Time Becomes A Loop ... So, I'm pressing 'Mute'
A 'self-contained repository of ideas and creative endeavours that I can reproduce or manipulate at will'!?
My fucking arse!
I don't need an LJ for that - That's what a computer is!
Q: And the funniest thing is?
A: The irony of someone thinking that there was a requirement for a seperate LJ-drama website
Not for the first time, I am contemplating deleting this 'journal'
LJ has, with time, come, more and more, to reflect everything I hate about the World and the people in it ...
... It's narrow, meaningless, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, gossip/drama-laden, incestuous and dumbing me down [1]
I had more fun in my life going out and seeing my friends in the flesh than I have ever had with them online
That's why I used to go out for three months at a stretch, stopping at home overnight at the end of that time just to check that the place was still standing and I hadn't been burgled, before going out again for another three months
I never had time to be online ... I was already having to turn down two or three people a day who wanted me to come and visit or go and do something with them because I had already been promised to two other sets of people on that day for a month - You needed to actually book me anywhere up to three months in advance if you wanted to see me, I was so busy socialising!
If I wasn't clubbing or partying, I was visiting - A 'quiet night' was either only seeing two sets of people between 5pm and 8pm and then going home rather than going out again to see yet more people ... or else a three hundred mile round trip in a single evening, but only visiting one group of people that evening!
Granted, it has been a way to meet some very nice people I might otherwise never have encountered, but given the frequency of contact I have with most of those people, the reality is that, bar five or six people on my friendslist, I either have already met or will eventually meet, in Real Life, everyone on it that I am ever likely to have any kind of friendship with
Most of the people on my friendslist were either already friends or people I was/am going to meet through those friends anyway, so what exactly has LJ really added to my life in that regard?
And, conversely, I've discovered that it has resulted in my allowing too many people into my life who, in the Real World, would be rightfully disinclined to approach me in any way ... The kind of person I would dispassionately ridicule/push under a car/throw out of a window/break a bottle on, sooner than spend five minutes in their company
On the Internet I am obliged, it seems, to be nicer to people than they have any right to expect, lest it appear that I am being unreasonable [3] ... because it is (allegedly) difficult to interpret textual comunication, since it lacks all the subtle cues of body language and intonation
Is it FUCK!
That's a piss-poor excuse proffered by the charlatans who want to excuse their own ignorance, stupidity, laziness and (above all) rudeness by blaming you for their behaviour
Literature, great or otherwise, doesn't come with emoticons ... When you watch a performance of A Comedy of Errors, or listen to an audiobook version of novel, you don't get a laughter-track ... If you want to read a book and it has words in it that you don't understand, you can't complain to the author/publisher about the lack of spoonfeeding ... You get a dictionary and look them up [4]
Through LJ, it has been my misfortune to encounter more freaks, flakes and fuck-ups than I ever did in the Real World and actually waste time being unnecessarily civil to them, when in the Real World it would be considered no more than reasonable of me to have done everyone a favour, picked up the nearest chair and beaten them to death with it on the spot ... never mind exchange a few less than complimentary words with them whilst outlining the miserable realities of their sad, tawdry little lives ... expounding upon the lamentable fact that too many people had pissed in the genepool from which they were spawned ... and holding up in the harsh light of the Truth the fact that, even given all their inherited shortcomings and unfortunate background, they were inexcusably pigshit thick, ignorant wastes of space without whom the World would be a far, far better place ... the root, in fact, of all that is wrong with the World, with no redeeming features or justification for their way of being, no matter how hard you scrape the underside of the barrel looking for some excuse for them!
It's bad enough in Real Life as it is, without all this crap too!
These people are no better at understanding you in the Real World with the extra cues - They're cretins, plain and simple ... with no vocabulary, no understanding of the meaning of the few grunts and squeals they have learned to emulate from the rest of us and no ability to reason whatsover, no matter how many pictures you draw for them!
So, this time, I really mean it
Much as I like or, in some cases, even love the people on my friends-list ... most of you either already have my contact details or can obtain them from someone else who has them, whom I trust to excercise appropriate discretion when it comes to supplying them to other people - In other words, they contact me first to ensure that I am happy about them giving you my details
I shall be leaving this entry up for a month ... It'll give everyone time to leave me their details so that I can contact you directly rather than via another person, if that is what you would like [5] - It'll also give me time to save the most important entries I have made (memories) locally, so that I will have that 'self-contained repository of ideas and creative endeavours that I can reproduce or manipulate at will'
After that I'm not sure whether I'll delete this LJ completely (if you want me to know anything important you'll find a way of letting me know and vice-versa) ... or whether I'll just leave it up and occasionally log on to see what, if anything, you're up to - I suspect the former though, since I can think of no reason for us not being aware of what is going on in each other's lives unless there is no reason for us to do so ... We are, after all, only an email/text/MSN/call/club/pub/party/visit away from each other
That is all
This is Roger Wilco signing 'Over and Out'
The TMi@xtrapol8ral have now left the building
[1] Since I've been reading/using LJ, my spelling has worsened attrociously and I've even started making grammatical errors I've never made before in my life! [2]
[2] Your/You're, its/it's and suchlike
[3] This is, of course, especially the case when I am talking to people via someone else's LJ ... which is where, in fact, most of my online contact with others takes place - Fortunately, relatively few people have seen fir to befriend this LJ ... And those who have have, with only one or two (happpily now absent) exceptions, proven to be open-minded, mature individuals not suffering from rectally derived glaucoma
[4] Text in an email/response is no different; get a fucking grip, you ill-mannered boors! Don't try and blame me because you're an ignorant cretin with no manners - The only insult around here is you!
[5] Replies to this entry will be screened by default and I'll delete them once I've received them, to stop bots getting your deatails unnecessarily
My fucking arse!
I don't need an LJ for that - That's what a computer is!
Q: And the funniest thing is?
A: The irony of someone thinking that there was a requirement for a seperate LJ-drama website
Not for the first time, I am contemplating deleting this 'journal'
LJ has, with time, come, more and more, to reflect everything I hate about the World and the people in it ...
... It's narrow, meaningless, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, gossip/drama-laden, incestuous and dumbing me down [1]
I had more fun in my life going out and seeing my friends in the flesh than I have ever had with them online
That's why I used to go out for three months at a stretch, stopping at home overnight at the end of that time just to check that the place was still standing and I hadn't been burgled, before going out again for another three months
I never had time to be online ... I was already having to turn down two or three people a day who wanted me to come and visit or go and do something with them because I had already been promised to two other sets of people on that day for a month - You needed to actually book me anywhere up to three months in advance if you wanted to see me, I was so busy socialising!
If I wasn't clubbing or partying, I was visiting - A 'quiet night' was either only seeing two sets of people between 5pm and 8pm and then going home rather than going out again to see yet more people ... or else a three hundred mile round trip in a single evening, but only visiting one group of people that evening!
Granted, it has been a way to meet some very nice people I might otherwise never have encountered, but given the frequency of contact I have with most of those people, the reality is that, bar five or six people on my friendslist, I either have already met or will eventually meet, in Real Life, everyone on it that I am ever likely to have any kind of friendship with
Most of the people on my friendslist were either already friends or people I was/am going to meet through those friends anyway, so what exactly has LJ really added to my life in that regard?
And, conversely, I've discovered that it has resulted in my allowing too many people into my life who, in the Real World, would be rightfully disinclined to approach me in any way ... The kind of person I would dispassionately ridicule/push under a car/throw out of a window/break a bottle on, sooner than spend five minutes in their company
On the Internet I am obliged, it seems, to be nicer to people than they have any right to expect, lest it appear that I am being unreasonable [3] ... because it is (allegedly) difficult to interpret textual comunication, since it lacks all the subtle cues of body language and intonation
Is it FUCK!
That's a piss-poor excuse proffered by the charlatans who want to excuse their own ignorance, stupidity, laziness and (above all) rudeness by blaming you for their behaviour
Literature, great or otherwise, doesn't come with emoticons ... When you watch a performance of A Comedy of Errors, or listen to an audiobook version of novel, you don't get a laughter-track ... If you want to read a book and it has words in it that you don't understand, you can't complain to the author/publisher about the lack of spoonfeeding ... You get a dictionary and look them up [4]
Through LJ, it has been my misfortune to encounter more freaks, flakes and fuck-ups than I ever did in the Real World and actually waste time being unnecessarily civil to them, when in the Real World it would be considered no more than reasonable of me to have done everyone a favour, picked up the nearest chair and beaten them to death with it on the spot ... never mind exchange a few less than complimentary words with them whilst outlining the miserable realities of their sad, tawdry little lives ... expounding upon the lamentable fact that too many people had pissed in the genepool from which they were spawned ... and holding up in the harsh light of the Truth the fact that, even given all their inherited shortcomings and unfortunate background, they were inexcusably pigshit thick, ignorant wastes of space without whom the World would be a far, far better place ... the root, in fact, of all that is wrong with the World, with no redeeming features or justification for their way of being, no matter how hard you scrape the underside of the barrel looking for some excuse for them!
It's bad enough in Real Life as it is, without all this crap too!
These people are no better at understanding you in the Real World with the extra cues - They're cretins, plain and simple ... with no vocabulary, no understanding of the meaning of the few grunts and squeals they have learned to emulate from the rest of us and no ability to reason whatsover, no matter how many pictures you draw for them!
So, this time, I really mean it
Much as I like or, in some cases, even love the people on my friends-list ... most of you either already have my contact details or can obtain them from someone else who has them, whom I trust to excercise appropriate discretion when it comes to supplying them to other people - In other words, they contact me first to ensure that I am happy about them giving you my details
I shall be leaving this entry up for a month ... It'll give everyone time to leave me their details so that I can contact you directly rather than via another person, if that is what you would like [5] - It'll also give me time to save the most important entries I have made (memories) locally, so that I will have that 'self-contained repository of ideas and creative endeavours that I can reproduce or manipulate at will'
After that I'm not sure whether I'll delete this LJ completely (if you want me to know anything important you'll find a way of letting me know and vice-versa) ... or whether I'll just leave it up and occasionally log on to see what, if anything, you're up to - I suspect the former though, since I can think of no reason for us not being aware of what is going on in each other's lives unless there is no reason for us to do so ... We are, after all, only an email/text/MSN/call/club/pub/party/visit away from each other
That is all
This is Roger Wilco signing 'Over and Out'
The TMi@xtrapol8ral have now left the building
[1] Since I've been reading/using LJ, my spelling has worsened attrociously and I've even started making grammatical errors I've never made before in my life! [2]
[2] Your/You're, its/it's and suchlike
[3] This is, of course, especially the case when I am talking to people via someone else's LJ ... which is where, in fact, most of my online contact with others takes place - Fortunately, relatively few people have seen fir to befriend this LJ ... And those who have have, with only one or two (happpily now absent) exceptions, proven to be open-minded, mature individuals not suffering from rectally derived glaucoma
[4] Text in an email/response is no different; get a fucking grip, you ill-mannered boors! Don't try and blame me because you're an ignorant cretin with no manners - The only insult around here is you!
[5] Replies to this entry will be screened by default and I'll delete them once I've received them, to stop bots getting your deatails unnecessarily