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[active_apathy]

Recipe for Thread Flambee

Ingredients:
Half a brain
A sheltered middle class upbringing in a neophyte culture
Healthy Contempt for others
Desire for attention and approval


Create a title. This is much like making a crust, except you use the following easy form:
"How come (Insert demographic) always think (Insert Opinion)?"

Include veiled implication that (Inserted Opinion) is of course, a completely invalid idea, and that anyone forcefully asserting their beliefs is a singleminded zealot incapable of reason. Bake at 450 F on a multiracial/denominational/gendered forum ten seconds and let stand.
Serves any number of guests.

--Chaosmanglemaimdeathia

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Comments

[crackedwraith.livejournal.com]

Classic recipe. (But rather sour.)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You can try to sugar-coat it, but that's only really recommended if you have a moderator's supervision.

[crackedwraith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, had it explode on me one time. Not fun, not fun at all.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

*nods* You have to be careful with that. That's one of the most dangerous things about the newbies - they don't know how to stop that from happening, and then the thick, murky smoke of drama fills the whole room.

[one-bullet-left.livejournal.com]

*snrrrrrkkk*

I've seen those. I just back away slowly.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

*nodnods*

Do you remember to avoid eye contact, too?

Exactly once I made the mistake of going through the whole thread and correcting all their factual errors. Not my best idea ever.

Them: What are we up to?
Me: Fixing your thread.
Them: I, um... what?
Me: Thread's broken. Contradictions, false logistics... doesn't make sense.
Them: No, you can't....
Me: So, we'll work Carolingian France into your rough idea of dark ages society. There's seven similatities already there; they liked seven - seven deadly sins, seven goodly virtues, seven muses. King Clovis is a problem.
Them: Really?
Me: It only really makes sense if he were Arian before he converted.
Them: Gimme that! You don't fix the thread.
Me: It's broken. It doesn't make sense.
Them: It's not about making sense. It's about having an opinion, and letting that belief be real enough to insult everyone else. It's about 'flaming'. You don't fix flamers. They fix each other.

So that's not quite how it happened, but it would've been fun if it were.

[fanfic-lover.livejournal.com]

Hey,erm, sorry, I don't know you, but where did you get that marvin/snape icon? <333 it, wondering if I could use it?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hey, um, hello. I got it from Photoshop; it's stealable with appropriate credit.

[fanfic-lover.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yay!! I'll save it for later use, if you don't mind, will credit you!! It's excellent, by the way!! XD

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!