Mine is the grammar nazi/the person who treats (what are imo) casual online discussions like dissertations.
I know how to write and make convincing points but I’m not gonna sweat that the point I made was a bit broad or that I didn’t capitalize the right thing.
Generally speaking, if you could tell what I meant and still correct or dispute my point with me, that’s my online etiquette pet peeve.
I sometimes hate the anonymity the online world brings. I get that it’s nice for people who can’t say what they want to say irl, but I’m more talking about people that can. For example, on a thread about Finland’s PM yesterday, there were some people describing what they think of her looks or what they’d ‘do to her’. Another example is men (which, let’s be honest, it mostly is with men) that talk about whatever woman they see on instagram and say they could do her or that they could not do her or that she doesn’t look great or whatever.
My point is, these people say shit online they would never have the balls for to say in person, especially not to the person they are talking about. It annoys me sometimes, because these people are not the cool, tough person they think they are.
usually this holier than thou shit is already inherent, working in retail or service will make you realize that either anonymity or personnel that is forced to be nice just makes it apparent (meaning they think like this per default but being in a perceived state of privilege gives them the courage to speak their brain-rot)
I never thought about that but yea it’s probably bottled up anger from customers that they can’t say anything to. If they actually spoke their mind to a customer once or twice they’d be fired immediately and replaced by any lucky participant from the vast reserve army of labor that the US keeps well maintained due to low wages and high unemployment. So basically, not to sound like a broken Communist Record, but the problem is capitalism that makes these people do this online. And alienation.
I take solace in the fact that those weirdos are all Incel-4chan-frequenting-basement-dwellers that luckily will never grow the balls to say this hateful stuff in person.
Some folk just need to put others down to inflate themselves and its sad. It’s ok to have some fun tho if you are coming from the right place and punching up instead of down.
As lame as it is, before being an ML I thought I was an “enlightened liberal” and I read Marcus Aurelius. I didn’t understand that most of his shit is metaphysical and therefore has no REAL reason to it. Anyways, I think he brought up one spectacular point that I still follow to this day:People that piss you off are either A.) (more common) Purposefully trying to get a reaction from you or B.) They are simply ignorant of what reaction they think you may have, that doesn’t excuse the slight, but it puts it into perspective. With that info, the most rational thing to possibly do is to not take anything too personally, because you are either giving satisfaction and completing the task of that person or you are overreacting to someone that doesn’t know what they did and think any reaction is making a mountain of a molehill. The best thing is to keep a level head because most people won’t do that. Long comment lol sorry but basically even though he was metaphysical, he had a few good introspective points to make