It was a joke until you came along, and I'm not trying to derail your argument with the P.S., it just seemed you thought I had a good OS with great internet and that simply wasn't the case.Ironic Pirate said:Uh, good for you? I mean, it's great that you help out and all, but it almost seems like you're bragging, which is disturbing. Also, if you say something is a joke, and then say you meant it seriously, and then go on to back it up, that's not a joke anymore. That's not how those work.LarenzoAOG said:Firstly it was meant as a joke.Ironic Pirate said:I hate when people do stuff like this ^. Not to be rude or anything, but you've perfectly encapsulated the "You have no right to complain, other people have it worse" type comments that pop up all the time.LarenzoAOG said:I hate rape, genocide, ethnic cleansing, child abuse, cannabalism, wanton destruction of the natural world, hate crimes, war, chemical weapons, poverty, starvation, serial killers, Jeffery Dahmer, Adolf Hitler, and global warming.
I bet that makes the thing you hate seem silly and trivial huh?
For one thing, it's rather high and mighty. For another, you've complained or hated equally stupid things in your life, so don't take this oppurtunity to act superior. And finally, the universe is powered by bitching and petty complaints. Want to know why that cheeseburger you ate doesn't contain a few eyeballs and the remains of a worker who fell into the stove accidentally? Want to know why the latest version of whatever OS or browser you're using doesn't suck as much as the last one? Because people bitched, moaned, and carried on until someone did something about it.
It's human nature to complain about stupid irrelevant nonsense, and sometimes it's helpful.
Anyway, I hate nihilists (and misanthropes, etc) and Bill Hicks wannabes who blame everything on the media, or the bankers, or some nonsense like that. They do deserve a fair amount of blame, yes, but it's still annoying. I also hate people who call others sheeple, because it's annoying, and pretentious.
Secondly, while it was meant as a joke I am also completely serious, I certainly don't hate stupid trivial things, well at least not many. And while I understand that many people dislike the whole "You have no right to complain blahdie fuckin blah," I honestly don't give a fuck, because I've met people who have lived in severe poverty their entire life, I know a family who until 2007 never had electricity, I've met peopel who survived concentration camps, I've personally volunteered to help people who didn't have the things they've needed to survive, I have also donated probably a quarter of all the money I have personally made to charity.
If that makes me high and mighty then so be it, you may now address me as Lord High Priest Larenzo the AOG, Keeper of Perspective and Gratefulness.
P.S. I'm using Windows 98 with Internet Explorer 7.
And I don't know why you're proud you're using outdated software. Nothing wrong with that, but it seems like you're using that to defeat my entire post. Oh NO, that defeats one of the examples I used! I'll just come up with another. Like not living under an absolute ruler? Because if not for a bunch of people bitching, we'd still be living under that.
And yeah I guess you could say I was bragging, I'm proud of the help I've given people, I'm aslo proud that I can keep things in perspective, I understand that bitching and moaning can lead to things getting better, but it only improves small, unimportant things.
You don't think all the time spent upgrading computers would have been better served feeding hungry people? Do you really think that spoiled people who have everything they need have the right to complain about their internet speed or the quality of their burgers, and by the way people falling into vats of meat, being killed and incorporated into a food is by no means a small problem.
I assume you live in a developed country, and since you are using the internet I assume you have at least some money, do you really think that any of your problems compare to people who have nothing?
You may not like that I trivialize small problems, well I don't like that you take them seriouslly.