Oh my, such a disagreeable bunch!

Thanks for the laughs!

It's OK to disagree! And proudly proclaim the fact. LOL. You done good, FOAS.

I read here, but rarely post. This one is important enough to bring me out of hiding. I disagree with your disagreement! Ha!!!

We should hold a rally. Wouldn't that be absolutely disagreeable?

I once told my friend's teenage son that he was such a contrarian. Without missing a beat: "No, I'm not!"

Then you would be wrong and I am right.

If I was allowed to disagree, I'd agree to disagree with you! LOL

"'I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."

-- Alan Greenspan

Ya wanna make something outta it?

I agree with your disagreement

🤪

‘It is Rooshan; ain’t it, Wegg?’

No, sir. Roman. Roman.’

‘What’s the difference, Wegg?’

‘The difference, sir?—There you place me in a difficulty, Mr, Boffin. Suffice it to observe, that the difference is best postponed to some other occasion when Mrs. Boffin does not honor us with her company.’

^^^^From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens? A book that I enjoyed.

Hey, stacy_mb! I thought after posting that I should have cited the quote. That is one of my favorites and I too greatly enjoyed the novel.

I sometimes think of that conniving couple, the Lammles. I swear I have encountered pairs like that — who each are quick to identify the scheming opportunism in the other and team up.

Maybe there are some who can’t seem to find the sandbox.

I think the problem is often a lack of self awareness - some people don't even realize when they're being impolite.

Youse talkin' to me?

True, or maybe they don't care. Or they think they know more about the sandbox than anyone else.

Good thing I wasn't holding anything liquid when reading the preceding comment.

"...O wad some Power the giftie gie us

To see oursels as ithers see us!

It wad frae mony a blunder free us..."

😄

I think she's shown consistently that she has a self-righteous attitude and doesn't care.

Anybody who consistently has the same effect on one or more people either understands why and doesn't care, or won't gain self-awareness from this thread. Perhaps we could all save the insults for actual arguments.

Perhaps we could all save the insults for actual arguments.

Perhaps we could try not to use insults at all and simply say, as the OP did, "I disagree". If the subject is one where we feel deeply, presenting our differing view is perfectly acceptable. It is perfectly fine to have differing opinions, we are not all the same, as long as we present our views courteously.

I do think for some people, insults are part and parcel of disagreeing with someone.

The premise of this thread is that only those expressing agreement are welcome to comment. That's nonsense. I get attacked, often personally, and insulted when I offer a different opinion or point of view. Many of you have expressed disagreements yourself. If you live your lives in settings where evenone has the same view about everything, no one ever has a different view,, and conversations are controlled to prevent comments that others may not agree with, I feel sorry for you. That isn't the case for most people and certainly isn't the case in public conversations whether in person or public forums like this one.

"The premise of this thread is that only those expressing agreement are welcome to comment."

No, the premise of this thread was nothing more than a lighthearted response to another thread that suggested we start new threads rather than disagree on someone else's thread. If I interpreted THAT thread correctly, it was probably intended more along the lines of yucking someone's yum. Literally, in the case of food, or figuratively, if someone's sharing something else they enjoy.

"I get attacked, often personally, and insulted when I offer a different opinion or point of view."

Elmer, in case you really don't know it, I'd estimate that 95% of the altercations you get into here have nothing to do with what you're saying, but rather with how you're saying it. As someone who appreciates your knowledge and opinions, I'll admit that I often find it a challenge to separate these from the tone you take.

" No, the premise of this thread was nothing more than a lighthearted response to another thread "

Not everyone took it that way.

Give it a rest, you're repeating yourself. Name calling is name calling. You don't know me, remind yourself of that when you feel the urge to cr*p on me or others so that you feel better or to defend yourself when you find others don't agree with you. That's your pattern. I won't include an insult because I'm quite secure and feel fine about myself. I have many good reasons to.

lack

I've never thought of autism as a lack, autistic people are different, not somehow lesser human beings. But wherever people are coming from, there is no need to insult them, although certainly people can disagree.

Thinking about it...

Foas - uh oh, I agree- on the I disagree thread! It was fun while it lasted

If you do, I'm sure someone will disagree 😄

You say yes, I say no
You say stop and I say go, go, go
You say goodbye and I say hello
…

I say high, you say low
You say why and I say I don't know
You say goodbye and I say hello

lucille-lack=inability. Apologies for that one thing.

Lack is not a commonly used synonym for inability.

No one said lack was a synonym. I meant replace my ill used word. It's more appropriate to say it's an inability. Please stop picking. Please?

Rob I appreciate your post; and our posts together are an example of how a courteous post can bring change. Jumping on people never brings change, it just brings misery and sets up an adversarial atmosphere.

Right? That goes both ways. It ain't just one person. Many could stand a chill pill. My Mwwwaahhhaaaa thread proved that. It was so incredibly a joke and so many just couldn't get it was a joke?? The only thing I could think of, was people were being literal, didn't understand sarcasm. Even prefacing that it was sarcasm didn't get it there. It was weird. I guess people don't like sarcasm? Or they lack the ability to get it? So why not just scroll by? One is not required to give every answer, or teach every lesson... And I really didn't need to learn a lesson on that because I was JOKING. Rather like this thread was, until it wasn't. It's tiring.

so many just couldn't get it was a joke

If many people see something a certain way, take them at their word. If we are talking about the values of communication, people should be accepted if they courteously voice their point of view. They need not scroll by if they are genuinely voicing what they feel. On the contrary, those posts may be a gift to an OP to re-examine what they wrote and to clarify, not in an adversarial way, but in a way that accepts different viewpoints.

I do not mind a genuine other view. What I detest is the few that argue until H*** F***** O*** for their point of view. If you do not agree with them, you are stupid. It does not matter if it is food or politics. THOSE are the ones that I suggested to scroll on by. They will never change their view, no matter if it is Campbell's soup, cheese and seafood, or a different lifestyle. They are both far left and far right. I am VERY tired of the few messing up everything.

They argued so much that Glenda deleted her thread about peanut butter. THAT IS WHAT I OBJECT ABOUT. I detest peanut butter, but I liked her post, because my husband likes peanut butter.

There are only three and they know who they are!

If you will notice most have left KT because of those three.

What I appreciate most about these forums is that participating in discussions here and elsewhere over many years now has helped me develop some skills for expressing myself, and taught me to choose my words carefully - and also that even when I'm choosing my words extra carefully, someone will inevitably take them in a way I did not intend. And that's something else I've learned - not to take negative words personally. People who stoop to insult are saying a lot more about themselves than the person/people they're insulting, IMO.

I do agree that when something I've written is taken the wrong way , I need to examine how clearly I was communicating .

P.S. Glad this thread is still up - thanks for not jettisoning it, FOAS - yet 🙂

"There are only three and they know who they are!"

Who's the third?

So why shouldn't they have taken me at MY word? Maybe they too could learn something. Again, it goes both ways. Just because people pile on doesn't mean that they were right. I'm pretty sure someone besides me said it, but the title of the post gave it away that of was all in jest. I'm sure they thought what the saying was right, but that doesn't mean they were. When someone says they're joking, believe them!

I think sometimes, some people don't want to change opinions and ideas they've formed. They've staked a position and resist giving it up.

^^^ Clint Eastwood, or who was it??? ”…my cold dead hands.” hahahaha

Charleton Heston?

How many years does it take to help one understand that one can disagree without being disagreeable?

Does it help if one has built a measure of self respect, of being comfortable in one's own skin?

Living in a rural area 6 mi. from a village and about a dozen and more from a city and living with no vehicle for almost two years, I've done some hitchhiking and have been surprised that more than half of the kind folk who give me a ride are female.

It seems to me that a fairly major percentage of the female population feel more self-assurance than we may have assumed.

In an interesting discussion with folks of mixed gender during one such trip a few days ago, female driver, in speaking of such self-reliance, when I said that it seems to me that a female must feel rather comfortable in her own skin to be willing to stop to offer a ride to some old fart like me asking for a ride on the side of the road, my companions agreed.

Some interesting and friendly discussions have taken place, a number have wanted to shake hands on parting and some have offered phone numbers to keep in touch or maybe offer rides later.

Many have gone further, or out of their way, to bring me home, especially when I have bags of groceries. On a number of occasions when I've offered a modest sum, many have refused, and when I've said that it's just a small part of my savings in not owning a car, if they still refuse, when I suggest that they give it to charity, some agree.

Recently rather middle aged more or less neighbour offered to call me a cab to take me home later, and when I said that it wasn't necessary, offered to pay for it, and I thanked him but said I'd be fine. A couple of days later, a young man made the same offer, which surprised me, and I thanked him and said that it wasn't necessary. l think that both may have been just after I'd spent a week in hosp. recently.

It seems to me that it's important that we respect others, as well.

ole joyfuelled

Was it my more or less trying to be agreeable ...

.... that shut this thread down (it being found on the third page of the listing of threads)?

ole joyful

Yes, only being disagreeable is allowed! 😜

But really it probably just ran its course as some people moved on to being disagreeable on newer threads!

Probably the latter Oly!