I’m making this post to apologise for my outburst yesterday. Strongly disagreeing with someone does not excuse anger and swearing. I have not slept for three nights in a row now due to a particularly painful sciatic flare up and I’m strung out on painkillers and anti inflammatories as well. This is not an excuse, but an explanation as to where my head was/is at.
Sorry for any offence caused. Peace & Love.
Twang says
**rushes off to find out what young Rob has done this time.**
I’m sure it’s cool dude. Hope you feel better.
Rob C says
Feeling quite weird, to be honest.
Twang says
Whoops. Backslash didn’t land, clearly. That’ll teach me to show off my HTML skills. ☺️
Baron Harkonnen says
You`re a fine man Rob, सौभाग्य
Rob C says
Namaste Barondude _/\_
Vulpes Vulpes says
Get back in your yurt this minute young man, and give me five thousand lines; “I will not lose my rag over bollocks talked in a silly blog”.
Now when you’ve done those lines, put on some mellow choooons, kick back and look out beatifically at the lovely, er, drizzle.
Rob C says
What happened to the Thunderstorms eh ? Hmm ? FFS.
Jed Clampett says
Your penance … 5 Proud Marys.
Rob C says
Standing on my head, Guv.
( I was expecting the worst – James Taylor or Steely Dan. Phew !)
Beany says
What you need, my lad, is a touch of Spiggly. 70 seconds of pure loveliness , every hour, for a lifetime.
https://youtu.be/cNz7xWXe-fw
Rob C says
I love that album Beanyman. Great choice. Playing now.
chiz says
Ooh ooh – have I missed a fight? Link please!
Rob C says
No. Just me in a strop.
Poppy Succeeds says
Link?
Rob C says
I don’t think that would be helpful. Have this instead link instead:
Poppy Succeeds says
No, what would have been helpful would have been an actual link. Don’t bother though. Carry on with the empty posturing.
Rob C says
You can find the thread if you, not me, can be bothered. I’ll stick to empty posturing thanks.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Basically, as Rob doesn’t want to give the link and I respect that, the whole thing blew up when, during a thread about matrix numbers on Earl Bostik 78s, a commenter made an ad hominem attack on Rob’s choice of wallpaper paste. Rob, very sensitive to these matters, called the commenter a “pox-ridden termagent” and requested the admins to delete his own account. Nobody took him seriously, though, because we’ve seen it all before. I’ll say one thing – you have to have the metabolism of a hummingbird to catch one of Rob’s flouncettes.
Jackthebiscuit says
Sorry HPS, couldnt stop ,myself.
Flouncettes – TMFL.
Jackthebiscuit says
Rob – you are one of the good guys – don’t be so hard on yourself.
Peace & Love,
Les (JTB)
Rob C says
I was a an overly touchy pillock but thanks Les (JTBdude).
ip33 says
Don’t worry, you aren’t anybody until you have had a massive strop on the internet. You should seen the one I had on the Radio 2 messageboard in about 2002! And that was on Dial-Up, it took frigging hours!
chiz says
Rob’s flounces are fantastically efficient these days, aren’t they? Out and back in less than 24 hours. Not for him the messy two, two-and-a-half days of pouting in the doorway that you get from some of the umbrage addicts. The ‘please delete my account’ and separate apology thread are old school flouncecraft too. We’ll not see his like again when he goes, not until the next day, anyway.
Rob C says
Springheeled.
Rob C says
Ha ha. Fair comment.
ianess says
It’s intriguing how the art of apologising has mutated over time. This isn’t quite a Tony Blair, non-apology, apology, but it’s interesting in its own way. The apology Is directed to the users of the site, not the specific individual who was called an ‘arsehole’. Quite why the users, most of whom were either unaware of what had happened or were completely unconcerned that yet another of Rob’s innumerable mini-flounces was taking place, are apologised to, yet the individual who was insulted is not, is baffling. Maybe it’s just me.
Mike_H says
Probably.
The apology appears to be to the entire Afterword community. Presumably the person he insulted is included?
Rob C says
Exactly, but I should have included the individual concerned but forgot to. I’ve sorted that now.
chiz says
The trick is to realise that the flounce is not about offence, and the apology is not about remorse.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Afterword T-shirts.
Bingo Little says
Singular. Front and back.
Rob C says
Oh but they are. Things are not always as jadedly cynical. I’m quite passionate. It’s a Celtic Thing.
ianess says
Love the peremptory, de haut en bas, command to ‘admins, delete my account.’ It’s got a real Downton Abbey flavour – m’lady phoning Harrods to complain about a dodgy batch of quail eggs.
Rob C says
Well, I was born in a rhododendron bush outside Worplesdon, you know.
JQW says
How many strops is this now – I’ve lost count!
Rob C says
I make it 673 ?
ianess says
Mike – Why not simply apologise to the person insulted? Who else gives a shit that he’s sworn on the blog?
Gary says
Please don’t swear. On the blog.
Mike_H says
Well I didn’t get offended, because I never did read the apparently offending item. Neither am I interested in doing so.
I suppose you’re right, Ian. A personal apology would have done the job well enough.
No cause for umbrage to be taken, no flouncette necessary.
Rob C says
See below – an oversight.
Art Vandelay says
This is pretty funny. Haven’t looked in here for ages, glad to see the flounce/return continues.
Zanti Misfit says
and if you’re about to flounce, don’t forget to ‘have a couple of weeks off the message board to take stock’
Sorry, this still cracks me up.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Basically, it means lurking for a while to see if anyone is making an impassioned plea for your return. Or has even noticed you’ve gone. The inherent flaw in this is, of course, that maybe your flounce didn’t create the tremors in the internet that you thought it deserved. So you have the choice of feebly creeping back in after a few days, pretending nothing happened, or going a single turn in the revolving door and deflouncing right back with a blushing Grand Apology, issued as a standalone boilerplate piece. Then you can expect comments like the ones here, of course.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Oops – I forget – where Rob didn’t, seasoned pro that he is – that it’s always good to detail the meds you’re on, confess that it’s a tough time for you right now, etc. That always results in an Agincourt of up arrers.
Rob C says
Codydramol, Naproxen and Jazz Rings.
Rob C says
I’m a lover not a lurker.
James Blast says
Massif overreaction to hee-haw.
Rob C says
Quite. I blame myself. Sorry.
bricameron says
I thought about issuing a similar thread apology after my last tirade but then reasoned that you fuckers weren’t worth it.
bricameron says
No. That’s not what I meant. Not that you weren’t worth it. More that you couldn’t or shouldn’t give a shit anyway. Holy crap! Where else am I going to go?
Gary says
Could you narrow down the field somewhat? I feel your question is too broad to hazard a serious guess.
H.P. Saucecraft says
If anyone had the right to gather up his skirts and flounce out of the French windows, it’s the person who Rob called an arsehole. He didn’t come here to be insulated.
mikethep says
Was it me?
H.P. Saucecraft says
No. But I’m sure someone will call you an arsehole if you ask nicely enough.
Rob C says
Crikey. In my medicated befuddled error I forgot to mention the main apology recipients – Ianess and Dog Faced Boy. Mea culpa.
Group hug – feel the lurve ? A long cool swim in Lake Us ?
Fin59 says
Good word, flounce. Not sure I’ve ever heard it in the wild, so to speak. Just here in jolly old Afterwordland.
It’s definitely a local meme. Flounce and Return, Our version of Call and Response.