Posted on 12/19/2004 7:37:45 PM PST by birbear
Okay, so I'm doing my nightly FReeper thing, reading new posts, visiting the threads that I've been pinged to, etc..etc. Nothing new, I've been doing this for several years now, pretty much on a daily basis. I don't start too many threads (because frankly, nobody really wants or needs my 2 cents).
But tonight I've had it. I can't bite my tongue any more. I've got to vent.
Why are there A LOT of Freepers who insist on commenting on topics that they have no idea what the hell they're talking about?
I just got done reading the thread about the Rush Limbaugh spoof on Saturday Night Live last night vis a vis The Drudge Report Story. There were something like 70+ posts on the thread: (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304821/posts) And it's clearly obvious that maybe three posters had actually scene the SNL sketch in question.
I love the fact that everybody is free to their opinion, but geez...why must a thread about a TV show be clogged up with self righteous after self righteous claiming that they haven't seen SNL in 20 years, or some even claiming that they don't even bother watching TV.
Good for you!! Great! I don't freakin' care if you do or not. Why are you bothering posting on a TV related thread of you're so above the mighty idiot box?
Or, for that matter, the people who claim that SNL isn't as funny now as it was when Belushi, Chase, Akroyd, or whoever was on it. Boo yah! I don't have time to participate in what was. I didn't watch SNL then, I barely watch it now.
Of the 70+ posts on the thread maybe a dozen were actually about the event in question. And those all seemed to say the same thing: The producers of that particular animated segment bashed both sides pretty evenly.
Yeah, I agree it's pretty insane that a show that has had the drug abusers and drug ODs that SNL has would poke fun at Rush's drug problem. (I actually thought the skit was pretty outdated, Rush's drug probelm was last years news.) But I understand why one of the NBC execs would be pretty outraged and that is somewhat newsworthy. (Though, it being on Drudge I wonder how newsworthy it really is.)
But that's not the first time I've seen crap like this happen... and it's happening with more and more frequency on FR. People totally out of the loop offering their opinion without knowing any of the facts.
There was a thread earlier today about California Employee's retirement system. I'm getting slammed in there because of a posters idea of what the FEDERAL retirement system is. No where that I saw did anybody start talking about the Federal... I was talking about California as that is what experience I have, and that's what the blessed article was about.
But nobody reads any more. They see a headline, they have their 2 cent opinion, and they post it.
Where's the critical thinking process at? It's lacking in the threads I'm reading. (And if it's on the threads I'm not reading, I apologize for not knowing it.)
If I didn't know better I'd think DU was sending very well disguised trolls over, just to water down everything.
Okay, I guess I'm done ranting now. Flame away, I can take it.
I actually read the SNL/Limbaugh article, and responded with my thoughts. Do you have a problem that? Just wondering what your posting guidelines are, so I can follow them....LOL
Bottom line, FR is a place to express your opinion, good, silly, bad, or indifferent. That's what's so great about it, and why it's the only site I visit.
If I see a thread I may not like, I just don't click on it. It's that simple, actually. Try to grasp the concept.
Just do what I'm doing: Ignore the whole da*n thread.
Keep hitting refresh...and wait will someone inevitably posts an article from the Onion. And some here will take it as gospel. Those threads are hilarious.
Even if you have a cat?
I was only pulling your chain. bear!
I agree with you. ;^)
I dunno, I missed that thread....
Troll Checklist:
Vanity Yes
Errors in grammar Yes
Errors in spelling Yes
Recent sign-up No (10/15/00)
Troll score 75.
Verdict, troll.
A beaver bit my nipple.
.....but I don't know anythng..I'll never be able to post again...:(.....I guess this is my last post...
FR has gone downhill since the election, but not for the reasons you cite.
The Mexican and Muslim bashing has gotten out of hand, especially over this weekend.
Screaming for the deportation of American-born citizens because they keep their mouths shut is pretty pathetic.
You think the SNL thing is bad! Try posting anything involving media, religion, evolution, or the Bush Administration. It's like the blind leading the visually challenged.
Sounds like a great idea but nobody even knows who the guy was that said this so he must not have been so smart after all or he would have had enough going for him to leverage it into at least a book and then made the rounds of the cable news shows.
Or maybe he didn't have an agent, I didn't think of that. Or maybe his agent wasn't so good, or crooked even and just took his money and didn't do anything for him.
But if he was so smart he should have figured out he was getting ripped off and done something about it. At least that's my opinion.
First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.
I saw 2 moose. And some elk. And a Piliated Woodpecker. But I haven't seen SNL, so I didn't read the thread or comment on it.
But I do like to post more than is good for me.
Yeah, it's terrible. I didn't actually read those threads, but I couldn't agree with you more. How dare those people write about something they haven't seen themselves?
Someone should do something. Maybe a vanity post would do the trick.
Flame on!
That's not in the rules!
You need to make that your tagline! Or can I use it as mine?
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