Can you beat this?

[fpb]

Proof positive that the wankers actually spend their time looking at my blog for something to wank about.
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1153597.html
note the reference to an anonymouse who apparently makes it its business to signal any time there is something here that it disapproves of.

Just how sad can you get? This is three steps below stalking Uma Thurman - at least she's beautiful.

EDITED IN: I just noticed that in the wanker's confused mind, it actually counts against me that my f-list disagrees with me AND that I allow the people I criticize and their friends to reply. Of course, since I am banned in their domain, I can see their point. They probably imagine that only losers allow anyone to disagree with or criticize them.

Comments

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

These people do spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about you and talking about you. Which is in some cases fine, because you know people often disagree with you, but some of those people are real A-holes (Yeah, I totally went and read some of the comments!).

[fpb.livejournal.com]

One thing I did not notice. The brain-death victim who started the thing actually has the gall to call itself "sock puppeteer". My bewilderment at these... things... simply knows no bounds.

Just tell me that you did not waste your time trying to reply to them, please.

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

Actually, I tried for one person who sounded like a real winner, but I didn't realize that journalfen wouldn't let you use your lj name, and it wouldn't let me post anonymously, so I didn't.

[eliskimo.livejournal.com]

My considered reponse? "Yeah. Whatever." (delivered in the most sarcastic-American-teen voice possible)

I'm going to go read something interesting instead. Or maybe go weed my garden. You know, have a life ... ;)

Cheers!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I tried to tell them the same thing at least twice, but, as we say, nobody is more deaf than the person who does not want to hear. http://fpb.livejournal.com/265751.html
EDITED IN: Sorry, I forgot that you speak Italian. Non c'e' peggior sordo di chi non vuol sentire.

[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

I was rather irritated at the random generalizations about your friends list and how we must all obviously believe in everything you do.

It's a very sad person who has friends with the exact same opinions as him/her.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Thanks. But - as I said to super_pan - please tell me that you did not waste some of your precious time trying to knock some sense into the hollow rocks that pass for heads among that contingent!

To cleanse your mind, go and listen to Gaudeamus Igitur. I posted the link for your benefit among others.

[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

I was going to but then I forgot my journalfen password and decided it wasn't worth it.

It reminds me of ... a lot of communist type songs. Very pretty and uplifting. I wish it was in English though.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It's kind of older than Communism. Like, centuries older - and you are supposed to be a bit drunk when you sing it, which I doubt party leaders would approve of. But I do not doubt that Karl Marx sang it in his student days - he was a good Prussian student, after all!

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

That was what got me too. And yeah, what you said!

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

Admit it - you like the summer madness. It's like the swallows returning to Capistrano - comforting in its predictability. Soon enough we'll all be another year older, and they'll have found other windmills to tilt, and a fresh bunch will be brimming with outrage waiting for Mom and Dad to let them post unsupervised, popping out like ferocious daffodils.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Ferocious daffodils? Methinks a poet lives in you, madame.

Ferocious Daffodils, nothing worse!

[stigandnasty919.livejournal.com]

Nothing poetic about ferocious daffodils! Wordsworth, what did he know?

Don’t talk to me about daffodils; I spent much of my youth in battle with the revolting beasts. Horrible yellow and white things! But it was the ones with the nasty red and pink cups that I hated most, along with those one or two which were nearly lilac, or said they were. All spring they’d sit, sneering at you.

“We’re going to London, we’re going to London!”

And they did, thousands of them in long tin boxes, off they went to the Royal Horticultural Society Spring Flower show with my parents, leaving me at home to go to school – and usually on my birthday too.

Me? The one who helped plant them in September, then dug them up again in July before spending August cleaning the soil and dead skin layers from them before packing them of to other exotic places I’d not be visiting – like California, or New Zealand or Latvia.

Don’t talk to me about daffodils!

(To explain that little outburst, my father ran a Daffodil breeding business for many years).

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

Another member for the "I tried to make FPB laugh and damned well succeeded" club! Thank you.

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[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

*shudder*

Totally random comment, but I hate flowers. And your comment of moving daffodils is weirdly reminding me of triffids.

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

You are odd.

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[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

Oh shush. That's why people like me!

Besides, if you had read The Day of the Triffids when you were nine and had this giant purple tulip in the front yard that was about the size of your head... you might think differently! Although, I'm pretty positive Triffids don't look like tulips, both things creeped me out. My worst nightmare is that someday, I'll have to walk through a field of sunflowers.

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

I didn't - in fact, I still haven't. However, John Wyndham was indirectly responsible for one of the great scares of my childhood, too - The Midwich Cuckoos/Village of the Damned, which scared me to death when I was about ten.

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[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that one actually. I suddenly don't want to. I'm not sure that I want something else to be terrified of. :p

His writing really isn't that good, but damn it's evocative!

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

...in other words, it's not good, but it's good... 8-)

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[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, something like that.

Have you read The Chrysalids? I think I have, but I don't remember it at all.

[stigandnasty919.livejournal.com]

These guys have a strange idea of what an f-list is. It is not a list of friends in any conventional sense. It is a list of people who say things you want to read. They may be friends, they may be people you dislike, in most cases they are people you really don’t know.

But even if we accept the idea of an f-list as a list of friends, it also strikes me as odd that they seem to believe that it is not possible to have a friend with whom you disagree, often quite fundamentally. I think the only thing we have agreed on so far is that the discussion of opposing perspectives is enjoyable and probably useful in keeping your mind active. (I'm overstating things a little but you know what I am getting at)

I do find it quite distasteful that their thread exists where it does. If they had something to say, they should have addressed it to you directly, not indulged in this type of school-yard sniggering. I did not realise they were doing it behind a ban, so that you could not answer them – if you had wanted to. If that is true then that is a little pathetic.

You know that I thought you were wrong to take offence at the passage in question, and you are prone to hyperbole and the use of strong language, or at least phrasing. But the most important thing, from my perspective, was that while you were stating your opinion, robustly and without equivocation, you were not asking for any action to be taken against the work in question. You specifically said that you did not want the fiction to be banned or removed. And, to be fair, the author said the same about your comments. That was, to my view, a civilised and reasonable way for each of you to react. The sniping from the sidelines that you have linked to in this thread was irritating and childish.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You are an idealist. These people have had it in for me for the last five years. Believe me, they have had nothing to say that I have not answered in kind and pretty effectively - why do you think I am banned? But thanks anyway.

My socks are not puppets

[norwyn.livejournal.com]

You mean we are supposed to have our own opinions????

CRAP.

I'm an American citizen, dammit. I think what you think. Or what I read most recently. I can read, you know.

Great.

I would have stayed away from here had I known that I had to think for myself and not agree with everything you say.

And by the way, thanks to your lj, I now fear my daffodills.

Of course, I'm kidding...well, except for the daffodill part... :D rofl!