The rise and fall of common courtesy

[NorDog]

It wasn't this guy, was it?

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=36272.0

[zarn02]

Manners, etiquette, and general rules for societal interactions have been undergoing quite a pounding in the last 40 years and it's had numerous implications. I think maybe as the means and ubiquity of inter-personal communication has exploded, they've grown beyond the rules society naturally adopts when a peoples deal with one another.

I read an article a few weeks back talking a bit about this.

Email allows us to respond to other people very quickly, and say the first things that come to mind with no real social interaction. Things you wouldn't send in a letter, because you'd have time to think it over, and things you wouldn't say over the phone because you'd have to actually talk to another human being are the things that get said.

[SacDuc]

I read an article a few weeks back talking a bit about this.

Email allows us to respond to other people very quickly, and say the first things that come to mind with no real social interaction. Things you wouldn't send in a letter, because you'd have time to think it over, and things you wouldn't say over the phone because you'd have to actually talk to another human being are the things that get said.

What a crock! You talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.

sac













/ disclaimer stating that this post was made in jest and was intended as humorous
// off to go read the comments on youtube

[ducpainter]

What happens when something that is intended as humorous...

isn't?   

[SacDuc]

What happens when something that is intended as humorous...

isn't?   

I get scolded is usually what happens. 

sac



/that was a quote from the movie Idiocracy by the way

[djrashonal]

It wasn't this guy, was it?

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=36272.0

Haha, no it wasnt him.

/that was a quote from the movie Idiocracy by the way

That movie is hilarious! "i got my law degree at costco"

[NorDog]

Oh great, now I'm jonesing for some Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator.

[rgramjet]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU!!!

Hm, he might be on to something.....I actually feel a little bit better!



:-)    <--------the ultimate anti-scold insignia.

[lethe]

Oh great, now I'm jonesing for some Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator.

DPs new title as king of these parts should be changed to Beef Supreme.

As for the topic, I feel often like an alien in a strange world as I'll hold the door for people and just generally be friendly towards strangers and they look at me like I'm a lunatic.
Maybe I should start wearing pants.

[Vindingo]

I was just kinda frustrated that members of this board can go out of their was to be nasty, there's no reason for that...

It's not that surprising.  Check out the "Maybe I'm too old" thread or the "Broke up with the GF" thread...plenty of nastiness on the board lately.  Buying a monster doesn't make a person nice, or a decent person.  

I think people take comfort behind their computer screens and wouldn't act they way they do if talking face to face or addressing a group of people.  

[Porsche Monkey]

Man and I thought I had a shitty day.  This guy was just being an ass.  Wtf?  I'm suprised he responded to you at all.  What a dick.

[Preisker]

I'm no where near that polite when I get the dinnertime calls about my credit being in danger because it's late (it's not), or since I'm in bankruptcy, I need their services (because I'm not in bankruptcy).    I go after heritage, race, age, gender, gender assignemts, anything I can think of at the time.    Once I was even online when I got the call, get this, from Tyrone, and from the sound of it, he was in New Delhi.   I googled up Hindi cuss words, and let him have it.    After a while, we both started  laughing, he said he made me learn some Hindi, I told him he made my day. 

[superjohn]

I'm no where near that polite when I get the dinnertime calls about my credit being in danger because it's late (it's not), or since I'm in bankruptcy, I need their services (because I'm not in bankruptcy).    I go after heritage, race, age, gender, gender assignemts, anything I can think of at the time.    Once I was even online when I got the call, get this, from Tyrone, and from the sound of it, he was in New Delhi.   I googled up Hindi cuss words, and let him have it.    After a while, we both started  laughing, he said he made me learn some Hindi, I told him he made my day. 

Isn't it easier to not answer the phone? Unless I know the caller, I have my calls screened by Mr. Voicemail.

[djrashonal]

I'm no where near that polite when I get the dinnertime calls about my credit being in danger because it's late (it's not), or since I'm in bankruptcy, I need their services (because I'm not in bankruptcy).    I go after heritage, race, age, gender, gender assignemts, anything I can think of at the time.    Once I was even online when I got the call, get this, from Tyrone, and from the sound of it, he was in New Delhi.   I googled up Hindi cuss words, and let him have it.    After a while, we both started  laughing, he said he made me learn some Hindi, I told him he made my day. 

so you're saying that this experience has helped me learn not to "bread" and to be an "ass whole"

[Preisker]

Like I said, it made my day.   And I answer the phone, because if work calls with some time and a half, I'm on it.