Strange things that get your blood boiling

[Teoes]

You know the song 'That Don't Impress Me Much' by Shania Twain?

No other song drives me this close to a rampage than this one.

[sub]What does impress you, you stupid *****?[/sub]

I would hunt you down and kill you slowly for putting that travesty back in my head! Last time I thought of that song it was stuck there for days, torturing me.

Doesn't its catchy tune just hook you? As in, literally inserts rusty fish hooks into your brain matter.

Yes. It is the aural equivalent of an eon spent with the Cenobites.

But it's not just the song, is it? It's when it keeps getting cranked out at bars/clubs/discos, with all the tragi-drunk females bum-rushing the dance floor to stand in circles shouting along, stamping their stiletto-heeled feet and pointing to the sky.

Yay for peace, happiness and optimism!

 

[Caiphus]

Getting banned for expressing my opinion.

Last time, I' ve got a three day ban from this forum because I've replied "Ahah!" (or was it "Mph!"?) to a thread: banned for making a short and uninformative comment.

Now, I've been banned for two weeks for saying that I think naming a child Tali'Zorah is an awful idea and I think those who name their child after a videogame aren't likely to make good parents. I'm sorry for stating my opinion, ESCAPIST.


Watch, as I will magically get banned again now.

This is a little thing that gets on my nerves: nothing irks me more than abuse of forum authority, destroying my freedom of speech in the most free place: the Internet.

Well, it annoys me when people misunderstand the rights given to them under freedom of speech, and then state their misunderstanding on the internet as if it's a correct objective fact .

But it's then really annoying when they get angry about it.

So this is awkward.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Well, it annoys me when people misunderstand the rights given to them under freedom of speech, and then state their misunderstanding as if it's a correct objective fact on the internet.

But it's then really annoying when they get angry about it.

So this is awkward.

Please do tell.

Even though I have an opinion about an issue, I am not expressed to say what I think about said issue?
I might be right or wrong in my opinion. But I do NOT deserve being banned for expressing it.

Case in point, if I think Tali'Zorah is a dumb name and the parents might be bad people for naming a child like that, I have the same exact rights of people who say Tali'Zorah is a cool name and the parents aren't bad people just because of giving that name to their daughter.

Period. There's really nothing else to be added.

When one opinion is allowed and the other opinion is banned, this is blocking freedom of speech, and abusing moderator power.

This is a website, not a public theater.

Freedom of Speech is not applicable here, you either obey the rules stipulated, that you agreed to upon joining the site, or you leave. It's as simple as that.

 

[Caiphus]

Please do tell.

Even though I have an opinion about an issue, I am not expressed to say what I think about said issue?
I might be right or wrong in my opinion. But I do NOT deserve being banned for expressing it.

Case in point, if I think Tali'Zorah is a dumb name and the parents might be bad people for naming a child like that, I have the same exact rights of people who say Tali'Zorah is a cool name and the parents aren't bad people just because of giving that name to their daughter.

Period. There's really nothing else to be added.

When one opinion is allowed and the other opinion is banned, this is blocking freedom of speech, and abusing moderator power.

If you were banned solely for your opinion, then appeal it. Chances are you were rude, and were banned because of conduct, not because of your opinion.

And you do deserve to be banned if you do not follow the required standard of decorum.

And your misunderstanding is:

Freedom of speech does not generally exempt you from terms to which you have agreed, such as the terms and conditions to which you agree when you post on this website. If you want an unfettered forum in which to be rude to people, then you should start a blog. You are free to express your opinions. This website is not obliged to give you a space in which to express them.

However, banjumping is a bannable offence. So your prediction was correct, and you will be banned.

 

[Teoes]

Well, it annoys me when people misunderstand the rights given to them under freedom of speech, and then state their misunderstanding as if it's a correct objective fact on the internet.

But it's then really annoying when they get angry about it.

So this is awkward.

Please do tell.

Even though I have an opinion about an issue, I am not expressed to say what I think about said issue?
I might be right or wrong in my opinion. But I do NOT deserve being banned for expressing it.

Case in point, if I think Tali'Zorah is a dumb name and the parents might be bad people for naming a child like that, I have the same exact rights of people who say Tali'Zorah is a cool name and the parents aren't bad people just because of giving that name to their daughter.

Period. There's really nothing else to be added.

When one opinion is allowed and the other opinion is banned, this is blocking freedom of speech, and abusing moderator power.

It's not the opinion - it's how it is expressed. You insulted another user, which is against the forum rules. Now you're ban(suspension)-jumping, which is also against the rules. No abuse of moderator power here. Just your infractions.

 

[JokerCrowe]

While it doesn't make my "blood boil", people walking on the wrong side of the road make me VERY annoyed.
It's literally one of the absolute FIRST THINGS you learn in your life (walking) and one of the easiest choices ever (One side or the other. HINT: One side is wrong), so I CANNOT understand how SO many people get it wrong. >_<''

When I go to my university I actually see more people walking on the wrong side than I see people walking on the correct side. It just Boggles my mind...

 

[IceForce]

The following quote is the sort of thing that gets my blood boiling.

This is a little thing that gets on my nerves: nothing irks me more than abuse of forum authority, destroying my freedom of speech in the most free place: the Internet.

Let me just stop you there, because what you're complaining about has nothing to do with freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech has a very specific definition, and it doesn't cover internet forums.

You can no more accuse the mods here of silencing your freedom of speech, than you can accuse a restaurant owner of silencing your freedom of speech when you start loudly proclaiming various offensive slurs in their restaurant and they ask you to leave.

Private property, including private websites like this one, are exempt from freedom of speech laws.

 

[Teoes]

Meh, I had wrote that I think parents who named their child after a videogame character must be selfish and attention-seeking.
I don't exactly consider it as an insult. Especially since many other commenters expressed my same exact opinion. I guess even though I wrote what others wrote, I just have a way of expressing it that leaves the mark.

I know ban-jumping is not allowed, but I felt I was abused by the mods therefore I wanted to abuse the mods. This is the first time in my four bans that I've willingly gone against the rules and registered a second account, and I did it only because of how fed up I am by my constant bans.

Because really, getting a three day ban for writing "Mph! " as a comment (too short! Three days ban!) was quite uncalled for, and that's why I no longer trust the reasons besides my bans, even if this time I really did something wrong and accidentally insulted someone.

Ban me for a stupid reason once, and if the second time you ban me it's for a good reason, I still won't believe it.

But enough, I took too much space out of this thread. I just wanted to finally express my disappointment at the ban system before getting erased from this forum.

You weren't suspended for a stupid reason. You got an infraction for breaking the forum rules (low content, in this case) and as that infraction was your fifth, it manifested as a suspension. It wasn't that single infraction that was deemed worthy of a 3-day suspension, it was that you were repeated breaking the rules; the rules state that once you've broken them enough times, the punishment gets harsher. You've had more than enough chances here.

I've stuck my oar in enough, this really needs mod/staff intervention.

 

[IceForce]

Meh, I had wrote that I think parents who named their child after a videogame character must be selfish and attention-seeking.
I don't exactly consider it as an insult. Especially since many other commenters expressed my same exact opinion. I guess even though I wrote what others wrote, I just have a way of expressing it that leaves the mark.

You said; "makes me feel even more sorry for what crappy parents she's got".

"Crappy parents", directed at another user. Yeah, I'd say that's an insult.
You can spin it however you want, but it's still an insulting thing to say.

I know ban-jumping is not allowed, but I felt I was abused by the mods therefore I wanted to abuse the mods. This is the first time in my four bans that I've willingly gone against the rules and registered a second account, and I did it only because of how fed up I am by my constant bans.

I'm pretty sure there's a way of contesting suspensions and bans, and it DOESN'T involve making a new account.

Because really, getting a three day ban for writing "Mph! " as a comment (too short! Three days ban!) was quite uncalled for, and that's why I no longer trust the reasons besides my bans, even if this time I really did something wrong and accidentally insulted someone.

"Uncalled for"? You're going to have to explain this.
Why was it uncalled for, for the mods to ban you for breaking the rules?

Low content is against the rules, so it would be MORE uncalled for if the mods let people get away with making low content posts.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Doesn't its catchy tune just hook you? As in, literally inserts rusty fish hooks into your brain matter.

Yes. It is the aural equivalent of an eon spent with the Cenobites.

I sometimes wonder whether or not Shania Twain actually is a Cenobite.

 

[IceForce]

"Mph! " is not low content.

Now, see, that's where you're wrong.

"Mph! " might mean "hello" to someone, "goodbye" to someone else. It might mean "fuck off" to another person, or "g'day mate" to yet another person.

You can write ten columns of blahblahblahblahblah and say nothing; you can write a simple word or onomatopeic sound and express a concept or an answer.

The problem is, no one knows what your answer (in the given case) actually means.
What it means to you might be different to what it means to somebody else.

Adding more content would not only help avoid warnings, but also help explain what you actually mean.

 

[tippy2k2]

Guys!

Please stop arguing about moderation. The thread was already locked due to derailment and I'd rather it stay unlocked.

It's supposed to be a fun(ish) thread to vent about weird stuff, not a platform for you to blast the way things are run here. If it keeps up, the Mods will have to put a bullet into the thread and that makes me cry.

You don't want to make me cry, do you? D:

 

[Queen Michael]

The way my grandma, who's deeply religious, calls bibles "God's-word-books." She pronounces it "Gossworsbooks", the quick way you pronounce terms you use casually. It feels like such a passive-aggressive way to show off her Christianity. I know that's not why she does it, but it still bugs me no end.

 

[MetalDooley]

Mass Effect: Deception.

For those who are fortunate enough to not know, Deception is a "expanded universe" novel written by Willian C. Dietz. And it is the most offensive, incorrect, badly-written piece of shit I have ever read.

This book is a slap to the face to all Mass Effect fans. There are so many major lore inconsistencies that I suspect the author just watched part of a Let's Play before writing. Even the people who jumped in on Mass Effect 3 would know more about the ME universe than this guy.

And even mechanically the writing is bad! Deitz has not clue how to properly structure sentences and often breaks up his sentences. Into smaller ones. That are annoying. To read.

*Then* he systematically destroys the personalities of the characters present in the previous books. A homosexual guy is suddenly ogling asari, an extreme racist is happily chatting is up with an alien, a woman has two of her close friends killed, with her her only reaction being to scold the killer and an autistic girl apparently was never autistic, she just had an "attitude problem" growing up. That last one is especially galling to me, as I am on the autism spectrum.

In short, Mass Effect: Deception pisses me off beyond rationality and all copies of it should be ritualistically burned to remove the world of it's taint.

I wouldn't call this strange at all.Deception is generally considered to be such a piece of shit that the publishers said that they were going to have it rewritten to fix the errors.Not sure if they ever did though

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

You know the song 'That Don't Impress Me Much' by Shania Twain?

No other song drives me this close to a rampage than this one.

[sub]What does impress you, you stupid *****?[/sub]

On a similar note, I can't stand "Red Solo Cup" by Toby Keith, or "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy". The horrible part is, they were at the top of the charts for the longest time and the place I work plays a country station all day, everyday. I think I lost a little bit of my sanity in that time period.


Also songs that have less than five lyrics and just repeat them over and over again to a boring, generic, beat.

 

[NSGrendel]

Doesn't its catchy tune just hook you? As in, literally inserts rusty fish hooks into your brain matter.

Yes. It is the aural equivalent of an eon spent with the Cenobites.

I sometimes wonder whether or not Shania Twain actually is a Cenobite.

"That don't impress me much. Oh, no tears please. It's a waste of good suffering!"

 

[The Night Angel]

For me, it has to be when people leave comments on songs saying things like "if you've ever been broken up with, you'll know what this song is about"... because yea, obviously there is only one universal way everyone feels and reacts to being broken up with, regardless of how it's done or how long you'd been with that person.... Just really gets on my nerves, especially as it also telling people who like those songs but have never been broken up with that they don't get that song or something.

 

[TrulyBritish]

Oh dear God, all the words

Yup, I know how you feel about this, especially Tickld. I mean, come on, we get it, [insert random fandom] is cool, but there's no need to have so many posts about the same damn thing and then passive aggressively down-vote people for a different opinion. For a website that preaches about free speech they are sure unwelcoming sometimes to people who say, don't like Doctor Who.
AND Tumblr does that annoying over the top reaction thing to every comment. And if everyone there could stop treating themselves as practically autistic poets when they're really just kind of antisocial, that'd be great.
/endrant

OT: On a different topic, Pandas. God I hate pandas so much. Lazy little [expletive removed].
And there's a special place in my personal hell for anyone who says "Why didn't they just ride the eagles to Mordor?".

 

[Drummodino]

You don't want to make me cry, do you? D:

Nooooooo don't cry Tippy

OT: Paradise by Coldplay. I used to be a big Coldplay fan until a couple of years ago. Then that album came out (I can't even remember the name). I didn't really like it but I didn't hate it.

However at the time I worked evenings as a waiter in a hotel restaurant and bar. The Foxtel music channel was what the televisions in the bar were always set to and they played Paradise at least once an hour it felt like. After working there for a couple of months, that song was like nails on a chalkboard for me.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

This very well may be lingering misogyny from my younger years, but I fucking hate Kim Possible. I don't know why either. On paper, I should like it. An ordinary human being fighting bad guys? Just like batman right? NOPE!

I think my whole irritation with it is just how perfect she is. She has no tragic backstory. She doesn't have to train hard or struggle with her social life. Theres no real reason why she's pegged to be the hero and no one ever worries about her.

It's irrational to the point that I'd love to read a fanfic or something where the bad guy just goes all Fumbles on her...

Funny, there's a term that originates in fanfiction that describes the phenomenon you bring up exactly. A "Mary Sue" is an original character, usually female but not always, that has no difficulties or real flaws. They are somehow exceptionally skilled in whatever they do, are exotically beautiful and are never wrong. Nearly everyone loves them instantly and the ones that don't are always bad guys, no matter how logical their dislike. They never have to really struggle to do anything.

One small inconsistency is that Mary Sues often have some sort of tragic backstory that will almost inevitably devolve into wangst, if it wasn't already. But otherwise, Kim Possible matches the profile of a Mary Sue.

Ohhhh I'd hate to label it Mary Sue hate. I mean, I'm guilty of that flaw as well. I have a fanfiction character from my teens that I still hold dearly in my heart.

My hate for Kim Possible goes so much deeper than that. It's why I frame it with the last shred of misogyny because I plainly think it's the fact it's a ordinary girl doing these things. I very well may not of given the show a second glance if it was boy doing these things. And it's very uncharacteristic of me, considering the person I am now to feel this way. It's like this show is a branching off of that "GIRL POWER" bullshit of the nineties that the Spice Girls started. Ya know, the idea of GIRLZ RULE with out any of the basic tenements of feminism, basically just a gigantic marketing ploy?

Oh "Everything is possible for a possible!", really? Well who the fuck knows because she's never been in a situation where her skills have been pushed to the limit.