But few things in life give me the pleasure and satisfaction of finding someone on the internet who is horrendously wrong and then e-beating the shit out of them for days on end.

My name is GrumpyGOP, and I have a problem.

7/25/2008 3:43:07 AM

this thread is useless without links

7/25/2008 3:44:03 AM

You people would just come in and try to ruin my fun.

7/25/2008 3:45:25 AM

^^

7/25/2008 3:48:31 AM

I wish I could just bring up the talktolizzy threads, that was really far and away the best example.

7/25/2008 3:50:20 AM

so this was just a passing thought not necessarily rooted in recent events

7/25/2008 3:54:27 AM

wethebest supports this thread

7/25/2008 3:57:29 AM

What about IRL?

7/25/2008 3:57:31 AM

I mean it's pretty much always going on somewhere, but I recently read a pretty scathing comment directed at someone else along the lines of "how can you sleep at night knowing that someone, somewhere on the internet might be wrong?"

And it made me realize that this particular trait is maybe a little odd, but I really can't, because when I'm sleeping I'm not eroding the very foundation of their existence and eventually making them cry/quit whatever website I encountered them on.

[Edited on July 25, 2008 at 3:58 AM. Reason : well yeah, wethebest is the latest example on this site, but it's on ongoing trauma really]

7/25/2008 3:58:13 AM

sounds like you are the asshole

7/25/2008 4:05:45 AM

You don't get it, dude, it's a disease, like alcoholism, except I don't so symptoms of it in bars.

7/25/2008 4:06:52 AM

7/25/2008 4:25:26 AM

Hahaha, yeah, xkcd as well, although the full weight of my condition didn't hit me at the time

Actually, the thing that really got to me was directed at [user]stillfurschia[/user] in this thread:

message_topic.aspx?topic=523842&page=1

Quote :

"how do you sleep knowing that someone somewhere might be slightly wrong about something?"

[Edited on July 25, 2008 at 4:29 AM. Reason : ]

7/25/2008 4:27:27 AM

I suppose I'm guilty of this, but I've learned to let it slide. You can't go around policing stupidity, it's unfortunately the grandest of exercises in futility. Just take a deep breath and click "back" on your browser when you've scratched that itch to "Reply to Topic"

7/25/2008 4:37:29 AM