Do You Ever Get Fed Up And Down With People?

[B.J.]

^ I like to use asterisks to *emphasize* words. That way, my meaning won't be changed if the forum software decides to do a formatting change, like when I'm quoted and all the text gets italicized.

 

[Lindley]

That works too. Although some software will automatically change asterisk-emphasis to bolding.

 

[scotpens]

I get fed up with people sometimes, but it has nothing to do with my ability to relate to them. I relate just fine.

I get fed up with people because so many of them are assholes.

 

[RoJoHen]

I get fed up with people sometimes, but it has nothing to do with my ability to relate to them. I relate just fine.

I get fed up with people because so many of them are assholes.

That, too.

 

[Mr Silver]

I use capitalizations (or capitalisations) to highlight certain words which I feel are important to whatever topic I am writing about.

Personally, I prefer bold or italicized text for this purpose. First-letter capitalization when it isn't needed just upsets the natural cadence in my head, and and of course ALL CAPS reads like shouting or, used sparingly, like one of those fire-and-brimstone priests who over-emphasize every other word in a sermon.

I use italicised text for references generally. I get what you are saying though, its a very uncommon way of writing, but its just something thats become part of my technique.

I'm curious now, does anyone else have any unique quirks when writing?

 

[DarthTom]

It seems to be a 'Double Standard'. I often get bored of run of the mill conversations, but I've always tried to appreciate people despite little things about them that I may not like. In which case i've been polite enough to not bring them up on it. Does this happen to any of you?

Yes I do as well. Especially people who for lack of a better way to describe it have a never ending need to talk about everything they're thinking about at any given moment. Why do some people lack an 'inner voice?'

 

[HoneyBLilly]

I get fed up with life and my body. But not people.

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm curious now, does anyone else have any unique quirks when writing?

I use correct grammar. Is it bad that I consider that a quirk?

 

[Kestra]

It seems to be a 'Double Standard'. I often get bored of run of the mill conversations, but I've always tried to appreciate people despite little things about them that I may not like. In which case i've been polite enough to not bring them up on it. Does this happen to any of you?

Yes I do as well. Especially people who for lack of a better way to describe it have a never ending need to talk about everything they're thinking about at any given moment. Why do some people lack an 'inner voice?'

How do you know that their inner voice isn't even more expressive?

 

[DarthTom]

How do you know that their inner voice isn't even more expressive?

Well I guess I don't. But the two people I'm thinking about talk so much and so frequently I don't know when they'd have time to think with their inner voice because their mouths are moving so often.

 

[Mr Silver]

How do you know that their inner voice isn't even more expressive?

Thats a very good point and one of the reasons why I try to be really tolerant with everyone. Some people just cannot express their inner voice in their conversations.

 

[scotpens]

I'm curious now, does anyone else have any unique quirks when writing?

I use correct grammar. Is it bad that I consider that a quirk?

One can use correct grammar and also use odd capitalization and/or punctuation.

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm curious now, does anyone else have any unique quirks when writing?

I use correct grammar. Is it bad that I consider that a quirk?

One can use correct grammar and also use odd capitalization and/or punctuation.

Um...neat?

 

[mimic]

Well, so long as you don't go shooting Arabs on the beach, you should be able to muddle through somehow.

I am quite proud of myself for getting this reference.

So. I get fed up when people either don't listen to my ideas or ignore them. Specifically, when they change my entries in the district meet and don't consult me first...

 

[RandyS]

I get fed up with people sometimes, but it has nothing to do with my ability to relate to them. I relate just fine.

Yep, same here.

 

[scotpens]

Well, so long as you don't go shooting Arabs on the beach, you should be able to muddle through somehow.

I am quite proud of myself for getting this reference.

I've never read and probably never will read Camus. But, thanks to Trek BBS, when someone refers to shooting an Arab on the beach, I'll know what the fuck he's talking about.

 

[Captain_Nick]

Well you asked...If you don't like it, deal with it. Its how I write and nobody is going to change that.

[/QUOTE]

People as a whole are mysterious to me too but I think I've worked your difficulty out

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

How do you know that their inner voice isn't even more expressive?

Thats a very good point and one of the reasons why I try to be really tolerant with everyone. Some people just cannot express their inner voice in their conversations.

Some people process their thoughts by talking out loud. Myself, I tend not to talk about something until I've reached a conclusion. I can be guilty of assuming the processing out loud people are telling me conclusions, conclusions which they change constantly leading me to think they are idiots or complete space cadets. In reality they just process very differently than I do.

I do lose patience with it when I know that all the stuff they are babbling about is never going to happen. Sometimes I resent having to be a sounding board for everything passing through their head.

Just to give you an example in a recent conversation with a friend she told me the following: After they finish their house renovation they are going to buy a block of land and have an architect designed original house built because they will be earning tons of money by then and also they are moving back to Canada to live near her family and also they will be living in France for a year and also they are going to have another baby in three years and also she is going to get a teaching degree so she can teach French and she's opening a Spanish restaurant and she's going back to uni so she can study history and when her novel is published..

This is all over a cup of coffee and it's all just spewed out as facts. For me to say a single one of those things it would have to be set in concrete. It's hard to know how to respond because it seems like a complete waste of my time to discuss any of them as if they actually on the drawing board, an option that is being seriously considered.

It took me years to understand why people would talk and talk about stuff that they was never going to happen as though it was a fact because it's so far removed from my own way of doing things.

 

[Captain_Nick]

Of course they are facts. They just haven't happened yet.

 

[Captain_Nick]

Hey, I'm just curious. Can you explain how this

I'm an Intellectual sort of person

and this

I speak semi-formally, most of the time and my conversational skills, whilst good are laced with a lot of historical and obscure popular culture references that only a few people in my social circle really get. So I end up having to tone myself down, because then people ask me to explain almost everything I say

are not mutually exclusive?

Or, to put it another way, how can you lay claim to intelligence when you haven't seen the link between the way you act and the way people respond? I worked it out in a couple of seconds and believe me, I ain't no genius.