Dealing With Stupid People [Monday, 2nd period]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Instead of telephones, the students in Josh's workshop would find laptops set up.

And coffee, naturally.

"For some reason, people think that because they're hiding behind a keyboard, they're not accountable for what they say," Josh began, taking a sip from his mug. "That's clearly stupid. There are entire websites devoted to mocking such stupidity--not that I've ever gone to them, of course--and I'm sure those of you more technically minded will help out your fellow students from less advanced civilizations."

Josh clapped his hands together. "Because today, you are starting flamewars."

He gave a brief--well, for him--explanation of flamewars, with tangents about Fox News, the Republican party and the general evil of people who put up websites about Bartlet and can't be bothered to learn how to spell his last name correctly, then let them loose on the internet.

Heaven help 'em.

Blackbird - The Beatles

Comments

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle thought carefully before she put hers out. Internet trolls were stupid, clearly wrong, and anyone would argue with them not matter what they said, it seemed, so...she might as well have some fun with this.

tree_huggin_hippi: Down with capitalism! Capitalist pig dogs!

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

Hermione can multitask. Even if she feels really dirty.

SerenaFairyweather: You're just saying that because everyone has more money than you!!

She's going to develop a twitch at this rate.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: most wealth is distributed to people who usurp and exploit the common people! Certainly not by hard work and intelligence, so I wouldn't even want all that dirty money.


Turtle didn't quite yet grasp that most internet trolls wouldn't use words like usurp, exploit, or intelligence. Especially not intelligence. Nor did she realize that they'd spell them correctly.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: You use big words

Part of Hermione's soul is just dying here.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: Oh, I'm sorry. I thought with all your massive, overinflated capitalist income, you'd be able to afford something like a dictionary. lol.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: I am so rich I have people 2 read 4 me

And as an afterthought, addds

SerenaFairyweather: omg

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: omg like slaves?!? capitalism totally supports slavery. since they did it, like, a hundred years ago, it means they still want to do it, but can't, because people like us won't let them. we just want to make everyone have to work in fields and make their own food 'cause that's better, lol.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

Hermione could go off on this. In her head, she has a very long slavery rant building up in her head...

And wincing, what she really types is

SerenaFairyweather: my hair is prettier than urs.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: is not. because i use only all-natural shampoos and conditioners. NO! Not even. I wash my hair in the silt of the earth, which makes it better than yours because it's so natural, lol.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: OMG IT IS NOT U H0R

Hermione might have just thrown up in her mouth a little.

SerenaFairyweather: THAT JUST MEANS UR HAIR IS DIRTY

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: SUPPORTING THE CAPITALIST PIGS BY BUYING THE BIG-MONEY COOPERATION PRODUCTS, THAT'S WHAT"S DIRTY!!


Turtle's red face was buried in her keyboard for a moment as she tried really, really hard not to laugh.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: NUH UH U R. UR JUST JEALOUS OF ME & MY $$$

Is it possible for your IQ to drop in front of a keyboard? Typing like this shouldn't feel natural.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle wasn't exactly quite sure where to take that one. After a moment of thought, though...

tree_hugging_hippi: AM NOT! I HAVE AN IPOD.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: OMG U CAPITALIST!!!1

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Avoiding to laugh was becoming a really difficult thing to do right now.

tree_hugging_hippi: Nuh-uh! Cuz it's got only Indigo girls and hendrix and grateful dead and other hippie-ish bands that prove how not-capitalist i am because i listen to hippie-protest rock, omg.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: i only listen to brittany

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: brittney burns down the rain forests to sell cds. it's totally a fact. i heard it on npr.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T BESMURCCH BRITTANY THATWAY

Hermione's never actually heard Britney while going "Hey, I know that song. It's Britney."

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: Xtina's, like, so much better, because she's prettier and doesn't support, lion the radio (and podcasts, zomg) because everything else supports the capitalist doctrine of brainwashing people to buy more stuff, omg.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: U KNOW WHAT UR PROBLEM IS U ARE 1 OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO IS JEALOUS THEY ARE NOT FAMOUS AND YOU NEED TO TAKE IT OUT ON PEOPLE MORE TALENTED. U R ACTING LIKE U R IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR SHAME!!!!!

Because you can't have a flame war without a mention of acting like a high schooler.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: WELL, U ACT LIKE A PRESCHOOLER HA! AND I GO TO A VERY PRESTIGIOUS SCHOOL WHERE I HAVE RALLIES AND PROTESTS ALL THE FRICKIN' TIME, OMG!

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: SO OMG YOU GO TO A PRESTIGIOUS SCHOOL AND RALLY AGAINST COMMUNISM. POSER.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: I RALLY AGAINST CAPITALISM, DUUUUUUUH, AND IT'S WEST COAST SO WE'RE WAY LIBERAL, OMG.

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[smartestone]

SerenaFairyweather: OMG WHATEVER. U R JUST A BIG FAKER

Re: Talk to the stupid people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

tree_hugging_hippi: AM NOT. I'm a MARXIST. You have to have capitalism before communism, so I'm just playing to capitalist game to use against them later, lol.