People on Boards who judge other people

andekwarhola

osarusan wrote: »

AH brings out the chronic moaner in people.

What I can't work out is how people get so worked up about other people liking/not liking a particular food/sport/song/place/anything that they try and get them to see that they are wrong.

Why would you even give a f**k what completely anonymous strangers like or don't like.

I keep thinking one day I'll log into AH and every single thread will be a slightly different variant of the Trivial Annoyances thread with the same handful of people fulminating in chorus.

FizzleSticks

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pilly

Permabear wrote:

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They were just examples though. Everyone has made mistakes. Those who say they haven't are lying.

pilly

Murrisk wrote:

I do tend to find that a lot of religious folk are quite brittle and can't stand any criticism of their chosen religion. I think anyone should to be able to withstand some criticism and be able to explain their position. Any criticism of religion results in a big overreaction from some, as if religion should be exempt from criticism.

It depends. You also get the element that tell people they shouldn't believe in any God.

No-one has that right.

Brendan Bendar

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

And a dude none the less. Banned.

:eek:

That didn't end well!!

Permabear

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Arghus

For some it's hard to be tolerant if you don't have to put your real world name to anything you say and if you see boardies as just usernames on a screen rather than actual people.

Pac1Man

Permabear wrote: »

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Scum! Pure scum!

Dammit, I had you as one of the good ones!

Permabear

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hatrickpatrick

I have only one question: Are we allowed to judge people who start sipping Guinness before the surge has finished settling? Because if not, Eddy, you're on your own

Graces7

Permabear wrote: »

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Depends on your definition of "successful"

Graces7

Arghus wrote: »

For some it's hard to be tolerant if you don't have to put your real world name to anything you say and if you see boardies as just usernames on a screen rather than actual people.

and when you take a post in total isolation as if just a voice unattached to a living breathing person. As if all that exists and matters is the few words on the page not the writer.

And if you really enjoy picking on others, because they do not agree with you, the problem is yours not theirs.

This is where cyberbullying starts.

Wibbs

Solomon Pleasant wrote: »

Ireland has built a society which prides itself on material possession (cars/obsessive property ownership being regarded as a fundamental success metric being the perfect example) and one which is innately judgmental as a result. It's not just boards where people judge each other, people judge each other everywhere and at every opportunity they get - people are just generally more vocal about it on boards because it's an anonymous internet forum which won't affect people's views of the poster in reality, therefore granting them the perfect opportunity to voice their actual opinions. I don't think that this is a phenomenon unique to Ireland but it is extremely prominent in Ireland and something which I really dislike about the country.

It's not even close to being unique to Ireland and in my experience such as it is, Ireland is better than many western cultures for it. Certainly on the consumerist judgement front. Like in many areas Ireland and the Irish are very middle of the road and tend to avoid extremes. Which is a Good Thing IMH.

Graces7 wrote:

And if you really enjoy picking on others, because they do not agree with you, the problem is yours not theirs.

This is where cyberbullying starts.

Online bullying and bullies certainly exist and can have terribly damaging real world consequences. I've nuked a few such feeble minded idiots in my time here modding. It's taken very seriously on Boards. However, I have also all too often found that too many of those quick to call it by Danger! catchphrase signalling, are themselves using the term to silence ideas and people they don't agree with and it has nada to do with "bullying". With added irony bypass.

pilly

Wibbs wrote: »

It's not even close to being unique to Ireland and in my experience such as it is, Ireland is better than many western cultures for it. Certainly on the consumerist judgement front. Like in many areas Ireland and the Irish are very middle of the road and tend to avoid extremes. Which is a Good Thing IMH.

Online bullying and bullies certainly exist and can have terribly damaging real world consequences. I've nuked a few such feeble minded idiots in my time here modding. It's taken very seriously on Boards. However, I have also all too often found that too many of those quick to call it by Danger! catchphrase signalling, are themselves using the term to silence ideas and people they don't agree with and it has nada to do with "bullying". With added irony bypass.

I don't agree it's taken very seriously on boards. Far from it.

_Brian

Does it not just reflect normal life though ??

I see wasters hanging around towns and city's and think FFS tidy yourself up, get a job and drag yourself outta the gutter.
I see obease parents with fat kids and think they need a slap and be made look at themselves properly and be made accountable for what they are doing to themselves and their kids.

I'm sure everyone makes judgement on others, admitting it is different.

whoopsadoodles

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I have only one question: Are we allowed to judge people who start sipping Guinness before the surge has finished settling? Because if not, Eddy, you're on your own

There are a set of "rules" in the Merry Ploughboy pub in the Dublin Mountains.

One of them is that you'll be barred if you dare to a sup before it settles.

I fully support this rule and would certainly judge anyone without enough patience to wait that extra minute.

pilly

_Brian wrote: »

Does it not just reflect normal life though ??

I see wasters hanging around towns and city's and think FFS tidy yourself up, get a job and drag yourself outta the gutter.
I see obease parents with fat kids and think they need a slap and be made look at themselves properly and be made accountable for what they are doing to themselves and their kids.

I'm sure everyone makes judgement on others, admitting it is different.

Strangely enough no, that does not reflect normal life.

Majority of people I know don't make such rush judgements as above.

Saying that people need a slap says a lot about a persons personality.

Maximus Alexander

Permabear wrote: »

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Aye, I'd a can of Guinness with dinner at around 19:30 last Sunday, then drove home at about 23:30 and I was still overcome with guilt that I might be drunk.

_Brian

pilly wrote: »

Strangely enough no, that does not reflect normal life.

Majority of people I know don't make such rush judgements as above.

Saying that people need a slap says a lot about a persons personality.

Ok the slap comment is OTT

But, I generally find that people judge others against their own standards.

Be that me judging a "skanger" for not making an effort to better themselves or that same "individual" judging me for being an idiot going to work 40 hours a week when you can get money for free from social welfare.

Equally there are people I look at and see what they achieve and think they are awesome, they seem to achieve so much and seem to get it done so easily.

valoren

There is a lack of rational discourse in AH definitely.

Rarely do you see a case where someone makes an argument, their position on the topic is refuted, with impeccable sources, and the other agrees and changes their viewpoint in a 'Y'know I never looked at it that way' style. Posters have an agenda and the security blanket of anonymity. They are not interested in refutations to their viewpoints. It takes character to admit when you're wrong about anything. You'll never learn, mature, develop without it and you'll resort to surrounding yourself in an environment where other's share your sentiments, where your patently wrong views become even more entrenched.

Permabear

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Widdershins

_Brian wrote: »

Ok the slap comment is OTT

But, I generally find that people judge others against their own standards.

Be that me judging a "skanger" for not making an effort to better themselves or that same "individual" judging me for being an idiot going to work 40 hours a week when you can get money for free from social welfare.

Equally there are people I look at and see what they achieve and think they are awesome, they seem to achieve so much and seem to get it done so easily.

That's one that grinds my gears. My 'anarchist' friends calling working people drones and belittling their lives and routines of getting up, going to work in a car you have a finance arrangement on, and going home to do the same thing the next day. It's essentially saying ''there's nothing good about your life and you're a mindless slave to the system, but look at me, I'm a free spirit'' yet the state is funding their lifestyle choice so they can be a free spirit.

IvyTheTerrible

pilly wrote: »

I don't agree it's taken very seriously on boards. Far from it.

Oh yes it is. Well if you are talking about real bullying and not "Oh the bad man doesn't agree with me so he's a BULLY".

MRnotlob606

Boards basically.

A Little Pony

Eddy you do it on here all the time with the Unionists on here. So this is a bit of kettle black etc.

mzungu

Widdershins wrote: »

That's one that grinds my gears. My 'anarchist' friends calling working people drones and belittling their lives and routines of getting up, going to work in a car you have a finance arrangement on, and going home to do the same thing the next day. It's essentially saying ''there's nothing good about your life and you're a mindless slave to the system, but look at me, I'm a free spirit'' yet the state is funding their lifestyle choice so they can be a free spirit.

That's just youth, I find time tends to inject a bit of sense into such folk. Knew a few people like that when I was younger, they always made me laugh. They were living off the state and claiming to be "independent" and "doing things their own way" whilst droning on about Marx ad nauseam (it escaped them that in a state run on Marxist doctrine they sure wouldn't be sitting on their arses in the lap of luxury). Well, lets just say, they soon found out that once you get past your early twenties you won't have a conveyor belt of people calling over to the house for a party every night of the week. Not surprisingly, all of them over time got jobs and assimilated themselves into the capitalist system quite well. I'm sure Marx is turning in his grave!

IvyTheTerrible

Ok I'm going to say what I think a lot of us are thinking: I judge people who use "folk" instead of people.

/I know, I'm an inhuman monster./

Boards is a bit like the film The purge without the violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purge


Honestly in about 50 years some cultural theorist will be writing about The purge as cultural comment the same way as Invasion of the body snatchers is seen as a cultural comment on 1950s America.

There really are some scary opinion on boards.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I judge people all the time. People judge me too, so what?
I do what I can to make life decent for myself, and have opinions on people i think are wasters. I don't think for a second my judgements are always accurate but they're my opinions, that's all