One of my colleagues from college married a former student of his

[DRU]

Why do you care what other people do when you don't even know them very well, it has nothing to do with you, and it doesn't hurt you in any way?

And if you don't like it, why would you waste time digging around to find it in the first place, and then continue on with it talking shit on the person in a 3rd party forum?

Drama queen..??

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by DRU

Why do you care what other people do when you don't even know them very well, it has nothing to do with you, and it doesn't hurt you in any way?

And if you don't like it, why would you waste time digging around to find it in the first place, and then continue on with it talking shit on the person in a 3rd party forum?

Drama queen..??

I was waiting for this post to show up

[DRU]

Originally Posted by SNR

I was waiting for this post to show up

So you get more pleasure out of that, too? Interesting hobby you've got there.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by DRU

So you get more pleasure out of that, too? Interesting hobby you've got there.

This little event has irrevocably changed my life. When biographers tell my life story, they will point to the time my acquaintance from grad school got married to a former student of his as the moment shit changed in my life.

I mean, I posted a thread on Chiefs Planet about it? Eegads! I am so distraught! Don't even try to counsel me! This means soooooo much! I mean, for ****'s sake, I posted a thread on CHIEFS PLANET about this! Ohh the huge manatee!!!!

[Ultra Peanut]

Originally Posted by SNR

This little event has irrevocably changed my life. When biographers tell my life story, they will point to the time my acquaintance from grad school got married to a former student of his as the moment shit changed in my life.

I mean, I posted a thread on Chiefs Planet about it? Eegads! I am so distraught! Don't even try to counsel me! This means soooooo much! I mean, for ****'s sake, I posted a thread on CHIEFS PLANET about this! Ohh the huge manatee!!!!

Originally Posted by pr_capone

Damn, never mind. You get to be the only one that flaunts societal "norms" and damn what others think. You go... girl?

eat my poop

[pr_capone]

Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

eat my poop

No thanks. If I am going to eat poop... I prefer it come from less angry and judgmental people who are looking for the slightest provocation. Not as bitter and typically nothing gets stuck in the teeth.

[Ultra Peanut]

Originally Posted by pr_capone

No thanks. If I am going to eat poop... I prefer it come from less angry and judgmental people who are looking for the slightest provocation. Not as bitter and typically nothing gets stuck in the teeth.

gosh, why would i snidely respond to yet another in the endless stream of "ur a tranny" posts from the luminaries at Chiefs Planet Dot Com

like, i seriously edited my posts to be less seemingly-abrasive because i didn't want anyone to get the idea that i thought it was this HORRIBLE sinful no-good thing that is worse than anything ever, even before i saw your responses. but no. it is not enough to keep you from being patronizing and dense as all hell.

[DRU]

Originally Posted by SNR

This little event has irrevocably changed my life. When biographers tell my life story, they will point to the time my acquaintance from grad school got married to a former student of his as the moment shit changed in my life.

I mean, I posted a thread on Chiefs Planet about it? Eegads! I am so distraught! Don't even try to counsel me! This means soooooo much! I mean, for ****'s sake, I posted a thread on CHIEFS PLANET about this! Ohh the huge manatee!!!!

It's just interesting to me how so many people talk shit on so many other people. I hear it all the time in every day life. Get a group of people together and you hear a lot of shit talking about other people.

This is just the online equivalent of it. Like sitting in a room watching all the people, and turning to your buddy to talk shit on them when you don't even know anything about anything about them.

Why exactly are you or is what you're doing any better than anybody else? Why waste your time having that conversation as oppose to some positive conversation?

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by DRU

It's just interesting to me how so many people talk shit on so many other people. I hear it all the time in every day life. Get a group of people together and you hear a lot of shit talking about other people.

This is just the online equivalent of it. Like sitting in a room watching all the people, and turning to your buddy to talk shit on them when you don't even know anything about anything about them.

Why exactly are you or is what you're doing any better than anybody else? Why waste your time having that conversation as oppose to some positive conversation?

Why are we so hard on Matt Cassel? He sucks, but that's no reason for us to go on the internet behind his back and make jokes about him having sex with the general manager or being a locker room klutz or getting AIDS and dying in a fire.

I clearly posted this thread trying to sample the board if I would do well to trust my emotions on this one. I didn't do it as a lame gossip story.

There are several posters here who also work in academia like myself who will have some interesting things to say no doubt. Already a good conversation has been getting on a roll since I started the thread. That was my intention.

[DRU]

Originally Posted by SNR

Why are we so hard on Matt Cassel? He sucks, but that's no reason for us to go on the internet behind his back and make jokes about him having sex with the general manager or being a locker room klutz or getting AIDS and dying in a fire.

I clearly posted this thread trying to sample the board if I would do well to trust my emotions on this one. I didn't do it as a lame gossip story.

There are several posters here who also work in academia like myself who will have some interesting things to say no doubt. Already a good conversation has been getting on a roll since I started the thread. That was my intention.

There's no arguing that point as I've clearly jumped into the conversation as well. My general curiosity, though, is why social interactions are more about negative things (whether large or small) than positive things.

I can appreciate good topics and starting threads to get a general consensus about something. But why at the expense of somebody else? Why not post something interesting about yourself for us all to talk about and say whether or not it should be accepted or considered taboo?

Or on a similar note, why do all the comments on YouTube and the like turn into negativity no matter what type of video you're looking at? It's always been very interesting to me that the natural pull of society, across the world, is negativity and shit talking with each other, about each other to other people, etc.

It's usually just a few people, too, but they are powerful and can suck in the people around them. Would be interesting to see those same people turn that power around and use it in some other fashion.

So again, I don't mean any disrespect towards you directly, but my questions still stand. Why worry about it and waste your time, emotion, or energy with it? What draws you to that sort of thing over any of the other million things you could be doing with your time, online or offline? Things that actually do interest you and don't just make you feel icky.

When I see or hear things I genuinely don't like or care nothing about I typically just move on and I don't give it a second thought. In this case I almost did that except that it sparked these sociological questions in my mind, which does intrigue me.

Anyway, sorry for the tirade. I guess maybe I'm the drama queen tonight.