ElvenAngel
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(Disclaimer: This did not happen on FF.net. I just want to vent.)
I'm not sure this oughta be here. But it's something that happened and I need to talk about it.
I've often said how I've lost 99% of my hope for humanity and how I'm convinced that modern homo sapiens is a species made up of unmitigated idiots and selfish bastards. And you know what? There's a lot of people out there who prove me right every fucking day.
As usual, I will refrain from mentioning specific names and/or incidents because unlike some dipshits, I'm not looking to rally an army of revenge. They've been reported to appropriate authorities after my patience has really been worn thin, and we'll leave it at that.
So! The other day I was listening to someone gripe about the pricing for the Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase bundles. I agreed; the prices are a bit spicy but I argued that it's a free game after that. There's no stupid monthly fees and shit, and it's probably going to be a much better online game than WoW or whatever. So it's worth it.
And then they turned around and bitched me to hell and back. I oughta shut up, they said, because my stinkin' country (Greece) is to blame for all of this. Apparently some folks in the US and elsewhere have gotten it into their heads that Greece is to blame for the world economy going bonkers. They all assume we're on the brink of disaster and think we're like Syria or some 3rd world country that can't even feed its people.
Listen -- that is all bullshit. We're not doing good, that's the truth of the matter, but we are not about to drag the world into a spiral of collapse. We're not hopeless, and no, it won't do anyone good if we're kicked out of the Euro zone and out of the EU. It won't do anyone jack shit because that's just going to be precedence for other small countries to be bullied out just because their economy is a bit fritty. "We kicked out Greece! Why not Thisotherland too, they're not doing too well economically! Out you go!" Get this in your heads, people of the world: Greece is not your scapegoat so you can ignore the real root of the problem (and it's not my place to tell you what that is). Stop that.
That's not really want I want to say here, though, I just hate ranting about politics, politics bore the crap out of me.
What I want to mostly stand on is what this retard was going on about. I can tolerate most flack about my country (because I dish it out too) but there's just some things that cross the line and get hypocritical. This moron specifically said Greece "should just set itself on fire, like they do every year, and die" and went on a sarcastic tangent about the wildfires that we get and the chaos our dear idiotic youths playing anarchists stir up downtown.
I went and found out some things about this guy, before I prepared my precision F strike for him. So I know what I'm talking about. Like I said, I refrain from involving others in my gripes, so names and Facetube pages are withheld out of courtesy. Just take my word for it.
So here we go.
Listen up, bitch, talking high and mighty from your soapbox. You're talking about things you have absolutely no fucking clue about. You're an underage, living-at-home brat from Santa Monica. You don't know jack shit about the wildfires. You treat them like a fucking joke. I'd love to see you live through something like that. Sure, the US gets wildfires too, nobody's denying that. But get this: The US is a much, much bigger country and the destruction is proportionally smaller. The US can bounce back much better than Greece can from wildfires for a lot of reasons; better firefighting system and better aftermath handling, among other reasons.
But Greece cannot, ok? For Greece those wildfires back in 2007 and 2009 were almost like the earthquake in Japan - an incident that you claimed had moved you and made you all too eager to sympathize with and blabber on about. I'm not asking for your sympathy, just want you to be aware of what a big fat hypocrite you sound like. You don't know what it was like, during the wildfires. Hell, I don't think you know what 'threat' really means, you probably barely know what its like to feel terrified in your own home.
You will never know what it was like to wake up one morning and find that the world around you is turning into a fucking inferno. You won't open your window to see a wall of sooty smoke closing in like a wicked kid with a pillow looking to smother you. You won't get a panicked phonecall from your parents, who are out of town for the week, screaming at you to get the fuck out of the house because the suburb is burning. You won't run around the house in a blind panic trying to gather some necessities for fleeing. You won't step outside and see the fire raging just 500 meters away from your doorstep. You won't hear your panicked neighbors shouting that three houses have already gone up in flames up the block. You won't ditch what you're doing and run up the street to help put out some blazes and practically carry an old granny and her grandkid away from the smoke because she can't walk. You don't have to cry because the smell of burning resin and burning pine makes you realize that the forested mountain you live on and love is GONE. You won't watch rookie firefighters cry in fright as they try to get a dodgy water hydrant to work and you won't mingle with them to help. You won't feel the smoke and ashes choking you. You won't find yourself planted in your front yard, holding a pathetic garden hose, staring at the fires getting closer and closer and quaking in your sandals because you are alone and you don't want to abandon your home to the fire because it's all you and your family have. You don't have to live with the nightmares of walls of fire, burning pines and burning houses to this day.
You, my friend, cannot even begin to understand how bad this was for all of us. And you can't begin to understand how insulting you're being to the people who died trying to stop these fires. You can't, because you're a sheltered little moron who thinks a fucking video game is the most important thing ever and you're willing to put down an entire country you know nothing about for it.
Have a good day and fuck you too.
I'm not sure this oughta be here. But it's something that happened and I need to talk about it.
I've often said how I've lost 99% of my hope for humanity and how I'm convinced that modern homo sapiens is a species made up of unmitigated idiots and selfish bastards. And you know what? There's a lot of people out there who prove me right every fucking day.
As usual, I will refrain from mentioning specific names and/or incidents because unlike some dipshits, I'm not looking to rally an army of revenge. They've been reported to appropriate authorities after my patience has really been worn thin, and we'll leave it at that.
So! The other day I was listening to someone gripe about the pricing for the Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase bundles. I agreed; the prices are a bit spicy but I argued that it's a free game after that. There's no stupid monthly fees and shit, and it's probably going to be a much better online game than WoW or whatever. So it's worth it.
And then they turned around and bitched me to hell and back. I oughta shut up, they said, because my stinkin' country (Greece) is to blame for all of this. Apparently some folks in the US and elsewhere have gotten it into their heads that Greece is to blame for the world economy going bonkers. They all assume we're on the brink of disaster and think we're like Syria or some 3rd world country that can't even feed its people.
Listen -- that is all bullshit. We're not doing good, that's the truth of the matter, but we are not about to drag the world into a spiral of collapse. We're not hopeless, and no, it won't do anyone good if we're kicked out of the Euro zone and out of the EU. It won't do anyone jack shit because that's just going to be precedence for other small countries to be bullied out just because their economy is a bit fritty. "We kicked out Greece! Why not Thisotherland too, they're not doing too well economically! Out you go!" Get this in your heads, people of the world: Greece is not your scapegoat so you can ignore the real root of the problem (and it's not my place to tell you what that is). Stop that.
That's not really want I want to say here, though, I just hate ranting about politics, politics bore the crap out of me.
What I want to mostly stand on is what this retard was going on about. I can tolerate most flack about my country (because I dish it out too) but there's just some things that cross the line and get hypocritical. This moron specifically said Greece "should just set itself on fire, like they do every year, and die" and went on a sarcastic tangent about the wildfires that we get and the chaos our dear idiotic youths playing anarchists stir up downtown.
I went and found out some things about this guy, before I prepared my precision F strike for him. So I know what I'm talking about. Like I said, I refrain from involving others in my gripes, so names and Facetube pages are withheld out of courtesy. Just take my word for it.
So here we go.
Listen up, bitch, talking high and mighty from your soapbox. You're talking about things you have absolutely no fucking clue about. You're an underage, living-at-home brat from Santa Monica. You don't know jack shit about the wildfires. You treat them like a fucking joke. I'd love to see you live through something like that. Sure, the US gets wildfires too, nobody's denying that. But get this: The US is a much, much bigger country and the destruction is proportionally smaller. The US can bounce back much better than Greece can from wildfires for a lot of reasons; better firefighting system and better aftermath handling, among other reasons.
But Greece cannot, ok? For Greece those wildfires back in 2007 and 2009 were almost like the earthquake in Japan - an incident that you claimed had moved you and made you all too eager to sympathize with and blabber on about. I'm not asking for your sympathy, just want you to be aware of what a big fat hypocrite you sound like. You don't know what it was like, during the wildfires. Hell, I don't think you know what 'threat' really means, you probably barely know what its like to feel terrified in your own home.
You will never know what it was like to wake up one morning and find that the world around you is turning into a fucking inferno. You won't open your window to see a wall of sooty smoke closing in like a wicked kid with a pillow looking to smother you. You won't get a panicked phonecall from your parents, who are out of town for the week, screaming at you to get the fuck out of the house because the suburb is burning. You won't run around the house in a blind panic trying to gather some necessities for fleeing. You won't step outside and see the fire raging just 500 meters away from your doorstep. You won't hear your panicked neighbors shouting that three houses have already gone up in flames up the block. You won't ditch what you're doing and run up the street to help put out some blazes and practically carry an old granny and her grandkid away from the smoke because she can't walk. You don't have to cry because the smell of burning resin and burning pine makes you realize that the forested mountain you live on and love is GONE. You won't watch rookie firefighters cry in fright as they try to get a dodgy water hydrant to work and you won't mingle with them to help. You won't feel the smoke and ashes choking you. You won't find yourself planted in your front yard, holding a pathetic garden hose, staring at the fires getting closer and closer and quaking in your sandals because you are alone and you don't want to abandon your home to the fire because it's all you and your family have. You don't have to live with the nightmares of walls of fire, burning pines and burning houses to this day.
You, my friend, cannot even begin to understand how bad this was for all of us. And you can't begin to understand how insulting you're being to the people who died trying to stop these fires. You can't, because you're a sheltered little moron who thinks a fucking video game is the most important thing ever and you're willing to put down an entire country you know nothing about for it.
Have a good day and fuck you too.
I was just raised in a dual-language household and I studied English Literature in an American college based in Greece. I know my stuff, in English at least. XD
i dont mean to downplay it, but the internet has so many stupid people on it. try not to give every last one of them adequate attention.
