"You've never expressed outrage at something the other side has told you on a transaction for negotiating effect when you're not actually bothered?"
no I haven't. this is what idiots do. when I was selling a flat, a prospective buyer tried to drop the price by £150k for some imagined risk and feigned indication. I just walked away.
The first time I heard it used was several years ago by a rofer formerly of this parish. I was bombarding me with angry rants off-board about an online comment I had made that he disagreed with. When I suggested his behaviour was making me uncomfortable and I wanted him to stop contacting me, he claimed I was feigning outrage. I suspect he was just trying to concoct a defence in case I reported him rather than really believing it though.
given it’s rightards who more regularly feign outrage (see my thread on duffy and all the h7ers’ contributions), this is simply another spasmodic example of rightard hypocrisy
I love the "we were shocked/saddened/appalled" letters.
I usually call them immediately and offer to point them towards some sort of counselling to help, or suggest they perhaps spend a bit more time lawyering and they'll find this stuff is really, really commonplace.
See also "looking forward to receiving", which gets a "I'm looking forward to supplying.."
Really Orwell? You think all the MP's who talk in the House about their horror and outrage are genuinely outraged or just wanting to sound better in the sound bites for their constituents?
From the pollies I know (and I don't know any rightards), if they say something is upsetting, outrageous etc. they have always meant it. But you are also clutching at straws there in an effort to paint this as a universal issue and as normal.
I think they've convinced themselves it's "feigned", a more pejorative term, when actually they mean unnecessary, disproportionate or mis-targeted outrage.
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People who don't have any capacity for empathy think that anyone being annoyed by something is faking it, like they do.
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I don't think it's a rightard thing and all ends of the political spectrum do it at times for effect.
You've never expressed outrage at something the other side has told you on a transaction for negotiating effect when you're not actually bothered?
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no ofc not
I do not prostitute myself for negotiating advantage, especially not on matters I have no personal stake in.
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"You've never expressed outrage at something the other side has told you on a transaction for negotiating effect when you're not actually bothered?"
no I haven't. this is what idiots do. when I was selling a flat, a prospective buyer tried to drop the price by £150k for some imagined risk and feigned indication. I just walked away.
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And Diceman and Chambo are ad idem
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Isn't this what litig8rs do for a job?
"We were shocked to read your client's allegations..."
No you weren't, u absolute plum
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I've never heard a normal right-leaning person or leftie do it, Sails.
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The first time I heard it used was several years ago by a rofer formerly of this parish. I was bombarding me with angry rants off-board about an online comment I had made that he disagreed with. When I suggested his behaviour was making me uncomfortable and I wanted him to stop contacting me, he claimed I was feigning outrage. I suspect he was just trying to concoct a defence in case I reported him rather than really believing it though.
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given it’s rightards who more regularly feign outrage (see my thread on duffy and all the h7ers’ contributions), this is simply another spasmodic example of rightard hypocrisy
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Isn't this what litig8rs do for a job?
"We were shocked to read your client's allegations..."
I do not do this
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Absolutely agog to know who Orwell means
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I love the "we were shocked/saddened/appalled" letters.
I usually call them immediately and offer to point them towards some sort of counselling to help, or suggest they perhaps spend a bit more time lawyering and they'll find this stuff is really, really commonplace.
See also "looking forward to receiving", which gets a "I'm looking forward to supplying.."
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Really Orwell? You think all the MP's who talk in the House about their horror and outrage are genuinely outraged or just wanting to sound better in the sound bites for their constituents?
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*He was bombarding me.
It was before your time Hoolie. Good friend of Spellers - think she and he left before you joined.
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From the pollies I know (and I don't know any rightards), if they say something is upsetting, outrageous etc. they have always meant it. But you are also clutching at straws there in an effort to paint this as a universal issue and as normal.
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TBF Spellbound was a master of professional offence taking. No idea what her politics were mind you.
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To be honest Orwell if it bothered me I might even attempt to feign outrage now but really not bothered.
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was it that mark whatshisface chap? Who wrote a book. Semi-intellectual.
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He certainly was sufficiently tedious.
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Based in Budapest? That one?
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Extremely tedious. And quite often quite wrong.
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that one! Don't know if budapest but certainly eastern europe-ish.
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Griffiths wasn’t it?
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Something like that.
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90% of outrage on rof and on all soclail media is feigned!!
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OMG HOW DARE YOU!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??
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I thought Spellbound was Orwell. How many po-faced female "progressives" are there on this board?
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I think they've convinced themselves it's "feigned", a more pejorative term, when actually they mean unnecessary, disproportionate or mis-targeted outrage.
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Orwell is a girl?
Soz for misgendering you m7.
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