I just remembered another fucking annoying as shit tactic which people will use in online arguments - especially in craigslist. (For my original post about this, check here).

In this one, you’ll have a long heated debate with somebody over something, where you will make a lot of really good points, and they will neither get what you’re saying, nor make any kind of sense in their replies. The last weapon left on their utility belt is to say:

Well, if you don’t like it so much, why don’t you do something about it, instead of just complaining?

This rhetorical magic bullet is loaded up and fired during pretty much every and any kind of discussion about politics, or social issues in general. And as I said, this is trotted out because the person is all out of arguments. Last line of defense. You’ll find this all-star argument arrayed before you in glory as final proof you have outsmarted them, and they would rather shut down your ability to make any point at all, than try to refute them.

Now that that’s out of the way, somebody named Saltation reminded me of anothe site which is much more full of hilarious complaining than mine is: The Best Page in the Universe. He has tons of fucking hilarious articles, but I wanted to quote from one which is particularly relevant, “Phrases that make my blood boil“.

This is his commentary for when people say, “I’m a child at heart”:

Yeah, you’re a child at heart, just as soon as children start going to work every day to rot in a cubicle for a meager pay check so they can drink their troubles away in a shitty bar for the rest of their lives. Unless you’re an astronaut, secret agent, vampire hunter, or all three, you’re probably a sellout; screw you. Nobody wanted to be a regional director of sales or an investment banker when they were kids. On top of that, nobody thinks you’re cute or funny by stating you’re a “child at heart” on your stupid online profile that you created because you’re a boring middle-aged loser with sagging tits and yellow nails who survives off greasy TV dinners every night as you contemplate the exact moment your life became such a miserable shit hole. But hey, don’t take my word for it. After all, passing by “Cartoon Network” as you’re flipping through channels technically makes you a “child at heart.” Either that or the world’s oldest virgin.