Balls and Walnuts
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Turn-offs: rude people!
Over at the old blogger home for Balls and Walnuts, I still get comments:
are you a doctor cause your site really sucks i just had a question because i am going for surgery on the 18th but screw you your impossible to contact
Oh, Mr. Anonymous. Thank you for your kind letter; until I received this in my email in-basket, I didn’t know what I would write about tonight. Now I do.
Where to begin? There is so much to say about the venom, spite, and general nano-mindedness of a comment like this.
To begin with, consider its presumptuousness. Clearly, I exist to serve Mr. Anonymous.
Second: even if I were inclined to answer a stranger’s medical question (and I occasionally do), I have an aversion to hostility. This guy could ask me about me about the maximum dosage of Tylenol and I wouldn’t answer him.
Third: there’s the too-stupid-to-live complaint, “your impossible to contact,” left on a post entitled, “I’ve moved,” with a BIG, BLUE LINK to the new blog. Does he bother to follow me over here? No. He’d rather take a fat crap on my old blog.
Fourth: the man has no taste. My site does not suck, it rawks.
Fifth: he’s clearly not a friend. My friends sign their names.
Happy Monday!
D.
It was Jim-Bob Duggar. Following you around. Asking you questions. Like he does.
So . . . what’s his surgery on the 18th?
“Dear Dr. Hoffman,
“On the 18th of February, Year of Our Lord 2008, I will be undergoing implantation of a device which will allow me to plant my arrows anytime Michelle (that’s my wife) — like I was saying, anytime Michelle’s quiver needs an extra arrow or two hundred million.
“My question: is it dangerous for me to continue taking my Viagra up until the time of surgery?
“Yours truly,
“JIM-BOB”
Who the fsck trolls the internet for random doctors to ask (free) medical advice? It’s like going to trial as your own attorney, then kvetching when some random defense lawyer won’t give you free legal advice on their blog…
I mean, what could possibly go wrong with that plan?
LOL boy im glad i bumped into u. a great way to start the day, did u see Lou Dobbs act like Billy O last night, talking to president of LaRaza, find transcript if u can. i did a lil dab on it. Lou Dobbs missed the point, she was talking about hate speech. he sounded like Bill o Reiley. shame on him. What dressing u want
ps: I do write a few “serious” medical pieces for this blog, so it’s not unusual for people to find me via a google search for this or that. Usually, though, they find my medical blog, which gives clear instructions on how to contact me (and also tells folks that I probably answer fewer than 1 in 10 questions. When the spirit hits me, you know?) But, yeah, the presumptuousness of this dude is amazing.
rdb: doesn’t surprise me in the least. Although I like Dobbs when he does his “war on the middle class” shtick, I despise him for his “war on the scary brown people at our borders” shtick. I try to avoid him as much as possible, but once again, I’m sometimes stuck listening to him when I’m at the gym.
One must wonder if you had left your eMail and phone number in big green letters reading “CONTACT ME!” in bold, flashing letters, if he/she might still have complained about not being able to contact you?
At the very least, had he/she identified himself, there would have been some hope of you contacting him/her!
Then again, I’ve gotten requests for pricing on my eCommerce site(s), where people fail to provide any kind of contact information. And, I think I’ve even received at least one follow-up from someone complaining they’ve not heard back, while still failing to provide any contact information.