In my head, Passive-Aggressive is like telling the 20-something co-worker you don't like: "I love that sweater you're wearing. I got my grandma one just like it for Christmas." Basically, getting your way, or getting a dig in, (aggressive) while on the surface seeming to be 'nice' (passive).
I've been guilty of P-A actions, but prefer to think of it as being artfully sneaky.
t.
Passive Aggressive
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tlynn78
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Re: Passive Aggressive
When reality requires approval, control replaces truth.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -Thomas Paine
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. -Ayn Rand
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -Thomas Paine
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. -Ayn Rand
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
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secondchance
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Re: Passive Aggressive
It's 10:20pm, lots of cars, but still no throbbing bass or window shattering decibels. Yahoo.
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peacock2121
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Re: Passive Aggressive
I have always thought of that kind of behavior as snarky.tlynn78 wrote:In my head, Passive-Aggressive is like telling the 20-something co-worker you don't like: "I love that sweater you're wearing. I got my grandma one just like it for Christmas." Basically, getting your way, or getting a dig in, (aggressive) while on the surface seeming to be 'nice' (passive).
I've been guilty of P-A actions, but prefer to think of it as being artfully sneaky.
t.
I have thought of passive aggressive as saying nothing when others are complimenting the sweater. or Saying "you think so?" when someone else does. or sayin Yeah? when someone else does.
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littlebeast13
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Re: Passive Aggressive
Second Chance wrote:I'm sure not, Kay. It's just the one's with the DJ's till 3am that kill us.
lb, you can take off work one night, can't ya?
Are you kidding? Not this time of the year.....
I doubt the DJ plays my kind of music anyway.....
lb13
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cindy.wellman
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Re: Passive Aggressive
littlebeast13 wrote:Second Chance wrote:I'm sure not, Kay. It's just the one's with the DJ's till 3am that kill us.
lb, you can take off work one night, can't ya?
Are you kidding? Not this time of the year.....
I doubt the DJ plays my kind of music anyway.....
lb13
What type of music is your kind of music?
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Re: Passive Aggressive
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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silvercamaro
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Re: Passive Aggressive
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://peoplewhodeserveit.com/2008/12/1 ... icon-user/
I am not "horrible bitch who takes pleasure in other people’s misery." I simply love company.
Now generating the White Hot Glare of Righteousness on behalf of BBs everywhere.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Re: Passive Aggressive
Oh I left thesilvercamaro wrote:themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://peoplewhodeserveit.com/2008/12/1 ... icon-user/
I am not "horrible bitch who takes pleasure in other people’s misery." I simply love company.
of my post.Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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minimetoo26
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Re: Passive Aggressive
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://peoplewhodeserveit.com/2008/12/1 ... icon-user/
This whole site is too funny! It reminds me of clem, if clem couldn't spell......
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used.
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