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Is it just me, or does it make anyone else uncomfortable when you're talking to someone on IM, or exchanging emails, and said person starts C&Ping you snippets of conversations they've had with someone else? I'm not talking funny-haha quotable stuff that was said. I've noticed it with a lot of people in the past 3 or 4 months that I've dallied back into spending time on IM services. So many of my friends seem to do this, without compunction, that I wonder if I'm off base in feeling that there's something wrong with such a practice. If I'm having a conversation with you, I kind of expect it to stay between me and you, at least insofar as exactly what I said. It doesn't bother me if a friend is having trouble with a mutual friend and she explains to me, in her words, a conversation they recently had or something. But when she just wants to C&P huge chunks of a conversation I was not privy to as it was happening...it kinda squicks me. And of course, then it makes me paranoid, because I start to wonder how many things I've said in IM conversations have gone out in emails or been C&P'd to someone else, completely sans the context in which I said those things. I guess it's silly to think there's anything like an expectation of privacy, but at the same time, I don't really feel like I should have to start every IM conversation with a disclaimer, all "alright, before I start talking to you, I'd just like to know that whatever comes up in this conversation isn't gonna get pasted into an email and forwarded to 3 or 4 people."
I dunno. Is this a gender thing? I was thinking the other day that I have more female friends now than I have ever had in my life, and I just don't remember talking so much about people/drama such that the issue would even come up when I was friends with more guys.
Oh, well. Moving on:
Gallery of some pics from yesterday's game here. Decided against the game tonight, gas money instead to be put towards some tickets in DC ^_~
And I was wrong, btw - EB (hahahaha!) didn't set a career high in strike-outs last night. He set a season-high, and matched his career high. Also, I heard this fairly interesting stat on ESPN Radio this morning: Bedard is the first pitcher since 1918 to, in consecutive starts, end an opposing team's winning streak of 8 games or more. He stopped the Marlins at 9 games, and the start before that, he ended the 8 game winning streak of the New York Mets.
Speaking of the Mets, how about that Jose Reyes? XD
I dunno. Is this a gender thing? I was thinking the other day that I have more female friends now than I have ever had in my life, and I just don't remember talking so much about people/drama such that the issue would even come up when I was friends with more guys.
Oh, well. Moving on:
Gallery of some pics from yesterday's game here. Decided against the game tonight, gas money instead to be put towards some tickets in DC ^_~
And I was wrong, btw - EB (hahahaha!) didn't set a career high in strike-outs last night. He set a season-high, and matched his career high. Also, I heard this fairly interesting stat on ESPN Radio this morning: Bedard is the first pitcher since 1918 to, in consecutive starts, end an opposing team's winning streak of 8 games or more. He stopped the Marlins at 9 games, and the start before that, he ended the 8 game winning streak of the New York Mets.
Speaking of the Mets, how about that Jose Reyes? XD
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I guess I do that a lot because it's easier than explaining someone's quote to someone else and I'm lazy. I can just say, "Hee hee, so and so said something funny. *quotes long block of text at you*" *laughs* or "What do you think about this? *quotes long block of text at you* *flails*"
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The 'funny' stuff doesn't bug me, really; it's the second kind of quoting that bothers me. When you're recounting something someone else told you, you're gonna put your own spin on it, to some extent. I'm not saying you're gonna out and out misquote someone, but when you're the one explaining to me how a conversation went down, I'm clearly conscious of the fact that I'm getting your side of it, in the context that you've given me. When people start C&Ping conversations at me, I get uncomfortable because I know that when I'm talking to someone, I may tailor what I talk about and the way I talk about it to that particular person. I dislike the pretext that because you're showing someone the exact words that were said, that's plainly some kind of objective measure of something. I mean, take the most obvious example just from recent history - I can say something to you, and you'd understand it to be a joke. I'd say the exact same thing to Jen, and I'm a bitch who thinks her writing is stupid. You know? Context matters, and the relationship between the two people having the conversation matters, and it just makes me supremely uncomfortable to be put in the position of seeing what someone didn't know I'd see when they were thinking of how to express themselves to a particular person in a given situation. I dunno. I realize I overthink things, sometimes, but that's just how I feel about it.
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ah yeah, I get that. I won't do it anymore.
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XD
I've never done that. I've never thought of doing that. I normally close out a chat window when one of signs out, so I don't even have the ability to do it.
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lol, WHORE.
I've never done that. I've never thought of doing that.
Aww. Gold star for you!
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I'm not too keen on it, as it leaves you as a third wheel more often than not.
Bedard is the first pitcher since 1918 to, in consecutive starts, end an opposing team's winning streak of 8 games or more.
Oo. I love random fact like that. XD
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EB (hahahaha!)
*scratches head* Color me dense, but what's the joke here? *blush*
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(Deadwood related; that was for [Bad username or site: johnnybvo / @ livejournal.com] :P)
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In the thumbnail version of Randy Messenger, it looks like he's trying to push a small child over the top of the dugout, which I thought was very funny. Then I went to look at the actual picture, and it's some old guy in the background instead, which wouldn't be funny except that I thought it was a small child.
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LOL, they were! I started to feel a little bad actually, but it's not like I followed them home and shit. DEAL, GUYS :P
In the thumbnail version of Randy Messenger, it looks like he's trying to push a small child over the top of the dugout, which I thought was very funny.
At first I was like, wtf is he talking about, but then I looked at the thumbnail for a minute, and I could totally see it. That's hilarious :P
Btw, you asked a couple days ago if you could use the pics for iconage or whatever - feel free!
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I'll be doing my own stalkering this weekend, I've decided. Or mostly decided. I've never seen the Nats take BP because they disappear into their hidey-hole clubhouse, but since they're the visiting team in Baltimore, well, I may have to go. I'm really just looking for excuses here.
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