You don't know what the best way was. Your comment is a begrudging retreat to half-believing me. I didn't succeed; I must've recovered. Because if I had to recover, you were still right somehow. Do you call a 10% raise and a 12% bonus a "recovery" reward? My interpretation of gossip is that it is both vital to human life, valuable, and indispensible; while also retaining the very real potential to create a cesspool of negative emotions in a group of people when certain conditions occur. Which basically agrees with what you said. Except plus nuance. Gorsh, that nuance must've just been so offensive. ----------------------- "I agree on major aspects of what klein has to say" "For the most part, I agree we're social creatures and talking about each other is a major component of interacting, of caring, and of life. I agree gossip is not inherently bad; we should embrace that we do it, and maybe not sweat over it so much (on the day-to-day)."
I'm retreating from nothing. You don't know what the best way was either, but what you did is not what I would do. Go ahead and quote yourself; the fact that you edit every post multiple times throughout the course of the day renders your quotes meaningless. You started from a position of disagreeing with my basic point, went to the mattresses over the idea that somehow gossip is feedback and now you're throwing paystubs in my face to demonstrate that you're a good person or something. Congratulations on your raise.