The term "passive aggressive"

Ed wrote:I hate that term. All it means is "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't".

Sometimes you let things go, sometimes you go apeshit over something. It happens every day.

People can be nice one day and let things go and in another situation go on the warpath. Just like in real life. (See a woman on the rag vs. when horny)

Next person that uses that term should be fucked in the ear with a Highlander sword. (Donna you get a free pass for using it this evening on MR).

DP wrote:

Ed wrote:I hate that term. All it means is "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't".

Sometimes you let things go, sometimes you go apeshit over something. It happens every day.

People can be nice one day and let things go and in another situation go on the warpath. Just like in real life. (See a woman on the rag vs. when horny)

Next person that uses that term should be fucked in the ear with a Highlander sword. (Donna you get a free pass for using it this evening on MR).

Gee, thanks... I think.

What you describe is not passive aggressive though, IMO. It's just moody.

• Ambiguity
  or speaking cryptically: a means of engendering a feeling of insecurity
  in others
  
• Chronically being late and forgetting things: another way to exert
  control or to punish.
  
• Fear of competition
  
• Fear of dependency
  
• Fear of intimacy as a means to act out
  anger: The passive aggressive often cannot trust. Because of this, they guard
  themselves against becoming intimately attached to someone.
  
• Making chaotic
  situations
  
• Making excuses for non-performance in
  work teams
  
• Obstructionism
  
• Sulking
  
• Victimization response:
  instead of recognizing one's own weaknesses, tendency to blame others
  for own failures.
  

Ed wrote:
It is a personality trait marked by a pervasive pattern of negative attitudes and passive, usually
disavowed resistance in interpersonal or occupational situations.

• Ambiguity
  or speaking cryptically: a means of engendering a feeling of insecurity
  in others
  
• Chronically being late and forgetting things: another way to exert
  control or to punish.
  
• Fear of competition
  
• Fear of dependency
  
• Fear of intimacy as a means to act out
  anger: The passive aggressive often cannot trust. Because of this, they guard
  themselves against becoming intimately attached to someone.
  
• Making chaotic
  situations
  
• Making excuses for non-performance in
  work teams
  
• Obstructionism
  
• Sulking
  
• Victimization response:
  instead of recognizing one's own weaknesses, tendency to blame others
  for own failures.
  

That's not how people are using it on the forums. They are referencing it exactly how I phrased it.

Passive Aggressive sounds like something Hillary Clinton thought up. I stand by my Highlander comment. Only Phallus should be using annoying terms like that make me want to shit in her face.

And Ed honey, you can kiss my wobbly Welsh arse.

Ed wrote:

And Ed honey, you can kiss my wobbly Welsh arse.

That would require a digital photo to see where my mouth is going and permission from my wife.

natalie wrote:I agree with Donna, I don't think you understand passive agressive. It's not someone being passive one moment and agressive the next, it's doing both at the same time. Example: when a nurse that has a problem with the fact that she now has to take orders from me takes care of my patients and calls me 13 times in two hours for really no good reason. See, I can't tell her "don't call me" because then she'll go the complete opposite way and not call me when she should and then she'll play the "you told me not to call" card. So see, passive because she has an "ace in the hole" to play the innocent one, agressive because she knows she's pissing me off by calling every 7 minutes and also knows there's really nothing I can do about it.....BITCH!

• lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order
  may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George
  Meredith
  
• peacefully resistant in response to injustice;
  "passive resistance"
  
• passive voice: the voice used to indicate
  that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the
  source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the
  boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated
  passive"
  

• having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends;
  "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was
  ...
  
• tending to spread quickly; "an aggressive tumor"
  
• characteristic
  of an enemy or one eager to fight; "aggressive acts against another
  country"; "a belligerent tone"
  

Ed wrote: Cunt or dick work much better when someone is annoying.

Lets use the tried and true adjectives and not the designer labels.

natalie wrote:

Ed wrote: Cunt or dick work much better when someone is annoying.

Lets use the tried and true adjectives and not the designer labels.

Well, OK, I can live with that......dick.

Ed wrote:

natalie wrote:

Ed wrote: Cunt or dick work much better when someone is annoying.

Lets use the tried and true adjectives and not the designer labels.

Well, OK, I can live with that......dick.

I can too CUNT!

See was that so difficult?

Ed wrote:The one thing is that Phallus is so verbose that I don't think she's ambiguous. I kind of wish she WAS!!!!