If you can’t type anything nice, don’t type anything at all…

If there is one thing that really bothers me about the internet, it is forums. Don’t get me wrong, I love to go and see what people have to say, and have, on occasion, been known to post in a select few. In fact, once I joined a forum created by someone who was my friend on Neopets and made some good friends on there. However, what I don’t like about forums is the fact that people say terribly nasty things to people on them, simply because they have voiced their opinion. I just don’t understand why people would feel the need to attack someone who is, essentially, a complete stranger, just because they disagree with what they have said. Fair enough if people want to say that they disagree, and give their own opinion on the matter, but I think that it is entirely unnecessary and, quite frankly, disgusting, when they make personal comments against someone, when they have no reason to judge them, as they do not even know them. I don’t want to come across as a total hypocrite, as I realise that I am basically saying stuff against people I don’t know, but it is not like I am going around calling people a ‘fag’ or a ‘retard’ just because they disagree with me. I am actually quite reluctant to post on the IMDb message boards for the simple fact that I don’t want a randomer having a go at me. I don’t really see why people can’t just get along and accept the fact that not everybody is going to have the same views as them all of the time.

 

“Txting mks u clvr”

Somehow I don’t think so.

I was reading the Sunday Times dated 25th May, and was disgusted- no, horrified- to read an article, which claimed that sending text messages can actually improve child literacy. The article says that a professor of linguistics, Professor David Crystal, said that child literacy can be improved by texting “because of the imaginative abbreviations needed”. Later on in the article, Professor Crystal himself is quoted as saying,

They do not actually use that many [abbreviations] in texts but when they do they are using them in new, playful and imaginative ways that benefit literacy.

I’m sorry, but I honestly don’t see how that could possibly help children. Surely by encouraging them to write ALL text messages using full and correct grammar would be more appropriate. However, when reading yet further into the article, I discovered that all hope is not lost, and that there are some people who are seeing sense. John Humphrys, who I have a great deal of respect for already, is quoted as saying that text messagers are

vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago.

And yes, so maybe that says something about me too, and the majority of the rest of the people in my generation, but in all fairness, most of the people I know do not text using abbreviations, but simply use it as a means of communication. And besides, at least Humphrys seems to be making a great deal more sense than Crystal.

 

Miley Cyrus in Vanity Fair

I was having a browse on the internet earlier, and discovered this picture:

It is a picture of Miley Cyrus, taken for Vanity Fair. After reading several other blogs, it would appear as though most people think that it is in some way unsuitable, due to her being fifteen years of age. However, I don’t really understand what is so wrong. Okay, so she’s not completely covered up, but she’s not nude, and you can’t see anything. I think it’s about time that people realised that just because skin is showing, it does not make it porn.

 

Hypocrisy

Some people should think about what the fuck they are saying. By me saying that I don’t understand atheists is simply stating a fact, expressing my view on a subject, so for someone to come right out and say that by saying that, I am acting like everyone in the world who doesn’t agree with me is wrong, is absolutely fucking ridiculous. And not only that, but when I mention that they once full on had a go at me when I said I do not think it is particularly that important for women to have the vote, they had the nerve to say that they had every right to have a go at me! Their excuse? The fact that it is ’strange for a girl in this day and age to have such a view’. Sorry, but seriously, fuck off. That is prejudice. THAT is acting as if people with different views to you are wrong, so maybe that person should just stop being such a fucking hypocrite, because, to be perfectly honest, despite their age, they are hideously immature and I don’t want to waste my time arguing with them when we both know they are in the wrong, because, let’s face it, it’s pretty obvious. So if anyone else would like to be a total hypocrite and argue with me in such a way, don’t bother, just piss off and sort your head out, okay?

 

Shoelace, cotton thread, sour milk, ladybird

They’ll just throw you away like an unwanted toy. Such is the nature of people these days. One minute you are their best friend, the next they want nothing more to do with you. Is there no way we can compromise and find an ideal balance? Something somewhere between the two, maybe. What happened to acquaintances, or even just friends? Did those two terms, perhaps, become lost somewhere in time and space at the beginning of the current millennium? And why must we change our minds so often on where people stand with us? I am tired of being treated like a piece of paper, as I am sure many other people are. Is it, perhaps, up to people like me to take action and fight against the norm? Maybe to have our acquaintances and our friends and say ‘look world, I am fighting for what I believe is right!’ Is it up to us to toss aside our current ways, and maybe, for once, stop being so fickle? Maybe it is. but then again, I doubt it would make much difference.

 

Let me break you

Hair. Wrong.
Eyes. Wrong.
Nose. Wrong.
Mouth. Wrong.
Skin. Wrong.
Arms. Wrong.
Legs. Wrong.
Stomach. Wrong.
Height. Wrong.
Weight. Wrong.
Lack of self-esteem. Right. So very right.

I don’t like how the world is turning out.