A nice neighborhood to have bad habits in

Whiskey tango foxtrot?

I have disagreements with a number of the folks on my FL. I tend not to unfriend - so far no one has done anything so heinous that I couldn't live with it (but maybe take it as a cautionary note as to how far I should trust that person in various capacities) but I don't unfriend over difference of opinion.

(Unfriending tends to lead to Drama. I would prefer not to have Drama, and it may be better for me to be aware of what the other person is doing than not. Of course, some folks may use unfriending as a tool to promote as much Drama as possible, but that's their problem, and their head is more in the Drama than that of their "victim", usually.)

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Well I did a quick and clean defriend myself, but to be honest I'm a little pissed - I'd have expected some discussion first.

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deililly.livejournal.com

It has been a funny week with that it seems. Defriending I mean.

Though if they are going to defriend you over religion probably better they toddled off sooner rather than later. They don't sound like they could discuss it rationally at any rate.

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Quick and clean defriend in response to a defriending is an appropriate action. Original defriender caused any Defriending Drama by not explaining the action.

(The other thing is, if you really want to, you can create all the Defriending Drama in the explanation. I've heard tell of same, but haven't actually witnessed it.)

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You have *got* to be kidding me.

*eyeroll*

(not at you; at defriender person)

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meredyth-13.livejournal.com

The world of people is a strange and scary place. I'm sorry the sheer stupidity of it has risen up and bitten you, honey.

I think you would have enjoyed Mr Virgin Sex, who was evangelising on the footpath in San Francisco. I was privileged to enjoy his many diatribes on how the only allowable and legitimate sex was that between a virgin man and a virgin woman. I admit I was tempted to start a debate on religion v's environmental damage, as I believe his position was very much angled toward the single-use disposable society approach, which I feel is very wasteful. :D

I once had my head bitten off (in the most nasty and personal way) because I dared to tease an american LJ friend (someone I had considered a very close friend too, btw) over the ridiculousness that is american football.

Given that I consider all professional sports ridiculous, and somewhere substantially down the tier of morally outrageable subjects to religion, I can't imagine what kind of response you've had (I admit I haven't seen said posts as I have been travelling and slack in my flist reading).

*sigh*

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I once had my head bitten off (in the most nasty and personal way) because I dared to tease an american LJ friend (someone I had considered a very close friend too, btw) over the ridiculousness that is american football.

Given that I consider all professional sports ridiculous, and somewhere substantially down the tier of morally outrageable subjects to religion,

Ah-hah. The problem you're having is, to this American friend, the chances are good that American football IS a religion. If they live in Chicago, it's probably Da Bears half the year and Da Cubs or Da Whitesox the other half. It's a form of worship, I tell you.

Which is to say... IMHO, teasing about football is TOTALLY an acceptable pasttime.

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nicnac.livejournal.com

*blinks*

Gosh. Must have been a pretty big nerve that you accidentally hit. Clearly their problem rather than yours.

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Just for future reference -- the national religion of Texas is Football. So you need to be a little cautious regarding Texans and Football.

(I can take or leave it. If I decide to take it that season, boy howdy am I in! If I decide to leave it, then until there are playoffs or championship games, I'm pretty much not paying attention to football, except for any players, coaches or owners that do something stupid enough that their action becomes news.)

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My husband grew up in Texas. They went to church every Sunday, then came home, and if it was football season, the Cowboys game was watched.

Church lasted about an hour. The game lasted about 3. That made an impression on him about the importance of football. But he can take or leave it. (At least he doesn't have Issues about football games, very much unlike attending church at this point....)

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Probably this is because you are allowed to each sour cream and onion chips with ranch dip while watching football. Unlike church...

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I think that's very much the point - irrationality always irks me.

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Might have been something different, but I doubt it.

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I turn my back on you people for 12 hours...

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Well they say that religion and politics should never be raised in polite conversation...

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Glaswegians have been known to get a trifle het-up about football too...

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And we solve the world's problems with junk food!

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Actually, neither my husband nor I cares for ranch dip.

Cheese dip, on the other hand. (Hey. Velveeta exists. There has to be a reason for that, right?) And salsa. Mmmmmmm... salsa... [drool]

And I don't like the sour cream and onion chips very much, myself, but my husband loves them. I prefer the plan potato chips.

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American football is weirder than British football, though.

(About all I really got about it when I was little was that people were playing with a ball, which I thought was a nice thing to do. Baseball made a lot more sense a lot earlier than American football did.)

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Oh, and I didn't grow up in Texas. That might have something to do with it. When you're rooting for the Patriots before the days of Drew Bledsoe and then Tom Brady -- well, 'nuff said right there.

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Polite conversation?

::boggle::

But this is the internet!

Edited Date: 2009-07-27 05:45 pm (UTC)

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Careful, heretic, the Inquisition is on to you... although Velveeta with jalapenos and salsa melted in... mmmmm.

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