If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong

[tim]

The problem with pointing out that there's something a little bit off about somebody telling you to be more respectful, and telling you to (verbatim) "shut the fuck up" in the same paragraph, is that there's just no way to point that out without looking like a jerk.

(Yes, I know that it's probably just as obvious to everybody else as it is to me, and hence there's no need to point it out -- but I'm a programmer; my job is to restate the obvious.)

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[luinied]

Does it seem like they believe in the sort of politeness where there a lot of very specific rules which you assume everyone knows, and as soon as someone else breaks one of them - for any reason - you're allowed to break all of them back in retaliation? Because, man, I hate that.

[tim]

I don't think this person believes in any sort of politeness, because they somehow found this post and left an incoherent and ungrammatical string of obscenities (which I deleted). But yeah, I have seen that phenomenon too, I think (IRL example: when I called Gavin Newsom a motherfucker when he passed by during a parade, and the guy next to me yelled at me and called me such things as a "fucking bitch" because I dared to say such things in front of his child. He didn't cover the child's ears while calling me a "fucking bitch", needless to say.)