The Politics Of Brunians Chapter XXXIX The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Mar 2009 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5368 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== David Stockhoff — 18 Mar 2009, 16:10 Pretty much nails you, Brunians. Stubborn, resentful, sullen, obstructionist, failing to follow through with expectations of how to behave in a forum, failing to acknowledge responsibility for fights you've started, etc. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:29:16 -0400 (EDT) > From: brunians at brunians.org > Subject: Re: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Message-ID: <10623.67.142.130.26.1237379356.squirrel at brunians.org> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > No, you can get by on passive-aggressive insinuations. > > > I am sorry, you are misusing the term 'passive aggressive'. It does not > mean what you think it means. > > From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive_behavior: > ___ > Passive-aggressive behavior is passive, sometimes obstructionist > resistance to following through with expectations in interpersonal or > occupational situations. It can manifest itself as learned helplessness, > procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, or > deliberate/repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is > (often explicitly) responsible. > --- > > I am so very glad that I could be of service in helping to correct ypur > misuse of this term of art. > > > > . > > > > > ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------