This is something that I've noticed countless times recently whilst killing some time on the pet-peeve creating, procrastination machine known as Facebook.
Essentially, it's all just one big popularity contest, so I guess it makes sense to a lot of people to create this alter ego that absent minded people who 'LyK 2 GeT PiSsD EvRy NyT lol x' will appreciate. BUT, recently I saw one profile that actually made me angry, especially as I knew the person used to be the kind of person that I described earlier.
In the 4 years since I've seen this person, they've gone from being Chavvy McChaverson to the definition of Profundity "I raided Dot Cotton's wardrobe and came away with all this old stuff that i'll continue to wear because no one else is"
Their music list consists of artists that they think no one has heard of, or will admit to liking...because they're alternative like that.
Their book list consists of a few authors with Japanese sounding names.. In High School, I'm not even sure they had the ability to read English, let alone scribblings from the Orient.
Don't even get me started on their photo albums. Apparently this person doesn't want to advance into the digital age with everybody else. The photos are actually taken on a film camera, and scanned into an album with a pretentious name.
Now, this is fine by me if you're actually a photographer, you know what you're doing, and you take pictures of interesting things that I want to look at. It's not fine by me when I have to see analogue pictures of you being an idiot in various pretentious settings.
The mindset of this irritating person can be summed up by the following quote by that politician Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow" (That's right, I did some research for this blog! Well, I knew the quote, just not who said it) Not only are they an idiot for thinking that they're awesome for not going with 'the flow,' they're also an idiot for ignoring a basic zoological fact.
Take the Atlantic Herring, for example. These fish swim in groups known as a School (or a shoal, depending on the size) in order to increase their chances of survival. Now, I may be wrong, but I'd say that this is a pretty good example of going with the flow, no? It's pretty rare that one fish decides to don their Grandma's clothes, listen to a band that 8 people have heard of and stick his middle fish finger up at Herring society.
In the countless hours that I've spent watching nature programmes such as Planet Earth, and in Particular Nature's Great Events, I've learnt that the Fish that do go against the flow tend to wind up getting their heads bitten off by hungry bears... A fate that I would quite like to see befall the individual that I'm talking about.
There's my analogy... I know which group I'd rather be part of.
Only thing is... I actually have respect for those fish that swim hundreds of miles in order to spawn... Whereas it's clear to see that I have no respect for a pretentious retard in 1930's clothing.
Over and Out!
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