In addition to the skype idiots, there are always IRC idiots

Any kind of chat medium seems to have the kind of people who try to start random chats with random people. For the life of me I can't understand why. I mean, if one wants to meet new people IRC has a lot of channels that one can join and talk with people on them. What on earth makes people send private messages to total strangers, and what do they expect except "bugger off"? How do they even choose random strangers to send messages to? Grep for what sounds like the names of opposite (or otherwise desirable) sex?

I am on IRC mostly to keep in touch with my real-life friends. Sometimes I get messages from strangers who either read my blog or something I wrote on Usenet, and this is quite OK. The most typical person sending the messages, however, is some Italian who can't even speak English and either does not know how to use /whois or for some reason assumes that everyone in Finland speaks Italian. I usually tell them to bugger off in Finnish, they swear at me in Italian and bugger off.

Yesterday, however, I got an English-speaking specimen who obviously can use /whois, since he is trying to insult my family, my (in a way) country and my ISP in passable English:


[consuelo has address ~eed@adsl-1-110.37-151.net24.it]

Jun 12 19:04:09 <consuelo> hello
Jun 12 19:04:20 <vera> hello
Jun 12 19:04:29 <consuelo> how are you?
Jun 12 19:04:40 <vera> fine. who are you?
Jun 12 19:04:51 <consuelo> im Davide from Roma italy and you?
Jun 12 19:05:21 <vera> why do you want to talk to me?
Jun 12 19:05:42 <consuelo> maybe i disturb you?..
Jun 12 19:06:07 <vera> yes
Jun 12 19:06:21 <consuelo> ok,so bye and ti saluto stupida ciao
Jun 12 19:06:58 <consuelo> fuck you and all finland
Jun 12 19:07:43 <vera> I don't think you can fuck anything, but that's beside the point
Jun 12 19:08:28 <consuelo> surely,you are the most antipatic girl on the net
Jun 12 19:08:36 <consuelo> so fuck you again you and all your family
Jun 12 19:09:05 <vera> hey, newbie, you ain't seen nothing yet
Jun 12 19:09:16 <consuelo> elisa fuck youu


Hmm, any guesses why Davide from Roma might be having trouble meeting women?

And yes, I am being mean to him, and anyone else would be too.