People have become more hateful as the general stress level of life has increased over the last 30 years.
The internet is merely a tool to allow people to vent the hatred. The fact that nobody knows who you really are just allows people to be braver than they would be face to face.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 10:40, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

No diggity
Next question; does desensitizing oneself to abuse as a result of encountering it online make one's outlook and disposition less sunny IRL?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 10:42, Reply)

For me no. If anything the abuse cheers me up as it makes me laugh.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 10:44, Reply)

I find myself more prepared to make jokes in poor taste IRL
The other day I IM'd a colleague, who was engaging in flirty banter with a fat girl on our team, to say that throwing it up her would be like having sex with a slowly deflating bouncy castle. That wouldn't have happened a year ago.

She is a cow though.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 10:47, Reply)

You surely must have had a predisposition to poor taste, otherwise B3ta wouldn't have appealed to you when you first found it

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 10:49, Reply)

Yes, this^
No one easily offended or unlikely to think in a certain way already would have stuck around here.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 10:50, Reply)

Good point
I've always had a fondness for un-PC jokes, but not so much for making them myself. I blame all of you for corrupting me.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 10:50, Reply)

I don't think so
At least not for me. I'm generally quite happy. As you know I've got reasons why I have to approach each day in a certain way, but I find it makes me more tolerant and sunny as a whole to literally count my blessings every morning.

It's just here I'm a cunt.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 10:49, Reply)