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Thursday, March 16, 2006

There Goes the Neighborhood

Have you ever had those times when you're talking to someone and you just want to say, "Shut-Up, you're an ignorant idiot!", but you can't, and even if you did it wouldn't do any good? Sure, it would relieve a moment of built-up frustration, but then the retaliation would just bring more of the same.

I've encountered this quite a lot in person and on the internet. But lately it seems to be happening a lot on the internet. I just want to scream at these bigoted idiots who think they know everything about everything and are so close-minded about any other point of view.

But it's pointless. They don't get it, they won't get it, and nothing I can say or do via the internet is going to impact them one way or another. It's just how it is.

I just wonder how for the life of me some of these people function in their everyday lives and in society? Of course 90% of the bold, opinionated people on messageboards are nowhere near as mouthy, if at all in 'real life'. It just sucks that good conversations have to be ruined by these baffoons.

Man, I think I'm I've been around a couple of the Creatorfuze guys too much recently as I'm starting to react like them! lol. I should just take the cue from Jason and only involve myself in conversations that are free from the garbage, or at least ignore the garbage spewers...but I can't. If I have something to say I'll say it, and if someone says something just wrong, or false, or out of line, or ignorant, and I'm in the mood, I have to say something back.

At any rate, it's all for naught because in general people on messageboards are looking to be changed in any way, even in a point of view or opinion. They are just looking for things to mouth about and feel like a big person about, I guess because they don't in their everyday life, I don't know. So who am I to stand in the way of that? If they want to look like idiots, then by golly I'll provide the dunce cap and they can have at it.

Man, I think I've been reading Cary's blog too much. This is sounding more and more like one of his posts!

LOL. The funny thing is I'm not in a bad mood about it, I'm feeling light hearted and crazy good today. It's odd, I know, especially for me these days, but that's how it is. Writing this out here free of the mods closing threads or the managers showing me the door is always nice though. :)


Any of you watch The Shop on MTV? It's a barbershop owned by a record producer (Cory Rooney) in the middle of Queens and rappers come in and out of there. The topics sometimes are vulgar and the language is always R rated, but if you can get past that it's hilarious at times. I watched a rerun today where a guy came in looking for a job and the whole shop was just dissin' him left and right. Turns out the guy could cut with the best of them, but the manager didn't think he was good and didn't hire him. After he left everybody was like why didn't you hire him? The manager said because the guy was better than him (the manager) and he'd take all his customers away! Laughter then ensued.

There goes the neighborhood!

B-Out

3 Comments:

At 5:54 PM, Blogger Cary said...

lol a little influence can be a good thing! i know exactly what and who you are talking about and i was wound up tighter than a drum last night over it. i don't mind so much if everyone is pretty much being equally beligerant that's just how some threads go but this guy was so rude and hurtful in what he said that it just flamed me. it didn't help that i know they guy he was being evil to either. and you're right, i should take the high road and allow them to be trolls but sometimes, especially when they are messing with people i consider friends, i just can't.

 
At 5:57 PM, Blogger Jason Berek-Lewis said...

Try being a fan of Rob Liefeld. You get bashed wherever you go on the net.

I have never understood the Trolls. I have read dozens of comics I didn't like, and some that I even hated, but you will never find me on any website attacking or slamming any creator or their work. I have better things to do.

 
At 3:29 AM, Blogger Brant W. Fowler said...

Hey Cary, yeah, same guy, but on a different thread as well. The guy's just ignorant. Read the "Comics Died Because You're a Loser" thread in the Comic Books section of DW and you'll see what I mean. Ugh.

Heh, Jason, I can only imagine. I mean I liked Liefeld a little during X-Force and the early days of Youngblood, but the proportions always bothered me, so I can only imagine the flack you get!

But one thing about Rob is he was an inspiration to me. I remember reading an article when I was a teenager on how he got his start in the business at a pretty young age and it gave me hope at the time. The art thing didn't really pan out at the time, but he was still a mad inspiration for me.

 

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