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I am everything you hate about people on the internet. I am here to help.

751 replies

Blacklight · 12/02/2015 21:26

I am male, mid 20's and grew up with this technology.
Wondering what something means?
Wondering how to do something?
Wondering how your kids did something?
Wondering if you should let your kids do something?

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Opopanax · 12/02/2015 23:43

HAHA, do you feel bullied, OP? Poor ickle baby. Also, sod off.

GiddyOnZackHunt · 12/02/2015 23:44

It's a Duck Off from me.

Alonglongway · 12/02/2015 23:44

FFS, OP

Grow up

Lemondrizzletwunt · 12/02/2015 23:44

Oh OP it's not cyberbullying, it's taking you down a peg or two after you were incredibly patronising, and then couldn't take the heat. Flowers for you. Sorry, a Dragon instead. You're male, so you love dragons, right?

PacificDogwood · 12/02/2015 23:46

Tsk, tsk, it IS bullying if the bullee says so, don'tcha know.

QueenTilly · 12/02/2015 23:47

Hang on a minute. Mid-twenties male, poses as internet expert and styles himself as the worst of the internet, and calls this cyberbullying?

Either he's lying about feeling bullied, or he's never even been on 4chan.

Son, I AM DISAPPOINT!

Opopanax · 12/02/2015 23:48

Is he not mid-twenties? And therefore an actual grown up?

Oh wait, he's mid-twenties and NOT an actual grown up. We should all probably feel a bit sorry for him.

Or not. You know. Whatever.

Enormouse · 12/02/2015 23:48

this is you op

BoreOfWhabylon · 12/02/2015 23:49

A ? is a lemniscate ?

That's where I've been going wrong - I thought it was a lemon drizzle cake

SanityClause · 12/02/2015 23:49

For you, OP.

I am everything you hate about people on the internet. I am here to help.
GiddyOnZackHunt · 12/02/2015 23:49

If I interviewed you for a junior role and you took the "I know everything" line with me then I would have no compunction in doing far more verbal slapping down than has happened here.
That's a top interview tip for you.

Lweji · 12/02/2015 23:49

Is this the internet? Well I never.

I thought it was the matrix.

Wasn't the internet the hardware? Can we get that in a hardware shop?
Or is that just for rope?

SabrinaMulhollandJjones1984 · 12/02/2015 23:50

Erm. OP you posted here - anonymously - you haven't got such a rough ride, no deletions, no real attacks, just a bit of pisstaking.

You misjudged your audience and your choice of website. It can be harsh here, but it is usually funny. And, believe me, I've been subject to the harsh too. Most of us have. Have some Cake This isn't cyber bullying.

QueenTilly · 12/02/2015 23:51

Lemniscate only means lemon drizzle cake in txtspk. Silly. Can't you keep up with yoof slang?

PacificDogwood · 12/02/2015 23:51

Lweji, I've just watched The Matrix with DS1(almost 12) - it was his First Time.
He said it was 'Quite a good movie considering how old it was'.

I know - I've failed as a parent, haven't I? Sad

IfNotNowThenWhen · 12/02/2015 23:51

It's alright. He has gone off to Pistonheads to offer to teach them about cars. They'll be nice to him.

TheIronGnome · 12/02/2015 23:51

YANBU to try and help

YABU to be so patronising about it! We're female, not incompetent. One might assume regular users on an Internet forum have at least some clue of what they're doing.

don't care that it's not YABU

GiddyOnZackHunt · 12/02/2015 23:52

And do remember that any woman interviewing you might be a Mumsnetter.

ouryve · 12/02/2015 23:52

It's the idnight mum curfew, Lost. My keyboard is turning off, ke by key, already.

morethanpotatoprints · 12/02/2015 23:53

OP

You have been very patronising in your first post, what do you expect?
do you really think that parents aren't familiar with the advice and knowledge you could have given them.
We didn't even have computers at school let alone the internet, but we learned easily enough.
There are tons of people on here who know far more than lots of us, but to suggest we don't know about internet safety because we are not male is a bit stupid really.
You brought it all on yourself and maybe you have learned not to be so patronising.
people took the piss a bit but you deserved it I'm afraid.

ChippingInGluggingOn · 12/02/2015 23:53

What a great walk down memory lane!

Our first computer at home was this very odd IBM thing with a very small screen and green writing Grin

DEREKby god I wish I had a pound for every time someone said 'Oh, I thought you were older' to you! I'd be living the life of luxury now instead of being bothered by children who think they can teach their grannies to suck eggs simply because they have a penis.

Kleptronic · 12/02/2015 23:53

Nah he's gone to stackoverflow. To have his arse properly handed to him by real programming menz.

Didactylos · 12/02/2015 23:54

no duck yet?
pout
off to bed too
but seriously OP

the site is diverse
We are probably everything you hate about the internet
we might not even be stopped by the invoked spirit of your late mother

its a shame, better luck next time

QueenTilly · 12/02/2015 23:54

IfNotNowThenWhen

I would genuinely pay to watch if he did that.

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