Twelfth Post!

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POST NAMER TBC-- work harder, meme!

Welcome back, anyway! Chat fandom, media, creative things, weirdness from around the net, funny stuff, anything! Meme awaits!

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Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

> talking about how you're smarter than everyone around you makes you a douche, and a dumb one for saying your insulting thoughts out loud.

It's usually a red flag but otoh it is very annoying when you're the smartest person in the room, especially when you suspect there are better rooms out there. I have a blog mostly devoted to complaining about stupid people being stupid. I don't expect it to win me friends, but I like having somewhere to complain. When you have colleagues earnestly proposing that penguins have gender identities, and that corporate loo policy should take this into account, you soon become a bitter husk of a Dan ranting into the void about how dumb people are.

Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

SD

My issue with many spaces is that the difference in intellect or context or whatever *is* too big, and I end up feeling like everyone around me is reciting scripts and I can predict what they'll say, so I get bored. I'm aware that makes me sound like a twat, but it's still true. :') I understand smart people feeling isolated and wanting community, and complaining about it. That said, the smartest people I've met have been the ones who've found it gauche to say they're the smartest person in the room, and the boasters have never noticed that the other lot are cleverer!

Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

dyrt

+100 to your last sentence

And yeah, I get that frustration. This dan was a real prick at age 18.

Also, it's way less dumb to vent anonomously. It's not productive (again, speaking from experience) but it doesn't have the very obvious blowback factor (unfortunately also speaking from experience >.<)