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⌈ Secret Post #2347 ⌋

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[Jay from Red Letter Media]

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[Bob's Burgers]

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[Of Monsters and Men and Glitch (game)]

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[After Man: A Zoology of the Future]

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Well... I trolled one of your comments (last week maybe) (second ever trolling of my life, I can't express properly how much I needed that vent right then... thank you for the excuse?) and you were pretty cool about it, and (cleverly) didn't engage.

That's not how you treat people you want to annoy.
That's not how somebody behaves who hasn't got enough anti-fans.

Woah. Really? I don't even remember that. What were you trolling about, if you don't mind me asking?

You expressed your feelings about archaeology.
Me too.
You inquired about my reservations.
I shared my reservations... OK, that's not entirely true, I started to share my reservations, but promptly managed to go a bit batshit in the process. I don't think you still were there then, but nevertheless, it was a prefect excuse to vent a bit.

Let me repeat myself: That's not how you collect anti-fans. :)

Oh! I remember that now! I actually read your answer to my question, but by then it was the next day, so I decided not to reply. I guess I assumed that maybe you work in archaeology or know someone who does, and as a result have less-than-awesome feelings about it? Kind of like my mom; she's a pharmacist, and as a result I have nothing but negative feelings about the profession, haha.

But I would be interested in knowing why you have those feelings. In all honesty, my entire experience with archaeology is from Tomb Raider and various books on Ancient Egypt that I read as a very small child.

(yeah, I know; not being enough of a dick to offend anybody. I guess that's a good thing, but I'm....kind of a huge attention whore. :/ )

Edited 2013-06-07 07:19 (UTC)

Yep, being-online-wise, I'm ridiculously out-of-sync with this community (or any fandom-activity) as a whole. I'm the last to comment on almost anything I decide to comment on/to.

Believe me, you don't really want to know my reasons. You study for years to make your childhood dream true (in my case, being a librarian), you manage to get a job that sounds awesome (yay, archaeology! (yep, I've been there too)), and after a couple of years you realize that:

1) the moment when Indiana Jones muttered "Why did it have to be snakes?" was a subtle allegory about academic research in general;

2) jobs/occupations are complex things, and you can't like every task one job entails, especially if that job is closely intertwined to another unrelated job - and you will end up doing the task you hate the most for a long-long-long time;

3) for a somewhat introvert person, there aren't much more soul-crushing occupations than working in the local equivalent of "help desk";

4) being employed by the government sucks.

Combine all of this with a serious case of "Oh, my god, there are archaeologists *everywhere* I look!" (One of my colleagues corresponds my favourite radio station, I simply can't escape.), one big dose of money- (or its lack) induced bitterness, and one big dose of unrelated general bitterness, and you get where I am now.

(And you don't have to be a dick to get attention. (Although I admit it's easier that way.))

Thank you for the chance to rant again!

You don't ever need to thank me for the chance to rant! I love to hear about things from the other side. It's why I don't make a very good troll, tbh. I get into an argument, then I end up saying "Well...yes, everything you say is reasonable. I see your side of the debate." So we have a totally sane conversation where we both learn things, and I have trolled no one. >.>

It's kind of embarrassing, actually. The only thing I get batshit insane about is asexuality, really, and I mix up all the terminology and make an ass of myself, so I end up more angry at myself than anyone else, haha.

Anyway, I can totally get why you would have extreme amounts of bitterness towards archaeology at that point (and omg, it is really hard to spell that word. wow). I feel similarly towards pharmacy (as I've already stated) and towards the free sample business, since I am currently a free sample lady, and it sucks, but everyone thinks it's the "coolest job ever omg!!!"

No. The uniform is uncomfortable, you have to stand in one spot for 5+ hours (which gets soooo boring if it's a slow day), my boss is a bitch, and to top it all off, we aren't allowed to eat any of the samples! It's "stealing from the company!"

So yeah. I get where you're coming from, though my issues are shorter-lived than yours, since I didn't spend years learning to hand out samples. :/

There should be more trolls in the world like you: more sane conversations while everybody thinks they're trolling, and not realizing otherwise only after.

Unfortunately I can get batshit about a lot of things (hello nationalism, government and hipsters!), and unfortunately I often only realize how utter moron I was after I proceeded to show how stupid I can be if I put enough effort in it. (A bit like you, really.) But in the case of archaeology, I know (hope) my bitterness is as temporary as extreme.

Terminology is one of the main reasons why I refuse to engage in conversations about any type of sexual orientation, or related topics. Every discussion I saw ended up being a semiotic debate. (Especially about asexuality. I should define myself somewhere on that scale, but I look at myself, and look at the words/labels, all of them, and realize that it's not worth the hassle, at least in my case.)

"Coolest job ever!" One of the phrases I hate the most. And ther's this one sapect I'm luckier than you: my boss is amazing.

Free sample business? I have to admit I tend to avoid anybody who offers free samples of anything. If they're kind enough (and they often are, you know, probably that's why you are such an unsuccesful troll), I almost always end up buying.

*and there's this one aspect where I'm luckier than you
(typing sucks!)

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