In Case You Missed The Excitement
Jem’s series of posts about BarbiLee has been entertaining Mari for quite some time now. It’s Moronic Monday material if Mari ever saw it. Seriously, read those posts. It just goes to show how utterly stupid some people *coughBarbiLee* can be on the Internet (reference this and that posts).
However, Mari just noticed something, and it’s bothering Mari a bit. Jem’s email was really inflammatory! If Mari EVER sent an aggressive, infuriating email like that, even if someone had really pissed Mari off Mari would just curl up in a ball and die after she realized how childish that sounded. Then again, Mari would never send an email like that. Whenever Mari runs into problems in emails, Mari has to take a step back, cool her head, and try to defuse the situation.
Then again, Mari supposes Jem’s got a little more leeway to be childish and add fuel to a fire than Mari would have. Jem’s extremely experienced on the web, and always1 knows what she’s talking about, so when she finds something as entertaining as BarbiLee and her complete insanity, and gets personally involved, it seems inevitable that she’d have a little fun with it. Especially with how the other party is acting.
Mari really has no room to talk about being childish, though. Lmao, writing a blog in third person and this post title take away all of Mari’s credibility. Then again, Mari’s also generally biased against people who involve themselves with e-drama and being jackasses on the Internet (reference above two referenced posts). Mari’s pretty neutral, and doesn’t like it when people stir things up.
Have you been following the BarbiLee e-drama?
What do you think about the whole situation?
1 Correct Mari if she’s wrong, but Mari’s never seen Jem be wrong or get corrected, even for a typo.
2 And yes, this was actually posted Sunday night, rather than Monday. Also, Mari missed Stoopid Saturday for the Nth time. Blah!
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6 January 2008, 23:02
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Actually, in the third post in the third or fourth comment (somewhere around there) Jem was corrected for a grammar error. She used “to” instead f “too”.
No one is perfect hun.
I tend to avoid edrama, unless I’m gobsmack in the middle of it, and even then, I tend to try and stand on the fence as much as possible. I only started reading this after see this post. Frankly there are just too many people like BarbiLee on the internet to get fussed over.
I haven’t heard of any of that drama, and I’ll stay out of it cause I don’t care, but it’s just stupid how people can be so annoying online and send each other mean emails/posts/whatever and be so childish.
@Joana
Really? That’s the first Mari’s ever seen of Jem’s fantastically-sized ego getting a scratch. Then again, Mari’s been reading in an RSS reader, so Mari’s not keeping up with the comments too well.
Mari usually avoids it like a plague, but RSS feeds were sort of dead on 30 December, when Jem’s first BarbiLee post popped up, so it was entertaining. Mari compares this to how the Writer’s Strike has killed TV (*sob* No more Heroes!), so Mari actually watched “Dance War” last night.
Jem makes lots of mistakes. Why do you think Jem invented her typo form?
Mari is not paying enough attention!
@Jem
True! But Jem makes 99% fewer mistakes than say, BarbiLee.
Yeah, Mari’s bad at paying attention on the Internets recently, with extra lack of reading discussion on posts. RSS feeds are too addictive, and with the ability to subscribe to 600 sites, it basically ensures that the reader (Mari) begins to behave like a child with ADD with regards to reading comprehension and attention to detail on the actual site. But then again, before Mari started using RSS readers, Mari almost never kept up with personal sites like Jem’s, instead only reading the big blogs like BoingBoing and news sources.
…and as to how a post about edrama and netiquette in regards to personal ability to throw stones leads Mari to babble about the double-edged sword of RSS readers in the comments….
[...] Mari’s mandatory happy dance about getting a 30-second notice from Jem, Mari decided that she needed to go read the comments on Jem’s posts. Mari happened [...]
Original Comment: i realy think that its said that all you have to right about me like that like you know me you all dont know the hole story so you sould here the hole story be for you pass judgement
but yah i its jem the bigest hicacrit !@#$ around that is not gonna win at all
but anyways
i think its worng to talk about people like that ands you just made my haters list hunny
Translation: I really think that it’s sad that you all have to write about me like that; like you know me. You all don’t know the whole story. You should hear the whole story before you pass judgment.
Jem is the biggest hypocrite @%^# around. She’s not going to win at all.
But anyway, I think it’s wrong to talk about people like that and you just made my “haters list”, honey.
@barbilee
Mari wishes she could read that to understand what the hell you’re on about, but look, everybody! Mari got a response from the actual object of her (and Jem, and everyone else’s) amusement.
Oh, and you didn’t follow the comment rules either. That C word is definitely not allowed. *mariedit* If you can’t bother to follow commenting rules on Mari’s site, Mari sees no reason to be nice to you.
[Edit: Mari translated Barbilee's comment. Here is Mari's response. ]
Yeah, maybe you’re right. Maybe we should just all play nice and try to get along. But sometimes it’s a little too tempting to be mean. Plus, you’re acting a fool, so it’s kinda all too juicy to pass up. [/serious Mari]
Do you know how little Mari cares that she’s on anyone’s “haters list”? Seriously, do you have any idea how much sleep Mari’s losing at night over it? Mari will clue you in. Mari can separate the Internet from tangible reality, most likely unlike you, and Mari realizes that what happens on here, aside from emailing to and chatting with people you actually know in real life doesn’t matter. Aside from talking to Mari’s IRL friends and blood relatives on the Internet, Mari considers this a fun diversion. Mari doesn’t care about “e-drama”, because when Mari stops looking at this screen, it all goes away. Since you’re obviously so vain (aren’t we all just a little for being on here making websites?) that you care about having a “haters list” on the Internet, you probably can’t comprehend this, but the Internet is not real. It is truly a virtual world, a world that does not exist. This could fry your brain, but some people can totally separate themselves from this nonexistant world for DAYS, and not have any problems except for backed up email. So, in short, the only sleep Mari ever loses over the Internet is when Mari has to get up early to check her mail after being off of the Internet for a week, before going on with her actual life. Since comments on this site aren’t on email notification, Mari loses no sleep over it.
And don’t you dare respond to that with “Well you care enough to type all that!” The only reason Mari’s responding to you is that Mari is amused. You bothered to respond to Mari’s article (about another person’s article talking about you) that didn’t even really talk about you (the article focused on Jem’s behavior, just FYI since you didn’t read it) with some misspelled, incoherent comment, and this amused Mari. Talk about a pitbull seeing red and trying to bite everything it sees. Sheesh, it’s pure, indirect, misguided anger. Mari is highly amused, actually laughing in real life, that you would bother to post that on the Internet. That you care so much about some silly stuff in a world that doesn’t exist that you would come to a site that references you in order to talk about Internet behavior and spew that crap. That’s actually funny. -Mari’s on cold meds, so Mari can’t condense her thoughts, and Mari is sort of rambling here. Let’s just wrap this up so Mari can get back to some chicken noodle soup.- Your behavior is sad and therefore, funny. No one else cares about the Internet this badly except for people who need it this badly. You obviously have some serious real life issues, you went onto the Internet to escape them, and now they’re spilling onto the Internet, where you’re trying to be something you’re not, and since you’re acting just like yourself again, your fantasy is broken. We’ve all tried to be something we’re not before, some of us have tried it on the Internet like you, so we are amused by it. You react very badly to anything trying to infringe on your fantasy world where you’re not who you are, and this also amuses everyone. In the end, you’re acting like a jackass and it’s funny. Like those kids who get hurt trying to do skateboard tricks on TV.
The end.
A note: since you’re obviously not trying to say anything intelligent, just spewing misspelled insults, Mari should delete this. Mari doesn’t allow this sort of abuse on her site, as per the comment policy. Jem is a valued visitor, and thusly that comment should be stricken from the record. However, Mari is keeping it for amusement (also Mari knows Jem can take it; you don’t make it that long on the Internet without being able to deal with jackasses). Mari thought her spelling and grammar were awful with the whole writing in third person thing, but not after reading and translating this. Sheesh! You should win an award for that.
One final thought: if some stupid kid typing in third person is more coherent than you (while on cold meds), you should be worried.
@barbilee, again
…I’m not even going to bother reading this. I don’t have any more time for you.
*SPAM*
Akismet can deal with you.
@barbilee, again, again
Why do you keep commenting? I just keep deleting it and marking it as SPAM. If you do it more than three times you’ll be permanent spam to anyone running Akismet with their WordPress.
Do you think I’m reading it? Because I’m really not. I just automatically go to edit every time I see your name.