Re: The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:12 pm
My ex who left me two weeks ago just sent me a picture of us hugging. That's it. No message, or explanation of any kind.
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Along with, "Hug this!"D.o.S. wrote:send a dick pic.
Well that's a hell of a way to fuck with someone's emotions. I'm sorry, dude.jfrey wrote:My ex who left me two weeks ago just sent me a picture of us hugging. That's it. No message, or explanation of any kind.
Fuck that.kbithecrowing wrote:Well that's a hell of a way to fuck with someone's emotions. I'm sorry, dude.jfrey wrote:My ex who left me two weeks ago just sent me a picture of us hugging. That's it. No message, or explanation of any kind.
snipelfritz wrote:Along with, "Hug this!"D.o.S. wrote:send a dick pic.
It's my impression that a lot of people don't realize the gravity of some of the things they say due to how acceptable and widespread exaggeration is used in our culture's expression (also see: Louis C.K.'s bit on the word "hilarious"). People don't think and, especially on the internet, have an increasingly unlikely chance to take accountability for the things they say.PetZounds wrote:A few minutes ago, I was relaxing after studying for finals and playing some Team Fortress 2. A bunch of guys on all-chat were being really obnoxious, so I told them to shut the fuck up. Yeah, that wasn't the best/most polite way to go about it but whatever.
In response, one of them told me I should kill myself. I really hate that that's a thing that people have learned to say to people online. I understand that they probably don't actually want me to kill myself, but jesus that really made me angry. They weren't even like a preteen or anything like that. It was a fully-grown human being. How the fuck could anyone ever say that to someone?
There was an article a while back that I read about how our communication depends on cues from body language and facial expressions, and without being able to see those things people tend to not fully grasp the effect of what they say on another person, and also tend to exaggerate their statements more to be sure that their feelings are getting across (anger, etc).kbithecrowing wrote:It's my impression that a lot of people don't realize the gravity of some of the things they say due to how acceptable and widespread exaggeration is used in our culture's expression (also see: Louis C.K.'s bit on the word "hilarious"). People don't think and, especially on the internet, have an increasingly unlikely chance to take accountability for the things they say.PetZounds wrote:A few minutes ago, I was relaxing after studying for finals and playing some Team Fortress 2. A bunch of guys on all-chat were being really obnoxious, so I told them to shut the fuck up. Yeah, that wasn't the best/most polite way to go about it but whatever.
In response, one of them told me I should kill myself. I really hate that that's a thing that people have learned to say to people online. I understand that they probably don't actually want me to kill myself, but jesus that really made me angry. They weren't even like a preteen or anything like that. It was a fully-grown human being. How the fuck could anyone ever say that to someone?
It makes me really angry, too, that people don't understand how demeaning and terrible a statement like that can be. Ugh.
truer words have never been typedjfrey wrote:But yeah, people suck.
Yeah, anonymity really brings out the worst in some people. I guess people just don't really think about the things they say, or care how it could be perceived by people. Just the lack of accountability people have for things is really terrible and disgusting.jfrey wrote:There was an article a while back that I read about how our communication depends on cues from body language and facial expressions, and without being able to see those things people tend to not fully grasp the effect of what they say on another person, and also tend to exaggerate their statements more to be sure that there feelings are getting across (anger, etc).kbithecrowing wrote:It's my impression that a lot of people don't realize the gravity of some of the things they say due to how acceptable and widespread exaggeration is used in our culture's expression (also see: Louis C.K.'s bit on the word "hilarious"). People don't think and, especially on the internet, have an increasingly unlikely chance to take accountability for the things they say.PetZounds wrote:A few minutes ago, I was relaxing after studying for finals and playing some Team Fortress 2. A bunch of guys on all-chat were being really obnoxious, so I told them to shut the fuck up. Yeah, that wasn't the best/most polite way to go about it but whatever.
In response, one of them told me I should kill myself. I really hate that that's a thing that people have learned to say to people online. I understand that they probably don't actually want me to kill myself, but jesus that really made me angry. They weren't even like a preteen or anything like that. It was a fully-grown human being. How the fuck could anyone ever say that to someone?
It makes me really angry, too, that people don't understand how demeaning and terrible a statement like that can be. Ugh.
But yeah, people suck.