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Safeword
You may not believe this, but I like to make jokes, puns, wordplays, multiple levels of meaning, etc.
Sometimes, this can cause trouble, as the gentle onlooker may not know if John is being serious or joking, or some of both. The gentle onlooker might even think, "What, gentle self, the fuck is he talking about?"
Sometimes, I like to respond to questions about the above jokes and confusions with more jokes and confusions, if I think the recipient can understand the jokes and confusions if I just repeat it enough, and then they will laugh instead of scowl.
Sometimes they don't understand, and I just compound my error.
Often, I am simultaneously serious and joking, sometimes meaning both 'A' and 'not A', tho I might mean one of the two more than the other.
Often, I just say things, and figure them out later.
Sometimes, I state things as fact, because I think they're facts. But I'm both right and wrong, and you should feel free to slap me around with a trout.
How can anyone get anything of use from such a person? How to know *really* what I mean?
I hereby borrow from BDSM: the gentle viewer can say "safeword!" to make me cut out the mooshit and speak in an attempt at plain and unconfusing English. "Wordsafe!" will not work, and will just encourage me to be naughty. The exclamation point is optional. Questions can be appended in order to ask for clarification. However, that sometimes takes too many words, and sometimes the questions are nonsense, and I may not have time, so in those cases I may decline to answer, at least for a while.
Hey, i didn't sign you up for this journal.
mk. i sprink you all with rainbow sauce hereby.
Sometimes, this can cause trouble, as the gentle onlooker may not know if John is being serious or joking, or some of both. The gentle onlooker might even think, "What, gentle self, the fuck is he talking about?"
Sometimes, I like to respond to questions about the above jokes and confusions with more jokes and confusions, if I think the recipient can understand the jokes and confusions if I just repeat it enough, and then they will laugh instead of scowl.
Sometimes they don't understand, and I just compound my error.
Often, I am simultaneously serious and joking, sometimes meaning both 'A' and 'not A', tho I might mean one of the two more than the other.
Often, I just say things, and figure them out later.
Sometimes, I state things as fact, because I think they're facts. But I'm both right and wrong, and you should feel free to slap me around with a trout.
How can anyone get anything of use from such a person? How to know *really* what I mean?
I hereby borrow from BDSM: the gentle viewer can say "safeword!" to make me cut out the mooshit and speak in an attempt at plain and unconfusing English. "Wordsafe!" will not work, and will just encourage me to be naughty. The exclamation point is optional. Questions can be appended in order to ask for clarification. However, that sometimes takes too many words, and sometimes the questions are nonsense, and I may not have time, so in those cases I may decline to answer, at least for a while.
Hey, i didn't sign you up for this journal.
mk. i sprink you all with rainbow sauce hereby.