Sorry my shuttered inbox made you be so public. You're very kind, and I'm very embarrassed.oldjones, I just gotta say this here since your inbox is inaccessible: how do you remain so consistently rational, calm, convincing and reasonable? How do you resist the pull of head-assploding rage at all the dumbfuckery that dumb motherfuckers shout from the fucking rooftops? So calm. Sane. Always with a coherent, salient argument to make that is near irrefutable. I don't know whether I love you or hate you, but damned if I don't always breath a sigh of relief whenever I see one of your posts in a thread.
(sorry if my admiration tears your edifice down a notch merely by association. It shouldn't. You sir, are the anti-nobody. ...motherfucker!)
But the box is still closed; I've chosen forums, which are public spaces.
On the topic: I'm really stunned at the number of people who imagine it serves any purpose—personal or public—simply to name an occupation they despise. First of all it's bigotted, as proven by some of the more thoughtful who do go on to say they don't really mean all cops, pols, lawyers, teachers, (or whoever). The teacher's one is even sadder when posters show that although they acquired the minimal literacy required to post, that very evidence shows what they owe their teachers, and the defects of what they've done on their own since.
But none of these despicable posters has offered even the faintest suggestion of how they'd improve the professions they hate, nor even how they'd propose we could operate without such jobs being done for us. Whether it's a mother teaching a baby how to take the nipple, someone intervening to calm a dispute, protect a victim or peaceably settle a quarrel, we invented teachers, cops, lawyers and politicians as soon as we stopped eating the kids next door and started trying to live together. Despising and disrespecting jobs we always need done is the lowest sort of self-important and ignorant stupidity.
Here's the real question that every poster with a nomination should be asking themself: When did telling someone you despise them improve their attitude, performance and behaviour? How will your attitude help recruit better candidates? When did you last encourage the good you saw in a politician, a lawyer, a police officer or a teacher? Or ask them how they see us? When you're helpless and needy in the nursing home, don't call out, "Hey, Asswipe! Over here!" if you want them to see you as anything but an incompetent shit.
Anyway, answering for the disrespect I've tactlessly shown for some posters here, I'll try to leave this topic to others.
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