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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHappy Hour with Aristus and Will Shakespeare. Ask us anything.
I'm going to have to stay out of GD for a while.
Stirred up a hornet's nest. There are some GD-ers over there practically screaming for my blood.
No, no. Don't go look. I don't want my Lounge peeps to end up hating me, too.
It seems to be the same crowd that cursed my family even unto the 7th generation for stating that smoking is bad for you, and you shouldn't do it around your kids. You'd think I'd run over their grandmother, or raped their dog.
Anyway, I need a drink after the day I had. Will is here, scratching out a sonnet.
(He just elbowed me and muttered: "Shut it, thou; a sonnet's a-borning...)
Paulie
(8,462 posts)I too had a 1040 day. Cheers to thou both-ith.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)Denninmi
(6,581 posts)... Will never hate you.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)How have you been?
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)I think the question should be, how are you. I looked, that was brutal, sorry about that, people think they are experts in fields they really know little about.
You're a great guy and a very caring provider, just ignore them. They'll curl up and go away soon enough.
Say hi to Will for me.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)"Denni, me boy! God love you, lad! A kiss on each cheek for thee! Friend to my friend good Robin, and as friend to friend, ever friends let's be!"
See? You got him started...
I think he's happy to see you.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I mean...it's not a noteworthy tale and it is literally curtain-to-curtain torture & pointless violence, often against innocents.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)"My first play to o'erflow the box-office! I needed a smash, did I not? A popular with the populace, yes? Keep writing plays that only the rats show up for, and it's straight back to Stratford for Good Will, isn't it?"
nolabear
(41,930 posts)I'm sorry. It's a jungle out there.
How about musical questions?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Have you ever seen rain?
Oh, oh, what I want to know...where does the time go?
Aristus
(66,275 posts)It's later than you think...
Will whispered that one to me, but I'm pretty sure he was quoting someone else...
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)It's incredible how everybody has a better way to do the job than the person who is actually doing it.
So many critics and so few artists.
How could they do your job with their heads so far up their ass? Do they think you're a proctologist?
Take their advice at face value and leave their foot in their mouth for the next visit.
Keep up the good work Aristus and regards to Willie Shakes.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)I'm overwhelmed. Thank you.
That was very kind of you.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)"Listen to many... Speak to few..." eh, Will?
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,516 posts)I could not believe what was said to you in GD. The nerve of some people.
You know we Loungers will always be on your side!
My question:
Whatever possessed you???
That's pretty impertinent. You don't need to answer if you don't feel like it!
sarge43
(28,940 posts)Jesus, one would think with autumn coming on, the assholes would stop blooming.
It's getting so we can no longer have thoughtful, productive discussions in GD. It's "I don't like what you said, ergo you're scum."
The Lounge Lizards will never hate you.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I'm with Peg--Whatever possessed you???
I don't blame you for repairing to the Lounge. There seems to be a helluva lot of assumptions and miscomunication in that thread.
As someone I know used to tell me, "You're doomed if you do and doomed if you don't."
Hang in there, Aristus.
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)You know we love you here. More than that, we all respect you.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)I am sickened by the way you were treated in GD. You don't deserve that. I've read enough in the lounge to know you are a caring doctor than anyone would be grateful to have.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)That means more to me than you can know.
On reflection, I can see how the OP may have seemed coarse, and uncaring. But it certainly was not meant in that spirit. It seemed as if I viewed patients as adversaries, and that was not what I meant either. My intent was to enlist my patients as partners in improving the day-to-day management of a medical system that does not always operate at an optimal level.
As is fairly typical, people who do not know me ascribed to me the most monstrous, despicable traits humans can possess, and the people who do know me understood what I meant, and showed their support. It how one knows who one's friends are...
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)I really thought you wanted to engage in a discussion.
Lesson learned. I've removed all of my responses in that thread.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)Perhaps they are projecting. I don't know, but it's ugly.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Any advice from you as well?
Aristus
(66,275 posts)That's not Shakespeare, that's me. Thought I'd try it out; hope you like it!
(Will just rolled his eyes at me.)