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FactsAreUseless posted:I'm glad somebody got it. Can't believe it took this long. Kids these days, eh? 
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Nov 27, 2016 15:09
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I don't get it.
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Nov 27, 2016 15:41
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I remember the village revolution story from LF days. It was Fish Steer A Dhow (although he kept changing his name). He said he was born in Sudan but adopted as a child and raised by Americans, then returned home to meet his original family. Everyone believed it, including me at least for a while. There was a great line about how his sister wanted to bring her child to come live with him in the US, but he didn't think he could manage to have them, what with all his responsibilities as an SA mod.
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Nov 27, 2016 15:57
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Mycroft Holmes posted:I don't get it. Same
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Nov 27, 2016 16:16
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Sympathy for the devil.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:I don't get it.
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Nov 27, 2016 16:22
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it works, because the word "sympathy" is used in both statements
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Nov 27, 2016 17:46
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:it works, because the word "sympathy" is used in both statements Sympathy sounds a bit like symphony. Remember that song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5jvUXij7nU Destruction also starts with the same letter as disabled. So my joke is disabled people really hate when you put them in control. This is a reference to a song.
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Not to get all  but pretty sure the lyric is "Hope you guessed my name"Paladinus posted:Sympathy sounds a bit like symphony. Remember that song? This was good though.
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Nov 27, 2016 18:42
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The Many from Urban Dead.
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FactsAreUseless posted:They really loving hate it when you try to guess their name.  Nice.
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Nov 27, 2016 19:05
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Shark Sandwich posted:Not to get all
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Nov 27, 2016 19:13
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Paladinus posted:Sympathy sounds a bit like symphony. Remember that song? https://youtu.be/vj6Xn6WRiQQ
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Nov 27, 2016 19:48
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:it works, because the word "sympathy" is used in both statements This reference is bad, and FactsAreUseless should feel bad.
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Nov 27, 2016 21:34
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Choco1980 posted:This reference is bad, and FactsAreUseless should feel bad. Yeah I really love that Rolling Stones song and yet I didn't catch the reference simply because the inherent joke FactsAreUseless made is that disabled people are the devil.  (Otherwise the joke works; 'they hate it when you try to guess their nickname based upon their disability' is pretty drat terrible  )
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Nov 28, 2016 02:15
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hate hoot posted:I remember the village revolution story from LF days. It was Fish Steer A Dhow (although he kept changing his name). He said he was born in Sudan but adopted as a child and raised by Americans, then returned home to meet his original family. Everyone believed it, including me at least for a while. There was a great line about how his sister wanted to bring her child to come live with him in the US, but he didn't think he could manage to have them, what with all his responsibilities as an SA mod. I was under the impression that everyone understood that nothing fish steer a dhow said was ever true. I thought he was a 50 Foot Ant/Humpermonkey-type figure, but "entertaining" in an unfunny sort of way instead.
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Dinosaurmageddon posted:Yeah I really love that Rolling Stones song and yet I didn't catch the reference simply because the inherent joke FactsAreUseless made is that disabled people are the devil.
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Jose posted:i clicked on this persons rap sheet earlier this week for reasons i can't remember and lol they got banned for not capitalising something  I'm not gonna lie, I was a garbage poster/person but the funny thing about all the probations and poo poo for capitalization was that some mod gave me a giant 'shift' key avatar and goons got pissy at me because it was breaking the tables. I understand having rules about punctuation, capitalization, and spelling, I guess, but it was really strictly enforced for some reason. a lot of my probations seemed silly in retrospect but I was also a piece of poo poo
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I was a member for years before I would post anywhere other than BYOB because it was pretty much impossible to get probated or banned there. I remember once early-on I tried venturing into GWS and got made fun of for like half a page in the general questions thread for not knowing that you shouldn't keep garlic in the fridge. I think the whole forum was just stricter, meaner, and more elitist, and the culture has changed since then. I believe that, in GBS especially, the feeling that every post was an opportunity to lose your account helped drive quality posting. Posters really did think about what they were bringing, and if you were going to risk toeing the rules line in order to make a joke, you had to consider whether that joke was worthy of the risk. I think that's why I loved old strict mean GBS. Or maybe not that much has changed, and the change has come from my own slow shift in perspective.
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It's OK, buddy, you can keep garlic in the fridge.
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steinrokkan posted:It's OK, buddy, you can keep garlic in the fridge.
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i don't get the point of the GunChicka gimmick account that was posted earlier. there's both actual women and actual disabled people on this site, so it's not like a disabled woman is some far-fetched, unbelievable personae that you'd need to be a master-puppetter to convince people of might actually insist. it's like going into a lunch thread and saying you had a 4 egg omelette when you had a salad and then thinking you're a master of disguise or whatever imo, unless the guy behind the account was building up to trying to rip goons off with some kind of kickstarter about funding her robot legs, then the gunChicka gimmick is the tamest gimmick account ever.
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Grandmother of Five posted:i don't get the point of the GunChicka gimmick account that was posted earlier. there's both actual women and actual disabled people on this site, so it's not like a disabled woman is some far-fetched, unbelievable personae that you'd need to be a master-puppetter to convince people of might actually insist. it's like going into a lunch thread and saying you had a 4 egg omelette when you had a salad and then thinking you're a master of disguise or whatever Most of the reason it sticks with me is how long it kept going, and watching all the goons falling over themselves over her. It was tame, but the reactions were hilarious. 
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my favorite saga is that one time facts told a joke that I didn't get and then it was explained to me and then I sort of got it. It's my favorite because it didn't end in anyone getting killed or divorced or thrown in a Syrian torture prison
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Actually that joke was pretty tortured.
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theres a will theres moe posted:... I tried venturing into GWS and got made fun of for like half a page in the general questions thread for not knowing that you shouldn't keep garlic in the fridge.... Oh lord, is it like bananas in the fridge?
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Samovar posted:Oh lord, is it like bananas in the fridge? Are you trying to irradiate your entire food supply?!
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Nov 28, 2016 15:21
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Samovar posted:Oh lord, is it like bananas in the fridge? Nah, they just grow shoots and go bad faster than if kept unrefrigerated.
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One of my favorites had to be the guy who was positive the 49ers would defeat the Seahawks in the NFC championship game, so he toxxed that his next 500 posts would mention the Seahawks and how great they were if SF lost. When the Niners lost, dude actually kept it up until mods let him off the hook out of sheer admiration. Call me a softie, I like the forum sagas where good or at worst harmless things happen(although some of the negative ones are pretty funny). Obviously they're a bit more rare. What are some other examples, have there been any like, crushes where the forums conspired to get the couple together (preferably ones that didn't attack each other with shovels)? El Gallinero Gros has a new favorite as of 17:03 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:One of my favorites had to be the guy who was positive the 49ers would defeat the Seahawks in the NFC championship game, so he toxxed that his next 500 posts would mention the Seahawks and how great they were if they lost. When the Niners lost, dude actually kept it up until mods let him off the hook out of sheer admiration. He was close to like 350 posts too want he? It was fantastic. There was also a mod challenge where one of the challenges was to go into Creative Convention and give feedback about a bunch of drawings by comparing them to Gundam and saying that they should have made things more "round."
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El Gallinero Gros posted:What are some other examples, have there been any like, crushes where the forums conspired to get the couple together (preferably ones that didn't attack each other with shovels)? There were a few anonymous confessions where people got together. One dude had his boss sexually harassing him and it worked out really cute and another guy was in love with his roommate's girlfriend.
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Solice Kirsk posted:He was close to like 350 posts too want he? It was fantastic. Similarly I liked that thread in GBS where every participant was given a particular thread or forum where they had to post something confusion/obnoxious. It caused so much chaos until everyone caught on.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Call me a softie, I like the forum sagas where good or at worst harmless things happen(although some of the negative ones are pretty funny). Obviously they're a bit more rare. What are some other examples, have there been any like, crushes where the forums conspired to get the couple together (preferably ones that didn't attack each other with shovels)?
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Palpek posted:There's a dude in e/n who was together with his gf for 2 years and realized he doesn't love her and in fact he's thinking about other women all the time so he asked the thread for advice. Everbody told him to sever, he didn't listen. He then came back like 7 months later to the very same thread and said that he's now 3 days before the wedding and he really doesn't love his future wife and in fact he just cheated on her with his ex so he asked the thread for advice. Everybody told him to sever, he didn't listen. Presumably he's happily married now and maybe a kid is on the way? It's an e/n success story. tbf this is like half of all marriages in the USA
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Palpek posted:There's a dude in e/n who was together with his gf for 2 years and realized he doesn't love her and in fact he's thinking about other women all the time so he asked the thread for advice. Everbody told him to sever, he didn't listen. He then came back like 7 months later to the very same thread and said that he's now 3 days before the wedding and he really doesn't love his future wife and in fact he just cheated on her with his ex so he asked the thread for advice. Everybody told him to sever, he didn't listen. Presumably he's happily married now and maybe a kid is on the way? It's an e/n success story. The thread link was posted a couple of pages ago. I remember when people would overuse the "no1curr" meme and a mod would "flip a coin" on whether to punish said poster.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:One of my favorites had to be the guy who was positive the 49ers would defeat the Seahawks in the NFC championship game, so he toxxed that his next 500 posts would mention the Seahawks and how great they were if SF lost. When the Niners lost, dude actually kept it up until mods let him off the hook out of sheer admiration. His username had was something about peanuts, right? I thought it ended up in a Comedy Goldmine article but if so I can't find it.
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may contain peanuts, and it was even more wonderful when he posted outside of TFF
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One that was pretty small and innocuous was Al Borland was given some secret mod challenge where he had to go into 3 other subforums and bullshit on pre-assigned topics and try to make himself sound convincing. I want to say he had to talk in GWS and SAS, but the one that caught my eye was in A/T where he started a topic about owning his own laundromat. I had worked in one for 6 years pretty heavily, so it caught my eye and I started asking him questions and stuff, and he took it like a champ, bullshitting about front-loaders and perc and stuff for almost a week before he was allowed to confess in GBS. That was fun.
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Choco1980 posted:One that was pretty small and innocuous was Al Borland was given some secret mod challenge where he had to go into 3 other subforums and bullshit on pre-assigned topics and try to make himself sound convincing. I want to say he had to talk in GWS and SAS, but the one that caught my eye was in A/T where he started a topic about owning his own laundromat. I had worked in one for 6 years pretty heavily, so it caught my eye and I started asking him questions and stuff, and he took it like a champ, bullshitting about front-loaders and perc and stuff for almost a week before he was allowed to confess in GBS. That was fun. That is legitimately fun. Are mod challenges still a thing at all? I've seen some in E/N, I guess, where users had to prove they actually listened to good advice, but nothing actually funny.
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