Reasons For Hating People – Part 1
The first of an ongoing series of posts highlighting reasons for truly detesting many people in general or some people specifically.
Exclusive Status: It’s in The Bag – washingtonpost.com
The Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork is this summer’s ultimate status bag, ringing in at $52,500. And it is arriving in Washington by the end of the season, ordered by a woman whose circumstances and identity the company has ever so politely (again and again) declined to disclose.
Remarkably, a Louis Vuitton spokesperson then goes on to describe this kind of customer as “very sophisticated”. Heh, yeah… about as sophisticated as a pig in pearl earrings. Anyone who’d spend that kind of money on a purse is, by definition, a tasteless fuckwit. They might just as well have wiped their ass with that $52,500 and flushed it down the toilet.
What a truly repellent way to waste money.
Posted by RebeccaHartong on August 21, 2007 under Uncategorized
Boy, you sure love to hate people.
How about spreading a little love and happiness instead of being so judgemental?
May I suggest a blog topic?
“Ways to make the world a better place by ‘paying it forward.’”
Good day to you.
What, do you work for Louis Vuitton? Explain to me, if you can, how anyone with even an ounce of decency could spend more than 50 thousand dollars on a purse. The only way I could see this being anything other than a truly disgusting status-grab is if you tell me that Louis Vuitton is donating at least $50,000 of the price of that purse to a worthy charity. Otherwise, there’s no way to see this as anything other than an obscene show of wealth and fully worthy of all the hate I’ve got to pour on it.
I don’t have any right to tell people how they should spend their money. Who’s to say that person isn’t some wealthy philanthropist who has done a lot of good with their money? I can’t judge someone just by a single purchase.
How about going to that store and asking the rich clientele there if they’d be interested in donating to, I don’t know, ?
Turn all of this energy of yours into something something POSITIVE. Personal attacks on people is not very becoming.
How about you go to that store and suggest the rich folks do something less boorish with their money? I’m content to just stay here and call them what they are. I don’t care how much of the rest of their fortune they might spend on charities. It doesn’t make throwing away $52,000 on a purse any less disgusting. There’s simply no good excuse for spending that kind of money on something so grotesquely useless. It’s the handbag equivalent of a solid gold toilet.
Oh… and as for “personal attacks on people” not being very becoming…
First, I haven’t made a personal attack on anyone except the unnamed individual who wasted 52 grand on a purse. I’m not sure that even counts as a “personal attack”. (And, what?, you don’t ever say anything negative about ANYONE? Murderers? Thieves? There’s no name-calling allowed, no matter what??)
Second, you really can just go fuck yourself, Steve. Do you really think I give a rat’s ass whether YOU find my way of communicating “becoming”?
Ha!
Hehe – spot on.
Very eloquent. So buying an outrageously expensive item is akin to murdering. I’m glad you’re not a trial judge.
I’ve realized you have no argument for people who disagree with you other than “go fuck yourself.” Again, eloquent and insightful.
I’ll be sure to check back on your inspiring and uplifting blogs.
Steve, Steve… did I say buying an outrageously expensive item is akin to murder? No, I did not. I’m glad to see, though, that you are also outraged by the price of the Louis Vuitton purse.
I answered your argument, Steve. My answer is:
a. I believe it’s obscene to throw away $52,500 on a purse and I believe I’m fully entitled to insult anyone who’d do so, and
b. I don’t care what you think of me.
The fact that you don’t like my answer doesn’t mean that your “argument” (such as it was) was unanswered.
Stop by often, Steve. There’s a lot to see. I’ve been writing this blog for several years now.
You encourage people to comment here but then tell them to go fuck themselves when they disagree with you? Grow the fuck up woman!
I think this guy’s point, and I agree with him, is that you’re a mean judgemental person who likes to insult people. Might want to look in the mirror…
Good luck with your anger management.
Actually, Barney, I pretty much only tell people to go fuck themselves when their entire argument against whatever it is I’m writing about rests on the problem they’ve got with me not being “nice”.
Steve earned a “go fuck yourself” when he chose to switch from an argument that addressed the actual issue to a critique of how “unbecoming” my language was. Of course, whether my language is “becoming” or not is entirely irrelevant to my argument that spending $52,500 on a purse is a grotesque waste of money. Steve disagrees with me on that point — and that’s fine — but he could see that he wasn’t having any success persuading me over to his view. Therefore, he attempted an appeal to personal vanity. It’s a lame rhetorical trick that probably works on some people. It doesn’t work on me.
To a certain extent, Barney, you’re doing the same thing: an appeal to my personal vanity in an attempt to get me to “be nice”. The actual content of my argument doesn’t appear to concern you. Only the way in which it’s delivered.
So, I guess you could go fuck yourself too, if you want.
In case anyone’s still reading this…
I just noticed that the IP address and originating URL for “Barney” is the same one used by Steve so it’s extremely likely that “Barney” and Steve are the same person.
Shame on you, Steve.
I hadn’t planned on mentioning it, but Steve’s not a complete stranger to this web site.
Early this year I posted something on a completely unrelated topic where I made an unflattering comment about Steve’s wife — who, at that time, was a public figure of sorts. Shortly afterward, the wife wrote to me complaining about the post. I suggested that she was overreacting and went on my merry way. (It was a very mild comment, folks — it’s not like I told her to go fuck herself. No naughty words were used and the comment was entirely appropriate to what the woman was doing that made her a public figure.)
A few weeks ago, I received an email from Steve — who happens to be the woman’s husband. (He didn’t identify himself as such but I’m quite capable of reading originating mail server addresses and matching them up with information contained in an online Washington Post article where the husband’s name and employment are mentioned.) I politely told the husband, too, that I wasn’t going to remove the post.
And here’s the husband back again — commenting about how MEAN I am. Understand, I knew from the start that it was the same person as the guy who’d sent me the email but I figured I’d let him just do his thing.
Steve, if you’re reading this I want you to think about something: If I were REALLY MEAN I could have identified you right up front. I could have written an entirely new post naming you and your wife and criticizing you both for being so damned thin-skinned. I could have named your employer since you’re obviously posting from work. I could have made this little episode really bad for you. It would have been embarrassing and it might even have threatened your job.
I didn’t do any of those things, Steve. Think about it and try to put that in the context of my entire web site. After all, I have written a LOT more than just that mildly unflattering thing about your wife and criticisms of people who buy expensive handbags. (Heh… like you REALLY care about the Vuitton purses, Steve. Good lord, man — how long have you been waiting for a post you could disagree with so you’d have your chance to “get back at me”??)
Anyway, I think it’s you who needs to “grow the hell up”, Steve. You’re obsessing about this thing with your wife.
You’re welcome back here. Really. But please try to resist the urge to make up fake identities who post comments that prop up your own. And please try to put this whole thing behind you. It’s good that you’re trying to protect your wife but, really, in the grand scheme of things my dislike of…that thing about your wife that I’ve already commented on…is nothing.
I’ve been thinking about this some more and I’ve got an idea. Well, a couple of ideas.
Since that post from way-back-when is pretty obviously still bothering you, why don’t you write a follow-up comment on it explaining why you think I was being unfair? You can post anonymously so only you and I (and you wife) will know that it was you. And, as long as you make your comment more substantive than “Rebecca is a mean bitch” I won’t even post a snarky follow-up. I’ll just let it stand. That way, anyone who has found my original post by googling your wife’s name, will have the opportunity to read your explanation of why you object to the post.
Alternatively, if you want to do something a little splashier, I’m offering you the opportunity to be guest blogger for a day. You could write a full explanation of why you object to my original post and title it something like “D_____ _______ Replies” or something. That way, you’ll get an additional positive Google hit to balance what you believe is a negative hit from my initial post. However, be aware that if you want to go this route, I do reserve the right to post follow-up comments of my own explaining why I think you’re wrong. (Assuming I continue to think you’re wrong.) If this is something you’re interested in doing, just shoot me an email with your post and tell me you want me to put it up as a “guest blogger” thing.
Your choice.
you are awesome Rebecca and well spoken. Keep up the great blogs.
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Steve…ahhh you have made a very weak attempt to manipulate a conversation…FAILURE!!! We all see you for the arrogant, hypocrite that you must surely be…go back to hugging trees.