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[basaltbasilisk]

WHAT THE FUCK
IF I SEE ONE MORE "TAKE A PICTURE OF YOURSELF AS YOU ARE" POST I AM GOING TO STAB SOMEONE IN THE FUCKING JAW!

HAVE SOME SYMPATHY, HAVE SOME COURTESY, AND SOME TASTE. AND DROP THE FUCKING BANDWAGON

the only thing that pisses me off more are myspace survey bulletins.

God damn.

Comments

[zenostortoise]

Huh? How's it a matter of sympathy or courtesy? You've posted countless pictures of yourself. Surely your friends aren't ugly enough to warrant this much anger.

I find it interesting to see what people look like.

[basaltbasilisk]

It's not the pictures that piss me off dummy, it's the fucking meme mentality.

[zenostortoise]

Perhaps you're not familiar with the concept of a meme. A large majority of human behavior finds its roots in memetic theory, including fashion (both popular and alternative) and subcultural identity. You might find some so-called internet memes annoying, but you can't criticize them for being conformist when every modern tribal group (read: subculture) operates with its own set of memes.

It's not a matter of being a poser or a bandwagon jumper, it's a matter of unconsciously (or consciously) assimilating aspects of the world around us and spreading them to others, and no one can claim that they're above that.

[basaltbasilisk]

God you do like to wax with the bullshit, don't you?! Yes, I know of the meme. Yes, of course there is something inherently appealing in internet memes to people, or else they wouldn't spread it. Yes, I think it's fucking awful and annoying and stupid. I'm not criticizing them for being conformist, I'm criticizing them for finding it inherently appealing. Just because Richie Dawkins (who is kind of a twat to begin with) wants to apply evolutionary theory to explaining the spread of cultural phenomenon doesn't mean that the cultural phenomenon is any less terrible than disco, pogs, or myspace surveys. Bell bottoms, on the other hand, are still, and always will be, awesome.

[eriu]

Stab in the jaw. Woo! I haven't seen this meme yet, fortunately.

[basaltbasilisk]

It's like God is pissing hot lava into the urethra of everyone you've ever loved. It's all clear to me now. Internet memes are the worst thing to happen to humanity since velociraptors. This one was the straw that broke the camel's back.

[basaltbasilisk]

I AM A PARALYZED CAMEL!

[eriu]

lmao

<3 It's okay. I'll keep my memes under cuts (well, I hardly do memes anymore unless they're inherently fascinating, which sort of defeats the purpose of a meme....I kind of grew out of them. Yay adulthood!)

[vuurfee]

Wow. Mental pictures about people getting stabbed in the jaw all over now. How does one do that?

[basaltbasilisk]

preferably with an ice pick or prison shiv!!

[angel_witch]

I would be MORE than happy to assist you in the jaw stabbing.

[basaltbasilisk]

weehaw!!

[moonlitfractal]

That post is awesome. It almost even makes up for totally dissing me at Faire yesterday :-P

[basaltbasilisk]

FUCK THAT WAS YOU!? AT THE WINE STAND??!!?! I THOUGHT TO MYSELF "THAT LOOKS A LOT LIKE SARAH CAMPBELL! BUT SHE DOESN'T WORK AT THE RENN FAIRE!"

I WAS DRUNK AND YOU HAD ON SOME KIND OF HAT THING!! DON'T JUDGE ME!