Once more off into the breech...of timmies

Had to get in some COD4 online just to make sure I knew at a basic level what the hell goes on in there before I join the other curmudgeons in battle. Also wanted to level up A LITTLE, having not played it online at all yet. Team play was punishingly unfun. Not because I suck, but either teammates would just babble incessantly, or just push WAY out of the realm of trashtalking into outright meanspirited insults. For example, after getting hung up on a notched wall by a door trying to go out, I inadvertently delayed another teammates exit by 2 seconds. You would have thought my ineptness killed his dog. End of that game in the lobby, I'm the worst player on the team. Ha, big surprise there. I'm level 2! Obviously I'm bad I JUST STARTED PLAYING! Well apparently, high-level players expect everyone to be an expert out of the gate as one of them basically blames me for the team loss: "killswitch, why don't you just kill yourself?"

Another team game, some prepubscent hip-hop fan badly raps through the ENTIRE GAME. Everyone else must have had him on mute or something. I get killed twice looking through the menus for a mute function. No one else talks. 2nd game with MC timmie and he is a little more quiet until a small issue pops up. Went something like this:


MC: killswitch, stop breathing
MC: killswitch, stop breathing
MC: killswitch, stop breathing
MC: killswitch, stop breathing
(fair enough, I adjust my mic so its not triggered by breathing)
ME: OK, fixed
MC: Are you gay?
ME: What?
MC: You sound gay.
ME: You sound 12.
MC: you admit your gay?
ME: No I didn't.
MC: you sound gay.
ME: Just stfu and play.
MC: Killswitch, How old are you?
MC: Killswitch, How old are you?
MC: Killswitch, How old are you?
MC: Killswitch, How old are you?
Other player: he's old enough to be your dad.
ME: Thats right, now stfu.
Etc.
At this point, I have to get away from MC timmie and I figure I shouldn't be dragging teams down so I go into free-for-all mode. Nothing builds up confidence better than getting your ass kicked by players 40 levels above you.

Can't wait to play this with you guys instead.