Why are you being so mean (671 hits)
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Submitted by icanbecool (View user info) at 2007-07-26 16:17:26 EDT
I have a basic understanding of why people tend to be mean spirited on the internet. It seems to be more pronounced on sites like uber. But I wonder, why. Why not be positive? Do you (you being defined as those who knowingly and unnecessarily mean) do it. Simply the pleasure derived from trying to and in some cases succeeding in hurting another person? If so, what do you think it says about you. Now to really open the door to personal attacks a quote from someone somewhere: "The measure of a man is not how he treats his equals, but how he treats his subordinates."
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-07-31 16:33:23 EDT (#)
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I can't believe I'm the fiorst to say this...
-2DIE
Submitted by candyfloss01 (user info) at 2007-07-27 14:33:26 EDT (#)
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where's miss piggy..?
Submitted by netimportant (user info) at 2007-07-27 14:18:15 EDT (#)
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Bitter, jaded, lost and unhappy people flock to the Internet to boost their self-esteem, even if the only way they know how to make themselves feel competent and powerful is through belittling other people. Meanness points to internal weakness and unsettlement. That'll be $350.
Submitted by orph (user info) at 2007-07-27 03:47:50 EDT (#)
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Ignorant and bigoted
Submitted by potatomanjack (user info) at 2007-07-27 02:07:00 EDT (#)
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Awful! Even for SPT
Your mother will die with AIDS
I say with AIDS because I imagine God hates her so much that he will prefer her to live with the awfulness of AIDS until he can figure out something else to kill her with.
Either that or she'll get the AIDS cocktail.
No matter, the fact that she has AIDS and will die is enough for me.
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Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-07-26 22:51:35 EDT (#)
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Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2007-07-26 15:57:53 PDT (#)
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Oh, that's easy to toggle. Just hit Alt+F4 to turn the spell-checker on or off.
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Oh, ok. Thanks for not being a dick about it.
Submitted by beer-turtle (user info) at 2007-07-26 22:37:47 EDT (#)
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I'm mean because I can be. Why hold some idiot's hand and shelter them from the reality of their own fuckwittery.
Stupid is stupid.
I am usually not mean to genuinely stupid folks...ain't their fault their parents should have not bred.
Although smarter folks that do dumb shit (myself included) because usually the only reason for being inattentive to ones own life details.
I am sure it is great to be a carebear all the damn...but I can tell ya this straight up, I may be a mean, arrogant, cocky fucker but, I don't sugarcoat anything. People appreciate honesty more than pleasantry.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-07-26 22:03:23 EDT (#)
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OH NO GENERAL LEE FISHCAKES!!!!!!
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2007-07-26 21:54:28 EDT (#)
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I usually try to be nice, or at least keep things light, but sometimes it's fun to be internet-mean. I give as good as I get, for the most part.
If it's positivity you're about, you should become a motivational speaker... because the world needs more of those like it needs a bird flu pandemic.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-07-26 19:25:33 EDT (#)
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the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides.......
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:57:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:51:43 CDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-07-26 15:36:18 PDT (#)
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Submitted by icanbecool (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:01:08 EDT (#)
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So because it happened to you. I take it you were found wanting. Too bad, you have my sympathy. By the way, you misspelled opportunity.
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Yes, I did misspell 'opportunity'. Good eye - your copy/paste/spellcheck skills are daunting indeed. I suppose in future when writing highbrow haughty insults I might follow your example and run my text through Word. But, since I don't claim perfection, I'll probably not mess with it.
Word has a grammar checker, too, you know. You might try running the text of your post through that before you get too serious about my spelling or post again. Just sayin'.
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Why do I always see people talking about running text through Word? While rating this, four words in the above text are underlined in red. So is this word, fumbleknocker.
Is that just my browser or what? I'm noobish and confused, someone please help me.
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Oh, that's easy to toggle. Just hit Alt+F4 to turn the spell-checker on or off.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:51:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-07-26 15:36:18 PDT (#)
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Submitted by icanbecool (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:01:08 EDT (#)
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So because it happened to you. I take it you were found wanting. Too bad, you have my sympathy. By the way, you misspelled opportunity.
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Yes, I did misspell 'opportunity'. Good eye - your copy/paste/spellcheck skills are daunting indeed. I suppose in future when writing highbrow haughty insults I might follow your example and run my text through Word. But, since I don't claim perfection, I'll probably not mess with it.
Word has a grammar checker, too, you know. You might try running the text of your post through that before you get too serious about my spelling or post again. Just sayin'.
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Why do I always see people talking about running text through Word? While rating this, four words in the above text are underlined in red. So is this word, fumbleknocker.
Is that just my browser or what? I'm noobish and confused, someone please help me.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:51:07 EDT (#)
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-2 for trying to rationalize with people who collectively have the cognitive capability of a 10-year-old.
+2 for admitting to be our subordinate.
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:47:37 EDT (#)
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or maybe you just shouldn't frequent uber.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:36:18 EDT (#)
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Submitted by icanbecool (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:01:08 EDT (#)
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So because it happened to you. I take it you were found wanting. Too bad, you have my sympathy. By the way, you misspelled opportunity.
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Yes, I did misspell 'opportunity'. Good eye - your copy/paste/spellcheck skills are daunting indeed. I suppose in future when writing highbrow haughty insults I might follow your example and run my text through Word. But, since I don't claim perfection, I'll probably not mess with it.
Word has a grammar checker, too, you know. You might try running the text of your post through that before you get too serious about my spelling or post again. Just sayin'.
Submitted by Zeglamancer (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:20:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
why am I mean? Because in the like 6 shots fired at point blank range, John Lennon eats em all and goes down in a bloody pile of owned. Meanwhile Yoko fucking Ono doesn't so much as get a blood splatter on her. Bitch....
Just kidding I don't really care about a dude who died 5 years before I was born. In all seriousness though I am mean because life dealt me a tough hand. I've grown up poor and had to struggle through life constantly. I am mean because deep down inside I am pissed the hell off at rich stuck up kids who were born into wealth and glorify gangster rap on TV. I am pissed off every time I see some upper middle class white douchebag walking around in G-UNIT clothing and trying to play off a fake ebonics accent and talk about how hard his life is.
Some people got all the goddamn breaks in life and they don't even appreciate em. They want to act like retards. So I am "mean" online as a means of venting the anger I wish I could take out on the face of just one of these idiotic rich kids.
Submitted by AlahAckbar (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:02:44 EDT (#)
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I'm not mean. You just write like a retard who threw up on the keyboard, then copied what came on the screen into a word document and posted it.
Submitted by icanbecool (user info) at 2007-07-26 18:01:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:47:22 EDT (#)
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You are clearly blessed with the unique opportunty to go through life without ever being measured.
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So because it happened to you. I take it you were found wanting. Too bad, you have my sympathy. By the way, you misspelled opportunity.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:58:37 EDT (#)
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I'm not mean, I'm just misunderstood.
I hope you bleed out your ass from a failed barbed wire insertion, dickeater.
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:55:22 EDT (#)
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I am mean because I am a bitter and broken man, angry at the way my life has turned out and at the world in general. I am mean because life has shit on my face at every given opportunity.
I am mean because my nuts have been racked so many times, metaphorically speaking, that they're ruptured and I can never have children, metaphorically speaking. I am mean because I am insecure and you can't hurt me if I hurt you first. I am mean because every day innocent children die and wealthy men destroy the world.
nah...
I am mean because you're an unattractive dicktease who doesn't even turn me on. Nigger.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:48:06 EDT (#)
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because i really do hope that you get raped, I mean surprised sexed, on your way home today
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:47:22 EDT (#)
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You are clearly blessed with the unique opportunty to go through life without ever being measured.
Submitted by icanbecool (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:39:05 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:05:20 EDT (#)
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The anonymity provided and the ability to give ratings create the perfect opportunity for assholes. Even if you aren't one you generally follow the lead of more popular, older users to fit in and then it just sticks. You can say all sorts of stuff and not feel bad because the other guy's just a faceless person that might not even exist.
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Much more than I expected; logical, thoughtful and honest. I must say that more than anything, I am surprised.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:19:36 EDT (#)
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According to the last census, Sicosemen and Oathmeal alters make up about three quarters of the total ubersite population, and if being 'mean' to inbred, Schlitz-swilling wastes of genetic material is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:05:20 EDT (#)
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The anonymity provided and the ability to give ratings create the perfect opportunity for assholes. Even if you aren't one you generally follow the lead of more popular, older users to fit in and then it just sticks. You can say all sorts of stuff and not feel bad because the other guy's just a faceless person that might not even exist.
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:01:23 EDT (#)
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Because bitches that cry about it deserve to never speak to us again.
Submitted by pen_name (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:00:43 EDT (#)
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thought provoking. I have a question...if a guy shits out his ass and pukes out his mouth and pisses out his dick, why is the sky blue?
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:57:11 EDT (#)
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Because I love laughing when fatty falls down.
Submitted by icanbecool (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:51:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmoJean (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:36:32 EDT (#)
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you're right, now that you mention it I think I have been mean and I for one personally renounce my deplorable behave and vow that from this day forward I will be nice to every soul that passes amongst these boards. be they man or woman, friend or foe there will always be an open setting at my table for them. i just...i just...man I don't know where to begin with making amends to the thousands of retards...(whoops, old habits you understand) I mean users that I have offended and you....you little angel, finally someone has come in and called me on the error of my ways and shown me how wrong and distasteful i have been. I thank you from the lowest regions of my bowels, you sir are a champion, you sir are rising above...you...sir...inspire
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I think I found a truly inspired retort. hahahahahahahahahah
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:49:06 EDT (#)
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I leak awesome.
So suck on that french fried goodness while I sit here and get fatter.
[clever compound word for genitalia]!
Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:39:23 EDT (#)
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No you can't
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:38:16 EDT (#)
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ucanbedead
Submitted by EmoJean (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:36:32 EDT (#)
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you're right, now that you mention it I think I have been mean and I for one personally renounce my deplorable behave and vow that from this day forward I will be nice to every soul that passes amongst these boards. be they man or woman, friend or foe there will always be an open setting at my table for them. i just...i just...man I don't know where to begin with making amends to the thousands of retards...(whoops, old habits you understand) I mean users that I have offended and you....you little angel, finally someone has come in and called me on the error of my ways and shown me how wrong and distasteful i have been. I thank you from the lowest regions of my bowels, you sir are a champion, you sir are rising above...you...sir...inspire
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:34:57 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/24173
Submitted by icanbecool (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:28:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:25:07 EDT (#)
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this should have been you.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/110519
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Retaliatory and unoriginal. Come on, I need a good insult, thats the whole point
Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:26:22 EDT (#)
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lol @ below
Submitted by lover101 (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:26:16 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by icanbecool (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:25:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Bohme (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:23:00 EDT (#)
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Should have ditched the retarded image. Oh, and formatted the text better.
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Constructive, but not what I was looking for.
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:21:43 EDT (#)
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Fuck off, shitheel.
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:20:38 EDT (#)
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All I can hear is WHAAAAAAAAA WHAAAAAA WHAAAAAMBULANCE !!!!!!
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I knew I couldn't expect much more from dear Shlongy, But I did think to get something entertaining out of someone like Beano
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:25:07 EDT (#)
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this should have been you.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/110519
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:24:23 EDT (#)
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I AGREE
I ARE SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE
Submitted by Bohme (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:23:00 EDT (#)
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Should have ditched the retarded image. Oh, and formatted the text better.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:21:43 EDT (#)
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Fuck off, shitheel.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:20:38 EDT (#)
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All I can hear is WHAAAAAAAAA WHAAAAAA WHAAAAAMBULANCE !!!!!!