tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post1575019774252351684..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Twitter vows to be less vileNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-194951568355053682017-02-11T07:27:02.836-06:002017-02-11T07:27:02.836-06:00You are correct in asserting that some of those ov...You are correct in asserting that some of those overzealous feminists seem to think all men should be hated and mistrusted.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-21529020596057661452015-02-09T15:53:56.575-06:002015-02-09T15:53:56.575-06:00From an earlier column: your colleague Ms. Washing...From an earlier column: your colleague Ms. Washington had a nice write up on Andrew as well today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73841941063709684302015-02-09T12:13:44.761-06:002015-02-09T12:13:44.761-06:00"I dislike Twitter because it limits you to 1..."I dislike Twitter because it limits you to 140 characters. I'd sign up for a service where your post had to be a minimum of 3,000 words."<br /><br />Twitterized for your convenience. ; ) I just thought it was funny that, in making a comment extolling the virtues of wordiness, you help demonstrate what can be communicated in the Twitter format. But, I hope you won't take this wrong. I don't participate on Twitter, and most of my contributions around here come much closer to your 3,000 word ideal than to the 140, unfortunately for all! This is meant in good fun, not to seemingly portray the attitude of a nasty Tweet-flamer. : )Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-18187602616732044052015-02-09T10:44:47.269-06:002015-02-09T10:44:47.269-06:00"cheek", of course. And close parenthese..."cheek", of course. And close parentheses after "by"<br /><br />You see why I don't twitter. Or tweet. Or whatever.<br /><br />TEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-25887055052004602862015-02-09T10:39:51.012-06:002015-02-09T10:39:51.012-06:00I too am not an "early adapter," thinkin...I too am not an "early adapter," thinking like Mark Twain it would be nice, when the world ends, to live in a place like Cincinnati, "where everything arrives 20 years late." That said, I doubt that even the passage of 20 years will persuade me to leave my twitter-free universe, believing that a medium that enables, and thereby encourages, one to type faster than on can think can't be good.<br /><br />On the matter of swearing, I'm of an age to sympathize with Anonymous' objection, but believe the quaint notion that women must be greatly offended by unseemly language is no longer one we can cling to. Or that they are themselves incapable of indulging -- a modern Mark Twain, hearing a lady swear, would be unlikely to observe that "she's got the words, but she ain't got the music."<br /><br />There still is the "mixed company," thing, of course. As there was when Martial, a Roman poet who wrote naughty poems, wrote this little lyric.<br /><br /> "To read my book, the virgin shy<br /> May blush (while Brutus standeth by.<br /> But when he's gone, read through what's writ,<br /> And never stain a check for it."<br /><br />Tom EvansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-76882872984749621092015-02-09T10:24:31.214-06:002015-02-09T10:24:31.214-06:00The blog is called "every goddamn day" f...The blog is called "every goddamn day" for a reason. Don't go bowling and then complain about the clatter of the pins. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-91406137066598354862015-02-09T10:15:15.207-06:002015-02-09T10:15:15.207-06:00A link to the Lindy West story you mentioned- http...A link to the Lindy West story you mentioned- http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/02/what-happened-confronted-cruellest-troll-lindy-west?CMP=share_btn_fb<br />Sadly it's the exception, not the rule.Matthttps://twitter.com/bottomllessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-75851996134310662902015-02-09T08:53:27.978-06:002015-02-09T08:53:27.978-06:00There's a magical legal provision often insert...There's a magical legal provision often inserted in contracts by wily lawyers stating that party A will not be responsible for consequential damages with respect to party B. Most of us cruise through life as if we'd made such a deal with heaven.tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79043630295966928452015-02-09T07:42:35.517-06:002015-02-09T07:42:35.517-06:00You swear too much, Sir. I hope your wife doesn...You swear too much, Sir. I hope your wife doesn't put up with that language. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-60590163684068427892015-02-09T06:46:08.178-06:002015-02-09T06:46:08.178-06:00I like the Golden Rule trick, learned slowly over ...I like the Golden Rule trick, learned slowly over many years, because it results in less hurt feelings and responses like "Wrong Neil Steinberg :-) " Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-54067558222711470332015-02-09T06:33:16.532-06:002015-02-09T06:33:16.532-06:00I dislike Twitter because it limits you to 140 cha...I dislike Twitter because it limits you to 140 characters in which you can't say much. I wish someone would start a competing service where your post had to be a minimum of 3,000 words or you couldn't send it. That I would sign up for. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com