It’s sort of like the weird compulsion people have to post utterly unhelpful comments, which if they’d have had a functioning brain cell would realize that were a criminal waste of electrons. There’s been several times when I’ve started threads in which I’ve said something like that I’m utterly limited to just simply two options and I don’t know which one to choose and that any possibility is completely out of the question only to have some fuckwit come in and say, “Well you just need to do this option which may be one of the ones you discounted in your OP and has only tangetial value to your OP, but really it’s your only choice.” I mean, if someone posted that they were having problems with an ovary nobody would seriously recommend that they replace it with a penis, but on a great many things people seem to think that if they post something, it will somehow enable you to defy the laws of physics or whatever and do that which they recommend.
A little more closer to the OP is when someone complains about a remake and people respond saying that just because somebody makes it, doesn’t mean that the OPer has to watch it. Completely ignoring the fact that the film is quite likely a complete waste of time, talent, and money, and that if it’s a genre film, it makes it that much harder for someone with a decent script to get theirs made as the one that was supposed to have been “presold” just flopped big time.
Allow me to echo your sentiments, word for word. And since I have a higher post count, that should, by extension, make your extremely worthwhile and valuable post (and views therein) significantly more “Worthy”.
Seriously though, I completely agree. People have told me before “If you hate retail so much, why don’t you get another job?” Doing what, exactly? Being a freelance writer doesn’t pay for a house in a nice suburb with lots of overseas travel, and none of the reputable print media will hire anyone without a degree- which I don’t have.
Basically, I’m stuck in retail until I either win Lotto, manage to write a bestselling novel, or somehow manage to get a Government Job.
A lot of it comes down to how the person expressing the negative opinion does so. If it’s expressed as “My boyfriend is driving me nuts watching these shitty reality shows and here’s why I hate them” or “I love my favorite bar but they won’t stop showing shitty relaity shows and here’s why I hate them” that’s one thing. But if it’s more like “I hate reality shows and here’s why but I watch thirteen different reality shows every week of my own free will but hate them all anyway,” don’t be shocked if you get the “If you hate them so much don’t watch them” response. But even with the former two, there still isn’t anyone with a gun to your head forcing you to watch TV with your boyfriend or stay at a bar that’s wall to wall reality TV screens.
“If you don’t like , just don’t do ” is not an opinion. It’s basically telling someone that their opinion doesn’t matter because they have no right to complain. It’s rude and pointless. If you want to offer something, explain why is, au contraire, so wonderful (or agree that it isn’t). Otherwise you’re really just crapping in the thread.
I completely agree with the OP. I hate Dr Phil and I try not to watch it. Unfortunatly our break room has a TV which seems to have Dr Phil on air 24/7. So I HATE people saying - Oh just do not watch.
AAARGH !
Do not get me started on that. That should be a whole new thread. I live in Australia but I am from New Zealand. I cannot stand the Australian cricket team- they are arrogant wankers. I also dislike the biased media in Australia. Anytime I mention my opinions like that, people reply with the “if you don’t like X about Australia, why are you still here? Nobody’s making you stay.”
Patient: “Doctor, it hurts when I do this!”
Doctor: “Then don’t do that.”
Is the doctor’s advice correct? Yes.
Is the doctor’s advice helpful? No.
I suspect that people who post that type of response are simply trying to pad their post counts, which I believe is against the board rules.
And now I’m off to start auditing those Dopers with post counts over 25,000.
I’m no cricket groupie, but I played a bit at school, and happened to watch some or other 1st class game the other day. I’ve never understood the need to abuse or carp a batsman who’s just smacked you to the boundary, or ignored your ball. Hello? That’s the point, isn’t it? You bowl, I hit. If you bowl like crap, I ignore it. If you bowl a playable ball, I try and make as many runs off it as possible. What’s to hate about that?
Yeah, I like the tale of Merv Hughes bowling a jaffa to Robin Smith, who was beaten all ends up by it but managed not to get out. Hughes flared his nostrils above his impressive walrus moustache and informed Smith that he couldn’t fucking bat. Next ball was not so much a jaffa, more a lemon, and Smith smacked it to the boundary. He cheerily announced to Merv: “Hey, we make a good pair, don’t we? I can’t fucking bat, and you can’t fucking bowl.”
True story: I was talking with an eight year friend on September 8, 2001. Somehow the subject of Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing came up. He asked me why McVeigh had done it and I told him that he didn’t like America.
The child replied: That’s just stupid. If you don’t like this country go live somewhere else. But you don’t have to be setting off bombs and killing a bunch of people.
Someone made that argument to me in a (college) freshman history class. I replied that if Martin Luther King Jr. had taken that advice, he’d be alive and well in Switzerland right now and blacks in America would still be riding in the back of the bus. Hyperbole, yes, but it shut him right the hell up.
Maybe it’s overused, and it’s obnoxious sometimes (deliberately), but sometimes it’s a good point. Some people just get too engaged in whatever bullshit they’re annoyed with and don’t consider taking a breather. It shouldn’t be that hard to think of some examples here.
The “If you hate (Country), then leave!” argument would be fine if we lived in a perfect world where immigration controls were considerably more relaxed than they actually are and work visas were freely available to one and all, but the reality is that it really isn’t that easy to up sticks and move to another country, especially without a firm job offer, professional qualification, or large amount of capital.
I feel into one of these during my first week of posting here with a couple of nitwits. Those nitwits continue to bait others into similar arguments (not the premise-and-conclusion kind, but the fighting-with-one-another kind) and no one says anything about it. Not to mention, but before you know it, the half-wits start piling on.
Sometimes this board just… sucks.
But I guess those disagreeing with the OP would say that I should stop coming here. Right? :dubious:
