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tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

# ¿ Apr 14, 2015 18:08

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# ¿ Jun 1, 2024 18:51

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Weldon Pemberton posted:

I guess I'll spoil his fun, Jezebel is a very divisive website among feminists, with probably most of them disliking it. It has been known for many faux pas like (this is an old example but whatever) a discussion on sexual assault with its writers that resulted in them turning up drunk and making a bunch of jokes about the subject instead of saying anything insightful. Gawker does a lot of hypocritical things like criticizing the Fappening but posting Hulk Hogan's sex videos on their site and posting candid pictures of female celebrities without their consent. Not entirely sure what the domestic violence thing FAROOQ is talking about is though since I have long started tuning out when I see the names of these sites.

Basically, Gawker and Jezebel are both founded on getting clicks and anything they profess to as a principle is just them going along with what they think will facilitate that. Individual writers may be OK people but there are better places for them to be. There have certainly been suggestions that editors get them to deliberately post controversial stuff to bait people. Buzzfeed is the same, it has a very do-gooder liberal veneer but is owned by Gawker and ultimately its content is governed pretty solely by clickbait. What's even more annoying is that right wing people will use all these sites as an example of leftist/feminist hypocrisy while seemingly not realizing that reputable people and organizations despise them. So we get these sites full of awful content (often stolen or farted out for pageviews) that add insult to injury by claiming to be supportive of genuine progressive thought.

Yeah, this is all well and good, but there was a Hulk Hogan sex tape? Holy poo poo, I never thought that would happen.

e: That was not a comment on his libido, nor his porn-based security, it's just, ewww.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 22:14

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Phlegmish posted:

What the gently caress are you talking about, I'm not a 'yank'.

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast

# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 22:27

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2015 12:16

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mind the walrus posted:

Early 00s attempts at touchscreens are so endearing. I loathe Steve Jobs' place in the world but one thing he was dead right on-- no consumer on earth will get involved with a touch-screen if the world "stylus" is mandatory.

Welp, that explains why the DS crashed and burned.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2015 19:25

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Tasteful Dickpic posted:

Technically, you're all Columbian.

Vespurran.

# ¿ May 15, 2016 20:59

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Mierenneuker posted:

I hear it's great for ordering dollhouses.

But Amazon must be selling more than one dollhouse, right? Does it just pick the most expensive one and call it good?

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 10:25

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More here: https://imgur.com/gallery/2dF1J

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 01:10

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

for Peanut Butter.

You can do it!

# ¿ Feb 26, 2017 01:16

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Phlegmish posted:

The what, now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCywGhHQMEw

# ¿ Sep 27, 2017 15:58

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Inescapable Duck posted:

Humans really did a number on wolves, but the biggest change with cats has been behaviour and psychology. Domestic cats- hell, probably domestic anything- are super-social compared to their wild counterparts, with behaviours adapted to living in large concentrations with an abundance of food.

Well, cats domesticated themselves, wolves did not.

e: Wait this isn't the funny pictures thread. Is it cat day in pyf or something?

# ¿ Dec 16, 2017 14:59

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Johnny Aztec posted:

I am annoyed that I set up that Smeg Toaster joke and NO ONE even tried a " Smeg-Bread" punchline.

Lister would be SO disappointed in you.

I tried, but it kept auto-correcting to "Smee-Bree".

# ¿ Dec 22, 2017 17:54

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food court bailiff posted:

Every line of that ad is astounding. I like to imagine that DUKE CANNON is just yelling the whole thing, inches from my face. MANLY.

I was hearing it in Duke Nukem's voice.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2018 17:52

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POOL IS CLOSED posted:

You know, when I started reading the thread, I thought the title referred to the IKEA ad where they released horses of cats in a store.

https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/film/ikea_happy_inside

And a making of version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EdCTLB4jOe0

Please don't get my hopes up for a multiple Trojan-horse based feline takeover of a Swedish DIY/lifestyle chain store again, tia.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2018 15:41

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RoboRodent posted:

Here is an ad I got on Facebook and it is the worst thing I've ever read.

So she states quite clearly she doesn't have a mate in the first section, but in the last paragraph the whatever a "next generation alpha" is, is her mate, even though she's never talked to him? I'm very concerned about the internal consistency of this erotic werewolf fiction.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2019 22:36

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Well I don't know about them, but I was pretty pissed I got the "P vs NP" question wrong. It was so obvious!

# ¿ May 14, 2020 14:53

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The MSJ posted:

In case you're wondering, they're talking about Paul Atreides. Is that even an accurate description of him?

Paul Atreides led a holy war against everyone not of his religion, killed billions and basically subjugated all of humanity to his will, and his son was even worse.

But then he did improve Arrakis' ecology, was pretty handy with a knife and was basically magic so not far off, I guess?

# ¿ Aug 29, 2020 16:06

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Is it not a parody?

# ¿ Sep 14, 2020 20:32

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RandomFerret posted:

I miss the edgy marketing era

# ¿ Oct 3, 2020 17:36

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WeedlordGoku69 posted:

how would you even do the games in 2020? i remember the PS1 games would make monsters out of your CD collection, which is already some dead-as-hell greybeard poo poo, and then i think the PS2 ones worked with DVDs, which are themselves old and busted greybeard poo poo

idk, maybe you feed it in a track from Spotify and it makes a monster?

You could literally fight your steam/switch/ps game backlog.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2020 19:12

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Whybird posted:

Now that's not always true, sometimes they used horror and bewilderment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XyXjVTNrTA

That's not horror and bewilderment, that's madness.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2021 16:48

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coolusername posted:

part 2 of hilarious wolf dick cock fight escalations

I would like to submit this as a thread title, because, drat.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2022 13:16

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Please don't link the Daily Mail.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2022 18:25

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# ¿ Jun 1, 2024 18:51

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Is there like a temperature cut off for this bullshit?

# ¿ Aug 19, 2022 14:03

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