What is the point of executing a person for a 1988 crime?

pietillidie · Joined: 07 Jan 2005

^What I mean is you misread Stui's analogy, then went on to express outrage at your own misunderstanding, not at what he actually meant. That's why I say, take it easy and check you've understood. He might have even misspoken or expressed an idea imprecisely, creatively or ironically, but in this case he didn't.

It's not healthy to react like that; take it from someone once far more prone to doing so, as we all were back in the day. This might be a public forum, but we all know each other, so you don't need to correct everything for the record, and certainly not when it's your own misunderstanding!

That's what I mean about acting as if you're outside the social context. But you're inside this social context and have chosen to be so. Read the way people interact to catch the spirit of things. No one in the VPT can be bothered being too forensic unless that's the nature of a particular thread, which some us like David and myself do as much as a hobby as anything (or at least I do, but David also enjoys a back-and-forth).

Do you not get Stui by now? He doesn't need you to correct and represent his casual musings to the world (and again, it was you who misunderstood his analogy. We have to keep learning, hence I apologised for going too hard at you recently and deleted the posts.

That internet era has had its day. It doesn't mean you can't be yourself; e.g., people mostly tolerate my diversions because by now they probably get I'm working through ideas to distract myself. Others rant and curse a bit. We're all different, and all have our idiosyncrasies and peccadilloes.

stui magpie · Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:02 am

Cheers Ptiddy, but you don't need to defend me, I don't worry about it.

You got exactly what I meant with the post, Maxie was looking for hidden meaning and saw what they wanted to see.