Saturday 27 August 2005

Silence is golden

I was going to write about something else today, but it'll keep and can join the list of stuff I want to gripe about in the near future.

I have a need – born of frustration – that is more pressing.

I need to slap people who rush to comment on what other people have said or written – in real life and on the Web – without making sure they have the back story first. They have a skewed view of the situation and therefore, contrary to what they think, cannot have anything relevant to contribute. And if you have nothing relevant to contribute you should shut up. That’s what I was told when I was a child, anyway. It would save everyone time and energy: one wouldn’t have to tell them where they went wrong, and explain the whys and the wherefores…. And, after they’ve acquired the correct information and been able to look at the whole picture, do they change their minds? Very often they don’t because the harm’s been done: what remains in their heads is what they thought in the first place, however wrong that was.


Think back…. Yes, that time, when so and so…. Exactly! They should have kept quiet instead of shooting their mouths off!

11 comments:

  1. Look, no one dares comment on this post!!!!!!!

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  2. That's because silence is golden. LOL!

    Actually, someone did - a troll, an anonymous coward. But I zapped them into the ether: they had nothing relevant to say.

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  3. Hello Bella, from across the big pond, thanks for visiting my Blog, you are my first European visitor,,, sorry I don't have any cool gifts to hand out.... just a visit to your blog in return.
    I agree that people who comment/talk just to see their words printed or hear their own voices is very annoying. I will try not to do that here! Again thanks for the visit. Hope all is well with you and yours.

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  4. I have the feeling I'm missing out on some hot MUA gossip. I feel very out of the loop! Oh well.

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  5. Thank you, Scott! You're most welcome. Hope you're well too. Please comment as much as you like. :-)

    Kate, you haven't missed anything. I just needed to vent about a couple of people who were getting on my nerves. The troll was definitely from MUA, though.

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  6. I rushed to check the comments to see if there was juicy backstory in here. But there isn't, so I don't know what's going on. And yet I still comment. Slap me quick!

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  7. ROTFL! I'm certainly not going to enlighten you, Tania. As for slapping you... I'm considering it.

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  8. Another nosey parker checking in, LOL! Slap away...

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  9. You're all so funny! Love you! Mwah!

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  10. i've never been on MUA, so it can't be me [casts eyes over both shoulders to look for shiny knife]

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  11. I never thought, for one second, that it might be you, UC. No worries. :-)

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