i'm too old for this shit

[rone]

It must be something in the air, because also_huey and tongodeon have both posted recently about obnoxious online behavior.  Anyway, I've spent the last few days watching Steve Sailer finally goad malcolmgladwell into acknowledging his harassing bloviation (and that of the parroting minions that straggled in Sailer's wake), and also participating in the PROTRADE boards, where the average participant has a poor command of spelling, grammar, cogent writing, and (strangely enough) sports.  I had my fun mocking both Sailer and his clones (Sailer has been carrying a grudge against Gladwell since "Blink" came out, and established himself in Gladwell's TypePad with logorrheic sophistry in comments, fueled purely by his self-love, almost as soon as Gladwell started it), and the cluebies on PROTRADE.

Today, though i find myself drained and uncomfortable.  It's too much on my mental well-being to engage in such protracted negativity.  Sailer is an expert at empty debate, and the PROTRADE rabble... well, they're sports fans, you know?  So, i'm done wrestling with pigs.  It was a bit of a thrill to reach back in the old bucket of piss and vinegar, and recall my days on USENET where i was the king of jerks.  But i just can't handle working hard at being a jerk anymore.  I'll have to leave that to Sailer, and PROTRADE user "slate".

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[rwx.livejournal.com]

it's always september somewhere.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

So the other day, I posted "YHGMTMORBOFH" and that went unnoticed, but afterward I posted "IHNW,IJLS Room 13!"

To which I've recieved a bit of a questioning as to what that means. I'm planning on excercising more of this for the education of the intrigued... soon.

But it does amaze me how, after all these years, after so many of us have used those phrases so often, the number of people who do NOT know what we're talking about.

Maybe it's that Sven's screen and mutt pages are down...

[marknau.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself smacked in the head.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Owwww. Whaaat?

[marknau.livejournal.com]

Stop being the Steve Sailer of the PROTRADE boards.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I already said i stopped. And there's no comparison between my spiteful vituperation and Sailer's intellectually dishonest bullshit.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

i just can't handle working hard at being a jerk anymore.

I don't consider it 'work', it's more somewhere between a sport and an art form. Some people collect stamps, I trollering Mark Ferguson. And, having had quite a bit of experience at being a jerk, it's something I find quite easy to do, and venting it at witless nitnoids is probably healthy for the rest of my life. ...where I'm actually quite nice, really.

[arian1.livejournal.com]

"recall my days on USENET where i was the king of jerks."

Maybe a duke, or a baron, but king? I'd reserve that for like Navas or maybe Dillon on a bad morning.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Ha ha. Dude, you haven't seen most of my best (worst) work. Comparing me to Navas.... seriously.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

The thing that irritates me about Sailer is that he obviously has brains and some skill with rhetoric, and he can come on with enough apparent rationality that people take him far more seriously than they should. I didn't know he had a hate-on for Gladwell.

Those were the guys who always caused the most trouble on the Usenet sci groups, the borderline cases. The obviously mad could be killfiled or ignored, but the people who had crazy ideas that they could promote and defend convincingly to a non-expert...they could attract followers.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

Dude, lurkers totally support me in email.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Someone said he's also been stalking the Freakonomics blog, and others.