Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Car repair day... New air compressor belt... a good thing.. it's starting to get warm out around here... Replacement hinge for door that covers gas cap. (A victim of my last trip). It was being held on by duct tape) Front brakes next... Last week was an oil change and leaky washer fluid tank replaced... Many other things to go this summer... we're now at the 11 year/130K mile maintenance stage... 10:58:28 PM    Notes [] Attack of the ninja-babes Some sub-titled movie on Showtime - Kunoichi: Lady Ninja some Japanese nuns (Not sure which religion - Buddhist?) get help from a one eyed ninja to get revenge for the deaths of some other nuns. The above is from the tv info... I haven't quite been following the story... doesn't make much sense even with the sub-titles. Some nudity (the ninja girls/nuns and other women keep losing their shirts)... and some kind of "magic" (They like announcing their magical attacks - like it's an episode of Pokemon - "Ninja magic blah blah blah") "You forgot something..." One-eyed samurai to one of the villains after chopping his right arm off... 10:49:40 PM    Notes [] One of those days... I'm getting too old for this kind of nonsense... Someone over on alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer took offense at my response to their response to something I said... and attacked me. Seemed to be insulted that I didn't think their "joke" was that funny... my response contained just a single smiley. Which I thought was appropriate since they didn't include any and assumed everyone would know exactly what they were trying to say was supposed to be a joke... Ahh... some people seem to have only extreme reactions to things... Not sure why. In the abstract... I don't care other than it annoys me when someone immediately resorts to petty insults when someone doesn't respond the way they want to something they said. Personally? I don't appreciate being attacked for no discernible reason... unless they were offended that I said I wasn't a "Spike worshiper" ? Nah... Probably one of those clique things... some people feel entitled to insult anyone they don't know... and feel morally superior to... which leads to a very hostile environment... One of those people where, if you aren't part of their little group... and you respond to one of their messages in an open forum... they jump all over you... for having the audacity to think you can participate. Driving out anyone who doesn't want to play along... So... not wanting to play those kinds of reindeer games... I've kill-filed that topic and that person... let them feel superior... I've done my venting here... unless they wander by here or someone tells them they'll never know that I've stopped listening... let them think they "won"... And now I feel much better... but I'm still annoyed at having to resort to kill filing someone because they attack and I don't feel like dealing with it... Must be old age creeping up on me... 10 years ago I would have stayed in the conversation and attacked back... now-a-days I try to hang out with people who are more civil. You'll notice that I don't say what conversation/thread annoyed me... it actually doesn't matter... I just needed to rant/vent without making things worse... Okay... I went back and peeked... the explanation seems to be that the person thinks I was attacking HER response to my response... I'm not sure why she thinks that... and that my response just wasn't funny... That's okay... it wasn't supposed to be "funny"... just amusing... guess it was too subtle. Which is probably my fault... my subtle humour tends to get missed by a lot of people... I guess I should have been more blatantly humourous. And if my comments were seen as an attack and rude? ... wow... I couldn't even think of a response to that... so I didn't... and left well enough alone... before I made things worse... I don't remember ordering an argument... 10:25:41 PM    Notes []

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