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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[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.