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Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012

Whatev posted:

Haha, wasn't there some Australian dude who went to jail for Simpsons porn? His defense was, as I recall, that he was looking at it for laughs. Bart get out I am piss isn't so funny now, is it, funnyman?

The Simpsons porn was created with the intent to arouse. The clickhole article isn't.

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karl fungus
May 6, 2011

Baeume sind auch Freunde
I can't exactly comprehend the thought of "Simpsons porn" and "intent to arouse" in the same sentence.

CoasterMaster
Aug 13, 2003

The Emperor of the Rides


Nap Ghost


I....I just don't know.

Whatev
Jan 19, 2007

unfading

Segmentation Fault posted:

The Simpsons porn was created with the intent to arouse. The clickhole article isn't.

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012

CoasterMaster posted:



I....I just don't know.

I love how "skeptic" has turned from "someone who tries to get the complete picture before forming an opinion" into "crazypants conspiracy theorist."

Excels
Mar 7, 2012

Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!
Well there's "conspiracy theory" and then there's like, "monster soda is the reason my son is GAY, the DEVIL did it"

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
Monster energy drink is satanic because if you drink like eight of them you could die (and then Satan gets your soul).

I Killed GBS
Jun 2, 2011

by Lowtax

Whatev posted:

Haha, wasn't there some Australian dude who went to jail for Simpsons porn? His defense was, as I recall, that he was looking at it for laughs. Bart get out I am piss isn't so funny now, is it, funnyman?

Sending someone to prison for a cartoon seems more hosed up than Simpsons porn, hth

Then again, I'm American, so where I live we have robust freedom of expression and nightmarish hellhole prisons

Zopotantor
Feb 24, 2013

...und ist er drin dann lassen wir ihn niemals wieder raus...

CoasterMaster posted:



I....I just don't know.

Neither does the poster. Even if these were Hebrew letters, you'd still only get 18 and not 666. The kind of numerology used in Revelations requires adding up individual letter values.
Here is wisdom.

Alpacalips Now
Oct 4, 2013


Finally! A facebook group dedicated to childish passive-agressiveness. :munch:

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Alpacalips Now posted:



Finally! A facebook group dedicated to childish passive-agressiveness. :munch:

Like, what is even the point of these e-cards? Why bother? Why not just type what you mean to say? Having a picture of a guy or some kids or whatever doesn't add a single thing to their point.

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
Being called cis: totally like slavery.

karl fungus
May 6, 2011

Baeume sind auch Freunde

kazil posted:

Why not just type what you mean to say?

Welcome to the Facebook generation.

Alpacalips Now
Oct 4, 2013

kazil posted:

Like, what is even the point of these e-cards? Why bother? Why not just type what you mean to say? Having a picture of a guy or some kids or whatever doesn't add a single thing to their point.

E-cards are great for passive-agressive people because someone calls them out, they can say "I just shared it cuz I thought it was funny. Chill!"

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
This guy murdered his father when he was a young teenager because he was beaten by him frequently. He spent something like 6-8 years in juvi or prison or some such.



:okpos:

DJ Fuckboy Supreme
Feb 10, 2011

And when you stare long into the abyss, you become aggressively, terminally chill

:can:

Evelyn Nesbit
Jul 8, 2012

Met posted:

This guy murdered his father when he was a young teenager because he was beaten by him frequently. He spent something like 6-8 years in juvi or prison or some such.



:okpos:

The utter lack of likes or comments really sells this one for me.

Captain_Person
Apr 7, 2013

WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
I came across this exchange on the event page for a friend's party. It is literally the dumbest thing I have seen in a long, long while.

Dear Prudence
Sep 3, 2012

CoasterMaster posted:



I....I just don't know.

That's really funny to me because I know the guy who created that logo. He's my brother's best friend and is an atheist.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Grrl Anachronism posted:

This same girl suddenly noticed the other day when she coincidentally looked out her kitchen window that this same almost 3-year-old had let herself out of the apartment and was playing in the street (and had been for who knows how long), and left a boxcutter lying out in reach and was just astonished when the kid got it and ended up getting cut, so while I hope for the best, I'm not really expecting it.
Tell her if she leaves boxcutters out the duct tape won't be doing much good.

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.

aas Bandit posted:

This fits the thread, being an ignorant FW:FW:FW: email that I just got from a relative, reads like a lovely Facebook rant, and probably went out to a bajillion people by now.

It starts off with a whole shitload of pics of nice places in Africa...houses, buildings, all the non-starving-shithole places, and uses that to make eloquent arguments:


I wrote back a long response with a bunch of facts about Africa, and how it's made up of 50 countries and over twice the size of the US with over 3 times our population, and that means that it's reasonable that there are nice places and that the entire goddamn continent isn't going to be a perfectly uniform hellhole.
You can always use this, too.



But seriously Americans only believe Africa is one small country, which is either full of beautiful foliage, amazing animals, untouched tribesmen, or AIDS, gun-toting psychopaths, and environmental catastrophes.

AnonymousNarcotics
Aug 6, 2012

we will go far into the sea
you will take me
onto your back
never look back
never look back

CoasterMaster posted:



I....I just don't know.

Those look more like zayins to me. And since zayin is slang for dick, drinking Monster means you like putting dicks in your mouth. Fags.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

1stGear posted:

Depending on how much the person talking to likes Israel, its also probably the point where the conversation is going to end and you're going to learn some pretty unpleasant things about them!
Yeah, she doesn't give a poo poo one way or the other about Isreal, as far as I know. She's just a nice old conservative lady who's convinced that "we've done our part" and "no one helps us when we need it" and "all those countries hate us anyway". (Yeah, she responded back with a long ramble.)

cheerfullydrab posted:

You can always use this, too.



But seriously Americans only believe Africa is one small country, which is either full of beautiful foliage, amazing animals, untouched tribesmen, or AIDS, gun-toting psychopaths, and environmental catastrophes.
I've seen that pic before, and it's great (and mind-blowing for a lot of people). Americans are often pretty Africa-ignorant.

The Iron Rose
May 12, 2012

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

cheerfullydrab posted:

You can always use this, too.



But seriously Americans only believe Africa is one small country, which is either full of beautiful foliage, amazing animals, untouched tribesmen, or AIDS, gun-toting psychopaths, and environmental catastrophes.

poo poo man. I know a fair bit about Africa (well, okay... South Africa) and that image still took me a bit by surprise. It's loving big.

Fatkraken
Jun 23, 2005

Fun-time is over.
so Finland isn't in Europe now?

(the map is awesome and very informative tho)

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Fatkraken posted:

so Finland isn't in Europe now?

(the map is awesome and very informative tho)

None of Scandinavia is represented. Guess that's not in Europe either.

Taliaquin
Dec 13, 2009

Turtle flu

Dear Prudence posted:

That's really funny to me because I know the guy who created that logo. He's my brother's best friend and is an atheist.
My parents are very religious conspiracy theorists. To people like that, the fact that the creator is an atheist is just more proof that he made a demonic sign.

grittyreboot
Oct 2, 2012

Taliaquin posted:

My parents are very religious conspiracy theorists. To people like that, the fact that the creator is an atheist is just more proof that he made a demonic sign.

It's a weird belief in evangelical circles that atheists believe in Jesus, but just kinda hate him. I think they tend to keep themselves isolated enough that they can't wrap their head around somebody that just doesn't believe.

BonHair
Apr 28, 2007

To be fair, I think most people believe in Jesus as a historical figure, and a lot of us atheists also believe he had some good ideas that we should follow, such as "don't be a dick" and "people from other cultures are also worthy of your respect".

CrowsNestMutineer
Mar 9, 2009

* Juciano makes the best damned Caesar dressing I've ever tasted in my life.

I rewatched one of my favorite movies last night, and made what I thought was a pretty innocuous post about it. Then this happened. These are both smart people; I have absolutely no idea what trigger I hit.

(I left in my concluding essay, just in case anybody cares about my opinions.)

Fatkraken
Jun 23, 2005

Fun-time is over.

Met posted:

None of Scandinavia is represented. Guess that's not in Europe either.

Norway and Sweden are on the list, just not on the map. I guess there's enough gaps in the map for most of the Scandinavian countries but you'd have to cut them up real small and you'd lose the impact of tessellating everything together.

Buzkashi
Feb 4, 2003
College Slice

Alpacalips Now posted:



Finally! A facebook group dedicated to childish passive-agressiveness. :munch:

Plus the passive aggressive thing is just redundant and nonsensical. Why is there a "but then again" when it would be hard to swallow? Isn't that like the definition of choking?

grittyreboot
Oct 2, 2012

BonHair posted:

To be fair, I think most people believe in Jesus as a historical figure, and a lot of us atheists also believe he had some good ideas that we should follow, such as "don't be a dick" and "people from other cultures are also worthy of your respect".

I misspoke. I was trying to refer to people who didn't believe in his divinity.

As an agnostic, I've learned to keep my mouth shut about it. I've have bible thumpers ask me why I hate Jesus so much and some atheists have accused me of being an atheist that's too much of a coward to call himself one.

Thermos H Christ
Sep 6, 2007

WINNINGEST BEVO

Whatev posted:

Haha, wasn't there some Australian dude who went to jail for Simpsons porn? His defense was, as I recall, that he was looking at it for laughs. Bart get out I am piss isn't so funny now, is it, funnyman?

Am I the only one who finds it kind of outrageous that a person could go to prison for looking at a drawing? Of anything? Talk about a victimless crime...

Blade_of_tyshalle
Jul 12, 2009

If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Thermos H Christ posted:

Am I the only one who finds it kind of outrageous that a person could go to prison for looking at a drawing? Of anything? Talk about a victimless crime...

There's a (at least one) guy in Canada who got registered as a sex offender because he imported loli hentai. I can't remember whereabouts, but this was like ten years ago, so I think it was out in the prairies somewhere. It happens.

Sephiroth_IRA
Mar 31, 2010

Orgophlax posted:

Sorry if posted before, but this just showed up for me:


? White people go to starbucks and black people play basketball hur hur hur?

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

There's a (at least one) guy in Canada who got registered as a sex offender because he imported loli hentai. I can't remember whereabouts, but this was like ten years ago, so I think it was out in the prairies somewhere. It happens.

All the American cases I've read about were either men who had already been arrested for possessing real child pornography or tried to bring in the stuff through the mail. The Australian cases are the ones where all of it was digital.

Excels
Mar 7, 2012

Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!

cheerfullydrab posted:

But seriously Americans only believe Africa is one small country, which is either full of beautiful foliage, amazing animals, untouched tribesmen, or AIDS, gun-toting psychopaths, and environmental catastrophes.

If you want hard evidence of people's total ignorance toward eastern countries, look no further than the KONY 2012 campaign, which ended with the creator stark raving mad, naked in the streets and jerking off onto cars. Millions of dollars were spent, no child soldier warlords were defeated.

Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




Wasn't the creator's breakdown brought about because people took a closer look at his organization, though?

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Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


Regalingualius posted:

Wasn't the creator's breakdown brought about because people took a closer look at his organization, though?

Yeah, the popularity of the campaign caused a new level of (deserved) scrutiny on Invisible Children that caused him to break down.

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