Since I spend a lot of time in the comments sections of The Huffington Post, Wonkette, and the ultimate comments section on every stupid thing under the sun, facebook, here are a few of the comments you see again and again and again and I really should have a cut and paste reply ready to go and hit back at all of them, but I am not a bot so I mostly just ignore them.
On celebrity stories: “Who is this person?,” “Remind me why they are famous again,” and, from people who undoubtedly think they are very witty, “Your 15 minutes are almost up.” Andy Warhol was really quotable, but I hate that quote. Most people never get to be famous, not even a little bit.
“eh, she’s not so hot.”
Anyway, sometimes I can see their point, if it truly is a story about somebody unfamous, but I saw that 15 minutes comment applied to Pink the other day, who has been deservedly famous for years. It’s just heckling from morons.
Another comment you see in the celebrities section a lot is “I don’t see why everybody thinks she’s so beautiful. She’s not so hot.” Yeah, right, dude. Show your pic. Again, I could see it if they were actually talking about someone who is less than spectacular, but I saw someone say this (catch that phrasing – I saw them say) about Emma Watson recently. Again, heckling from morons.
In political arguments, any argument criticizing Israel will automatically be met with a charge of anti-semitism. I wonder if they are aware of the phrase “self-fulfilling prophecy.” Grow a sense of proportion, Jewish people. You can be more defensive than the damned feminists, sometimes.
Then, there are the people who, when you make a comment about restricting automatic weapons, turn around and say “you don’t know what you are talking about. That’s not an automatic weapon, that’s a semi-automatic, and the proper term for a clip is a magazine.” (or maybe that was the other way around)
I don’t care, whackadoodle gun people. I don’t like nasty looking, big scary guns and I really don’t trust people, like you, who own them. I want to ban them, not study them.
Then, my biggest pet peeve of all, people who say, in response to any story about space exploration “I think we need to solve our problems on Earth first.” You are a worm, a sub sentient being, an unworthy recipient of the last 100,000 years of change and invention. People have always sought out new frontiers, tried to go where no one else has ever been before. This is what makes mankind mankind, this is our manifest destiny, this is the whole point of the human experience.
We must go into space, we shall go into space, to allow our species to stay on this planet until it ultimately is consumed by the sun and we with it because we were too chicken shit to spread our wings and fly from the nest, is simply unacceptable.
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