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I just wanted to say I know I was wrong

 
  

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8===>Q: alyn
00:53 / 31.01.06
Stoatie was right about Social Darwinism
 
 
matthew.
02:02 / 31.01.06
Takes a big person to admit they were wrong. Kudos to you. And Kudos to Stoatie for not giving up.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
02:10 / 31.01.06
Take your Kudos and shove them.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
02:10 / 31.01.06
I'm sorry. That was wrong.
 
 
matthew.
02:15 / 31.01.06
Half of my post was sarcastic. The other half was not. Another limitation of the interweb found by me.
 
 
*
03:58 / 31.01.06
I was also wrong. Apparently the initial inventor of social darwinism, Herbert Spencer, was not a nazi. So thanks, Qalyn, for making me reexamine that.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
08:44 / 31.01.06
In turn I'd like to apologise for getting so pissy in the first place.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
09:21 / 31.01.06
That's a differen thread!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:29 / 31.01.06
So I was wrong to post it in this one.
 
 
electric monk
16:15 / 01.02.06
However (and this is a partial quote): "I just want the country to evaporate", while forceful, is frankly distasteful in the same way the US policy toward, and treatment of, young Muslim men is.

Long time coming, but...my quote above was ill-conceived and born more from anger than reason. not jack was absolutely right to take me to task for it.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:52 / 01.02.06
I, on the other hand, am never wrong.

Unless I disagree with Ganesh, apparently.
 
 
sleazenation
18:57 / 01.02.06
particularly on the subject of cheese consumption...
 
 
Shrug
22:18 / 06.03.06
Duncan:
I just think it's a particularly good synonym for 'moan'; which would probably have been my second choice, but then that probably wouldn't have been barbequoted (which indicates...?) and we wouldn't be having this discussion.


You know it wasn't solely about the use of the word "carp". There was "schema", "diamondlike", "insinuative" also. I thought it to be a particularly well constructed sentence uttered with an incomparable level of sarcasm. I laughed. I barbequoted. I watched in horror. I hid. I don't think it was posted in any misogynistic sense, nor was my barbequoting of it done with any intention of upsetting anyone. (Lula, Legba or anyone else that may have been offended). The sexist associations inherent to the word "carp" (for some) were completely unknown to me at the time. I still can't quite reconcile the association myself but am willing to accept the view's of others.
And I do feel terribly bad about any upset. So sincerest apologies all.
 
 
The Falcon
22:23 / 06.03.06
Wrong thread, shrub.
 
 
Shrug
22:29 / 06.03.06
I linked it from Feminism 101. I'm not sure if there's a semantic difference between "wrong" and "very sorry about the barbequoting of something that although not intended to be misogynistic may have come across that way to some people on the board". In anycase, I thought there was some wriggle room to be had.
 
 
quixote
02:00 / 07.03.06
(Erm, off topic, but what IS barbequoting?)
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
03:25 / 07.03.06
In this thread, you are not off-topic so long as you admit you are wrong.

barbequotes
Wisdom and Wit, well, wit anyway, from divers Barbeloids.
:: STARTED BY Nick
 
 
penitentvandal
08:59 / 07.03.06
I would like to admit that I was wrong to be so verbally aggressive towards somebody - I think it was Smoothly? - in the Islamic Cartoon Fury thread. For some reason I was just in a really mad mood and this, I feel, caused me to momentarily form the impression that I was debating the issue in, say, the Russian or Italian parliament, instead of Barbelith.

Sorry.
 
 
rising and revolving
13:52 / 07.03.06
I just want to pre-emptively point out how wrong I will be. Because I will. You know it.

And when I am - well, sorry. I don't know what I was going to be thinking, really.
 
 
Ninjas make great pets
14:15 / 07.03.06
I was wrong. I'm sorry. you know wo you are.

and Tom.. if you're out there. I was wrong to mail you with that request. I was young and foolish. I know you prob don't even remember it but I've felt like a dingbat ever since. May have taken me 9 years to say it.. but I'm sorry I was a silly fanboy type in those days. I promise not to do it again and if we ever meet - I owe you beer and chocolate.
 
 
*
03:00 / 29.03.06
Going back through the Too Many Agents Spoil the Matrix thread, I notice two things:

1) My decision to try to find a way to express my anger on the board in a way that doesn't silence other people.

2) My post telling Haus and DM to shut up because they're irritating me.

Just saying, so when the rest of you notice, I can point to this post and show that I noticed too.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
18:27 / 29.03.06
I want to confess that way, waaay back, when I had just gotten on to Barbelith,I got in a small debate with Haus on a subject I wasn't nearly well-enough versed in. I was wrong. I've matured since then.
 
 
Char Aina
20:19 / 29.03.06
i was wrong!
but i got better.
didnt i?

i like to think i've addressed all the errors of judgement i have made.
but then i would.
this thread makes me nervous, dudes.
but you would tell me if you feel i still have shit to say words for, right?

PMs for preference, eh.
 
 
Daemon est Deus Inversus
16:18 / 30.03.06
I really didn't mean to be disrespectful, Mrs. Lincoln, but I really wanted to know- apart from that- how you enjoyed the play? Do you think that now, and I've apologized, you could give me your opinion?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:34 / 10.05.06
I just want to say that... I know I've been a bit wrong lately in the way I've expressed certain things and interacted with certain people. Specifically Ganesh. Normally when people say things like "Ooh, it's very easy to become entrenched and combative and it does nobody any good" I find that even after examining everything again, I still feel exactly the same way. But recently it has been pointed out to me that carrying on with letting my irritation at past discussions get the better of me is not doing anyone any good, and this time I think there's a lot of truth in that.

It's not that I've changed my view of What Happened With ShadowSax etc. - although I'm wondering if I ever expressed that view properly. I suppose I've known for a while that what I actually need to do is write some long and thought-out and relatively calm posts in, say, the ShadowSax Aftermath thread. Rather than just seething and letting that out in not particularly useful ways.

And yes, this is partly motivated by seeing your post in the Do Dirt thread in the Gathering and asking myself "Do you really want to stay annoyed with someone to the extent that you can't take a compliment? Would you really want someone to stay away for that reason?" (not that anyone might not have other reasons!). Funnily enough, I nearly added an addendum to the first post in that thread saying "Even if we have online beef, come along and we can make peace" - I suppose that applies more widely as well. And not just 'cos I want the numbers.
 
 
Ganesh
14:10 / 10.05.06
Thanks, Flyboy, I really appreciate that. And the club night does look ace.
 
 
Cat Chant
16:13 / 14.05.06
Um. Now that I've seen the posts just above mine, this seems a bit trivial, but: right at the end of this post I compared Captain Jack to Sarah Jane, and that was just a wrong comparison: the Doctor just doesn't talk about past companions until they show up, nor do I want him to. (I stand by the 'if gender's so irrelevant, why is it always a GURL' point, though.)

*goes off to cry about the death of Adric some more*
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
01:45 / 03.06.06
Forgot I had these:

Barbelith

Tom Coates

Definitely definitely definitely wrong.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:25 / 05.06.07
Just bumping this because I've been rereading the Danish Mohammed cartoons thread, and fuck me if I wasn't a right cock to Mistoffelees in it. I'm a big fan of sarcasm, but I at least usually try to make it constructive. And I was wrong just to use it for point-scoring, and I'm thoroughly ashamed at myself for not apologising later in the thread, which I'm sure I'd usually do.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
20:22 / 06.06.07
Sometimes I talk too much.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
08:24 / 07.06.07
I created the self-contained Barbequotes thread. Sorry.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:27 / 07.06.07
Apology UNaccepted.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
08:28 / 07.06.07
Oh, I don't know. It's keeping them off the streets.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
08:36 / 07.06.07
I still think it's funny. I suppose I'm just thinking of future generations.
 
 
Pingle!Pop
14:54 / 18.10.07
The topic's not exactly passed away, but I don't really want to go back to it, so I'd like to apologise here for a couple of rather stupid and ill-thought-through posts in the Head Shop. Sorry.
 
  

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