| Sidd Finch |
08-05-2013 10:51 AM |
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
(Post 481654)
I didn't think it was funny but was willing to chalk it up to an impaired sense of humor on my part if you professed that you didn't mean to impugn my abilities or good faith by implying my clients had erred by hiring me — a "joke" I'll note that I've never considered in-bounds except when it comes from an obvious clown like Hank, who, unlike you, never asks to be taken seriously.
You don't buy my clients' product because you think there's something better on offer, fine, we're good. But I don't think I'm being a whiny-ass bitch by asking whether you really meant that you think I do a daily disservice to my clients or the public in the way I practice law. (Please understand that a certain disproportionality of anger in your posts has never been an effective way of telegraphing that you're joking.)
I say all of the above in the interest of repairing our relationship, not damaging it further.
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In the interests of repairing our relationship, as you put it: I thought your comment, "people get the government that they ask for," was a really lame way of justifying an elected officials bad conduct. (You didn't watch the show, so you don't know what the conduct was -- but if that means you don't realize that your justification doesn't make any sense here, whose fault is that?)
Do I really think that you really believe that any corruption by an elected official is ok, because "people get the government that they ask for"? No. I thought you were being flip, and I flipped back. The extent to which my comment was serious is defined and limited by the extent to which your way of excusing the conduct in question was serious. I think that is little to zero, especially since you didn't even know what you were commenting on.
ETA: I see that Less has picked up this ball and run with it, in the manner of Forrest Gump (but without the people standing behind the endzone with the "STOP" signs). That's taking this way too seriously, though arguably you started off on that path. Let us drop this and go back to thinking of all the ways Hank should go fuck himself. |
