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Recently on okc I happened upon a profile which was... incredibly sloppy. In the list of "six things you can't live without" was included, simply, "Roman."

I didn't get it.

And so, the following series of messages took place.

  The Hero
  The Villain

  Your profile says that you can't do without Roman. I am confused by that. Roman what?

  I have no idea what you are talking about

[At some point between last and next, she removed any reference to "Roman" from her profile.]

  The "six things I can't live without" section of your profile says you can't live without Roman.

Roman what? Roman sandals? Roman Meal? Roman Coke? Roman Showers?

  Family,
Cell phone,
Water,
food,
camera,
Music

  That's not what it said as recently as your first reply. The list had Roman in it, and I have no idea why.

  it may have said Ramen at one point

  I thought that's what that might've meant, but I wasn't sure.

  well then you miss read it cause i wouldnt have had roman on it

  It did. I didn't glance over it once and email you immediately. I looked at your profile several times, specifically at that, to be sure that my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, because the number of other spelling errors made me think that it could MEAN "ramen," but I didn't think anyone could misspell it that badly. So I spent several minutes mulling it over, trying to think if there were any kind of activity, or literature, or band, or anything that "Roman" could possibly be that you found very important.

And now you are lying about it. In private. So, not only are you too lazy to spell check, you are so childish that you'd rather hide it than admit you made a typo.

So, wow.

  there is a band and i do like that band.

actully im dyslexic so how about you piss off you scumbag k

  I know dyslexic people, miss.

They are mature adults, so when they make a mistake, they own up to it, and correct it, without trying to hide things or make the person who spotted it feel stupid.

You may or may not be dyslexic. What I do have evidence of is that you're a massive douche.

Ta.


And then I blocked her! 

Sadistic much?

So you were harassing someone who made a mistake and feels way to much shame about it to the point of not wanting to admit it. Go you! Heroism activate!

Sounds about right to me. Covering up what would normally be a "whatever" error with an incompetent lie that insults the listener's intelligence makes you a fucking jackass. p sure I won here, you guys

p sure I won here, you guys

If by "won", you mean "harassed a stranger for no fucking reason and told a bunch of people who already think you're an incredible douchebag about it, confirming our opinion of you as an incredible douchebag", sure.

More seriously, though, the fact that you can't understand that this is shitty behavior is the perfect example of why you just can't manage to get along with human beings. (You may be shocked to learn this, but the problem isn't everybody else, it's you.)

For fuck's sake, PuPP. I bet you eat Roman noodles, too. Don't you. DON'T YOU?!?!

Commyoonist.

INORITE!

The first time I read that it was in WoW chat, and I thought it was a kind of high level ore.

for no fucking reason

100% garbletrash. I "harassed" her for behavior that is widely considered boorish and moronic, and if the first respondent to this thread hadn't been negative, the rest of you wouldn't have dogpiled.

PS: Seriously, try to be honest with yourselves about that. Suppose the first respondent had been S_C or one of our other grammar police who are more popular than me. Would you have bothered bitching then? I bet at least one of you would've joined in with "yeah, woo, high five!"

But w/e, you can all continue to bullshit at me for being on the wrong side of a known bug in social dynamics. We don't have to have fun with the original concept for this thread at all, that'd suck.

The "hero/villain" thing was not intended to be taken seriously. Sorry if that threw you off.

If I read the first line of the thread thinking "Oh, this is going to be fun--we can all talk about the times we told off people who deserved it!"

and then by the end of the thread was thinking "man, that really sucks. He really acted inappropriately and kind of horribly there,"

Pretty much this. Up til the point where you said this:

It did. I didn't glance over it once and email you immediately. I looked at your profile several times, specifically at that, to be sure that my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, because the number of other spelling errors made me think that it could MEAN "ramen," but I didn't think anyone could misspell it that badly. So I spent several minutes mulling it over, trying to think if there were any kind of activity, or literature, or band, or anything that "Roman" could possibly be that you found very important.

And now you are lying about it. In private. So, not only are you too lazy to spell check, you are so childish that you'd rather hide it than admit you made a typo.

So, wow.

I was kind of with you. But that quote makes you look a) a little creepy (she can see, if she cares, that you've looked at her profile a bunch of times) and b) like a douchecanoe. Seriously? You're calling her out on lying about a spelling error? Maybe she went, "Oh, huh, now I feel dumb, but this guy is being kind of a dick about it so I don't fancy admitting it to him". It's not cool that you berate people like that for something so little.

100% garbletrash. I "harassed" her for behavior that is widely considered boorish and moronic, and if the first respondent to this thread hadn't been negative, the rest of you wouldn't have dogpiled.

Like Pixie, I formed my own opinion of your thread right after reading it and before catching any of the responses.  I couldn't help but think "man, he's a douchebag".  The fact that you're now trying to defend yourself doesn't help things either.  It's not really your job to educate the women of the world by harassing them about potential spelling errors, nor do women(or anybody) really look fondly on that behavior. 

FYI, in German the word "Roman" refers to romance novels and bodice-rippers.  Maybe in the future you should consider multi-lingual answers before harassing people over what you assume is a spelling error.