OK, “friend”, so you are unable to engage in small talk as it is beneath you and is so very meaningless;
sample conversation:
gigi: hey, “friend”, how are you?
“friend”: I’m not sure how to answer that; what do people really mean when they say “how are you?”
you embrace the “life is suffering” idea so hard that anyone with running water and electricity is a complete sellout and materialistic whore;
you despise all television* and are patronizingly vocal about it;
But the last straw came the other night as we were settling down to read “Richard III”. Upon reading the first line, I was amused at remembering “The Winter of Our Discount Tent”, one of those all-time great thread titles. I related the tidbit and this is what you say?!: “Well, probably no one there got it, right?”
You’re right, because it’s an Internet message board everyone is a slack-jawed yokel who barely understands crap. They’ve evidently never read a book or for that matter left their parents’ basement or their bathrobe for years.
You really need to think before speaking; just because you thought of it doesn’t mean it might not deserve a little careful editing. Get off it, already.
–gigi, who is accepting appropriate torture ideas
*just a note to say that I don’t watch TV either but I am glad for folks who do enjoy it
I would guess for the amusement, since that’s a total twit. I was like that once (hums “I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused”).
Anyway, compulsive bitterness is sooooo '90s.
Torture idea: stay amusingly cheerful around this person. (Think “Ned Flanders”). Be optimistic. See the glass as half-full, and today as the first day of the rest of your life. And do it, no matter what they say.
No Discovery Channel? No TLC? No National Geogaphic Channel?
No GASPCartoon Network? :eek:
As for your friend, just pick out three random threads in GD and show them to him/her. I’m willing to bet that’ll change their opinion of we lowly Internet message board dwellers.
Damn straight, but then he’d know about this place and might post. He’s one of those “Sure it isn’t spelled right and the grammar is sketchy, but you know what I meant” people. :eek:
He does have some good qualities, just give me a minute… Oh, I know, he teaches me how to think before I speak and respect others’ opinions.
Well, there are more than a few places on the Internet like that. In all fairness, how was s/he to know that most posters here would be able to ID it as Shakespeare? (Though I certainly wouldn’t have been able to tell you what play it was from before Amok refreshed my memory. :))
And to be honest, while I value intellectual stimulation as much as the next person, since when does a person’s or community’s worth hinge on being able to quote or recognise Shakespeare? That’s the part that really gets my goat.
I myself have neither read nor seen Richard III, but did know it was a Shakespeare reference of some kind. Do I get half-points for that? Maybe I can be in the “junior malcontent league” until I rack up enough random knowledge to be truly wise.
