The Oprah of Scruff
I think it’s simply adorable when the Smiths fan who serves me coffee shares his profound ideas about how to make myself a better person. In my opinion, he might want to try a little of his own advice, beginning with #4.
Straight Edge. Please. The 80s called…they want their pseudo-populist, judgmental punks back. (Are straight edge punks supposed to drink coffee?)
I love it when people who already have a life partner and/or regular sex-partner think Scruff-like apps should evolve into networking tools. Please. If you want a gay networking app, fucking start one.
Also "peak your interest." Ugh.
You can click on still_ill (and you’ll probably have to click again) for a larger version of this pretentious horseshit, if you care, which I’m sure you don’t.
May 16, 2014 at 7:25 PM
In 1-4 I see recycled cookie-cutter advice of the syrupy (read: utopian) variety preponderant in self-help books written by female sociologists of the early-mid 1990s. Also ubiquitous in those noxiously unrealistic pamphlets issued at dating seminars for lonely men. The complete detachment from the day-to-day realities of interacting with complete strangers – to say nothing of the complete misreading of how the average person would react in our arguably anti-social digital age – is characteristic of someone giving advice to others they personally would never follow. Hypocrisy and cynicism at their worst.
On 5: I think it's safe to say the irony of using a social networking app to bemoan the disintegration of real-life interaction between people in social settings is lost on this guy.
Also: The early 2000s are waiting on line 2: They want their cliché-ridden written expression tattoos back.