[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:It almost seems to me there're more Nintendo haters (and Nintendo fan haters) than there are Nintendo fans. That's the perception I have on the internet.

In real life, I don't think I've met an example of either in the last 10 years.

I wonder if kids still argue about consoles/computers. The C64 v Spectrum and Sega v Nintendo wars at school were always fun.

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Nibble wrote:When it transpires that someone you like or admire - be it a celebrity, artist or regular old commoner - is in fact a Tory. Fortunately, this has never happened thus far but I'd imagine it would be pretty annoying.

Try and remember there's a reason people believe in Tory policies, and treating them like they're evil because they feel differently to you helps no one.

That reason being "they're a banana split". strawberry float them.

Or they've had a shitty upbringing which makes them unable to empathise with people.

People are always banana splits for a reason.

Either way treating them like an equal and talking to them will help them see your point of view.

Calling them banana splits is just going to drive them further to the right, put their defences up and make you look like the enemy.

But I guess that's online discourse 101 these days.

Why the strawberry float would I be nice to people who will quite happily watch people die just because they're poorer, or not white enough? I don't want them to see my point of view. I want them to strawberry float off.

That exact frame of mind is why political discourse is practically non existent these days and why the conservatives keep getting elected.

How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

Everybody thinks they're the good guy, very few people are evil on purpose.

It's weird that we can acknowledge that a lot of criminals are like they are because they grew up in poverty or had abusive parents but we can't find that same level understanding when someone votes differently to us

Fade wrote:How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

I expect them to stop being banana splits, and by extension, stop voting conservative. Why is it my responsbility for them being utterly irredeemable banana splits? "On no, MCN was mean to me, guess I'd better keep voting for disabled people to die". strawberry float. Them. All. I want them to strawberry floating disappear.

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Fade wrote:How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

I expect them to stop being banana splits, and by extension, stop voting conservative. Why is it my responsbility for them being utterly irredeemable banana splits? "On no, MCN was mean to me, guess I'd better keep voting for disabled people to die". strawberry float. Them. All. I want them to strawberry floating disappear.

I'm sure being nice to the Tories will help them see the error of their ways.

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Fade wrote:How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

I expect them to stop being banana splits, and by extension, stop voting conservative. Why is it my responsbility for them being utterly irredeemable banana splits? "On no, MCN was mean to me, guess I'd better keep voting for disabled people to die". strawberry float. Them. All. I want them to strawberry floating disappear.

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Nibble wrote:When it transpires that someone you like or admire - be it a celebrity, artist or regular old commoner - is in fact a Tory. Fortunately, this has never happened thus far but I'd imagine it would be pretty annoying.

Try and remember there's a reason people believe in Tory policies, and treating them like they're evil because they feel differently to you helps no one.

That reason being "they're a banana split". strawberry float them.

Or they've had a shitty upbringing which makes them unable to empathise with people.

People are always banana splits for a reason.

Either way treating them like an equal and talking to them will help them see your point of view.

Calling them banana splits is just going to drive them further to the right, put their defences up and make you look like the enemy.

But I guess that's online discourse 101 these days.

Why the strawberry float would I be nice to people who will quite happily watch people die just because they're poorer, or not white enough? I don't want them to see my point of view. I want them to strawberry float off.

That exact frame of mind is why political discourse is practically non existent these days and why the conservatives keep getting elected.

How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

Everybody thinks they're the good guy, very few people are evil on purpose.

It's weird that we can acknowledge that a lot of criminals are like they are because they grew up in poverty or had abusive parents but we can't find that same level understanding when someone votes differently to us

the difference between the last example and everything else being discussed is that the absolute bastards who vote tory have agency. they choose to vote tory of their own volition. well, they also vote tory because of the huge newspaper propaganda and left-smearing machine and because labour is a strawberry floating joke.

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Fade wrote:How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

I expect them to stop being banana splits, and by extension, stop voting conservative. Why is it my responsbility for them being utterly irredeemable banana splits? "On no, MCN was mean to me, guess I'd better keep voting for disabled people to die". strawberry float. Them. All. I want them to strawberry floating disappear.

being nice to tories makes them think they're doing something right. being nasty to tories makes them think they're under attack for being right.

on the other hand - a machine gun nest

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Fade wrote:How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

I expect them to stop being banana splits, and by extension, stop voting conservative. Why is it my responsbility for them being utterly irredeemable banana splits? "On no, MCN was mean to me, guess I'd better keep voting for disabled people to die". strawberry float. Them. All. I want them to strawberry floating disappear.

being nice to tories makes them think they're doing something right. being nasty to tories makes them think they're under attack for being right.

on the other hand - a machine gun nest

Im not saying massage their feet, I'm just saying talk to them like they're your equal rather than treating them like they're the scum of the earth. That's the only way people are going to listen to your point of view and not be on the defensive.

Every single person has been through a different journey and we have no idea why they feel or vote the way they do. The only way to find out and potentially change that is having a calm discussion with them.

Calling people who vote differently to you banana splits etc is the equivalent of yelling at a stranger in the street because they have a different football shirt on to you. It's monkey level tribalism.

I'm struggling to think of many examples of the left being understanding of the right that ended up in masses of people switching sides.

If people stop being mean about Tories, are people going to switch sides? Will the Tories move the Overton window back towards the centre if Labour start talking about it not being the Tories fault that they are selfish?

I don't think calling Tories banana splits helps. But it doesn't hinder either. Nobody votes for the Tories because they saw somebody online call a Tory a banana split.

I don't buy the football team comparison.

The only indication you get from someone supporting a different team is usually where they grew up. (Insert obvious joke about Man Utd fans here.)

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Fade wrote:How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

I expect them to stop being banana splits, and by extension, stop voting conservative. Why is it my responsbility for them being utterly irredeemable banana splits? "On no, MCN was mean to me, guess I'd better keep voting for disabled people to die". strawberry float. Them. All. I want them to strawberry floating disappear.

being nice to tories makes them think they're doing something right. being nasty to tories makes them think they're under attack for being right.

on the other hand - a machine gun nest

Im not saying massage their feet, I'm just saying talk to them like they're your equal rather than treating them like they're the scum of the earth. That's the only way people are going to listen to your point of view and not be on the defensive.

Every single person has been through a different journey and we have no idea why they feel or vote the way they do. The only way to find out and potentially change that is having a calm discussion with them.

Calling people who vote differently to you banana splits etc is the equivalent of yelling at a stranger in the street because they have a different football shirt on to you. It's monkey level tribalism.

That comparison doesn't work, fans of other football teams aren't destroying the country

Fade wrote:Calling people who vote differently to you banana splits etc is the equivalent of yelling at a stranger in the street because they have a different football shirt on to you. It's monkey level tribalism.

Newcastle supporters kill relatively few disabled and vulnerable people.

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Fade wrote:Calling people who vote differently to you banana splits etc is the equivalent of yelling at a stranger in the street because they have a different football shirt on to you. It's monkey level tribalism.

Newcastle supporters kill relatively few disabled and vulnerable people.

They punch more horses though.

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Fade wrote:How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

I expect them to stop being banana splits, and by extension, stop voting conservative. Why is it my responsbility for them being utterly irredeemable banana splits? "On no, MCN was mean to me, guess I'd better keep voting for disabled people to die". strawberry float. Them. All. I want them to strawberry floating disappear.

being nice to tories makes them think they're doing something right. being nasty to tories makes them think they're under attack for being right.

on the other hand - a machine gun nest

Im not saying massage their feet, I'm just saying talk to them like they're your equal rather than treating them like they're the scum of the earth. That's the only way people are going to listen to your point of view and not be on the defensive.

Every single person has been through a different journey and we have no idea why they feel or vote the way they do. The only way to find out and potentially change that is having a calm discussion with them.

Calling people who vote differently to you banana splits etc is the equivalent of yelling at a stranger in the street because they have a different football shirt on to you. It's monkey level tribalism.

That comparison doesn't work, fans of other football teams aren't destroying the country

Right, if you take it literally instead of as an analogy (as intended).

But the rest of what I said makes sense. Being unwilling to talk to the 'other side' is just digging yourself a bigger hole.

Thankfully that's what everyone took away from what I said right? Not just taking jabs at an analogy they didn't like, and ignoring the rest of my post

People who vote conservative because they're scared and need a scapegoat also aren't destroying the country (in their eyes) so to treat them as such benefits no one.

Ok fade, who do you know that votes Conservative?

I did once convince a Tory voter to switch her vote. I put it down to the fact that she was already left leaning and voted Tory because her family voted Tory more than me being amazingly convincing. I'm still surprised how far left she swung though. I know it upset some of her family.

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Zilnad wrote:It annoys me when I think I've finished wiping, I go for one final wipe and the paper is covered in gooseberry fool. Like, where did it come from? Is there more? I thought I was clean. Oh God, do I need to have a shower. Is it on my clothes? Oh no.

I see you're fully embracing the Tragic Magic in you now you've come out the closet

It's what gave away my identity to Cuttooth. Talking about shitting while on the phone to my old boss

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Fade wrote:How exactly do you expect people to stop voting conservative if you're just going to call them banana splits and tell them to strawberry float off? All it does is help keep them in power.

I expect them to stop being banana splits, and by extension, stop voting conservative. Why is it my responsbility for them being utterly irredeemable banana splits? "On no, MCN was mean to me, guess I'd better keep voting for disabled people to die". strawberry float. Them. All. I want them to strawberry floating disappear.

being nice to tories makes them think they're doing something right. being nasty to tories makes them think they're under attack for being right.

on the other hand - a machine gun nest

Im not saying massage their feet, I'm just saying talk to them like they're your equal rather than treating them like they're the scum of the earth. That's the only way people are going to listen to your point of view and not be on the defensive.

Every single person has been through a different journey and we have no idea why they feel or vote the way they do. The only way to find out and potentially change that is having a calm discussion with them.

Calling people who vote differently to you banana splits etc is the equivalent of yelling at a stranger in the street because they have a different football shirt on to you. It's monkey level tribalism.

That comparison doesn't work, fans of other football teams aren't destroying the country

Right, if you take it literally instead of as an analogy (as intended).

But the rest of what I said makes sense. Being unwilling to talk to the 'other side' is just digging yourself a bigger hole.

Thankfully that's what everyone took away from what I said right? Not just taking jabs at an analogy they didn't like, and ignoring the rest of my post

People who vote conservative because they're scared and need a scapegoat also aren't destroying the country (in their eyes) so to treat them as such benefits no one.

nah. I'm gonna call them banana splits.

Chin mask strawberry floaters. I'd respect you more if you'd actually stop being a sneaky strawberry float to get on the train.