The Olive Branch Thread

[Ziggy Stardust]

@K-man. Conditional pulling of when the site makes me happy.

So your advice is to reduce the frequency significantly. Sensible. I'll give it a go.

 

[Kyriakos]

I think this thread was started exactly to watch some posters pull it off.

 

[Borachio]

Art Deco is cheap and tacky, imo.

Baroque may be a bit too fancy.

I think I'll go with Perpendicular, or maybe Gothic. How about early Norman?

Nah. Neo-vernacular it is.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Yep. Cheap and tacky is what I'm aiming for.

 

[Kyriakos]

My style is...Byzantine.

 

[Borachio]

It is! Oh, yes, in so many ways, it is. (Byzantine, I mean.)

 

[Quackers]

Good points Mise.

I find that many people weasel out of apologies especially when it comes down to public figures caught doing wrong. The MP benefits scandel included many qualified "apologies".

"I am sorry if i caused any offense" Appears to be a popular one. It puts the onus on the victim to "take offense" which sounds like you're just making a fuss. It is also weaseling out taking responsibility for your actions as if you still don't recognise they were wrong.

Making a good apology requires genuine humility.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Good points Mise.

I find that many people weasel out of apologies especially when it comes down to public figures caught doing wrong. The MP benefits scandel included many qualified "apologies".

"I am sorry if i caused any offense" Appears to be a popular one. It puts the onus on the victim to "take offense" which sounds like you're just making a fuss. It is also weaseling out taking responsibility for your actions as if you still don't recognise they were wrong.

Making a good apology requires genuine humility.

The trick is to acknowledge your own part without showing approval for the other sides' part.

At the end of a confrontation I'm almost always willing to say 'I regret whatever part I played in this situation escalating the way that it did', because I know I invariably did play some part in escalating it, if not starting it outright, and if it has reached such a state that apologies are in order I do genuinely regret it. But I'm usually not interested in giving the other side of the confrontation any sort of idea that my apology is some sort of affirmation of their side of whatever the dispute was about...and if they apologize to me I don't expect that from them either.

 

[Bootstoots]

If someone's posting style grates you and you wish to frankly discuss it, this is the place for that as well.

Moderator Action: Since there seems to be some confusion: any criticism anyone makes of someone else's posting style must be polite and constructive. The same rules on flaming and trolling apply here as elsewhere.

 

[useless]

I think my posting style is pretty decent

 

[Mouthwash]

Traitorfish, I forgive you for responding to every statement I make about the Middle East with (often unrelated) accusations of racism.

 

[Antilogic]

I can sense this thread going south in a jiffy.

 

[Traitorfish]

Mouthwash, I forgive you for entirely misapprehending the purpose of this thread.

 

[Mouthwash]

I can sense this thread going south in a jiffy.

The Force is strong in this one.

 

[choxorn]

 

[JollyRoger]

I apologize for knocking down walls of text with only one line.

 

[Borachio]

Unless you mean to change, I think your apology is meaningless. Let's hope your apology is meaningless.

 

[gay_Aleks]

It seems to be facetious, instead.

 

[Traitorfish]

It's at least structured as an apology, so it beats everything else on this page.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I apologize to everyone for the terribad grammar I've been unloading today and will unload over the next few days. Apparently the Vicodin has affected my cognitive skills more than I realized.

Yeah bone infections!