 'with all the respect that's due to you' instead.
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Well, my birthday is new years eve and most people exit for 31/12, or other friends are where we will head later next week, so.... I figure today is as good as any to celebrate 45 albeit 3 days early .
Just imagine I drunkenly shouted "Happy birthday Sofie we love you!" at you now, then.
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Ahh, isn't gin a depressant?
From personal experience, I'd say gin is a gigglant.
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With all due respect Emma, the assumption that people contribute here simply to 'piss people off' is a tad fanciful.
Mark, I didn't mean people, I meant you in particular. Why? Two things. The tone of your post as I read it was snarky, sarcastic and exaggerated. And two, you'd already said this on this thread:
i really should stop with these tenuous arguments, playing devil's advocate's assistant too long is hard work
Those were the reasons I suspected that you might not have been serious, and that your post was a deliberate attempt to needle people.
These are the only circumstances in which I have much time for people who 'play devil's advocate' (or devil's advocaat): if they say, before they start, something like 'just to play devil's advocate for a moment, what if...'. Otherwise it just reads like arguing in bad faith, which is something trolls do.
So if I've found that someone is arguing points they don't actually believe, I'm more reluctant to engage with them in future, when they might be serious, but I can't tell. You've also made sarcastic remarks about other posters, and inferred things about me that simply weren't true. I have no problems with people bringing different perspectives and asking difficult questions - I'd encourage it - but I'd prefer it was done with honesty and respect. And I mean 'respect' the way Danielle, Eddie, Isabel and I interpreted the word.
So before I sit down on the other thread and explain for the fourth time why it actually isn't easy to distinguish between erotica and pornography, I'd like you to mull that, because otherwise I'm simply not going to consider it worth my time.
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Not that I don't love you guys enormously, but not being here (or at work) has been fabulous. We're home now, Canterbury is turning on the weather, the kids are at the school pool every day, and my best friend gave me Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen for Christmas - the perfect present.
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So in case Eddie Clark, Danielle, Sacha etc ever watch this movie or another like it (of which there are many), and get caught on these lines, and naturally assume there must have been some kind of mistake
Mark, dude, I am On Holiday. Are you making a point, or just trying to piss people off?
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Much as customer service are supposed to provide what they are named for, some of the people involved will say "we can't do that" when they can't be bothered.
My partner still does tech help for... less than techy people and he runs into this problem with telecommunications companies all the time. It saves so much aggravation to just hang up on the obstructive person and ring back. It's never taken more than two goes to get someone perfectly happy to do what 'couldn't' be done.
And it may be because we've both worked in customer service, but when someone goes out of their way to help us, we take whatever opportunity we've got to provide their boss with positive feedback.
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Ergo, she said, finally thinking, it must have been site not blog. Told you I wasn't listening.