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 (I actually thought the skit was pretty outdated, Rush's drug probelm was last years news.)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.
Have you got a sore throat? You sound kinda raw. LOL!!
My point being, one can usually tell from the first three or four words of a poster's reply if it's a post you want to waste your time reading.
I, OTOH, find most posters here on FR to be informative, funny and sincere. Hopefully they think the same about me. And if they don't, I really don't care. It's a DISCUSSION forum.
I haven't anything of substance to add since I stayed at a Courtyard by Marriott last night.....But they got free broadband,so Doing the FreeRepublic thing while on business travel is actually bearable. ;-)
Isn't there a "law" that states any thread, given enough time and enough postings, will eventually lead to somebody being called a Hitler?
Same here, though I have never seen a Piliated Woodpecker before...
AND I've seen a couple of elk walking down a long stretch of sidewalk/road in my cousin's neighborhood once...
"beaver bit my nipple."
I believe that you intended to post on the Rudolph Christmas story is an allegory about gays. The "Bumble with the big teeth" was a metaphor for a vagina with teeth.
Therefore beaver biting comments are on the wrong thread.
The idea of deporting American citizens because they happen to be Muslim is simply absurd.
Get used to the gay bashing. It's part of the fabric.
If it helps any .. I saw the skit and thought it was stupid
Why is that so hard to grasp? I'm getting tired (I know, so don't read them) of going through a thread of 100 posts only to find out only about 30-40 are even original.
This is because all the men are racing to be the first to state the obvious and they're in too much of a hurry to read the thread first.
Women never do this. Our comments are always instructive, reasoned, and tempered with kindness and patience. :-)
Good thing nobody has ever knocked a pancake off your bunny's head. Then you might be mad enough to eat cheese...
I used to teach college English...I learned a long time ago that people say and think the weirdest things. Half-cocked is about normal for a lot of folks.
Info you.....I used to load weapons on the A10...it is the greatest and my favorite. I say that the Warthog is ugly but effective. That is a really good way to be.....
I do understand your point, I just don't agree with it 100%. Each and every one of us here on FR has a right to our opinion, to be silly, or whatever. As to reading through the entire story, why should that be a requirement? Take threads about Mo Dowd, or Molly Ivins, or that Bumiller hag. You don't need to read through those to tell that they'll be total BS.
One can usually tell by the first few words of a post whether they want to waste their time reading it, and can then skip to the next post.
If someone else thinks my post is ill-informed or silly or whatever, I don't really worry too much about it. Nor should you.
Maybe people that don't know the difference between seen and scene or that end sentences with prepositions(Where's the critical thinking process at?) shouldn't be allowed to post. It's an imperfect world and we don't get graded on our content at FR.
It sounds like you're having a bad day. I hope tomorrow is better for you.
(yawn)
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