OT: Rant & Thoughts - Chats and Emails - Page 2

Puke · #11 December 4th, 2003, 12:17 PM

fek, man. phone, mail, internet be danmed. the point is to get your sorry ovoid posterior off the swivel chair, on to your atrophied legs, correct your permanently hunched posture, and get the hell outside. talk to some real people, breath some real air, and try and learn how to interact in the real frickin world.

I swear man, I hate "internet people" in all shapes and sizes. they are all such inane screw heads, wraped up in their banal ideas and artificial self images, and sooo goddanmed high and mighty while they are chatting away at people they will never meet - but they probably cant look at anything besides their own shoes when they are walking down the street.

Now mind you, that the Shrapnel board is the exception to the rule, and you mooks are the only people that I can suffer to talk to Online. a right smart mature, educated, and rational bunch we have here. well, except me. and maybe Narf. and all the guys in the cantina. and definitly the name changing thread. But basically a good bunch, other than that!

I tend to type here the same way that I talk in real life, except in real life im mercifully interupted more often, so it does not go on for as long. and you can tell me to shut up because ive been drinking in real life, where as thats sort of hard to diferentiate Online. actually, this is sort of inarticulate stream of consiousness bull****, so i guess i dont talk this way. but you GET THE IDEA. The same problem existed in the BBS days, and its only worse now that more people are Online. If you were around in the BBS days, its interesting to see what was a small scale social blemish then, grow and mutate as millions of people partake in the folly and popular culture spreads it like the plague. same basic animal, but strangely and sickly different.

As Taera preemptively pointed out, this post is a waste of forum space. ignore it (ha! already read to the end!) and moderate me down.

Nocturnal · #12 December 4th, 2003, 03:32 PM

The post below mine is a waste of forum space.

HA! FINALLY A USE FOR THIS HORRIBLE REVERSE FORUM ORDER! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

narf poit chez BOOM · #13 December 4th, 2003, 05:31 PM

i've always found the people that tell everyone their losers becuase said people have all these freinds in 'real life' to be obnoxious.

Fyron · #14 December 4th, 2003, 05:48 PM

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Originally posted by Taera:
that was an extention, my post is split to two - first saying that chats and emails lack what the real chats have to offer, and then i said that chats etc are a little unreal and i'd rather have phone and snail-mail. sorry, i dont follow standard rant (aka essay) format that they teach me in English

Umm... that is exactly what I said...

Taera · #15 December 5th, 2003, 12:13 AM

then on that, fyron, we agree

puke - umm, right

seriously, you got my idea

Puke · #16 December 5th, 2003, 12:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
i've always found the people that tell everyone their losers becuase said people have all these freinds in 'real life' to be obnoxious.

I really should not be arguing this, but the fact that people put 'real life' in quotes these days, drives my point home. but hey, i dont have a messiah complex, so i dont actually care what people do with their time.

its raining, and im going to take a quick walk to the pub. feel free to spend your time as you please, and interact with the world as you see fit.

Phoenix-D · #17 December 5th, 2003, 02:18 AM

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Originally posted by Puke:

quote:
Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
i've always found the people that tell everyone their losers becuase said people have all these freinds in 'real life' to be obnoxious.

I really should not be arguing this, but the fact that people put 'real life' in quotes these days, drives my point home. but hey, i dont have a messiah complex, so i dont actually care what people do with their time.

its raining, and im going to take a quick walk to the pub. feel free to spend your time as you please, and interact with the world as you see fit.

Most of us that put real life in quotes do it because the ussual internet *******s use "hey, this isn't real life, deail with it!" as an excuse to insult people. Reality check, asile three, you're still dealing with people.

narf poit chez BOOM · #18 December 5th, 2003, 02:19 AM

my computer's real and i'm alive.

Renegade 13 · #19 December 5th, 2003, 04:39 AM

Lol, you know why I like internet conversations? Because I live in the middle of nowhere! Seriously, I don't have my drivers licence yet, so my social contact is limited to my immediate family, my (very few) friends at school, and the very occaisional party my parents let me go to. Sure, chats and emails are usually void of emotion, and all the things that make life personal and interesting. But no one can deny their usefullness. Can't find someone, send them an email. Stuff like that. And I don't know about you, but I talk the exact same on chats and emails as I do in everyday, personal conversations. I don't make up a veneer to make people think I'm someone I'm not. I know who I am, and the people I talk to know what I'm like. I only talk to people who know me in person. It keeps things real. But that's just my opinion.

Renegade 13

Taera · #20 December 5th, 2003, 06:17 AM

lol, your so true R13, and i agree with you there, i was just a bit upset about the overuse of those tools, i'm reviewing my own use of them... the results made me think, and post this post. bulletin' Boards are okay in my book, as long as they're used for information exchange purposes as opposed to chat/email replacements as ive seen in some places