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A Quick Note About My Rants
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A quick note: all of my rants about customers and work are all due to the fact that I really, really fucking hate my job.
There. I said it.
Try to contain the shock.
There. I said it.
Try to contain the shock.
Trekker, it's all about venue. You're doing what you see stand-up comedians, sitcoms and websites do, but what works there doesn't always work in a discussion forum. When someone goes to a ranty website or a comedy show, they go there with the intention of seeing that sort of thing. They're seeking it out, just like you do when you go.
On discussion boards, patterns are pretty much a crime.
Familiarity really does breed contempt. If someone were to post a thread in SF&F discussing a trait of Spider-Man, for example, no one would be annoyed. But if that same person were to post different threads about Spider-Man every few days, sooner or later, someone's going to say, "What the fuck is it with you and Spider-Man?!"
You've seen it many times. Heck, I've seen you react negatively to it many times.
I suggest scaling it back for a while, and the next time it occurs to you to post your observations, put enough of a spin on it to make sure people know you're kidding around, and invite them to give observations of their own.
On discussion boards, patterns are pretty much a crime.
Familiarity really does breed contempt. If someone were to post a thread in SF&F discussing a trait of Spider-Man, for example, no one would be annoyed. But if that same person were to post different threads about Spider-Man every few days, sooner or later, someone's going to say, "What the fuck is it with you and Spider-Man?!"You've seen it many times. Heck, I've seen you react negatively to it many times.
I suggest scaling it back for a while, and the next time it occurs to you to post your observations, put enough of a spin on it to make sure people know you're kidding around, and invite them to give observations of their own.
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The BBS is like a safe open mic - the most one gets here is silence or the very mildest of heckling, so try out a few new angles.
You haven't been to TNZ in a wh
*is ambushed by the TrekBBS Secret Police*
Re: 10 Ways Locutus Arbitrarily Judges You Online
10 Ways Locutus Arbitrarily Judges You Online:
10. Constantly Starting Complaint Threads.
Get a blog.
9. Constantly Starting The Same Complaint Threads.
What's that, Lassie? Terrible drivers? A Trekkie having bad luck with the opposite sex? Kids being annoying in public? People on cellphones being rude? Customers asking stupid questions?
If you're going to bitch about something, bitch about something unusual or unexpected that we don't all encounter twenty times a week.
8. Telling People They Don't "Get It" When They Find Your Constant Complaining Irritating.
You're not deep. You aren't the Immanuel Kant of online discontent. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. Just because we don't always like it or find it amusing doesn't mean we don't get it.
7. Starting A New Thread To Explain Your Other Thread.
Just explain it in the same thread for Christ's sake.
6. Having An Online "Character."
Be yourself. People might like you more. They might not. But at least you'll be genuine. If people like you and find you funny in real life, why the hell would you want to act differently online? Maybe they find you funnier and more likable in real life because you aren't trying so hard to be something you're not.
5. Having A "Character" That Acts Like A Normal Person.
If you're going to have a character, that persona better have a unique and bizarre hook like running this shit, screwing his cousin, or talking like The Hulk. Otherwise you're just a dude bitching about his miserable life or being a judgmental douche. Those are about a dime a dozen on and off the internet. Take this post, for example.
4. Acting As If You Take The Subject Seriously If You're Joking.
Usually people who are joking about something don't defend the idea to the death. If you don't believe in your argument, and are just playing around, then don't defend it like you are treating it seriously. People who talk about reptilians and pyramid sckyscrapers to orbit do that, and look at how beloved they are.
3. Being An Attention Whore.
If you're being something you're not just to get attention, and if you constantly feel the need to explain yourself by starting even more threads about you, it comes off as extremely desperate. Desperation is not appealing.
2. Judging Others And Positioning Yourself As If You Were The Foremost Expert On Everything.
Apparently, you're the world's preeminent virologist, physicist, speller, grammarian, driver, parent, child, 911 caller, actor, writer, baton twirler, spelunker, and God knows what else. If life was a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, I'm sure we would have sent you to stop a massive rogue wave by now because you were the world's greatest sand castle builder.
I'll grant that you are an expert on store-bought meat.
1. Imposing 1950s Values On The 2000s.
The 1950s were generally great if you were a healthy middle-class middle-aged white male living in a First World country. Otherwise it sucked for a lot of people. You come off like you're in your mid-20s going on eleventy. Put down the Sinatra LP and the carton of Chesterfields and stop reminiscing about how much more pleasant life was when parents smacked their loud kids around in public and treated them like they were in the Army.
10 Ways Locutus Arbitrarily Judges You Online:
10. Constantly Starting Complaint Threads.
Get a blog.
9. Constantly Starting The Same Complaint Threads.
What's that, Lassie? Terrible drivers? A Trekkie having bad luck with the opposite sex? Kids being annoying in public? People on cellphones being rude? Customers asking stupid questions?
If you're going to bitch about something, bitch about something unusual or unexpected that we don't all encounter twenty times a week.
8. Telling People They Don't "Get It" When They Find Your Constant Complaining Irritating.
You're not deep. You aren't the Immanuel Kant of online discontent. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. Just because we don't always like it or find it amusing doesn't mean we don't get it.
7. Starting A New Thread To Explain Your Other Thread.
Just explain it in the same thread for Christ's sake.
6. Having An Online "Character."
Be yourself. People might like you more. They might not. But at least you'll be genuine. If people like you and find you funny in real life, why the hell would you want to act differently online? Maybe they find you funnier and more likable in real life because you aren't trying so hard to be something you're not.
5. Having A "Character" That Acts Like A Normal Person.
If you're going to have a character, that persona better have a unique and bizarre hook like running this shit, screwing his cousin, or talking like The Hulk. Otherwise you're just a dude bitching about his miserable life or being a judgmental douche. Those are about a dime a dozen on and off the internet. Take this post, for example.
4. Acting As If You Take The Subject Seriously If You're Joking.
Usually people who are joking about something don't defend the idea to the death. If you don't believe in your argument, and are just playing around, then don't defend it like you are treating it seriously. People who talk about reptilians and pyramid sckyscrapers to orbit do that, and look at how beloved they are.
3. Being An Attention Whore.
If you're being something you're not just to get attention, and if you constantly feel the need to explain yourself by starting even more threads about you, it comes off as extremely desperate. Desperation is not appealing.
2. Judging Others And Positioning Yourself As If You Were The Foremost Expert On Everything.
Apparently, you're the world's preeminent virologist, physicist, speller, grammarian, driver, parent, child, 911 caller, actor, writer, baton twirler, spelunker, and God knows what else. If life was a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, I'm sure we would have sent you to stop a massive rogue wave by now because you were the world's greatest sand castle builder.
I'll grant that you are an expert on store-bought meat.
1. Imposing 1950s Values On The 2000s.
The 1950s were generally great if you were a healthy middle-class middle-aged white male living in a First World country. Otherwise it sucked for a lot of people. You come off like you're in your mid-20s going on eleventy. Put down the Sinatra LP and the carton of Chesterfields and stop reminiscing about how much more pleasant life was when parents smacked their loud kids around in public and treated them like they were in the Army.
Re: 10 Ways Locutus Arbitrarily Judges You Online
Now *that* was hilarious! Bonus points for being insightful and right on, while yet maintaining the hilarity! That's no easy trick!
Mr Awe
Now *that* was hilarious! Bonus points for being insightful and right on, while yet maintaining the hilarity! That's no easy trick!
Mr Awe
The online world needs people like all those you describe though, LoB. They serve as a warning for the rest of us. [You're a fine one to talk, Ravescene. He was thinking of you when devising that list. - someone]
Re: 10 Ways Locutus Arbitrarily Judges You Online
And once again LoB swoops in like the whole indignant and judgemental person that he is and attacks me like he always does whenever I say anything.
You make some valid points (points you've made about me before making you just as guilt as I on repeating yourself) and some of it is just over-reactionary nonsense (again, something you point out about me.) Either you're playing a "character" too or you're more dense than I am.
Nor have I ever claimed to be an "expert" in any of the fields you've listed, just well read on a variety of topics though I'll openly admit my memory of the specificity of them and their details, my execution of them and maybe even the validity of the sources could all be called into question.
But there's one thing I will not take and that's this:
Yes, let's attack Trekker because of his job. Look at the loser and his career and work and making a living. He couldn't possibly know anything else besides what he learns at work and we all know people with jobs are idiots.
Stuff your constant comments about my work right up your ass and twist it.
I am not ashamed of my job and people like you piss me off to no end because you think I am a moron because *gasp* I have a blue-collar job where I *shock and horrors* work with my hands!
Well, Mr. Greatness, what do YOU do for a living? Something grand and noble? Something that's worthy of your obviously more vast and expanded intellect over all of us? What are you a Neurosurgeon? A rocket scientist for NASA? A researcher working to cure cancer, AIDS, or extend life?
You seem so sure of yourself to judge me for having a job you must obviously have some great job for you to be so judgemental.
So, tell me. What career do you have, oh, Great One?
You know fuck-all about me and my life beyond what I post here and that is hardly the best way to get a bead on someone, but judge me all you want on my posts here. I know how some take me and I would love for people to look at me better than what they do, maybe take their serious-face off and take it with a bit more of grain of salt. I also know that many here DO like me and enjoy my posts.
But, there's NO call to attack me and my profession. It's the job I have and that's that. It has provided me with a comfortable living and then-some as well as plenty of room for advancement. I'm a manager, not a butcher. I've got a team, responsibilities and a pretty-good sized check plus profit sharing. I'm the third-most highest payed employee in the store. So, yeah, pick on me because I "cut meat."
Be sure and think of that the next time you go to the store to buy something for dinner and think of that poor, dirty, disgusting sloth of an idiot who has to run that shop, make sure it's orderly, profitable and stocked.
Say what you want about my posts but you can take your comments about my personal life, my career, and shove them up your ass.
And once again LoB swoops in like the whole indignant and judgemental person that he is and attacks me like he always does whenever I say anything.
You make some valid points (points you've made about me before making you just as guilt as I on repeating yourself) and some of it is just over-reactionary nonsense (again, something you point out about me.) Either you're playing a "character" too or you're more dense than I am.
Nor have I ever claimed to be an "expert" in any of the fields you've listed, just well read on a variety of topics though I'll openly admit my memory of the specificity of them and their details, my execution of them and maybe even the validity of the sources could all be called into question.
But there's one thing I will not take and that's this:
Yes, let's attack Trekker because of his job. Look at the loser and his career and work and making a living. He couldn't possibly know anything else besides what he learns at work and we all know people with jobs are idiots.
Stuff your constant comments about my work right up your ass and twist it.
I am not ashamed of my job and people like you piss me off to no end because you think I am a moron because *gasp* I have a blue-collar job where I *shock and horrors* work with my hands!
Well, Mr. Greatness, what do YOU do for a living? Something grand and noble? Something that's worthy of your obviously more vast and expanded intellect over all of us? What are you a Neurosurgeon? A rocket scientist for NASA? A researcher working to cure cancer, AIDS, or extend life?
You seem so sure of yourself to judge me for having a job you must obviously have some great job for you to be so judgemental.
So, tell me. What career do you have, oh, Great One?
You know fuck-all about me and my life beyond what I post here and that is hardly the best way to get a bead on someone, but judge me all you want on my posts here. I know how some take me and I would love for people to look at me better than what they do, maybe take their serious-face off and take it with a bit more of grain of salt. I also know that many here DO like me and enjoy my posts.
But, there's NO call to attack me and my profession. It's the job I have and that's that. It has provided me with a comfortable living and then-some as well as plenty of room for advancement. I'm a manager, not a butcher. I've got a team, responsibilities and a pretty-good sized check plus profit sharing. I'm the third-most highest payed employee in the store. So, yeah, pick on me because I "cut meat."
Be sure and think of that the next time you go to the store to buy something for dinner and think of that poor, dirty, disgusting sloth of an idiot who has to run that shop, make sure it's orderly, profitable and stocked.
Say what you want about my posts but you can take your comments about my personal life, my career, and shove them up your ass.
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I didn't attack your profession, I don't think you're a loser for your job, and I don't think you're a moron. I think you're a smart and funny person with many views I agree with who constantly shoots himself in the foot by acting like you are superior to others, by so desperately trying to be the center of attention that you get on people's nerves, by being completely hypocritical on many issues, and by constantly telling people they don't get you.
You have flat out said you have an online character on multiple occasions. I don't have a character. What I believe in and argue here is what I believe and argue in my daily life too. The jokes that I make, some hit and some miss, are pretty much the same type of things I say in real life as well, at least to people who will understand them. My personality is identical. If you're not going to be yourself, what's the point?
You have flat out said you have an online character on multiple occasions. I don't have a character. What I believe in and argue here is what I believe and argue in my daily life too. The jokes that I make, some hit and some miss, are pretty much the same type of things I say in real life as well, at least to people who will understand them. My personality is identical. If you're not going to be yourself, what's the point?
I don't understand why everyone's on Trekker's case all of a sudden. 
Maybe things have been building up in other forums or something... He's no paragon, but who is? Every one of you who've laughed at the jokes about him or posted approval of them are just as annoying as he is at times, if for different reasons.
I don't understand the constant bullying that goes on here, if it's not one person, it's someone else. It seems someone invariably has has to be the butt of the crowds jokes... schoolyard antics.
And the mentioning of his job within the list of jokes about him was taking it too far in my opinion. It was snobby, nasty, and unnecessary.
Maybe things have been building up in other forums or something... He's no paragon, but who is? Every one of you who've laughed at the jokes about him or posted approval of them are just as annoying as he is at times, if for different reasons. I don't understand the constant bullying that goes on here, if it's not one person, it's someone else. It seems someone invariably has has to be the butt of the crowds jokes... schoolyard antics.
And the mentioning of his job within the list of jokes about him was taking it too far in my opinion. It was snobby, nasty, and unnecessary.
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Locutus, even if you didn't mean the line about his job as an attack, he's not the only one to perceive it that way. Even I rolled my eyes and said "Uh-oh" with that one.
Trekker, he's pretty much right about the rest of it. There are some of us who see your rants as entertainment, and some who take them seriously. Yes, I get that you think that they're a joke. But you defend your stated positions as if you are totally serious about them. See the incongruity there?
Trouble is that Locutus' description doesn't just fit you. It fits a lot of people in this forum, myself included.
For the rest of you, what is this....pick on Trekker week? You can consider this a directive to dial it back and do so immediately. I don't like the direction this thread is going. Remember folks, calm discussion. Emphasis on calm. Don't attack him.
Trekker, he's pretty much right about the rest of it. There are some of us who see your rants as entertainment, and some who take them seriously. Yes, I get that you think that they're a joke. But you defend your stated positions as if you are totally serious about them. See the incongruity there?
Trouble is that Locutus' description doesn't just fit you. It fits a lot of people in this forum, myself included.
For the rest of you, what is this....pick on Trekker week? You can consider this a directive to dial it back and do so immediately. I don't like the direction this thread is going. Remember folks, calm discussion. Emphasis on calm. Don't attack him.
Incidentally, I nearly misread the thread title, and thought the thread was about your underpants.
Not sure I want to know why you're thinking of me and my underpants.
because it is the kind of thing you would rant about..
about the underwear and people who made them.
about the ordeal of buying the underwear...
Re: 10 Ways Locutus Arbitrarily Judges You Online
I find your observations entertaining.
I find your observations entertaining.
All's right with the world.
He pretty much invited it by starting this thread in the first place.
A rant thread about the way people react to his rant threads? Really?
Holdfast said it right in the beginning of the thread. The material has gotten old. I can only hear so much about bad drivers from you. Hell, sometimes I want to start my own bad driver thread but I'm afraid people will compare me to you!
Incidentally, I nearly misread the thread title, and thought the thread was about your underpants.
Not sure I want to know why you're thinking of me and my underpants.
because it is the kind of thing you would rant about..
about the underwear and people who made them.
about the ordeal of buying the underwear...
about the people who sold it to him...
about the other customrs in the store....
And he's quite right. It has gotten old.
Trekker, when you start these rants, you think you're being humourous. I get that. However, to a growing number of us, you come across as a very bitter, angry old man. It's not working, and it's probably time to try something different.
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