Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo — Page 792

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

Writing a person’s name in “stutter” is clever? What world am I even living in?

But yeah just sounds like you are bitter.

He just said the story gave him a slight chuckle. He didn’t say he was having schadenfreude over it. You yourself tend to not take seriously things that some people think you should.

It’s okay when he does it.

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

Writing a person’s name in “stutter” is clever? What world am I even living in?

But yeah just sounds like you are bitter.

I don’t understand why you would refuse to acknowledge that there’s a tiny bit of humor in this story. Even if you don’t think it’s funny, I don’t get why it’s so shocking to you that this pointless, waste-of-time story might make someone chuckle a little bit in spite of the fact that it’s about a mean barista. But yeah, sure, I’m bitter. I don’t like it when people pretend to care about other people. I’d rather just admit that they don’t care, because I always respect honesty more than moralizing bullshit.

Just because the barista was trying to make a joke doesn’t make it funny, it just makes him a dick.

Well, funny is subjective.

And just because you don’t care about anyone else doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same way.

I do care about some other people. I didn’t say that you people don’t care about anyone. I don’t believe any of you really care about the people in this story, though.

moviefreakedmind said:

I didn’t say that you people don’t care about anyone.

I mean everyone else on the planet.

moviefreakedmind said:

I mean everyone else on the planet.

I know. I was joking.

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

Writing a person’s name in “stutter” is clever? What world am I even living in?

But yeah just sounds like you are bitter.

I don’t understand why you would refuse to acknowledge that there’s a tiny bit of humor in this story. Even if you don’t think it’s funny, I don’t get why it’s so shocking to you that this pointless, waste-of-time story might make someone chuckle a little bit in spite of the fact that it’s about a mean barista. But yeah, sure, I’m bitter. I don’t like it when people pretend to care about other people. I’d rather just admit that they don’t care, because I always respect honesty more than moralizing bullshit.

Just because the barista was trying to make a joke doesn’t make it funny, it just makes him a dick.

Does it really make him a dick? Are you really going to tell me that you’ve never once in your life been mean to someone else? Are you a dick? Are you a “terrible person” as Frink put it? (Speaking of Frink, I’ve seen him be pretty mean to people on this forum. I don’t think he’s a terrible person because of it.) For all we know, which is nothing other than that some guy got made fun of at Starbucks, this barista is a totally fucking pleasant person that maybe just made a poor joke because he was miserable at his shitty, degrading customer-service job. Maybe he’s a really mean dude, but perhaps he’s really charitable and spends his time volunteering at homeless shelters and helping people. Would he be a terrible person or a dick then? Maybe he really is just a giant pile of sub-human shit that no one would miss if he died tomorrow. We don’t fucking know. Maybe Sam, the customer, was really mean to the barista. Or maybe he’s the nicest guy in the world. We don’t fucking know. It’s not like the barista poured dish soap in the guy’s drink. It’s not like I’m laughing at someone for getting run over. I’m not even laughing at anyone, really. I just thought it was a kind of funny story. This is one of the reasons why I avoid other people. You can’t even chuckle at some distant, inconsequential event anymore without people finding it upsetting.

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

Writing a person’s name in “stutter” is clever? What world am I even living in?

But yeah just sounds like you are bitter.

I don’t understand why you would refuse to acknowledge that there’s a tiny bit of humor in this story. Even if you don’t think it’s funny, I don’t get why it’s so shocking to you that this pointless, waste-of-time story might make someone chuckle a little bit in spite of the fact that it’s about a mean barista. But yeah, sure, I’m bitter. I don’t like it when people pretend to care about other people. I’d rather just admit that they don’t care, because I always respect honesty more than moralizing bullshit.

Just because the barista was trying to make a joke doesn’t make it funny, it just makes him a dick.

Well, funny is subjective.

Yet you seem to be really worked up that Frink won’t admit there’s some “humor” to the joke.

I’m worked up that he’s acting as though it’s unreasonable or immoral that I saw some humor in the situation.

And just because you don’t care about anyone else doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same way.

I do care about some other people. I didn’t say that you people don’t care about anyone. I don’t believe any of you really care about the people in this story, though.

There are levels to caring. I care insofar as the barista’s a dick and I feel kinda bad for the stutter guy. It’s not a big tragedy or whatever, but it still sucks. Don’t see what’s unbelievable about that.

Sure. I can relate to the stutter guy. I also chuckled a little bit. It’s also kind of funny when a kid falls off his bike. That doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s sucks that he scraped his knee.

dahmage said:

so, i guess my attempt to avoid pages of this by agreeing that sometimes i find mean things funny, did not work.

i’ll take that into consideration in the future. MFM, please, continue to vent.

I’ll not be taking your inability to scroll past some posts into consideration in the future.

Yes, of course you can.

DominicCobb said:

It definitely makes him a dick. If I’ve ever made a similar joke that makes me a dick too, especially if I did it to someone’s face.

I don’t understand the desire to judge a person based entirely on one relatively small offense.

In this instance, sure. But I don’t know if he’s a total dick. He probably is, but who cares? Everyone else is too.

It’s true that there could be some missing context. I know of a couple of restaurants where rude waiters are part of the appeal. Or maybe the stuttering guy was being an ass and this was the barista’s clumsy form of revenge. Or maybe the barista was having a bad day - his bike was stolen or something. Or what the heck, maybe he’s just a prick. I wouldn’t make fun of someone’s disability, but 49% of voters seem to think it’s ok for the president to do it.

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

In this instance, sure. But I don’t know if he’s a total dick. He probably is, but who cares? Everyone else is too.

It seems like you care quite a bit actually.

I care about the hypocrisy of people’s reaction to this ludicrous story. That doesn’t mean I care about the people in the story.

What I really need to do is purge whatever remaining delusional fantasy I have that I’ll be able to understand you people. That’s real point I’ve gleamed from this conversation.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

It’s true that there could be some missing context. I know of a couple of restaurants where rude waiters are part of the appeal. Or maybe the stuttering guy was being an ass and this was the barista’s clumsy form of revenge. Or maybe the barista was having a bad day - his bike was stolen or something. Or what the heck, maybe he’s just a prick. I wouldn’t make fun of someone’s disability, but 49% of voters seem to think it’s ok for the president to do it.

Is he really disabled? I’d be offended by that kind of language more than being made fun of. Maybe that’s just me. It probably is.