Alright, Yeah, Whatever

I think that there happens to be a very large difference between the two examples cited in Justin's post (Nov. 9, 5:42 PM) concerning our friend JB and his friend Elliot.

When myself and some others indirectly teased JB about his name, in was in a small group of friends in a rather closed environment. Yes, this is the internet, but not a whole lot of people we don't know are going to be checking our blogs and reading about it, and if they did, they're hardly going to care about people they don't know.

Now, what Justin's friends did to this Elliot... That was fucking public humiliation. I don't even know the guy, and it pisses me off. I swear, if one (or several) of my friends did that to me, there would have been a body once everything was finally resolved. And I don't belive for one damned second that you can chalk this up to a misinterpretation of what one given person finds amusing/upseting. Yeah, some friendly prodding to get up on stage or whatever and sing, fine. Bringing in a cafe full of strangers and continuing to needle the guy to get up on stage? And keep in mind, this was in person, so one of those guys should have been able to see how pissed they were making this Elliot. It was much more difficult to tell with JB, since there was no real person to person interaction. Granted, we (or perhaps I should say, at least I) should have been able to figure how upset we (probably "I" again in this case) were making him.

Well, I wasn't there for the kareoke incident, so I suppose I can't/shouldn't say anything else about it. And sorry Justin, I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, or say that you did something horribly wrong or anything like that, I just thought that the two scenarios you compared were really very different.

I seem to be on a roll for ticking people off lately.

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