You hate me! You really hate me!
I’ve won an award!
Paraphrasing Maureen Stapleton in the best Oscar acceptance speech ever: “I’d like to thank everyone I’ve ever met in my entire life.”
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Congratulations on your most dubious award, Adam! :-P} What I find amusing is the line that earned you the award. To most non-Americans, your line would elicit a “Yeah, and your point is?” The way Andrea and her ilk have their head so far up their ass illustrates perfectly your point. Who said irony is dead?
I think the award wasn’t necessarily just for that one comment, but sort of a Lifetime Achievement Award, like you give to Peter O’Toole. Either way, I’m thrilled!
Good God, is that all it takes? What a bunch of pushovers.
(Congratulations, Adam.)
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I go now.
The fact that she makes fun of you for having an unrecognized quote of hers as your tagline is almost unbelievable.
Sparky’s right. Unfortunately, that made me laugh just as I had taken a sip of coffee. Had to wipe off my monitor. Not pretty.
Just one question — why do you keep trying to deal with this psycho, who’s far from properly equipped to defend herself?
During the Mrs. du Toit thing, I got roped into an indescribable discussion on Spleenville that convinced me that she’s just no good — MDT claimed you were in favor of teaching fisting to children (what?!), and Andrea obviously believed her and acted for the balance of the discussion as though it’s actually what you had said. There’s no point in trying to communicate meaningfully with a totally uncritical mind; she believes everything she hears that’s consistent with her existing opinions and rejects the rest.
She’s an asshole. Stay away from her so she doesn’t get any sympathy from her equally deranged friends over being “persecuted,” because she doesn’t deserve any.
Uh-oh. Looks like she’s going to complain to my web host because I’m posting comments on her publicly accessible web site, even though the activity in question at no point involves my web host in any way. Brilliant.
Looks like someone knows how to do a whois search. Ooh. I was going to post one more time letting her know that I’ll comply with her wishes never to post again, because I don’t want me there even more than she doesn’t, but she’s closed the post to further comments. Oh well.
There are about 1,598,578,194 websites that I leave completely alone, because the people who run them don’t do anything to bother me. Then there are sites like Spleenville and that of Mme. du Toit, who in fact go far out of their way to use inflammatory rhetoric, name-calling, irrational argument, and tribalistic partisan spear-waving. They’re stupid, and they’re doing it out loud in public. I just can’t resist pointing it out.
The mistake these amateurs made was to let themselves believe the Web was like their livingroom: my house, my rules, like it or get out. The Web is more like standing on a soapbox in a public square, shouting about whatever it is you shout about. You might be ignored, you might be cheered, or you might be challeged. Whatever the response, since they decided to put their, er, ideas online, they have no right to be surprised when dissenting or critical voices pipe up.
Don’t want feedback? Have a private site. It can be done.
Don’t want to be challenged on your ideas or called on your bullshit? Then be quiet.
This is a simple case of people finding out how hot the kitchen can get, and complaining about it unstead of just getting out.
Conservative, uncritical, illogical America-Rah-Rah pundits like to think that they are the American “we”, i.e., “United We Stand”. We aren’t united, but we’re still standing. I refuse to let them believe the world is so tidy and orderly, with only we few unwashed radicals to fuck it up.
It just isn’t a Constitutional right to create a private club in a public space.
What was the line about how you know you’re a Republican? Anyone who has a country club membership …
It sounds like some people jumped onto the Internet Superbackroad to set up their own country clubs, where like-minded people of all kinds would agree with their unfiltered output, nodding their heads over sips of All-American sweet old-fashioned lemonade. I’m sure it’s quite upsetting when reality spoils their party, but that’s true for all of us.
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I go now.
Most recent comment on her “harrassment” post says that the people who disagree with her in her comments are trying to deprive her and her readership of their right to free speech.
At this point I begin to get paranoid and think that these aren’t actual people. Possibly some sort of demons of dipshittery have been loosed upon the internet to torment the unwary.
“Demons of dipshittery.” ROFL
*raises glass in toast*
One of Andrea’s fans just called me up on the telephone at home to call me an asshole and hang up. Maybe he’ll call me again when he’s an adult.
Well, I called my telephone company, and they had me call the police. They’ll be sending me a form to fill out, then I provide the case number, etc. to my phone company, they’ll put a trace on my line, and anyone else calling up to swear at me anonymously will be hearing from the police.
There is unfortunately a group of people in this world, who are unable to think out of their own box, and refuse to do so. Having differing opinions is fine, unfortunately a noticable percentage of the population is not civilized enough to accept that that’s OK(!) considering our varying backgrounds and life experiences.
Anyone who needs to use harrassment as a means to develop their point, or to stifle someone else’s right to free speech, IMO is not worth even one second to “help them see the light” much less get them to acknowledge that you have a reasonable reason to believe what you do.
There are plenty of civilized people in the world who would consider having a rational conversation, debate, argument about issues, who at least treat the opposing view with respect and an open mind. Regardless of whether any minds are changed. Trying to reason with someone who is obviously unreasonable, or worse, not even respectful is just pointless.
I found out as much when I when I was an editor for our college newspaper, and wrote a column about our baseball team and the coach’s suspension after hazing allegations. I recieved numerous threats, phone calls, emails…all stopped of course when my line had a trace put on it, and the police became directly involved with the baseball team, explaining to them that you can’t go around threatening people-compounding their already mounting problems. Unreasonable, uncivilized idiots. Unable to recognize someone’s right to have a point of view, and *gasp* state it in a public forum.
People like this are just a waste of time in my opinion, and this harrassment crap is the result in my experience. Too many good people, reasonable people with like and different points of view to have civilized discussions with. Why plant an idea in the sand where the waves endlessly wash it away, when you can move to higher ground and see it take root?
yep, everyone very funny