Comments | wormfood177: i hate me sometimes

wormfood177

i hate me sometimes

Mar 23, 2005 22:15

today was one of those days where if i had the option of just giving up being valedictorian and being ranked something nobody will remember or care, i would do it ( Read more... )

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henjay March 23 2005, 20:07:51 UTC

I'm not sure how to put this nicely, so I don't think I will.

That post made you sound extremely pompous. I'm sorry the innumerable opportunities you have before you are too great to handle. Oh, the eternal woes of your life. Last year's valedictorian didn't go to an ivy league, I don't remember her being run out of the school. While I can understand what you're saying (I think), the way you portrayed it in this post will not lead anyone to give you any sympathy.

Also, I'm sorry that the atrocity of which I'm a part propagated the eternal angst of Monsieur Valedictorian, improperly reported your near perfect GPA and wrote the cause of your badgering poorly.

iwouldsayyes March 23 2005, 20:09:32 UTC

Dear Neil,

TIME magazine recently ran a feature about the number of people who die in third world African countries every day. From AIDS. From starvation. From simple, curable diseases like chicken pox. These are real problems. Those people have miserable lives. You are bitching about feeling a little pressure from people because you did well in school. You have it ROUGH. Saying things like "FUCK YOU SO MUCH THAT I HOPE YOU FUCKING CHOKE ON YOUR GOD DAMN MOTHER FUCKING FOOD AND YOU NEVER FUCKING WAKE UP EVER AGAIN" just proves how ignorant and selfish you really are. Was this entry really supposed to make us feel bad for you?

Sorry our "atrocious" paper acknowledged your accomplishments.

Also, if you allow people to bother you this much, then you're going to explode before you're twenty and it won't matter if you went to Brown or the tech. Put things in perspective and grow up.

<3 Megan Lessard
Editor-in-Chief of the atrocious paper.

YOU AREEEEE THE WORST iwouldsayyes March 23 2005, 20:41:00 UTC

Ok you really aren't that well known. Just because you are imortalized by freshman band kids doesn't mean your great. So what your smart. Your still a pompous little prick who probably won't amount to anything in life but either a pissed off engineer or a horn player in some band that plays at asorted weddings/bah mitzfas/sweet 16's and elderly care homes. Guess what being number 1 at Central High School isn't as great of an accomplishment as you think it is. To peole within the walls of 207 Lowell street it might seem like something, but to people in the real world it means nothing more than the fact that you have nothing better to do with you life than study. When you talk abot all the people who are "nobody's" in the rankings I take offense. That is a broad genralized statement that degrades people. I am 129 in our class, but I will be remembered at Central much more than you. In case you didn't know there are more things that happen at Central than Jazz Band World Lit and make out sessions with Patty Hicks. You will go down as ( ... )

Re: YOU AREEEEE THE WORST king0fspades March 24 2005, 14:30:08 UTC

Hey Ryan you really are an awful person. Neil never directed anything at YOU. He was venting his own personal frustrations and didn't attack YOU. Its an exercise a lot of people use to get rid of their anger. The fact that you couldn't see that is beyond me. Grow up and get over yourself.

Re: YOU AREEEEE THE WORST iwouldsayyes March 24 2005, 18:26:51 UTC

You obviously don't know Ryan then. Because I have known him for, well, a good 12 years of my life, and he's probably one of the best people I know. Outspoken yes, but that is EXACTLY what's going to get him somewhere in life. Neil's post was not needed. I have NOTHING against the kid, nothing. But he didn't need to may the entry public. End of story. Don't shit on Ry for speaking out about something he didnt like. And incase you missed it, there were other people who spoke up as he did...

CHS '05 baby! Let's just get out of this hell hole peacefully.

Thread 5

Hmmm... anonymous March 23 2005, 20:33:56 UTC

Ok, I agree and disagree with the above two comments ( ... )

Re: Hmmm... anonymous March 23 2005, 21:16:42 UTC

It seems that the basic issue here is a mutual resentment between the Keeper of the Brain and the underlings who scurry at the feet of the top 10. I must admit that to some (considerable) extent I have spent my school days with many of the same comments and sentiments from my peers. People have used "the smart kid" since the invention of the smart kid and this is inevitable. Even as the smart kid, there's always a smarter kid that can in turn be used ( ... )

Re: Hmmm... anonymous March 24 2005, 12:53:40 UTC

Actually, there are a few things that people who read the paper but never say anything have to say... for example, everytime one of my friends has been interviewed for a story that seems less important, the people who put it in the paper make them look like idiots, ruining what they actually said. Then again, i wasn't there, but i know they wouldn't have sounded like such an idiot if you hadn't ruined the way they spoke. Then there are other comments i've read that had a bunch of grammatical errors. I don't really care what those people think of you since they were their comments, but for the record and from an objective point of view.. for people who stay there all weekend you do a poor job at making sure that you don't make your peers look like bumbling idiots. Yours truly, someone who's been offended quite a few times by your "i'm better than you because i'm in the little green now go do this for me" attitude.

Re: Hmmm... anonymous March 24 2005, 14:02:54 UTC

I acknowledge that it is the responsibility of the editors to take responsibility for the contents of their publication. However, you must also realize that as editors we do not write all of-- or even half of-- what's published in the paper. The person that is given credit for the article in the by-line is responsible for the quotations in their article, and we must take them to be verbatim. Only the interviewer and the interviewee know what was really said, and even that's probably not taped and documented. Corrections of misquotes will be made if they're brought to someone's attention for the next issue, but quiet grudges do not work the same way as a short note might. And while I'll admit that I am determined to destroy the soul of every child of America, misquotes are usually the source of inevitable human error, not so that I can get my evil kick out of them.
Also, a name would be appreciated so that I can learn from my inadvertent assholishness of the past. Haughtily yours, Steve

Atrocity?? anonymous March 23 2005, 21:06:09 UTC

Dear Valedictorian ( ... )

anonymous March 23 2005, 21:36:23 UTC

Neil, for the past few years I have been in some of your classes as you sat there chomping on your fingers, throwing out these deep intelligent thoughts like you picked it up in a quick glance through the dictionary, or even the intent attraction that your calculator has held over your soul in math class. Have I criticized? Not at all, I've only had respect for your hard work. We all have stress, we all have pressure...I may not be number one but I've had the same classes as you, the same work, the same everything. We have all worked hard, whether it be number 1, number 54, or 467 (though they maybe have been working at some different sorta things). Rather than denouncing those in the middle of the class you should be applauding them. They make you look better. You should be bowing to them, for taking pressure OFF of you. If it wasn't for the middle kids who would be winning all the sports championships, creating the yearbook, or writing the articles for the Little Green? All of those things take the focus away from the brain trust ( ... )