Comments on: a fish of another color https://thisfish.com/a-fish-of-another-color/ Found the bike. Not changing the title. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Fish https://thisfish.com/a-fish-of-another-color/#comment-9597 Fish Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:31:38 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1011#comment-9597 <p>Indeed.</p> Indeed.

]]> By: ohreallyfactor https://thisfish.com/a-fish-of-another-color/#comment-9596 ohreallyfactor Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:20:50 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1011#comment-9596 <p>Ack! Fish! You took the bait! Clearly, whoever wrote this (Why does everyone assume it was a guy?? Women are far more petty towards other women than men are!) was just goading you and it's evident that YOU are bent about it and chomped right on down on the worm on Anon's hook. </p><br /><br /><p>I agree that the words "vapid" and "boring" are far from being constructive terms, but I think what Katherine said was true about missing the old you, and not out of any maudlin sense of wishing you ill-will. I think that might have been what Anon was trying to say. </p><br /><br /><p>It's understandable that you changed your format a bit due to a high volume in readership and the personal friendships you have with lots of people who read you. You're not in a position to be an emotional 7-11 anymore. And, as is made explicitly clear on your home page, this is YOUR site; you do own it and can write about whatever the heck you want and don't have to answer to anyone about it. Which is cool. But Smita is right: who are we if we cannot take criticism, bad or good, in stride? I would be wary of anyone I know who agrees with me all the time and never has a doubt about things I say or do. </p><br /><br /><p>It's evident that Anon touched a chord in you and interestingly enough, he/she managed to provoke from you perhaps some of the rawness and familiarity that he/she once really loved about you.</p> Ack! Fish! You took the bait! Clearly, whoever wrote this (Why does everyone assume it was a guy?? Women are far more petty towards other women than men are!) was just goading you and it’s evident that YOU are bent about it and chomped right on down on the worm on Anon’s hook.

I agree that the words “vapid” and “boring” are far from being constructive terms, but I think what Katherine said was true about missing the old you, and not out of any maudlin sense of wishing you ill-will. I think that might have been what Anon was trying to say.

It’s understandable that you changed your format a bit due to a high volume in readership and the personal friendships you have with lots of people who read you. You’re not in a position to be an emotional 7-11 anymore. And, as is made explicitly clear on your home page, this is YOUR site; you do own it and can write about whatever the heck you want and don’t have to answer to anyone about it. Which is cool. But Smita is right: who are we if we cannot take criticism, bad or good, in stride? I would be wary of anyone I know who agrees with me all the time and never has a doubt about things I say or do.

It’s evident that Anon touched a chord in you and interestingly enough, he/she managed to provoke from you perhaps some of the rawness and familiarity that he/she once really loved about you.

]]> By: Katya Coldheart https://thisfish.com/a-fish-of-another-color/#comment-9595 Katya Coldheart Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:17:28 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1011#comment-9595 <p>bravo fish</p> bravo fish

]]> By: Lexi https://thisfish.com/a-fish-of-another-color/#comment-9594 Lexi Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:10:34 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1011#comment-9594 <p>Wonderful...asbsolutely wonderful. What an ass that douche made of him/herself. Way to go, Fish.</p> Wonderful…asbsolutely wonderful. What an ass that douche made of him/herself. Way to go, Fish.

]]> By: ally https://thisfish.com/a-fish-of-another-color/#comment-9593 ally Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:05:04 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1011#comment-9593 <p>i would've said you're writing is indicative of the slow, steady ache of masses of people who club-footedly struggle to find meaning in daily events interspersed between making credit card payments and thinking of smarmy ways to articulate needless social judgments against those they write about...oh wait...that is "vapid" and "boring". <br /><br />i'm going to go read da ali g's 2004 commencement speech to harvard instead. <br /><br />now THAT'S neither "boring" or "vapid".</p> i would’ve said you’re writing is indicative of the slow, steady ache of masses of people who club-footedly struggle to find meaning in daily events interspersed between making credit card payments and thinking of smarmy ways to articulate needless social judgments against those they write about…oh wait…that is “vapid” and “boring”.

i’m going to go read da ali g’s 2004 commencement speech to harvard instead.

now THAT’S neither “boring” or “vapid”.

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