On 07/07/2016 17:31, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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arsed walking to a smoking bay 10 yards away. The very same people who
moan if your car touches a line in a parking bay promptly go and park
their sacred expensive BMW across two parking bays next to you.
Back in the 90's I had the misfortune to drive a series 7 BMW. I was
not impressed - contrary to many people I encountered while driving
it. Most of them could be counted on to fawn and scrape and generally
debase themselves in front of this potent symbol of Mammon. They didnt
seem bothered by how I might have come by it (drugs? trafficking?
money laundering?) Women smiled flirtatiously; parking wardens were
painfully obsequious; inconvenienced pedestrians humbly forgiving. The
pompous, farting fool of an owner I drove around for half a year had
converted it to run on LPG, presumably to shave an infinitisimal
percentage of his tax-free expences account. Everything about that
wretched machine was wasteful, impractical and, though Im loathe to
denigrate German technology in public, plain stupid, to my sense of
proportionality, utility and modesty. I guess the whole point of the
thing was to give one a sense of power and invulnerability, and a
continuous reminder that one is superior to the creeping, crawling
unwashed masses in the way. Like trolls, there is not much you can do
about the owners, except avoid them where possible, and ignore them
where not..
You won't win arguments with people like this, so you wither ignore
them and get on with your life or you deal with them in such a way
they can't / won't upset you again for a long time.
These "rules don't apply to me" people are generally of low moral
integrity and generally untrustworthy and will often stab you in the
back. So if dealing with them, you have to fix it firmly once and for
all or walk away from it. Just like dealing with the playground bully.
This may work in the playground and in prison, Dilwyn ;) but internet
trolls are harder to combat. One strategy that seemed to work for me
(though I dont have that much experience) is to ignore any remarks by
the troll by merely pointing out to the general reader of the thread,
in a succinct, matter-of-fact, non-aggressive language, that the
previous remark was written by a troll and may blithly be skipped
unread together with any future remarks from the same account. Trolls
feed of others' pain and discomfort, and starve if that cannot be had.
If the majority of other members on the list are genuine and mature,
with only one or two trolls, the trolls soon auto-combust or wither.
The important thing is to not engage in any way with the troll or
his/her "arguments", comments or abuse, and for one's own piece of
mind, not even to sneak a peek at them oneself for any reason!
Per
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