No, not the library - Internetz forumz!
That hive of trolls, illiterati and opinionated gormsters1.
Now, I've rather foolishly joined forums before. And I did note that any comment is utterly assailed with a plethora of abuse from ill-informed gobshites.
There are times I truly wished I was a gormster, and could descend to the ignorance of others.
Anyhooo I dropped out, and rather foolishly joined others. Primary as a lurker to follow advice, new releases, cheap deals, etc.
But woe is Xym, for he cannot keep his great big fat gob shut!
Never mind the "Carl McCoy doesn't know his own lyrics, I know what they actually are, not what he sez they are" debacle from the Gormrazers (fucksake, they were arguing over Dawnrazor, Carl's wife Lynn calligraphed them, and put them on the official website. Apparently, those lyrics are wrong - despite sounding exactly like what's sung. Gormrazors always know better - like forming twat towers blocking everyones view and waving nemo fish about like retards).
Anyhew, one forum is dedicated a specific subject. One subject, that is, and one subject only. And sometimes it's hard to find relevant stuff on it, coz the forum is spammed with irrelevant shite.
Now, this particular subject is the Kindle. Problems, eBooks, purchasing, apps, etc.
So some woman starts a topic on "HELP! Is this dress suitable for a wedding, or is it to Office-y".
Unsurprisingly, it got panned for being off topic. Until someone said "What's so strange about this - why can't ladies have fashion sense?"
And, foolish fat boy that I am, I told them.
I happened to mention that it comes across that it's reinforcing stereotypes - that of the thick blonde bimbo who thinks only "dresses, dresses, dresses"2. Why else come onto a forum dedicated to discussing Kindle to derail it by babbling airheadedly about dresses? How on earth is pondering a party dress related to a Kindle, or Kindle eBook? It's not, which makes the poster either a spamming troll deliberately clogging up the thread with irrelevant trivial tosh, or a gossiping gormster who can't distinguish between an electronic device and attire. Surely if they want to discuss fashion, they post on a fashion thread, not an eReader thread!
All couched in my usual, inimitable, flowery style.
Suffice to say I was instantly hit with abuse by a triplicity of dress obsessed ogresses.
'snot my fault they can't comprehend that a Kindle Discussion Forum is a Forum to Discuss Kindles, and not the place to witter on about dresses, boyfriends, shoes and the fact that it's too wet to put the washing out (all actual previous discussions of great import to Kindle)! You'd think they'd have the sense to take such irrelevance to some Loose Women type forum, where they can bitch about men and geeks to their hearts content, revelling in taffeta, cakes and other stuff unrelated to eBooks and their ilk that they keep spamming the thread with.
Still, as it's not relevant to the forum, I had my say and left. No doubt I'm still being trolled and slagged off, but hey-ho, if people are too dumb to understand what Kindle Discussion Forum means, and that I'm not reading it3 because it's off-topic, more fool them! Let them expunge their venom to their hearts content - keeps them off the main thread, so everyone else can see some actual topics discussing Kindles!
[EDIT] Just had a quick squit for Blog purposes - 24+ replies since the harpies first descended... dare I look at the predictable comments....
...oh go on!
...yep, about what you would expect:
● Xym is a jealous woman with shoulder chips.
● Xym is a mysoginist.
● The Xym is not The Xym, it's just a false account specifically created to post under a false name4.
● Why can't talking about dresses be related to a Kindle Discussion? Just because it's a Kindle Discussion Forum doesn't mean we should only discuss Kindles5.
● Oooh, he must be loving us airheads lezzing it up on the forum
● He's only commented on this thread - must have a thing about dresses.
And now they've progressed on to discussing their knickers. Oooh, be a devil and wear none to the party!
Yes dear, I stand corrected. Your pants at a wedding are truly relevant to a Kindle discussion!
1 NATURALLY, EXCLUDING THE XYM!
2 SEE TWO PINTS OF LAGER AND A PACKET OF CRISPS, SERIES 3, EPISODE 6. CURIOUSLY ALSO ENTITLED DRESSES, DRESSES, DRESSES!
3 WHOA - BACK UP THERE XYM! IF YOU'RE NOT READING IT COZ IT'S OFF TOPIC, HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO COMMENT ON IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!
WELL - IN MY DEFENCE, I WAS GOING FOR THE DAY'S FREE EBOOK LINK, BUT ACCIDENTALLY HIT ONE OF THE SPAM THREADS, AND IMMEDIATELY SAW PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING WHY PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT THREADS ABOUT DRESSES. I FINALLY DECIDED TO SAY WHY PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT IRRELEVANT THREADS, THEN BUGGERED OFF OUT OF IT! MAKE A STINK THEN LEAVE, LIKE FARTING IN A LIFT. THAT'S THE WAY TO GO!
4 WELL, I'M SURPRISED PEOPLE THINK THAT THE XYM IS NOT THE XYM, BUT SOMEONE PRETENDING TO BE THE XYM BY NICKING THE NAME OF THE XYM WITHOUT THE XYM'S KNOWLEDGE! THE XYM ACTUALLY IS THE XYM, YOU DUMBASS'S! THE XYM DOESN'T HIDE BEHIND FALSE ID'S! NO PSEUDONYM XYM!!
5 UM... YES! THAT'S WHY IT'S A KINDLE DISCUSSION FORUM, AND NOT A DRESSES FORUM, YOU THICK COW!
