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Mikeystyle

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40. You didn't "lose" him, the guy was already lost

Sun Feb 26, 2012, 05:30 PM

Feb 2012

Had the same problem with an extended family member who shot his mouth off all the time and brought up politics when no one else wanted to talk about it---and he was farther to the right than Rush Limbaugh.

I finally told hm "I disagree" one Thanksgiving and he exploded, acted like a two-year-old who can't have his lollypop. He and I no longer speak and I'm better off for that----simply because I disagreed with him on something that HE brought up.

If it ever comes up, just tell him or anyone else "if you're going to shoot your mouth off in an email, you have no right to complain if someone hits the reply button."

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Probably just lost my brother-in-law... [View all] FLyellowdog Feb 2012 OP

I hate my sister in law with an passion for a different reason New Yawker Feb 2012 #1

This guy is my sister's second husband. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #5

My sister's husband is a sanctimonious ass. Darth_Kitten Feb 2012 #26

if you think a child is not getting enough food, please do something grasswire Feb 2012 #10

We have. Even a friend of the mother contacted ACS New Yawker Feb 2012 #15

I truly understand. grasswire Feb 2012 #20

? EmeraldCityGrl Feb 2012 #41

I Keep Saying This Campaign Is A Civil War TheMastersNemesis Feb 2012 #2

I just can't wrap my head around all the hatred toward our president. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #6

Ironic you should say that -- I have been calling it the Uncivil War Samantha Feb 2012 #11

Oh boy, would I love to chat some more with you!! BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #32

Civil War Addendum TheMastersNemesis Feb 2012 #36

This makes me sad but at some point we all have to make choices. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #43

Well, you sure told him. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #3

I have NO idea why he sent this to me. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #7

Not to put too fine a point on it.. Fumesucker Feb 2012 #23

I think that's a good call. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #31

yep...the aggressive authoritarian BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #34

Hi Blanche. Another rec Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #56

Had a "friend" who kept sending me similar e mails Zoigal Feb 2012 #4

Good on you!!! FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #9

The way I stopped my brother from sending them-- eridani Feb 2012 #12

Oh yeah. Webster Green Feb 2012 #16

Usually with the appropriate Snopes article in accompaniment. The Doctor. Feb 2012 #42

I rely on Snopes almost daily.nt FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #45

I have never used "reply all.".what does it do? dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #39

It sends your reply to the sender AND everyone else who received the original message pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #50

Hm..I now see the potential. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #55

Your reply will go to everyone who got the original email. Webster Green Feb 2012 #51

A few years ago I used reply all for something FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #44

Someone probably objected and complained to AOL pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #54

Just tell them to take their complaints to the person who eridani Feb 2012 #57

Yeah.. pretty sad isn't it... Yooperman Feb 2012 #8

I thought the exact same thing...here it is on Youtube just 6 months after 9/11 pkdu Feb 2012 #19

why would little boots think much about him? newspeak Feb 2012 #28

He really makes me ill to my stomach. Yooperman Feb 2012 #33

i agree with you barbtries Feb 2012 #53

I have a NoPolitics list on Facebook for that reason. moriah Feb 2012 #13

I have lost both my brother and my sister for similar reasons. renie408 Feb 2012 #14

So sorry. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #46

Send him this ... Bush was the biggest grandstander of all. Arugula Latte Feb 2012 #17

Nitwit brothers in law exist to be lost Warpy Feb 2012 #18

He was her college sweetheart, revisited so to speak. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #48

that is interesting though hfojvt Feb 2012 #21

I would have taunted him endlessly with pictorial jokes about Republicans. Zalatix Feb 2012 #22

Good for you! He deserved no less for sending such bullshit! Duppers Feb 2012 #24

One of the signs that most people are accepting that Bush was a huge mistake, The Backlash Cometh Feb 2012 #25

Um...demented dogma, eh? gong bath water Feb 2012 #27

OH...I see gong's gone BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #35

if you did, it's his choice- Bluerthanblue Feb 2012 #29

R#27 & K, for, sadly, it happens. In '04 I had to de-fang a web-ring of my Vietnam shipmates UTUSN Feb 2012 #30

An ocean of Obama hating spams out there. mick063 Feb 2012 #37

I Am In Process of Finding New Doctor - Same Shit otohara Feb 2012 #38

OMG...good luck with your new doc. You needed one!!!!! FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #49

You didn't "lose" him, the guy was already lost Mikeystyle Feb 2012 #40

No great loss. Ken Burch Feb 2012 #47

i don't know if you lost him. barbtries Feb 2012 #52