Everyday stress. Idiots at the supermarket. And I miss my FreeBSD.19:37 Jul 18 2020
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Sometimes I wonder what counts more? Is it more important how you look - or how you behave?
I think it's a well-known problem for most users here, as VampireRave is - mildly said - not the world's most conformistic or mainstream community site.
I should have already gotten used to getting "the looks" from strangers. Yes, a weird loser with dyed black hair, dressed in all black, usually wearing some weird T-shirt of some band (or operation system, or jet fighter aircraft) most people have never heard about... this automatically gives people the right to give you "the looks". Okay. I have gotten used to it. If you dare to be just a little bit different, strangers are entitled to look at you as if you were some alien. And aliens are unwanted, sorry. They must be bad. Obviously. What did you expect?
I know. I know.
Yet, somehow I am trying my best to have manners.
Even if I am considered to be "non-conformistic", I always try to remember the essential norms of being polite. I wouldn't say I always succeed, but at least I try.
Yes, it can be a pain in the arse, seeing dumb parents who don't teach their kids how to behave.
Today, while doing the usual shopping thingy, I encountered a socially accepted father with his two "sweety-naughty" daughters, about 8...10 years of age. Oh, so vibrant and sweet those girly-girlies were, running and screaming around, not giving a damn about disturbing all the customers!
It might be my fault but it didn't feel good, not at all, when these vibrant sweeties stared at me and gave an expression to their opinion with an unarticulate but loud "Uuuuuuøøøøøøøææææææhhhh".
WTF?
At this very tender age, these sweeties already seemed to know how to treat those who don't look the way people should look like. They seemed to know they were entitled to comment on it. It was so good to see them have a healthy confidence to comment an adult like this. I wonder if these vibrant little sweeties pick on their "outsider" classmates too?
(Hint: I didn't even wear Steel boots - just trainers - or some crazy, ugly metal T-shirt but a black one with the Debian spiral on it. And my newly shaved mohawk is not visible if I don't pull my hair back {it took my love a whole day to notice it ROTFL}. So, I did not look any provocative, just the usual dark thingz.)
I wonder if it's too old-fashioned or uncool to teach the essential behaviour norms to one's youngsters?
Seems yes, as they stood in the way - with the biggest shopping trolley that was available at the supermarket -, not giving a damn about others wanting to proceed.
It was me who felt awkward when I addressed them "Excuse me..."
And yes, I miss having a FreeBSD. Having a stable, reliable Linux distro is fine for everyday use - I don't allow anything *.exe on any of the boxes in the household -, but for an adventurous self-torturer like myself, challenges begin with a BSD variant. (They could probably begin with a Gentoo or Arch-Linux installation either, but having an authentic *nix is insanely good.)
I installed FreeBSD on this very laptop I am writing on, I even managed to make it bootable, but when installing a GUI, I got nothing but a black screen and a mouse pointer after logging in.
This means there is some graphic card configuring to do - this is much less torture than having to endure this stupidity and rudeness from strangers.
So I read some FreeBSD documentation to compensate for how crappy I felt. Don't think I am going to begin with configuring tonight - there is beer in the fridge, waiting for me -, but at least I began to do something with the problem.
Yes I know I have a fascinating, exciting life :P
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