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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:If memory serves, Richard said goons should have a code phrase to ID each other IRL. Then promptly told everyone never to actually use or say that because what kind of loser talks about the Internet forum they post on. This was what, 2003? Earlier? When most folks still thought of interacting on an online forum with other people a niche esoteric hobby at best. From what I recall, it was one of those weird chatlogs where people talked to bots to see what kind of poo poo the bots would say. These logs were then posted as front page content. Anyway, someone (maybe Lowtax) asked the bot 'Do you have stairs in your house?' and the bot came back with 'I am protected', which took off as the catchphrase. EDIT: Well, I was close. From SAclopedia: http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=58
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If anyone has said that irl they should be ostracized
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Yes, that was the Terrible Secret of Space, with the pusher robot and shover robot, which was based on an IM prank Lowtax did against some kid. E: didn't see new page.
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Lmao if you don't have that and the All Your Base song saved in ancient folders somewhere on your hard drive
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kru posted:If anyone has said that irl they should be ostracized There really is no good way to identify a goon in the wild. Which is a shame, because (all joking aside here) in my experience goons are usually pretty smart and/or funny. It's really tempting to temper that statement with a joke because making fun of goons is so easy and that's sort of the whole culture here, but yeah. Most goons I meet IRL end up being pretty cool people.
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timp posted:There really is no good way to identify a goon in the wild. Which is a shame, because (all joking aside here) in my experience goons are usually pretty smart and/or funny. I think this is a result of the fact that goons who actually leave the house have the self awareness to laugh at themselves. The ones who are insufferable shits live up to the 'never leave moms basement' stereo type.
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purple death ray posted:Lmao if you don't have that and the All Your Base song saved in ancient folders somewhere on your hard drive This, but "she_can_stay_my_home.mp3" (somebody please have this)
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Pastry of the Year posted:This, but "she_can_stay_my_home.mp3" I got you fam, hold on e:  I actually played it for my sister and a friend while we waited for people to show up for new years, and it's been years since I listened to it last. Weird coincidence! Do you know who made it? Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 18:16 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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Powaqoatse posted:I got you fam, hold on Holy SMOKES, I never thought I'd hear this again. I really have no idea who made it! It was on mp3.com way way back at the height of Mahirmania, literally credited to Mahir Cagri. One of the later Wayback Machine snapshots credited it to someone calling themselves "bayond control":  Thanks for digging this up!
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Oh yeah I remember it being on mp3.com It's just so drat catchy too.
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Digging deeper: This version from archive.org has an "Andrew Allsop" listed: http://web.archive.org/web/20031130072857/http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/63/mahir_cagri.html And here's a weird email thread from 2000 in the alt.music.ween newsgroup that seem to be between an Andrew Allsop and someone called stainedpants arguing over the rights to a Mahir Cagri sogn?! https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.music.ween/3GQEm9b7dZg Yeesh that is a rabbithole.
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Paladinus posted:What's the story behind pink polo shirts? yeah I eat rear end posted:Also I don't know why you think popped collars/pink polos originated here (or how it is "creepy") - people did it but I think this is one of the many cases where someone thinks SA made something up just because they saw it here for the first time even though it had been around for a while prior to it being posted here. So the story goes, and keep in mind this is around like 2002-2005 when the idea of an internet hoax was still fairly new, a Goon in GBS read about that colored wristband/hair tie urban legend. If you don't remember, it was said that jr and high school girls were wearing stacks of colored bands around their wrists to indicate what sexual activities they were willing to perform (red for oral, purple for anal, etc). Boys would then snap the bracelet color with scissors as a way of asking for sex, and the girls were required to perform the act. The goon, or goons, in question decided that they should start a fake rumor about Pinklighting (I forget what the term was actually, think it's close to that) -- in which guys would turn up pink polo shirt collars to signal sexual availability or something like that. I can't remember if it was a generic down to gently caress signal or if it was specifically for the gay sex, but it was meant as another moral panic type story. There was a whole thread dedicated to fostering the myth, with an offsite forum later created to help spread the lie. An enterprising journalist eventually started looking into the 'trend' and noticed that the majority of discussion originated from SA and the offsite (Chewbacca.org or something like that). He did some digging and eventually published a small article refuting the shocking new trend, which torpedoed the whole sham before it could properly get off the ground. Iirc, they chose popped collar because it was something douchenozzles did.
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Just go to any frat house in the country and you will see popped collars (sometimes even the double-triple popped variety) of various colors, but tending toward the pink/purple side all over the place. The gay sex thing was probably just trying to make fun of frat guys because of their general homoeroticness.
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I popped my collar ironically all through '03-'05
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Just go to any frat house in the country and you will see popped collars (sometimes even the double-triple popped variety) of various colors, but tending toward the pink/purple side all over the place. Serious post, are you posting from over ten years in the past? I live in a college town and I don't think I've seen this since 2007 or so
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The popped collar crowd has aged out and been replaced with these fine specimens of humanity: People who wore popped collar pink polos in college are now the ones who dress like they shop exclusively at the L.L. Bean toddler department: 
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I was afraid to ask, cause I don't think I've seen a popped collar since like 2008 at the latest.
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Those dudes are pretty cool & rapey imo. Like our fratboys of yore.
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Last Chance posted:Serious post, are you posting from over ten years in the past? I live in a college town and I don't think I've seen this since 2007 or so People were doing it at UF when I graduated about 3 years ago  Many students there were also still wearing jorts though so maybe they aren't representative of college students as a whole.
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Powaqoatse posted:Those dudes are pretty cool & rapey imo. Like our fratboys of yore. I used to work at a concert venue and hands-down these types of dudes were the absolute worst scum of the earth. I'd work a million Kid Rock/Deadmau5/My Chemical Romance/private event where a company paid the Counting Crows $250k to play a 30-minute set for <200 people before I'd ever work another local-college-rave-night event. IIRC the Barstool Sports Foam Party even still holds the record for highest percentage of people being kicked out of the venue, and a lot of them were for super-lovely things like groping women or loving in the disgusting bathroom stalls or openly selling each other pills on the dance floor. Even the actual EDM shows which are usually pretty nuts paled in comparison to that poo poo. Hell, even the weekly gay dance club night was less intense.
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FilthyImp posted:So the story goes, and keep in mind this is around like 2002-2005 when the idea of an internet hoax was still fairly new, a Goon in GBS read about that colored wristband/hair tie urban legend. If you don't remember, it was said that jr and high school girls were wearing stacks of colored bands around their wrists to indicate what sexual activities they were willing to perform (red for oral, purple for anal, etc). Boys would then snap the bracelet color with scissors as a way of asking for sex, and the girls were required to perform the act. I thought the popped collar/sunglasses frat boy selfies was a mid 2000s fyad thing
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Aesop Poprock posted:I thought the popped collar/sunglasses frat boy selfies was a mid 2000s fyad thing that was very much a real life thing. though maybe fyad parodied it, i dunno.
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  This was a thing. Also, I'm pretty sure that first guy went on to rape that girl, just going by his expression. e: One more, just to keep getting more. 
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Only one person has been able to pull off the popped collar and even the Fonz had the wherewithal to only do it to a leather jacket.
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grannypoppin, not double turtleneck bumpin like you should be
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I always kinda liked the multiple-popped-collars thing because the dudes were obviously putting thought into the color gradation of the layers, and being able to draw a comparison between 21st century frat bros and those heian princesses from the year 1000 who wore 17 dresses and would be thrown out of polite society if one layer was a slightly wrong shade of pink was kinda neat
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Surprisingly, the number of popped collars in the inspirational poster image macro negatively correlates to the coolness of the dude!! 8 collars: thumb with a face, from the classic "thumb" movie parodies 9 collars: the corpse of Morgan Spurlock from the alternate reality where he Super Sized Himself every day until his death 10 collars: me. What the A HUNGRY MOUTH has a new favorite as of 00:01 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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i remember for a while you could buy shirts with extra collars sewn in so you could pop more than one at once without having to layer
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Yes. This is also when all jeans had fake holes already fake repaired.
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corn in the bible posted:i remember for a while you could buy shirts with extra collars sewn in so you could pop more than one at once without having to layer I do not and cannot believe this. Edit: but now I remember when you could buy tank tops that were the same (multi layered but really just one, the douche girl equivalent) so anything is possible. Scudworth has a new favorite as of 00:13 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Powaqoatse posted:that was very much a real life thing. though maybe fyad parodied it, i dunno. I meant specifically on here. I remember Doc evil and I think Rorschach doing it
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Aesop Poprock posted:I meant specifically on here. I remember Doc evil and I think Rorschach doing it Oh right. sorry i misread. me multipoppin circa 03. and "amusingly", the red/green shirt is actually just a green t-shirt that has a fake red collar (or vice versa, i no longer remember).
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Powaqoatse posted:Oh right. sorry i misread. Are you wearing a garbage bag on top of it all?
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Krowley posted:Are you wearing a garbage bag on top of it all? the joke writes itself
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Krowley posted:Are you wearing a garbage bag on top of it all? yes, literally  (pic is from Roskilde Festival '04 and it was raining)
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Powaqoatse posted:yes, literally That's a fashionable as heck v neck trash bag tunic to be fair
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Aesop Poprock posted:That's a fashionable as heck v neck trash bag tunic to be fair Pffft, it's last year's v neck trash bag tunic.
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Aesop Poprock posted:That's a fashionable as heck v neck trash bag tunic to be fair thank u, it was also very comfy
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Glenn Quebec posted:Yes. This is also when all jeans had fake holes already fake repaired. Target is selling these as we speak: http://www.target.com/p/men-s-slim-straight-jeans-medium-wash-with-repair-mossimo-supply-co/-/A-50970628 Fashion is cyclical. I hope low rise flared jeans for women don't come back, or that awful faux whiskered fading.
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I could have sworn it was "greenlighting," not "pinklighting," but oddly, my brain didn't prioritize remembering this detail from over a decade ago.
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