Comments | fpb: I feel tired and upset

fpb

I feel tired and upset

Mar 17, 2010 20:37

What do you do when the Livejournal of one of your best friends on the net - in this case, dustthouart - hosts a person whose every feature you loathe, but who happens to be a childhood friend of your friend? I like and admire user, but I had to defriend her rather than having to do with this person again. This is something I have been forced to do only once ( Read more... )

ireland, early ireland, st.patrick, personal drama

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dustthouart March 17 2010, 20:54:35 UTC

I was afraid you might be writing something like this.

Would you very much mind making this post private for 24 hours, during which time you read my message and consider if you really wish to do that?

If at the end you decide that it's what you want to do, that is your decision, but I hate to see you doing such a thing when I know you are really upset and angry.

fpb March 18 2010, 03:46:30 UTC

Sorry, it's not that I decided not to take your suggestion and screen this post; it's just that it was evening in Britain when I posted it, and I just did it and went to bed, and only found this response when I woke up in the middle of the night.

I would do a lot to avoid defriending you, but that debate has been one of the most unpleasant things I have suffered in years. It was a mix of "when did you stop hitting your wife"-type loaded questions and being used as a lay figure to feed someone's vanity, with no real interest whatever in who I might be and what I might think. I'll have to think about it.

dustthouart March 18 2010, 04:48:54 UTC

Just checking: you got my private message, right?

fpb March 18 2010, 06:28:52 UTC

I have.

8bitbard March 18 2010, 02:09:12 UTC

I can relate - I just saw someone call Saint Patrick (my namesake) a "huge douchebac" - on Saint Patrick's Day. This is someone who I've been a friend of of (not particulary close, but a friend nonetheless) for several years, but ideologically he's a pure enemy.

8bitbard March 18 2010, 02:09:34 UTC

Er, "douchebag".

fpb March 18 2010, 03:36:14 UTC

Link the jerk to this: http://www.facesofarthur.org.uk/fabio/book4.htm - and tell him to get an education. You might like a look yourself, actually.

cheyinka March 18 2010, 06:28:54 UTC

I'm glad I stayed up a little later than I meant to and read that (except for chapter 2, which wouldn't display for me) - it was very interesting reading! You keep teaching me things I hadn't known and it's delightful :D

(Seriously, as a Catholic in Montana, even though the co-cathedral was St. Patrick's all I ever heard about him was that he was the first bishop in Ireland, having returned there after escaping as a slave. That and because he taught about the Trinity using shamrocks, people wore green on March 17th. :p
Actually, I think the CCD textbook I use might call him the first bishop there, too; I'll have to check tomorrow.)

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