← Back to context Comment by anonymars 13 hours ago Comparing the tone of your message with its parent, do you not see the irony? 6 comments anonymars Reply stackghost 12 hours ago Yeah, better to be passive aggressive and faux-intellectual so as not to throw off the usual HN vibe. anonymars 12 hours ago Okay, I'll be directly aggressive. They were helpful and added thoughtful discussion, while your response added nothing but bitternessThat they were responding to someone else who couldn't see how it worked means it wasn't just pedantic nitpicking ryan_j_naughton 11 hours ago I concur. I found this discussion on the phrase very enlightening and aided both my understanding of the idiom and how I should use it in the future. 1 reply → parasubvert 11 hours ago [flagged] stackghost 11 hours ago >It's not personal.I didn't say it was personal, I said it was irritating.
stackghost 12 hours ago Yeah, better to be passive aggressive and faux-intellectual so as not to throw off the usual HN vibe. anonymars 12 hours ago Okay, I'll be directly aggressive. They were helpful and added thoughtful discussion, while your response added nothing but bitternessThat they were responding to someone else who couldn't see how it worked means it wasn't just pedantic nitpicking ryan_j_naughton 11 hours ago I concur. I found this discussion on the phrase very enlightening and aided both my understanding of the idiom and how I should use it in the future. 1 reply → parasubvert 11 hours ago [flagged] stackghost 11 hours ago >It's not personal.I didn't say it was personal, I said it was irritating.
anonymars 12 hours ago Okay, I'll be directly aggressive. They were helpful and added thoughtful discussion, while your response added nothing but bitternessThat they were responding to someone else who couldn't see how it worked means it wasn't just pedantic nitpicking ryan_j_naughton 11 hours ago I concur. I found this discussion on the phrase very enlightening and aided both my understanding of the idiom and how I should use it in the future. 1 reply →
ryan_j_naughton 11 hours ago I concur. I found this discussion on the phrase very enlightening and aided both my understanding of the idiom and how I should use it in the future. 1 reply →
parasubvert 11 hours ago [flagged] stackghost 11 hours ago >It's not personal.I didn't say it was personal, I said it was irritating.
Yeah, better to be passive aggressive and faux-intellectual so as not to throw off the usual HN vibe.
Okay, I'll be directly aggressive. They were helpful and added thoughtful discussion, while your response added nothing but bitterness
That they were responding to someone else who couldn't see how it worked means it wasn't just pedantic nitpicking
I concur. I found this discussion on the phrase very enlightening and aided both my understanding of the idiom and how I should use it in the future.
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>It's not personal.
I didn't say it was personal, I said it was irritating.