You all know how rare a new thread from myself is, correct? About 4 months ago, on the forums for the Kingdom of Loathing (a community whose playerbase I respect, for the most part), I made a thread recounting a certain procedure in our college's billiards club that I disagreed with, namely that, for whatever reason, women (even those not in billiards club) were exempt from a $10 entry fee into their tournaments. I paralleled this incident, basically, into an analogous situation in society. After about 40 intelligent replies (some of which agreed with my message, a couple offered counterpoint), somebody went and posted something along the lines of "Why don't you stop whining, and learn to play billiards? Actually, if you're losing to a woman, just kill yourself." ... Not in those exact words, of course; there were plenty of unfounded insults this forum would not allow. Obviously someone didn't read the thread very well. After I explained that he missed the point (in a less than polite, albeit more patient than I could have been tone) and saying what the thread actually meant, he essentially posts the exact same message, in the exact same tone of voice, adding that "I need to do nothing but play billiards until I stop losing to women" after which I exploded, in real life, and broke a watch and almost my hand. I responded with a massive whirling of explitives (obviously the only language he understands) and that essentially killed the thread. WHat irked me is that he was basically telling me I deserved to die because he can't read a thread.
And even if that WERE my message, which it obviously wasn't, apparantly I deserve to die because I can't beat every woman in the world at billiards. I'd like to see how many people deserve to live compared to, say, Allison Fischer. I'd say about 3. If that.
I have not made a new thread on any forum I visit since, with the exception of the rules thread on this forum. And I visit about 6 forums regularly.
