Comments on: Blogging with the sharks. http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/ A blog about food and photography. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:03:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Candy http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3023 Candy Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:37:48 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3023 Chey - You sure know your stuff. I guess you are right, since there's a facebook group out there who linked to my site so they can whine and complain about me behind my back. It's nice to know I somehow stirred up so much controversy. People will always have a problem with SOMETHING. And if they do, why can't they all go to their local congressman? Or go find all the fisherman and talk to them? I think people just like to complain and find their easy targets online. As they are sitting at their computer desks. Mommy's Midlife - It's like you read my mind and wrote everything down I was thinking. But better. Well said. Bonnie - Thank you very much. I really hope my memories of him before I go still remain good ones, except that I felt like I just ruined his birthday on my blog. Irish Pirate - Thanks :) Chey – You sure know your stuff. I guess you are right, since there’s a facebook group out there who linked to my site so they can whine and complain about me behind my back. It’s nice to know I somehow stirred up so much controversy. People will always have a problem with SOMETHING. And if they do, why can’t they all go to their local congressman? Or go find all the fisherman and talk to them? I think people just like to complain and find their easy targets online. As they are sitting at their computer desks.

Mommy’s Midlife – It’s like you read my mind and wrote everything down I was thinking. But better. Well said.

Bonnie – Thank you very much. I really hope my memories of him before I go still remain good ones, except that I felt like I just ruined his birthday on my blog.

Irish Pirate – Thanks :)

]]> By: IrishPirate http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3016 IrishPirate Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:14:48 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3016 Ditto to all of the above :) Ditto to all of the above :)

]]> By: bonnie http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3014 bonnie Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:43:53 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3014 ps. your grandfather looks amazing for 95. he looks so happy and so healthy. it's amazing to be 95, let alone to look a generation younger. this should have been the first thing i said. ps. your grandfather looks amazing for 95. he looks so happy and so healthy. it’s amazing to be 95, let alone to look a generation younger. this should have been the first thing i said.

]]> By: Mommy's Midlife Crisis http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3013 Mommy's Midlife Crisis Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:59:36 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3013 Just wanted to throw you my support, too. Sometimes people communicating on the internet can lack the perspective that's easier to see in real life. i.e. judging everything as a matter of black & white rather than considering the shades of grey in a particular scenario. Respecting your grandfather and his traditions is one of those shades of grey and I honestly think that most of us would have done the same thing you did. In life, we gotta pick our battles. :) Just wanted to throw you my support, too. Sometimes people communicating on the internet can lack the perspective that’s easier to see in real life. i.e. judging everything as a matter of black & white rather than considering the shades of grey in a particular scenario.

Respecting your grandfather and his traditions is one of those shades of grey and I honestly think that most of us would have done the same thing you did.

In life, we gotta pick our battles. :)

]]> By: Chey http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3011 Chey Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:33:58 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3011 I'm sure they have an ax to grind, probably PETA types who have set up a google alert for "shark fin". When you're writing for public consumption, you have to take the good with the bad. Alas, those who would complain or deride are the ones who most often take the time to write, but don't let them tell you how or what to write! I’m sure they have an ax to grind, probably PETA types who have set up a google alert for “shark fin”. When you’re writing for public consumption, you have to take the good with the bad. Alas, those who would complain or deride are the ones who most often take the time to write, but don’t let them tell you how or what to write!

]]> By: Candy http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3010 Candy Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:12:15 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3010 Bonnie - good point. I think they google it regularly to complain. April - the comments do seem out of place. I can't tell how how many comments went into my spam yesterday. the few I left up were ok and they said what they had to say. Bonnie – good point. I think they google it regularly to complain.

April – the comments do seem out of place. I can’t tell how how many comments went into my spam yesterday. the few I left up were ok and they said what they had to say.

]]> By: April in CT http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3009 April in CT Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:49:39 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3009 I won't clutter up the comments because ditto what Jenny and Bonnie both said. Do the people who commented even read your blog...the comments seemed so out of place. You'd think you had just posted an advertisement for the world to go out and have shark fin soup. I won’t clutter up the comments because ditto what Jenny and Bonnie both said.

Do the people who commented even read your blog…the comments seemed so out of place. You’d think you had just posted an advertisement for the world to go out and have shark fin soup.

]]> By: bonnie http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3008 bonnie Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:40:27 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3008 these are the things i hate about the internets. do these people regularly read your blog or did they just search for you in order to complain? i don't agree with a lot of things, but telling an entire culture that their beliefs and practices are wrong because they bother you personally is ridiculous. especially when it's coming from americans, who have probably done more damage to the planet than the rest of the world multiplied together. these are the things i hate about the internets. do these people regularly read your blog or did they just search for you in order to complain?

i don’t agree with a lot of things, but telling an entire culture that their beliefs and practices are wrong because they bother you personally is ridiculous. especially when it’s coming from americans, who have probably done more damage to the planet than the rest of the world multiplied together.

]]> By: Candy http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3007 Candy Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:09:49 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3007 Thanks Jenny. I'm so glad you understand. I guess I'm just aggravated. I don't have a 'position' in the food industry. Writing this is not my job. I have a problem with trying to please everyone, and I hate the way it affects the way I write, like I'm trying not to offend anyone. It's tiring. Just...augh. Thanks Jenny. I’m so glad you understand. I guess I’m just aggravated. I don’t have a ‘position’ in the food industry. Writing this is not my job. I have a problem with trying to please everyone, and I hate the way it affects the way I write, like I’m trying not to offend anyone. It’s tiring. Just…augh.

]]> By: Jenny http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-3003 Jenny Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:35:06 +0000 http://soupbelly.com/2009/11/04/blogging-with-the-sharks/#comment-3003 Candy, Don't let the haters get you down. What wieners. I just had shark fin soup at a wedding and it was gross, so I didn't eat much of it. The older people at my table gave me nasty looks, since I'm sure I was leaving ten dollars worth of soup, WASTE! DISRESPECT! but whatever. Just remember that trolls are trolls, and you can't please everybody, nor should you try, but that pleasing your grandparents is definitely more important than pleasing the snarky portion of your readership. Candy,

Don’t let the haters get you down. What wieners. I just had shark fin soup at a wedding and it was gross, so I didn’t eat much of it. The older people at my table gave me nasty looks, since I’m sure I was leaving ten dollars worth of soup, WASTE! DISRESPECT! but whatever. Just remember that trolls are trolls, and you can’t please everybody, nor should you try, but that pleasing your grandparents is definitely more important than pleasing the snarky portion of your readership.

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