Disapproval

[pegkerr]

I didn't like this metaquotes entry and I said so.

Comments? I'm obviously in the minority here.

Comments

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Ick. I didn't finish reading it, I admit, because it seemed so nasty and cruel-spirited.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Ew, no. What a horrible thing to laugh about!

[callunav.livejournal.com]

There are some really thoughtlessly vicious people out there. It makes me sad and angry.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I'd agree that the original story is spewing nastiness in all directions, and that it's not funny. But I've seen few situations where telling people something wasn't funny has had a good outcome.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

But I've seen few situations where telling people something wasn't funny has had a good outcome.

Yes, I would agree. It's quite uncharacteristic for me to do so.

I'm not entirely sure why I did.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you say what you think, not because you think it will make the person you're talking to think that way, but so that they and anyone else listening knows that at least one person does. And sometimes it's just so that you know you said it; sometimes silence feels a little like complicity.

Or, heck, maybe some weird alien attached itself to the back of your neck and made you do it. You never know.

To thine own self be true.

[mattador.livejournal.com]

Agreed, and I said so there too.

[windswept.livejournal.com]

I just thought it was sort of dumb. Metaquotes ain't what it used to be.

[woadwarrior.livejournal.com]

The story is most likely bullshi, err fictional. I have been attacked by lots of cats that really meant it (veterinary technician for 16 years) and have never even needed stitches from claws. Needed antibiotics from teeth on the other hand.

Scott

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

That was my first reaction, too. Unless the cat was actually a bobcat or something, it all seems very unlikely.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I got to the abused dog and bailed. There is already too much pain in the world to continue reading that.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

You're lucky you haven't been banned. I know several people who have commented similarly on other entries, and were summarily removed from the community for violating the "if you don't think it's funny we don't care to hear about it" rule.

More often than not, metaquotes has become a self-congratulatory wankfest. I very rarely laugh at anything on it anymore.

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think any of it is funny. So, I don't disagree with you. Though I am rather in the group that thinks the injury is just in view of the animal abuse, which is something I have no patience for whatsoever.

[pameladean]

Ick.

The narrative voice is so disgusting and horrible that I can't get up a particular head of moral steam against the alleged villain. I figure the narrative voice is a lying idiot and the whole thing falls apart.

Even if it were true, I really don't see how it's so terribly funny unless you're an idiot.

P.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

I assumed the narrator was exaggerating very wildly for some kind of effect. So "to the bone" would compare to scratches that drew blood, for example. So the story boils down to one in which the subject has his Christmas dinner stolen by a persistant cat and returns from the ER to find his dog has also crapped in his bed. Mildly amusing in a, "oh, man, that poor guy" kind of way. Not sure about the part about beating his dog; if at all true, it's quite sad, if made up it seems unrelated to the story line.

half-roasted

[litgirl101.livejournal.com]

Can't say I enjoyed the entry either. I found it disparaging to cats, and my own kitty is urging me right now to use strong words to defend the species as a whole. First of all, most cats aren't much largere thana chicken, and dragging a whole one off the table, down a chair, and under the table with any swiftness or grace is quite a feat even for a large or voracious kitty. Could there be a wee bit of exaggeration in this tale? (Pun intended.) In addition, unless this chicken was very plain, the cat would most likely have turned up its nose at a seasoned, cooked oultry skin. I know my cat likes only the meat, not the skin, because its rubbed with salt and herbs, not something a cat would find in the wild and therefore have the pallete for. So, I wouldn't worry too much about this entry. Someone needed to use a few cuss words and so worked up a half-roasted story in which to couch them.

[fileg.livejournal.com]

good for you! what's wrong with people these days?

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. That kind of thing just isn't funny AT ALL.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

I feel ill after reading that.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I didn't find it funny, and the narrator seems just as unpleasant a character as Vince, but the story does have a kind of karmic justice in it. I doubt very much that it's true, though, mainly because of the unlikelihood of a cat clawing a forearm to the bone and mangling a hand.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

The rampaging, violent homophobia and implicit misogyny (the language as applied to a gay man indicates to me that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for the writer to use similar language about a woman) makes me retch. A truly nasty, mean-spirited, foul excuse for a human being wrote that post.

[guipago.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's funny and I don't think it's something that should be applauded. I do believe that there is a sort of justice in the world that deems that you'll get what you give eventually, and that would be the only thing I got out of it.

But funny? Interesting? Not particularly.