In Which I Wear My Underpants on My Head and Gleefully Show My Ass

Has anyone else had the delightful experience of being friended by a shill journal? I've been friended by them twice, once by someone pimping get rich quick schemes, and this morning by marlenzhora, who's pimping Tamiflu. They possess no content besides transparent hawk jobs for the product or bilk job in question, though they somehow boast hundreds of friends. I've not had any problems with them, but it seems a great deal of effort for such scanty gains.

It didn't take long, but I ran afoul of a mod on the Rammstein fansite. Why? Behold. Apparently, pointing out that Americans are generally whiny, entitled, easily butthurt fanbrats offended her patriotic and modly sensibilities, because she responded with this model of even-handedness. When I tried to clarify my position and offer evidence of my claim, I was met with this vociferous defense of a board I never insulted and a heaping dollop of snide condescension. My diplomatic attempt to point out that she had the debating skills of a meth-addled yak finally garnered this invocation of the modly right of baseless asshattery, at which point, I threw up my hands and vacated the field. I like it there, and I'm not stupid enough to think that I can challenge a mod and win. Maybe in two thousand posts or so, but not now.

To be sure I wasn't violating an unspoken board rule, I did ask the global admin if my "argument" had violated board policy. The answer was no, and I let it go at that.

Why am I sharing this? So that my next declaration has a spot of context.

I hate teenagers, and they should never, under any circumstances, be made moderators of anything. They lack the emotional maturity to cope with bluntness and will frequently respond with the frenetic ferocity of a rabid squirrel defending its winter nut horde. Every challenge to their worldview is seen as a challenge to their authority, and because they're teenagers and thus imbued with an inflated sense of self-importance, they respond to said challenge by claiming to speak for something greater than than their wounded dignity, in this case, the offended dignity of every American Rammstein fan on the board. I cheerfully admit that I was every bit as pompous and obnoxious as a teenager and thus know whereof I speak.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I found myself itching to reach through the monitor and punch Teenage Crusader repeatedly in the face. If this is what passes for debate now, then my high school debate teacher should hang himself with his lucky tie, because the art form he endeavored to teach me is no more.

"Americans are generally whiny, entitled, easily butthurt fanbrats" /="All American Rammstein fans are whiny, entitled, easily butthurt fanbrats", nor does it equal "The American fans on this board are whiny, entitled, easily butthurt fanbrats." By citing incidents on an LJ, I was attempting to cite evidence of my assertions. You know, like you're supposed to when you say something potentially inflammatory.

"Some fans on an LJ I visited" /= my "little LJ friends". Stow the snide condescension, you rancid little queef, and for fuck's sake, practice reading comprehension while you're at it. I was agreeing with others that Rammstein's management was mistreating its fans while acknowledging that American fans are also prone to entitlement issues. Don't think so? Then explain to me why an American Rammstein fan has been so hard done by that he's decided to have his Rammstein tattoo surgically removed because they've yet to announce US dates and thereby personally betrayed him. Or the chorus of the fatally butthurt shrieking, "Fuck Rammstein" like a gospel choir in a Mariah Carey power ballad.

Oh, oh, I bet I know. It's called entitlement, you toddling simpleton.

By the by, cretin, thank you for so deftly proving my point about American entitlement and the greater propensity for butthurt. The board is more European and Canadian than American, but you quickly took up the mantle for the entire board the nanosecond I disparaged Americans, as though the American contingent magically equaled the whole. Brilliant display of national superiority there. Fine work in proving Americans aren't arrogant assclots who assume the world revolves around them.

And lastly, learn to spell and punctuate, you feckless Georgia mouth-breather. It's easier to hide your idiocy that way. Useless, panty-twiddling moron.

Yes, it's mean. No, I don't care. And you bet your ass I feel better now.

In Which I Wear My Underpants on My Head and Gleefully Show My Ass

Has anyone else had the delightful experience of being friended by a shill journal? I've been friended by them twice, once by someone pimping get rich quick schemes, and this morning by marlenzhora, who's pimping Tamiflu. They possess no content besides transparent hawk jobs for the product or bilk job in question, though they somehow boast hundreds of friends. I've not had any problems with them, but it seems a great deal of effort for such scanty gains.

It didn't take long, but I ran afoul of a mod on the Rammstein fansite. Why? Behold. Apparently, pointing out that Americans are generally whiny, entitled, easily butthurt fanbrats offended her patriotic and modly sensibilities, because she responded with this model of even-handedness. When I tried to clarify my position and offer evidence of my claim, I was met with this vociferous defense of a board I never insulted and a heaping dollop of snide condescension. My diplomatic attempt to point out that she had the debating skills of a meth-addled yak finally garnered this invocation of the modly right of baseless asshattery, at which point, I threw up my hands and vacated the field. I like it there, and I'm not stupid enough to think that I can challenge a mod and win. Maybe in two thousand posts or so, but not now.

To be sure I wasn't violating an unspoken board rule, I did ask the global admin if my "argument" had violated board policy. The answer was no, and I let it go at that.

Why am I sharing this? So that my next declaration has a spot of context.

I hate teenagers, and they should never, under any circumstances, be made moderators of anything. They lack the emotional maturity to cope with bluntness and will frequently respond with the frenetic ferocity of a rabid squirrel defending its winter nut horde. Every challenge to their worldview is seen as a challenge to their authority, and because they're teenagers and thus imbued with an inflated sense of self-importance, they respond to said challenge by claiming to speak for something greater than than their wounded dignity, in this case, the offended dignity of every American Rammstein fan on the board. I cheerfully admit that I was every bit as pompous and obnoxious as a teenager and thus know whereof I speak.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I found myself itching to reach through the monitor and punch Teenage Crusader repeatedly in the face. If this is what passes for debate now, then my high school debate teacher should hang himself with his lucky tie, because the art form he endeavored to teach me is no more.

"Americans are generally whiny, entitled, easily butthurt fanbrats" /="All American Rammstein fans are whiny, entitled, easily butthurt fanbrats", nor does it equal "The American fans on this board are whiny, entitled, easily butthurt fanbrats." By citing incidents on an LJ, I was attempting to cite evidence of my assertions. You know, like you're supposed to when you say something potentially inflammatory.

"Some fans on an LJ I visited" /= my "little LJ friends". Stow the snide condescension, you rancid little queef, and for fuck's sake, practice reading comprehension while you're at it. I was agreeing with others that Rammstein's management was mistreating its fans while acknowledging that American fans are also prone to entitlement issues. Don't think so? Then explain to me why an American Rammstein fan has been so hard done by that he's decided to have his Rammstein tattoo surgically removed because they've yet to announce US dates and thereby personally betrayed him. Or the chorus of the fatally butthurt shrieking, "Fuck Rammstein" like a gospel choir in a Mariah Carey power ballad.

Oh, oh, I bet I know. It's called entitlement, you toddling simpleton.

By the by, cretin, thank you for so deftly proving my point about American entitlement and the greater propensity for butthurt. The board is more European and Canadian than American, but you quickly took up the mantle for the entire board the nanosecond I disparaged Americans, as though the American contingent magically equaled the whole. Brilliant display of national superiority there. Fine work in proving Americans aren't arrogant assclots who assume the world revolves around them.

And lastly, learn to spell and punctuate, you feckless Georgia mouth-breather. It's easier to hide your idiocy that way. Useless, panty-twiddling moron.

Yes, it's mean. No, I don't care. And you bet your ass I feel better now.