Yesterday’s blog got a bit of a debate going, at least relative to the number of comments my blogs usually draw (an average day is zero – or or two is fairly common) and one of the comments was a phrase which I’m particularly sick of hearing.
So, even though I don’t generally care for lists, I decided to bluff my way through tonight’s blog with a list of 5 things I’m sick of hearing, or seeing, online, and by online I generally mean facebook.
1. The phrase that set me off was “would you like a tinfoil hat?” All that really means is “you’re crazy!” and “you’re crazy!” is a seriously weak argument. Who do they expect to convince? They’re not going to make me think I’m crazy, because I know better. There might be some lurkers on the thread who are swayed, at least until I come back with the clever counter-argument “no, you’re the one who needs a tin-foil hat!” So, let’s just drop the tin-foil hat phrase. If you can somehow demonstrate that my argument is, in fact, insane, have at it.
2. ‘Wake up!’ or, worse, ‘wake up, sheeple’ is just as bad as the tin-foil hat thing, but I think it has already gone somewhat out of fashion, if it hasn’t died entirely.
3. ‘What you see after you click on this link will blow your mind!’ Dude (or Dudette, as the case may be) I’ve done LSD, Peyote, Mescaline and pounds and pounds of the finest marijuana and hashish ever grown anywhere on this vast Earth. I have stood at the top of the world’s highest buildings, I have walked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back out again, I have stood at the edges of continents, I have watched flaming sunrises and sunsets on endless oceans. I have children, for goodness’ sake. You have no idea how far you have to go to blow my mind.
4. Things I’ve seen a million times before. Admittedly, this is not any individuals fault, it’s the way facebook is set up, and I’m not sure what the solution is. We all see things at different times, a lot of our friends think the same things are cool as we do, so I’ve seen that (semi-debunked) Swiss garden co-op thingie about a hundred times. Maybe it’s my fault. If there’s a setting that can block something after you’ve already seen it a dozen times or so, could somebody tell me where that is?
5. People who say they are writers and their posts are banal as shit. If you’re a writer, write! Use your adjectives. Make your words spit fire, let your sentences flow.
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