St. Patrick was a gurrier who gave the Bronx a bad name
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I think I added about 400 metres onto my personal stretch this afternoon.
So I made a post about how I thought Cam Ireland should organise itself in future. This was objected to for what I thought were the wrong reasons, so some back and forth ensued, and the conversation went a bit off-topic, as usually happens. The conversation also spilled over into a neighbouring topic I had started about the prestige system being abused. And I mouthed off a bit, and people were annoyed, and my information wasn't entirely correct.
But it's not really the issue here. I realised something at work, I think it's the standing up which gives my brain room to swing. I'm usually a very easy-going person, or I like to think so, and I know well enough not to get into arguments about stuff I don't care about, unlike some people (especially on the Internet) who can't seem to stop themselves getting into quarrels about stuff which they don't give a damn about. But every so often will come along a topic which I care about, and I'll become one of these people, and anyone who gets in my way gets a lashing.
I hate devil's advocates. Devil's advocacy should be done away with. Generally it's a person who has no real contribution to make but thinks it would be interesting to throw a spanner in the works...and they never ever seem to see the inevitable outcome, that both sides of the argument will turn on them and cuss them out of it. It's one of these things that makes me see red, especially when someone says "I like to play devil's advocate" as if they should be given a fucking medal for it. Well done, you purposefully annoy people in conversations. Would you like a bun?
At the end of it all, I remember why I don't usually get involved in arguments. They're exhausting, especially bad ones leech away my ability to care about anything for a good long while, in fact I usually pledge not to get involved in them for a good long time afterwards.
And so, discussing arguments, we move inevitably on to relationships. The same rules apply. I'm not built for the problematic relationships...although I guess I enjoy them while I'm in them. I don't like to say things that I don't mean, or don't believe, because someone demands that I do. I don't like hearing things which she doesn't mean because she feels like seeing how I'll react. I just get fed up, get cynical, and get done with them. And yes, pledge not to get involved in them for a good long time afterwards.
So I made a post about how I thought Cam Ireland should organise itself in future. This was objected to for what I thought were the wrong reasons, so some back and forth ensued, and the conversation went a bit off-topic, as usually happens. The conversation also spilled over into a neighbouring topic I had started about the prestige system being abused. And I mouthed off a bit, and people were annoyed, and my information wasn't entirely correct.
But it's not really the issue here. I realised something at work, I think it's the standing up which gives my brain room to swing. I'm usually a very easy-going person, or I like to think so, and I know well enough not to get into arguments about stuff I don't care about, unlike some people (especially on the Internet) who can't seem to stop themselves getting into quarrels about stuff which they don't give a damn about. But every so often will come along a topic which I care about, and I'll become one of these people, and anyone who gets in my way gets a lashing.
I hate devil's advocates. Devil's advocacy should be done away with. Generally it's a person who has no real contribution to make but thinks it would be interesting to throw a spanner in the works...and they never ever seem to see the inevitable outcome, that both sides of the argument will turn on them and cuss them out of it. It's one of these things that makes me see red, especially when someone says "I like to play devil's advocate" as if they should be given a fucking medal for it. Well done, you purposefully annoy people in conversations. Would you like a bun?
At the end of it all, I remember why I don't usually get involved in arguments. They're exhausting, especially bad ones leech away my ability to care about anything for a good long while, in fact I usually pledge not to get involved in them for a good long time afterwards.
And so, discussing arguments, we move inevitably on to relationships. The same rules apply. I'm not built for the problematic relationships...although I guess I enjoy them while I'm in them. I don't like to say things that I don't mean, or don't believe, because someone demands that I do. I don't like hearing things which she doesn't mean because she feels like seeing how I'll react. I just get fed up, get cynical, and get done with them. And yes, pledge not to get involved in them for a good long time afterwards.