Epiphany (that spelled right?)
tech nerds have shitty social skills.
It is not me who is being hypersensitive to others. I am just normaly reacting to insensitive off the wall remarks that have a total disregard for respect.
i was walking down the dark halls of IBM today and I meet a person i have met along the way. I am wearing a t-shirt with a hand drawn doodle by Ian mckellen of gandalf. He say out of the ether, possibly taken from the stupidity dimention something like "crazy picture of a guy". And, assuming that most nerds have seen Lord of the Rings i say "dont you recognize him?". He says no. I say "haven't you seen lord of the rings?".
now lets stop for a second.....
a normal person with a lick of correct social behavior would say something like "oh" or "no i have not seen lord of the rings"
a person with a lack of social skills such as this idiot tech nerd goes on about how he has refused to see LotR because they forced him to read the book in school which he believed to be "mindeless dribble".
thats fine. one can have an opinion. but to randomly tell a person who is WEARING a Gandalf t-shirt that they think it is all mindless dribble is FUCKING uncalled for.
you see i would bet you that dude from the movie "falling down" had some similar encounter before he got laid off and started his rampage though LA.
I had to learn alot of social skills growing up when i was a kid. I was an only kid and interacted most of my life with adults. Friends of my dad's at harvard. International friends. And lived in another country, and did time in the Guard. and lived all up and down the east coast. I never lived in once place for more than two years until i came to NC. And then I lived in the International dorm. So i consider myself well socialized. Yet i pic a career that is so god damn anti-social. A career with a genre of people who behind the anonymity of IM and email show total lack of decorum online and thus have not learned the correct social skills for real life encounters.
a career that takes the online tech computer nerd and mixed with the arrogance of engineers.
I sometimes regret what the internet and the digital cyberworld has done to americans. Back in the days, neighbors used to hang out and have cookouts and interact socially with each other and have really cool halloweens and stuff like that. now they are all locked in at home, online engaging in anti-social behaviour such as flaming and expressing thier opinions when no one asked.
so, i am ranting...i should stop.
summary: poor real life socal attitude is caused by lack of practice. Frequenly having a shitty online attitudes show in one's real life interactions with people.
Real life conversations are not anonymous chat room conversations and one should remember to now when to STFU.
(funny thing is, i dont even read what i say in these journals, i am going to hate comming back to what i wrote)
tech nerds have shitty social skills.
It is not me who is being hypersensitive to others. I am just normaly reacting to insensitive off the wall remarks that have a total disregard for respect.
i was walking down the dark halls of IBM today and I meet a person i have met along the way. I am wearing a t-shirt with a hand drawn doodle by Ian mckellen of gandalf. He say out of the ether, possibly taken from the stupidity dimention something like "crazy picture of a guy". And, assuming that most nerds have seen Lord of the Rings i say "dont you recognize him?". He says no. I say "haven't you seen lord of the rings?".
now lets stop for a second.....
a normal person with a lick of correct social behavior would say something like "oh" or "no i have not seen lord of the rings"
a person with a lack of social skills such as this idiot tech nerd goes on about how he has refused to see LotR because they forced him to read the book in school which he believed to be "mindeless dribble".
thats fine. one can have an opinion. but to randomly tell a person who is WEARING a Gandalf t-shirt that they think it is all mindless dribble is FUCKING uncalled for.
you see i would bet you that dude from the movie "falling down" had some similar encounter before he got laid off and started his rampage though LA.
I had to learn alot of social skills growing up when i was a kid. I was an only kid and interacted most of my life with adults. Friends of my dad's at harvard. International friends. And lived in another country, and did time in the Guard. and lived all up and down the east coast. I never lived in once place for more than two years until i came to NC. And then I lived in the International dorm. So i consider myself well socialized. Yet i pic a career that is so god damn anti-social. A career with a genre of people who behind the anonymity of IM and email show total lack of decorum online and thus have not learned the correct social skills for real life encounters.
a career that takes the online tech computer nerd and mixed with the arrogance of engineers.
I sometimes regret what the internet and the digital cyberworld has done to americans. Back in the days, neighbors used to hang out and have cookouts and interact socially with each other and have really cool halloweens and stuff like that. now they are all locked in at home, online engaging in anti-social behaviour such as flaming and expressing thier opinions when no one asked.
so, i am ranting...i should stop.
summary: poor real life socal attitude is caused by lack of practice. Frequenly having a shitty online attitudes show in one's real life interactions with people.
Real life conversations are not anonymous chat room conversations and one should remember to now when to STFU.
(funny thing is, i dont even read what i say in these journals, i am going to hate comming back to what i wrote)
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the bouncing boobs are getting old an not less distrubing.