Funny stuff

[spectrewolf]

(This is a cut from SomethingAwful)

To Take Is To Learn: There is a right way and a wrong way to react to criticism. Some people sit quietly and thank whoever is critiquing them when they are done. We like to call those people boring and stupid! A real journalist's job is to defend his points at all time, even if he is wrong. We're talking

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[spectrewolf]

I want comments, not senseless flames on me acting like I'm committing some personal attack. All I'm doing is laughing at how true to life something is. If you had just said "it would be funny if it weren't so true" instead of getting all miffed, I would have left it.

That being said, I agree with you completely on everything in

"It's like it's a personal attack on someone if you mention that things are a lot more readable if they use capitalisation and punctuation, or that their argument is invalid, or just plain incorrect. We're falling behind in schools compared to the rest of the world, but then it's okay to not bother with the "irrelevant" details."

As far as "Stand up and take some responsibility." Is that just a general statement to everyone? Because if it is, I agree with that too.

Just because something pisses me off, it doesn't mean that it can't be funny. Like http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20060120h.jpg for example. I agree that the media are a sack full of idiots, but it's funny to see the stark reality in which they're portrayed (even if it is overstated).

Is something pissing you off in particular today, because I'm still not seeing why you got all miffed at the original post? I'm not trying to tell you that you have to see the post as funny, I'm just saying that you shouldn't think of me as evil because I do think it's funny.

[keeganfox]

I never said anything about a personal attack against you, nor am I trying to start a flame war. They're pointless. I apologise if the post came off that way.
I was just saying that I didn't think it was funny, because it's all too often the norm. It may well be funny to a lot of people, but to me it just struck a bad chord because I see it all the time. I see it as some sort of ego trip and an inability to accept that they (the writer, in this case) might actually, ohnoes! be wrong. It also might be something to do with it being from SA, who I despise anyways...
So I hope that helps explain it better...

[spectrewolf]

Ahhhh, cool. Thank ya much for helping me to understand what you meant.
Sorry if I took anything the wrong way too. Have a good one :)