To keep starting AIBU posts and then deleting them.

[McSnail]

Before I 'create the conversation'

Every time I write a post, I proof-read it before 'sending', and every time I proof-read I realise I sound like a mealy-mouthed twat with nothing better to do than complain about the trivial annoyances of my relatively trauma-free, shabby-middle-class life.

Then I delete it while feeling a temporary wave of self-loathing.

Anyone else do that?

yeup, I do that too

Hurrah!

YABU I would never do that. - not!

Yup, then if I'm in a really bad mood I post them anyway :o

Excellent way to edit your thoughts IMO. Decide if you posted about your latest whinge in AIBU, what the general response would be, and then give youself the requisite kick up the arse.

I'm sure it's changed the way I look at the world a bit.

sometimes the act of writing it down is enough! I do it all the time

I don't do that. But I do spend ages crafting replies that have 'fuck off' at the ir core but are much much longer.
And then I think 'oh bollocks, can't be bothered to argue with this idiot'

I kid myself that I am taking the higher ground but actually often I think I just wimp out.

Yeah. I use another forum ( teaching) and often delete more than post over there too.

Just as well, really.

"I do spend ages crafting replies that have 'fuck off' at the ir core but are much much longer."

Ooo, I do that aaaaallll the time.