Stuff that REALLY annoys you.
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RageMatrix
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Ah, my old nemesis, Fox NewsAbsolute_Zero wrote:
Anonymous and unchallenged critics, as in "critics say..."
Double acts alternating by the sentence.
Barely concealed agendas, cynicism and auto-opposition.
I could be mistaken, but I vaguely recall that we used to get our news delivered in a more straightforward and factual manner.
As in "Some people say <insert Fox News opinion here>"...
I've noticed UK news channels have started doing the same thing, especially Sky News.
Who the fuck are these "people"? Either fucking well name your sources or just fucking give up calling it news and just call it the Mouth of Sauron or Amazing Semi-Fiction or something.
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Re: Stuff that REALLY annoys you.
Blasted messages from Real Networks about some idiotic celebrity news popping up from the system tray, they think I want to read JUST NOW when I am waiting for this old laptop to boot up slooowly.
Please, please I do not even use your shitty hassle-ware anymore, I only installed Real-something years ago and cannot be arsed to do a full Windows re-install to get rid of your crap.
Leave me alone!
Please, please I do not even use your shitty hassle-ware anymore, I only installed Real-something years ago and cannot be arsed to do a full Windows re-install to get rid of your crap.
Leave me alone!
Holier than thou
<-- sorry, mate... couldn't resist!
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People who bleat witlessly "Oh! You talk about killing people! Therefore you WANT to kill! You are a waiting murderer! You're all about killing!"
And you're there, waking up at three in the morning, shivering in horror hugging your knees because you know you value other lives more than you do your own. And you've accepted that if you need to, you will kill, to defend your family. And you've just dreamed you have, and you're suffering everything that would happen afterwards, the shakes, the sweats, the self-hate.... and yet, you've not done it. It's just a pre-shock of what might happen.
And then you sign into a forum, and idiots are jeering at you as being a person who wants to kill. Because you've acknowledged that someday, despite everything you might do, you might be forced into that circumstance: Kill, or let your loved ones die. And you've made the choice: I consider the sacrifice of waking up knowing I've ended life worth the choice of seeing my granddaughter grow up. I consider that worthwhile.
And it wakes me up most nights, in horror. Because this is the World. Last month, someone was shot to death about six minutes walk from my front door. I am frequently at that place.
Would I kill to save my loved ones?
Yes. I have considered, and I have chosen.
My worst nightmare is the people who hate me for this choice boincing up and down screaming "You should have let them die! You didn't have the right to refuse him his validation!.
So I'll be away for a while. One of my neighbours apparently was robbed on Monday. I can't hack the scream that I'm some sick, fucked up kill-hungerer while - at the same time - people are being shot dead and burgled within a spitball's radius of me front door.
Y'know.
And you're there, waking up at three in the morning, shivering in horror hugging your knees because you know you value other lives more than you do your own. And you've accepted that if you need to, you will kill, to defend your family. And you've just dreamed you have, and you're suffering everything that would happen afterwards, the shakes, the sweats, the self-hate.... and yet, you've not done it. It's just a pre-shock of what might happen.
And then you sign into a forum, and idiots are jeering at you as being a person who wants to kill. Because you've acknowledged that someday, despite everything you might do, you might be forced into that circumstance: Kill, or let your loved ones die. And you've made the choice: I consider the sacrifice of waking up knowing I've ended life worth the choice of seeing my granddaughter grow up. I consider that worthwhile.
And it wakes me up most nights, in horror. Because this is the World. Last month, someone was shot to death about six minutes walk from my front door. I am frequently at that place.
Would I kill to save my loved ones?
Yes. I have considered, and I have chosen.
My worst nightmare is the people who hate me for this choice boincing up and down screaming "You should have let them die! You didn't have the right to refuse him his validation!.
So I'll be away for a while. One of my neighbours apparently was robbed on Monday. I can't hack the scream that I'm some sick, fucked up kill-hungerer while - at the same time - people are being shot dead and burgled within a spitball's radius of me front door.
Y'know.
I told my wife late on Saturday night/early Sunday morning that "those bangs were gunshots". She was sure they were fireworks, as has been usual in the last couple of months.
"Look, I've been to the National Service, I know how a gun shot sounds like and that was one (or several actually)"
Monday's paper:
About 150 metres from here. I wish people would believe me first time around.
"Look, I've been to the National Service, I know how a gun shot sounds like and that was one (or several actually)"
Monday's paper:
A Double shooting in St Paul's left two men with leg injuries needing hospital treatment.The attack happened near the Criterion pub in Sussex Place...
About 150 metres from here. I wish people would believe me first time around.
Holier than thou
Tsk.swith wrote: (4) People who criticise other people's spelling and grammar on the internet. Sure, someone's spelling has offended you, but that's just half the story isn't it. What this is really about is your desire to further reinforce to yourself your own perceived superiority. You know it, everyone knows it.
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