Northcentral U Nixes DETC

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I had my share of disagreement with some of them, yet I have not been boot out, I guess it would be how things are said

I always get that funny line.
To me that's nonsense.
Certain people just do not want to hear ANYTHING about or to the effect of something, period.
For example, some people don't want to hear the word 'minority' and 'crime statistics' in the same phrase, no matter how you shape it.
Others don't want to hear doubts about the fact that the 'trophy wife' they have brokered for themselves online from Kazakhstan or Thailand may be an opportunist.
Others don't want to hear that you don't give a f-ck about them, the cliques, inner circles and other 'secret handshake societies' they amuse themselves with online. I especially love this one: I don't have to 'prove' anything to anybody, go figure to online ghosts who may be deviants, peddlers, psychotherapy rejects, con men, impersonators, drama queens...
Face it, the internet is full of 'funny' people...you may try not to step on their feet...I did at degreeinfo...but those people have VERY BIG feet and you're doomed to step on them one day or another.

I'm on vacation this week. I've spent most of the day outside, pruning the fruit trees, seeding the pastures, fall mowing. Now, I'm clean and dry and I have a full glass of pinot grigio inside. I've come back to this thread because the premise has always bothered me.

Take this...
Who does this oddball think s-he is?
It reads like the first paragraph of a modernist novel.
Of course in real life the individual is more likely to be Sally who brings you the coke & french fries or Bubba who has actually fried those fries.
People very rarely, if at all, conform to their online persona, typically the usual charismatic, over-inflated, mesmerizing, larger-than-life portrait.
Take the finally departed uncle Janko...
His online persona was that of a living multi-lingual encyclopaedia, so you gullible internet lurker picture yourself some aging scholar with seven doctorates from the likes of Harvard...wrong: he had taken 12 years to squeeze one from a university in Zululand... the online cartoon bragging about his mansion and actually living in a trailer...