Comments | spectrewolf: Funny stuff

spectrewolf

Funny stuff

Feb 26, 2006 11:28

(This is a cut from SomethingAwful)

To Take Is To Learn: There is a right way and a wrong way to react to criticism. Some people sit quietly and thank whoever is critiquing them when they are done. We like to call those people boring and stupid! A real journalist's job is to defend his points at all time, even if he is wrong. We're talking ( Read more... )

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keeganfox February 26 2006, 17:52:20 UTC

Nice.
Whatever...
I see the second attitude all the time and it's pretty well uncivilised, so if it was meant to be funny or not, it's not. At all.

spectrewolf February 26 2006, 17:56:17 UTC

"If it was meant to be funny or not"
Yea, it was meant to be funny, that's why it's called "funny stuff"
This is a copy/paste from a humor site, as I've commented all over it. Why are you so serious about it?

keeganfox February 26 2006, 18:26:35 UTC

If you don't want comments, turn them off.
It would be funny, if it weren't the norm, but it is the norm. It's like it's a personal attack on someone if you mention that things are a lot more readable if they use capitalisation and punctuation, or that their argument is invalid, or just plain incorrect. We're falling behind in schools compared to the rest of the world, but then it's okay to not bother with the "irrelevant" details. Stand up and take some responsibility.

spectrewolf February 26 2006, 18:47:40 UTC

I want comments, not senseless flames on me acting like I'm committing some personal attack. All I'm doing is laughing at how true to life something is. If you had just said "it would be funny if it weren't so true" instead of getting all miffed, I would have left it ( ... )

keeganfox February 26 2006, 19:18:56 UTC

I never said anything about a personal attack against you, nor am I trying to start a flame war. They're pointless. I apologise if the post came off that way.
I was just saying that I didn't think it was funny, because it's all too often the norm. It may well be funny to a lot of people, but to me it just struck a bad chord because I see it all the time. I see it as some sort of ego trip and an inability to accept that they (the writer, in this case) might actually, ohnoes! be wrong. It also might be something to do with it being from SA, who I despise anyways...
So I hope that helps explain it better...

spectrewolf February 26 2006, 19:25:27 UTC

Ahhhh, cool. Thank ya much for helping me to understand what you meant.
Sorry if I took anything the wrong way too. Have a good one :)