Perhaps you have. . .
Posted by The Host on 07 January 2000 at 23:28:18:
In Reply to: You missed the point.... posted by JP SUPERFREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on 06 January 2000 at 21:07:19:
Nothing personal, of course. As Gremlin and Swyndle have pointed out, it is really rather immaterial whether we entertain Yutz or piss him off. It's not like we have control ovder that, anyway -- if we respond, yeah, maybe in some semi-masochistic way he'll enjoy it. On the other hand, who's to say he won't feel the same way if we make a concerted effort to ignore him? I'm not sure he'd go away anyway. He'd become more and more annoying, perhaps, more frequent, more bombastic, trying to get a rise out of us -- and damnit, it would work. Because as much as any one of us may proclaim attempts at ignorance, asnice as it would be to presume we'd be able to, none of us are particularly pacifist. If you equate this agression to 'being at his level,' whatever that means, then so be it: we are at Yutz's level, always have been, and will never rise above it. But that would be highly presumptuous to say, and based upon a very narrow definition of whatever it is that phrase means. The fact that we tend to with insults is undeniable, inescapable. But our insults are laced with wit, perhaps some even a little tongue-in-cheek. Certainly a level unattainable by Yutz. Not to mention the fact that we do this for our own amusement, not for attention. We haven't the hypocrisy of holier-than-thou attitudes. (Smarter-than-you, perhaps -- but such attitudes are justified by incontravertable fact.) What it comes down to is simple. No matter what we do, Yutz will be hapopy. Whether from masturbation or agitation. Or sad. For wither of those reasons mentioned. (Well . . . Maybe not the first. . .) Whatever. I for one don't care. As Gremlin pointed out, The guy's lying to us somehow. Either he's a lot smarter than he acts, or a lot dumber than he says. I, for one, don't really care. Let's just take The Idiot at face value -- good grief, I'm surprised he knows how to breathe -- and go from there. Yutz is dumb. We are smart. We're not particularly pacifist, as I've mentioned, or modest. (Who has time for modesty, anyway?) So let's just read The Idiot's posts, for our own amusement, and return with insults, for the amusement of all. If that includes The Idiot, fine. Who am I to deny him happiness just for appearing too stupid to not be worthless? If you don't like reading the posts -- the idiocy or the insults -- then ignore them. If ywe have Gremlin's go ahead (and, indeed, we seem to have his encouragement): let the fun begin. Then again, who knows, I could be crazy, and probably am. -The Host
- Pretty much; yeah.
posted by Gremlin on 08 January 2000 at 16:05:34
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