I don't think that my post implies that at all. I merely gave my interpretation of your post, and at no time did I act as if I was speaking for everyone.
Your exact words were "that's not how it came across."
Since I wasn't speaking to you, and would rather give myself a home vasectomy than speak to you unless you chose to address me by name, as here, the correct inference is
that's not how it came across to those whom I was addressing, which would effectively mean everyone.
My post was not intended to be a joke. That said, it was certainly not an attack, as you seem to have taken it. Man, I have my own opinion about who needs to lighten up here.
Your exact words were these --
nor was my post intended to be as serious as you make it out to be
-- in response to my comment --
It was a joke, mein Speakerphile, just as "enduring pain for the sake of an aesthetic ideal" is humorous hyperbole.
-- which was a response to this:
I don't think people are "enduring pain for the sake of an aesthetic ideal" so much as maybe a varying degree of discomfort for a more pleasurable listening experience. It's not quite as vain as you make it out to be. It is no more out of the ordinary, in my opinion, than enduring a difficult hike to experience an exceptional view.
You may dance around honest disclosure all you like, but your comment was no more "unserious" than my response implied you'd made an "attack." Telling me to lighten up after you'd responded to my initial joke with what an old friend used to call
seriosity seems a wee Hank hypocritical.
However, your choice to continue this exchange suggests you are in fact serious and feel that everything I say must be answered. Clearly, lightness won't reach the cave of unreason where you plan vendettas against those who take the name of Best Buy in vain.
"Ah, but you, too, seem invested in this exchange, Scrypt!"
Yes, I do, because I know its history and I want it to stop on those terms rather than yours or mine.
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**Disclaimer** The above statement is intended to be an expression of my own opinion. At no point should you to interpret this as the opinion at large, or the opinion of Head-Fi as a community.
It's a bit late for that (see above).
Let's be clear, Speakerphile:
On an earlier thread, I criticized Best Buy. You happen to work for Best Buy. You didn't like what I said. From that point on, you've been trolling my posts.
Let's be clear about something else:
I don't find your responses interesting or helpful and it's clear you don't care for mine either. Which means that, effectively, there's no reason for us to talk except to argue pointlessly.
So instead of targeting the foont with the "colorful" (your word) posting style, why don't you do the publicly conscientious thing and ignore my posts on various threads as I've been ignoring yours? I won't respond to your posts and you can do me the same courtesy by not replying to mine.
If you won't do that, then at least be honest and declare that you think I'm full of tainted potash and have made it your mission to point that out wherever I happen to blather.
Either way, to continue would be to martyr the collective attention span. In the name of verbal mercy, let's assume that other members haven't found the continuation of this exchange any more interesting than I have -- and that's an assumption based not on reading other people's thoughts but on posting thoughts worth reading.
And all because of a post that was so clearly intended to be a joke that the founder and owner of this very site would tell you as much if he even noticed we were talking at all.