http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxxPLDZnqwA

(let’s see if it’ll allow this to be imbedded:)

Keep it up Scout, and maybe you can reach the coveted 100 Hater mark!!

Plus you have female friends and you’re fit so that right there is enough to enrage most internet losers.

“Douche-bags are hygienic products, I take that as a compliment. Thank you.”

– Caped Boy in Wet Hot American Summer

Here’s the fallacy: imagine that I have pretensions of football greatness. I scrimage with my buddies on weekends and even take to wearing the jersey of my favorite team around town. I talk football. I walk football. After a time I get pretty damned good at it. Then I start a blog and start writing about football. What would you say to a gaggle of iNerds whose reaction to my blog was “What a poser! Look at that stupid jersey, shorts, and those sneakers! I don’t see him playing for the Jets! Is he making $300K a year? Call me when he does. Until then he’s a hypocrite and a poser.”

Put in that light it sounds ridiculous that my critics would fail to acknowledge the progress I had made to date, preferring instead to project their own insecurites onto me. Of course, I don’t know Mr. Scout and I don’t know these other people at the link. I’m just a guy who wandered by while I wait for a long database backup process to complete before I can move on to my next task. The Internet is like that. One minute you’re surfing anonymously and the next you’re up to your neck in fallacious arguments thrown around by 13 year old kids with potty mouths who seem spoiled rotten and in dire need of a swift kick in the ass. But what do I know.

the Leftist equivalent of a fundamentalist church

I laughed my ass off at that. And then I cried a little.

Pearls before swine. If only the leftist fundamentalists could go feral as readily as real pigs do when the shit hits the fan.

Jason, the fundamentalist analogy is spot on.

So, I applaud Scout for his shining example and inspiration–I feel pretty confident plenty of other people out there learn from his activities both offline and online.

By the way, I wanted to post this to metafilter, but I don’t value giving them feedback enough to shell out $5 for it, so I’m just posting it here.

Cheers,
Scrub

They sure care enough to write something ignorant. It’s easier than learning something new I suppose.

Jason,

Thanks for coming to my defense so hard over there. You didn’t have to. I don’t have the $5 it takes to sign up for that shit, or at least didn’t feel like spending it on that. Thanks for doing that.

Rix,

Yes, many jokes on them. Basically they’re simply shells of people who are full of mythology. They have never read an anthropology book and they didn’t even read much about me apparently. One of my faves is that they say that “his girlfriend must have a razor handy to shave her legs” cause in the photo they link to you can’t see penny’s leg hair, which she does have but since she’s never really shaved it hasn’t grown in all thick. Anyway, so many stupid things… I couldn’t believe so many people, so many could be that mean. I’m trying to not let it get to me, but after that assholes letter last week… All this shit just hurts. People don’t do the work of actually reading about me and what I believe because making assumptions and judging are way easier than learning something new and seeing the world in a different way. fuck that shit.

As much as you might want to believe it’s hate, I don’t think anyone actually cares enough to hate.

It’s more like contempt.