Over the last week or more I have had the distinct displeasure
of watching the media talking heads drooling over both living
and dead celebrities.
Mostly the dead ones…
Oh, where to start… ?
Farrah Fawcett? Micheal Jackson? Billy Mays? Ruth Madoff, yeah, I
know she’s neither dead nor particularly famous save for her criminal
husband’s efforts to make Ponzi look like an amateur.
As a rule, I generally don’t pay celebs much attention but it is
hard to ignore something when the news media wants to go on and
on about things when they have only a limited amount of information
to report. And as a rule they will and do gleefully beat a dead
horse until they are quite sure it will never get up again.
Farah Fawcett and Billy Mays got only the briefest of mention by
most of them. In truth I am rather surprised Billy Mays really
warranted as much mention as he did. I’m sorry but the man was
little more than a used car salesman that found out he could use
his same basic sales pitch on just about anything. Farah
Fawcett was, well, to sound sexist, a 70’s pinup model that managed
expand her career beyond being just a poster on teenage boy’s walls.
Now I move onto the proverbial dead horse they’ve been beating.
Micheal Jackson, the so called King of Pop. In the 80’s he was
actually cool but at some point he went from cool to eccentric
and from there into the realms of just plain weird. When I was
growing up, I was taught two very key things; “If you can’t say
something nice, say nothing.” and Not to speak ill of the dead.
Over the last few days the media has pretty much thrown those two
general guidelines out the window by putting every detail under a
microscope and telling us about things that have absolutely no
bearing on any of our daily lives. Have we become so shallow that
the media thinks this is the kind of critical “news” we
need to know about?
North Korea threatening nuclear war, Swine Flu, General unrest
worldwide don’t rate our attention anymore?!? So they need to
manufacture news and turn into a cheap paperback drama???
Mmmmkay…
Now I’ll easy along to Mrs. Madoff’s “plight”. Her husband got
himself room and board for the next 150 years, most of their
fortune impounded and soon to be redistributed to the people he
swindled and she has been banned from most of the ritzy joints in
New York.
And she has to live on a mere two million dollars now.
Take the time to reread that last sentence. Go on, two or three
times and let it sink in.
As I recall it, they caught her trying make off with a good chunk
of the loot herself, yet I heard one of the talking heads refer to
her as the “loneliest woman in New York”. We’re supposed to feel
sorry for someone that has more money than most people will make
in their entire lifetime and managed to avoid prison time?!?
Is it physically possible to be bored out of your skull?
I’m not sure but I just looked over and waved at myself.
So I’ll assume it is possible…
Or sumpin’…
At any rate…
I’ve gone all this time and not posted much of anything lately
and decided it was time to get off my butt and make some effort
at being remotely entertaining, as opposed to being remotely
viewed.
In a way I kinda fibbed about not posting anything, I have been
working on a little idea I had about updating the XOOPS modules
I have made so people using higher resolution monitors could play
the games with greater ease. Most game sites still have their
games set to 640 x 480 which is kinda tiny on newer computers
and would probably look like pure crap on the newer wide screen
jobs. I’ve still got an old fashioned CRT type monitor and run
it at 800 x 600 as a general rule. So I had the idea to start
adding higher resolution versions of the existing modules.
800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 to be exact. I checked them on my
computer’s highest resolution and they looked just dandy.
I’m still working on more of them but it is fairly slow going for
me still. i.e. I get tired fairly easy thanks to the lovely side
effects of chemo… no barfing or anything radically
gross just tired and losing hair. (All I need now is a bag of
cherry suckers, if you don’t get it ask someone over 35 to tell
you about Kojak.)
If you want to take a peek at the higher res games just click the
XOOPS Module Development link on the left menu.
Go on, you know ya wanna…
What?
Aww, shut yer face! You’d be pushing it too if you got the idea
at three in the morning too.
It occurred to me that I missed posting any site news last 25th.
Oh, well. Feces occurs. I doubt that it matters all that much
since I didn’t really do anything major last month anyway.
Right now I still have lots of ideas bouncing around that I
haven’t had the time or energy to implement or even really play
with, in no particular order…
Update the games in the game room using my higher resolution
games idea from XMD.
Take the time to strip out all the Google Ad code that is taking
up space around the site.
*bitch* *grumble* *complain* *wax sorely pissed*
I’ve been playing with the idea of opening a dedicated arcade
site using XOOPS as it’s base but haven’t decided if it would
be worth the investment of time and money yet. After all, I’d
have to buy a new domain name for it and hosting separate from
The Bastion and I am just not sure if I am up to fooling with
such a project just yet. That and I don’t have nearly enough
game modules made yet to make it worth the effort…
Which, of course, means I just talked myself into it…
*Shadows runs in a tight circle screaming and yelling like his
hair caught fire and his ass is catching*
Oh, what the Hell, While I have got the idea in my head I may
as well lay out a few ideas for it in advance (If nothing else
someone might read this and “steal” the idea, so I may as well
give them a decent framework, right? LMAO)
Proposed XOOPS based arcade lay out and general “floor plan”…
Forum
Integrated Flashchat
Site News
User Submitted Videos via CVD’s excellent Video Tube module
Links to other game sites (Hey, why not, right?!?)
And of course…
The Games!
The full gory details TBA…
Anything else? That would depend on how well it is
received in general.
When do I propose to do this? Damned if I know..
Will it have ads? Probably but only one or two small text
style block ads like I am using at The Bastion now. Most sites
overkill on the ads IMHO.
It’s a funny thing, normally I am not one much for making random
blog entries with no topic to start with. I guess I am breaking
tradition here.
So, what to write about tonight?
Bitch about the side effects of chemo? Nah… I doubt I’d be the
first or even the best at that. (Though I may do so anyway later.)
Oh yeah and the wonders of having your hair fall out…
Gripe that I can’t think about anything worth taking the time to
write a “decent” article on. Nah… I’ve got some material for a
few decent ones stashed away on my hard drive for a later date.
One or two of which might be remotely interesting… or not.
I suppose I could call this adding content to the site but I
seriously doubt it could be classed as actual content. LMAO
Filler or fluff maybe… ?
I know, I can make a few comments on the whole Madoff thing..
I’ll give the guy credit, at least he had the right name to be
a high level white collar criminal. He just didn’t have the brains
to pull it off without getting his goofy ass busted. Speaking of
that part of his anatomy, I’m sure that his new room mate will see
about busting it for him.
Ooooh… Did Shadow just say that?
Yes, he did.
As for Madoff’s wife trying to make off with her share of the
loot, she showed the IQ of a brick. Did she really think no one
was watching what she was doing?
Give me a freakin’ break…
Now how about some political commentary?
Call this a general bitching out to the Neo Con crowd…
Kids, STFU about Obama. The man has been in office all of two
months. That is nowhere enough time for anyone to have had a
chance to do anything good or bad. So please, stow it until he
has had a year first. As for all the ones pissing and whining
about him getting ready to take away our guns, give it a rest
people. Our last president did more to erode our rights with
the U.S.A. PATRIOT ACT and his other crap than all the anti gun
laws passed in the last thirty years. Not to mention making the
US about a popular as Germany was in Poland during WW 2 to a good
chunk of the world.
There is something that is remotely site related that I have got
to crow about a little though… In recent months I have been
watching the traffic reports fairly close and am proud to say that
we are getting an average of anywhere from 60 to 120 visitors a day
now. Pretty freakin’ cool as far as I am concerned. I will admit
that I am still a little pissed at Google screwing me out of what
I earned with their ugly ads but I can deal with it. I just need
to take the time some day to remove all the ad code that is still
scattered around the site… Mostly in all those HMTL pages I made.
Like, all 150 or so of them.
It is never easy…
This weekend I have been doing a bit of writing around the site
updating sections that I haven’t had time to add anything to.
Mostly just explaining why I haven’t added anything new lately.
Why? Because I hate for people to think I have just quit adding
stuff without rhyme or reason and people that look at XMD rarely
look around the “main” site…
I updated the archive this afternoon and will probably add this
entry later today if I feel up to it. The funny thing about the
archive is that I have had two different people send me email
through Gmail trying to get me to add links to either their site
with no backlink or to add it to some new blog directory. I’m like,
Uhh, guys, it’s a frakkin’ archive, not the original blog. As for
someone wanting a link to their business site without a backlink…
No. If you want a link like that, contact me and I’ll give you
a link in the weblinks directory. The archive only gets links from
my friend’s sites or other sites I am working on myself.
Ok, I’ve warmed up to this entry now… lol
A few weeks ago at xoops.org one of the Mods sent me a PM letting
me know that they couldn’t accept anymore of my Philosophy of
Liberty modules because a handful of whiners on their forum had
decided that they weren’t “real” XOOPS modules. I was like, Sure,
whatever. Then the poor fellow made the mistake of sending me a
link to the thread there… I’m afraid my sarcasm was utterly lost
on them from the first post. The really hilarious part is that
after I started posting the general opinion shifted toward the
fact that all of the modules I had been submitting, the game
modules in particular, were both appreciated and wanted by most
users. This is the same thread where one of the whiners had the
nads to refer to my modules as “just cheap sh#t”
Why do I mention it now? Simple, I keep an eye on links to The
Bastion. And a lot of the people that have downloaded my modules
have been kind enough to leave my links intact. The funny things
is that for modules that are “just cheap sh#t” seem quite popular.
One site I saw recently was using seven of them in fact.
Yes, someone downloaded and is using 7 of the game modules I made
on their site!
Oh yeah, and that “just cheap shit” crack still pisses me off.
I’m just now sitting here trying to think of something to make for
a late night/Way early morning snack. And am drawing a blank.
Ok, I’m going to hit “publish’ and find some food.
I expect people to lie to me as a general thing. We’re lied to
as soon as we are able to understand the spoken word. We’re lied
to by almost everyone; parents, friends, teachers ,authorities,
our governments. Some lies are meant to protect us from painful
truths that we would not want to look at and have to deal with.
Some are meant to pull the wool over our eyes so someone can
cover their butts for having done something. Some are purely
malicious in nature to control and manipulate us. And some are
just for the Hell of it.
I don’t mind being lied to too much. It’s being lied about that
tends to piss me off. I’ve had it happen just often enough to
have ended a few previous friendships over it. I didn’t particularly
enjoy having to do so but I won’t have someone call me friend
only to stab me in the back.
The thing that always makes me wonder is why some people lie for
no apparent reason. Most of the time when someone tells a lie they
have a “good” reason to lie. They don’t want to be blamed for
something they didn’t do. They don’t want to be punished for
something they did do. Or they are looking to get you to do
something that the truth would never pursued you to do of your
own free will. So why make things up for no reason?
What’s my point?
Do I really need one?
Beside, I haven’t felt up to writing too much lately and thought
it was time to throw something out there. lol
I originally created this as a gag auction for eBay just
before Halloween of 2008. I am publishing it now purely
for the snigger factor.
They started their existence long ago when they were enslaved
by greedy men looking to turn a fast buck. Over time they lost
the will to live with their masters and simply ceased to be. Most
were cast aside like empty shells while others were given burials
by the more caring rock masters.
Now you have a rare opportunity to acquire these freshly risen
undead stones! My grave robb… er “procurement agent” has gone
to great lengths and endured many hardships to bring you these
living dead servants.
Once you gaze into their vacant stares you will never be the
same again… er… You won’t be able to pass up this rare
chance to have your own untiring troupe of ever enthralled
companions!
They make great gifts for zombie enthusiast, megalomaniac
scientists, lesser necromancers, and Witch Doctors turned Stone
Masons!
WARNING: Living Dead Pet Rocks NOT for use in rock gardens
with living rocks!! (Unless you ARE looking to create an undead army!)
Also, please do not use them in slingshots, they are untrained
as airborne troops!
I’m afraid that the site news will be a non-issue this
month. I have had neither the time nor the energy to
make any real additions due to my current medical condition.
I will try to add something next month if everything goes
well but I can make no promises nor guarantees at this point.
For those don’t come by the site as often as they might like
to, I direct you to this thread in the forum…
It has been my experience that many people erroneously believe
that the poor are stupid, ignorant, lazy, and generally uneducated.
The “logic” applied here is that if they weren’t stupid they’d have
a job and money.
Wrong.
Sometimes you find yourself in a place were you have limited or
no real opportunities. There are also times when someone decides
to have a go at it and work for themselves and find that they are
having a hard time due to external influences like a weak economy
or an unexpected illness.
I have known my share of people that were down on their luck that
were probably sharper mentally than many PHD’s. One friend of
mine who was a college graduate spent better than ten years bagging
groceries at the same store not because he was stupid or lazy
but simply because he hadn’t seen any opportunities to apply his
degree. Somehow, I doubt asking people if they wanted paper or
plastic was what he envisioned when he graduated!
And then we have the truly poor, the homeless. Too many people
tend to either look down on them or let their eyes slide over them
and pretend to not see them. Occasionally some smartass will yell
at them to, “Get a job ya bum!”. If they could get a job, do you
they would be homeless, slackwit?! In the current economic
climate, it makes me wonder just how many people will and
have found themselves in this position.
Now I have to take a cheap shot at the previous administration.
George W Bush, a Harvard MBA and obscenely wealthy. And about
as sharp a bowling ball! Now if someone will kindly apply that
“logic” I spoke of early to this case…
While I have not had the time to add much to the site I have had
the time to submit quite a few of the XOOPS modules I have made
to xoops.org.
I am still working on uploading The Philosophy of Liberty files.
However, I am to the point where I am uploading absolutely huge
files and it is slow going for the most part. In addition to
uploading the files here for download I am also in the process
of uploading them to some of the video sharing sites like Youtube,
Veoh, and Dailymotion but again, that is slow going.
One item of note you may find of particular interest, Google’s
Adsense has decided that we have been getting too many clicks on
their ads and has disabled them. I guess this is the curse of
success. And since I have heard nothing else from them since the
12th, I have already started looking into other ad companies to
help support the site. I may try a few different ones so if the
ads you see change from time to time try not to freak out or laugh
too hard.
‘Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the website, not a member stirred.
I’d just settled down to post some more eclectic crap
And suddenly it dawned on me, It was time for the SITE NEWS!
Yeah yeah yeah… Let’s see you do any better!
Ok, this has been a busier month than last was for me.
i.e. I actually got some work done adding stuff. lol
I remember reading and hearing many times about the state of
affairs during The Great Depression. Mostly what comes to mind is
that people frequently comment that in regards to money it’s that it
would buy a lot but that practically no one had any.
I look at our current situation and have to admit that people were
actually in a better position generally than their descendants are
now. Back then, a relatively small amount of money would buy quite
a lot. There was once an older gentleman I spoke to while working
a job at a little park. He told me that he was one of the lucky ones
as he managed to find a job that paid five dollars a week, with the
added bonus of a pint jar of homebrew on Fridays. lol And I realize
just how much the nature of our money has changed since he had that
job. Now though, a little money won’t buy much and no one seems to
have any and the few that do have any are hanging onto it for the
most part.
Our situation has been made worse by large corporations that allowed
their greed to cloud their judgment when it came to the concept of
outsourcing work. It is my belief that if there had been few or no
jobs sent overseas many of our current problems would not exist.
Some people may remember TV commercials from the eighties featuring
Bob Hope in the “Made in the U.S.A.” campaign they had for several
years. This was back when seeing Chinese and other foreign made
goods was just becoming an all too common thing.
Now though it is hard to actually find US made goods and if you do
find them, you tend to pay dearly for them.
I am not going to lay blame on any one company or individual. It
seems to have become the general mindset of too many people that
excess greed is a good thing. Look at the record profits the big
oil companies have reported the last few years as a prime example.
The fact one of their executives sat in front of a TV camera and
claimed that 80 billion dollars wasn’t really that much money
should give us all pause.
The last month I have spent most of my time downloading files
for The Philosophy of Liberty. (84 of them )And finally
got the last of them just before writing this. I’ll start uploading
and posting them in the next few days.
Fourteen languages in six different formats. It was a lot of work
getting all them since they were hosted on a free file hosting
service but I think they were worth the effort.
At current, I do have all of them available as XOOPS modules
at the XMD sub site. I also got a chance to convert All your base
are belong to us to a XOOPS module as well.
I haven’t had much time to write any new blog entries myself
but our special guest blogger Dick McPlenty has taken the time
to post a few more of his rants.
I have also decided to abridge the monthly news letter into a
link to the current site news blog entry.
Why? Call it natural laziness or call it using a sneaky way to
get people to read the monthly site news.
Just before the presidential election the stock markets looked to
be recovering a bit. Yet now that it has past they have nosedived
again.
Why?
Did all of them suddenly decide that our new President Elect’s
message a hope and change were suddenly no longer valid? I have
noticed that a lot of the so called financial “experts” keep making
dire predictions that only seem to turn into self fulfilling
prophecies as soon as the Wall Street crowd hears what they have
said.
Maybe they have a point and are correct but I do not think it is
necessary for them to continually tell people “We’re f*cked!” so
loud and so bluntly. One thing I have learned over the years is
that the Wall Street crowd are basically a brainless mob when an
“expert” tells them things are one way or the other. And telling
them that the market is about to crash is a great way to get them
help make sure it happens!
I am not saying that they should lie about it. Anyone that buys
food or has bills to pay can pretty much add the numbers up and
figure out that something is rotten in Denmark. Or more correctly
on Wall Street and at The Fed.
What I am saying is that they need to remember that most of the
people on Wall Street are much like small children when it comes
to what the “experts” say. They tend to believe them without
question and will act accordingly. Meaning of course that they’ll
politely piss their knickers and start selling off shares so fast
it makes the market drop like a rock.
I doubt any of these “experts” will ever actually read this blog
but I feel the need to say this anyway…
For heaven’s sake people, think before you go spouting your dire
predictions and try to not make a bad situation worse than it has
to be!
You have to love these people. By their very word they are
“The Shit”. and they will gladly rub how good they are in
your face as often as they can. Personally, I think these are
people that are compensating for a smaller set of reproductive
organs.
Most of the time they are no talent hacks that are trying to
impress people with their alleged skills. On a rare occasion
they are talented people that never heard of the word humility
before. Quite often they will refer to themselves as authors, poets,
or artists and are usually just talented enough to make a ten
year old feel bad about themselves.
If they produce any of their “art” they usually tell you all
about how high the quality of the materials and workmanship
are. Quite frequently they will hang a price tag on it that would
make a Rodeo Drive boutique blush with shame. They’ll also
make claims about their clientèle that deep down you know
are just pure high grade bullshit.
If they write they usually produce gibberish that makes you
have to read it several times before you decide they handed
their keyboard over to an insane chimpanzee on meth. Good
writers are easy to spot. Bad writers make you want to gouge
out both eyes and refuse to learn Braille.
What amuses me on the internet is seeing these jerks claim
they ignore hate mail and flames. If they ever stopped to
consider that they are utter pricks they might realize why
they have to ignore hate mail and flames.
Over the years I have heard people expound upon the virtues of
an education time and again and agree with them for the most part.
However, they tend to forget one key point. Education is worthless
without the necessary intelligence to take advantage of it. I have
seen my share of highly educated people that were, quite bluntly,
as dumb as a box rocks. I have also seen people that lacked a formal
education that were far more perceptive than many PhDs.
What’s my point? Many people falsely assume that someone who
has “earned” a degree from a university is somehow smarter than
themselves by default. For example, take a look at high level
politicians in the world today. Many of them hold degrees from
very prestigious universities and some of them are quite insightful.
But on balance most of them are people we routinely call dumbass,
idiot, or moron because of their policies. Policies that more often
than not leave us worse off than we were to begin with.
So, with that in mind, you have to ask yourself, Are all of these
Doctors and Professors really as intelligent as we give them credit
for? Or have we deluded ourselves into thinking that a piece of paper
with elegant calligraphy on it makes someone smart? It might have
worked for the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz but in the real world,
not so much.
One of those things that drives me nuts are people that used to
engage in one bad habit or another and have “seen the light” and
quit. I smoke, I drink, and I eat things that would give a cardiologist
a fit. And somewhere out there someone that used to do the same
things would be more than happy to tell me to quit with a zeal that
borders of fanaticism.
I am happy for anyone that has managed to drop some personal
vice that they felt was controlling their lives. However, what I
choose to do is my own affair. I don’t need these people to point
out medical studies I am already aware of. Nor do I need someone
that was smoking two packs a day only three months ago telling
me that I should quit.
Personally, I feel these people are compelled by a modern form of
puritanism* more than they are compelled by any great concern
for a stranger’s health and well being.
*Puritanism: The innate fear that somewhere, someone
is having fun.
I noticed that a video clip is making the rounds from Youtube
regarding an increase in gun sales recently. The media, of course,
is showing it’s natural fear mongering bias by pointing out that
some people are, to be blunt, pissing their knickers over the fact
that Barack Obama has taking a strong lead in the presidential race
of late and are a afraid that another “gun grabbing liberal” is
about to be the next US president.
That may be so but the media is the problem here. Historically
speaking, gun grabs have only come after someone has gone nuts
and it made national news; Pearl,MS, Colombime,CO. I won’t say
that there isn’t a chance Obama may decide to try his hand at
gun control but right now some of the media are acting like this
is a key issue in the grand scheme of things. Usually gun grabs
are knee jerk crap designed to make soccer moms feel ’safe” instead
of actually deterring crime.
Personally, I have a hunch that more than a few people are buying
guns because right now, things look like crap from a financial
point of view for most of us. And thus some of them are buying
guns to ensure that they have a chance to retain what they have
from people that are desperate and stupid enough to try stealing
food and other essentials from their neighbors.
I won’t say that there are some that aren’t worried that their
rights to own firearms will be trimmed by the next administration.
Every new president poses that possibility. And it would be there
whether it is a “conservative” or a “liberal”. Under the current
(Conservative!) administration we saw a huge blow to our rights
and freedoms thanks to the U.S.A. PATRIOT act and other laws that
came to pass after 9/11/2001.
So if you watch TV news, take it with a huge grain of salt and
try to see through their load of biased crap.
Why another XOOPS installed on the site? Easy, The Bastion proper
has a wide enough range of topic matter now without trying to
incorporate XOOPS module development into it as well.
Just check the XMD Project FAQ for the full explanation.
At the time of this writing I have 16 XOOPS modules made.
I’m just now getting this category started so it may take a while
before there are more major additions to it.
I’ve also been doing some cleaning in the Web Links Directory.
Mostly tidying things up and clearing out dead and outdated
links. And adding a few new ones I have found.
Another group of idiots that has long held my disdain are those
quaint morons that want you tell them every intimate detail
of your personal life while sharing nothing themselves. What
damned business is it of theirs if you like sleeping in the nude,
the exact details of your annual income or whether or not you
subscriptions to any “adult magazines”?
None. Period.
These are usually the same turd brains that expect you to give
them a fucking dossier on yourself but always neglect to post a
single detail of their own. Or that have posted trivial details about
themselves and act as though they have posted some great
revelations about themselves. If we are posting on a forum or in
a chat room and we have known each other for less than a week
we are acquaintances not life long friends. This applies to the
real world as well. If we just bumped into each other at a party
I have no plans to share more than casual conversation with you.
Personally, If I haven’t known you for at least a year online I don’t
feel you have any need to know my personal details. And the only
time you have any need to know where I live is if you are doing
business with me and need a mailing address to send a check or
money order to pay me.
My favorite argument from these dicks is always the classic line,
“What are you hiding?”. It’s called privacy, morons. It comes
from same part of human nature that makes us want those lovely
drapes in our homes or a lock on the desk drawer. Once on a forum
one of these inquiring minds informed me that they didn’t feel the
need for anonymity. Oh, really? Then why use a screen name, why
not use your real name instead? Instead of a cute little avatar, why
not use your own picture instead? Because we’re online. Some of us
view the internet as being at least in part escapism from our normal
lives, most of which are spectacularly boring.
It has been my distinct displeasure in my lifetime to have
encountered my fair share of religious hypocrites. No matter
what faith they profess to be they all have pretty much the
same general characteristics. They’ll go around gleefully
beating you over the head with what ever book they claim
is the word of God. All the while doing things that fly in the
face of the very same things they have been preaching at
you.
All organized religions, even the ones that claim they aren’t
organized, are pretty much full of shit in my honest opinion.
I will point out now that for all of the hypocrites I have seen,
I have seen a few that earned my respect for actually practicing
what they preached and were willing to allow others their beliefs
without giving them some moronic sermon about how they were
praying the wrong way.
Let me make it clear now before I go any farther, I am not
going to single out any one group. In the ten or so years I
have been online, I have taken the opportunity to read as
much as can to learn as many points of view as I could and
spent enough time in libraries reading enough religious books
that I have been asked what my major was! On the surface
all religions look good. It’s when you get under the hood you
begin to see what’s what and that all of them are about the
same when you get to the heart of the matter.
I’ve seen my share of people quoting one version or another
of the golden rule, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do
unto you’, ‘An’ harm to none, do as ye will’ and several others
that are less well known. Of course not long after I see them
quoting these things, I see them doing unto others in a way that
would make a divorce lawyer proud.
To the people that are true to their beliefs, my hat’s off to you.
To the hypocrites, kindly STFU and take the time to read that
book you’re thumping!
If you’ve spent a lot of time of the internet you have seen these
people. They’ll take ten or fifteen paragraphs to make a one
paragraph point. Usually these twerps want to make a point to
include insignificant or irrelevant details that have only marginal
bearing on the topic at hand. There are times when you need to
include extra details to clarify something, just as long as those
details are pertinent to what you writing about.
You’ll see them posting blogs or posting on forums. Usually they
are the ones that you tend to skim over what they posted in the
faint (read: infinitesimal) hope that somewhere in their meandering
text are the few pieces of information you are looking for. More
often than not you have to wade through their pointless tripe only
to discover that they haven’t got a fucking clue as to what they are
talking about.
As a rule, I try to be concise in what I post on the internet. I
learned from long experience and lots of wading through crap
that no one wants to read fifteen pointless paragraphs of bullshit
when all they need is one paragraph that gives them the facts.
no barfing or anything radically
That would depend on how well it is
