ygmir wrote:goathead wrote:hello jovankat, glad to meet you. are you a teacher? because me and the fucking english language have never got along. over the course of many, many, many years i have had many try to correct what ever fucking error in english i have made, i doubt your going to suckeed. anyway if you are unable to tell the difference between your boyfriend and a paid boy toy well? yes you might be doing it wrong. FYI, i can snark hard, but i never carry a grudge. shall we play?Jovankat wrote:Is anyone else chuckling at a thread about being wrong having a glaring grammatical error in it's title?
Also my boyfriend cooked for me and cleaned up nearly every meal was I doing it wrong?
How about if I tell you it was because putting the cooked food in front of me was the only way he could stop me MOOPing the camp or setting things up in the sun when I clearly needed rest etc. Still doing it wrong?
What about the camp a respected member of this board stayed with where he was verball abused (playfully I'm assuming, but still) by another camp mate because he wouldn't let her feed him. Was his campmate doing it wrong trying to give that gift?
While I'm on board with the "paid employees who don't get to participate using tickets that are then not available to real participants is bad" and "not having to think about and plan for your survival in any real way means you're missing a large junk of the experience" type arguments I think trying to define the "wrong" way of doing things is a bad idea. Riding a seqway definitely makes you look like a knob but I don't think it's entirely safe to assume anyone on a segway is doing everything else wrong. I think it takes a bunch of things being done in less than ideal ways for a camp to be "doing it wrong" but it's a nebulous and undefinable combination of some of the things mentioned in this thread and others that amounts to wrongness and trying to define that is a waste of time because each camp needed to be evaluated individually.
Anyway, all I'm trying to say is terrible as plug and plays may or may not be trying to distil their wrongness down to easily detectable signs is going to backfire and you're going to end up with a salt of the earth "true burner" on the end of your pitchfork just because they are a terrible cook or have a disability or they couldn't get enough time off work. And that will be awkward.
Nah I was just amused by that little juxtaposition. And I said my piece. If anyone wants to argue the actual contents of my post and suggest that, yes some black and white indicators of "doing it wrong" should be established and no consideration should ever be given to individual circumstances, I might be tempted to draw some comparisons to other times in history when such techniques have been used or just simply point out a few more examples of when that approach would fail. But I'm not in fact a teacher and I have no desire to school goathead, that mistake just made me smile is all. And yes I can tell the difference between my boyfriend and a paid boy toy, my point however was that a casual observer might not notice the difference. Whose opinion matters more?
