A wee while ago, after I had offered up a harsh but (in my view) justified opinion of someone, Mrs Amusements, perhaps feeling that I had been unkind, frustratedly declared, "Well, you just don't like people."
This stung a bit, at the time, but on reflection I think she may be right. I have always been colossally intolerant; indeed, The Man Of Cheese and I used to light-heartedly call ourselves The Intolerance Twins. But I think it goes beyond that; maybe I am just not very nice.
Yesterday I was not very nice, and to someone who deserves all the niceness in the world. To compound it all, I'm now going to upset the blogosphere by embedding a track by SPM. I would say sorry but, as I think we have already established, I'm not very nice.
Ah, The Intolerance Twins, didn't they play at Latitude last year...?
ReplyDeleteMartin, you're NOT not very nice, you're lovely. But I totally get the not liking people thing. I'm really quite anti humans in general - although there are a good few notable exceptions, of course (and they're nearly all in this blog corner). The thing I keep hearing myself saying, either in my head or occasionally out loud, is that I don't *get* people. Birds, worms, snails, spiders... that's more my bag, any day. But people can be very hard to be nice to, in all honesty.
Ah C, you say the right things. But "people"... I don't mind being intolerant of them (I sometimes enjoy quite like it). It's when I'm not nice to proper people that I have an issue. But thank you.
DeleteI'm afraid I'll have to disagree with you here Martin. I've been fortunate enough to meet you and, as C so rightly says, you're definitely NOT not very nice.
ReplyDeleteAh, cheers. But I certainly have moments that I can beat myself up about afterwards.
DeleteI think we all do... because we're people! But I hope you can make amends in whatever way you feel you need to for both of you.
DeleteI tried to make amends.
DeleteGiven what we face every day in this mad world I think we can all be forgiven for an occasional blip. My own intolerance grows by the second to the point I'd like to move to a deserted island. Mind you some fool in a jetski would arrive and ruin it....oops I'm off again!
ReplyDeleteA deserted island certainly sounds nice sometimes.
DeleteDitto what the others have said, especially having now met you, Martin. And, as C pointed out, we are very lucky to have all the lovely humans in this 'blog corner'.
ReplyDeleteAh, thanks Alyson. I will continue to beat myself up, of course :)
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