Verbal Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 ...and everything else on the net - for your own good. 'What the net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether online or not, my mind now expects to take in information in the way the net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.' Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains So if we delete the internet, Saintsweb included, we'll all be better thinkers, less stressed, more able to absorb information in a meaningful, considered way. More human. With one or two exceptions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano6 Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 Deleting Saintsweb will increase the level of intelligence present on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Majestic Channon Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 Stanleyduncenazimole cant be released into the community!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 The guy has a point IMO. Too much time on the internet can definitely make you go monkey, monkey, fireman tap, spazzzz banana, trouser, trouser, trouser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 ...and everything else on the net - for your own good. 'What the net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether online or not, my mind now expects to take in information in the way the net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.' Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains So if we delete the internet, Saintsweb included, we'll all be better thinkers, less stressed, more able to absorb information in a meaningful, considered way. More human. With one or two exceptions... Yeah, only a personality transplant could stop you being a bellend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 9 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 9 January, 2011 Yeah, only a personality transplant could stop you being a bellend. Exhibit A And, just like the inadequate bully you evidently aspire to be, who slopes off behind the bike sheds and strikes a pose to impress his (invariably single-sex) mates, you evidently think your purpose in life is to label and sn igger at people as this and that, best and worst, most annoying, (ad nauseum) poster. The irony is that you have failed to follow the argument that the net reduces your ability to follow an argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 Ha ha ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 Exhibit A And, just like the inadequate bully you evidently aspire to be, who slopes off behind the bike sheds and strikes a pose to impress his (invariably single-sex) mates, you evidently think your purpose in life is to label and sn igger at people as this and that, best and worst, most annoying, (ad nauseum) poster. The irony is that you have failed to follow the argument that the net reduces your ability to follow an argument. I rest my case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 Is this the latest leftie pet project to make their sad lives worthwhile? They've saved the whales, saved the rain forests and saved the planet, and now they want to save us from the brain numbing tedium of Verbals posts. For the first time ever they may have a worthy crusade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deppo Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 Oh my. You are an angry man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 9 January, 2011 Share Posted 9 January, 2011 Oh my. You are an angry man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 9 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 9 January, 2011 Is this the latest leftie pet project to make their sad lives worthwhile? They've saved the whales, saved the rain forests and saved the planet, and now they want to save us from the brain numbing tedium of Verbals posts. For the first time ever they may have a worthy crusade. And so the other shoe drops. How sadly predictable. I would have thought you of all people - who by comparison makes Jared Lee Loughner sound the model of clarity of thought - might pause, at least for a moment, to think (you know that word?). But no: on you steam, brain clearly disengaged by overuse of your internet right hand - blissfully unaware that you are a kind of laboratory specimen, a worst case scenario, for Nicholas Carr's argument. Dune, in all seriousness, switch it off and don't turn it on again. You may actually learn something, and improve as a human being (long shot, I admit). It's a wonderful thought, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMike Posted 10 January, 2011 Share Posted 10 January, 2011 I disagree, I think SWF has made me more intelligent and I have learnt many many many wonderful new things such as a lesson in how to write for the internet by Ben the Legend, how to bore people ****eless by various posters and how it is possible to a be a manic depressive no matter what is happening, good or bad by dear old Alps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 10 January, 2011 Share Posted 10 January, 2011 And so the other shoe drops. How sadly predictable. I would have thought you of all people - who by comparison makes Jared Lee Loughner sound the model of clarity of thought - might pause, at least for a moment, to think (you know that word?). But no: on you steam, brain clearly disengaged by overuse of your internet right hand - blissfully unaware that you are a kind of laboratory specimen, a worst case scenario, for Nicholas Carr's argument. Dune, in all seriousness, switch it off and don't turn it on again. You may actually learn something, and improve as a human being (long shot, I admit). It's a wonderful thought, no? When I first signed up to an earlier incarnation of this forum there were two 'buzz' phrases doing the rounds. 1. attention seeking whore 2. don't feed the troll I think of these almost every time a certain person posts. Try as I might I cannot always avoid replying to that person. I thought, at times, that I was the only one who had that opinion of that person. Of late it would appear that I am not alone in those thoughts. I picture this person, living in a tied house, with Mum, with nothing else but work and seeking quotes and posting them on an internet forum as an interest in life. Please, do not delete this forum as it could lead to this person taking their life. This person needs and craves our attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 10 January, 2011 Share Posted 10 January, 2011 Exhibit A And, just like the inadequate bully you evidently aspire to be, who slopes off behind the bike sheds and strikes a pose to impress his (invariably single-sex) mates, you evidently think your purpose in life is to label and sn igger at people as this and that, best and worst, most annoying, (ad nauseum) poster. The irony is that you have failed to follow the argument that the net reduces your ability to follow an argument. LOL. Superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 10 January, 2011 Share Posted 10 January, 2011 When I first signed up to an earlier incarnation of this forum there were two 'buzz' phrases doing the rounds. 1. attention seeking whore 2. don't feed the troll I think of these almost every time a certain person posts. Try as I might I cannot always avoid replying to that person. I thought, at times, that I was the only one who had that opinion of that person. Of late it would appear that I am not alone in those thoughts. I picture this person, living in a tied house, with Mum, with nothing else but work and seeking quotes and posting them on an internet forum as an interest in life. Please, do not delete this forum as it could lead to this person taking their life. This person needs and craves our attention. I think that's a tad harsh. Deppo's not that bad... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baj Posted 10 January, 2011 Share Posted 10 January, 2011 The net would be easier to cope with if people knew when to shut the **** up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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