[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by CarneVaca

So says you. But you're wrong. I know. I could make the case for it again, but it will bore me to tears to have to rehash that crap. So I shan't.

I'm wrong, and you're right... because you "know."
I like that.

I could ask how you "know" better than anyone else, but I won't bother. I could also ask how you're so sure that someone else doesn't "know" better than you, but I won't bother with that either.

I'll just let the comment stand for what it is.

Originally Posted by CarneVaca

Johnny, let's take a deep breath before we start throwing around terms like "hypocrisy." I suspect if I start hurling that around, next thing you know, I get strike three.

If you haven't seen by now that the two of us can disagree without you getting a strike for it, then I can't help you.

And as I've told you in the past... I'm not the person who gives out strikes. They're voted on. And only in extreme cases.

Originally Posted by CarneVaca

Aside from that, I was harping on assumptions strictly as a reaction to GretaRhiannon's accusing me of making an assumption when I was making a joke that she missed. You are completely ignoring the context and instead choose to bring up something from long ago that has no bearing on the discussion at hand. I think you should know better. We've gotten into trouble before for harping on subjects that should have been buried.

I'm not sitting here and telling you that you're wrong for defending your joke. But I am honestly surprised that you don't see anything iffy with just flat-out accusing someone of certain behaviour that everyone is guilty of.
You told the woman that you know better than she, that she's wrong in her opinion of Shania Twain.
Perhaps if you had told her that neither of you can really know for sure what kind of person Shania Twain is, but that you have your suspicions, then it would have come across differently than it did.