You lost me at Saturday night really. I mean, it’s Saturday night. We spend our weekends doing things we enjoy. I see you enjoy going out? So be it. Rofl clicking on refresh button. Maybe that’s what you do to get your rocks off, but unlike you, I have better things to do. Email alert tells me I’ve got a new mail in my inbox, so I check, read and reply. Besides, what I do on Saturday night is none of your business.

PS: Assuming you work, it must be lunch time for you? Spending half your lunch time concocting a four para reply must have been tough. It’s a nice day today. Keep the flame mail coming. I enjoy trading insults with a rank amateur. Oh and eh, btw, any self-respecting Melburnian who enjoys a good journalistic read would never pay $1.xx for H.S drivel. But you already knew that. Afterall, you seem to know everything.

/ouch

I’m glad that you pointed out how bored I am, as I needed someone to inform me of this fact. Perhaps I can also point out how bored you are, given not one but two responses to my last comment? You also graced me with two responses to my second last comment as well – a man with a lot to say! The final kicker was a response at 1:45am on a Saturday morning. Please tell me you wern’t tossing and turning in bed, thinking "oh how will I respond to that painful person!" There is so much to see in this wonderful city during the day or night (you could even bring a notepad, make some notes and write up a post about what you saw), yet you’re at a computer monitor, clicking refresh, waiting to see if I respond. You’re actually right – you are more than just a hack writer.

But I have some good news for you! With the Games now over, I have to get back to some real work. For you, this means I will no longer be dedicating the time to writing up responses to your posts, although I haven’t been dedicating as much time to them as you have been evidently. So I will leave you with one final thought. I don’t expect you to change your style of writing just because I am telling you to. In fact, if this was adrock2xander’s blog I wouldn’t of commented in the first place. Quite simply, the style of your writing and the content you write about reflects badly not just on yourself, but your fellow writers and the network. People who contribute good material (e.g. everyone who writes for MM, including yourself at selected times) are cancelled out by the garbage you churn out about your three favourite subjects (for those playing at home these are: international students, racism, and living in the West of Melbourne/being a "Westie" – a term that’s more at home in Sydney as opposed to Melbourne). Stop scraping at the bottom of the barrel, find some new topics to write about and you might start seeing people reply *positively* to your posts. Hell, you might start seeing people reply to your posts in general.

Good luck with your writing career John. Given how it’s been so far, I’m sure you will crack your goal and make it into the Sunday Herald-Sun’s letters section with no problems. You might even do twice as well and the paper will give you your own column. It worked for Robyn Riley.

leave the hating focused on sydney. just like what theage did today on their frontpage.

I wish I could find the link, but basically its on the sunday age and about scandalous sydney symphony orchestra.

(but why isn’t it on the online version… ?)

Oh dang you truly care about me. I knew people liked my writing, but to time my response? Wow that’s over the top! And to take time reading my profile while quoting me. LOL looks like I’ve got a fan :O

Clearly you have too much time on your hands to wring out constructive verbal abuse. I don’t need to defend myself. My posts suggest I’m more than just a hack writer *winks*

Well do come back next time. I can’t wait for the next installment of Bored Reader vs Booger-flicking Author.

I have no doubt you will read this and go straight into defence mode (as you always do) and abuse me, even if "arguing and slagging someone on the Internet is silly." I’m sure you will also break your current record of eight minutes in responding to me, even if I’m the one with the "obsession" of reading and replying to your posts.

Thank you for the invite to join Melbourne Metblogs, but I have more than enough people reading my work every day (yourself included, as a previous post indicates).

Melbourne Metroblog, along with all the other Metroblogs around the world, has always been a place for various Melbourne-based writers to share their perspectives on things that is going in, on, or around the city. It’s a place for people who aren’t familiar with the city or those who’re looking to learn more, to get a feel for the city and its people. Hell, it could even be to learn or feel a little more for the authors who write for the blog. :O

As it is, the posts are written from their perspective. Like I’ve said previously, if you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it. Or, if you think you can do a better job, join the team. I’ll love to read your first post.

I’m more than capable of writing interesting posts. It’s sorry asses like you who inspire me to write more insipid ones. *winks*

Hey, if you don’t care about the blog, don’t read it then. Or comment on a good post adrock2xander has made:O

Oh wait…

It’s free to sign up to LiveJournal, Wordpress.com or Blogger. Filter your written faeces through there and keep putting up informative pieces like the original at MetBlogs. Perhaps then you might actually have some people signing up and commenting on said posts (you know, outside of the authors of this blog) for a change.