Seriously, what is it that draws us so intensley to this anonymous online "community" where we end up 'hating' half the people on here?
I can't log on for like 30 minutes and all of a sudden my world ends. I can't work and all I can do is hit the damn refresh button over and over.
Yes, I know I have issues.
I had to ask Damo to deactivate my account (when my screen name was Onceler).
I made it 3 months or so. I consider coming back here to be my greatest personal failure.
Seriously, what is it that draws us so intensley to this anonymous online "community" where we end up 'hating' half the people on here? I like your self ban idea Dung but if it didn't work for you I have little hope of it working for me.
For serious, it's like this for me. I really don't talk politics much with people in real life ever. It always gets awkward and contentious and people end up thinking I'm a dick even when I don't mean to be (and yes, I mean to be a dick quite often). When political discssions come up, I sit back and don't generally engage because it almost never ends well. But I'm a news and politics junkie at heart so this board enables me to talk about it without it negatively impacting my real life in any meanigful respect.
I would like to think that it's my charming personality which draws you here.![]()
For serious, it's like this for me. I really don't talk politics much with people in real life ever. It always gets awkward and contentious and people end up thinking I'm a dick even when I don't mean to be (and yes, I mean to be a dick quite often). When political discssions come up, I sit back and don't generally engage because it almost never ends well. But I'm a news and politics junkie at heart so this board enables me to talk about it without it negatively impacting my real life in any meanigful respect.
This thread has a vague "hi my name is, and I'm a..." vibe to it. It's funny.
For serious, it's like this for me. I really don't talk politics much with people in real life ever. It always gets awkward and contentious and people end up thinking I'm a dick even when I don't mean to be (and yes, I mean to be a dick quite often). When political discssions come up, I sit back and don't generally engage because it almost never ends well. But I'm a news and politics junkie at heart so this board enables me to talk about it without it negatively impacting my real life in any meanigful respect.
Yup. Same here. It's a positive outlet for me so that I don't end up being a social pariah like Super Freak.For serious, it's like this for me. I really don't talk politics much with people in real life ever. It always gets awkward and contentious and people end up thinking I'm a dick even when I don't mean to be (and yes, I mean to be a dick quite often). When political discssions come up, I sit back and don't generally engage because it almost never ends well. But I'm a news and politics junkie at heart so this board enables me to talk about it without it negatively impacting my real life in any meanigful respect.
You are a msm junkie, you don't listen to real news, just the spin, so you can't be considered politically engaged either!![]()
Most of your conversations don't end well, period.Well said. You nailed it. I rarely talk politics as well in the real world and as you stated most conversations on politics don't end well so why bother even going there?