--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > Although, you have to admit that it's amusing from > a psychology/sociology point of view. I'm amused by > the phenomenon I call "throwing oneself on the turd." > It's similar to that staple of war movies in which > the hero (soon to be ex-hero) throws himself on the > grenade to save his buddies, but in the FFL version > it's what happens when one of the clique either > suffers from poor impulse control or consciously > decides to sacrifice themselves to get in one last > barb at the Common Enemy, even though they know that > it'll cause them to "post out" and sit on the Stupid > People's Bench for a week. > > The fascinating thing about this phenomenon from a > psychological or sociological point of view is that > the last steaming turd is often thrown at someone > who isn't even reading the thrower's posts.
The *really* fascinating thing is that in this case, Ann was responding to a post from Barry in which he put her down for having commented *on his reply to one of her posts*. <snip> > Speaking of interesting psychological/sociological > phenomena, have you ever noticed that folks who > talk the most about "forgiveness" and its healing > power Oh, Barry must mean Share. are coincidentally the same folks who hold > onto grudges the longest, and keep demanding > apologies from others for "offenses" supposedly > committed weeks, months, or years ago? What's up > with that, too? Surely not our dear Share! khazana, you need to set Barry straight on this right away. Or, of course, you could just go the Curtis route. > With this in mind, here are a number of quotes I > found with regard to apology, or apologizing. I > found them interesting, and you might, too: Here's one I found: "A classic. Seeing this flash by in Message View, I had to open the post because I couldn't for the life of me figure out from Message View which recent post of mine had so incensed Ann to cause her to write this. Imagine my non-surprise to find that I'd never even been a part of the thread to which she is replying. It's gettin' pretty bad when the haters can't even tell who it is they're hating any more. "Will we ever see an apology for this? "Yeah, right." --Barry, 10/5/12 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/322018
