Two points I'd like to make - both are bolded.Originally Posted by zbyers7
ok im going into the time out room. LOL. Yea i hear ya but you gotta stop talking to me like i am a little kid. More trouble? Why is it not "hey cool out on this convo and you will be good." Or something relating to that. Please people, understand that I never lied about anything. I never acted like i was better than you, and I never put anyone down. But why is it ok for others to put me down? The critics out there are ruining me. Stop thinking of me of some complicative child and see that i am just talking and most of the time with a little sarcasm. Im a good peoples im not a bad guy! Im just from a different generation then you! LOL!!!
1) You did put people down by pointing out that YOU don't have any normals, but they they ONLY had a normal and then pointed out that I had a lot of normals on my site and you have none (which came off as being a braggert). I presume you didn't look at my journal and only "The Nest" (which admittedly desperately needs to be updated). And you implied because I had a lot of normals and you didn't, that somehow your collection was somehow superior to mine.
It's great that you're excited about your collection of 12 animals and you're just starting out in this business at a relatively young age (22 is young to me). But when you insult (and your words were insulting, whether you intended them to be or not) others because they have normals in their collection, and toot your own horn about your animals as if they are somehow "better" than normals and that normals are "beneath" you now - you're also insulting all these large breeders you espouse to be so close with. They all have normals in their collections and their normals are a very integral part of their yearly breeding plans.
At the end of the day, our mutations are still ball pythons just with a different paint job. Being a mutation doesn't make them any more precious than a normal.
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The phantom "critics" are not ruining you. At some point you need to figure out what the common denominator is with your troubles on forums. And that would be you. YOU need to take responsibility for your own actions on forums and stop and think "what is it about my posting style that causes others to react this way to me?".
Instead of puffing out your chest and telling people they don't know who they're talking to, and demanding that they treat you with respect, you may want to think about being a little more humble and respectful in your posts as well. No one is impressed with an internet "tough guy". Instead, it has the opposite effect than what you desire. You LOSE respect when you DEMAND respect. Respect is earned, it's not bullied or forced out of people.
Also, no one is really impressed with WHO you know. They're impressed by how you decide to present YOURSELF. That's all. Many of us here are friends with different "big guys", we just don't find it necessary to point it out in a post to prove any points.
