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Re: Breakfast with a View in SF?

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From: Geoff Miller
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:27
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Dan Abel  <dabel@sonic.net> writes:

> So is, "fuck you, asshole".  I don't like being told that either.

Well, of course not.  But simply not liking someone's words wasn't
the issue you raised.  Feeling threatened by them was.


> I don't feel threatened.  I *was* threatened.  It wasn't a serious 
> threat, but where did it come from?

It came from a situation where a guy found himself set up for life,
financially speaking, and decided that meant he didn't have to be nice
to anybody ever again.  


> In school, I always got the box "gets along well with others" checked.  
> At work, under that category, I always did well.  I find this strange 
> because, well, it's strange.  It's not my personality, and not my 
> self-image.

Yeah, I know what you mean.



Geoff

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Subject: Re: Breakfast with a View in SF?
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