by Lysander » Wed Sep 08, 2004 4:03 pm
Yeah, I'm sure that you were really bothered by Ben's drivvel. Since it took you only one and a half seconds to get the gist of what he was saying, decide it wasn't anything you cared about, then gone to look at something else.
Oh. Wait.
No, no, you read the entire thread, just because you felt like it, and when you got down to the bottom you figured "Hey, no one's blasted Pinback yet today, I think I'll do it!" and whined--and I must stress, *WHINED*--that that three-line post took up so much of your precious fucking time. Hey, slappy, here's a nice idea: if you think a post is worthless, *DON'T READ IT*. Yeah I know by the time you've read it it's too late, but it took, what, three seconds to read the entire thing? Not to mention that the title "SNT" meant it was about Ben's website in the first place, so it's not as though you went in expecting a helarious thread about video games only to have them horribly dashed. I mean, what you're doing here is basically saying "Wow! What a worthless post to start out a completely worthless threadQ! I think I'll read the rest of the posts just to see how worthless they are! And then I will complain that he maliciously wasted my time!" Um, no. It's not Ben's fault for posting something you don't care about, it's your fault for apparently caring enough to read it and then whine about having to read something you don't care about. This is the general topics base, isn't it? So doesn't that kind of denote a general-ness type of tilt towards the posts? Or does "general" in your mind have a "anything except for something that relates to So Now Then!" in your mind?
To answer your question, the BBS is just as public as this one is, so doing it there would have been somewhat counterproductive, since the same people who can read the snt front page can read the BBS just as easily.
Yeah, I'm sure that you were really bothered by Ben's drivvel. Since it took you only one and a half seconds to get the gist of what he was saying, decide it wasn't anything you cared about, then gone to look at something else.
Oh. Wait.
No, no, you read the entire thread, just because you felt like it, and when you got down to the bottom you figured "Hey, no one's blasted Pinback yet today, I think I'll do it!" and whined--and I must stress, *WHINED*--that that three-line post took up so much of your precious fucking time. Hey, slappy, here's a nice idea: if you think a post is worthless, *DON'T READ IT*. Yeah I know by the time you've read it it's too late, but it took, what, three seconds to read the entire thing? Not to mention that the title "SNT" meant it was about Ben's website in the first place, so it's not as though you went in expecting a helarious thread about video games only to have them horribly dashed. I mean, what you're doing here is basically saying "Wow! What a worthless post to start out a completely worthless threadQ! I think I'll read the rest of the posts just to see how worthless they are! And then I will complain that he maliciously wasted my time!" Um, no. It's not Ben's fault for posting something you don't care about, it's your fault for apparently caring enough to read it and then whine about having to read something you don't care about. This is the general topics base, isn't it? So doesn't that kind of denote a general-ness type of tilt towards the posts? Or does "general" in your mind have a "anything except for something that relates to So Now Then!" in your mind?
To answer your question, the BBS is just as public as this one is, so doing it there would have been somewhat counterproductive, since the same people who can read the snt front page can read the BBS just as easily.