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Old White Man Rant
I hate Will Carroll. It seems odd that someone who just writes about baseball injuries could possibly be so offensive. I hate everything he's ever written, I hate his pompous attitude despite the fact he is wrong more often then he is right, I hate the idiotic picture of him on Baseball Prospectus. That they let him judge writing that may have been produced by people that might actually have talent for writing is a fucking embarrassment for them. How the fuck do you work for Baseball Prospectus and not fucking say - if you don't get rid of this asshole I'm going to have to go find something else to do.
Hating Will Carroll led me to his Twitter page. I hate Twitter. It's like a giant circle jerk where everyone just keeps 're-tweeting' the same stupid shit. Listen, you don't have to fucking tweet that Dick Jauron got fired. It doesn't fucking matter because the Bills are a horseshit football team and it doesn't matter who coaches them. Everyone knows that Dick Jauron is getting fired any day, and if we all have to wait a few extra minutes to find out someplace besides twitter we'll all fucking survive.Assholes like Will Carroll don't need to 're-fucking-tweet' the news that he got fired like they are breaking the Watergate scandal. It's fucking #jibberish. Does anyone actually fucking think by tagging their useless tweets that they are somehow organizing this 'information' in any sort of useful fashion. How the fuck does anyone follow 1,000 people on Twitter. Dipshit Will Caroll follows 1,000 people. How the fuck can you possibly do anything but look at goddamn twitter if you are following 1,000 people. Same fucking thing with Facebook. What the fuck is running through someone's head when they post what they are fucking having for dinner on Facebook. Nobody gives a shit that you are having pork chops and applesauce, you are not fucking Bobby Brady. It's a such a goddamn clusterfuck of constant useless information that I don't know how you can possibly look at someone's 'wall' and not smash your computer to bits. I know maybe 5 people that aren't on Facebook. How is it that there are only 5 other fucking people out of 1,000 that I know that have enough fucking sense to not have a fucking Facebook account. Asshats, you are in your fucking 30's. You shouldn't be dressing up like a fucking candy corn for Halloween, then posting the pictures and then spend Monday bitching that you aren't getting promoted. Get a fucking clue. Last edited by lynchjm24 : 11-18-2009 at 08:50 PM. |
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11-18-2009, 08:56 PM
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Yeah! The internet's only useful as a social tool if you're on a message board!
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11-18-2009, 09:04 PM
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11-18-2009, 09:11 PM
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I'm 34 and enjoy facebook.
It's allowed me to connect with old friends, people from highschool etc... It also allows me to see pictures of friends and family from home since I live 3.000 miles away. Granted, I'm not one of those people who post my every move, but I think it is a good way to network with friends. Last edited by Lathum : 11-18-2009 at 09:17 PM. |
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11-18-2009, 09:13 PM
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It's all about relevance. The social web is only as useful as your network that uses it. And even then, it might not be particularly useful. The same way people here meet, interact, talk, share ideas, laugh and cry about their life stories happen on Twitter too. Facebook is a different animal, but it's still an interaction tool. On the surface, it's all a big circle jerk because you're not engaged in the conversations and as an outsider, that can be really frustrating. Hell, even once you have a network it can be frustrating. But it's really about understanding what you're using it for (if you're using it) and then being okay with understanding that other people use it for different reasons and are able to maximize it in ways that defy reality to you (or that you're not willing to invest the time/energy to do.) Groovy hashtag. I think for someone who shows up here for the first time, they'd struggle in a way that even a twitter denizen would shudder at. Still, good rant. It's good to know that these tools aren't so ubiquitous that their relevance has gone mainstream. Means there's still work out there to translate it, which is good news for me.  |
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11-18-2009, 09:26 PM
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11-18-2009, 09:38 PM
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Hell, I'm 42 and on kind of my second pass through Facebook after not getting a lot out of it when I first messed with it. This time around I'm having a good bit more fun with it, reconnecting with a lot of people that I didn't see on the first go 'round. The best part of it for me I think is that I can control what degree of interaction I have better than I could if, say, they moved in next door or married into the family or whatever. I can choose to read or not read their posts, look at their pictures, etc. And if I keep the chat turned off when I'm not in the mood I don't get many unwelcome interruptions in my surfing. It's been a kick to see people that I literally haven't seen in 20 years or more & I'm also able to improve contact with a number of medium range to distant relatives that aren't geographically convenient but this way we can at least have some notion of what's going on with each other's more immediate families & the like.
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11-18-2009, 09:44 PM
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You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... |
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11-18-2009, 09:47 PM
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I know I'm in the minority and that's why I only know 5 people who aren't on Facebook. I do not give a fuck about looking at pictures of people who I went to high school or college with. If I gave a fuck about those people, I wouldn't have gone 20 years without talking to them.
I don't expect anyone to agree with me about Facebook or Twitter. I'm sure they are shifting some fucking paradigm that is beyond me. I'm not looking for anyone to understand why I hate Facebook and Twitter so much, but I really was hoping that someone else would understand why I fucking hate Will Carroll. God what an asshole. |
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11-18-2009, 09:51 PM
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Fair enough, I guess the important thing is you don't come off as a douche bag who is insulting everyone that uses facebook and gets enjoyment from it. |
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11-18-2009, 09:51 PM
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I might hate Twitter but even I know that anyone who follows John Fucking Mayer doesn't get to call anyone a pussy. |
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11-18-2009, 09:55 PM
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Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. I have about 2 dozen kids in their 20's who work for me, don't worry I have no problem coming off as a douche bag reminding them how fucking stupid it is. Old angry white man rants aren't very fucking effective if no one is offended. |
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11-18-2009, 09:57 PM
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Forgive me for forgetting the assholes who make the Gap commercials. There is a special place in hell for them. If the internet had any real value beyond checking box scores and porn, it would rise up and put the fucking Gap out of business by the end of November for forcing that fucking commercial on us.
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11-18-2009, 09:58 PM
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Considering I don't Twitter myself and have no use for it, guess it seeds you somehow with followers...
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You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... |
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11-18-2009, 09:59 PM
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Then again, they're only marginally effective at best if you just sound like an asshole trying to be cool ranting against something largely because other people enjoy it {shrug}
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11-18-2009, 10:06 PM
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See you are wrong. I don't hate it because people enjoy it. I hate it on it's own merits. I'll check back in 4 years when everyone will say just like myspace just how fucking stupid it was all along. |
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11-18-2009, 10:09 PM
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And yet you've managed to put together 2 funny lines. Between you and John Mayer you might sell me on this Twitter thing yet. |
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11-18-2009, 10:12 PM
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You're so cool. Don't change. For me? Please?
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You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... |
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11-18-2009, 10:20 PM
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Again with the {shrug} since I really don't run into much anti-myspace either although for me personally it wasn't much of a fit because of the demographics, lack of people that I knew, formatting, etc. I have an account there pretty much only because there's occasionally some picture or music or something I want to check out there. Now Twitter on the other hand, that I'm already hearing resistance to or even derision about from multiple demographics so I suspect it is one that's already on it's way out.
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11-18-2009, 10:24 PM
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Seems like Twitter would have some use from a business standpoint. I thought about using it to send out notes about specials or when items were in stock. Probably some use to it beyond Pork Chops and Applesauce notifications.
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You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... |
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11-19-2009, 06:30 AM
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I look at Twitter and I see the same fucking thing I see when I open my yahoo email account. Spam and fucking assholes trying to steal my credit card numbers.
Even people I enjoy come off like complete fucking douchebags on Twitter. Keith Law is one of my favorite writers, his fucking tweets make me want to punch him in the fucking face. John Mayer is a whole nother fucking story. We have enough friends in common that I am 100% assured that he is a complete fuckface. Actually the friends we have in common are pretty big douchebags themselves so it would be a shocking revelation to find out that he isn't an assclown. How does no one hate Will Fucking Carroll. That fucking picture where he is holding a baseball makes me wish Abner Doubleday was never fucking born. His fucking books make me want someone to subject him to every fucking injury in his stupid fucking catalog. Anything to make him stop begging for media outlets to put him on the air to talk every time some mediocre running back on a .500 football team breaks his fucking foot. Do people really not understand how a broken fucking foot would hamper a running back? Is a fucking self-proclaimed 'injury expert' really needed to tell us that having fucking working feet is critical to running the fucking football in the NFL. |
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11-19-2009, 06:38 AM
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Is being from Hartford not fucking bad enough. Does Eric Fucking Mangini have to be from here too? Will you shut the fuck up about Lebron James playing football you fucking moron. I've had the misfortune of meeting Mangini twice, he is every bit the total and complete fucking idiot he comes across as on TV. Artie Bucco should have done the world a favor and fucking poisoned his fucking dinner.
I'd rather listen to Will Carroll talk about the Patriots going for it on 4th down, then have to see one more fucking stupid second of ESPN talking about Lebron playing football. |
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11-19-2009, 07:16 AM
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FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK facebook FUCK FUCK FUCK twitter FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK lebron FUCK FUCK FUCK fofc FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK maple leafs suck FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK my tampon has given me toxic shock syndrome FUCK FUCK
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11-19-2009, 07:16 AM
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This has been your young black man rant of the day.
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No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor. |
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11-19-2009, 07:32 AM
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I think he'd have to be more relevant for me to hate him, I'm barely aware of who you're talking about.
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11-19-2009, 08:06 AM
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Congratulations. You win the internet!
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11-19-2009, 08:27 AM
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This is definitely my favorite part of the whole thing. I hate this guy, and I hate this social media format, so I'm going to go read what he has to say there!!! |
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11-19-2009, 08:46 AM
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Considering I spend a ton of time on both Facebook and Twitter, I laugh in the face of your old white man rant!
Facebook helps me reconnect with people I haven't seen in a while and see pictures of them or what they are involved with. It is also good for organizing events (it's better than an evite, really). Twitter is a social networking tool that is almost the opposite because it is intended for you to connect to people you don't know. It is intended for you to find people who may have the same interests and have conversations with them. The other thing Twitter does better than things like Facebook is use on a cell phone. It's very easy to quickly update your Twitter status than it is to check pictures or whatnot on Facebook (yes, you can check status updates and update Facebook status easy enough, but I kinda use Facebook for more than just that). And with trending topics (and now lists), you can find out news very quickly on Twitter.
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11-19-2009, 08:57 AM
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Could you keep your rant below 140 characters next time? Some of us have lives to live, you know. |
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11-19-2009, 08:59 AM
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I will admit, though; Twitter has made me realize how much I hate tinyurl.
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11-19-2009, 09:05 AM
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Don't worry. My grandpa had a pretty similar rant about cordless phones.
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11-19-2009, 09:23 AM
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Never made the username connection until now.
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11-19-2009, 09:30 AM
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Young White man rant:
i fucking hate old white fucks that bitch about shit other people do that have no fucking consequence to their own lives! (kept short so it could fit on twitter) |
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11-19-2009, 09:31 AM
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Fear is the path to the dark side: fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
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11-19-2009, 09:33 AM
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Do Old Non-White Men really love social networking?
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11-19-2009, 09:35 AM
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I don't know who Will Carroll even is. I know John Mayer is a singer and dated Jennifer Aniston at some point, but couldn't name even one song he sings.
Facebook is pretty harmless. I am on it, but only check it like once a month or so (because it's blocked at work). I only read about what people Twitter when it comes up in stuff I am reading. So, I guess the point of all this (if there is one), is that this stuff is pretty easy to ignore/avoid. No reason to get all fucking this and fucking that about it.
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11-19-2009, 10:11 AM
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I'm amazed that Touchdown Tim Brown didn't make it into this rant.
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11-19-2009, 10:15 AM
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11-19-2009, 10:42 AM
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11-19-2009, 10:59 AM
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BLASPHEMER!!!!!!!!!!!
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You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... |
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11-19-2009, 11:02 AM
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You know, it all comes down to what you want out of something. I don't use facebook to reconnect with people from the past or even really keep up with what's going on now. I have an account there, turn off pretty much every update and use it to run the 3-5 sports teams (depending on the time of the year) that I'm in charge of.
Beats the hell out of trying to keep it organized in a spreadsheet or via email. Just make an event on facebook, throw in the game specific details, invite those that should be playing and check in a few days before the game to see who can't make it and how many spares I need to contact to make sure we have full lineups. Works great for me because almost all my players have accounts on there. Now if Facebook didn't allow for the customization they do I'd probably get annoyed by being bombarded by updates I don't want cluttering my feed, but given that you can just turn them off, ends up being no biggie.
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11-19-2009, 11:38 AM
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Perfect example this morning of why I use facebook and think it is a valuable tool.
My niece ( technically my wife's cousins daughter, but she calls us Aunt and Uncle) had to go to the hospital this morning. Turns out she has appendicitis. Her mom was able to tell a majority of the family without having to make calls that frankly she didn't have the time to make and now we can all stay in the loop in a much more efficient manner and also send our prayers and well wishes in a manner that is convenient for her parents. |
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Not sure how you deduce that your opinions on facebook and twitter are any more 'useful' to anyone than someone else having pork chops and applesauce for dinner.
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11-19-2009, 06:34 PM
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I do not see where I said anything about them being useful. What is the point of being an old angry white man if you can't come home, have a couple of bourbons and bitch about technology and the youth today. After the country club memberships it's the second best thing about being old. |
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11-19-2009, 06:41 PM
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You know what else I fucking hate: When someone is out of control and ranting and fucking raving about something ridiculously insignificant and some calm collected guy who lives in the relaxed Pacific Northwest tries to use reason and logic to disprove the rant. What's next Lathum? Did you fall through some ice trying to walk across a frozen Puget Sound and Will Fucking Carroll pulled you out and fucking brought you back to life by using his E. Fucking. T. finger that also cures grade 2 hamstring pulls? Did you need a kidney transplant and John Mayer called Jack Johnson and they held a fucking 'Save Lathum' acoustic show at the Peach Pit After Dark? |
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11-19-2009, 06:42 PM
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You're really still trying this hard?
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So, how do you get followers? I've been tweeting for months, updates on FOF, TCY, pretty much everything to do with the company. All I have following me is some chick from Taiwan who wants to sell me diet pills. (I am so going to hell for posting that) |
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11-19-2009, 07:25 PM
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This has to be the first time anyone on this board has called me calm and collected. Last edited by Lathum : 11-19-2009 at 08:04 PM. |
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