Where's my umbrella ? Gunna start raining shit !
Nope. I don't care anymore. He's used me up. I've gone back, and I looked at the entire previous exchange... because that is something I do. And you know what I realized? I'm not the one who has a problem saying I'm wrong.
I searched out "Cerebus wrong" in this thread, and I couldn't find a single instance where he'd actually said those words. Not once and I looked until I ran out of search results. Found lots of hits of him telling me I was wrong tho.
I then searched out "mnem wrong" and I found... numerous hits for Cerebus telling me I'm wrong. And 3 hits where I said I was wrong plainly and clearly.
And when I pointed it out to him, did he admit it...? No. First it was turning the tables aboot how I didn't really say I was wrong. Or... and this is too precious... how the fact that I do sometimes admit I'm wrong is also wrong...
But not a single time where he could bring himself to say those 3 little words.
Even when I was butting heads with Robert, he had no problem admitting it; in fact, took great care to make sure of it.
Now... I'm sure there has to be some instance where C has actually said it in here... I'm just saying I couldn't find it.
And now, can he so much as bring himself to even think that maybe his words had something to do with my reaction...?
No... because again... no matter what... I am wrong.
So from now on... I'm just not going to respond anymore. To anything he says. I just don't have the GAF left.
mnem
There's a "married life" joke in there somewhere... but I'm just too drained to figure it out.
If that doesn't indicate that you're obsessing, particularly obsessing about being right or wrong, then I don't know what does. The latest thing you've blown up over was a pisstake about the American obsession with Celtic heritage and, yes with hindsight I ought to have realised that you, and only you, could possibly take that as an attack. A similar side-swipe at Med's Irish Republican heritage elicited exactly zero taking of umbrage. Part of me wants to apologise for upsetting you, it certainly wasn't intentional, but part of me also thinks that I shouldn't because I shouldn't have to walk on eggshells because you're looking for offence to take.
There's more I could say, about my good intentions, that I'm not alone in pointing out your attitude and other things that I've tried, repeatedly and civilly, to get you to understand what you're doing but I think the time has come to comprehensively admit defeat.
So, I henceforth promise to not to reply to anything you say, no matter how much I agree, disagree, or could use it as a launching pad for a good joke and request you consider extending the same courtesy to me - just put me on your ignore list, please. It's clearly too dangerous to engage with you; each time I think it might be safe to I am proved to be wrong. You can't claim that I'm the problem if I refuse to engage with you at all. I actually tried avoiding commenting to anything where you misspoke for a bit, but exasperation that you were still 'at it' made me, foolishly, chime in again this time. Prediction: Me not engaging won't solve the problem, you're too fond of this particular "life script". You'll go off and make some categorical statement that is unsupportable again, several people will try to correct you, you'll go around the houses dissembling again, and then you'll just find somebody else to accuse of harassing and bullying you if they point the dissembling out and similarly get zero community support backing up your claims against them. Rinse and repeat.
That is my final word on the matter, I'm out of your hair for good.