gabriel_101

Believe it or not, this is shorter than my old profile.

Seems likely that if you’re reading this at all, you’re either doing so because you thought, “What an awesome guy!”. I can’t imagine reading someone’s profile if you think they’re an ass. I wouldn’t.

That being said, I do want to throw in one little gripe here. What? It’s my profile, I can do that.

When I’m paying attention to chat, I don’t do so in order to argue (often), to notice kids whose parents don’t hug them enough, or to deal with someone boring. I pay too much for my internet service to deal with that. Therefore, I mute.

There are those mental deficients who regard this as somehow ‘cheap’. Again, I don’t pay for my internet connection so that I can then validate some stranger’s self-worth by pretending that I care about what they think. I like to chat sometimes, but by no means am I obligated to.

The point has been made: “Oh, you can’t just ignore people in real life, coward!”

You can’t? First of all, if someone is learning how to interact in real life based on how they interact online, they’re doing it wrong. Secondly, yes. Actually I can do that. I do it every single day. When someone on the bus is talking loudly, when some hobo asks me for change and I’m broke, when someone accosts me about Lyndon LaRouche – I ignore all of the above in gasp real life. Perhaps those who make this complaint should actually get out a bit more often.

To those who can’t actually understand those concepts, here’s an experiment: Head down to a retail establishment and start loudly berating everyone around you. See how long before you get kicked out. Good heavens, you’ve been banned in real life.

An alternative experiment for those still not comprehending: Go outside and walk around. Approach the first person you see on a phone, listen it to their end of the conversation, and then loudly start commenting on their conversation. If you’re dumb enough to think that everything you see in chat is intended for you to respond to it, surely you must actually think that any conversation taking place in public is just waiting for your interjection – since you can’t tell the difference between the internet and real life. What do you suppose might happen in that scenario? Seems likely that you’re going to be ignored – in real life again.

Perhaps those that loudly proclaim that muting is a problem should instead spend their time wondering exactly why they’re so insecure and inadequate (yes, you really are. No, I know you think you’re independent and tough-minded and everyone else is just so sensitive by comparison, but people who are independent and tough-minded don’t cry like babies when someone’s not paying enough attention to them) and what they can do about that, rather than making completely inaccurate and baseless comparisons between the internet and real life.

That being said, there’s no excuse for muting someone and then shouting happily that you did so. It just makes you look like a petty douche. There! Rant COMPLETE.