"Newbie" Is An Insult...

self | 02/11005 | Heartland Hattie

[Heartland Hattie]

OK Folks, thanx for the warm welcome. NOT. Sorry that my speech/writing patterns don't fit your ideals. Sorry that I'd like to actually do something besides sit behind my computer and flame people. ZOTS, Viking Kitties be damned, I have an opinion and I have the right to voice it. If more people would get fired up instead of living in their little cyber world and being snide, things might not be in the state they are today. Life is more than LOL and :o)...

[clamper1797]

I don't know ... I'm 53 and I have my journeyman curmudgeon certificate ... of course I've had LOTS of practice

[Rightly Biased]

Hey Hattie why not hang out a while and get the lay of things? Post a reply to an article or two learn the posting guidelines. B!Tch!ing gets you nowhere here.

and read these:

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[MEG33]

If you are insulted,posting a vanity complaining about it is not the way to go. You will simply draw a lot of heat .

Put on a flak jacket, grow a thicker skin and post on threads for awhile. I have gotten some pretty good flames and learned to survive nicely.

[hiredhand]

Lighten up. :-)

[Zacs Mom]

Heartland Hattie ~ NonValueAdded asked you several civil questions ("Is this in response to the one comment by xJones" & "BTW. What has your feathers ruffled?"), complimented you pet and obviously gave you the benefit of the doubt ~ just as I was prepared to do. I, too, looked thru your posting history and did not see anything there that warranted this vanity hissy-fit or a "troll" label. Like NonValueAdded, I was curious about what brought this on so I went looking for your response to NonValueAdded's post.

In glancing thru the posts on this thread I see that, while you have taken the time to respond sarcastically to several hostile posts, you have totally ignored NonValueAdded's clear attempt to make a meaningful contact and THAT, newbie, is very trollish behavior.

[Gucho]

Have a nice day.

[Petronski]

O horror! O foul fortune!

How will we live without you? How can we go on?

[hiredhand]

...troll brings it all on himself/herself! :-)

[darkwing104]

Viking Kitties be damned, I have an opinion and I have the right to voice it.

Yes you do...

And we have the same right to respond as we see fit as long it is within the rules laid down by Mr. Robinson

P.S. We seen this behavior before from Trolls

Do you like kitties?

[hiredhand]

Yep!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Voice your brilliant opinons in your bathroom or something.

LOL!!!!!!

[glock rocks]

Welcome to FR. I hope you hang around a while.

[NonValueAdded]

Thanks, Mom. I was kinda wondering about that myself. I hate to see someone self-immolate like this. BTW, give that Marine husband of yours an extra hug for me ... well, I would shake his hand but I think he'd like the hug a lot better :)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Psssst.....don't look now but there's a BIG moose following you.

[pelikan]

Yeah but not cuddly!

[Billthedrill]

Well, you haven't actually been Zotted yet, which argues that the Mods are inclined to let an unfortunate vanity take its lumps on a Friday afternoon. Clue one - don't do this.

As for your right to an opinion, of course you have one. You do not, however, have a right to unload it on a private forum like a dump truck full of horse output and expect it to be treated like fine perfume. It isn't really that sort of neighborhood. Sorry, but there it is.

Consider this an initiation of sorts and go with it, is my advice. Welcome to FR.

[JoJo Gunn]

That was my way of saying "and I thought I was rough!"

[Not A Snowbird]

Who the hell are you, anyway? Newbie?

[Not A Snowbird]

psst... STUN doesn't have an E on the end.

It does on this board. Where have you been?

[dfwright]

But I have made 48K plus replies or comments.

CG, I hate sound stuned, (Even though I do it so well), but how do you know how many replies/comments you've made? I haven't seen a counter.