**Where is all your anger and hatred coming from? **
I have my suspicions that it might be Neptune, but logic tells me it’s from interacting with my environment. I rarely get pissed off when I’m asleep.
Are these minor issues really bothering you so much?
It depends on the issue. Like on TH a woman asked to cut in front of me, pleading she was just getting cigarettes. I said sure, though she got in front of me before the words were out of my mouth. Then she told the cashier she needed to pay for the cartons separately. And she wanted to pay with rolls of quarters, which confused the cashier since it was her first day. And, after the poor confused cashier got the ok on using rolls of quarters, the woman demanded she rebag the cigarettes since they were going to two different people. The woman must have known she was going to be a pain in the ass, so why did she ask me to wait through all that?? But I’ll probably have forgotten this all by Monday. It’s not like I followed her to the parking lot and beat her up, or anything.
What are you doing to make things better?
Better about what, my anger? Or a more nebulous “I need to make the world a better place” sort of thing? Actually, at the moment I’m just concentrating on not making the world any worse than it is, and I avoid people when I’m in a bad mood. Happy?
Do even want things to get better, or do you prefer to insult others so that your limited worldview remains undisturbed?
I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive. Some things, and people, are deserving of scorn, and may be shamed into changing their ways.
Do you know that you are interacting with other human beings, each of whom is being the best that they can be at this moment in time?
I’m not being “the best I can be” at the moment, so I think it’s fair to say that there are a lot of people having an off day as well.
Is it possible that right now someone is ranting to someone else about something you did?
I don’t see why not. I probably annoy people too.
Would the discussion be more fruitful if they could discuss the situation reasonably with you?
Probably not. Do you suppose I should have attempted a reasonable discussion with the cigarette woman, and wasted more time?
**Would you be happier if the world became a better place? **
This is a trick question, right?
Would it be a good thing if you were involved in that process?
Funny thing, despite a flare for sarcasm, I’ve spent my adult life trying to do just that. I work with kids of various needs, and if I get the position I’m interviewing for on Monday, I’ll be able to take up the good fight again. It sort of gives me the warm fuzzies thinking about helping kids. On the other hand, thinking about certain actors has a similar effect…
Deep down, you have good intentions, but will blasting someone really make your life better and more fulfilling?
Yes.
**Do any of you have children? **
Nope. Put me in the camp of " I love kids, as long as they don’t go home with me."
Is this the way that you would like them to deal with you?
Thinking about imaginary people I don’t intend to write about is not good for my mental health.
Are some of you children, stuck in an adult body?
If you take the comma out, this question is funnier.
**Many of you are fairly well-educated, academically. Why did you go to school? **
It seemed like a good idea at the time. It certainly wasn’t to prepare myself for a lucrative career, so I’ve learned.
To achieve a sense of smarmy cockiness?
Nah, I had that down way before college.
Is that the main thing they taught you?
The main thing they taught me was that despite the horror stories to the contrary, you can get by putting things off to the last minute. That, and every class I skipped cost the equilient of a J Crew sweater.
It’s amazing how uneducated some of you are in areas of human interaction. If you say that you’re not this much of an ass in real life, then why do you choose to be an ass here?
I’ve never had a pit thread of my own, so I guess I’m not as much of an ass as I could be, if I really worked at it.
Fight! Fight! Yeah, if someone is really threatening you. But because someone said something that was wrong? Because they made a mistake? Yeah, pound the crap out of them. Yeah, that’ll show 'em!
Most pitted people don’t get threads for simple mistakes, they get them from letting their asshole-ness shine.
And those of you (the majority) who are more reasonable, why are you helping to perpetuate the childish negativity? If someone is stuck in a pathetic quagmire of drivel, how about offering a solution?
What would the fun of that be?
I think that this post qualifies as a rant. But, oh yeah. One more thing. Many of you really are blathering, infantile, quasi-literate simpletons who can’t spell shit without sounding it out. And don’t get me started on your grammer [sic]. Although you are obviously entitled to participate in this message board, you may be more at home in some type of remedial message board, y’know, for the slow learners.
Sieg heil!! I didn’t realize that the grammar nazis were having a recruiting drive this month.
**How difficult is it, really, to learn how to spell? There are many 8-year olds who have pretty well mastered it. It’s one thing to make a typing error, or to leave out a word, or have a minor lapse as you compose a post. It’s another thing to have no clue how to do write properly. And it’s not as if spelling is a big dark secret. It involves basic pattern recognition. Oh, I forgot. That’s one of the elements of intelligence. Don’t want to muddy the waters here. **
Some people’s brains aren’t wired to learn spelling easily. Mine isn’t. I’ve put a fair amount of effort into learning to spell, which must in my case be done by sheer memorization, but you know what? I still make mistakes. Anyone who isn’t happy with that can go fuck themselves. Oh dear, there’s that hostility again…
**So keep giving people a piece of your mind. Just don’t become a half-wit. **
Massive head injuries aside, I don’t see this being a major problem for most dopers.
