Thursday, June 21, 2007
There ought to be a word
for that feeling you get when you realise that you have posted something intemperate or opinionated and you now don't want to look at the responses in case anyone's been rude to you.
Even if I'm the only one who uses it, there still ought to be a word, because it's a very distinct feeling. Along with the two related feelings of relief- the one where you discover that you've left it so long to look that the thread has been deleted, and the other one where you finally go back to the thread and found that everyone else was in fact more intemperate than you and no-one reacted badly to your bit at all.
Flagrabellicophobia, maybe.
Even if I'm the only one who uses it, there still ought to be a word, because it's a very distinct feeling. Along with the two related feelings of relief- the one where you discover that you've left it so long to look that the thread has been deleted, and the other one where you finally go back to the thread and found that everyone else was in fact more intemperate than you and no-one reacted badly to your bit at all.
Flagrabellicophobia, maybe.
# posted by Louise H @ 12:53 pm 
