Equeen posted:

I found a better quote from that thread:

22 Eargesplitten posted:

I'd say that Triticum Guzzler should be made mod of GBS

Totally TWISTED posted:

Typing a lot of words doesn't make a post good

Totally TWISTED posted:

Typing a lot of words doesn't make a post good

Picnic Princess posted:

If you don't 'get' the Everest death pool then you don't 'get' ironic/dark humor and should probably just leave Something Awful.

Here's some points I want to make:

1. I was almost killed in a mountain climbing accident in 2011, yet I still do summits. In fact, I was back on top of a mountain 5 weeks after nearly falling to my death.

2. I know someone who is in Nepal and is at posting time unaccounted for, but probably safe considering he wasn't very close to the epicenter.

3. I live in a place where friends of friends are killed in back country accidents frequently and it's a horrendous tragedy that effects the entire local outdoor community.

4. I participated in the death pool.

Everest is a morbidly fascinating gently caress up of a disaster that perfectly documents humanity's incessant greed. It's everything wrong with us. The entire situation behind the Everest climbing culture sickens and depresses me. I hate that people are dying for the glory and the money. I'm not in it to mock their deaths, I'm in it because these deaths are loving ridiculous and wasteful. I don't think they're idiots for accepting the challenge, because I'm still engaging in extremely risky behavior even after almost losing it all. I do think most of them are doing it for the wrong reasons. Like our lovely Canadian climber from 2012. Her preparation was an indoor climbing wall. She had never gone mountaineering before in her life. She should NOT have been on that mountain. At all. It still boggles my mind to this day that anyone thought it was a good idea. This dark twisted humor is the only way I can deal with that shitshow going on over there and all of these senseless, stupid deaths and sacrifices being made for the sake of ego and glory.

Obviously not everyone in there feels the way I do, but it's not really fair to think we're all giddy over the tragedy happening right now.

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Hi /r/relationships. My boyfriend and I have been together since high school and he moved in with me a year ago. He was diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder when he was younger, but he takes medication for it and hasn’t shown any signs of mental instability until now. About two months ago, he began acting strange. The first thing I noticed was that started making edgy racial jokes and other kinds of dark humour when he didn’t do that kind of stuff before.
I didn’t think that was a big deal, but over time the jokes started to make less sense. Some of the “jokes” he told me were just nonsensical combinations of offensive words. I asked him why he found these things funny and he just told me “it’s ironic”. One time I got home early and I could hear him muttering one of these phrases to himself, over and over: “my dad is a n****r who loves to orb”. That’s when I began to suspect something was wrong, although he was acting normal otherwise.
I started counting his pills while he was out of the house; he seemed to be taking them as directed. I also looked at his internet history to see if it could provide any insight into his behavior. I found a site where other people were posting this kind of humour and having discussions about irony, and I was relieved. I finally knew where this stuff came from and that other people understood these jokes, even if I didn’t get it myself. He also had a therapy appointment during this time and his behavior didn’t arouse any suspicion.
However, he seems to have become progressively obsessed with this kind of humour to the point where it is interfering with his life and our relationship. He has been telling these “jokes” to me constantly, even though I’ve made it clear that I don’t find them funny. Today, I asked him what he wanted for dinner and he accused me of asking the question ironically. I was confused about this and when I asked what he meant he said it didn’t matter because he was being ironic as well. He then went off into a bizarre speech about levels of irony and irony recursion, which reminded me of some things I had read on the sites he posted on. He was talking very fast and it was hard to understand him. When he had finished I told him that I was very concerned for his mental health and I wanted him to book an appointment with his psychiatrist. He blew up and told me that I didn’t understand irony because I was a woman, and he was going to his friend’s house until I calmed down. He just got up and left.
I haven’t texted or called him yet because I don’t want to make things worse but I am very, very concerned. Like I said, his mental illness has been completely under control for as long as we’ve been together; I have no idea how to cope with these new developments. I considered calling his psychiatrist but I think that may be too drastic, and I can’t force him to do anything he doesn’t want to. I’m thinking that when he comes back, and is hopefully acting more rational, I can explain my concerns about his obsession with this kind of internet humour and convince him to mention it to his therapist or doctor. I only want what’s best for him.
Tl;dr: Boyfriend discovered an internet community based on ironic humour and became obsessed with it. I am worried that it is exacerbating his mental illness. What to do?

Totally TWISTED posted:

Typing a lot of words doesn't make a post good

Zanshin posted:

"Typing a lot of words doesn't make a post good" - Someone who can't even read a comic book without moving thier lips

Nanomashoes posted:

It wasn't made on SA, but a r/relationships thread may seem familiar to some:

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I'm just wondering wtf "orbing" is, and gently caress if I'm googling that.

Paladinus posted:

Pretty sure it's just a FYAD recruiting campaign and not a real story.

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Today, I asked him what he wanted for dinner and he accused me of asking the question ironically.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Weird BIAS posted:

lotta african americans get triggered by old white men.

Ozz81 posted:

More astronauts come from Ohio than any other state in the US. It's so loving bad they want to leave the PLANET to get away.

mind the walrus posted:

Nah they're right. I normally chide people who want to fart on something for being too long, but if you write a wall of text and you aren't drat compelling there's no loving way I'm wasting my time reading even if there's gold hidden on page 8.

Nanomashoes posted:

It wasn't made on SA, but a r/relationships thread may seem familiar to some:

mind the walrus posted:

Nah they're right. I normally chide people who want to fart on something for being too long, but if you write a wall of text and you aren't drat compelling there's no loving way I'm wasting my time reading even if there's gold hidden on page 8.

Centripetal Horse posted:

For sale: sense of humor, never worn.

PleasingFungus posted:

It's a decent post.

mind the walrus posted:

And Proust has a great reputation but gently caress if I'm taking the time to read it.

Mans posted:

your mother has a great reputation.

Jimbo Jaggins posted:

Christ shut the gently caress up

Scathach posted:

I'm pretty sure that the gal in the first two is actually Pear Chan.

Ghostlight posted:

You are correct, although it's more Lump Chan these days.

B33rChiller posted:

I think it was in a previous quotes thread, but does anyone have the quote someone wrote about the importance of spelling, or language, and being clear about what you are saying, and as they go on, their speech degrades to poorly spelled words, then gibberish, and finally just screeming ?

RBA Starblade posted:

When they get to Dany I want Jorah to hold up Tyrion like he was holding a boombox outside some girl's window.

bobjr posted:

"Sing the song!"
"What song?"
"We only have like 3 songs so pick one"

Jerusalem posted:

Also, poor Jorah was so drunk he mistook Tyrion for a printer.

B33rChiller posted:

I think it was in a previous quotes thread, but does anyone have the quote someone wrote about the importance of spelling, or language, and being clear about what you are saying, and as they go on, their speech degrades to poorly spelled words, then gibberish, and finally just screeming ?

peenworm posted:

No no you see the rules of language are purely arbitrary stodgy ivory-tower crap we doesn't have to worried aboard because everytime history on you rebendible sausage mountain.

might be wrong posted:

e: on second thought I don't think this is the right one but it's funny anyway

Jimbo Jaggins posted:

Christ shut the gently caress up

Manifest posted:

If convicted he'll never go to general population.
He'll be kept with the unit full of losers who would die in gen pop.

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

sort of like the gbs of prison

PleasingFungus posted:

yes, might be wrong.

Aesop Poprock posted:

Rape was a lot less traumatic in those days, there was usually a slide-whistle involved

B33rChiller posted:

I think it was in a previous quotes thread, but does anyone have the quote someone wrote about the importance of spelling, or language, and being clear about what you are saying, and as they go on, their speech degrades to poorly spelled words, then gibberish, and finally just screeming ?

reflir posted:

NewsMonster posted:

Pluto.

I mean, it was a planet when I was in school, now it's a 'dwarf planet.'

It's very large, enough so that it's gravity has given it a spherical shape... it has a moon... or 3... it's cleared it's orbit of other objects... why the hell do we have to be uber technical and say it's not a planet?!

I know exactly what you mean, why have distinctions between planets and dwarf planets? Why not just refer to everything in space as either chunks of rock or globes of gas? In fact, why would we even distinguish between those? Why have distinctioa aaa aaaaa? Whaaaa aa aaaaaa aaaaa aaa
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Killed By Death posted:

Is it this?

Quixotic posted:

"feminism?!" newsmonster kramers in the door and just keeps kramering, sliding off around the room, bouncing against walls. he kramers against your toilet, busting it up big time. you get the feeling he's trying to say something to you but he's kramering at such a high velocity you just can't quite make it out. as he finally nails a window and falls out you think you hear him exclaim "I'm a feminist, that's what's so CRAZY about this" on the way down