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Question BYH - does it stand for Bless Your Heart? The southern version of GFY?
Great post.It's incredible I haven't posted under my original screen name in 10 years and I'm still in the top five. What a forking looser.
To echo @Driftwood, I don't mind whatever snafu happened that forced me to sign up under a different handle. I was younger, much dumber (hard to believe, I know) and less secure in myself back then. I went thru a lot that forced me to finally grow up during the back half of the BYH handle (lost my Mom, fell out of the biz for a while, became a Dad) and I hope I'm a much better person now than I was then. Arguing online is dumb and pointless. I feel bad about all the nonsense I got into back in the day. My apologies to @hondo in particular...I was a jerk. I even feel bad about the stuff with @outofplace, though he is wrong about everything.
It's sort of wild how this place was the original Twitter, where we'd come to rage engage and yell ship at complete strangers about everything. But it feels like almost all of that has disappeared...perhaps b/c of a combo of Twitter turning completely toxic, the business thinning out and the base level of respect we all have for one another as current or former journalists. Anyone here automatically has something in common with everyone else and that seems to take precedence over any disagreements. Anyway, enough of that kumbaya ship, Tom Wilson is a punk and if I ever see @Cosmo again I'm going to punch him in the face.![]()
It's incredible I haven't posted under my original screen name in 10 years and I'm still in the top five. What a forking looser.
To echo @Driftwood, I don't mind whatever snafu happened that forced me to sign up under a different handle. I was younger, much dumber (hard to believe, I know) and less secure in myself back then. I went thru a lot that forced me to finally grow up during the back half of the BYH handle (lost my Mom, fell out of the biz for a while, became a Dad) and I hope I'm a much better person now than I was then. Arguing online is dumb and pointless. I feel bad about all the nonsense I got into back in the day. My apologies to @hondo in particular...I was a jerk. I even feel bad about the stuff with @outofplace, though he is wrong about everything.
It's sort of wild how this place was the original Twitter, where we'd come to rage engage and yell ship at complete strangers about everything. But it feels like almost all of that has disappeared...perhaps b/c of a combo of Twitter turning completely toxic, the business thinning out and the base level of respect we all have for one another as current or former journalists. Anyone here automatically has something in common with everyone else and that seems to take precedence over any disagreements. Anyway, enough of that kumbaya ship, Tom Wilson is a punk and if I ever see @Cosmo again I'm going to punch him in the face.![]()
I think a lot of us were bitter about 20 years ago and just so happened to be in our 20s or early 30s. We'd fought our way into this business in some form or another -- some of us at smaller papers and others at bigger shops -- and saw the nonsense this gig entailed and also probably felt like the last pashengers to board the Titanic.