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WebDog posted:There was another mommy blogger who said she once did the same to a stray piece of her child's poo poo when changing. I'm sure there are tons more of mothers smitten to madness. This is just so sad and awful. I'm sick from reading this. Maybe it's hosed that I even say this, but I want that woman to get help.
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Retro Access posted:Do they somehow think that if their card gets stolen, the culprit is also going to write "check photo ID?" It's so that the cashier will ask to see some ID and make sure names and faces match. content, brought to you by the letter F******: quote:Someone Toad Him Different quote:What Would Jesus Discount?, Part 2 quote:All Manner Of Meat With No Manners LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 21:37 on Jun 28, 2014 |
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WebDog posted:There was another mommy blogger who said she once did the same to a stray piece of her child's poo poo when changing. I'm sure there are tons more of mothers smitten to madness. Get Off My Internets is a really good source of mommy blogger STDH nonsense, for anyone who's in need of another internet timesuck.
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Jun 29, 2014 00:39
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WebDog posted:Yeah that pink headband incident at Wal-Mart was written by Kathleen Carpenter aka "Katie Vyktoriah" and became a bit of a sensation last year. Actually, BPD I totally buy from that description.
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Jun 29, 2014 02:22
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DrBouvenstein posted:Accidentally asked this in the wrong thread...now I'm asking here: The only thing that comes to mind is Colonel McBadass.  No mention of punching out wolves though.
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Jun 29, 2014 03:15
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There's the "retail revenge" form of stdh and then there's the Lacey Spears brand, the kind that spans years and years; these longform medical lies that the person keeps going and dupe everyone in their lives. There was one from the last thread, maybe, that was hosted on tumblr about a girl who lied to her online and real life friends about having some kind of disease. I remember it all started to unravel when she posted a picture of herself supposedly in a hospital bed with a cat. She claimed they had allowed her to have her cat in hospital with her for some special circumstance, and the friend began to uncover lie after lie after that. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Any similar ones you can think of as well? Those are always good reads because the sheer amount of lies that are uncovered eventually is always mind-blowing.
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Double Plus Good posted:There's the "retail revenge" form of stdh and then there's the Lacey Spears brand, the kind that spans years and years; these longform medical lies that the person keeps going and dupe everyone in their lives. There was one from the last thread, maybe, that was hosted on tumblr about a girl who lied to her online and real life friends about having some kind of disease. I remember it all started to unravel when she posted a picture of herself supposedly in a hospital bed with a cat. She claimed they had allowed her to have her cat in hospital with her for some special circumstance, and the friend began to uncover lie after lie after that. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Was that the super crazy girl who also claimed to have AIDS? And had her mom in on the scam? (Well, IIRC the mom claimed she didn't know, but supposedly took the girl to doctor appointments and stuff, soooo.) I think this was the one: http://alaska-says-sun.tumblr.com/
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Jun 29, 2014 04:09
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Getting sick of the retail/food server/cashier stories. No one ever speaks like these people do with all the "ma'am"s and "sir"s. I'm beginning to imagine the protagonists (if you can call them that) as the same person.
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Münchausen by Internet is a unofficial category of mental illness where people compulsively thrive off fictitious or exaggerated ailments and so on. Often it's revealed most symptoms are based purely off pop-culture depictions of things like cancer where characters almost always seem to die heroically and peacefully. They just don't have the understanding of the disease they're supposed to be having so you have people posting during fits or strokes with little loss to their ability. There's famous cases like in 2001 when Kaycee Nicole died from her fruit salad of health complications after leading the internet on since 1999. She was a personality created by Kelli Jo Swenson then adopted by her mother Debbie Swenson. In this instance the hoax gets unraveled as people find out nothing seems to have happened in the town where she lived, no obituaries or funerals to attend. LiveJournal was pretty much the Tumblr of yesterday, to the point where they had dedicated forums setup to investigate the many many claims of "pseuicides". LJ was also the perfect environment as everything was easily controlled and disseminated at will, don't post for a week - you just were in intensive care again! You also could gain some immunity by people not talking about you out of bereaved respect as you made your escape or a new profile. It's almost a follow on from inspirational biographies, featuring personalities such as Anthony Godby Johnson, an abused kid who was adopted at age 11 and was then discovered to be an unlikely survivor of AIDS for the past 19 years. He's widely believed to be a hoax given that attempts to track him down have ended at his fiercely adoptive mother, leading many to suspect she's the one perpetrating the elaborate hoax. The really tragic tipping point is when the deception has to become real, such in the Lacy Spears case. Curiously I've yet to find something notable where the hoaxer is actively making themselves fatally ill, it's usually to a level that isn't remotely fatal - staying up all night to look pale and tired or at worst, self harm. They're well aware that any active attempts to investigate will screw them over.
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Double Plus Good posted:There's the "retail revenge" form of stdh and then there's the Lacey Spears brand, the kind that spans years and years; these longform medical lies that the person keeps going and dupe everyone in their lives. There was one from the last thread, maybe, that was hosted on tumblr about a girl who lied to her online and real life friends about having some kind of disease. I remember it all started to unravel when she posted a picture of herself supposedly in a hospital bed with a cat. She claimed they had allowed her to have her cat in hospital with her for some special circumstance, and the friend began to uncover lie after lie after that. Anyone know what I'm talking about? They let my service dog visit with me in the hospital. She lay on my feet. All the doctors, nurses, and aides on the floor came by to meet her. Most of them left happier than when they came in. No one made her leave until visiting hours were up. But: She's a service dog with a job (she's my seizure alerter) and trained not to crap everywhere. Some hospitals and rehab facilities have animals "on staff". My dog's mother was on staff at a nursing home, where it was her job to visit everyone daily and participate in activities. Before anyone asks, they're Standard Poodles, so the dog hair and allergies are a moot point. A few have a cat who visits people, like the one who seemingly predicted which patients were about to die. This is not the norm at regular hospitals, and no one ever gets to keep their animal for more than a visit.
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Jun 29, 2014 05:51
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Double Plus Good posted:Any similar ones you can think of as well? Those are always good reads because the sheer amount of lies that are uncovered eventually is always mind-blowing. The old STDH thread had a link to Linda Tirado's bullshit. DrBouvenstein posted:Weird request, but does anyone remember/have a copy/some link to an internet post (possibly from TVTropes? In one of the "Troper Tales sections?) I read about here a few years ago: There were a couple of old Weekend Web articles that made fun of amateur superhero forums: http://www.somethingawful.com/weekend-web/strippers-vampires-superheroes/8/ http://www.somethingawful.com/weekend-web/superheroes-chrstian-teens/1/
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Jun 29, 2014 06:16
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drat, he REALLY wants to live Final Fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHzaQeVVrBQ
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Jun 29, 2014 06:26
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I've always gotten a chuckle from Michael Guglielmucci. A Hillsong Church pastor (mega church that pumps out tons of Christian music albums). Guglielmucci announced to the faithful that he had cancer, resulting in tons of outpouring and and resulting in a song he wrote becoming a hit amongst the following. And he went the whole mile, forcing himself to vomit and loosing hair that his wife fell for it and quit her job to look after him. He often appeared in concert like this.  Later he shaved off his hair. But even before then he'd been floating around churches miraculously being healed via faith of: Glandular Fever A Blood Clot in his brain A Brain Tumor A Burst Ear Drum A broken leg 33 other broken bones, including 2 broken arms, 8 broken bones in his back 2 Broken hips and several broken ribs Multiple Myelomas And a blood cancer diagnosis that gave him just 9 months to live. With an oxygen bottle in tow this managed to go on for two years, and then the beans were spilt. He wasn't suffering from cancer at all! No it was his raging porn addiction (then entering it's 16th year!). His father was quoted saying he'd been fighting it since he was twelve. Of course the church wasn't very happy, remove him of his positions and gave him the boot. Any cash he'd raised to be returned or donated to a charity. Beyond that his family and associates had their reputations trounced as people questioned just how his wife somehow had no idea or even questioned why he would go off alone to Sydney for treatments let alone get no post or even pills for his cancer. I can't seem to find anything of him since 2008 so he's likely gone underground.
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poo poo, I love internet compulsive liars.  There should be a separate thread for them, since it's a special strain of STDH.txt.
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WebDog posted:LiveJournal was pretty much the Tumblr of yesterday, to the point where they had dedicated forums setup to investigate the many many claims of "pseuicides". LJ was also the perfect environment as everything was easily controlled and disseminated at will, don't post for a week - you just were in intensive care again! I spent a lot of time in high school and college on fandom_wank, obsessing over (mostly) livejournal drama, so if anyone is interested in reading about people being crazy on the internet ten years ago, HAVE I GOT SOME LINKS FOR YOU. I don't know why, but my favorite one is the Kids Next Door fandom one. It's like 28 pages of her "siblings" live-blogging her death in the hospital, including stutter typing (because they were so sad), and then someone comes in and was like "wow this is insane and bullshit" and people start calling the hospital and doing internet detective poo poo. It's great. The Life and Death of Jesse James is also great. Dan Fogelberg is a player in the story, as are his llamas. Limeybean is the first major livejournal faked death that I can remember? She claimed that she was doing it "as a vehicle to try and get some of the idiot emo kids on LJ to buck up and realise they don't really have it all that bad". Inspiring.
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Evelyn Nesbit posted:I spent a lot of time in high school and college on fandom_wank, obsessing over (mostly) livejournal drama, so if anyone is interested in reading about people being crazy on the internet ten years ago, HAVE I GOT SOME LINKS FOR YOU. Honestly, my favorite thing from then was the Msscribe story. It's a long story, but to summarize it, someone makes up a bunch of crap about herself and other people in order to get in good with the popular Harry Potter fans. Highlights include pretending to be a abused Pakistani wife who loved her own fanfiction.
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You can't mention fandom_wank without speaking of the seminal insane person that really ignited that community, Victoria Bitter.
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Christ, you people are giving me flashbacks from my time on the LiveJournal abuse team.
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bonestructure posted:You can't mention fandom_wank without speaking of the seminal insane person that really ignited that community, Victoria Bitter. The best part is that he's still wanking! (Although now I think he's in Supernatural and Teen Wolf rather than Harry Potter.)
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Funktastic posted:Honestly, my favorite thing from then was the Msscribe story. It's a long story, but to summarize it, someone makes up a bunch of crap about herself and other people in order to get in good with the popular Harry Potter fans. Highlights include pretending to be a abused Pakistani wife who loved her own fanfiction. Oh man I was not even thinking about non-psudocide wanks. I remember watching that entire series of posts going up in real time, because it was pretty much all anyone wanted to talk about at the time. The series of posts on Cassie Claire is also pretty great, because even though everyone in fandom was already aware of what a piece of garbage she was, it was kind of mind-blowing to see it all written down at once. Also, I think she already had a book contract at that point (for the first book in her YA series which she named after a NC-17 Ron/Ginny fanfic that she later deleted and disavowed any knowledge of).
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dovetaile posted:The best part is that he's still wanking! (Although now I think he's in Supernatural and Teen Wolf rather than Harry Potter.) Teen Wolf has a fandom? The 80s Michael J Fox movie? Or is this some other thing I've never heard of?
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ReidRansom posted:Teen Wolf has a fandom? The 80s Michael J Fox movie? Or is this some other thing I've never heard of? There's a new series running on MTV, though it would not surprise me if there was a rabid Michael J Fox fandom. I've seen fans of the Highlander TV series surface in the last few years.  Does anyone remember the name of the internet crazy in the Sonic fandom who claimed that she had her spine removed?
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Grape Juice Vampire posted:There's a new series running on MTV, though it would not surprise me if there was a rabid Michael J Fox fandom. I've seen fans of the Highlander TV series surface in the last few years. I like (well, liked) the Highlander TV show.  Not enough to post or read about it, or really even watch it again though.
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ReidRansom posted:I like (well, liked) the Highlander TV show. These fans were getting a group order together to get a BJD head made in the likeness of one of the actors.
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Dear Mrs. Woolf, Over the past six months, your husband has caused quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store. Our complaints against your husband, Mr. Woolf, are listed below and are "documented by our video surveillance cameras": 1. June 15: He took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in other people's carts when they weren't looking. 2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5- minute intervals. 3. July 7: He made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom. 4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, 'Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away'. This caused the employee to leave her assigned station and receive a reprimand from her Supervisor that in turn resulted in management getting involved causing management to lose time and costing the company money. 5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to reserve a bag of chips. 6. August 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area. 7. August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told the children shoppers they could come in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department - to which twenty children obliged. 8. August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?' Emergency Medics were called. 9. September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose. 10. September 10: While handling guns in the Sports department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were. 11. October 3: Darted around the Store suspiciously while loudly humming the ' Mission Impossible' theme. 12. October 6: In the auto department, he practiced his 'Madonna look' by using different sizes of funnels. 13. October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled 'PICK ME! PICK ME!' 14. October 22: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed the fetal position and screamed 'OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN! 15. Took a box of condoms to the checkout clerk and asked where the fitting room was. And last, but not least: 16. October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, and then yelled very loudly, 'Hey! There's no toilet paper in here.' One of the Staff passed out.
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Farmland Park posted:Dear Mrs. Woolf, I say, I say, that's a joke, son. Flew right by ya.
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To be fair, I've seen people repost it genuinely thinking it's real.
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Why does it bother me that every version I've seen of that story has quotation marks around "documented by our video surveillance cameras" like it's an obscure figure of speech?
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Toriori posted:To be fair, I've seen people repost it genuinely thinking it's real. There's a similar thing I've seen going around on Tumblr and a few other place about an employee at a Wal-mart Deli that always has "wacky, OMG random" messages left to him on a whiteboard by "management." It's pretty obviously fake*, but so many people are passing it off as real. *In this case, I do think it's an actual whiteboard at a deli, Wal-mart or otherwise. But there's no way that "Management" is writing these "hilarious" messages to some mysterious employee named "Shane." It's just an employee's way of trying to have some some fun at work, and making his co-workers laugh a little. Fake edit: Found it. http://www.foodbeast.com/2014/06/23...they-leave-him/    Truth be told, I do find some of them to be a litte funny, but in a stand-up-comedian "the joke/story is funny, I know it didn't actually happen" sort of way. I guess I just get annoyed that so many places are reporting it as "totally 100% legit, guys." DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 16:19 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Wacky workplace prankster poo poo that didn't happen is far and away the worst kind to me. It's so boring, and so universally not funny, and the perpetrators always seem to me like the same smug rear end in a top hat who refuses to grow up and loves quoting Jim Gaffigan and wearing t-shirts that say things like "Official Pussy Inspector".
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Going back to internet drama STDH, I was actually friends with the chick responsible for Flashman the guy who didn't die on 9/11 because he didn't exist my freshman year of college. By the time she "killed" him, we had already stopped being friends because surprise surprise she was an rear end in a top hat, but my softhearted roommate who thought she could be a good influence was still trying to be friends so I got to see her pull the "boohoo towers crashed on my friend" thing irl too. I had no particular reason to doubt her story, but boy did I have a  moment when the truth came out two years later.
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Facepalm Ranger posted:Getting sick of the retail/food server/cashier stories. I live in England, the land of Sir and Ma'am and I haven't been called Sir by anyone, not even when I visit the bank.
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Judge Tesla posted:I live in England, the land of Sir and Ma'am and I haven't been called Sir by anyone, not even when I visit the bank. I work in a school, so I get called "sir", though it's only by teenagers who have been told that how you have to address members of staff.
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Judge Tesla posted:I live in England, the land of Sir and Ma'am and I haven't been called Sir by anyone, not even when I visit the bank. Really? I hear and see sir and ma'am used all the time here in the states.
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OptimusShr posted:Really? I hear and see sir and ma'am used all the time here in the states. Yeah, and it used to bother me when I was 19 and the bagger at the grocery store who is two years younger than me would call me sir. There's not really any other polite pronoun to use (guy, hey you, bro, dude) The best idea is to just avoid using pronouns, but sir/maam are totally fine.
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"The day I called my customers wife an overpriced whore"quote:I do car sales, and I had a customer place an order for his dream vehicle (He was active duty) his wife was next to him, and it was a special order from the factory.
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PUGGERNAUT posted:"The day I called my customers wife an overpriced whore" "very tasteful rims"
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:
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