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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Active Nitwittery

There are thousands of web sites out there, most of them relatively OK, some of them rather nice, and some of them astonishingly banal. I'm not the prissy type, so I pretty much ignore the obscenities, narcissism, jackass antics, 8th grader fart humor -- that stuff is just noise.

But some people really put themselves into boxes, write the instructions on the boxes "smash into bits", "drop over cliff" or some other self-demolishing statement, and then call in the bogey boys. For instance, [an undisclosed person] made a website extolling her 13 year old virginity and good Christian beliefs and then had links to all of the comments -- open to the world, unedited -- with every sort of four-letter, five-letter and even eleven-letter obscenities written in all CAPITAL letters.

Her response? "Umm. Urso RUDE!" "OMG How DeeesGUSTING!" and so forth. I felt like writing a snail mail to her HOME ADDRESS [in an undisclosed Midwestern city] to warn... but thought better -- is that a trawler? I might get my toe caught in a corn picker.

Just fishing for RUBES? Probably. But then I thought, OMG -- some people really are that ignorant. At any rate that one goes into the Nut Box. I hope it really is a trawler -- otherwise it makes me worry.

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