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The Good Ol’ Days Of Fighting.

I remember back when the internet still wasn’t a major phenomenon to reckon with, and when people fought, it was them face to face, or in many cases, fist to fist.

What happened to the good old days of fighting? Back when two people had a problem with each other, they got right up in their grills about it?

Maybe it’s just me getting old, but I often have to sit there and shake my head in disbelief when I join Skype calls or get messages on Youtube about how one person despises the other, or how one would love nothing more then to break someone’s neck… But they don’t. ‘Oh, it’s just the internet!’ Just the bloody internet? Have we LOST the ‘gentlemen’ way of arguing because we hide behind the security blanket of animosity thanks to the interwebs? People often think I’m nuts when I ask people I ‘heavily’ dislike to meet me in person so we can properly settle things… With a few broken noses here and there.

But this is how we handled things back when talking smack wasn’t on the internet, behind everyone’s backs! Back in town where I grew up, confrontations were a staple of the community, where talking behind someone’s back often meant things ended worse. For everyone. It was a time when stuff could easily become resolved with a good shouting match, or a few thrown punches… But the security of animosity seems to have made us think we’re all goddamn invincible, when in reality… All it takes is for someone to track your IP, then people you’ve been screwing with show up at your door, channel the spirit of Chuck Norris, then kick your teeth in so hard they get lodged in your brain. I often laugh when I see 8-year olds posting video’s talking such shit and generally thinking they’re the toughest thing ever since Steven Seagal on steroids (You mean he wasn’t before? SHIIII-)… But in reality, if you haul all the techno-crap out of the way and sit the kid in front of the person he’s trying to ‘diss’ (Christ, who uses the word diss anymore?), 90% he wouldn’t give a peep… That freakish 10% is if the kid is really damn stupid and does try to go on with his speech; the thing I said about teeth being within brain? Yeah.

Is there a point in any of this? Well, no, since this is a bloody rant. Pay attention, dammit. But the morale of my raving is a simple one; the internet doesn’t make you any cooler, smarter, or tougher. Look at me; I’m a loud-mouthed arsehole who loves nothing more then destroying stupid people. Didn’t need 4chan to tell me that. (That lovely website is subject to a future entry, anyway) If anything, the internet is a magnificent way to show how much of a cunt one can really be.

I’m looking at you, member’s of my Black List. But I digress. As long as people can hide behind some kind of persona, I suppose the term ‘internet tough guys’ is going to stay around for a while longer still… ‘Internet maggots’ sounds a bit more fitting to me anyway.

But that’s just me.