okay, i had some pms asking for clarification.
all done in a bit of a late afternoon blur, but the approximate sequence of events: i read a post, in the conversation i think, from haus where he complains about the misperception of his [insert haus' thing here] by other posters, generally along the lines of being confused by accusations that he's more of a nasty bully than can be proven by any textual references. i came straight from there to this thread with the complaint fresh in my mind, whereupon i saw his resurrection of this thread after almost a whole day of dying which was, i felt, one of the rare instances where haus' hausness did some harm to perceptions of his on-board character - the thread was done and dusted but he came in with what i thought was an antagonistic and needlessly, erm, 'close'(?)-ly phrased way of finding a new route to an argument with the many-apologised sauron, which is i would guess one of the kind of instances which gives people the 'feeling' that haus might be a more divisive and harmful figure than is actually reflective of the content of his posts.
so, long story short, i was pointing out what i perceived to be a problem with haus, not a problem with tom, as some have seen. i just quoted tom because it was handily illustrative at that point. apologies to tom if you thought i was taking a pop, and apologies too to haus because as i said above it was all rather late-afternoon, far from charming, a little badly thought-out, very unlikely to be conducive to further peace, and definitely a waste of time-consuming boldy tags.
but while we're here, 'hilarious' because of the fact that nina actually included in her quoted sentence this: 'i assume that i wouldn't be happy to lose a limb', a clause which is careful enough to allow for the legitimate experiences of those around a dozen documented worldwide cases where sufferers of a certain type of body dysmorphia have voluntarily become amputees and thus would NOT be offended by the stump fucking thread. (they might even get a bit of a sexy off it.) i certainly felt that was worth a bit of a giggle, or to put it in barbelith, violated the sovereign territory of absurdia. |
