So, you found out your gay child just got married...

[Violet]

The only place I'd declare you 'wrong' in this case is in responding so harshly to something that was not an attack.

May I suggest not posting such asinine responses in topics that are obviously serious in future then? I can totally see why TSQ responded the way she did, I'd be upset too if someone took a dump on the topic I feel strongly about.

I gave it a response before. It was the second time I'd responded to it, and I did so solely to express my amusement with it (what it reminded me of and a number of other similar:

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). People take shits on topics I feel strongly about often. People ignore other ones that I feel strongly about all the time. Am I then to snap at everyone who isn't interested in what I am and still managed to give it a laugh? Heck no... I feel better that someone even looked at it

This topic also was not obviously serious to me. Someone's grandmother didn't die. Nobody lost thousands of dollars. No rapist hurt someone I like. I followed a post that said "Oh, in the name of all that is good and holy in Odin's beard, was that the most derailed thread in all existence." and posted in that newly split thread immediately before touching the original again.

And even when one is upset at something... that should be no call to respond in bitterness. I did read it, I didn't find it particularly gripping, I did get amused by 'bestiality' (and still am, and will be for the next dozen times or so I see it).

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Don't let petty BS stop you from posting articles you think we'd find of interest. Just recall that old adage in matters of dismissal of the whole article for want of a missing vowel in one word as; can't see the forest for the tree.

I sometimes wonder if the general people have a clue.

"The general people"?

Indeed, those people that believe I dismissed the article on a spelling error. Which in this case includes you

I'd imagine you would have cause to wonder about a great many things. Like, why people can read an article of importance and dismiss the import of the whole message by making a juvenile comment about a missing consonant. Especially when they themselves contrive a nonsense term like "the general people". And particularly when proof reading and correcting that missing "a" would be the copy editors responsibility not to article's author.

I certainly do wonder about a great many things, whether I've 'cause' to or not. Few of them regarding why people can be amused by a missing vowel (it's not a consonant, hon). Because I don't wonder as to why I could be amused by this and state so. I contrive many nonsense terms, including your left ankle... but 'the general people' has a very distinct meaning, comparable to that of 'the faceless hordes' or 'the anonymous masses'.

Also... the first editor is the author. Any additional editors may not be present, but the author always is. I know not if said author has any other editors, so I presume only so much as I do know: that the author edited it and missed that.

I refuse to be a party any further to the hijacking of this thread.
If someone doesn't respect the overall message of the article, they're certainly free to be mature enough to leave it alone. Or not.

And this coming from the one who has the "absence of maturity" to not leave my post alone?

Why would one be mature when being immature is so much more fun?