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Originally Posted by }{arlequin
again, i think you're taking the 'cause' issue a little too deep here while missing that the beginning of this was a joke aimed at you. i *have* no opinion of you or your cause whatsoever. nor did i begin to make fun of it. the target was (is?) you and you alone. or rather, your touchy side which has been documented here in the past. (thanks for playing your part perfectly btw)
the (red) part was just an opening that was utilized to poke you. it just as well could've been anything else. this isn't a commentary on anything. just a joke at your expense. where anyone else would've recognized that and maybe responded w/ something in kind, you took it upon yourself to start exhorting what your sticker stood for and chastising all around you. yeah, we know. the cause and the disease. but.it.wasn't.about.that.
as dr. k said, lighten up francis.
would it make you feel any better if i said that i own a pair of these? well, i do. can we be fwends again?
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It warms me deeply that you bought the shoes but I gotta disagree with you assessment that this was originally directed at me at the outset. It certainly went that way. And why is (RED) an opening to make fun of someone?
DrK posted BUGGER(RED), which should have actually red BUGGE(RED) btw, which was the only word in his post which clearly implied that the (RED) campaign and the HIV affliction was somehow a gay thing regardless of his bs backpedalling. Tasteless and rude. Not to mention that the constant gay jokes from DrK are just old. Then Kurt and Lupin chimed in without any direct knowledge and blasted the (RED) campaign as a marketing ploy and basically a fraud. Those posts were not directed at me but at the cause. If I'd put a huge pink ribbon for breast cancer on the car would I have heard so much shit from you people? I doubt it.
As much as you would like to deride my "predictable" reaction you may all deride yourselves as having a very predictable and opposite reaction. Not everything is a goddam joke. So if you wish to hurl insults at me and my reaction hurl them back as your reaction was just as predictable in the other direction. Who would have thought that a snarky comment and a smug holier than thou attitude would come from the dorkiratti? You are just too full of yourselves.
Ask yourself this: is it deserved? Do I deserve to get jokes and insults because I put a sticker on my car regardless of what it is for? Would you have ridiculed me or the cause I support if it had been a different cause? What cause is off limits to you as far as jokes are concerned. Do you poke fun at everyone with a breast cancer license plate on your drive to work for gloating? Want the number of the make-a-wish or autism speaks car owners so you can give them some shit? Care for me to enumerate any hardship or suffering I've experienced in my life as fodder for your amusement? Is the collective age of the board over or under 12?
Nice photoshop, kind sums you up. I can think of no more predictable reaction from }{ than a juvenile picture. But since it's }{ its ok right?
And finally, why on earth can't a guy have an opinion, believe in a cause that helps people and try to promote it (kind of a liberal cause that all you asshats should be trumpeting btw) without running the risk of being labeled and ridiculed?
Awaiting smug response . . . .