On 6/6/2015 5:30 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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>> On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 6:03:59 PM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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>>> > On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 2:11:29 AM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> >> "La Mirada" > wrote in message
>>> >> ...
>>> >> > On 6/4/2015 9:52 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> "taxed and spent" > wrote in message
>>> >> >> ...
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>> >> >>> ...
>>> >> >>>> On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:22:01 -0700 (PDT),
>>> >> >>>> wrote:
>>> >> >>>>
>>> >> >>>>> My husband, on hearing this study, wanted to know who puts
>>> >> >>>>> Tabasco
>>> >> >>>>> on their mashed potatoes, anyway.
>>> >> >>>>
>>> >> >>>> That was my first thought too.
>>> >> >>>>
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> ditto.
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> Do Frenchmen even use Tabasco? Pretty simplistic flavoring.
>>> I >> >>> never
>>> >> >>> use it - I find something to add heat that adds more
>>> complexity. >> >>> But
>>> >> >>> not to mashed potatoes. Ridiculous.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I occasionally use the green jalapeno flavor but I don't even
>>> have >> >> the
>>> >> >> regular stuff in the house. I don't think I have even tried it.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Ah, that's the GOOD stuff...and of course the Chipotle as well.
>>> >>
>>> >> I don't like Chipotle.
>>> >
>>> > Then don't buy it.
>>>
>>> What makes you think I do?
>>
>> I don't think you do.
>>
>> However, I don't see the point, when someone says "I like chipotle
>> Tabasco"
>> for you to say "I don't like Chipotle". He wasn't exhorting you to buy
>> it; he was merely saying that he likes it.
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> Yet when I said that I liked the Jalapeno kind, I was told that I
> shouldn't have mentioned it. Why the double standard? And why in the
> world would you think that I thought that he wanted me to buy it? Why
> do people here treat me like I should have no opinion on things.
Ah great question.
Because you DARE to share your opinion on things, regularly and honestly.
That drives the conformists nuts!
They can't handle the truth, theirs,let alone yours.
Ergo - you make yourself a lightning rod for criticism by being candid.
Simple stuff really, once you learn hominid herd psychology.