sometimes i am in the mood for popcorn. i am never not in the mood for cats! thank you )

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i cannot but do so. and i shall! likewise, likewise!

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i can usually tell if it's a typo; the one in question was definitely not. it COULD have been a mishearing on the part of a voice program. but it was an error i have seen often and letting it stand perpetuates it, so more people will think it's right. as an ex-english teacher and magazine editor, i care. that's who cares. i do. and i bent over backwards to be nice about it, and the reaction was still outsized. it was as if i said "no offense, but you have a tiny bit of whipped cream on the end of your nose" and the other party said "how dare you! you're evil! you want me to die! my life is changed!"

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@genessa I do it with the friends I've met - but unless I can't figure out meaning I try not to mention it. (And yes it's hard).

And even with friends if I know they're having a bad day? I don't mention it. In fact I stomp on the urge pretty hard usually.

For some reason it makes people stabby. The world is on an epic upswing of stabby lately. So I try not to make it worse.

It is way easier to see a mistype or auto correct error after the fact - something that galls everyone.

@RavenCT i don't always mention it. i usually don't. this was "since" meaning "sence." that wasn't a typo. it MIGHT have been a voice misinterpretation, and i mentioned that in my "correction" (which was in passing, WITH an apology in advance, yet) so the person wouldn't feel bad. i guess THAT didn't work. but that is something, as i say, i see a LOT and i really want people to stop making that particular mistake if possible, and no, i don't think that makes me obsessive or (as some like to say, not about me yet but i'm sure it's coming) a grammar nazi. yeah i understood what she meant. maybe she didn't understand what i meant when i apologized and made excuses for her in face she wasn't ignorant, which i guess she turned out to be after all.

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hmm, i have never been to an atheist meeting. i don't see the point, unless it were for political action, like preventing the legislation, execution and adjudication of religion into our lives. that doesn't mean no one should go or that it has no value; i just don't see it for myself.

as for what i would say in person -- i am the same person here as offline. is that good or bad? i may never know but if i thought it was no good i'd try to do something about it. i have seen no reason to do so, so far! )

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@genessa Also consider the degree to which you diverge from average behavior, that can be telling. If I find myself drifting too far or too often from what’s going on around me, I’ll self-diagnose. Not always wrong in my thoughts or perceptions.. it may require I practice (even more) tolerance … or go nuts.

Atheist meetings, are like coming here.. Same broad perspectives on life! I attend meetings to learn, and love to learn. The knowledge to recognize mounting danger can save your, and your family’s life.

I’m reminded here of my brother’s description of his ex wife's ‘family dinners,’ “All they did was argue,” “It’s not that they weren’t good at it,” “It’s that they’d argue for no reason.” I’ve a low tolerance for that.. as I did ‘her.’ The opinions some have and give are not because they don’t realize there are opposing positions, it’s because these are their conclusions. Instantly opposing the opinions of others simply because ‘you can’ is a bad habit..

@Varn i don't think i oppose people's opinions simply because i can. for some strange reason, i see public posts as an invitation to converse, and if a topic interests me, or baffles me, and i have something to say or ask about it, yes, because i can, i do. i don't think i am argumentative or pugnacious, but i participate. if i have nothing to say, i say nothing. but if i have something to say, isn't this the place to say it? dinner is another story! but this is a forum!

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isn't it fabulous how people will call us whiny or otherwise indicate that they think we are terribly emotionally involved when we bother to respond to something with which we disagree, when in fact they're the ones getting their diapers in a knot?

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@genessa Yes indeed. One particular tosser was pro gun, I didn't say he shouldn't own one just that any registration system needs to be robust. Now either he stopped posting immediately or.........
I think he probably did me a favour

@ipdg77 i have blocked my share! i don't block anyone for disagreeing with me. i block trolls and i block people who call names or make nasty accusations. isn't it odd how the new favorite accusation is "you sound like a republican" or "you must be a trump supporter" or (on this site) "you must be a christian"! i most certainly do not fit any of those descriptions, and i don't think i sound as if i do either. ugh, i think some of it is actual attempts at gaslighting.

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@genessa I think I've blocked three, all for varying degrees of being a nuisance of some sort. Not disagreeing, that's fine, but racist, bigoted and/or abusive.
Outside of the States there isn't this Trump imperative, it seems to have really polarised America, but outside the vast majority just think he's a twat and fortunately a twat in a temp job.

@ipdg77 he's a dick actually ) and yeah!

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it has always bothered me (about the english language) that sensitive has two meanings that don't always complement one another. people who are sensitive to others' feelings are not exhibiting the same kind of sensitivity as people who are so sensitive that if you say "boo" to them they burst into tears; the latter are often amazingly INsensitive to the feelings of others! example: i don't drive and depend on metro mobility, a local door-to-door transportation system for the disabled. it's not like a cab service; there might be many passengers and they get picked up and dropped off in an order determined by the company, not by the passengers themselves. quite often my guy and i are the only passengers and we get taken right home. last night we got on board to find three other passengers already riding. as we were driven, one of the other passengers started bitching and moaning about how the bus driver had missed the turn (he hadn't) and then, being told that another passenger was being taken home first, she grumbled continuously that she just wanted to go home. telling her that everyone on the bus wanted to go home did no good; she never shut up the whole way to the other person's home. bitch, bitch, bitch, the whole way. obviously, she was so sensitive she needed to be first and it was an affront and an injury to consider anyone else's needs. that's ONE kind of sensitivity. that is not to say that some people, especially kids, don't have their feelings hurt more easily than others, and that's ignoring physical sensitivities, about which i know a bit, having (among other ailment) fibromyalgia. i don't think anyone on the bus would've described that one woman as sensitive; selfish would've been a better word. i think, though, she would've described herself as sensitive, which would be funny, because in the other sense of the word, she was about as insensitive as could be.

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@genessa I understand what you mean, though it is something I haven't really thought about before now.

@tnorman1236 it's one of those things that have long intrigued me. ach, i'm a writer; words are my thing. i have a weird relationship with them.

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@genessa I'm a writer too. You should join my group, Wordsmith. It's for poetry and short fiction.

@tnorman1236 i just might! link me, if you will.

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@genessa [agnostic.com]
I guess that'll do it. I haven't linked a location on here before.

@tnorman1236 yep thanks, that did the trick! now, i tend to lurk a bit in writing groups, as i don't want to get stuff "published" here in a manner that will impede my ability to get it published elsewhere, for money. so when i start sharing works it may all be old stuff that has already appeared elsewhere. anyway, at first, i just lurk, but i'm there!

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@genessa Okay, cool. Feel free to lurk or to comment on other's work all you want.