Flame War Against AOL

This flame war was taken from alt.sex.stories (also cross-posted to many other groups), a rather busy newsgroup. It's traffic level has skyrocketed lately, not from postings of pornographic stories, but rather from flame wars such as this. I can't decide which is more contemptible, flame wars or pornographic stories.

A non-AOLer started the thread apparently because a lot of people were requesting a list of something; the list probably does not exist. My comments are in boldface.

Subject: IDIOTS FROM AOL

To all of you idiots fromð insist on getting the alleged list why don't you go and hang around on IRC where you may have a chance of getting it and leave the space here for what it was designed for stories.

cute story!!!!!

you pompous turd. what happened to free exchange of information in cyberspace. i am tired of your smarter than thou quips about aol users. i happen to be an educated professional and i am in here to stay. in fact, folks like you will be left in the egghead backwaters of the pure thinkers while the great unwashed take over the net. get over it or die of an embolism. or maybe get a girlfriend or a life. live and let live and help educate rather than deride the casual user.

>
>To all of you idiots from aol who insist on getting the alleged list
>why don't you go and hang around on IRC where you may have a chance of
>getting it and leave the space here for what it was designed for -
>stories.

AOL'ers don't have access to IRC.

Goldboink (goldboink@aol.com) wrote:
: you pompous turd. what happened to free exchange of information in
: cyberspace. i am tired of your smarter than thou quips about aol users.
: i happen to be an educated professional and i am in here to stay. in
: fact, folks like you will be left in the egghead backwaters of the pure
: thinkers while the great unwashed take over the net. get over it or die

1) A degree in Advanced Burger Flipping from McDonald's U does not *really* make you an "educated professional."
2) Learn to use your SHIFT and punctuation keys properly; this is *not* AOL. I realize your pay-by-the-minute soi-disant "online service" combined with your minimum-wage job and room-temperature IQ make typing in a grammatically-correct message a financial strain, but I'm sure you'll find it worthwhile.*
3) You're an illiterate twit. Go away. Or confine your posts to AOL itself, where you won't stand out in the crowd.

* Disregard this if you are, for some reason, typing with only one
indubitably hairy-palmed hand.

Keith:

I've got a splendid idea! Why don't you go suck your hat, your worthless vindictive CPU-geek?

Hemingway8 (hemingway8@aol.com) wrote:
: Keith:

: I've got a splendid idea! Why don't you go suck your hat, your worthless
: vindictive CPU-geek?

A typical AOL post:
No real name.
No attributions.
No conception of the difference between "you," "your," "you're" and "yours."
No brains.
No class.

Oh well, at least it didn't say "me too."

Perhaps if you confined your messages to AOL itself nobody else would notice you're an illiterate - and probably inbred to boot, judging from your location - clown.

Keith Kooshball writes:

>A typical AOL post:
>No real name.
>No attributions.
>No conception of the difference between "you," "your," "you're" and "yours."
>No brains.
>No class.
>
>Oh well, at least it didn't say "me too."
>
>Perhaps if you confined your messages to AOL itself nobody else would notice you're >an illiterate - and probably inbred to boot, judging from your location - clown.

POINT A: If my post was a puerile as yours, I'd be damned ashamed to use my real name. How DO you manage?

POINT B: No concept of typos either.

POINT C: Brains? Aah. You're a real card, pal.

POINT D: You wouldn't know class if it beat you across the face. Your tactless, rude, and presumptuous original post is a perfect demonstration of that.

POINT E: Me too.

POINT F: Illiterate and inbred. My, but that's original. But tell me...how do you manage to type with your head up your ass? You're no better than the basest racist, imbecile.

>A typical AOL post:
>No real name.
>No attributions.
>No conception of the difference between "you," "your," "you're" and "yours."
>No brains.
>No class.

>Oh well, at least it didn't say "me too."

>Perhaps if you confined your messages to AOL itself nobody else would
>notice you're an illiterate - and probably inbred to boot, judging from
>your location - clown.
>

Keith,

Not everybody from the South is an inbred idiot. If YOU would get YOUR head out of YOUR ass YOU might find that out. People from AOL are geniuses compared to YOU. If you don't like that then screw YOU, YOU sorry piece of shit.

Jamie