Beerball Posted October 8, 2009 Posted October 8, 2009 Real people aren't that stupid are they? I e-mailed "Tom" -- a friend I had a crush on -- some topless pictures of myself. Tom rejected me because he is happily married. I am married, too, and when my husband, "Jake," discovered the pictures on our computer and realized what I had done, we discussed it and agreed to put them aside and never talk about them again. And before you ask...this was on the front page of Google news and for some reason the word topless caught my eye. that's my story and I'm stickin to it.
VABills Posted October 8, 2009 Posted October 8, 2009 Beerball, I never knew your first name was Tom. Every day you learn something new about the posters here. Today I learned two. We have a guy named Tom and an aledged women beater .
RayFinkle Posted October 8, 2009 Posted October 8, 2009 Beerball, I never knew your first name was Tom. Every day you learn something new about the posters here. Today I learned two. We have a guy named Tom and an aledged women beater . Tom? I thought he was Jake.
Beerball Posted October 8, 2009 Author Posted October 8, 2009 Beerball, I never knew your first name was Tom. Every day you learn something new about the posters here. Today I learned two. We have a guy named Tom and an aledged women beater . !@#$ you Tom? I thought he was Jake. !@#$ you too
/dev/null Posted October 8, 2009 Posted October 8, 2009 Tom? I thought he was Jake. Nah Beerball's not Jake. He's the Fat Man
John Adams Posted October 8, 2009 Posted October 8, 2009 I love how people use the word "mistake" these days. The word "mistake" begs for easy forgiveness. You drop a glass. Mistake. Forget to check the oil. Big mistake. Don't zip your fly. Mistake. Forgot your wife's birthday. Huge mistake. Take a bunch of nude photos and send them to an old crush? Sorry, not a mistake. More like a selfish and awful thing to do to your husband. Vick used "mistake" to cover for his multi-year reign as sick and twisted dog-torturer. Just noting this amusing take on the word.
Steely Dan Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 I love how people use the word "mistake" these days. The word "mistake" begs for easy forgiveness. You drop a glass. Mistake. Forget to check the oil. Big mistake. Don't zip your fly. Mistake. Forgot your wife's birthday. Huge mistake. Take a bunch of nude photos and send them to an old crush? Sorry, not a mistake. More like a selfish and awful thing to do to your husband. Vick used "mistake" to cover for his multi-year reign as sick and twisted dog-torturer. Just noting this amusing take on the word. I'm pretty sure you're mistaken about that. It's like people who say "I'm sorry" when you know full well that if they hadn't been caught they never would have brought it up and apologized. Vick's not sorry about being involved in dog fighting. He's sorry he got caught. He's sorry he lost a bunch of sponsorships. He's sorry he has to do some damn work for the SPCA so he'll look like he's really changed.
Delete This Account Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 I love how people use the word "mistake" these days. The word "mistake" begs for easy forgiveness. You drop a glass. Mistake. Forget to check the oil. Big mistake. Don't zip your fly. Mistake. Forgot your wife's birthday. Huge mistake. Take a bunch of nude photos and send them to an old crush? Sorry, not a mistake. More like a selfish and awful thing to do to your husband. Vick used "mistake" to cover for his multi-year reign as sick and twisted dog-torturer. Just noting this amusing take on the word. and yet forgiveness is an overlooked word today, too. in this quick slick age of immediacy, when people fail to think before they act to scratch that itch, and can't take it back ... selfishness and mistakes have been part of the equation since the day we achieved self-awareness, so i'm not sure what has exactly changed, except for technology and self-help columns. i'm being a bit of a contrarian here, J.A., so don't take offense. but doesn't all of this go back to, and i'm paraphrasing here, "ye, who is without sin ..." bit? i prefer not to cast that stone. naive? perhaps. but why take all the fun out of st. pete's job guarding that gate, eh? j (in a reflective, philosophical mood) w.
John Adams Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 I have no problem with forgiveness--I have a problem with people who willfully act and then request forgiveness to be handed out like penny candy.
Chandler#81 Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 I love how people use the word "mistake" these days. The word "mistake" begs for easy forgiveness. You drop a glass. Mistake. Forget to check the oil. Big mistake. Don't zip your fly. Mistake. Forgot your wife's birthday. Huge mistake. Take a bunch of nude photos and send them to an old crush? Sorry, not a mistake. More like a selfish and awful thing to do to your husband. Vick used "mistake" to cover for his multi-year reign as sick and twisted dog-torturer. Just noting this amusing take on the word. Great post! 'Mistake' and 'Opinion'. Webster fails us, not having synonyms with more specific meaning. It's my opinion, your apology for your mistake is insincere..
Beerball Posted October 9, 2009 Author Posted October 9, 2009 I have no problem with forgiveness--I have a problem with people who willfully act and then request forgiveness to be handed out like penny candy. I forgive you for feeling that way.
tennesseeboy Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 I love how people use the word "mistake" these days. The word "mistake" begs for easy forgiveness. You drop a glass. Mistake. Forget to check the oil. Big mistake. Don't zip your fly. Mistake. Forgot your wife's birthday. Huge mistake. Take a bunch of nude photos and send them to an old crush? Sorry, not a mistake. More like a selfish and awful thing to do to your husband. Vick used "mistake" to cover for his multi-year reign as sick and twisted dog-torturer. Just noting this amusing take on the word. I get a kick out of political "apologies" that go along the line of "mistakes were made"...Kind of lets everyone off the hook.
John Adams Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 I get a kick out of political "apologies" that go along the line of "mistakes were made"...Kind of lets everyone off the hook. "mistakes were made" mixes my favorite 2 ways of distancing yourself from the action. First call the awwful thing that you willfully did a mistake. Then use the passive voice so there's no clear actor who made the mistake.
BuffaloBill Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 I don't get why people seem to think the only way to resolve problems is to go to a public figure (or press) to air their acts of stupidity. This should have been kept a private issue between the wife and her husband.
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