Welcome to my section of the W5. Thanks to the other witches for taking me on board!
If you like to read ranting and raving you have come to the right place! without further ado...
- Ebony & Ivory - this page! general ranting
- Psychoanalysis 1 - A retrospective look at the the W5 v the HA (snigger) Empire!
- Rude Girlie 1 - She may or may not be 12, but
she is rude, crude, mean and nasty, not to mention spectacularly stupid, and she goes around flaming all and sundry,
using foul language and threats of violence, so I thought I'd give her a taste of her own medicine.
Also don't miss what the other witches have to say!
- A.M.O.M. - Anonymous Moron of the Month!
- Madness - Find out what this Foucault-inspired title means.
You know the song “Eboneee and Ivoreeee!!!” It’s basically about racial
harmony, but it’s also about different kind of people getting along.
In a perfect world we’d all get along, there wouldn’t be any need the Witches 5
because everybody would be too busy being nice to each other, turning the
other cheek and such. (I know, sound like a boring kinda world!). However the
world - in case you didn’t notice - isn’t perfect, and we can’t get along because
we just can’t! It’s a fact of life, even if you are Mr. or Miss Popular, you still can’t
please everybody! Most of the time a little tolerance will make life much more
pleasant for everybody but tolerance only works when you are dealing with
reasonably intelligent people whose opinion happens to differ from you, one of
you can accept that you are wrong or both can agree to disagree and leave it
like that. Unfortunately there are many cases where tolerance just won’t do!
There are people who see tolerance as weakness and that is when you confront
them with all your guns blazing, if it is not in your nature to do that kind of thing
that is what the Witches 5 are for. We have virtual Uzi’s and we are not afraid to
use them!
When you are out in the real world (remember the real word? Get up from that
chair and look out the window!) have you ever passed by smelly hobos muttering
a continuous stream of nonsense? How about people who like to give waitresses
a hard time? People who talk in the cinema throughout a movie? Not to mention
all the muggers, murderers and rapists out there.
Well, the internet is *exactly * like that! There you are minding you own
business, putting up a nice Sailormoon page (or whatever) full of cute images,
perhaps you have a great site that loads of people flock to on a daily basis, or
perhaps there isn’t much substance to your site and hardly anybody go there but
you are proud of it because it’s yours! Then one day you look at your guestbook
and you see things like:
"Your site makes me sick! I hate Sailormoon, and I will DESTROY your site, you will hear from
me every day until you take your site down!"
(modified from a friend's guestbook)
... and you are rocked to your foundations! Surely you don’t deserve this sort of
crap? What harm have you ever done anybody? Most people get upset and
miserable when this sort of thing happen to them, some people lose sleep and
send masses of mails to their internet pals seeking consolation. Well, the
Witches 5 are here for you of course, if somebody gave you a virtual black eye
we will (virtually) stomp on them and hold them up so you can deliver the final
blow. However, there is no need for you to panic or get upset when you see a
nasty piece of work on your guestbook.
Most of these morons just send and run ay way, they'd like to give you a good scare if they can,
but of course they don't come back beacvuse they are afraid of retribution should they be tracked down.
Life is like that, there will always be
millions of morons, loonies, perverts and bigots around, it just so happen that
one stumbled upon your page. “Sh*t happens” as they say, if you can accept that
fact of life you’d be a happier person. I don’t mean that you should just lay down
like a nice carpet and allow people to trample all over you of course, if you have
the capability to give as good as you get then do it! If not by all means come to
us for help but there really is no need to panic!
Now, my colleagues are clearly geniuses of flaming, but we all have our different ways of doing it,
what I tend to do is break the flamer's message down into little components and
analyse them so we can formulate a picture of them and see the person behind the flame.
The Witches 5, don’t leave home without us! ^_-
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