Good night, Cellar

[Clodfobble]

Initially, like glatt, I assumed that it was a lie--standard response to a "yo mama" joke. I myself have used this response, complete with believable tears and running out of the room, because it's funny as all shit to watch people backpedal in panic.

With the poem, and now this grand demonstration of a thread, I think it probably is true, but that doesn't really change the way things played out for me. Theotherguy said it all:

Originally Posted by theotherguy

Jeb - if you sister died, that is sad. Sorry for your loss, but if you really think that lj was making a real crack about your actual sister, you have some serious growing up to do. My guess is that he didn't even know you had a sister.

It comes up again and again here that some people are allowed to be mean, and others are not. It's not true, because there is a difference in the intent of each person's meanness. Recently lumberjim went off on a tangent about me hypothetically pissing my pants. He wasn't being mean. He was being funny, and I laughed, and responded with more humor.* But I guaran-fucking-tee you if he'd made the crack to, say, skysidhe, all of a sudden half the people on here would be going on about how mean he is. The truth is, he teases people he likes, and he "gets away with it" because he's been here long enough that most of us know his personality.

Originally Posted by BigV

As a turtleneck, it suits you perfectly. But you have it on upside down.

Originally Posted by lumberjim

THAT ONE!

He's happiest when people give as good as they get, don't you see that? Spexx, for example, seems to be slowly accepting this, and I look forward to the day that he can drop that last inch of resentment and begrudgingly realize he's actually having fun with all the back-and-forth.


*In truth, I honest-to-God considered a response along the lines of, "Dude, I wet my pants at the WTC! NOT COOL!" but I figured it wasn't worth it to fan the flames.