Stupid Posts on forums

Don't you just hate it?

You find a thread that differs from the usually topics and possibly a lighter tone and some guy posts saying i don't want to talk about this, i want to talk about a more important issue. This issue usually has a hundred topics with an average of 4 a day started on this very topic.

WHY POST IF YOU HAVE NOTHING RELEVANT to say? Its frustrating. All it does is boost your post count up slightly and make you look like a total idiot.

Another frustrating point is when people ask a simple question that has been asked so many times before on the same forum. Especially when you do not even have to sign in to use the search bar!

Laws of the forum:

1. Use the search bar if possible
2. Only post if you have something relevant and/or constructive to say
3. be as constructive as possble
4. don't post three times on the same thread in 3 minutes when you can easily create three quotes in one post and use the edit button if you missed something
5. Use real words instead of L33t speak "lyk ths m8"
6. Use clear font and colours
7. DoN't TyPe LiKe ThIs or lik3 th15

People who constantly break these unwritten laws (now written laws) should be shot as a mercy shot.

(please note: i was joking about the shot)

First View

Oh where to start..........

How about what's on everyone's mind. Michael Jackson.

Now when i found out about this I was grabbing a local paper before work and was shocked he'd died. However that was my only thought of it. Travelling to work with the electrician, every radio station seemed to be mourning his death, and had handfuls of fans mourning, ringing in and treating the death of a celebrity with the same importance of the death of their own mother!

Now what's worse is he wasn't quite the Bono type celeb that is trying to do something good for charity and people in need (which is a smart tactic to boost profile and reputation and make money).

He was a very strange man, claiming to have a skin disease (although some claim it was himself bleaching his own skin), and claiming to have been sleeping in an oxygen tent amongst other things. And of course the court cases accusing him of paedophilia never really helped.

But he had a sad life being abused by his father and people using him which perhaps explains his personality and why he used music as his expression.

But it comes back to this question. Why do we have to treat the death of a musician making money by doing something he enjoys doing, but then has a troubled personal life as a day of mourning when there are people dying everyday who have devoted their life to helping others and die without recognition?

Oh and when will the first fan say he's not really dead, he's working in a shop with Elvis Presley?