oh, yes, this is going to be a rant! :)
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i've visited the hoverrace forums several times. the posts there are very nearly one-hundred percent verbal abuse by one poster toward another. the site is inhabited pretty much by people in their early to mid-teens whose every word is ruled by their gonads without any mediation by a mind. it is some sort of social struggle for breeding status expressed in a game forum. they speak like below-average 12 year-olds. in the past 3 days' postings, i have not seen a single coherent thought expressed about anything other than their personal animosities, and even those pitifully few [2 or 3] betrayed a depth of ignorance and lack of skill in their own native language that is truly pathetic, and shared by nearly all of the posters. i try to realise how very young some of them are, but ...
i don't know about what all of you guys' teenage friends are/were like, but mine were never such boneheads as the majority of these hoverrace twits. i'm amazed that this kind of person can exist very long since it seems as though they would have either killed each other off or been run over by schoolbusses while arguing with other in the middle of the street about something totally pointless.
rant over. aaahhh. i feel better now. stress relief is a glorious thing.
hey. wait a minute. wasn't i just doing the same thing they do, but indirectly and with a better vocabulary and more command of grammar?
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