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smokingboot) wrote2015-11-16 10:01 pm
smokingboot) wrote2015-11-16 10:01 pm
Snapped
Well, for god's sake.
I tend to stay off FB now, except in the mornings to wish people happy birthdays. But I try to keep my involvement down to 20 minutes, no more. The first thing I saw was a sort of minor friend ... not someone I know well but a pleasant enough gentleman... losing the plot with a few added expletives. And I just sounded off right back and defriended him.
Silly of me really, he's in general a fine sort as far as I know, and he wasn't being a bloody racist which seems to be an increasing rarity. He was probably just reacting to the manipulation of tragedy by FB, and I should have just let it slide, but couldn't hack the aggression and the swearing first thing. Hard cussing doesn't even bother me that much normally, it was just a moment's WT? like walking into a communal kitchen to find someone shouting at me. Now things are going to be awkward between us next time we meet. I'll try to make it OK without being dishonest; fact is he kicked off mighty hard. But it has been a while since I knee-jerked... Actually, no it hasn't. Last time was the death of Aylan Kurdi. All this stuff about refugees/wars and long term crap in the middle east is just getting to me. But this article may well help keep me on track.http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/no-piers-morgan-how-destroy-islamic-state-1630388804
Oh, life is better when I don't spend time on FB. Then I tried to get on with research, only to suddenly come down with the most incredible migraine as I was reading about Tolkein and the war, it was so weird,the way it always has been weird, the glorious gift of an over-active imagination. For a moment I had this vision of the trenches and a young man smiling at me, then suddenly I got that wiggly sight through water that, for me, usually heralds the start of a migraine, and away we went, no more screenwork - in fact, no more anything requiring open eyes - for much of the day.
Still, I am much better now. And tomorrow will be better still.
I tend to stay off FB now, except in the mornings to wish people happy birthdays. But I try to keep my involvement down to 20 minutes, no more. The first thing I saw was a sort of minor friend ... not someone I know well but a pleasant enough gentleman... losing the plot with a few added expletives. And I just sounded off right back and defriended him.
Silly of me really, he's in general a fine sort as far as I know, and he wasn't being a bloody racist which seems to be an increasing rarity. He was probably just reacting to the manipulation of tragedy by FB, and I should have just let it slide, but couldn't hack the aggression and the swearing first thing. Hard cussing doesn't even bother me that much normally, it was just a moment's WT? like walking into a communal kitchen to find someone shouting at me. Now things are going to be awkward between us next time we meet. I'll try to make it OK without being dishonest; fact is he kicked off mighty hard. But it has been a while since I knee-jerked... Actually, no it hasn't. Last time was the death of Aylan Kurdi. All this stuff about refugees/wars and long term crap in the middle east is just getting to me. But this article may well help keep me on track.http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/no-piers-morgan-how-destroy-islamic-state-1630388804
Oh, life is better when I don't spend time on FB. Then I tried to get on with research, only to suddenly come down with the most incredible migraine as I was reading about Tolkein and the war, it was so weird,the way it always has been weird, the glorious gift of an over-active imagination. For a moment I had this vision of the trenches and a young man smiling at me, then suddenly I got that wiggly sight through water that, for me, usually heralds the start of a migraine, and away we went, no more screenwork - in fact, no more anything requiring open eyes - for much of the day.
Still, I am much better now. And tomorrow will be better still.
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