The Nemesis
In a chat with a lot of different bloggers the other day, I discussed a certain sickness apparent in all of us. See, because when bloggers have a chat, we talk about blogs (duh), blogs that we like and blogs that we, erm…hate.
There used to be this one little blog around which I actually hated, and boy, I hated it with a passion. Every time I read the blog, I gagged at the ridiculous writtings, the pathetic blogger moaning about his life and the hoarde of fan-bois that seemed to think that that blog was the best around. Here's where everybody says, "Look, if you hate it so much why don't you just click the little X and never return?"
But that is about as effective as telling a smoker to stop smoking even though he knows it's bad for him. And so, everyday, my fingers felt inclined to type in his blog URL and my eyes were forced to read what our Nemesis here had to say. And everyday, without fail, I would roll my eyes at the sheer idiocy of the words staring back at my face (on somedays, I would bang my head on the table in front of me).
Discussing my problem with MANY bloggers and blog readers alike, I found that my illness was a common one. You see, Superman has Lex Luthor. Batman has The Joker. MENJ and Rajan have each other. We all have our Nemesis, a blog we hate so much, but couldn't live without. We all had different Nemesis, but each one had it's own potent effect on us all. Sure, we are all sensible people and we never (seldom) troll our Nemesis' blog, but somehow, our Nemesis seemed to make us horribly pissed offed everytime we read their rubbish.
Back to my Nemesis…his blog actually had the ability to make me horribly depressed - an ability that not many inanimate objects have. And yet, now that he has stopped blogging, it seems weird that I can no longer message my friend (who hates him as well) on MSN and say, "Hey, did you see what the stupid idiot wrote today?"
My mornings these days are pretty much spent chatting with a few other bloggers, each of us complaining about our own Nemesis. As you can see, this is indeed a common illness plaguing a lot of us out there. In fact, I am confident that there are loads of people who hate minishorts.net but are reading this as well. And the problem, like all other problems, arise when people are so pissed offed at something but have no where to vent their anger. These are the people who end up posting hate comments and become the bane of every blogger.
So folks, the next time you get really angry at yourself for reading a blog that you hate, and before posting a 'hate comment', remember that you aren't the only one out there suffering from this disease. The comment box below is for you to tell me whether or not you have your very own Nemesis. Consider this a Bloggers' Anonymous session.
Oh, and the NO LINK POLICY is back in place. Whoever your Nemesis is, you are free to share with your friends, but not shame him in public here. Unless of course if you hate my ugly red blog, then I really do want to hear about it.
October 2nd, 2005 at 3:37 am
i still lebiu even tho u hate my blog
October 2nd, 2005 at 4:20 am
Got got… and same like you, I oso alwiz message a fren and ask, “Did you see what that feller wrote today?!”
Haiyoh naik my blood pressure onli. But kenot stop reading ler
October 2nd, 2005 at 5:26 am
Tsk tsk Vincent, look at yew… plugging yourself shamelessly like no tomorrow. Haha!
I know what you’re talking about for I have sinned. I don’t browsing PPS as much as I did before because reading some of those entries in there just makes my blood boil.
Didn’t work though. minishorts has the knack of digging out blog entries and MSN it to me, thus forcing me to automagically click it. A man, it makes my blood boil so much, it evaporates into thin air.
October 2nd, 2005 at 8:09 am
well. nemesis is too strong a word lar for me. there are 2 blogs i used to frequent. i know one of the authors personally.
and then it got too narcissistic for me. every entry would be accompanied by a posed photograph. no doubt, they’re cute, pretty even. but to me that was too much. Blog about her fren, but would have a huge picture of her posing. blog about food. more pics of her.
i think to hate someone’s blog and yet to keep visiting it, and complaining about it, reflects on our own hypocrisy and need to bitch. hence, i no longer visit the blogs i don’t like, and do i complain about it.
heheh. too deep.
October 2nd, 2005 at 8:27 am
Hate the blog, not the blogger.
I guess that doesn’t make them my nemesis because at the end of it, it’s the content and not the person I hate. Can’t make an enemy of a person I don’t even know now can I?
Unless they are spammers and trolls, but that’s a different story altogether.
October 2nd, 2005 at 9:13 am
Hmm, read ppl’s blog can get pissed off one har? But yet addicted and keep going back to read and get pissed off again, and again? So this is still Vincent guest blogging?
October 2nd, 2005 at 10:48 am
i don’t understand. where do you guys get all these horrible blogs to read? how come i’ve never encountered any really loathsome ones? i feel so deprived…think of all the could-have-been blog rantings!
October 2nd, 2005 at 10:58 am
Can find one. The loathsome ones are all out there. Truckloads of them.
October 2nd, 2005 at 11:51 am
I love minishorts jie jie but i hate minishorts.net… *muax*
October 2nd, 2005 at 12:36 pm
Lishun said, “how come i’ve never encountered any really loathsome ones?”
Awww, you not visited me yet! Shucks!
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Anyway, getting back to Vincent’s quetion regarding Nemesis, I have no nemesis. Mainly, as I avoid blogs I don’t like. If I think the person is an idiot, then I don’t see the point in frequenting their blog and making them more popular, or increasing their traffic.
There is one blog I visit though, were all the commentors seem to be highly opinionated idiots who love to try ramming their lack of knowledge and understanding down each other’s throats, and that’s a place called Slashdot.
In theory, it’s ‘news for geeks’ (if I may use that phrase). What I’ve discovered though, is the US ppl have difficulty thinking outside of their own country (they seem to think all laws are the same as US laws or should be). [Yes, I made a very broad generalisation there]
These idiots lie in order to win arguements, as if winning is the important thing, rather than figuring out the truth and using the truth to make the world a better place.
It’s basically a blog full of trolls. I still frequent the place and read the articles, but avoid reading the comments. It just makes me angry reading all those idiots ranting away as if their opinion is more important than anything else on the planet.
What’s worse, is I’ve beaten some of these idiots in arguements, had them admit they were wrong, and a week later they are back saying the same thing they had to start the arguement to begin with. [Which just goes to prove, the world is full of idiots who can't change, even when they know they are wrong].
October 2nd, 2005 at 1:22 pm
I have a nemesis and his name is Vincent. But only because he’s a Manure fan. HAHAHAHA
Though there ARE some blogs I can’t stand, though they don’t know I can’t stand them, so they can’t can’t stand my blog and become my nemesis either because they don’t know thye are my nemesis.
WHEE!
October 2nd, 2005 at 1:46 pm
nemesis blogs are the bestest because they’re like one-stop entertainment centres: angry? diss blog X! sad? visit blog X, you suddenly feel less pathetic! lonely? visit blog X, check out someone everyone hates more than they do you!
very shiok sendiri sometimes, but what to do.
October 2nd, 2005 at 2:18 pm
Heh, I need a new nemesis. Preferably one that doesn’t threatens violence should he meets me…
October 2nd, 2005 at 2:43 pm
MENJ and Rajan have each other.
I laugh because it’s so true!
October 2nd, 2005 at 2:51 pm
Also, I do have bloggers I used to loathe. But really, I did myself a kindness, and I rarely went to see what they wrote in their blogs.
Seriously rarely. I learnt from USENET, and so should all of you!
October 2nd, 2005 at 3:04 pm
I dont have nemesis wor…I feel incomplete. Vincent…wana be my nemesis ar? Then we can sit and bitch about each other? Haha..
October 2nd, 2005 at 3:13 pm
Blogging Nemesis 101
Or how when I think about it…I’m actually Clark Kent without the red underwear.
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October 3rd, 2005 at 12:41 am
yes, my nemesis that that kimberly-pukiface-cun “thing”, she is exposed my email and publish my IP,she is fcuken nightmare, she makes me scare of everything now even the noises of little kitten scares me…
YeS YOU ARE AN IDIOT TOO>>> STUPID>>>> POST SO MANY TIMES FOR WHAT>>>
October 3rd, 2005 at 12:43 am
yes, my nemesis that that kimberly-pukiface-cun “thing”, she exposed my email and publish my IP,she is fcuken nightmare, she makes me scare of everything now even the noises of little kitten scares me…
I bet YOU ARE A FCUKEN dream come true for many people, hoh? Until got no name some more.
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:20 am
I do have a nemesis…but these days, it’s getting boring just reading her.
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:21 am
Don’t quite understand. When its published its up for grabs. Don’t like it, tough.
“Asking readers to look for the x icon?” is immature at best.
October 3rd, 2005 at 10:56 am
I stopped reading my nemesis. So proud of myself k.. heehee… it was like a crazy addiction wif it’s related withdrawal syndrome.
lishun: can find one.. can find one..
October 3rd, 2005 at 9:17 pm
This is soo true, I had a friend with a blog that turned into a nemesis with a blog.. I am physically repulsed by what she put’s on it, and have forced myself to not read it. Otherwise it does upset me a little..
Although my other friends (especially ones on MSN etc) will tell me the latest about her blog entries.. But i can take it like that - being told what was on it. Just actually reading the site makes me cringe..
October 6th, 2005 at 1:30 pm
[...] So I have been shopping around for a new nemesis, I thought, hey why not someone who knows the difference between KY Jelly and Ansell? Tariq Kamal, expect long, windy, slightly sarcastic, mainly neurotic denounciation of your views on my blog tomorrow morning. [...]
October 8th, 2005 at 1:11 am
Haha. Finally, somebody talks!
Have you all ever considered that Rajan and Menj might actually hype each other up intentionally?
“You scratch my back and I’ll scatch your voila, we’ll be famous!” kind of of stuff?
Or not. But hey, internet would be a boring place without clowns.
October 9th, 2005 at 2:00 am
The only reason I read Menj blog is I am paid by Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence Agency. That’s why he calls me the Zionist blogger.