_Not_ Randomly Generated

[andrewducker]

I started a whole rant about how annoying I find the randomly generated LJ Drama entries making the rounds at the moment, but I really can't be arsed.  Let it just be said that I want to read about _you_ and what you've been up to recently, what ideas you've had and what your hopes and dreams are for the future.

At a push I'm vaguely interested in what Harry Potter character you would be, or what fruit is most closely aligned with your soul.  Because at least most of those quizzes are based on things _you_ said about _yourself_.

I could even be interested in a link to the LJ Drama creator, where I could have hit refresh a couple of times to see what amusing drama could be created amongst my friends.

Having my friends-page broken up by random strings of words punctuated by the LJNames of people I don't even know, on the other hand, is just irritating.  Especially after the 20th friend posts it.

Oh, and apparently I can be arsed after all.  Go me.

Comments

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

You're just mad cos someoneyoudontknow and someoneelse were talking about you in class!!!!LOL!!! :)))

Or something.

In other words: Quite. I suppose some fun comes from maybe seeing your friends list respond to how they've been positioned. It's not that different to how the other ones work where they say at event E, X is most likely to throw up while Y runs off with Z.

Although I differ from you in that I have a vague idea who these people are and find imagining the scenario SO much more interesting than five people reporting that they are the letter P.

[kellibunny.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

Now, what is arsed?

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

Having my friends-page broken up by random strings of words punctuated by the LJNames of people I don't even know, on the other hand, is just irritating.

Yes.

Even more irritating is the fact that the individual(s) who compiled the Drama Generator can't spell some fairly common English words.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

But those people find those things interesting.

-You- find posting about C++ interesting.

Yes, they're just random little things that throw out random names. But people on your friends list -like- them. If you're reading a livejournal that isn't your own, then you can't expect other people to tailor their content to suit you. They'll post things that interest them, whether it's extensive surveys found on the internet, random name generators, "amusing" photoshopped pictures, links to sites that you may or may not have scene, endless comic strips, or their own thoughts and feelings. Having someone on your friends lists means that things that interest THEM will appear on your friends page.

I don't post those things at the moment, but other people can post what they like. It's not as if it even takes a second to move the mouse wheel enough to scroll down the way.. and this connection is quite fast, so I don't have to wait forever for them to load.

I'm sure, if you were really bored, you could write some code to filter them out of your friends page, so you never, ever had to view them.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Even more irritating is the fact that the individual(s) who compiled the Drama Generator can't spell some fairly common English words.

Um, I think that was probably deliberate.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

You all are missing out on the *really* fun part of posting randomly generated drama: when your friends think it's *true*.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

I agree totally. Amusing for about a minute when I tried it out the first time I saw it linked to from my FL. Which was about three days ago.

[andrewducker]

Presumablt British version of "can't be fucked" or "Can't be buggered" or (less offensively) "Can't be bothered"

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. They are perfectly at liberty to post anything they like on their journal, and I'm absolutely at liberty to post anything I like on mine, including rants about their journals.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

LJ drama??

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

See, I really can't be arsed to do it. At best, I may link to this, but I'm not sure I can muster up even that much effort.

[andrewducker]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/missedith01/162838.html is an example.

[broin.livejournal.com]

About two people on my flist post memes.

You need a better class of flist.

Or filter your flist accordingly. =)

BWAHA.. I got this. No really, I swear.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

andrewducker went around saying how they saw me backstabbing cloverdryad. And yeah. You might guess I don't give a flying f*** what they think anymore. I'm over that.

BWAHA.. I got this. No really, I swear.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

andrewducker went around saying how they saw me backstabbing cloverdryad. And yeah. You might guess I don't give a flying f*** what they think anymore. I'm over that.

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad to have obliged you retrospectively by having ignored the whole stupid meme.

[andrewducker]

I knew I could depend on you

[darkoshi]

I think those first 2 are also mainly British terms. Americans might say "can't be bothered", but even that isn't very common here, I think... I'm not sure if we even have a similar slang expression. I can only think of "I'm too lazy to..." or "It's not worth my time to..." but those aren't slang.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Wow, it really does generate drama! o_o

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Imagine living in a society so industrious that they don't have the concept of not being arsed. Gracious.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I LOVE this.

And I can tell who wrote it and why -- it's because this sort of thing could be read hour and hour after hour if you go here.

http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest.bml

My only regret is that it doesn't include MORE lj names. "And then also I think x is thinking about sleeping with y when x KNOWS I am thinking about sleeping with y which is just gross since we ALL know y is thinking about z. At least a, b and c know it. And you know, that's everybody.