I don't think she's taking it personally.

If she were taking it personally she would send you a whiny PM about how she doesn't like your posts, something like that.

I don't think you know what "taking it personally" means. Maybe you should go back and re-read what you've written, avanent. You will find the definition within!

Additionally, where's my PM, avanent? How come Pang gets one and I don't?

My heart. It is broken.

Here, if you have an Avanent, and I have an Avanent, and I have a malicious jibe. There it is, that's a joke, you see? You watching? And my jibe reeeeeeeaches across the internet and starts to insult your Avanent!


You can't has catch an Avanent with the NO U technique, it's not very effective!

I

DRINK

YOUR

AVANENT!

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become defensive and uncivilized in communication, is a flag for someone taking things personally. Of course, maybe its just Sass's personality, I was never sure which.

I sent Pang a PM instead of replying, because I felt it had nothing to do with the thread. Your replies at least had relevance to the topic. If pang wanted to talk about something irrelevant, PMs should be the place for it, since it doesnt have relevance. Its out of respect for the other readers. Apparently, thats not a universal quality. I find these most recent posts rude toward the original post, and those interested in it.

And now, here we are, talking about stuff that is completely irrelevant.

By the way, I dont get offended by people I dont know and who dont know me. Your opinion of me, in the long run is completely irrelevant. What you think of me does not have an effect on my life, so honestly, I really don't care what you think of me. However, I dont use this as an excuse to conduct myself like an ass. I think communication should be conducted properly and civilly, even if not everyone agrees with me on that. Once again, I see that civil behavior is not upheld at GFF, which is disappointing, as it wasnt always this way.

This is a topic about 'the happening', not your dislike for me.

Oh no my friend

This topic is now about you

That is

THE SUDDEN AND UNFORESEEN PLOT TWIST

I'm curious. What's your definition of "civilized?"

At no point in time did I become uncivil with you.

See, that's the point. You're a whiny prat. No one likes a whiny prat!

You only have yourself to blame~

HAY GUYS, PLEASE STOP PICKING ON ME WHEN I SAY STUPID THINGS.

I love this "GFF used to be so much nicer" card, though. You're a riot, Avanent.

This is considered civilized behavior here?

It's not as if sass has ever been civilized. What's the problem?

That would the problem qwarky. Same for pang really. Although, this is new for sprout since I was last here. I didn't realize he decided to follow suit.

Avanent, you have a distinctly confused outlook on the situation. You are being trampled by a herd of buffalo and you are attempting to forestall it by complaining that there is a lack of adherence to the Queensberry Rules. There is no referee! You are appealing to nothing.

ah, so thats the problem. Didnt realize this was a place of buffalo.

We should make a new banner for gff, it can say 'welcome to buffalo town', that way I wont get confused in the future.

How about a spot of tea, avanent.

Let us discuss your feelings about how MEAN people are here at GFF for disagreeing with you over tea and crumpets.

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Approves.

It's a hell of a lot better than willful ignorance. But, as the saying goes, you can't rape the willing.

its perfect!

You want civilization, you can come talk to me, cocksucker.

In summation:

Ava thinks the world should work this way: If you don't like something for a while, you shouldn't like it ever. When I was younger, I didn't like Gabriel Garcia Marquez. At all. Found his work boring and dreadful. But people kept telling me he was worth time. So I kept going back, and as I got older, and my palate expanded, I found him one of my favourite writers.

You also said escargot was an acquired taste, so why should someone keep ordering it if they don't like it? Well I imagine it would be to acquire the taste, no? Escargot has a lot of delightful flavours to it, and is quite fantastic, so it's worth the acquiring of taste for it. Maybe by ordering it repeatedly, for instance. Great metaphor.

You're tilting at windmills here, mate. The only person in this thread who seems to be especially pissed off is you. Sass is baiting you, and you keep chomping at the hook. It's sad, actually. Your position boils down to "You didn't like it yet, why the hell would you like it now?" Do you realise how asinine that is? I mean, just dwell on that for a second. Just think about how incredibly childish that outlook is. Do you still not eat string beans or the crust on bread because you didn't like them as a kid? Are you really that boring a human being that you've never been pleasantly surprised to discover something you've never liked before suddenly wasn't so bad? If you're truly that static, I pity you and your dull, uninteresting existence.

GFF was never a nice, soft place to get hugs. You want people to respect your opinion? Well, try having an opinion that isn't rubbish and utterly indefensible.

Did you know his name is actually Manoj? I didn't.

Greatest thing Pang has ever made.

This is an interesting argument Denicalis.

I think its a good argument, but I would wonder why someone would be so upset about it, in this situation. If you are trying to acquire a taste, why would you be so pissed off about it, if you still don't like it. I could understand being disappointed, but alot of people seem down right pissed about thinking yet another one of his movies (just like all the others) were crap.

I am aware that tastes change, but if you consider something crap, over and over again, I dont see why you'd be so pissed it it hasnt changed over night. This is his seventh well known 'contribution' to cinema, and if you felt his first 6 were crap, why would you expect to think different of this one? I'm not saying this applies to the people in this thread, but this is a complaint i've heard alot of.

However, if you merely dislike it, or wish to like it, then yes, what you state is very possible and plausible for people.

Your reply isnt a hug. And, although there are a few words here and there which are abrasive, its not a personal vendetta at character assassination. Your post displays a much more intellectual and civil way to disagree with something than the others.

But see, you're the one prescribing anger to people's reactions. I think it's much more apt to chalk it up to frustration than to anger. No one is saying M. Night does everything wrong all the time forever. I think most people can at least pick out one point in one of his movies that was truly interesting. It's sort of like reading an author who clearly has natural talent, but isn't polished. The edit is rough, and as such, you can't really enjoy the piece because, much as there are impressive aspects, they're overrun by the other qualities that are less savoury.

No one is mad that M. Night isn't a good filmmaker, they're frustrated that he never seems to improve. It's like he's still making his first couple movies.

if you look around the web, theres alot of 'he fucking sucks', 'all of his movies are crap', etc going around followed with statements like 'i want my money back' and 'he should go back to iraq' and 'hollywood shouldn't allow him to make movies'.

I never said that everyone subscribed to this train of thought. But theres alot of it going around.

Theres also a good amount of his fans stating that those people 'just didnt get it' and that the movie was actually amazing.

His fans like his movie, and the people who dont like his movies, continue not to like them. But alot of those dissatisfied, seem authentically surprised and upset, as if it is absolutely confusing how they could dislike his 7th major motion picture, when they disliked all of his previous ones too. Its as if these people are devoid of the pattern-seeking processes in the human brain.