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 (I actually thought the skit was pretty outdated, Rush's drug probelm was last years news.)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.
Right. You have to READ it to figure out if it's worth reading.
Personally, I think Jim should let us add to each other's replies. Then I could scroll through every thread adding "This poster is full of caca" in front of everyone's replies, saving everyone else the trouble of reading it.
Hit somethin' hard; I don't want to limp away from this thing.
...:Just do what I'm doing: Ignore the whole da*n thread."
I was going to but I found myself compelled to put in my 2cents.
I wonder....What's up with that? :)
Well, here's my two cents worth.
2 Cents
It probably seems that way to you right now. As you become older, you will begin to see things a little more broadly. I would encourage you to be patient when posting. Perhaps you might try reading each post carefully, so as to best understand the emotions that a poster may have been experiencing before you react brusquely in your own response.
I hope that this interaction with you has been informative in an instructive way. LOL :-)
I predict these deaths for the first three of the NEW YEAR 2005:
1. Elizabeth Taylor
2. Johny Carson
3. Barbara Striesand
You must be a redneck.
OK, so you want flame............
Already posted...
Not to mention the gay-bashing.
One of the reasons I'd never recommend this board to anyone I knew who was sort of wavering between the two parties to attempt to convert them or anything.
I have a sneaking suspicion in 5 years this will basically be a board for religious conservatives only, as well. Hope I'm proven wrong.
Yep. And a Ron White fan.
I noticed. I don't go near those threads anymore, too many seriously twisted folk.
Okay, who's the culprit that's trying to put a "hildgedick.com" cookie on my browser?
LOL how's this?
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