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missroseroseI just got done playing Literati (Yahoo! Games online version of Scrabble) with someone who had the username "blondebombshell1313", or something to that effect. I was making snarky comments as usual, because it amuses me...but for some reason, the person I was playing with started making personal attacks. I guess they got offended when I said something like "Don't use so many question marks - think of the poor punctuation-deprived orphans in Africa" - suddenly (s)he was telling me I was "weird" (to which I was happy to agree), that I had "issues", that I must play games online all the time because I wrote out things like "*grumble*" and "*laughs*", etc., etc. It felt rather like being on a playground and having a 12-year-old hurl insults at me, although (s)he claimed to be a "grad student with a degree in speech pathology". (You'd think that a grad student would know not to use 10 question marks at once...)
The kicker? (S)he was winning the entire time. Once in a while I've come across a bad loser who started attacking me because I was winning, but apparently it was something else that bothered this person. I haven't the vaguest clue what - perhaps (s)he thought I was being a snob because I used proper grammar? Maybe (s)he took offense at one of my remarks? (I honestly don't think any of them would be considered offensive unless one had a really thin skin, and I only made a couple anyway...) Maybe I just didn't fit in with their perception of someone who's normal, and as a result they had to dismiss me as weird? How sad would that be, that they would view someone with a different sense of humor as that much of a threat?
I dunno. There are a lot of strange folks out there on teh intarwebs, stranger than me even (hard to believe, I know). I feel sort of sorry for this person; if they have this hard of a time dealing with someone on my level of "weirdness", how're they going to deal with the huge variety of people they'll meet in their life?
The kicker? (S)he was winning the entire time. Once in a while I've come across a bad loser who started attacking me because I was winning, but apparently it was something else that bothered this person. I haven't the vaguest clue what - perhaps (s)he thought I was being a snob because I used proper grammar? Maybe (s)he took offense at one of my remarks? (I honestly don't think any of them would be considered offensive unless one had a really thin skin, and I only made a couple anyway...) Maybe I just didn't fit in with their perception of someone who's normal, and as a result they had to dismiss me as weird? How sad would that be, that they would view someone with a different sense of humor as that much of a threat?
I dunno. There are a lot of strange folks out there on teh intarwebs, stranger than me even (hard to believe, I know). I feel sort of sorry for this person; if they have this hard of a time dealing with someone on my level of "weirdness", how're they going to deal with the huge variety of people they'll meet in their life?
