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[geekchick]

I don't actually want to get into an argument with anyone, but for some unexplainable reason I keep feeling like posting one giant flamebait post including every view I have about politics, religion, feminism, racism, economic systems, etc., etc., etc. that might cause *ahem* "heated discussion" and let folks have at.

I'm clearly not going to do it, because I have an excessively thin skin. (You'll note I rarely post on any of those topics; now you have some idea of why.) I don't even know why I'm considering in essence trolling my own journal, but there you have it. WTF, brain? SRSLY, WTF?

[Edit: There is nothing happening on my f-list that is making me cranky (other than some community comments by people I don't otherwise know), there's nobody that I vehemently disagree with enough that I'd want to pick fights; this weird thought about trolling is completely random and frankly entirely out of character for me. See above about "WTF, brain?" Also note that here I am preemptively adding conciliatory notes to a post about picking fights. Hee!]

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[elorie.livejournal.com]

thinkmonkey says I do this on purpose to flush out the dumbasses on my friends list so I can get rid of them. It's sort of like putting out ant bait, only for idiots.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

I've occasionally felt the same urge myself.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

See the first quote on my info page. :-)

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

Just put a disclaimer in the cut.

"Attention: The following discussion deals with personal and frank opinions of hot button topics. Please do not read if you are easily offended or can't take a f*cking joke."

[wolfy.livejournal.com]

MMMMM flamebait

Take a topic that you really don't care about in the slightest. Make a really strong statement about it (usually negative) in an open forum. Sit back and watch. You get all the filling goodness of flame broiled asshole with 99% less fatty guilt or annoyance.

There has to be some rice boy group on here someplace you can go in and complain about how rice boys are nothing more than baby eating pansies and spokesmodels for Minute rice.


Or are we simply feeling a little aggressive?

[geekchick]

Or are we simply feeling a little aggressive?

No, that's the thing. I don't actually *want* to pick a fight; you know how much I like confrontation. ;) I have no idea what made the idea even cross my mind today.

[qe2.livejournal.com]

This is why you need a sockpuppet.

Also: omgwtfMOXYFRUVOUS. *loves* Pretty much the only band I've ever fangrrled.

[asetwoman.livejournal.com]

Er, does that mean I should take you off my Pagan filter?

[geekchick]

No, not at all! (Er, unless of course you want to, that is.) One of the many weird things about this impulse is that there's actually no reason whatsoever for me to want to pick fights. I'm not cranky, nobody's annoyed me (well, nobody on my f-list ;)), I'm not tired of any particular discussion topic, nothing. And seriously? I don't like picking fights anyway; I hate arguing. So, no idea what brought this "why don't I troll my own journal" thought up.

[asetwoman.livejournal.com]

You mentioned religion, so I was being extra cautious, I think. :)

[geekchick]

Sorry! =) Religion was mostly just listed as one of those things that you "don't talk about" because it so often leads to arguments rather than because I think I'd stir up a hornets' nest about it.

Confession time: I'm pretty much a cheerful agnostic. Don't really have any strong beliefs myself these days, but have no problem with people who do so long as they don't try to legislate their religious beliefs into law for everyone else. Kind of hard to get a good flame war going out of that in this particular crowd though, I think. ;) I find a lot of the posts from folks on my f-list like you and elorie and jessicamelusine quite enjoyable, since I don't really know a lot about the things y'all talk about. Straight-up Catholicism? That I know from, so it's a whole lot less interesting to me.

[asetwoman.livejournal.com]

Dun be sorry! Just wanted to make sure it wasn't religion in general that stirred this urge. Not that what I posted was actually religious. And I doubt there will ever be a day that I try to legislate religious beliefs, but you probably guessed that.

Interesting you mention Catholicism since I survived 11 years of Catholic school.

[geekchick]

I'm not tired of any particular discussion topic

Okay, I take part of that back; I am indeed tired of the people over in efw who are/were gleefully trying to get burr86 fired for imprudently being snarky without using a sockpuppet and are bitching at the mod for deleting the original dramathread. I wandered over there yesterday and my "obliterate" Greasemonkey killfile quickly got a workout.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. I get the urge to start fights all the time.

Luckily, I feed this urge on the fencing strip twice a week ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I could offer to do it on your behalf, and you could make popcorn? I used to be pretty good at it. :)