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What is it with people on internet forums, am i missing something?
hazydayz
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It must just be me because in real life I've never known people to think they're oh so superior and high and mighty and have the right to sit and judge others. Maybe that's why it happens on forums. Maybe these are places where people get to say things and let off steam that they don't have the courage to do in real life. Am I right here or have I stumbled through life blind to all this?
And don't get me wrong, I've worked many jobs and met all kinds of people, I've met the teenage mothers, I've worked with the middle aged white guys who need the demeaning office jobs to pay the bills, I've sat with the 30 year old women who still tell themselves I'm just gonna be doing this a few more years before I do the job I really want to do! I've blended in with them all, from the upper class bosses who we all make fun of behind his back because he's a fool and I've worked for the boss who just the same as the rest of us and sits with us during the working day.
But have never have I seen this behaviour in the real world. It's very bitter and negative and me being Scottish of course I'm born bitter and negative but even I try and be cheery and happy. On here it's like every day we need something to moan at. It's the nurse with the big boobies or a fire in some abandoned building but Twitter makes it look like a big deal so we've all got to look at it! Come on.
And don't get me wrong, I've worked many jobs and met all kinds of people, I've met the teenage mothers, I've worked with the middle aged white guys who need the demeaning office jobs to pay the bills, I've sat with the 30 year old women who still tell themselves I'm just gonna be doing this a few more years before I do the job I really want to do! I've blended in with them all, from the upper class bosses who we all make fun of behind his back because he's a fool and I've worked for the boss who just the same as the rest of us and sits with us during the working day.
But have never have I seen this behaviour in the real world. It's very bitter and negative and me being Scottish of course I'm born bitter and negative but even I try and be cheery and happy. On here it's like every day we need something to moan at. It's the nurse with the big boobies or a fire in some abandoned building but Twitter makes it look like a big deal so we've all got to look at it! Come on.
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What, like saying folks should be named and shamed in the papers just on the basis of one person's word ? Without any actual evidence ?
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=75273316&postcount=470
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Cheery and happy? Non-judgemental? Or is it that FM's disagree with you?
You wont see these people in the real world, as many of them are hermits without much of a life. Often the most rude, judgmental and bitter ones, tend to be this way as they are societies rejects. Forever lonely and sad.
And you aren't all high and mighty OP?
In what way is a middle aged 'white guy' working an office job demeaning?
I'm sensing you're trying to start an argument though?
It's probably because people tend to be more honest in real life and don't just make shit up to be controversial and edgy.
In real life, I'm sure a person who did do that would be treated to disdain similar to what's sometimes expressed here.
I like to think I'm just as arrogant in real life
Possibly even worse, to be honest.
At least on here I get a chance to think before I speak
I reckon you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
But I guess you didn't try much anyway.
Then there is only one thing for it, return to the real world and you will no longer have to encounter those bad forum people. Make haste or you will be assimilated.
Not at all.
If anything I find it unusual that people would be something other than themselves online.
I find a 'confrontational' approach has generally served me well on all fronts.
That said, clearly I suppose some meek and mild types find their voice in a place like this but maybe naively I reckon most people on here are very similar to the 'personas' they display online.
It'd be too much effort pretending to be somebody you're not, for a long time, surely?
And anne, you picked a post I made on another thread. I know you did it to try and use it against me, but you couldn't have picked a better post. That thread is full of what I already described as the high and mighty on their high horse. They're there to tell everyone how psychics are fake and this and that and I've seen the religious threads and the same names pop up, it's anti everything and we know best and we all post in groups and our voices will be heard. What her husband did and said, is what happens in real life. That's not aggression or violence. That's real life. But of course the people in that thread got riled up because they are only used to spouting their vicious insults at people online, they've never done it in real life and so the young guy comes along and has a go at it and what happened is what everyone knew would happen and so they all get angry because he's like a real life version of them. He's done what they say behind the keyboards they would like to do and it backfired. Perfect example there anne.
As far as the rest of the comments go. I think in real life many of the big posters on here, the big voices, they're probably very quiet timid people in real life. I'm guessing they go to work, get the head down, work, get lunch, work hard, go for the train/bus, get home, log on here and Facebook and Twitter and that's it.
Then you get other people who go to work, chat, work, socialise at lunch, work, go home, phone friends, socialise, go out at the weekends, basically mingle with society and if they can be bothered they will go online. I think for the first set of people, life must be doom and gloom. No relationships, no kids, everything's revolving around the internet, mixing with the opposite sex occurs online, PMing each other, oh I'll go in this thread and say this and then they say oh ok I'll wait till you reply and then I'll make a post, we'll do this and do that and then i need to iron my white shirt for work lol.
Everyone is judgemental to a greater or lesser degree both in real life and online.
Anyone that says they're not is a liar.
You're such a snob.
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You only think I'm a snob cos you're a chav
You are in total control of what you say and what you read and what you respond to If you find it all getting a bit much then log out and do something else Of all the things to worry about in life what somebody says on a forum is WAY down my list of priorities
Well of course we don't ALL have to do anything. People who are interested in a subject will comment on it, those who aren't, don't.
No idea what your problem is OP, but I 'm not sure you've got the hang of the concept of a 'discussion' forum.