--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander > > <mailander111@> wrote: > > > > > > I think the distinction was implicit in what Curtisdeltablues > > > said, but Judy missed it. Now that she understands it, I think > > > we're all pretty much in agreement. > > > > Angela. Every single time you venture to > > suss out my thinking, you fall flat on your > > face, and this is no exception. You're so > > wildly off-base here I don't know how to > > begin to go about straightening you out. > > > > Just stick to commenting on what people > > *say*, not what you imagine them to have > > understood. You'll be a lot better off. > > Pot. Kettle. Black. > > If we had a nickel for every time YOU > have done this, we'd be able to afford > to payt the two shyster-Governors to > tell us how high we are. :-)
No, see, the "black" here is to do it *cluelessly*, the way Angela does it-- and the way you do it as well. Both of you are so convinced of your own wonderfulness, of your own self- importance, that you don't think you need to pay attention to what people actually say. Angela doesn't even bother to make sure she's responding to the right post (see #161689, for example, which was actually another response to the post of mine quoted above), or that she has the correct referent of a pronoun (see #161640). Just slapdash, in other words, sloppy, slipshod, intellectually lazy. Neither of you thinks there's any need to check out the reality to see whether it's in accord with your fantasies before you indulge them. How you'd *like* things to be takes precedence in your minds over how things actually are. (And no, I'm not talking about "Truth" here, just garden-variety relative on-the-record facts that are accessible to everyone.)