Mean People

[Recycled from 5 February 2005]

(Recycled from 17 August 2004, because you'll never see it buried in the archives, and this one deserves to be seen by more people. Also, I didn't have anythign for today)

I saw it probably awhile after you first did, because things tend to reach Oregon slowly, if at all. It said

MEAN
PEOPLE
SUCK

I couldn't disagree with the sentiment, but I wondered if it really contributed anything to public discourse.

Later, I saw a new one:

NICE
PEOPLE
SWALLOW

Now it seemed we were getting somewhere. Another undeniable truth, and a more positive one. Where would we go from there?

All over the map, as it turned out:

MEAN
PEOPLE
KICK ASS

Again, true, but unproductive.

MEAN
PEOPLE
MAKE
LITTLE
MEAN
PEOPLE

They don't have to -- break the cycle of abuse!

NO
YOU
SUCK

Tsk -- that's unproductive.

PEOPLE
SUCK
ME

In your dreams, big boy.

MEAN
PEOPLE
ARE
HURTING

That one needed to be said.

And so on.

But people (mean or otherwise) seem to have missed a very good one, so here it is:

SAYING
PEOPLE
SUCK
IS
MEAN

And it is. Don't use that word, find a better way to express your disappointment with someone's meanness.

//The Magic 8-Ball says, "Meanness is undesirable."\\