another hijacked thread!

[RitaE]

Another words, people get your head out of your electronics love affair, and get a life.... please...

Maybe an electronic grammar checker could help but

Seriously? You are posting on the INTERNET that everybody else should cease their electronic love affair and go get a life?

 

[Magic Mom]

Manors went with the decline of the feudal system.

I wish I had manors. One manor in the country and one manor by the ocean. But sadly I've never had manors and likey won't ever.

 

[Magic Mom]

Maybe an electronic grammar checker could help but

Seriously? You are posting on the INTERNET that everybody else should cease their electronic love affair and go get a life?

 

[phorsenuf]

I prefer another words actually. But thank you all the same for believing that you need to correct my spelling and or grammar. I don't feel the need to correct yours. I don't appreciate people either being unnecessarily rude.

I guess it's all in perception. For me, if I was using a word or a saying wrong, I'd want to know so I don't continue to make the same mistake over and over and make myself look foolish. Same with spelling. I also refuse to use any of the stupid cutesy terms people make up like ressie, souvie, embies. I mean really, do you really talk that way in real life?
I know people say it's just a message board, or it's just a text, so so what. Well to me it matters. If we get lax in communicating with others how will that translate into professional life? I just think in addition to the entitlement society we are becoming, I think looking illiterate is not far behind. Is this how we want our future to be?


*Disclaimer- grammar has always been a thorn in my side, but I try.*

 

[mdsoccermom]

My DD 7 and I were shopping at Disney Store tonight for DD5 upcoming b-day and it was very busy there. A discount cpn weekend and many people crowded into small store. As we were waiting in line to pay (line was long and slow), a woman behind me was talking to her daughter about the purchases they were making. Then a second woman comes in behind me to form another line. I didn't realize this at the time, or I would have told her the line was in another direction. My DD was talking to me at the time.

All of a sudden I hear "I am next after her...not you!" I looked and the woman behind me (who also had a young daughter with her) was telling original woman to the side of me. The original says "No, I was here first". Anyway argument starts to ensue, original gives up and says "nevermind I am not going to argue".

I turned around and told original woman, "Please go in front of us" The woman politely declined but thanked me. My DD looked at me and said quite loudly "mommy why was that other woman so mean and rude?"

It is funny, sometimes you just don't know how to answer them. I don't know why people have little to no patience anymore. I work in retail too and see it everyday...people want service and they want it now, no matter what. I mean OMG we were in the DISNEY store. Calm down. Not to mention what an example the woman was setting for her own daughter. Just found it sad.

I am not sure why you think people need to be all sunshine and roses just because they are in the Disney Store. However, I will be honest. As disappointed as I'd be in the woman who tried cutting in line, I would be just as disappointed in my daughter for being so rude as well.

 

[Poohforyou]

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I do agree, technology seems to give us instant gratification -- instant contact, instant info -- and for some people, that seems to mean that if they don't get instant satisfaction in all other areas, they get rude and snippy. And I think it will only get worse unless people become more thoughtful about how they deal with real people as human contact seems to be needed less and less.

Nope, at least it doesn't in other countries I visit like Japan and Hong Kong...they're just as polite and patient as ever, although they have all of the same, or more of those devices.

This is purely about being raised in the new "me first" society we have here

Really, I've been to Hong Kong and mainland China a few times and had a different experience. While people were polite they were also physically pushy and had no regard for personal space. In other words, I typically don't find people in foreign countries better or worse than people here, just different.

 

[nuke]

I prefer another words actually.

Classic!

 

[okeydokey]

I prefer another words actually. But thank you all the same for believing that you need to correct my spelling and or grammar. I don't feel the need to correct yours. I don't appreciate people either being unnecessarily rude.

Hilarious from someone that just rudely told someone to Get a Life!

 

[Andtototoo]

It's not just the younger generation that is into electronics that have lost the art, it is just as rampant in the older generation.

In my current line of work, I run events for people between the ages of 12 and death. By FAR, the most rude and entitled age bracket are those over the age of 60. I would much rather run an event for 1000 teenagers than an event for 50 adults over the age of 60.

Last summer, I had an event for retirees with a lot of teenage volunteers doing the staffing of various booths and activities. There was not a single hour without some kid ending up in tears over the way they were treated by retirees. And the venue told us that they would never allow us to book that event there ever again due to the horrible ways the retirees treated their own staff. And who were these retirees, you might ask? Retired prison guards? Retired bounty hunters? Retired truck drivers? Retired construction workers? No, oh no. These cretins treating teen volunteers and paid staff like crap were.... retired PASTORS.

 

[declansdad]

I prefer another words actually. But thank you all the same for believing that you need to correct my spelling and or grammar. I don't feel the need to correct yours. I don't appreciate people either being unnecessarily rude.

They didn't correct your grammar or spelling, they commented on your word usage and they were correct. What does the expression "another words" mean?

 

[Magic Mom]

I prefer another words actually. But thank you all the same for believing that you need to correct my spelling and or grammar. I don't feel the need to correct yours. I don't appreciate people either being unnecessarily rude.

Hilarious from someone that just rudely told someone to Get a Life!

But she meant her comment with love, so it was OK.

 

[duffy]

I prefer to green colors instead of verbs. I don't purple if you don't pink, it's what I yellow and you can't magenta me.

 

[erincon23]

sorry, thought better of my response... trying to reduce the drama in my life!

 

[topolino]

I prefer another words actually. But thank you all the same for believing that you need to correct my spelling and or grammar. I don't feel the need to correct yours. I don't appreciate people either being unnecessarily rude.

You'd rather lie and say that you prefer to use a phrase that is incorrect and makes absolutely no sense than to admit that you were wrong?

I just don't get some people sometimes.

 

[Gisele]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2880448

~~ I love you Phil, and you will forever be with me! Forever my very best and most special friend! I love you to no end. ~~​

 

[leebee]

OK, now I am really confused. I noticed "another words" immediately because things like that annoy me, but we all do it, to some extent, even if it's just thinking we know the words to a song until we learn what they actually are! I'm guessing that someone commented on "another words" and Giselle took offense and responded, but also reported the post as troll-like, and the post was subsequently pulled by the moderators. I can only guess that that's what the link to the thread about dealing with trolls refers to... but unfortunately G is also in violation of that as the post asks you NOT to reply to trolls as that makes the moderators job harder, because now they have to deal with your quoting and replies, too.

Anyhow.. am I now guilty of responding to trolls because of trying to explain what I think is going on in a very confusing thread? Do I even remember the original thread topic, now?? It will be interesting to see where "another words" goes.

 

[WowLookAtThat]

OK, now I am really confused. I noticed "another words" immediately because things like that annoy me, but we all do it, to some extent, even if it's just thinking we know the words to a song until we learn what they actually are! I'm guessing that someone commented on "another words" and Giselle took offense and responded, but also reported the post as troll-like, and the post was subsequently pulled by the moderators. I can only guess that that's what the link to the thread about dealing with trolls refers to... but unfortunately G is also in violation of that as the post asks you NOT to reply to trolls as that makes the moderators job harder, because now they have to deal with your quoting and replies, too.

Anyhow.. am I now guilty of responding to trolls because of trying to explain what I think is going on in a very confusing thread? Do I even remember the original thread topic, now?? It will be interesting to see what "another words" goes.

You moustache a question like that?! Please lettuce know what ewe were thinking!
G, don't let others get jalapeno business.

 

[declansdad]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2880448

~~ I love you Phil, and you will forever be with me! Forever my very best and most special friend! I love you to no end. ~~​

This link is not relevant to the discussion. You simply misused an expression and were called out for it. Is it that difficult for you to either admit that you were wrong or explain how your use fits?

 

[PeterPan09]

Those of us who have worked with the public over a number of years can tell you that rude behavior is clearly on the rise. Those of us who work in tourist areas like Orlando and NYC can tell you that Americans do not own the patent on rude behavior. I have learned that in some cultures, the idea of standing in line and waiting your turn is completely alien. They don't think they're being rude, it's just the way things are done at home.

Honestly, I think the bottom line is that we have lost the view of fellow human beings as our neighbors, as fellow children of God or whatever term you want to use to describe thinking of others as we do of ourselves. We look at other people as objects that are simply in the way of us getting what we want, when we want it.

I did have a great experience at Publix one day. I get to the checkout and there is a woman standing just adjacent to the line. Just as I get to the line, her friend comes up with her cart and the women holds up her hand to me and guides her friend in! I have no idea how long she had been standing there holding a place for her shopping friend, but it really seemed like that's what she was doing. I was kind of in shock and didn't even see the Publix employee watching the entire process. That sweet lady called me over, opened a lane and checked me out. As she was finishing she said, " Give them a big smile as you walk out...you're still done before they are!"

 

[happygirl]

I am not sure why you think people need to be all sunshine and roses just because they are in the Disney Store. However, I will be honest. As disappointed as I'd be in the woman who tried cutting in line, I would be just as disappointed in my daughter for being so rude as well.

Thank you for rembering the rule