The Paotie Complex Response

Intellectual Humor. Especially when it's a dry or wry humor that comes with an intellectual twist makes it even more funny. If you ever listened to Steven Wright's dead-pan comedy skits then you'd might understand how that works when it comes to wry humor. A way of playing with words that many people find riotously funny. Like my own joke I made up a few years ago, "Why do they call it “manual alphabet”? Is it labor intensive or what?" Just not what you say but how the delivery of that joke is made is just as important when it comes to humor.

People generally like humor but not all humors are made equally. And not all humors are humorous to all people, generally so. Just humor me for a moment here. I like people with intellectual humor along with a good philosophy about themselves and about life. Just as I liked some of Barry's own philosophy, outlook on life and his love for nature in his The Holism blog. He find his own brand of humor that suits him and anything that tickles his funny bone just like the rest of us. Though I'm pretty sure he's a fan of the Monopoly game just as I am although I would win. But for Barry he's certainly not of the "Napoleon Complex" variety seeking control as some people would try and say. Rather I see him seeking equilibrium in life more than anything else. He's more grounded than most people would give him credit for. But to say "Napoleon Complex" is regarded as a derogatory social stereotype. An expresssion meant to be personally mean and petty. People who say those things for that just purpose might want to look into their own mirror the next time.

Now, this brings me to this complex condition called, "Paotie Complex Response." It is definitely a knee-jerk response condition. It is an automatic reflex. Sometimes it's a gag type reflex for some people while for others it's like eating succulent Kobe steak. Yummmm. A "Paotie Complex Response" might sound really bad if you're already a paranoid person but then again to be diagnosed with PCR might proved curative and rejuvenating for the more enlightened people. Which condition of PCR do you have?

First and foremost, what or who is Paotie? Easy, he's the guy behind the green curtain hitting the control buttons and levers while saying "Gawwwrsh!" in a deep, trembling voice. No. Just kidding. Really, who is he? Well, I...don't know. He's just....well.... Paotie. You know. Just...Paotie. That guy with the green moldy couch thingy on his blogsite with a bunch of stale crumbly stuff underneath the cushions. You have to read his old blog pieces in order to understand the humor and the intellect this guy brings to the table. And when he writes a piece, the paranoid, er, upset people usually come out of the woodworks and react irrationally to his writings. Things like.... well, you probably can already imagine it. It ain't pretty!

Because of that some 3 years ago I (and many others) recognized the fact that some people were willing to squelch other people's blogging style on what they should or should not write just because they disagree or don't like? Thin skin anybody?

But to promote or instigate for the limitations on the free exchanges of ideas and concepts just because people happen to not like what’s being discussed sets a dangerous precedence.

Indeed it would set a dangerous precedent. Although by saying "Gawwrsh!" in a humorous way is certainly not harmful. Kicking a stone in mock disappointment is a harmless thing. Saying "DBC sucks!" should not trigger an apoplectic fit except for the most criminally insane people who don't bother to look before leaping. Or by giving an alternative meaning to "deficit thinking" as oppose to those who say it is more about people who do not properly speak of Deaf culture do they get supremely upset when people are told it's really double speak to mean “not Deaf enough." Even that shouldn't be justification to somehow censure the blogger.

Today, even speaking remotely "negatively" on anything Deaf related is almost criminal..... to some of them that is. Not all of them but some of them. Of course, all this is a bit of humorous hyperbole and a stretch there but you get my drift. Yada yada yada. But having an opinion contrary to what other Deaf people say isn't about hating the Deaf community. It's about.... surprise.... having an opinion. And when humor is employed in the whole scheme of things to make a point do some people get all "Deaf-uppity" (word is copyrighted by this blog owner, please send check or cash for literary license use of the word) or, to move toward to a more politically correct word, really, really uptight. So tight the spincter actually disappears inward which will take a proctologist days to find. Spelunking would take on a new meaning here.

Either you have a good case of PCR or you have a bad one. Make the best of your funny bone. Just don't go all freaky on us and fall apart like some zombies. We, "alternative bloggers," do have valid opinions. Just not the mindless ones.....(that was supposed to be a zombie joke...you can laugh now).

The Deaf Dr. Evil Plot......exposed!

Interesting to see the responses in Dianrez's recent blog. One thing I'll have to correct her is her assumption that my recent video was about saving face. Hardly. If she had bothered to pay close attention it was about the ridiculousness of assuming that my quote "Heh heh...my plan is working flawlessly" is meant that I'm somehow planning to "hurt" or "destroy" the Deaf community like some people actually believed here, here, here and most recently today seen here, for example just to name a few. In fact, some people were already proposing these wild conspiracy theories at the very beginning that there were these "super-secret" meetings between me, Barry, Paotie, and whoever else. Before I even started doing the whole Dr. Evil routine quote.

That conspiratorial thinking probably started about more than two years ago when Barry first came on the blogging scene in 2008. So, if people were willing to believe some conspiratorial nonsense about us conspiring together for the ultimate destruction of the Deaf community, I decided to have some fun beginning in Paotie's blog in June 2008 doing the whole Dr. Evil act. And again here. I repeated that again probably 3 or 4 times in my blog as well. If people desperately wanted to believe in their own conspiracy theories about me and other Deaf, deaf, hh people getting together to conspire to "hurt" or "destroy" the Deaf community, I decided to play along since they desperately wanted to believe in it anyway.

Get it? I hope you do, Dianrez.

Hence with all the recent conspiratorial nonsense thrown about at me as seen in my blog comments lately were probably manifested as a result of my Dr. Evil comment started over two years ago and have since floated throughout the minds of many Deaf readers up to today. Which is why I keep saying, "Remove those insipid thoughts of any lingering conspiracy theory about me. You'll sleep better at night." In other words, you'd be playing yourself for a fool to even suggest such that there is such a plot on taking down the Deaf community. It's just plain common sense.

And, Paotie, I know you're laughing already.

So, the big secret is out! Only that I didn't need to explain all this to you, Dianrez, since the very notion that I'm out to "hurt" or "destroy" the Deaf community would have been absurd to you in the first place. Right? Yet, somehow I have the feeling you didn't quite understand all that simply because of the fact of you calling me out as "saving face" in my latest video vlog which was totally incorrect. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to this whole "Dr. Evil" scenario I played with the pinky finger in the lips thing on several occassions over the last few years but it's certainly not about saving face. It's about the ridiculousness of how some people actually believe in this whole conspiracy nonsense from the very beginning. Even some "leaders" fell for that nonsense, too. Sure. We expected that people would because they wanted to desperately believe in that.

About Barry and to help calm the nervous minds out there.

The first time I heard of Barry was back in early 2008 when he did his first blog. I enjoyed and liked his philosophy on many things, and so naturally I saw the things he said and agreed with many things on what he said. I think it was the fact that I publicly agreed with him in his blog comments did people began to speculate about us. And since people were already into this conspiratorial thinking mode that somehow we were in collusion on the planning for the ultimate destruction of the Deaf community, the DBC, AFA, Deafhood, and whatever-Deaf-organization-you-can-think-of! Sorry to disappoint you folks but that's pure bunk. Stop being so paranoid as I have said. We do have strong opinions about some of these Deaf organizations, the Deaf "leaders," their way of doing things, and differences in our philosophies, and so on. That pretty much sums it up. But just because we disagree strongly with other notable Deaf people doesn't mean we're out to destroy the Deaf community. That's pretty much common sense right there and I shouldn't even have to explain all this, either, incredibly so.

I decided to sign since I have discussed this before elsewhere on the ridiculousness of that assumption. I see paranoia and suspicion as an ongoing problem in some segments of the Deaf community. Just a tiny fraction, mind you, of those who are actively connected to the internet. This sort of paranoia could be seen in several articles on the AB2072 issue by invoking Godwin's Law along with eugenics and the Nazism labels in articles written by Deaf supporters of AB2072! I blogged about that saying it doesn't make any sense to use Nazi analogies and people shouldn't be using Nazi labels in such a way within the Deaf community. It reflects poorly on them in my opinion. And by pointing that out it's not attacking the Deaf community as some people are wont to believe but about how those articles reeked a sense of desperation.

I'm curious now. Exactly what was Dianrez's view of using Nazi analogies in those articles at the height of the AB2072 brouhaha? Did she at all speak up on that? She was strangely quiet about that over the past several months. Dianrez, was it appropriate to use those Nazi-labels, connotations and or implications in those AB2072 articles written up by Deaf people, even by the chapter president (Sacramento) of CAD in order to advance their cause?

Have a good night, folks. Sweet conspiratorial dreams.

"Stupid Deaf People"....?

I started to wonder about it after seeing Paotie’s “Stupid Deaf People” cartoon graphic of Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes cartoon – love it!) p*ssing on the words “Stupid Deaf People.” With curiousity getting the best of me I did a quick Google search using the phrase “Stupid Deaf People” just to see how people use that phrase under various context. Though people will say such a thing for cruelty purpose as well without even thinking considering the vast sea of incompetent people out there we have nowadays.

In Gallypost:
“Stupid Deaf People.”

NZMusic.com:
“I heard on the radio that QOTSA had a concert to promote their album 'Songs For The Deaf' and a crowd of deaf people came to the show thinking it was for deaf people & that they'll be doing sign language to the music. But they were wrong, they left and gave the bouncers the finger. I thought it was quite funny, stupid deaf people haha.”

Civilization Fanatics’:
“I think there is a whole deaf culture that does not view deafness as a disability. To each their own, I guess. Well, that is natural. It would be strange if there were no stupid deaf people.”


Alldeaf.com:
“Once I was with my girlfriend and someone saw us signing, people often assume I am deaf because I dont speak while signing i just mouth the words, I have overheard people say many things such as "f**king deaf people they're like mexicans you just wish you could speak spanish so you know that they are talking about you, at least they cant hear me hahaha stupid deaf people"

Colboard.com:
“Gallaudet University study is completely inaccurate and AesKnight claims he has proven it. I never went to Gallaudet or even high school. Most Deaf do not. But that possibly is just being lazy and stupid deaf people like AegisKnight, Dexter Sinister and Dark_Sage frequently point out.”


Killoggs.com:
“In the deaf tongue of the cretins of Wessex county: mung gyahalfa abeaaag guh guh guh-fah - a simple request for immoral sodomy, appears to the Deaf Arab Cameltrader as the gravest of insults, and has resulted in many pissy exchanges between stupid deaf people.”

Tallahassee.com forum:
“There is a fire station across the street from the Circle K and those folks there get calls in the middle of the night, and their sleep is valuable, they don’t need stupid deaf people blasting their stereos.”


Firehouse.com forum:
“My parents are deaf and I can sign.. If there is one thing that deaf people hate its what someone here already mentioned... just because they are deaf doesnt immediately imply retarded or dumb. Granted there are some stupid deaf people as there are with hearing people its hard for most to read lips if they are raised completely with other deaf children….”

DeafDC.com:
" Now, I didn’t know Tara. I don’t know the area she was walking in when the tragedy occured. But I certainly am not going to be part of the rallying cry that says, ‘You hear about Tara McAvoy? You stupid deaf people! Don’t you know not to walk on the tracks and to use your pager safely!?' "

Of course, we then have the phrase "stupid deafies" which is probably just as pointless as "stupid hearies." Yet the word "stupid" is a favorite word used more than 101,000,000 times over the internet versus "stoopid" (which I like personally) that is mentioned over 1,900,000 times. But the all time favorite "stupid" quote? Why, it would be the famous Forest Gump quote - "Stupid is as stupid does."

Feeling stoopid? Here is a link to a list of really stoopid quotes.