It's an old wall, Avon. It waits.

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clameron 🎩 2010 - 2015

the tories were nestled, all snug in their beds while visions of thatcherism danced in their heads and mama in her beanie and i in my novelty Santa hat, had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap

when out on the pavement there rose such a clatter i sprang from my bed to see what was the matter away to the window i flew like a flash but i didnt call the police bc it was probs some drunken twats

the fog on the breast of the non-existent snow gave shite all lustre to objects below when, what to my wondering eyes should appear a weird ass carousel ride and a really shiny forehead

with a plump lil driver, neither lively nor quick i knew in a moment it must be david cameron more rapid than socialists his coursers they came and he hummed and shouted and called them by name

Willows in the Garden at Bougival Berthe Morisot, 1884

If I’m so irritating, why are you even here? Do you like to be irritated?

But you’re right. I should not have used bad language about the house-flipping, expenses cheating, person who claimed they would take in refugees and then didn’t. I should have just called her a hypocrite. Much simpler.

It’s perfectly fine for the anon and others to be in my inbox calling me names and saying I should kill myself because I dare to express opinions that differ from theirs. But swear, and omg I am the most heinous person who walks the earth.

Bad behaviour is justified against me because I’m “one of them”. Therefore the standards that apply to me do not apply to those who fill my inbox with hateful shit. The standards they apply to others do apply to them because they are somehow justified in being hateful.

1. using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks. 2. treating badly or injuriously; mistreating, especially physically: his abusive handling of the horse.

But does abuse include insult? I don’t think it does.

And that’s what it comes down to, really. I think I insulted Cooper but did not abuse her, others will think I abused her. Where is that line drawn? Because it’s all about perception in the end. When there is no definite criteria, who wins?

Where I begin to see it differently is the comment about insulting people not being a crime, and on this one I suspect that my views are so colored by my own history that I will forever over-react. On one end of the scale is someone being able to insult a person if they want to because it’s not a crime, on the other end is the damage that verbal abuse can do to a person, which ranges from mild upset to someone who has become so downtrodden by verbal abuse that they begin to believe it, someone whose self-confidence is with so damaged by it (or it doesn’t develop at all in the atmosphere created) that they don’t have enough self-confidence to know that the abuser is wrong about them.

I had a verbally abusive bully of a father, and the damage it does is horrendous. Although I have spent very many years dealing with the mental ill-health issues that this caused, and have been mainly successful in climbing out of that pit through therapy, hard work and time, I don’t think I’ll ever be at a place where I can see (what I consider to be) verbal abuse as okay. Yes, I know it’s at the other end of the particular continuum that I’m talking about and intellectually I recognise that, but the emotional damage was such that I’ll always stand up and object to it.

That’s abuse.

If I’m so irritating, why are you even here? Do you like to be irritated?

But you’re right. I should not have used bad language about the house-flipping, expenses cheating, person who claimed they would take in refugees and then didn’t. I should have just called her a hypocrite. Much simpler.

It’s perfectly fine for the anon and others to be in my inbox calling me names and saying I should kill myself because I dare to express opinions that differ from theirs. But swear, and omg I am the most heinous person who walks the earth.

Bad behaviour is justified against me because I’m “one of them”. Therefore the standards that apply to me do not apply to those who fill my inbox with hateful shit. The standards they apply to others do apply to them because they are somehow justified in being hateful.

1. using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks. 2. treating badly or injuriously; mistreating, especially physically: his abusive handling of the horse.

But does abuse include insult? I don’t think it does.

And that’s what it comes down to, really. I think I insulted Cooper but did not abuse her, others will think I abused her. Where is that line drawn? Because it’s all about perception in the end. When there is no definite criteria, who wins?

Where I begin to see it differently is the comment about insulting people not being a crime, and on this one I suspect that my views are so colored by my own history that I will forever over-react. On one end of the scale is someone being able to insult a person if they want to because it's not a crime, on the other end is the damage that verbal abuse can do to a person, which ranges from mild upset to someone who has become so downtrodden by verbal abuse that they begin to believe it, someone whose self-confidence is with so damaged by it (or it doesn't develop at all in the atmosphere created) that they don't have enough self-confidence to know that the abuser is wrong about them.

I had a verbally abusive bully of a father, and the damage it does is horrendous. Although I have spent very many years dealing with the mental ill-health issues that this caused, and have been mainly successful in climbing out of that pit through therapy, hard work and time, I don't think I'll ever be at a place where I can see (what I consider to be) verbal abuse as okay. Yes, I know it's at the other end of the particular continuum that I'm talking about and intellectually I recognise that, but the emotional damage was such that I'll always stand up and object to it.

If I’m so irritating, why are you even here? Do you like to be irritated?

But you’re right. I should not have used bad language about the house-flipping, expenses cheating, person who claimed they would take in refugees and then didn’t. I should have just called her a hypocrite. Much simpler.

It’s perfectly fine for the anon and others to be in my inbox calling me names and saying I should kill myself because I dare to express opinions that differ from theirs. But swear, and omg I am the most heinous person who walks the earth.

Bad behaviour is justified against me because I’m “one of them”. Therefore the standards that apply to me do not apply to those who fill my inbox with hateful shit. The standards they apply to others do apply to them because they are somehow justified in being hateful.

1. using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks. 2. treating badly or injuriously; mistreating, especially physically: his abusive handling of the horse.

If I’m so irritating, why are you even here? Do you like to be irritated?

But you’re right. I should not have used bad language about the house-flipping, expenses cheating, person who claimed they would take in refugees and then didn’t. I should have just called her a hypocrite. Much simpler.

It’s perfectly fine for the anon and others to be in my inbox calling me names and saying I should kill myself because I dare to express opinions that differ from theirs. But swear, and omg I am the most heinous person who walks the earth.

Bad behaviour is justified against me because I’m “one of them”. Therefore the standards that apply to me do not apply to those who fill my inbox with hateful shit. The standards they apply to others do apply to them because they are somehow justified in being hateful.