Fucking humans, man.
I am really not as hateful as most of them would have me believe, but can I just say right now that almost everyone is pissing me off? Even the ones which I like.
Common trends in this theme include the following:
1. People who, when one makes a joke at the expense of some stupid thing they've said or when they have absolutely any more experience than one at something, state the patently obvious, as if one is an imbecile and/or incapable of understanding anything that makes basic sense.
For example, a human got incredibly offended that I suggested that, in the frame of a certain work, his/her favourite historical figure was a certain character type, if anyone in the piece was that character type. (Not necessarily, you understand, implying that anyone actually WAS this character type, rather that this individual was the closest.) S/he completely seriously argues with me for five minutes that Person is not Item. The same person likes to tell me very common sense things about procedure. "You can't do _______." "Just make sure you ________." Obviously, since I ask you questions on a regular basis, I would ask you now if I didn't understand.
2. My friends have become obsessed with something that is both unhealthy and, well, the definition of obsessed is that, although they know that you don't care about or like it or have any interest in knowing all about it they talk about nothing else when around you. Even though they spend more time each week together doing this something than they see you.
3. When people first of all make assumptions (no matter how probable) about one's nationality and make broadly offensive generalisations in the same comment. For example, if someone says, "I really don't understand you Americans and your racism everywhere." or "I need to do all of the obnoxious things that you people do before I leave your country or my friends will disown me when I return [to my relatively poor, post-soviet-bloc-homeland]."
This last one has become really common in my life, actually. Please, if you are going to say something offensive about a nationality/ethnicity/gender/age/etc, do not preface it by associating me with that group, while you bitch to me about it, and if you KNOW that I am of this group (for example, my ethnicity is not that nebulous), don't fucking say it.
4. Similarly, don't tell me how to pronounce a language I have spoken since childhood because you visited the place for a couple of weeks and, as the result of your inability to differentiate between certain sounds, have these ridiculous ideas that only people in one region make certain pronunciation when, in fact, the sound occurs everywhere and the region to which you think it is exclusive actually speaks a dialect incomprehensible to the rest of the country. I don't correct the pronunciation of your ancestral languages, since NEITHER of us can speak them.
I actually like everyone about whom I am casually whining and, unfortunately, they have preferred to ignore the attempts at discussion. The really difficult part is that I do like them enough to be unwilling to cruelly psychologically destroy them for this disrespect.
Maybe I will write something more positive later.
Common trends in this theme include the following:
1. People who, when one makes a joke at the expense of some stupid thing they've said or when they have absolutely any more experience than one at something, state the patently obvious, as if one is an imbecile and/or incapable of understanding anything that makes basic sense.
For example, a human got incredibly offended that I suggested that, in the frame of a certain work, his/her favourite historical figure was a certain character type, if anyone in the piece was that character type. (Not necessarily, you understand, implying that anyone actually WAS this character type, rather that this individual was the closest.) S/he completely seriously argues with me for five minutes that Person is not Item. The same person likes to tell me very common sense things about procedure. "You can't do _______." "Just make sure you ________." Obviously, since I ask you questions on a regular basis, I would ask you now if I didn't understand.
2. My friends have become obsessed with something that is both unhealthy and, well, the definition of obsessed is that, although they know that you don't care about or like it or have any interest in knowing all about it they talk about nothing else when around you. Even though they spend more time each week together doing this something than they see you.
3. When people first of all make assumptions (no matter how probable) about one's nationality and make broadly offensive generalisations in the same comment. For example, if someone says, "I really don't understand you Americans and your racism everywhere." or "I need to do all of the obnoxious things that you people do before I leave your country or my friends will disown me when I return [to my relatively poor, post-soviet-bloc-homeland]."
This last one has become really common in my life, actually. Please, if you are going to say something offensive about a nationality/ethnicity/gender/age/etc, do not preface it by associating me with that group, while you bitch to me about it, and if you KNOW that I am of this group (for example, my ethnicity is not that nebulous), don't fucking say it.
4. Similarly, don't tell me how to pronounce a language I have spoken since childhood because you visited the place for a couple of weeks and, as the result of your inability to differentiate between certain sounds, have these ridiculous ideas that only people in one region make certain pronunciation when, in fact, the sound occurs everywhere and the region to which you think it is exclusive actually speaks a dialect incomprehensible to the rest of the country. I don't correct the pronunciation of your ancestral languages, since NEITHER of us can speak them.
I actually like everyone about whom I am casually whining and, unfortunately, they have preferred to ignore the attempts at discussion. The really difficult part is that I do like them enough to be unwilling to cruelly psychologically destroy them for this disrespect.
Maybe I will write something more positive later.