SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!

[apple_pathways]

I need to just back away from the internets tonight. Everywhere I turn, someone is Wrong and Needs to Be Told.

For one thing, I need to stay away from anon memes. It's all fun and games when it's LOLcats and "Which Doctor would you shag?", but then someone has to go and say Amy Pond has poor characterization. I mean...what? Of all the criticisms I've heard of Series 5 in general and Amy in particular, poor characterization? What? What? You keep using that word: I do not think it means what you think it means.

Also: people are allowed to enjoy whatever television programs they want, right?

*sigh* I have started, and then (wisely) backed away from so many replies tonight...

Comments

[curlybeach.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I have been having SERIOUS issues with Internet restraint of late. While it is flawed, I have a great fondness for the UK's Guardian newspaper (ah, I am a misty-eyed lefty in so many ways ...), but the comments sections are always trolling idiots just looking for a rise from commenters by posting offensive and provoking dribble about issues like rape, abortion, race, etc. Thing is, I know they're trolling, but ugh I get so angry and draft comments back before realising there really are better things to do than to get tangled up in a debate, which is just what they want in the first place. But WHYYYY can I not just ignore it?! Sigh.

(hello, by the way - I've been internet-absent for a while so I apologise for the many backdated comments!)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

No worries! Hello to you. :D

The truly obvious trolls I'm usually able to avoid--it's the ones that make a pretense at rational discussion that always suck me in! I start off thinking, "Now, here's an interesting discussion I could have..." and then BAM! Here comes the vitriol and bile...

I draft so many comments that I just end up backspacing on! It's just not worth getting sucked in.