Why Ask Questions That Don't Matter?
I'm getting tired of answering the same questions, so here's a FAQ for all you boring people:
Q: What's up?
A: the opposite of down (good), sky (peaceful), clouds (dreamy), ceiling (bad).
Q: Why do you say that?
A: It's the truth.
Q: How are you?
A: Same.
Q: Why do you say that?
A: In seventh grade, my dad asked me "how ya doin'?" many times a day. Seventh grade was the year I was depressed, so my honest answer would be "bad." But every time I said "bad," he'd ask why. I'd tell him why, but then he'd just tell me to get over it and stop thinking negatively. He asked the question "How ya doin'?" mindlessly, just to be polite, expecting just to hear "good" or "fine" and not genuinely caring how I was really doing. Since my dad was an alcoholic and always drunk, he would forget what that he already asked, so he would ask me "how ya doin'?" again in about an hour after I already gave him my answer. It was really annoying. I thought, What's the point of answering him if he's just gonna forget? He doesn't even care if I'm good or bad. So I started saying same, because he'd just forget anyway. Saying "good" wasn't being honest, and "bad" would get me a lecture. I also say it in monotone, so he can't detect happiness or sadness or anger by my voice.
To people online, I also usually say "same." As with my dad, most people ask "How are you?" mindlessly, just to be polite, expecting just to hear "good" or "fine" and not genuinely caring how I'm really doing. Pointless questions deserve pointless answers. For me, things are always bad and always good, depending on how ya look at them. Good because I'm fairly happy, healthy, and the best in the cosmos; bad because I'm not rich and humans are still around, polluting the earth and spreading their evil. But you can't have things always being all good or all bad anyway, because there must be a balance of the two for either one to exist t'all. But of course I don't say this, because twould be too annoying to have to repeat myself everyday every time someone asked me. So I just say "same." When people ask those stupid, mindless questions, what I really feel like saying is, "You don't care, and I don't care to tell you, so shut up and don't ask." So if you really want me to be "fine" or "good," DON'T ASK!
Q: What are you doing?
A: Homework, writing, various things on the Internet (chatting, journaling, playing games [MapleStory, Neopets, Gaia], if you must know).
Q: What's your name?
A: Ah, what's in a name? A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. If you must call me something, pick your favorite one of my brains and call me by that name.
Q: Why do you have so many AIM screen names?
A: I used to click (annoy/warn) my enemies/victims on AIM, and they'd block me and warn me to 100% a lot, so I needed a lot of SNs in order to still be able to talk to them. The warn button died in 4/29/04, but I still use about twenty AIM SNs on a regular basis because not just one name defines me. I have to have many, at least one for each of my brains/moods. I'm the goddess of 10,000 names. (Technically I only have about 450 AIM sns.)
Q: How old are you?
A: Age is just a number with a preconceived notion of how we are supposed to act. I have the innocence of the child, the body of the teenager, the maturity of the adult, and the wisdom of the elderly; so attaching some number to me and expecting me to "act my age" will not work. I don't fit into categories, and age is no exception.
Q: How was breakfast/lunch/dinner?
A: I ate it, didn't I?
Q: Did you have enough to eat?
A: I'd get more if I wanted more.
Q: Why don't you download anime?
A: #1, it's illegal if it's licensed. #2, I don't have enough computer/CD space to fit all the anime I'd like to see. #3, I don't want to waste my time or space with anime series I don't even know I'll like yet. For the record, I've only downloaded two anime series in my entire life: Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne and Kodomo no Omocha. Both I knew I already liked because I saw at least two episodes of them at my high school anime club. I also couldn't find them any other way. I usually order my anime from Netflix, and Netflix didn't have them at the time.
Q: What do you look like?
A: I look like Natalie Portman, Nori from Rozen Maiden, and my avatars.
Q: Why don't you show your picture?
A: 1. If you say you don't know who you're talking to unless you see their picture, well I could put up anyone's picture here and claim it's mine, but it may not be. Just cuz i show you a pic doesn't mean it's me.
2. you could be a stalker, kidnapper, murderer, or rapist. you can't prove you aren't just like i can't prove i'm not.
3. if you see my pic and you have a death note and shinigami eyes, you'll be able to kill me. ;-)
4. The point of meeting people on the Internet is to get to know them for their personalities, not their appearances. If you like or dislike me, I want it to be because of who I am, not what I look like. I'm not an object. I'm a person, and I expect to be treated by the worth of my brain, not my body.
5. looks don't matter if i'm never going to be your gf. It may be a requirement to you to see your lover's body, but it isn't a requirement for your friends. (If it is, then you're a shallow person, and I don't want to be your friend anyway.) All I'm ever going to be to you is a friend, so you don't need to see my picture.
If seeing someone's picture is such a requirement for you, I suggest you make friends offline. No one gets my picture unless I trust them, and it can take months and/or years of talking to me for that to happen. If you can tolerate my personality for so long, then you MAY get rewarded with a pic.
as one guy posted in a myspace bulletin:
"Stop being so.............. yourselves. I know way too many really beautiful girls who think they don't look good... It hurts... because it's our fault, guys I mean. We make girls feel like they have to be perfect. You know what I mean, flat stomach, huge boobs, round ass, long legs, big lips, and on top of all that, they have to dress like a .........., and be one as well... nobody can measure up to that... and its not fair... because nobody should have to. The little imperfections are what make people special. If everyone was perfect the world would be so boring, variety is what makes life interesting. So guys, stop making girls have to live up to your, I'm sorry, our... deluded fantasy visions of perfection. Stop acting like boys and start being men... realize that women don't exist to fufill our sexual desires. Stop talking to them solely to get with them, be nice to them because you want to be their friend, not because you want to hook up with them. Say nice things about them not to flatter them in hopes that you'll get some, but because you know they like to hear them. In short... we need to grow up and stop being dicks... just because we have them doesn't mean we need to think with them."
i'm sick and tired of girls being nothing more than sex symbols. i'm not a "piece of ass." i'm a person with just as much of a brain (if not more) as you. so judge me by my brain and not my body. friend me because you want to be my FRIEND, not my BOYFRIEND. if you don't like my rules, don't talk to me. and if u care about appearance so much, go make friends/lovers in the real world.
NO, i'm not fat. people who say i must be fat for not showing my pic are either just angry because i won't show it to them (like the wolf who said the sweestest grapes in the world were probably sour anyway), or they're trying to pull a reverse psychology trick on me to get me to show them my pic to prove them wrong. well, i'm not fat, but i'm not going to show you my pic to prove you wrong because that is letting you win. if i were fat, i wouldn't be so worried about sexual predators coming to get me, now would i? i think i'm the most beautiful girl in the world. that's why i don't want people to see my pic; i want people to like me and/or want to talk to me for my personality, not my good looks. if you are only willing to talk to a girl after she shows you her pic, then you are sexist, superficial, and dumb. and people like that don't deserve to even talk to me, let alone see my beauty.
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