Insults, eh?
The following is the reason I am currently banned from another site. Parts in italics are the "person" to whom I was replying. To put it in context: the original argument was based on the accusation that I'm a snob, because I think the redefining of the word "pulp" to exclusively mean the "Nazi gorillas in zeppelins" subgenre, as opposed to the broad set of genres that actually appeared in the pulps before the Indiana Jones/Sky Captain mindset kicked in, is a bad idea and promotes ignorance of literary history.

Insulting me is like getting into a fist fight with the Incredible Hulk. Amazing that I only got a month's ban, really.

"Or, y'know, a rant. And passive-aggressive? Shit, that was a piss-poor rant, then. I was aiming for "aggressive-aggressive." Guess I'll need to work on that."

So you're admitting that your goal was to antagonise? Well done. I actually reported the original post for this very reason, and now you're admitting it. Several pages later, the mods have done nothing except ban me for a day for the terrible crime of responding in kind. Can we maybe introduce a new rule along the lines of "provoking people with passive-aggressive pussy-bitch-fucking-worthless-scumbag-language = bad"? Please? It seems like a no-brainer to me.

Sesame Street was brought to you today by the word "clusterfuck".

"hahahaha!! Man! You don't hold back, do you?

Jesus, what sort of insults you hold in reserve for people who, say, mug people, or sell drugs to children? I mean, if you're starting with "subhuman", you're not leaving yourself much room to grow in the insult department."

I consider everybody who snipes in a cowardly fashion from an anonymous position to be essentially the same person. Specifically, a fuckwad. It seems clear to me, and everybody else with a brain, that you are revelling in the fact that you are a heaving, sweaty, noxious cunt of a life form.

What kind of a prick chooses "shockvalue" as a username, anyway? Answer: your kind.

As far as I am concerned, a human being is capable of being polite under all circumstances until provoked, and does not antagonise strangers. That's what separates us from neanderthals. You belong in a museum. Unfortunately for you, all the museums I know have reasonable standards.

"BTW, I'm not reporting this, and I hope no one else does. Snakefeather and JDCorley were the ones unlucky enough to be in front of the gun when I finally snapped (though it's nothing personal against them - plenty of other people have done the "You're an idiot if you don't use the word 'pulp' in the correct way," dance in the past - it's the attitude, not the person, that annoys me). So I figure they're owed a shot."

I've thought long and hard about my response to this. In the end it boils down to the basic fact that clearly you revel in antagonism, and you believe on some level that language is somehow your bitch. The argument against rearranging English according to your ignorant misconceptions is one of those things that, if you don't get it right away, you never will. I'm sure you think you're the embodiment of the new way of thinking, and that you are inherently right because . . .

. . . you know what? I can't be bothered. It's the only game in town, and I ain't playing. If the mods are so dumb that they can't see through this "i is attacking tha arguemennt, not tha parson lol" shit, then . . . well, they already banned me instead of you, so yes, they are that dumb.

Good luck with your inferiority complex.

"But seriously, Snakefeather, you're gonna give yourself a heart attack if you can't learn to take an argument without getting so pissed off that you're calling people "subhuman" because of an internet rant. Go lay in a dandelion field for a while. Play with a dog.

You think that makes it okay?

Go.

Fuck.

Yourself.

I mean, that's already what you're doing, but I formally request that you should do so in a manner that is painful and humiliating, instead of the gentle public masturbation you're up to at the moment.

Seriously, you need to beat this over-entitlement thing. I'm with you here. Feel the burn, work through the pain. It's okay to cry.

"EDIT: Oops. Mods caught it anyway."

Yeah. They didn't manage to catch the fact that you started this thread purely to insult me and everybody else who disagrees with you though, did they?

Good work there, mods. As far as I can see, your backslapping bullshit is dominant around here. "shockvalue" (a euphemism for "pre-pubescent fuckwit") insults me, I report it, nothing happens. Somebody reports me, I get a ban for responding to what a retarded child could see is obvious provocation.

As far as I'm concerned, you're all a bunch of overentitled, self-obsessed, pseudo-intellectual shitnozzles. I've made friends on this site; they know who they are. If you think you qualify, you probably are (e-mail me and find out ;) ) Otherwise, have fun masturbating yourselves into a corner.

Sorry, but if I don't consider myself better than this full-scale cockathon, then I won't really be better than anything.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Thu 4 Oct 2007, 17:18, Reply)