Your grandfather taught you to not waste time with people that have no humour? Is that tolerance, really?
And I don't spend time with you, stranger. You don't know if I have a sense of humour or not. You shouldn't "joke" online without at least explaining that you are joking or at all and especially not with someone who doesn't know you.
I am not looking for unconditional validation, just respectful opinions WITHOUT becoming rude and personal and asking if I am on medication or something, which is what YOU did in the first place! Pathetic "joke" and really not funny.
If you think that I should toughen up, then you should too, because if you want to make it personal and be rude yourself behind your computer screen, then I'll make it personal also. I'll also waste my time posting this in the hope that maybe this message will get through to someone.
I am fully aware that more than 99% of the people on the internet are strangers to me. I also think the internet can be a very cruel, stupid and useless place if individual people don't set some personal standards with their own conduct and intellect on the internet which they may do more so in "real life".
If you made that "joke" to someone within five minutes of meeting them in real life I doubt that things would go your way. You cannot have assessed that person quickly enough to know how they would react to that "humour" or even assume that they would find that an appropriate joke to make to a stranger, therefore, why should you presume that I would have the same sense of "humour", someone you have never met and never will and whose post you replied to on a whim without even knowing how that sort of rude comment would affect me?
By the way, I find the medication "joke" which I have heard 50 000 times HIGHLY offensive because if I did take medication I would think you were simply attacking me on a personal level with verbal abuse.
I hope someday people realise that they cannot say what they want on the internet and behave however they want on the internet without some real consequences, because believe me, they do. You aren't talking to a computer screen, you are talking to people. Set some personal standards for yourself and treat others the way that not only you would like to be treated yourself but what you think someone like the Queen of England would like to be treated. Or your favourite movie star or musician or whoever is important to you. Don't be rude because it's "fun".
I have a really good life actually, and I am surrounded by people who have the same idea of respect as me, thank goodness.
I find it sad that this discussion has to exist on a message board of a great actress when I made a very short, simple and innocent comparison. Sorry, Julianna Margulies.
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