Jump to content

TheMercedesGuy

Members
  • Posts

    28
  • Joined

  • Last visited

6 Followers

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Not Telling

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

TheMercedesGuy's Achievements

  1. FACT! (I didn't have anything to contribute, but I did want to compliment the factual-ness of your stated fact.)
  2. ^ Agreed. Even if you just want to howl in the darkness, I'll listen.
  3. Sir, I wish I had words that would make the pain go away. I don't. and I'm sorry. If I can offer anything, it is just: The first step is functional, nothing more, nothing less. No matter what, you have to be functional for whatever comes next. The questions and the answers don't matter today, tomorrow, or a week from now. They will still be there. Left-foot, Right-foot, keep moving. I wish you peace, sir.
  4. Well, if there was ever a thing I'd like to /lurk for, it is this. Ms. Maebh17, I'm so sorry this happened to you. It's sad and despicable how some pathetic people conduct themselves, with no care or consideration to the actual people they are hurting. I wish I could do something to fix it, but sadly all I can offer is empathy. Thank you for the content you posted, and I wish nothing but the best for you and your family in the future. [lurk]
  5. Oddly enough, I get referred to as "TheMercedesGuy" in real life as well. Huh. I would submit to you that you are looking for something in the wrong place. There is no such thing as a deep, meaningful relationship, formed in a bar. They aren't friends, at least not in the sense I would consider a friend. At best the bar people are distractions, and diversions. Maybe there's an exception that proves the rule, but I haven't seen it yet. The last thing I would like to touch on is Mob-mentality. Found in copious quantities, in both the bar, and Mod. Soc. A person is smart, flexible and capable of considered thought. People are stupid sheep, bleating noisily to hear themselves. Meaning what you say, and Saying what you mean have very, very little place in a Mob. I kinda think you might be looking for something you can't find in a group. Jeez, re-reading that I went really dark, and I didn't intend to. Meh, I'll leave it be. I guess I will try to sum up, and keep it a little more on point-- I wholeheartedly agree with you, the waves of "isms" sweeping both out respective countries are for sure a concern. But I also recognize that facespace, et all are not reflective of real people. Were you to meet one of the unfrienders IRL, I'm willing to bet they would be very polite, and willing to listen to your point of view over a coffee. As long as they're sober, and not surrounded by their 'ism" spewing 'friends.' In 5 years there will be something new, and we'll remember Facebook like we remember MySpace. and then the sheep will ruin that too. --Vince
  6. Mr. Doke: First and foremost, a most heart-felt thank-you for your time and effort around these parts, and also, thank-you for your service. I don't know that we've ever spoke, as I mainly confine myself to lurking. Not out of any malice, or ill-will. I just usually have nothing to say that hasn't already been said, or could be said better by someone other than me. There's something I'd like to point out to you, regarding your objections to IFGW, Tumblr, et all. Social media is not representative of the world in general. In reality, social media in more representative of the neighbourhood bar, back in the old days, when you and I got out of high-school. You know-- Dress up in the shit that makes you feel good about yourself, pose for the OpSex, crow loudly about your accomlishments, and berate those who impinge on your awesomeness. And let me illustrate some of the characters: We all remember the little church-mouse who when she gets a couple of drinks in her is dancing on the tables and stripping. And we all remember that asshole who couldn't hold his drink, and wants to fight everybody. Usually some Half-pint little shit, who's all talk and starts crying when you punch him in the face. There's guys like me, who just want to escape reality for a little while, There's even bouncers and bartenders. It's the bar only bigger, with more faceless losers whom you will never see or hear from again. And in reality, they don't make a damned ounce of difference in your real life. You might meet someone at the bar whom you truly connect with, and invite them into your world. But they aren't significant until they are part of your world, and part of the 5 or 6 people that you hold dear to you. Even then, they might go dance with someone else for a while. I'm sure one of the next posters, will trot out that trite old phrase, "A drunk man speaks a sober man's mind." and I'll counter with, "Nope! A drunk man *exaggerates* a sober man's mind." and this is exactly what we see on social media. We all get a little drunk having some anonymity, a voice, and maybe some others who agree with us, maybe even a touch of mob-mentality, and we become caricatures of our real selves. Just like the bar, Just like social media in general. I think a large part of what you are seeing is distorted through the lense of social media drunkeness. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm just a mechanic. Don't worry about it. They'll sober up and go to work in the morning. If not, then they're alcoholics. (And nobody takes alky's too seriously.) It's not the world, It's just Friday night at the bar.
  7. Maybe Ayumi would come back if us lurkers would promise to stop lurking?
  8. Doesn't everyone? Myself, I'm a lot like Nickelback, in that I have nothing to say. In an ideal world, everyone should do what they're best at, henceforth, I lurk.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.