the P.Pole

Disclaimer: I obviously think this lady is a giant ignoramus so I most definitely do not agree with anything she is saying here. This is an exposition and assassination of her character, not a show of support. Get your hatorade on her, not me.

Here’s a follow-up email response I got from Sabrina Killingsworth at theplayerscove after I had tried to make nice and tell her that bigotry is wrong (emphasis mine):

Done Ebay 10 years. Dealt with HUNDREDS of Canadians as well as thousands of buyers across the globe.

Without hatefulness I can declare from sheer experience, The dumbest questions, dumbest answers, most problems,

Most time wasted, most stupid senseless complaints, lowest feedback, most issues of “buyer didn’t read auction description,

in general, came from Canadians. It got so bad,

I even ruled out shipping to Canada all together a few months.

My ex husband works overseas and has Canadians working for him as well as other nationalities.

He happen to have made the SAME experiences over the past 3 years.

Coincidence?

I have since actually tried to figure out why that is so and how it is possible and entire country is by average

Less bright then other folks and came to some conclusions:

Canadians are incredibly naïve, that can often lead to “dumb questions”

Canada was the country where England shipped all its criminals to and I actually suspect they may have also sent all their insane,

Especially since many criminals do have mental issues. Those that came voluntary were hill billies and country men

Not having started on the high end of intelligence either.

Even though done possibly secretly, England has produced a nation that had an uneven start.

Canadians may have had an incest problem in their early history as the country was large with relatively few people in it.

Same thing happened In Germany’s Bavaria where people lived in tiny mountain communities for centuries and nobody in

Germany argues that they are (on average) about as bright as a 10 watt light bulb.

So you see, I have actually wasted some thought on this over the years……

[end of first email]

Oh and I do whole heartedly agree with you concerning Americans being ignorant…

Love this country but yes of course, there are many things in American thinking that are “off” to an outsider.

“Police of the world and God to all” is what we used to call them in Germany already 20 years ago…

However, I actually truly based my opinions about Canadians on NOTHING but personal experience with plenty of

Data and control groups…..

[end of second email]

Cool example I will never forget:

I charged a Canadian lady international shipping ( a bit lower then for other countries but more then US shipping)

She got very upset and wrote me among other bright things :

“Am I the only one thinking of Canada as part of the US?”

[end of third email]

Yeah, seriously. I always wonder how people can be so obviously ignorant and still blind to it all. How is it these people get together and reproduce?!

Notes:

1. I’m not sure, but I think she was talking about Australia with respect to the criminals.
2. I wonder if she thinks that Canada, with such a huge proportion of the population being first or second generation immigrants, is still filled with people who are the products of incest.
3. Does anyone else find it ironic that this lady from Texas is telling me Canadians are descendants of hill-billies?
4. When Americans have stupid ideas, it just appears a little “off” to outsiders,  but when foreigners have stupid ideas, it is because they are the products of incest, criminal-babies, and hill-billy spawn.

Note: Before reading, it’s important to know that I had a beef with an ebay seller with the broken seal on a small jar of paint when it arrived at my door. I would have easily accepted an “Oh, that’s how it’s supposed to be. Nothing wrong with that.” response as enough to trust their word and assume the paint would be safe to use on my expensive Zippos. However, this lady denied the very existence of any such seal (essentially calling me a liar or a raving lunatic), and went on a bitching-streak about the insignificance of my concerns and “OMG you disputed something and now my reputation with Paypal/ebay is ruined, you’re a terrible person” which I really question the validity of. This is a record and a testament to the kinds of people that really are out there (and how vindictive I can be).

Long and short of this story:

• theplayerscove has a great feedback history
• they shipped me an opened/unsealed pot of paint
• apparently this is standard practice and nothing unusual
• Sabrina Killingsworth is either incompetent with ebay’s auto-responder system, or is cheating it with her “I’m not here but I actually am if you try to get your money back”
• she denied the existence of all problems without evidence or consideration
• I have photographs and logs of the entire exchange

The full exchange and logs are after the cut. Will be lengthy and probably boring for most, but might be fun for those who like to read about examples of extremely stupid people saying excruciatingly stupid things and acting ridiculously childishly.

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I’ve grabbed some comics to read, and have been reading through Marvel’s “Siege” storyline (January to May 2010), which, as far as  I’ve gotten, deals with Thor and the Asgardians (I think it’s pronounced ”az-guardians”, not “ass-guardians”).

Anyway, Thor has this totally badass hammer, named Mjöllnir. Here is an excerpt (taken completely out of context) from the Wikipedia page:

At a banquet Þrymr holds in honor of the impending union, Þrymr takes the bait. Unable to contain his passion for his new maiden with long, blond locks (and broad shoulders), as Þrymr approaches the bride by placing Mjöllnir on “her” lap, Thor rips off his disguise and destroys Þrymr and his giant cohorts.

Read more about Mjöllnir here.

Update: Here’s a video of me, making a Chibi-Mjolnir:

This used to be just funny.

Thanks xkcd.

And as is now regular, a song: a relatively new (to me) sad song, Annie Use Your Telescope by Jack’s Mannequin. ☥

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☥ Michelle was the one to introduce me to Jack’s Mannequin many years ago, and the Carl Foundation of Musical Enjoyment thanks her for her generous contribution.

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I wonder what these smell like:

Disclaimer: Before all the Modern Warfare 1 fans and Bad Company 2 fans hate on me for liking Modern Warfare 2, might I clarify that:

1. I never bought Modern Warfare 1, so this game isn’t a rehash cash-grab to me.
2. I own and enjoy Bad Company 2 too.

So I’ve been getting some rave reviews from other players that I happen upon randomly in Infinity Ward’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″. Half the people that play with me and contact me end up sending me friend requests, and the other half send me messages telling me how much they hate my funky fresh style, like this one:

danger close noob tube camping and oma means your a noob
- mbrooker91, spelling is terribad, but true to the message

doesn’t that mean you just went 0 and 6 with a noob?
- me the Awesome, my response to him

Note: For the record, I remember bombing this specific guy once as he ran right across the area in front of me, twice more when he was feebly hiding behind a dumpster in the distance, once as he was running straight at me down a tunnel, once when he tried to sneak up on me behind some barrels, and he ate a claymore in the face. I’m also pretty sure I called a precision airstrike right on his head, and shot him with a few howitzers out of an AC130 gunship. So, I mean, I can understand why he’d be pissed. I’d be angry too if I sucked that hard.

Bite me, mbrooker91.

Conclusion

I’m putting this at the start, so people who aren’t inclined to read the whole damn rant (there’s plenty of stuff that only matters to you if you play Modern Warfare 2) can still get my point. You can skip the rest of this rant if you don’t like reading about detailed nerdy stuff, but here are the main points:

• Haters gonna hate
• Some people are average at video games
• Some people are better than average at video games because they manipulate the game mechanics to do some neat/badass stuff
• Some average players hate on these players because their methods are difficult to play against with  illogical criticisms
• My opinion: tough luck, bitches—the scoreboard says it all
• I for one am not self-loathing enough to tell the guy who just killed me six times in a row that he sucks and doesn’t know how to play
• Some people are frustrated with sucking, as they should be, and take it out on the good players just looking to get some frags in
• If you don’t like losing, try getting better, playing differently, buying another game, blaming the developers, or smashing your controller into your face, but don’t come whining to me about your terrible skills
• Oh, and note that I don’t consider myself a pro at the game, but I just think it’s dumb to criticize other players on their styles—especially if they are kicking your ass, apparently

From the conclusion at the end of this post:

Point of the story is, don’t bitch about some guy who is creaming you just because he’s doing it with only one or two (really simple) tricks. Quality players adapt and change when things don’t seem to work. Stubborn/persistent players try the same thing again and again (usually to no avail), and little bitches cry and whine about how unfair the world is.

What a mbrooker91 looks like in real life.

This is true in life as well, from both points of view. For one, it’s just good sense to put forethought, critical thinking, and contingencies into your plans. Alternatively, when something doesn’t go your way, you can either avoid it, overcome the obstacle, stupidly attack it the same way every time, or lay down and die, bitching about it all way down.

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