Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Also…

 

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[Scribe]

Having your whole identity wrapped up with one thing must be quite the burden.

 

[Richards]

So, my son likes pineapple on pizza, and I do not. Traditionally, we watch two episodes of a TV show we have on DVD (we're introducing my nephew to older shows he missed when he was little - last week we finished up season 7 of Buffy, so today we watched the first two episodes of Angel) while eating pizza from Little Caesar's, which is just down the road from us. Getting tired of the three-meat treat my son and I had been splitting week after week, we came up with a compromise: ordering a Hula Hawaiian (ham and pineapple) for the two of us, only with the whole pizza's worth of pineapple shoved over to one side. End result: I get half a ham pizza, while he gets half a ham-with-double-pineapple pizza. Everybody wins (as long as I don't think about the monstrosity my son's eating).

My nephew, BTW, gets a whole cheese pizza to himself, as per his preference.

Johnathan

 

[Saracenus]

Now ladies and gentlemen of the jury I am just a country lawyer and all I have heard from these fat-cat, city-slicker corporations are fancy words like copyright, trademark, trade dress… now what in tarnation is a trade dress I have not seen such a dress at the local Walmart…

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

 

[Umbran]

Having your whole identity wrapped up with one thing must be quite the burden.

A very important thing to remember is that what you see online is not the whole of a human being, by a long shot.

 

[Parmandur]

A very important thing to remember is that what you see online is not the whole of a human being, by a long shot.

Or on one platform: most of what I talk about on Twitter for instance is against the posting rules here, for instance, and rightly so as as discussing 4th century theological disagreements and American politics are wildly off topic to casually gabbing about tabletop games.

 

[Umbran]

Or on one platform: most of what I talk about on Twitter for instance is against the posting rules here, for instance, and rightly so as as discussing 4th century theological disagreements and American politics are wildly off topic to casually gabbing about tabletop games.

Even if you put the entirety of a person's online presence together, across all platforms, you aren't seeing a whole human being.

If you don't want to deal with someone's approach online, then by all means, don't. But don't justify or rationalize walking away by dehumanizing them. Have the courage to disengage without dismissing them as people.

 

[Bedrockgames]

A very important thing to remember is that what you see online is not the whole of a human being, by a long shot.

This is probably a very unpopular opinion and certainly not a swipe at @Scribe as I don't know the context of the post in question but one reason I am not a big fan of having threads where we essentially comment passive aggressively on other threads or posters is precisely because it breeds passive aggressive hostility between posters (I think it has become less of a vent for peoples frustration and simply deepened tensions between people on the forum in the past year or however long it has been since we have been doing this)

 

[Umbran]

(I think it has become less of a vent for peoples frustration and simply deepened tensions between people on the forum in the past year or however long it has been since we have been doing this)

And, you are allowed your opinion on the matter, of course.

But this thread does not exist for meta-commentary on this thread. If you have an official case to make, take it to Morrus, please. I'm not going to entertain the discussion here.