Yes, I think I was…
Left a horrid taste in my mouth, rather like one would imagine a peanut butter smoothie.
In fact, that’s what started it. A peanut butter smoothie.
The ‘slapper’ definitely has NFSH (No Freakin’ Sense of Humour, military acronym, used to describe warrant officers – master sergeants to you Americans).
It all started when I saw a tweet. about a peanut butter smoothie. Now being a chef, peanut butter does not belong in the kitchen; it belongs in school lunch tins and maybe on toast in the morning. I cannot see that anything that sticks to the roof of ones mouth has a place in cuisine.
I commented, in what I thought to be a tongue-in-cheek manner, that the idea seemed horrid.
I was expecting a reply along the lines of, “Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!”
But, I got something quite different. I then checked the blog and saw an imagine akin to what I had imagined and reaffirmed my thought.
That was when I got bitch slapped. “no one asked you to drink it….. and do you always make a habit of sending mildly rude tweets?” I never make ‘mildly’ rude comments, it had all been taken out of context. In a later comment, I was accused of saying that ‘the post’ was horrid; I never said any such thing, my comment was reserved to my perceived taste of the smoothie. Maybe the misunderstanding was that we were speaking two different languages, one in English and the other in American.
I have a sense of humour, it has stood me in good stead for 60 years and never been so sadly misinterpreted before.
Anyway, I apologised and suggested we take it no further; and guess what? The ‘slapper’ unfollowed me, how freakin’ petty minded can you get? <—– rhetorical question.
I still have a bad taste in my mouth about the affair, and I never even got to try the smoothie.
Bitch slapping bruises the ego.
I have, in my eight years blogging, had only one person stop following one of my blogs, but that was because of a difference in ideologies. I believed that the USA was on track to becoming a Spanish speaking third world country, he being an American was still immersed in the American Dream.
Apart from that my relations on the net have been amiable, so I am wounded.
Hence, there was no Travel Tales yesterday, because that all happened right at the moment I was going to organise the post and it all put me out of sorts.
BTW, I have changed my idea about the future of America, George Orwell was right after all.
Having got that off my chest, I will return to blogging normally and my coffee.
Peanut butter smoothie? I wonder how that would go with a Marmite sandwich, I will ask Mrs Sensible for her thoughts.
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>Pecora Nera, Probably better than Nutella, I saw that mentioned on one of your blogs; pet hate of mine.
AV
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Your line ‘I still have a bad taste in my mouth about the affair, and I never even got to try the smoothie’ is a winner – personally i can’t think of anything more disgusting than a smoothie with peanut butter in it and I absolutely love the stuff.
I’ve had a couple, no, I lie, I’ve had 3 bitch slaps over the past year on my blog and they really weren’t warranted. People can get very arsey and protective about stuff and it’s always the folks with zilch sense of humour. I had one person demand a public apology from the Irishman – it all started getting way out of hand but I like to think that I handled it ok. Having said that it does leave you feeling a bit crap especially if you haven’t intentionally set out to pee peeps off. You are right, it does bruise the ego 😦
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>Lottie, I still think peanut butter smoothies would taste like crap. I love peanut butter too and I add a sprinkle of salt on it in a sandwich; it enhances the flavour (think salted peanuts).
I hate people with no sense of humour, they don’t belong on my planet, there’s no room for them.
You are digging deep into my archives; I hope you have the necessary mining permits, and remember, No Frackin’!
AV
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Ditto ditto and ditto
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Do you have ANY idea how much I love a rhetorical question!?! Your tongue-in-cheek humor was SPOT ON; left me giggling, and clapping like a dysfunctional seal. LOVED IT!
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>beachmom, I have a soft spot for dysfunctional seals 🙂
Thanks for dropping by and the comment, appreciated.
AV
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Life in print can be interesting, and having a strange sense of humour (read as Australian) I have been expecting a few problems in my brief time in blogland, but so far so good. I did have to pull the plug on someone just recently. They are a VERY popular blogger and they enjoy ‘stirring the pot’, which is ok, the pot needs stirring from time to time. I thought I would not do the usual Australian thing (wander off after receiving poor service and never return again instead of saying something [politely] at the time) so I said a fairwell and explained why, politely. They did not take it well despite the fact that I would not be missed amongst all those followers. Their response was a little shocked followed by annoyed and aggressive……….. which is ok I guess. As it turned out I was not the only one who said goodbye but most of the followers were happy to stroke this person, but just like Jesus, he was more concerned about the ones who got away. I’ve never seen myself as a lost lamb before but there you go. I’m amazed that my US readers can understand half of what I’m on about.
I’m enjoying your stuff.
Terry
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>araneus, I never contemplated problems, and luckily they have been few and far between. I find that there are a very few who have a short wick, and quite frankly that is their problem and I don’t need them.
AV
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People can get so very cranky! Silly, completely!!
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>rose, and usually over the banal too…
AV
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Life is hard 😉
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>mirror, I got over it, don’t dwell on shit, move forward. Apologies, but I didn’t go running off to a psychologist either… 🙂 I blogged about it! Great therapy.
AV
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Ah, its really lovely to talk to a psychologist. You can basically complain about everything. But blogging isn`t bad, either 🙂
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I don’t do ‘mildly rude’. Waste of time. Downright offensive is more my style if provoked. Feels so much better.
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>Andrew, mildly rude has a place in rhetoric. If provoked downright offensive has a place.
AV
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