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bonestructure
Sep 25, 2008

by Ralp

Fatkraken posted:

Basically the best way for women to avoid being raped is for them all to become modestly dressed lesbians and prowl the streets in large crowds, possibly armed.

Sign me the gently caress up for this :dance:

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karl fungus
May 6, 2011

Baeume sind auch Freunde
What is even the point of radio anymore? Like, why do I need to sit through ads for songs I probably don't want to hear, played in an inconvenient order for me, when I can just grab an MP3 player and listen to them whenever I feel like it, as many times as I want, with no interruption?

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Podcasts are radio 2.0, cool people talking about things I'm interested inn. Much better than regular radio.

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)

Get a load of this square.

thunderspanks
Nov 5, 2003

crucify this


karl fungus posted:

What is even the point of radio anymore?

The point of commercial radio, just like the point of television, has not changed in decades. It exists solely to sell advertising space. As long as they are selling ad space, they will never go away.

IceAgeComing
Jan 29, 2013

pretty fucking embarrassing to watch
Radio is fantastic for hearing music that you haven't heard before; or for very interesting speech stuff; like a fair amount of Radio 4.

Regular top 40 stuff is pointless now IMO, but there's always going to be a place for more specialist stuff.

PUGGERNAUT
Nov 14, 2013

I AM INCREDIBLY BORING AND SHOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT FOOD IN THE POLITICS THREAD
I like a lot of the BBC radio stations, they play some really interesting stuff and they also run a bunch of neat Spotify playlists that I follow.

I'm surprised more radio stations aren't using Spotify, that seems like a much more appropriate way of Social Media Outreach[TM] as opposed to reposting "BET U CANT NAME A BODY PART THAT DOESNT HAVE AN X IN IT".

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Not exactly social media, but it is a 5-star review for the Facebook Messenger app titled "Groupthink 101 for the Sheeple"

Zero Star
Jan 22, 2006

Robit the paranoid blogger.
(NWS probably) Here is a list of the most popular terms that Redditors search for: http://subredditfinder.com/

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Athiesm, beastiality, and boobs.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬




Reminds me of a clip I only saw yesterday, but is equally scathing of the stupidity of the public. BBC One used to air these awful 'letters from viewers' shows, and someone complained about a Chris Morris bit. They actually ran his response, and it's - of course - genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_FXnSjBLY

Ah, back in the 90s when British TV had some bite...

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

IceAgeComing posted:

Radio is fantastic for hearing music that you haven't heard before; or for very interesting speech stuff; like a fair amount of Radio 4.

Regular top 40 stuff is pointless now IMO, but there's always going to be a place for more specialist stuff.

Yeah, this is what I look to radio for. It's a way to hear new music that I wouldn't hear otherwise, and keep on top of news.

I do listen to Top 40 radio, but that's for a couple reasons:
-In Australia, there's not much else. You've either got top 40s, classics that were once in the top 40, and the government-funded broadcaster that I can never find the frequency for.
-If I can grit my teeth through the boy bands that are apparently a thing again, and Pink hasn't released a new album recently, the Top 40 is full of music that I'm pretty okay with.

Spalec
Apr 16, 2010

Met posted:

Athiesm, beastiality, and boobs.


The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Post Your Favorite (or Request) > Idiots on Social Media: Athiesm, beastiality, and boobs.

SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts

Antioch posted:

I got one! I ended up arguing with this guy on twitter a couple days ago over a comment he made to the mayor.
A few days pass and he decided to bust out some more BS about how 'sodomites' are ruining Alberta.
So I made a donation to the local pride centre in his name.

His response:


and the full link. His blogspot is certainly something.

http://3edgesword.blogspot.ca/2009/04/sodomites-dont-get-no-rights-in-my.html

I wish Feynman were still alive today so I could watch him punch this fuckbag in the face.

Soviet Commubot
Oct 22, 2008


karl fungus posted:

What is even the point of radio anymore? Like, why do I need to sit through ads for songs I probably don't want to hear, played in an inconvenient order for me, when I can just grab an MP3 player and listen to them whenever I feel like it, as many times as I want, with no interruption?

In some niche markets it does ok. I listen to the radio to listen to local news from a local perspective in the local language, all of which are kinda hard to find in the heavily Paris-centric French media market. If it weren't for all three of those factors I probably really wouldn't listen to radio at all. It helps that they have pretty decent shows too. I just looked at their Facebook page and all their posts are about upcoming shows so that probably says a lot.

As for content, I see artifacted images a lot but god drat, how did they do this and what did the original look lik?

thunderspanks
Nov 5, 2003

crucify this


Sometimes when I'm feeling sassy I'll post this in response to someone who reposts some awful artifacted garbage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzhxP-pdos

Kaiju Cage Match
Nov 5, 2012




Soviet Commubot posted:

In some niche markets it does ok. I listen to the radio to listen to local news from a local perspective in the local language, all of which are kinda hard to find in the heavily Paris-centric French media market. If it weren't for all three of those factors I probably really wouldn't listen to radio at all. It helps that they have pretty decent shows too. I just looked at their Facebook page and all their posts are about upcoming shows so that probably says a lot.

As for content, I see artifacted images a lot but god drat, how did they do this and what did the original look lik?



To be quite honest, if a woman brings home the venison, you should put a ring on that finger ASAP.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Facebook Knows You're Dumb, Adds "Satire" Tag to Onion Articles

bean_shadow
Sep 27, 2005

If men had uteruses they'd be called duderuses.

Double Plus Good posted:



Date night with the hubs! getting dressed up, dropping two of our family pets off at the shelter where they will be terrified and abandoned and probably euthanized, then who knows??? maybe dinner and a movie?? fun timeS! This poo poo just makes me so mad, like stop loving getting animals if you don't give a poo poo about them, just loving stop, goddamn it. This is the FIFTH person from my friends list that has given up their dog or cat in the last year. But at least the others tried to dump their pet off on a friend or family member first. poo poo. I hope they at least made an effort to drive their asses out to one of the good humane societies around here before proceeding with their "we are 21 and have two kids and our shotgun marriage is already stale" date.

edit: wait, there's more!



oh good, good thing you didn't waste your precious time and gas driving all the way out to the humane society to dump your loving pets, good thing they're "spared" another dare in your care until you find the time to drop them off. People who are careless with animals they brought into their lives make me boiling loving mad.

There's someone on my Friends list who wants to get rid of two cats and is asking for advice. Cue her terrible friends coming in whining about how terrible cats are, and they are like cockroaches and they smell.

Rat Patrol
Feb 15, 2008

kill kill kill kill
kill me now

bean_shadow posted:

There's someone on my Friends list who wants to get rid of two cats and is asking for advice. Cue her terrible friends coming in whining about how terrible cats are, and they are like cockroaches and they smell.

The wrongest thing in this post is the fact that this person is on your friends list.

SpliffClavin
Jul 31, 2007

oh geez rick
When I woke up this morning I thought "I sure hope I can see a newborn baby's dick before I leave for work". Thanks, facebook friend that I barely know.

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo
I feel like I'm back in the 90s because I just received an entirely incomprehensible chain SMS.

quote:

?? Hey RIP to all the people that died in the army this year. This message actually works!Even ask your phone company. Send to 10 people then look at younsiquences ( ie people being hurt by lies)

All I replied was uhh what?

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

SpliffClavin posted:

When I woke up this morning I thought "I sure hope I can see a newborn baby's dick before I leave for work". Thanks, facebook friend that I barely know.

please don't babydick shame

Samfucius
Sep 8, 2010

And if you gaze long enough into a nest, the nest will gaze back into you.

SpliffClavin posted:

When I woke up this morning I thought "I sure hope I can see a newborn baby's dick before I leave for work". Thanks, facebook friend that I barely know.

At least us was just the baby's dick.

When I was born my dad was so unbelievably proud and happy he brought a picture of me taking a bath to show to the office. The thing is, my dad was in the bath too, making sure I didn't drown or whatever. My mother still face palms when she remembers finding out.

He refuses to get a Facebook, but if it had existed back then he definitely would have been that guy.

KillerEggplant
Apr 2, 2011

When my cousin's son was born, she emailed everyone in the family a birth announcement. While I don't recall the exact wording, it was something like "big, just like Daddy!" Paired with the picture, there was a clear implication of a dick joke. I still can't think of the right word to express my reaction; shocked isn't really right, appalled is too strong, and mildly disgusted doesn't quite cover the full range. More like:



She didn't have a facebook then, but I'm sure it would have been on Facebook if she had.

bpc908
Jan 27, 2013

Kacho of My own little gaming world

theironjef
Aug 11, 2009

The archmage of unexpected stinks.

Ambitious Spider posted:



People are having fun and raising money for charity. Stop being a curmudgeon. Same dude from "state police:0 Me:1" for those who are curious.

Eh, the higher-ups at my work are doing that today, they are unilaterally of the opinion that "you dump the water and you don't have to donate any money!" My CEO thinks it will raise awareness of our company.

Any though that they might be raising awareness can be dispelled by asking them what the ice bucket challenge is for, since when I tried that with them I got "ASL" "fun" and "raising money for charities" as answers.

54 40 or fuck
Jan 4, 2012

No Yanda's allowed

IceAgeComing posted:

Radio is fantastic for hearing music that you haven't heard before; or for very interesting speech stuff; like a fair amount of Radio 4.

Regular top 40 stuff is pointless now IMO, but there's always going to be a place for more specialist stuff.

Someone in my family works in radio, I listen to them every day and as soon as their program is done I turn the radio off, or change to CBC or something. I'm glad they'll be retired before radio really does start to simmer away more.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out
The idea is that if you dump the ice water on your head, the person who "challenged" you has to make the donation.

The whole thing actually has been successful for the ALS Association.

old bean factory
Nov 18, 2006

Will ya close the fucking doors?!
dump the ice water, lowtax

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Ambitious Spider posted:



People are having fun and raising money for charity. Stop being a curmudgeon. Same dude from "state police:0 Me:1" for those who are curious.

Other than "Charlie Sheen gets it" and the trickle-down philosophy, this doesn't seem too stupid. I think the problem with "pink washing" (and its variants) has been discussed elsewhere, but this doesn't have enough typos, mentions of chemtrails, and artifacted eCards to be truly stupid, by our standards.

SteveVizsla
Mar 19, 2009

Why do I always want to sock it to you so hard?
A vet friend posted about a crazy customer she's dealing with. Someone replied with this image:



With "face palm!" written above it.

It's a photo from their ultra sound.

Deadclown
Aug 1, 2014

While we are on the baby subject.. What's the deal with pregnant moms posting 90% nude photos of themselves all over Facebook.

Nothing grosses me out more.

PUGGERNAUT
Nov 14, 2013

I AM INCREDIBLY BORING AND SHOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT FOOD IN THE POLITICS THREAD
"This is the fattest I'll ever be, seems like a good opportunity to post a topless photo every week for all of my acquaintances and coworkers. See it's artsy because I made a heart shape with my hands"

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Deadclown posted:

While we are on the baby subject.. What's the deal with pregnant moms posting 90% nude photos of themselves all over Facebook.

Nothing grosses me out more.

Not to be fetishistic, but I think pregnancy is a beautiful thing.
I don't think there is anything wrong with pregnancy pictures, other than it might be a prelude to turbo mommybooking.

Amused to Death
Aug 10, 2009

google "The Night Witches", and prepare for :stare:

glowing-fish posted:

Not to be fetishistic, but I think pregnancy is a beautiful thing.

Yeah it is. Something good from tumblr for once:
http://oceanicsteam.tumblr.com/post/88119296993/slumbeautiful-morghan-watson-i-think
(probably a bit NSFW)

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007

Pregnancy is weird and kinda disturbing. One of my coworkers was this short, thin chick, and when she got pregnant she ballooned out to like half again her own size while keeping the same body frame. I'm not even sure how she walked.

Zero Star
Jan 22, 2006

Robit the paranoid blogger.

SteveVizsla posted:

A vet friend posted about a crazy customer she's dealing with. Someone replied with this image:



With "face palm!" written above it.

It's a photo from their ultra sound.
I dunno, if someone I knew posted something like this, they'd do it as a joke and everyone would laugh with it.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

SybilVimes posted:

e: in fact, I'll put my wager on it causing people to freak out about "why has facebook tagged mah post as satire?"

I expect that to be the primary outcome, yeah. I feel bad for our community/policy ops team having to deal with those complaints. "It's not satire, it's parody. :smug:"

Edit: I hope we can make News Feed know that I like to see satire, though.

Subjunctive has a new favorite as of 00:57 on Aug 20, 2014

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cage-free egghead
Mar 8, 2004


Eating, petting dogs, holding hands, holding a babby. Shooting for the stars. This is coming from a girl who's been with her boyfriend for like 3 years.

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