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"I don't like Tubman, it sounds like a dude. I prefer Tubgirl".
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lemonparty and tubgirl aren't really SA-specific, just internet things in general
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I just flashed back on one of the first SA threads I ever read, which I don't recall anyone mentioning recently: the Dave Matthews Chicago poo poo blitz. Lemme see how well I can remember this. Some goon was a tour guide on a ferryboat pointing out landmarks along the Chicago river to hundreds of tourists and old people. Well one day The Dave Matthews Band comes to town, and while their tour bus was crossing a bridge the driver decides to dump the busses' septic system through the metal mesh roadway and into into the river. Right as the boat is passing underneath. 800 pounds of poo poo and piss hit the boat like a napalm strike, showering onto a deck packed with gawking tourists.  Right as the news broke a goon posted his own eyewitness account. There was plenty of skepticism at first but he let slip a detail: after calming the screaming, vomiting crowd somewhat he noticed that the ships flag was drenched in sewage, and not wanting the folks to get any more upset he gingerly lowered the poo poo-soaked flag, folded it, and placed it in a plastic bag to be dealt with later. Apparently some of the old farts saw him doing it and mistook his discomfort for reverence and told the reporters, so the next day the papers mentioned the hero of the day was a patriotic tour guide who'd gone to the rescue of the disgraced Stars and Stripes. It came dangerously close to becoming a  email forward.The DMB denied everything and closed ranks, which turned out to be a stupid move and DM ended up having to apologize to Chicago and the driver went to jail for a while.  That was back when there were thousands and thousands of active forum accounts, and it seemed like any story, news, or event was guaranteed to have at least one goon peripherally involved, posting from the middle of the riot or disaster zone or w/e
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Dec 21, 2016 17:15
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Syd Midnight posted:That was back when there were thousands and thousands of active forum accounts, With those thousands and thousands of users, there also seemed to be thousands of threads about poo poo.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:With those thousands and thousands of users, there also seemed to be thousands of threads about poo poo. Posting about posting's always been and always will be a thing my dude
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Dec 21, 2016 17:54
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there have been some great threads with goons posting from literal disaster zones. the boston bombing was a memorable one. i have a vague memory of a goon somehow posting from the top floor of a flooded apartment but can't remember the details
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Dec 21, 2016 20:40
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On topic of disaster zones and other places of unrest, I remember a few goons being in the thick of the Ferguson protests. This was only a couple years back but it seems goons manage to get into whatever is going on somehow.
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Dec 21, 2016 20:52
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Goons encounter all their Internet culture through the forums so they think that everything originated from SA and therefore anybody who references them is a goon. Most recently there were people saying that Justin Roiland was a goon and had plagiarized GBS because he read that "suck my dick you fuckman" court transcript as Rick and Morty and a goon in GBS had done that earlier...only it turns out that the court transcripts blew up on Reddit well before SA made a thread about them and one of the highest-rated responses was that it read like a Rick and Morty script.
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It does sometimes feel like goons just claim anything tangentially related to a person who at one time spent  as having "come from something awful"
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Dec 21, 2016 20:59
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Look! A Horse! posted:there have been some great threads with goons posting from literal disaster zones. the boston bombing was a memorable one. i have a vague memory of a goon somehow posting from the top floor of a flooded apartment but can't remember the details I don't remember his name but probably the most prominent poster was someone who was a resident in the area and knew the little boy who was killed and he was taking it really hard (to be expected), it was sad.
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Crazyweasel posted:I don't remember his name but probably the most prominent poster was someone who was a resident in the area and knew the little boy who was killed and he was taking it really hard (to be expected), it was sad. Yeah, that was former front page Second Life Safari guy Petey. He tutored either the little boy or one of his siblings.
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Look! A Horse! posted:there have been some great threads with goons posting from literal disaster zones. the boston bombing was a memorable one. i have a vague memory of a goon somehow posting from the top floor of a flooded apartment but can't remember the details There were some really funny jokes and commentary as everyone was listening to the police scanner online when they were searching for the surviving bomber. I remember an exchange on the radio about whether they were going to summon the city or county SWAT once they found him in hiding in the trailered boat, and someone commented "Isn't this now a jurisdiction question between the Navy and the Coast Guard?" That was a good one.
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It's kinda surreal to hear people mention roboshit earlier in the thread. I met him like 10 years ago through the now-defunct gaming utility xfire/xfire forums. I wasn't super in touch with him when he was going hog wild on here but I knew he was doing some pretty serious drugs (I remember he decided to chug cough syrup to take the edge off his opiate withdrawals). He told me that he and a buddy were having fun trolling, but he was literally on meth, that part was true lol Now he's married and last I heard had quit drinking and most other drugs. Just exchanged some happy holidays texts today.
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canyoneer posted:There were some really funny jokes and commentary as everyone was listening to the police scanner online when they were searching for the surviving bomber. I remember an exchange on the radio about whether they were going to summon the city or county SWAT once they found him in hiding in the trailered boat, and someone commented "Isn't this now a jurisdiction question between the Navy and the Coast Guard?" Tactical bears, perimeter lobsters, Sargent Feedback and an old man being molested by a robot Good times
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Yeah, that was former front page Second Life Safari guy Petey. He tutored either the little boy or one of his siblings. I want to say that one of the cousins doing the 30 years of Super Mario LP for the past several years in LP knew the family too. Punkin Spunkin posted:It does sometimes feel like goons just claim anything tangentially related to a person who at one time spent Reminds me of my dorm-mate in college who was a big wrestling nerd and kinda dumb and sheltered, where he spent a lot of time on Wrestling forums and assumed any term someone used there was a wrestling-inclusive term, and anyone using the term must be referencing the wrestling fandom. He got laughed down pretty hard once for voicing this concept over the word "clusterfuck". To be fair, there ARE a lot of things that started on SA that kinda exploded outwards to the point where lots of people know it without knowing what SA even IS. Like, the "Deal With It" Sunglasses meme comes to mind.
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Nerds are by their very nature myopic. Internet nerds exponentially so. They know nothing of the world outside their own particular nerdy bubble, so anything that they know must have come from within said bubble, not somewhere else. So when they see someone else doing something they know, they assume it came from within their bubble, or that the person is also a member of the same bubble or clique. Basically nerds are the worst, and SA nerds are too.
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Choco1980 posted:To be fair, there ARE a lot of things that started on SA that kinda exploded outwards to the point where lots of people know it without knowing what SA even IS. Like, the "Deal With It" Sunglasses meme comes to mind. Even a lot of stuff that didn't necessarily originate here was helped along into popularity by SA. Like the Awesome face, that isn't from here. But at this very moment, if you open up the settings on your desktop Chrome browser and make another browser profile by clicking "add person", this will allow you to choose an Awesomeface icon for the profile :iamafag:
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BrigadierSensible posted:Nerds are by their very nature myopic. Internet nerds exponentially so. They know nothing of the world outside their own particular nerdy bubble, so anything that they know must have come from within said bubble, not somewhere else. So when they see someone else doing something they know, they assume it came from within their bubble, or that the person is also a member of the same bubble or clique. loving nerds
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Yeah, that was former front page Second Life Safari guy Petey. He tutored either the little boy or one of his siblings. Petey had an opportunity to goatse the New York Times (they linked to some research he did that was hosted on his personal webspace) and he didn't take it.
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Dec 22, 2016 01:49
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Pick posted:why didn't responsibility scallop take off there are a bunch of advice animal memes, im sure at least one of them gives genuinely decent advice
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I Said No posted:there are a bunch of advice animal memes, im sure at least one of them gives genuinely decent advice i think that would be Actual Advice Mallard      these are kind of the cream of the crop though, the vast majority are just stupid ~lifehacks~ like "rub butter on your feet to stop blisters" etc.
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This is the only good advice animal image:
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I used to have a video saved of user JustinOnFire (at least I think that was his username, maybe it was JustinTime, all I remember is he had nice pearly whites) surviving a hurricane in Florida. I can't find it anymore  I did find a 27 minute video title "goon_justice.avi" that I don't think I've ever watched. I'm uploading it to YouTube now.
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goon justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXflTqaSvuM
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Sagebrush posted:i think that would be Actual Advice Mallard  "I really think that memes are terrible, and smilies are a better form of nihilistic expression"
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Look! A Horse! posted:there have been some great threads with goons posting from literal disaster zones. the boston bombing was a memorable one. i have a vague memory of a goon somehow posting from the top floor of a flooded apartment but can't remember the details Are you thinking of SA's servers which got flooded and the people trying to save it were posting updates?
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No, there was a goon locked upstairs during Katrina, asking how to barricade his office door and taking bad cellphone pics of looters.
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I think it was on here that a goon posted their hovel bachelor space with boxes of (mostly) clean butt toys. There were questionable brown streaks on the light switches and they got doxxed and evicted.
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garbage owl posted:I think it was on here that a goon posted their hovel bachelor space with boxes of (mostly) clean butt toys. There were questionable brown streaks on the light switches and they got doxxed and evicted. Was this the one who rear end hosed himself so hard he was making GBS threads out chunks of intestine?
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RFC2324 posted:Was this the one who rear end hosed himself so hard he was making GBS threads out chunks of intestine? i don't think so but that was definitely infamous goon GEcafe
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Look! A Horse! posted:i don't think so but that was definitely infamous goon GEcafe And mr sunshine! 
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Aesop Poprock posted:Do you have the picture that dude mspainted of how you picked up a cat at his house cause I remember finding it really funny for some reason Yes, of course  from the thread his gf made http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3689314 I'm not anal about these things at all, what are you talking about
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gnarlyhotep posted:Yes, of course I unapololgetically wear socks and sandals 99% of the time. 
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I unapololgetically wear socks and sandals 99% of the time. I'm wearing them RIGHT NOW
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gnarlyhotep posted:I'm wearing them RIGHT NOW As am I. 
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CaptainSarcastic posted:As am I. 
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