The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Snarf Zagyg]

Really you've never regretted not saying something?.

On a public Internet forum?

No.

I am not (yet) so deluded as to believe that my words are in service to more that my own ego.

Chance are that if I hold my tongue and stop typing for an hour, someone else will make the point that I was going to anyways.

 

[Umbran]

I imagine anxiety, fear of rejection, how something might be taken or just not having the right words at the right time, mean lots of people regretted thing that were not said.

Maybe you're talking about a different scale of regret. Because for the most part, we talk about pretending to be elves. The number of things of import here, that one can have what I'd consider significant regret about, are small.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I am not (yet) so deluded as to believe that my words are in service to more that my own ego.

EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

Megaceph, chosen to serve the State
In the halls of legislative debate,
One day with all his credentials came
To the capitol's door and announced his name.
The doorkeeper looked, with a comical twist
Of the face, at the eminent egotist,
And said: "Go away, for we settle here
All manner of questions, knotty and queer,
And we cannot have, when the speaker demands
To be told how every member stands,
A man who to all things under the sky
Assents by eternally voting 'I'."​

-- The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

 

[Cadence]

"Because the government told them they had to learn magic."

 

[RealAlHazred]

"Because the government told them they had to learn magic."

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

-- The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce-- The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce​

 

[J.Quondam]

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

-- The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce-- The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce​

I hope someone etches The Devil's Dictionary onto a big slab of basalt, so linguists 10,000 years from now will have a proper reference for translating modern English.

 

[BookTenTiger]

 

[Deset Gled]

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From the first post, there was no chance it could have ended any other way.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

From the first post, there was no chance it could have ended any other way.

 

[Cadence]

What if we're all characters and our souls are the players.