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Re: This is cool!
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:24:28 GMT
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ACTUALLY.... the majority of 'your site sucks' messages that i've been getting
have been from immature, prepubescent twerps who get their jollies from
bringing other people down. In fact, i got messaged from this one 19 year old
last night, who said he wanted me to tell him what my story was about, because
he didn't want to read the three or so pages that were there. On top of that,
he didn't know what the word 'knight' was, or even how to begin to pronounce
it. And yes, i asked, hes a product of the United States public school system.
Heavy sigh
In lugnet.general, Mark Sandlin writes:
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> > From: "Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net>
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> >
> > Huh. I haven't gotten any of those. I have gotten plenty of people that
> > don't
> > understand, or give the kind of condescending "oh, isn't that nice" • response.
> > The latter is infuriating to me, and I just stop discussing it with them and
> > move on to other topics (which might mean that some of them are really ADOLs
> > that I haven't taken the time to unmask). The others usually end up • thinking
> > it's pretty cool, even if it isn't for them. Sometimes they will offer me
> > their old childhood sets, sometimes they will tell me that they went home • and
> > pulled out their old sets (at which point I'll offer-usually unsuccessfully-
> > to
> > buy them) and sometimes they'll express a desire to play with my Lego a bit.
> > But usually it turns out in a positive way.
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> I've received a few smirks from co-workers as they've looked at my site, but
> they generally think it's pretty cool what I've been able to do. As for the
> "waste of time" remarks, it's no more a waste of time than people who sit on
> the couch all day on weekends to watch a sports game (acceptable "adult"
> behavior)... and when I'm done building, I have something to show for it.
>
> I think a lot of these remarks are generated by people who are too insecure
> to attempt to be different from the status quo, so they go along with what's
> considered "adult" behavior. Putting down so-called "kid stuff" is part of
> justifying to themselves that they're better, or something. I don't really
> understand it, but I think that's basically how it works.
>
> At any rate, I do what I enjoy, and if someone think's it's stupid, I really
> don't give a brick.
>
> Happy Building!
>
> ~Mark
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| (...) I've received a few smirks from co-workers as they've looked at my site, but they generally think it's pretty cool what I've been able to do. As for the "waste of time" remarks, it's no more a waste of time than people who sit on the couch (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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