Heckle AND Jeckle

Here's a nice piece from NPR on heckling:

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/25/153689959/hey-you-the-unstoppable-rise-of-heckling?sc=fb&cc=fp

The internet is all about heckling. It's not just Topix, of course, but pretty much any site you might go to, even NPR. It's less about someone having something to say and not knowing how to express themselves intelligently than it is about people being assholes to others simply because they can.

With varying degrees of moderation in effect, you can pretty much say anything to anyone on a forum. Topix, for example, is very loosely moderated. It does have an automatic language filter which usually stops someone from calling someone a cocksucker but, corksoaker is okay and gets the point across. Surprisingly though, "fuck" is acceptable on the comments sections of many forums, even the media ones. However, enough complaints might cause such posts to be pulled eventually. Most terms of service request that people be nice and watch their language.

I constantly get heckled on Topix. My obsessed stalker sees to that. His full-time job is following me all around Topix iconning and making stupid comments on every post I make. I'm guessing his design in this is to make everyone think: "Well, I guess that remark by that Ferrerman guy must be 'totally gay' because these three posters from the same town in Ohio all concur that it is! Who knew?"

And, of course, thousands of others on Topix get heckled, by people who maybe aren't even *Sam*. He's not the only asshole on Topix even though it sure seems like it.

In Comedy Clubs, the heckler is usually some drunk, comic-wannabe, empowered and fueled by alcohol. He or she might even think that they are part of the act, something both the entertainer and audience have come to expect. A good comedian knows how to put them down in a deft, funny way. A bad comedian is Michael "Kramer" Richards and goes off on an ugly diatribe.

On the internet it's far less up close and personal than a bar where annoying people can get your ass kicked, usually deservedly so. As a Ferrerman, I'm quite well known for my rapier-like wit. Topix Boothill is filled with the avatars of those who have tried to take on The Ferrerman and lost. They don't actually die, mind you but, they change their screen names in shame or post unregistered in fear of Ferrerman. This is humorous to me because the very thing that gives them anonymity protects their sorry asses from actually getting kicked by Ferrerman. Yet they run and hide in lonely, fearful desperation relentlessly not pursued by the Ferrerman, not obsessed with their capture.

See, after a few smackdowns, these people have shown themselves to be bitter cowards, unworthy of my ferrerness. Though I do reserve the right to bitch slap a bitch like Sam, that's not what my posting is about. If in 100 posts to or about me by a sam, I respond to two or three, it's because I thought of a really funny comeback. This internet stuff truly writes itself! Idiots say the darndest things! So generally, I ignore those that are sam or sam-like in their heckling. Why encourage them? Just posting their crap to me or some other *victim* is enough to keep them alive to troll another day. A response might throw them into masturbatory orgasmic delight. Who knows? Who wants to know?

They're not my fault, nor my responsibility. Ignoring trolls truly is the best revenge.

A few weeks ago I totally cut off Angelique770's new gang. My friend Hegel did as well. She, like me, reports the wonderful feeling one gets when one quits banging one's head against the wall. 770, Sublime1 and Kevin were three of the most useless wastes of time the internet has ever known. They probably still are.  I haven't checked.... But, again, I reserved the right to continue to post on Topix- Offbeat- and continue battling vulgar, phony conservatives as I see fit. I've all but given up on several of them, as well. Giving A770 a run for her money, for example, is that creepy Billy R. If there is a more effete, nattering nabob of foolishness on the threads, i've certainly scrolled over that person and, so, can't think of one. And when his BIL, *Oki* gets to posting about the coming Civil War and his desire to kill liberals, you can only taunt an idiot like that so much before you realize, it's not fun anymore. The fucker's serious! Drunk probably but, serious. You needn't defend any Obama policies to an idiot whose dream in life is to execute  people who are smarter than him in a FEMA camp. Is there enough ammunition in the world for something like that?

But, I digress. Heckling. They're here! They jeer! Ya get used to it...for they have no earthly clue how stupid they show themselves to be.