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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Here is the problem with this board:
Whenever anyone gets criticized, everyone checks to see who is doing the criticizing and who is getting criticized. If I'm doing the criticizing (for example), someone points out when they think I've acted in a way similar to the action I'm criticizing. Or they reach (and you never have to reach far) for something else I do that's annoying and try to hold that up. Okay.
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Strangely, that's also the problem with my family at Thanksgiving. And my group here at work. And the United Nations. And . . .
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And if you're still doing it 3 years later, paigow's right. You are trying to signal to everyone else that you know stuff that is particular to the board. But who cares about the reason? The point is, it is stupid, overdone and objectively not funny.
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All groups learn to speak in shorthand and codes. It makes communication more efficient. Also, it's human nature to want to be part of a group. Using that group's codes and shorthands is one way to both enter, and feel secure in, a group. Big deal. Why do you try to tell people that, because they're not using the codes you would choose to use, they're not part of the group? Isn't that a sort of exclusivity-based cliqueism all by itself?
