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Bust Rodd posted:Inviting the shittier lurkers in the thread to pull up their old transphobic posts to throw in their face later seems like a bad idea Maybe, but they’ve already acknowledged they wrote terrible things and expressed sincere regret. Someone finds the posts, so what? “Yes, I wrote awful things and I really wish I hadn’t” A non-anonymous apology might mean that some people who read and/or were hurt by the original posts can see that OP changed their minds and is genuinely sorry. And as far as I am concerned, the more people who admit to being wrong and changing their minds about stuff, the better. It shows that one doesn’t have to cling to wrong opinions. To reiterate, OP isn’t wrong for not publicly apologising. They’ve come a long way and should be commended. I just wonder if they could go a bit further. PinheadSlim posted:Do ya know what thread you're in? I feel stupid asking because you have 4 pages worth of posts in this thread but clealry there's something loose in you're head Oh gee, silly me. In most cases I understand why confessions are anonymous. I am not sure that anonymity is best in this case. You should feel stupid for asking, and for making at least two stupid mistakes when writing a short post. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) therattle fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Aug 28, 2021 |
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If they don't want to be public with it, they shouldn't be coerced into it. It's their decision to make, not yours or any of us. Drop it.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 14:23 |
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therattle posted:Maybe, but they’ve already acknowledged they wrote terrible things and expressed sincere regret. Someone finds the posts, so what? “Yes, I wrote awful things and I really wish I hadn’t” lmbo
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 14:25 |
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This is why people don’t apologize on the internet, it’s literally LITERALLY never enough
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 14:34 |
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Bust Rodd posted:This is why people don’t apologize on the internet, it’s literally LITERALLY never enough Maybe, but if it’s anonymous it’s not really an apology, is it? It’s a statement of regret and that someone has changed. An apology is when you tell people that you are sorry for what you’ve done: it requires that the apologiser is known to the victim. If that isn’t the case it’s just the offending party getting something off their chest. That something might be commendable but it’s not an apology. An example might be if you got injured in a hit and run. Would you consider an anonymous apology from the driver, which said how bad they felt and that they’d changed how they drove, as a real and satisfying apology? Or would you think that they were more assuaging their guilt than anything else? Take a look at these, for example (apart from the lunatic 2nd answer) https://www.quora.com/Who-would-you-apologize-to-anonymously
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 15:03 |
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That's nice. It's not your decision to make.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 15:07 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:That's nice. It's not your decision to make. Completely true! I’ll leave it at that. I’ve made my point and others can choose to agree with me or not.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 15:13 |
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I am literally begging you to stop going on Quora in 2021
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 15:26 |
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therattle posted:Completely true! I’ll leave it at that. I’ve made my point and others can choose to agree with me or not. Your point is dumb
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 19:02 |
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It makes me happy that a relatively benign fesh resulted in this many posts. Would it have been braver to go the non-anonymous route? sure. But I kinda get it. I've got a couple somethings else to post, but one is somewhat sexually graphic. Spoiler tags? I can't recall how these things have been done.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 23:06 |
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Spoiler tags and content/trigger warnings, I think? Maybe PM a mod to be double sure.
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 00:12 |
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therattle posted:An example might be if you got injured in a hit and run. Would you consider an anonymous apology from the driver, which said how bad they felt and that they’d changed how they drove, as a real and satisfying apology? Yes. Anonymity does not equal insincerity.
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 01:33 |
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Frantically refreshing gbs for a post titled: “Hi, I’m permabanned poster Transstomper58…”
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 15:37 |
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I, living human person with the real legal name "hosed-up little dog", would like to bravely unanonymously apologise for my bad posts on this interzone
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 16:49 |
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Bout time
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 00:47 |
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No backlog means we get what we get! If the next confession were a podcast I guess the disclaimer would be "frank discussion of sex" or something. I don't know that it really needs spoiler tags but if I waited until I felt sure I'd never post at all. quote:
"Hoping to somehow work out some kind of arrangement with his partner." Oh jeez. There was no code phrase or anything, but this came in yesterday: quote:Transphobia apology guy here.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 01:22 |
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burial posted:No backlog means we get what we get! If the next confession were a podcast I guess the disclaimer would be "frank discussion of sex" or something. I don't know that it really needs spoiler tags but if I waited until I felt sure I'd never post at all. I’m glad we got a follow-up. That’s a totally understandable explanation. And changing one’s viewpoint like that is really hard, so should be commended. Looking forward to the follow-up from the one above where they try to make an arrangement…
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 09:07 |
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burial posted:No backlog means we get what we get! If the next confession were a podcast I guess the disclaimer would be "frank discussion of sex" or something. I don't know that it really needs spoiler tags but if I waited until I felt sure I'd never post at all. My money is on that this is going to end up being really ugly, I hope we get a follow-up.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 10:49 |
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burial posted:No backlog means we get what we get! If the next confession were a podcast I guess the disclaimer would be "frank discussion of sex" or something. I don't know that it really needs spoiler tags but if I waited until I felt sure I'd never post at all. Dear Penthouse Forum, I never thought it would happen to me, but...
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# ? Aug 31, 2021 01:20 |
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New stuff!quote:When I was 5 years old I had an irrational but extremely strong fear of poisoned toilet seats. Looking back, I suspect it had something to do with me being a big germaphobe as a kid because I wasn't generally paranoid about anything else, but I remember having an overwhelming dread of "what if someone put a layer of poison on the toilet seat that will seep into my skin and kill me?" I couldn't even poop at my best friend's house because he might be secretly trying to kill me. I guess it's this many years later and you got a stranger to wish you'd found a third option between scapegoating another kid and owning up to the floor poop. No one should have to live with that. quote:When we were young kids, my sister had three guppies. How young? I feel like I want that detail to matter.
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# ? Oct 7, 2021 00:29 |
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quote:I have intrusive thoughts of saying "pog" or "poggers" out loud to describe something good HOT OFF THE PRESSES
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# ? Oct 29, 2021 00:39 |
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burial posted:HOT OFF THE PRESSES Chop your dick off tell people it was "poggers" all your problems are solved
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burial posted:HOT OFF THE PRESSES I have this problem too. There's something about "pog" that wants to roll off my tongue.
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# ? Oct 29, 2021 14:29 |
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Cut your
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# ? Oct 29, 2021 21:04 |
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I don’t get the pog thing, I see it on discord where there’s a lot of younger people and it just seems like a replacement for “lol” or “kek” but it just seems even more unnatural to me. I’m gonna guess it’s probably something that whoever replaced pewdiepie as the millennial thought leader said on a live stream or something.
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# ? Oct 30, 2021 15:06 |
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Oh OK, so this is just a much tamer version of that dude who needed to GET BEEFY
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# ? Oct 30, 2021 15:09 |
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I don’t get the pog thing, I see it on discord where there’s a lot of younger people and it just seems like a replacement for “lol” or “kek” but it just seems even more unnatural to me. I’m gonna guess it’s probably something that whoever replaced pewdiepie as the millennial thought leader said on a live stream or something. PoG = “Play Of the Game” it’s a twitch gaming thing. The first game I heard adopt the term was Overwatch, but it may predate that, I never watched CSGo or Calladooty tournaments.
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# ? Oct 30, 2021 15:15 |
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Pog or poggers comes naturally to me because I watch a fair bit of Twitch streams. The only controversy that I'm aware of is the emote that was originally used to represent the term. The guy who was featured in the og emote turned out to be problematic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PogChamp
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# ? Oct 30, 2021 17:05 |
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For a second, I was sure you were going to link a picture of Pogman. I really liked pogs. quote:I'm your typical goon. Depression, anxiety. And I'm loathe to suggest that I'm on the spectrum, but it feels like it sometimes. I'm nearing 40, and have never been tested, and I would like to be, just to have some sort of confirmation of why I am the way I am. I'm glad you unloaded a bit! Genuine feshes are a rarity. Plus, being also close to 40 and curious about my brains, I can relate - except I think in my case I probably have one of the adult attention disorders. I hope you can get over your hang-ups about the internet connotations of being on the spectrum and get it looked into. It's not like you'd have to tell anybody. Ideally, confirmation and access to a new toolkit would be affirming in some way? Plus if you do it I'll feel guilty for not following my own advice.
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# ? Oct 30, 2021 18:53 |
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Greetings, Anonymous Fellow Goon Who Might Be On The Spectrum But Has Never Been Diagnosed By A Professional it sucks, yeah, because there's always that feeling (or maybe it's just me I dunno) that "well, gently caress, I'm too old now for a diagnosis to make any difference anyways, I'm already set in my ways," and that's not a fun thought to have to sit with I have no useful advice beyond the always-universally-helpful "try chopping your dick off and see if that helps," sadly, but hey, maybe it helps to know you ain't the only one out there
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# ? Oct 30, 2021 20:04 |
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Parts of that sounded like ADHD to me as an ADHD haver, but not all of it It's not an either-or thing though, people can and often do have both
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# ? Oct 30, 2021 23:41 |
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Perhaps they are just introverted. I have workmates who are right chatterboxes, and I always wonder how they can conversate so much. Past a few cursory lines out of politeness, and talking about the weather, I'm a proper awkward goon and tend to move on rather quickly. I can understand that anonymous message somewhat.
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# ? Oct 30, 2021 23:48 |
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quote:I look quite similar to a character from a TV show, which would be fantastic for a Halloween costume... Except it's the Nazi lady off of The Boys. You can't just dress up as a Nazi for Halloween, or people will think you actually like Nazis! Aw, pumpkins.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 03:31 |
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I'm not a coward, I've just never been tested, I'd like to think that if I was I would pass. Look at the tested and think "There but for the grace go I". Might be a coward, I'm afraid of what I might find out
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 03:58 |
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My anonymous confession is that I look like an attractive movie star. Please don't tell anyone.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 04:04 |
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Assuming “Nazi Lady from The Boys” isn’t her entire filmography, maybe you could dress as another character she played? Unless she only plays nazis?
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 08:49 |
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burial posted:Aw, David SS Pumpkins.
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HerStuddMuffin posted:Assuming “Nazi Lady from The Boys” isn’t her entire filmography, maybe you could dress as another character she played? Unless she only plays nazis? She’s literally just a short Jewish woman with brown hair and a pretty face. This came up in the thread during season 2, but I think this is a fine cosplay. Yeah, she’s a Nazi, but she’s also just a generic bad guy superhero, the only people who know she’s a Nazi are the people that watched the second season of a popular Amazon show, everyone else will just assume you’re a generic superhero, and I sincerely doubt if anyone who watched the boyz saw you dress up as a short woman with brown hair in a black suit, they wouldn’t think “hey that woman is Hitler! She’s probably a Nazi in real life”, they’d go “oh she’s playing stormfront from The Boyz!” It’s not that different from someone going as Darth Vader, IMO (I’m also Jewish, and I would stink-eye someone who just dressed up as Hitler for a costume party but I really don’t think dressing up as Stormfront is the same thing)
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 12:45 |
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The nazi is bad, but homelander, noted child murderer, is also bad. I wonder if dressing up as him would elicit the same kind of thoughts.
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I had a ton of friends dress up as Bellatrix LeStrange when the Potter movies were big, which was just Helena Bonham Carter as a Nazi Witch, and these were all woke liberal Bernie/Warren supporters who loved Harry Potter (lol, lmao)
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