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The rise of the meme

September 8, 2008 - 5:54 pm - by Richard Fernandez
NahnCee
2008-09-10 10:03:54

Roy sounds like he’s old, cranky and in pain. I wonder if he’s also self-medicating. In any case, there are much more interesting things to pay attention to than a self-indulgent sick person semaphoring for attention. And name-calling.

Old Fogey – change your name. I was thinking this morning that hurling the epithet “old!” is now the same sort of insult as “stupid!” or “fat!” used to be. And I wonder why and how being perceived as being “old!” has attained the same level of denunciation as “pedophile!”, for example. In any case, naming yourself “old” just detracts immediately from your arguments and does give unnecessary ammunition to the frothing moonbats you’re lamenting about on other sites.