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this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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Fair enough. I picked up on the idea "something's not right here" and aggressively proded you rather than de-escalate or use my people skills really. Showing weakness on the internet usually gets others going for my throat, so I find its easier to make that happen intentionally in the hopes the other party realizes "wait a minute, why did I let this stranger get me going like this?"
... more often, I end up having to block people, but you didn't quite give me enough reason, even if I did tell myself that was coming next a few times. See you around.
No dramas, an apology for the insinuations that I’m not trustworthy around children as I offered you would be appreciated, though.
That's how you took being told to stay away from my kids and the statement that they are already creeped out by people like you? People who can't handle being told their parenting advice/perscriptiveness and proclivity for labelling strangers as un-fit/inexperienced/ignorant parents is un-wanted?
An apology for a statement of my personal stance and a fact about my kids' demeanors isn't going to happen. Stop using strangers' statements of trust/distrust as an evaluation of your own overall trustworthiness, for starters. I don't trust myself around anyone's kids more than their parents trust me, so why should I apologize for not seeing you as an exception to that? The fact you would apparently expect such is the instigator of my misgivings.
Overall trust isn't something to expect or request, and versus the children of another person or "children in general" that goes infinitely more-so.
On the basis of the comment you replied to, of course I did. I said nothing to warrant that and it took me by surprise. All I said was those parents are probably the majority. Fair enough that you disagreed, but that last line wasn’t necessary at all. That by the way was where I mistook you for OP.
You don’t know me, as I don’t know you. That’s part of why I apologised to you for my assumptions. I based those on the way you were replying to me.
So, you still think I’m untrustworthy around minors, is that what you’re saying? I don’t think that of you. That matters here because others see what we post. Nothing I’ve said warrants that.
Not sure where I did this, but anyway.
Well it’s not offered so it doesn’t matter, but no, it was asked with no more intent than mine was given…politeness and mutual respect, despite the fact you’ve admitted you sought to provoke.
I don’t expect it and I don’t want it, now. These kinds of insults are pretty shithouse which, along with the fact I value this space and the people in it, I gave mine.
You took personally a statement addressed to anyone who happened to read it, a statement parents the world-over make when told by a stranger, or "society", others could do their job better, their priorities or wrong, whatever.
Whether it was meant to provoke you personally or not, whether I could tell you would or not, you made the leap to running with it, and I cannot fix that for you, and it does takes you solidly from "I don't know you, stay away from my kids" to; No really, I now know more about you than I ever would have asked for and I was more spot-on in the first place than I realized, stay away from my kids.
Nope, you know nothing about me at all.
You’ve shown yourself to be an arsehole, that’s all you’ve done here.
Look in the mirror. Asshole≠Wrong
In this case, wrong as well.
Running Linux won’t stop parents pulling their kids off tech, whether their decision is right or not.
As for the rest, they’re irrational insults given online where had this conversation taken place in a real setting, you wouldn’t have gone near and copped a smack in the mouth for.
Now fuck off please.
How are you still even bothering to reply? I figured would end-up blocking you before you would shut-up, but this is just sad. I'm not flexing for your skinny or obese ass, whatever the case may be, but in-person, I'm certain you would have run-away or been carried off on a stretcher by now, and probably taken-down by a by-stander before I had to take your threats seriously or bother hitting back, at that.
Do Aussies not have Friday's or something?
Your mum keep you off technology as a kid? Luddites