Just for any of you who may have noticed

[belamyi]

... if it's actually the case: am I being more obnoxious than usual lately?

 

[mikemizanin729]

I haven't noticed much of a change.

 

[sixthson]

am I being more obnoxious than usual lately?

Is that even possible?

 

[borg69unimatrix]

That's like trying to classify a IV or a V tornado while laying under barn rubble.

 

[belamyi]

I am only asking because I get people being more vocal, more... articulate (?) in my presence about how pissed they feel: this week I received a rant from a ho whom, apparently, and according to his own choice of terms, I made feel ignorant (!!) (I merely said the French and English part of his profile seemed googlelated), and then I said, to another person, that Marià Manent's translations of Emily Dickinson were... bad, because they were not actually translations, but mere versions.

 

[belamyi]

That's like trying to classify a IV or a V tornado while laying under barn rubble.

I guess being hit, and in what way, by debris and rubble would make all the difference.

 

[rareboy]

I'd say you are as obnoxious as you always have been.

I imagine that the two unfortunate people who were pissed off with you this week just aren't capable of scoffing at your pretentious and bombastic pseudo-intellectualism the way we all are.

And we're on your side when it comes to suffering through the verbal hash of some cocksucker-for-hire's babelfishgoogletranslate attempt to make himself seem interesting...and couldn't agree more on the subject of Manent's translations.....which, as you note, are not only just versions...but mere versions.

Tell them to lighten the fuck up.

 

[belamyi]

I'd say you are as obnoxious as you always have been.

I imagine that the two unfortunate people who were pissed off with you this week just aren't capable of scoffing at your pretentious and bombastic pseudo-intellectualism the way we all are.

And we're on your side when it comes to suffering through the verbal hash of some cocksucker-for-hire's babelfishgoogletranslate attempt to make himself seem interesting...and couldn't agree more on the subject of Manent's translations.....which, as you note, are not only just versions...but mere versions.

Tell them to lighten the fuck up.

But in the case of the guy (the librarian was a woman that I meet almost daily) it was sad because it seemed he wrote the bits himself. Maybe he just wasn't as used as me,for example, to the thought that what he may be writing is not just substandard, but simply unintelligible.

AS for the other person, well, to tell you that she admires Paulo Coelho... so no wonder she may be convinced that ANYONE would "know" (term she used) less than Manent about translating... yeah, know about making Dickinson sound in Spanish like a pale parody of classical Spanish prosody. She said she wasn't listening to me anymore.

He blocked me... that is, one of my profiles. About her, I will see (I hope) sometime next week.

 

[dpnice]

Belamy you are part of JUB's fabric and hopefully always will be.

Mind you it does seem to be a sort of insult to say that you haven't changed in all the years you have been here.

Carry on as you are, we all love you; yes even those who pretend not to.

 

[belamyi]

belamy you are part of JUB's fabric

You mean like one of those knots or lumps in fabrics?

 

[Soilwork]

as compared to what?

 

[belamyi]

OMG Soilwork!!

 

[belamyi]

I think I had never felt the need of a rubbing-my-eyes smiley/emoticon before.

 

[dpnice]

You mean like one of those knots or lumps in fabrics?

Yes exactly like that; it describes you presence perfectly.

 

[Soilwork]

anyway,... if we're grading on a curve, you're still less obnoxious than me, I'm guessing.

 

[ChickenGuy]

Actually, I find you're much less obnoxious than you used to be, say about two years ago, when I was first exasperatedly attempting to communicate with you, and was being met with constant put-downs, insults, grandiose dismissals, and overly cryptic to the point of unintelligible responses.

Whether the positive change is because (a) you have 'warmed' to me personally, or (b) the passage of time has ever-so-subtlely 'normalised' you (as it often does on JUB with 'unorthodox' posters) I cannot say, but I suspect is the latter.

I can only say I like you better now than I did back then.

 

[belamyi]

anyway,... if we're grading on a curve, you're still less obnoxious than me, I'm guessing.

Only because you work rather intensely to keep a reputation, and I simply flow...

 

[belamyi]

Actually, I find you're much less obnoxious than you used to be, say about two years ago, when I was first exasperatedly attempting to communicate with you, and was being met with constant put-downs, insults, grandiose dismissals, and overly cryptic to the point of unintelligible responses.

Whether the positive change is because (a) you have 'warmed' to me personally, or (b) the passage of time has ever-so-subtlely 'normalised' you (as it often does on JUB with 'unorthodox' posters) I cannot say, but I suspect is the latter.

I can only say I like you better now than I did back then.

Two years ago?

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I am only asking because I get people being more vocal, more... articulate (?) in my presence about how pissed they feel: this week I received a rant from a ho whom, apparently, and according to his own choice of terms, I made feel ignorant (!!) (I merely said the French and English part of his profile seemed googlelated), and then I said, to another person, that Marià Manent's translations of Emily Dickinson were... bad, because they were not actually translations, but mere versions.

This is exactly like that scene where the Grinch grows a heart and returns all the Christmas presents.

 

[belamyi]

This is exactly like that scene where the Grinch grows a heart and returns all the Christmas presents.

I beg your pardon? how would this case relate to that?