I want to apologize for last night

[HughMoran]

If you didn't see my now deleted posts last night before Obama's 1/2 hour commercial, then you missed it :D

I rarely drink any more. Buuuut, I have been extremely stressed during this campaign and I really needed to let off some steam :argh:, so I had a couple shots of brandy with a beer chaser :toast:. It worked as expected :evilgrin:

I lost my inhibition and posted some simple minded "thoughts" on the one-celled organisms known as JT Plumber and S.Palin. I used language that is offensive and I apologize to those who were offended by it. The alcohol and the heat of the moment got the best of me. :silly: I promise to use appropriate language next time I attack those vicious scumbags. ;)

PS - I am NOT sorry about my angry sentiments toward JTPlumb & Sarah Putz! :puke:

PPS - I will selfishly kick this thread periodically so that it is seen by my fellow DUers who I may have offended.

:grouphug:




So let's carry on and win this campaign!

:yourock:

[Syrinx]

1. I don't know anything about your specific incident

But in regards to posting while inebriated, been there, done that. ;)

Good on you for apologizing! :thumbsup:

[Milspec]

22. I worked for a Japanese company once...

Now I you don't get completely shit-face almost passing out at the table drunk with the Japanese the really don't trust you. But no mater what is said it's ok the next Day. "You said my wife had the head of a goat" You funny guy , we were so drunk" and that the end of it.
No stress

[whitewomenforobama]

27. I worked for a Japanese company too

I love that about companies there. What happens in the izakaya, stays in the izakaya.
DU is our izakaya!!!

[Youphemism]

2. Could be worse... At least you only had to say those words to us, instead of a date.

[comtec]

3. You mean you lived up to your name? ;)

We all have our incidents, and this LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *gasps for air* OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG elecrtion cycle has all of us going nutz!
Stephanie miller the other day explained that we all have election anxiety (actual term) and that we all need a good spooning after this is all over :)

[HughMoran]

5. Yes, I lived up to my name :(

I have election anxiety to the max. Better than erection anxiety though :rofl:

[KSDiva]

53. That's what I was going to post...

Hugh Moranic activity usually goes with stress and alcohol.

[No Elephants]

4. I don't drink. bc I get a hangover before I ever get happy. Same thing with pot. So, I do not

abstain because of convictions, but because my body immediately punishes me for trying to get a hit of happy the quick way. So, I have spent a lot of time at parties among people who started sober, but started getting high on something or other fairly quickly. Most of all, they're just much more boring drunk than they are sober, but they think the opposite is so. Sigh.

Guys, if you want to impress anyone with your wit or humor or the power of your incisive thoughts, just say no. You'll soon see what I mean.

I second the good on you for apologizing. Takes a very big person to admit something and try to make amends. And, posting while drunk is certainly not the worst thing you can do. So much better than driving drunk.

So, while I did not see your posts, I forgive you. Now, forgive yourself too, k?

On the other hand, if you posted anything bad about me, up yours. (j/k)

[No Elephants]

6. Kicking for a big person.

[Mother Of Four]

7. No clue what you're talking about-

But :hug: just the same

:hi:

[Ferret Annica]

8. Go tell Alcoholics Anon, if you have that little control, get help.

You wanted attention when drunk, now you want the same thing while sober -- allegedly sober, excuse me.

[yourguide]

10. Try going to empathy anonymous...

it's pretty clear from this post you have zero.

[Ferret Annica]

20. That's nice, I don't care if you don't like the answer,

thanks for sharing.

[yourguide]

29. Thats funny

none of us care about your armchair psychiatry so perhaps you could refrain from sharing?

[Ferret Annica]

38. Nope. It is most certainly your prerogative not to like my comments,

but I profoundly do not care.

[yourguide]

50. That's pretty obvious.

You dont care how you made the OP feel, you just pronounced your own armchair diagnosis bases upon your own personal experiences that you cant seem to get past.

Perhaps instead of assuming that everyone who has a little too much too drink and makes a mistake is exactly like your father or mother, you should take a complete stranger's apology at face value instead of coming down on him an an effort to vent your own anger and bitterness at your own experiences.

Since we're doing armchair analysis I figured I could chime in.

[Ferret Annica]

61. Sounds great, thanks for sharing.

[WillyT]

12. Jawohl, Mein Herr !!!

:wtf:

[Ferret Annica]

23. Je suis desolé, mais je parle anglais et français solement.

Je ne tu comprends pas.

[Barrymores Ghost]

39. Babelfish is apparently your only friend here. (nt)

[Ferret Annica]

52. Perhaps you have not noticed, but I don't care.

I like talking politics and about current news and events, but I go for expressing my opinion, not making people happy.

You are all very welcome to not like what I am saying; so it goes. Whatever.

[burythehatchet]

56. le mot c'est "seulement", pas "solemont". Je t'en prie.

[Ferret Annica]

72. Oui, C'est vrai.

[HughMoran]

18. Are you implying that I'm an attention "whore"

...'cause it was language like that that got my thread deleted!

:rofl:

:P

[Ferret Annica]

19. Nope, I grew up as the oldest of six kids in a one parent household

where that one parent was a bad drunk. It's why I would never drink, and hate drunks and don't suffer their crap.

It's why I listen to your crap yesterday and today and have a good understanding of who, why and where your excuse is lame.

I have zero against you, and I am not slamming you any more then giving you blunt assessment of what I think based on experience.

Get help. We can't help you with answers to a, "Oh shit, I was drunk, poor me," thread from you. You have to help yourself here.

I find the behavior of drunks intolerable, and they always think they are being picked on, and always feel sorry for themselves.

[Viking12]

25. Lighten up Francis

Not everyone that makes an occasional bad decison while intoxicated is an alcoholic. If that were the case most of WI should be in rehab.

[Ferret Annica]

33. Thanks for your opinion, but I don't buy it.

Besides, this is an opinion concerning behavior that I am quite familiar with having posted on many forums since the mid 1990s. Drunk interlocutors are always repeat offenders, and should find people with whom they can resonate with in real time, not impose themselves on a forum in that state.

I am not attacking this person, I am attacking the behavior. Thanks for sharing, but I will continue to loathe the behavior.

[paparush]

34. "if any of you..homos..touch any of my stuff...I'll KILL YA!"

//Stripes..still a fave after all these years.

[Ferret Annica]

73. Interesting, though I don't quite understand what you are saying.

Are you referencing a community truism, or referring to a media or entertainment thing? It sounds like you are doing the latter, but with apologies, it is not familiar to me.

[paparush]

76. Sorry..my reply should have been at VikingMike, who I think was quoting the movie "Stripes"

with his line "lighten up Francis"

Sorry for the confusion.

[yourguide]

30. project much? N/T

[nini]

36. You sound like you're the one who needs a bit of help in dealing with this issue

It is possible to get drunk and NOT be an alcoholic. Your armchair diagnosis is a tad hasty.

Perhaps you need to get a bit of help since you grew up with an alcoholic parent?

[Ferret Annica]

46. Perhaps I am a member of such a 12 step group,

But if you are familiar with them, you know one is supposed to keep that particular bit of information to oneself.

In any event, yes, the groups that handle the problems of codependency are really good and very worthwhile. In an alcoholic family, everyone is sick, not just the alcoholic.

I fully acknowledge an affliction from my experience. You can't be from my background and not have this be the case.

As far as alcohol goes, I do not drink, and I get far far away from anyone doing so. It is better for them, and me both.

[Barrymores Ghost]

43. Then you might consider a little therapy of your own.

If you've been there already, consider a little more.

[ShortnFiery]

54. In Alcohol Abuse treatment terminology, You're ENABLING potential bad behavior.

Are there any CO-DEPENDENTS in the house? :shrug:

My Uncle was a horrid drunk, but NOBODY was allowed to even whisper it outside of "the family." :eyes:

[Ferret Annica]

55. You push the ad hominem attack a wee bit too far.

Thanks for the eye roller. Now you are deliberately being silly.

[ShortnFiery]

57. People who have had similar life experiences understand.

I understand your perspective but just think, "It's not worth the investment."

Hope that don't make me a bad person? ... I don't know (Alcohol Addiction?) and don't think a message board can truly accomplish an Intervention even if we wanted to?

[Ferret Annica]

59. I am surprised this generated so much consternation

but then again, I already knew I did not particularly resonate well with this virtual community's culture. I signed on in 2001, and I have finally reached approx. 1k posts.

I prefer posting on another forum, but it developed a strong anti-Obama bend to it, so in a sense I am a refugee. I have been working on the Obama campaign, and just don't have time for conservative posters I normally love talking to, but have grown too mean this season to even be good opponents for the full body contact sort of political posting I prefer to do.

I have no plans to post mere much after the election, so nobody need take deep umbrage to me. I am who I am and do not plan to change.

In any event, thanks for the post, and have a great Halloween on Friday.

[ShortnFiery]

66. You're welcome.

Happy Halloween to you also. :-) :hi:

[Ferret Annica]

74. Here is my post one thousand.

I never expected to give birth to it here, but you know how it goes. Posting has it's own dynamic often far beyond our control. ;)

[HughMoran]

64. I'm am genuinely sorry you had to grow up in that environment

I am not unfamiliar with that environment as I grew up in the inner city myself and witnessed many alcoholics - including a now deceased very close friend of mine. :(

I must state though that your analysis of me is completely wrong - I really rarely drink (once a month maybe?) due to my lungs/sinuses being intolerant of the alcohol. I actually wouldn't mind being able to have a drink more often, but I simply can't any longer. Also, even though I have nearly 10,000 posts, I rarely start original posts - almost never of the rambunctious nature of those yesterday. Perhaps you should apologize to me for completely misjudging me - it's very insulting to me that you have attacked me in the first and only thread I've ever started to apologize for my bad behavior.

Will you admit your mistake?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

67. is there a DQA?

Drama Queen Anonymous?

[stillcool]

69. I think you're the one that needs..

to get help. Sounds like you've got some anger issues you are projecting on to others. I have zero against you, and I'm not slamming you..I'm just giving you a blunt assessment based on my experience. Get help!

[Barrymores Ghost]

40. Though I won't be the first to think it, allow me to be the first to say it.

You should have a drink.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

45. You are a bitter ass

and I suggest you troll someplace else.

[ShortnFiery]

51. I can understand his perspective. Anyone who's suffered with an alcoholic in their

immediate family UNDERSTANDS the true (and earned) resentments that they foment.

I don't know if the OP has an Alcohol Abuse problem that is interfering with his functioning with regard to life's success, but hell, if you apologize WITHIN A FORUM, for whatever reason ---> you also have to be willing to take a little flack. The OP's an adult, I'm sure he can handle it.

Just my 2 cents. :shrug:

[seabeyond]

9. d*mn, i missed it. cant laugh WITH you this morning. aw well, sh*t happens. n/t

[ShortnFiery]

11. Don't sweat the small stuff.

And it's all small stuff. :grouphug:

Forgive yourself and start anew.

As a person who sometimes "goes off" without mind altering substances (I have a temper :blush:) I'm very empathetic of your thoughts and feelings.

Hey! At least you have alcohol :wow: ... I have to guard against letting my passion and dumb-ass pride sometimes get the best of me. ;)

[Hope And Change]

13. No worries.We are all in same boat.That`s what matters!

:thumbsup:

[mtnsnake]

14. So what exactly did you call Sarah?

:evilgrin:

[HughMoran]

16. I said that she likes ice cream cones made from feces

...but inside the post I also implied that she participated in the oldest profession.

:rofl:

[ShortnFiery]

28. You must have typed that ...

Palin's a POLITICAL WHORE?!? If so, I concur. ;)

[mtnsnake]

48. LOLOL!

[No Elephants]

63. You are not going to start repeating today what you're apologizing for posting last nite, are you?

[olkaz]

15. Seriously, relax, and don't worry about offending the perennially offended.

I swear, you'd find people here who would be offended that you separate your laundry into whites and colors.

They're the morans. You're just excited. I'm on your side.

[renie408]

17. There are people on the DU who are still offended by language? Fuck'em...oh wait, you must have

called Palin a bitch.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

49. ROFL

:rofl:

[slackmaster]

21. I take it you have the capacity for being a mean drunk

I'm glad you are doing better today.

[ShortnFiery]

24. LOL! I'd bet you never won any congeniality contests either?

:evilgrin:

[slackmaster]

31. That's a fact

But I've never picked a fight with anyone, or even gone on a rampage advocating violence on an Internet forum.

[ShortnFiery]

41. Then you're OK by me.

And I must admit: You have me taking "a relook" (rethink my perspectives/opinons) regarding firearm regulations. :-)
That's a feat because I can be very resistant. :hi:

[HughMoran]

70. Well, I genuinely despise JTP & SP

I'm more of a happy-go-lucky drunk and in fact my insults/attacks would be/were considered funny by many - if only it weren't for the offensive language. :)

[slackmaster]

75. The Mods took care of the one post I thought was in violation of the posting rules

So what's left is indeed all small stuff.

Peace.

[rucky]

26. If I had a beer for every stupid thing I said when i was drunk,

I'd be drunk by now.

[Barrymores Ghost]

44. . . .

:rofl:

[H2O Man]

32. My only question

is: did you K&R my thread last night?

[yellowcanine]

35. Here I thought you had a premature EJ or something. Good to know it wasn't that.

[bigwillq]

37. And you called me a fucking fool!

:P ;) :)

[QueenOfCalifornia]

42. Damn...

I missed it. :rofl:

:toast:

[WI_DEM]

47. I hope it wasn't one of those gay slurs that are all too common on DU

these days, but you apologized and I think most people accept it.

[w8liftinglady]

58. now you know why w8liftinglady went to AA

I've done the same thing.Absolve thyself,and seek like-minded folks for support.

[DevonRex]

60. Damn. I missed it. But now I'll go look for the posts. :) nt

[Virginia Dare]

62. Sounds like you got caught up in a nanny shitstorm..

we all got to let off a little steam sometimes. Like you said let's win this campaign!

[stillcool]

65. I know sometimes it seems like...

we're a rare breed around here, but I'm human too!! I didn't see what you said, but I can guarantee that I've said worse..sober. I hope those you offended accept your apology...it's only human.

[RiverStone]

68. I can't fathom any language bad enough to offer offense regarding...

...the names you mentioned.

Sorry I missed the fun! :hi:

Of course, you may be offering up a little :sarcasm:

[crossroads]

71. You're forgiven hon... so forgive yourself and move on!

We all make mistakes... the trick is learning not to repeat them from the experience!
Take care and don't let this get you down...
It was very courageous of you to apologize tho...
Now let's forget about it and get on with winning this campaign!
CR