MetaTalk posts tagged with apologies

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad ...

Mutant — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:32:25 -0800

I offer an unqualified apology to Malor and anyone else who might have been offended by my comments. I was appalled as I re-read some of my last few comments in that thread. I value MeFi in general - and the finance threads specifically - very much due to the high signal to noise ratio. I fear that some of my comments may have increased the denominator and for that I apologise. I should be able - and generally am - capable of entertaining different views and, if not driving towards consensus, than at least disagreeing amicably. I'm generally better at sensing when I'm pushing folks too hard and backing off or changing tact to achieve consensus. This time I failed at both initiatives and for that I apologise. It was not and never is my iniative to stifle debate or the expression of views, and if any of my comments were perceived that way I apologise. I value all contributions to these threads, Malor's specifically. I've pointed this out before, and I will say this again - he & I agree far more than we disagree. Once again, if my comments had the effect of surpressing the free exchange of views, I apologise. There were lots of reasons why I wasn't on top of my game yesterday; none are germane to MeFi or that thread, and should not be interpreted as an excuse for my behaviour, but : crappy ass weather here in London, someone leached our high speed broadband for six days last week and because they downloaded 30GB of OnlyTheGoodLordKnowsWhat we're capped at 56kps for the next week, construction work on The Tube made it impossible for us to leave The Ghetto yesterday to see a Bansky show in Kensington, changes to non-dom tax rules means our bills have sharply increased unless we leave England, Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs suddenly decided to increase the duty levied on MP3 players I import from China, because of booming sales we have to register our business for VAT which is a total PIA, due to the bandwidth leaching we had to migrate away from WEP and now the entire second floor of our flat is off the wireless LAN as the older Macs run OS X 10.2 and can't speak PKA, all day yesterday I was having problems using Carbon Copy Cloner to get 10.4 onto the older Macs, Tower Hamlets Council is hassling me about the security gates I installed on my flat eight years ago, I guess I could work in a few more issues of a highly personal nature that some of you might find disgusting but I'll just stop here ... I like to think it hasn't happened before, but I can say with certainty that iit won't happen again folks. I'm aware there are some interesting points added to that thread after my last comment, but I'm late for work, and as Monday's are busy meeting days for me I will have to revisit the thread later this evening. Take care Mutant

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yonation — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:00:03 -0800

what's up with all the apologetic posts lately? since when did metafilter become a religious site where communal acceptance depends on strict penitence?

Sit, ubu, sit.

UbuRoivas — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:27:30 -0800

I'd like to publicly apologise to occhiblu, thehmsbeagle, zebra3, klango & nickyskye (and anybody else) for being a massive, trollish douche recently. That's all.

Sometimes I Feel (Like A Very Small Girl's Blouse)

koeselitz — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:16:23 -0800

Sorry if I've offended. Let's bring disagreements here. At the risk of seeming somewhat self-centered, there were a few comments in the "Viagra (in a needle) for women?" thread that lead me to believe I'm routinely pissing certain people off. Look, that's not what I want to do. Sorry if that's the case. If you have something you want to say about it, I guess it'd be good to hear about it here, rather than wasting space in a thread. And I'd rather get it out into the open, rather than wondering about it and then saying something else to piss people off. I have a feeling it has something to do with what could be charitably called my 'polemical style' of relishing the invention of insults. I think I'll stop with that. I know I probably earned Pope Guilty as an enemy pretty quickly like that, for one. Sorry, Pope Guilty.

I'm sorry about my post

Hands of Manos — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:43:28 -0800

I'm sorry about my post

Woot, we're back up. Sorry about the downtime.

mathowie — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:25:05 -0800

Woot, we're back up. Sorry about the downtime.

I'm sorry.

mischief — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:35:55 -0800

I'm sorry.

This is the apology thread

LarryC — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:09:51 -0800

This is the apology thread, make of it what you will.

Apologies for my whiny comments yesterday.

starvingartist — Tue, 08 May 2001 06:22:05 -0800

Apologies for my whiny comments yesterday. It was an increasingly frustrating day for me all around and I took it out on some fellow MeFiers. Sorry.