When I heard the news that Jesse Helms had died, I was working at an emissions testing center, actually driving a car on the dynamometer at the time. I didn’t interrupt the test, of course, but I did give a loud “YES!” and left forth with a grin. I’m glad the car passed, because I’m pretty sure the patron saw me and I’d have hated for them to ask questions about it or to think I had been happy about their car failing. (By the time I was back to the patron, I’d shifted back to “professional” mode anyway.)
Why yes, I will celebrate when horrible, harmful people die. If that makes me a bad person, so be it.
It’s amazing how many different phrases you here for any given act within the kink community. I used to hear a dozen different variations for something that wasn’t on my list and my general reaction was “Ok, but aren’t they all just the same thing?” Then I started realizing subtle differences in some of my own, narrowing of specifics occurred during negotiation, and it made a lot more sense!
(Speaking for myself, I didn’t ace the grammar test because the questions that said “select the sentence with the grammar mistake” had multiple candidates.)
I’ve assumed the terrible writing was helpful to him. I don’t think it’s on purpose - I think that’s how he really writes. But it serves to select people who respond to that kind of writing, and make others tune out.
Scam emails and text messages use a similar thing: they really want to reach people who find this convincing, so they make it a bit bad on purpose. They do not want the undivided attention of people who might be clever and onto them.
