Jerky wrote:She has agreed to be on her best behavior and simply IGNORE anybody who tries to goad her into getting herself in trouble again.
YOPJ
Because the thing about ^^that is that as long as her best behavior is claiming that people goad her when -- in fact -- people (me, for example) have repeatedly asked her on thread after thread to show them where the goading happened and only gotten a run-around like this:
First, for the millionth time, we start with something like:
C_w wrote:Sorry to name names, but c2w and barracuda are the primary suspects wrt those who can belabour and belittle with impunity.
Then, since it is the millionth time and a million requests for examples, cites and quotations haven't produced any, I ask for some, like so:
I wrote:Examples, or you're just throwing a rock then running away. I have no problem with being called out for what I do.
Show me where I instigated an off-topic dispute and then belabored my side of it. as opposed to "where I was insulted for my presumed reading habits, sheep-like conformity or political views when (a) nothing I'd said represented any of those things; and (b) the points I had made were being ignored, then objected when the person who hurled those rocks ran away without being helpful enough to me to show me where I'd erred."
Because if I have, I want to know. And if I haven't, you're out of line to name me and then scamper off. I don't do it to you. Or to anyone. It's not fair. Kafkasesqe, as a matter of fact.
Or you could just try not insulting me. If you did, I wouldn't have anything else to say.
Then she BRAVELY replies:
I think stickdog and Mac already "showed you" where you belabored your side of it. I don't want to engage any more than I already have. Everyone knows what I'm talking about, including you, so I don't need to elaborate.
And that's not very helpful to me. Because one of those posters ALSO said I did something I hadn't, without citations. And the other one quoted him.
(So it basically amounts to saying: "Just like a real PR professional, I've now repeated this charge often enough that it's influenced how others see you, so I now don't have to demonstrate it. It's become true.")
Swiftboating, IOW.
Then:
I wrote:No they didn't. I have no idea what you're talking about. Where? Please show me.
Thanks
And then:
So there you have it. What I do to belittle and belabor her with impunity is insist that she not say that when it's not true, which she experiences as my belaboring and belittling her.
That's happened in one form or another to me and other posters more than once. Seems to me like she could save some trouble by just not saying it. And it doesn't strike me as promising that she thinks she's goaded.
But maybe that's just me.
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