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Originally Posted by Timboli
Well any kind of interaction with someone else is a relationship of sorts.
I didn't call your post Dog Balls, just that something was as obvious as dog balls (a common saying ... round my neck of the woods at least). It was only later that my mind noticed your Dog avatar, and made the connection ... funny I thought, considering.
Maybe a misunderstanding occurred, and if that is the case, then I too apologize ... heck I apologize anyway ... rather be friendly.
Your cake bit seemed to be insinuating something not nice about me, and that on top of not properly reading what I had written earlier, tipped the balance. And your generally tone and avant-garde silliness didn't help.
I answered the first part in another post.
Never happened to me before. I guess the closest I've gotten was when Robert Jordan died, and it wasn't his fault, and he cared enough for me and others to let someone else finish up using his remaining bits & pieces.
I guess it remains to be seen, what happens with George R.R. Martin.
Depends for me.
Truce indeed.
And just so you know, I am a big fan of Robust conversation, but there are different versions of that out there. In my version, it is quite okay to tell someone they are being silly, dumb, stupid, whatever. We are all that at times. It is however not okay to say someone is stupid etc, especially if couched like - obviously you are a stupid person. That is an insult for sure, and not within the bounds of respectful behavior.
Respectful behavior though, also includes listening/reading properly, plus being tolerant of another view point you don't agree with.
In the end, it is about language and how you use it, and the semantics related to your culture no doubt, etc. We Aussies tend to say it like we think it is, but temper that with a heavy dose of fair play.
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Yes, I do think we had a misunderstanding. I had never heard the dog balls statement before and yes I giggled thinking you had said it because of my avatar.
Around this parts, I think the term would not be dog balls but bull sh*t. Same thinking just yours is a bit more refined.
On the cake statement, I was thinking that it took guts/cajones/balls to think one should be entitled to something like that (cake or refund on books that one had bought and read).
Now back to your problem, it sounds like Amazon only realized the once that you are not in the US and it happened to have been on one you really wanted.
I never thought you were stupid. Never even implied it or wasn't trying too. Note, every time I asked I used the word entitled which has a totally different meaning and I actually asked should I be entitled to a refund because an author never finished the promised series.
And yes, all of your postings have to do with Kindle Worlds which you are not really supposed to get but due to a glitch somewhere you obviously are getting.
Anyway once again, good luck with finding out the ending. Sorry but Wool is not one of the worlds I read. I love the man but just couldn't get into the story. Yes, I have read the freebie.
It could be worse. You could be among the knitters that bought the Wool saga thinking it was about yarn. There were no refunds on ebooks back then.