Renzatic on 8/9/2010 at 07:23
Someone just sent me a PM telling me they fingerfucked my grandma, and that I need to get on the first bus to hell and fuckshitdamn cock enema hurlyburly stick it up my ass. At first I was kinda offended, and thought that with all you people chasing off TBE, there must be some Alabama witchhunt style culling going on at TTLG. But then I looked at who sent it. Dethtoll. After that, I realized all he was doing was saying hey in his own special sorta way.
But whoever or whatever, you people don't deserve me. I'm going back to gengaming.
ps this didn't really happen
june gloom on 8/9/2010 at 09:03
Of course it didn't, I'm perfectly capable of simply saying "hello."
Or alternately, "fuck you."
Keep things simple, you know? ;)
Thirith on 8/9/2010 at 09:09
Quote Posted by henke
I am ashamed. I shouldn't have made fun when TBE said that he was slightly psychic and that he loves cats more than people and that his cat was both a giver and a taker. I'll try to be more respectful from now on. :(
Don't you think there's a difference between a bit of a ribbing and the sort of vitriol that the initial post was met with? There's a strong streak of what reads very much like adolescent superiority in many of these posts that IMO stinks to high heaven - yes, the initial post could be made fun of, but this whole "I'm better/smarter than you, so therefore fuck off and die" comes across as so much wanking.
henke on 8/9/2010 at 10:29
If you must extract a not-so-subtle message from my post it would be "this is a terrible thread". I did not want TBE to "fuck off", much less "die", as I do think he's a good poster overall and quite a unique character in the TTLG-landscape.
Thirith on 8/9/2010 at 10:43
I believe you, henke, and what I've written above doesn't apply equally to everyone here (also, it's the most negative posts that seem the loudest and perhaps get undue weight) - but I also think that on average we're not all that good at making the distinction between "this is a terrible thread" and "fuck off and die" all that well, mainly because the former often comes with a generous helping of ad hominem attacks.
I don't think we have to become a bunch of nauseating Carebears, but being a bit less infatuated with our putdowns might not be too bad.
Briareos H on 8/9/2010 at 11:30
Quote Posted by Thirith
but being a bit less infatuated with our putdowns might not be too bad.
I'm pretty sure that there is no 'we', only a handful of people that have an irrepressible desire to reply sarcastically to every post that they find stupid - without themselves being clever enough to know where the limit between subtle sarcasm and blatant insult is.
The drive to put down someone rather than not caring is revealing, and not quite favourably.
FWIW I don't think the response in this thread was so disproportioned. TBE flipped out after just one dispensably aggressive post by Vivian and a few light jabs. Big deal.
Queue on 8/9/2010 at 12:55
Did it escape everyone's notice that Vernon may need help?
Kolya on 8/9/2010 at 13:02
I think it would help a lot if people just tried to be more creative, even with their insults.
The fact that "I love my cat" leads almost automatically to allegations of zoophilia in some people's heads bores me even more than it worries me. Acting edgy and extreme like that is a tired and lazy cop-out for investing some thought on a good reply, be it an insult or not.
Vivian on 8/9/2010 at 13:38
Quote Posted by Kolya
The fact that "I love my cat" leads almost automatically to allegations of zoophilia etc
Dude, I just pointed out that made it sound a bit like he fucked his cat. Which isn't a good look. I categorically did not say 'lol you fuck cats'. And despite the discussion in the other thread, its pretty much what I would have said to a friend of mine in the pub if he'd said the same things to me. Acting 'edgy' my arse, I'm not criss angel.
Besides, fancy as it sounds zoophilia is one of those phrases that doesn't really mean what its supposed to. Technically having sex with humans is zoophilia. Feline-philia? Someone accusing you of zoophilia is tantamount to saying you are the least choosy person in the entire world - 'Spiders, newts, sticklebacks, your mum, bring it on! As long as it has a blastula stage, I'm on it like flava flav at a meth clinic'.
june gloom on 8/9/2010 at 14:07
Quote Posted by Vivian
Dude, I just pointed out that made it sound a bit like he fucked his cat. Which isn't a good look. I categorically did not say 'lol you fuck cats'. And despite the discussion in the other thread, its pretty much what I would have said to a friend of mine in the pub if he'd said the same things to me. Acting 'edgy' my arse, I'm not criss angel.
Besides, fancy as it sounds zoophilia is one of those phrases that doesn't really mean what its supposed to. Technically having sex with humans is zoophilia. Feline-philia? Someone accusing you of zoophilia is tantamount to saying you are the least choosy person in the entire world - 'Spiders, newts, sticklebacks, your mum, bring it on! As long as it has a blastula stage, I'm on it like flava flav at a meth clinic'.
This post is exactly why I come to TTLG.
