MoebiusLord the Flatulent wrote:
"Who's Better, Britney or Christina" posts really make me sick. It is pablum. Superfluous crap, mostly, that differs not quite as much as you might think from the Asylum posts, except that you people let it ride, and answer the festering boil of a question instead of dealing with the person appropriately.
This
is the Out of Topic forum, afterall. I can't think of anything more Out of Topic than Brittney and Christina.
While it may be superfluous crap to you (and many of us), to the poster, maybe he (or she) really really REALLY wants to know. Maybe he (or she) is undecided in which CD to purchase, or whom he should be imagining pole dancing while ... entertaining himself (or herself, we musn't be sexist).
As is said to many a person who posts on a thread only to say, "What the hell is this utter bovine fecal matter?" - if you don't want to read it, don't. :)
Because really.. the amount I know about Brittney and Christina you could clump together in the following words: They're both females. They're both singers. They're both popular. They're both 13 year old boys wet-dream superstars.
I don't want to read about who is better, nor do I care what other people think. So I just won't read the entire thread. Saves me a headache and a few braincells that were spared from having to read and comprehend the thread.
I'll leave reading and posting on those threads to those who think such a topic is important. More power to them. Have fun. :P I'll just stay out of it. Thanks. They don't need me to tell them how insignificant I find their topic, and how stupid I think they are because that's the only thing they find worthy of posting about. They obviously thought it was worth posting.
Moebius wrote:
We don't hate you. I don't at least. You are beneath me, the collective you. I am superior to the lot of you. Many of us are superior to the lot of you. I would definitely say we don't hate you.
Heh, a person is worthy, people are stupid. :)
A lot of people who post on an OOT forum (and even in the FFXI forum...) are posting on it because they're bored, and thus, they don't have the time (or interest in waking up their brain cell(s)) to try to think of an interesting and pertinent topic to everyone. So they burp out, "Who do you like better?" threads, because at the moment, that is what is most important or pertinent to them (or at least, what they think is the funniest thing to post about).
Those threads have their amusement. But they'll fall off the front page eventually, leaving those posts with such pertinent staying power (like whatever the Round 2 thread is about, apparently) around for such intelligent and distinguished people like yourself to post on.
The reason I didn't post on the original OOT thread was because when I went there to read a few intersting titled threads, I quickly became alarmed at the way the verbal abuse ensued shortly after the initial post. I'm sure, looking at it now, that some of it was probably the usual give and take of abuse-between-friends. But a few that I read had someone replying in a polite manner, and being summarily ripped apart for expressing their views. No thanks.
You may think of it as the FFXI's are just all Chocobo-hugging Moogle-happy, kupo-heads. So we don't lance the proverbial festering boil of superfluous "Vs." threads. But I tend to think of it as the fact that we just don't make (as much) fun of people because they have different opinions of what is an appropriate Out of Topic thread to talk about. :)
It's hard to cure apparent stupidity by insulting it.
The insulted party usually sums it up to the insultor being a male donkey or a horses rump, and go on their merry way, feeling righteously justified in making up a Voodoo doll and jabbing pins into its eyes. :P
Sure, they may leave the forum/thread, but then you lose out on any potential intelligent remarks that person may one day make. And lose out on the potential threads you can read and shake your head about the verbal garbage you're reading, then make appropriately smarmy remarks that will undoubtedly go right over their heads (or through their ears).
If you really think it's a problem with all the OOT-lite posts you hate reading, we can always hit Allakhazam up for the "Serious Out of Topic Forum", in which the only things worth discussing are deep philosphical concepts, religion, politics, morality, current global events, the economy and world peace... but I don't think he'll go for it. ;)
