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In Reply to: RE: Wrong again. posted by tlyyra on September 12, 2007 at 13:11:16
Seems like a quibble to me. Why then was Charles Hansen provoked to respond in such a way?
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I presume that was the question on everyone's lips.TL
Judging by the abundance of your posts on that thread, I would have guessed you might have read Charles Hansen's post that enumerated why he lost his temper. Guess I am wrong.
Sometimes anger is an appropriate response - all of us are humans and anger is a part of our nature. Name calling maybe is not an appropriate response, and Mr. Hansen came to regret that aspect of his posts.
And judging by the abundance of the posts assaulting this shellshocked ex-customer, I'd have thought people read his posts, too (and that includes Charles Hansen - what the hell was he thinking?). Once again, go back and read them before jumping on anyone's bandwagon. There is nothing offensive in any one of them; what's striking instead is their remarkably polite tone, intact even in the face of the inanities hurdled at him.If you guys just like to hang around looking for someone to jump on (ideally someone who's not an English-speaker, I guess, so it's not too troublesome), that's another matter, but then don't windowdress it as something nobler than what it is, using all these silly little rationalizations transparent enough for anyone bothering to read the posts in question. Find other outlets for that accumulated anger - go jogging, chop some wood, put it into productive use. Though conceptions of "human nature" are in fact anything but uniform (feel free to hold on to your own however), group attacks aren't very manly any longer, and in this case it moreover made Ayre products look like something comparable to brass knuckles in their cultural connotation.
Enough said.
TL
> > If you guys just like to hang around looking for someone to jump on
Interesting post, but you're lacking the moral high ground. You might examine how some of your own posting might fit into your argument. Your "luxury pain" post was among the most offensive I've read on AA - that's saying something.
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Last time around I was a "troubled adolescent."
I'm confused! But it sure looks like you are even more.
TL
"Moral high ground": I'm not looking for one.
"Luxury aches": if indeed you were able to read that message you got the context.
TL
Um, I was drawing attention to your hypocrisy.
Look, I agree with you that Charles Hansen's name calling was inappropriate (hey, he said so himself). And maybe his "luxury aches", to use your indelicate words (but not your cold meaning), had something to do with his short fuse. But you would have us believe that his outburst happened in a vacuum, and that's going to have to be where we part company.
You insist on lifting those two words out of the context - why?What I said was:
Continuing to trumpet the assumed faults of Ulf here is not just highly unfair but almost unbelievably shortsighted and dumb as well. Anyone with a modicum of multicultural understanding would have seen long ago what the deal was about and stopped it right there. The rest was just nitpicking whose only tangible result will be people voting with their wallets. And I don't think you can expect too much sympathy from Scandinavians for your otherwise most regrettable condition, either; compared to what people go through in let's say Iraq, that's but luxury aches, if I take up some straightshooting of my own.
In other words, expecting Hansen's Scandinavian victim and the friends of this victim to be especially forgiving towards their offender and attacker and not voting with their wallets instead would probably be a bit far-fetched.
The "luxury" part as we see it has to do with the fact that this, after all, is about a glamorous American niche manufacturer of expensive vanity goods from a well-off Boulder, CO, neighborhood who, while attending to his own well-being at his considerable leisure on his specialty bicycle costing the annual salary of the guy from the next country, is injured while rolling down along a scenic route freely chosen for his personal pleasure and enjoyment, and is lucky enough to live to talk about it much thanks to the good insurance policy he has. Come to think of it, it might not sound like the life of the worst sufferer on this Earth, compared to all those innumerous others we read about who are destroyed by mutilations, torture, rapes, murders, diseases, and hunger for example in Iraq. In the big scheme of things, Hansen has been enjoying an elite life until now, and soon enough he'll be back at it again as it seems.
Was it really necessary to spell this out for you?
If I expressed myself awkwardly before and continue to do so even here, shouldn't you, for the sake of consistency, be applauding my manliness and "indelicate" straightshooting instead?
Note that I am not blaming the accident on him in any way, nor belittling the degree of personal suffering and inconvenience involved. On the contrary, I expressed my sympathies (and not just in this quoted passage). More than he's prepared to do with the subjects of his tirades, at any rate (and so on all three accounts).
Have a nice day.
TL
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