The Palatial Palace of Suck and Peace

12/03/2008 01:05:41 PM · #677

Originally posted by colorcarnival:

Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Well, you have to remember that her comment to him during a challenge, which seemed honest and real, upset him such that he sought her image out after the challenge for the sole purpose of retaliation.

I see that he obviously did what you said. And as an adult, he should be leading by example instead of projecting the immature behaviour. And I hope that she will see that it is actually his behaviour that is the problem, not her photo. Katherine - I'll go leave a comment, but I'm hopeing that you will still be able to move past the one in question and focus on the positive and constructive ones you've already received.

and i DO appreciate and really enjoy the lovely and constructive comments i get. i love giving people nice and constructive comments, it really makes my day when i get one. its just the rotten egg that makes me so mad. ahh, well, thank you for all for the comments and the support of me, telling me i wasnt completely out of line with my post this morning. it just made me so mad. anyways...on to bigger and better things!

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

12/03/2008 01:44:13 PM · #678

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:

Ecuse me but does anyone think this is appropriete for my Hanging challengee photo?

Comment by jtf6agent:
OMG... and you said my shot didn't really make sense as far as the challenge? My shot actually had something hanging by a thread. A REAL thread not an implied thread either. This absolutely solidifies my thinking as far as how voting is done here on DPC.

That's very interesting because this is what the instructions for that challenge say.

Description
Take a picture of something that you could use the statement "That's hanging on by a thread". Actual thread should not be used

raish

Olympus C-2500L

12/03/2008 02:55:55 PM · #679

Yeah, yeah, I'm dq'ed for supersucking - rightly so, as I cloned the background pattern into the car windows. There are about a million legal ways I could have done the same thing, but I didn't think or have time, so . . .

at least I know it's more realistic than any of the other entries, because super powers don't really exist outside of comic books, do they?

I guess that thumbnail won't show until after the challenge is voted even so...

There - put it in my portfolio instead.

Message edited by author 2008-12-03 15:01:58.

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

12/04/2008 02:15:03 AM · #680

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:

just cause he's all ptsd doesnt mean he needs to take it out on me.

Young lady (yeah, I'm going there), I hope no one ever dismisses you because you're "all adolescent" or "all hormonal" or "all PMS." He went through a hell I hope I never even approach, and you should show more respect for that trauma. No, it doesn't mean he should be mean to you. But neither should you minimize it, regardless of what he said to you.

As for his actual comment, I agree with your comment on his shot (and you weren't alone) and disagree with his comment on your shot, which was a lovely, subtle vision of the theme.

Message edited by author 2008-12-04 02:15:38.

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

12/04/2008 02:16:26 AM · #681

Oops, I got so caught up in the current drama that I forgot why I popped in: to share my mother's friend's recipe, which is going into my daughter's 3rd-grade class cookbook:

Chocolate Pixies

1/4c. butter
4 oz. unsweetened chocoate
2 c. flour (may substitute up to 1c almond flour)
1/2 c. chopped walnuts
2 c. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs
powdered sugar

In large saucepan, melt butter and chocolate over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; cool slightly. Stir in remaining ingredients and blend well. Chill dough for 30 minutes. Heat oven to 300 F. Shape into 1 inch balls and roll in sugar. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 15-18 minutes. Immediately remove from cookie sheet and cool.

LadyK

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

12/04/2008 08:27:23 AM · #682

Originally posted by levyj413:

like the real deal picies? the ones you can get from Fannie May? i must make some for my daddyo!

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

12/04/2008 08:43:06 AM · #683

Originally posted by levyj413:

He went through a hell I hope I never even approach, and you should show more respect for that trauma.

Whoa....

Don't go there.....in no way does his reckless and irresponsible experience justify his behavior.

I have a real problem with people who do stupid things for their own agenda that uselessly endangers emergency personnel.

No respect indicated there whatsoever.

meyers

Canon EOS-6D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

12/04/2008 10:34:04 AM · #684

Woo, my Free Study climbed from 4.4 to 4.9, and I'm actually getting comments!

I hope people don't judge me too harshly by my stats.. I like to think my voting isn't erratic, or at least not as erratic as my participation in challenges. I'm just kind of a quiet person and don't leave as many comments as I should.

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

12/04/2008 02:00:28 PM · #685

I'm thinking I want to try and keep a good perspective and attitude about this place.

There has been so much negative energy flowing around lately, and I'm afraid that I let myself feed into it all too often.

Sometimes I feel so incensed by a comment someone makes, and I get to feeling downright proprietary when someone comes in and starts making rude comments or busting off about something in an unfriendly way.

I think I need to just let some people be the way they want to be and make it more a point to make sure that I'm being positive than to worry about anyone else.

I've been getting so much more out of my photography lately, and enjoying it as I've been getting more familiar with the photographer that I am and am developing into.

All that I seem to be doing is winding myself up for no good reason....and pissing other people off in the process, no doubt.

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

12/04/2008 02:43:00 PM · #686

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

No doubt! ROFL! Jeb, no matter how nasty someone is to me (in person I mean), I smile and thank them. It gives me perspective. I've been staying out of rants except for an occasional dig that no one ever seems to notice anyway. My blood pressure is much better off for it. I still read them, for kicks, but rarely, so rarely, ever respond. I might sit down and type a response just to put it right in my own mind, then I hit the back button instead of post and voila, it's gone! And I'm much happier. The side challenges are taking up a bunch of time right now and that's a good thing.

raish

Olympus C-2500L

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

12/04/2008 05:55:47 PM · #687

Hey Kelli, you ain't Jeb :-)

I think there's a loyalty thing going on here, and I like loyalty. Where

JDubsgirl gets mean and unfounded comments then we go all porcupine, goodgoodgood.

As far as post traumatic stress disorder is concerned, the operative part is trauma and most of us, thankfully, don't even know we've been born. So yes, a bit of kindness wouldn't hurt.

All bets are off in our back yard, natch...

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

12/04/2008 06:05:06 PM · #688

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

Don't go there.....in no way does his reckless and irresponsible experience justify his behavior.

I have a real problem with people who do stupid things for their own agenda that uselessly endangers emergency personnel.

Jeb, many responses come to mind, but I finally settled on "You're right. They should've let him burn, because, after all, that's the proper reward for being stupid."

Yes, he was an idiot, as I and many others commented at the time. Yes, I also get angry at idiots who endanger rescue personnel (I'll regale you with stories of idiot hikers next GTG). No, it in no way excuses bad behavior, as I said in my earlier post. Nevertheless, I think jdubsgirl was overly dismissive of what he went through.

Message edited by author 2008-12-04 18:06:33.

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

12/04/2008 08:30:52 PM · #689

Originally posted by levyj413:

Jeb, many responses come to mind, but I finally settled on "You're right. They should've let him burn, because, after all, that's the proper reward for being stupid."

Wow....

You bust my chops for a lack of sympathy and you come back with that?

You know perfectly well that's not what I meant.

This nasty, poisonous asshole jumps all over a sixteen year old girl, strictly for the intent of being spiteful, and you want to call her on the carpet 'cause she's not sympathetic to HIM?????

For a reckless and irresponsible act?????

This place is getting pretty f*ckin' mean.

Have at it, y'all.....I never expected that here.

Please take me from the TS roster.

I AM DONE HERE.

goinskiing

Canon EOS-6D

12/04/2008 08:58:16 PM · #690

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

Originally posted by levyj413:
Jeb, many responses come to mind, but I finally settled on "You're right. They should've let him burn, because, after all, that's the proper reward for being stupid."

Wow....

You bust my chops for a lack of sympathy and you come back with that?

You know perfectly well that's not what I meant.

This nasty, poisonous asshole jumps all over a sixteen year old girl, strictly for the intent of being spiteful, and you want to call her on the carpet 'cause she's not sympathetic to HIM?????

For a reckless and irresponsible act?????

This place is getting pretty f*ckin' mean.

Have at it, y'all.....I never expected that here.

Please take me from the TS roster.

I AM DONE HERE.

No, don't go. You're a valuable asset here.

Message edited by author 2008-12-04 21:00:05.

posthumous

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

12/04/2008 11:17:26 PM · #691

All right people, shut up with the character debates and the quitting already. Back to sucking.

goinskiing

Canon EOS-6D

12/04/2008 11:19:09 PM · #692

Originally posted by posthumous:

All right people, shut up with the character debates and the quitting already. Back to sucking.

Here's to sucking!

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

12/05/2008 12:19:37 AM · #693

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

I AM DONE HERE.

C'mon, Jeb, you've been around long enough to be family. We quibble, we banter, we sometimes annoy. But we don't bolt for the door.

LadyK

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

12/05/2008 12:27:57 AM · #694

Originally posted by levyj413:

Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I AM DONE HERE.

C'mon, Jeb, you've been around long enough to be family. We quibble, we banter, we sometimes annoy. But we don't bolt for the door.

what are you talking about? the door is always the answer:)

12/05/2008 08:33:28 AM · #695

Hey

NikonJeb, I agree that the guy was being a jerk. He had no business calling

jdubsgirl out like that. What I think was so funny about it was that he said he actually used a THREAD in his image. Not an implied thread. The instructions for that challenge precisely said that an actual thread was not to be used.

I get frustrated too but eventually I get over it.

Now that that's over with, I have some news that's going to knock the earth off of it's axis. I just received a comment on my free study from

Larus and it was a REALLY GOOD comment. Can you feel the earth spinning out of control right now?

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III

12/05/2008 08:35:07 AM · #696

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:

what are you talking about? the door is always the answer:)

You're right about that! I beat my head on the door all the time. Wait.......that explains the headaches.

colorcarnival

Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital

12/05/2008 08:45:57 AM · #697

Originally posted by bmartuch:

Now that that's over with, I have some news that's going to knock the earth off of it's axis. I just received a comment on my free study from Larus and it was a REALLY GOOD comment. Can you feel the earth spinning out of control right now?

How exciting! I cannot wait to see your picture :D