7:58pm: Tazering people is serious business!
Rejoice, fandom_wank - for I bring you Usenet Wank!
Over at alt.tv.twenty-four (the newsgroup for the TV series 24), poster KimStar makes a joking comment about Chloe's tazering (twice) of an asshat barfly during Monday's episode.
( THIS is a wank starter? )
The first respondant - Mark Nobles (whether being serious or a troll, I don't know, but the effect is the same) - takes offence to her tacit endorsement of tazer-based violence against horny men.
( I didn't know Ginmar had a twin brother... )
Bruce (representing 24's knuckle-dragging audience) backs Mr.Nobles up...
( I sense great anger, Captain... )
Comment 4: Kim: "LOL! Lighten up"
Comment 5: Nobles: Yes, of course. Domestic abuse is always good for a joke. You sick fuck.
( At this point even Ginmar would be saying 'Calm the hell down!' )
(Yes folks, these are literally the first six posts in the thread)
And it gets dumber from here, folks... Have at it!
11:10pm: Another un-ship-related HP wank!
Menolike makes
a post in HP_theories about witches who marry Muggles in which she brings up a few questions. Someone asks her
"why is it always a Muggle father and a Witch mother?" Rogueravenclaw
replies that the only exception she could think of was Dean Thomas. Menolike asks where she read that, as she didn't remember it in the books, and Faraday replies with a link to the interview.
Menolike REALLY doesn't like it when JK Rowling does interviews.( I ENCOURAGE YOU NOT TO REPLY )Faraday, not surprisingly, is
a bit offended to get this lecture. Menolike insists that she wasn't being insulting and was merely ranting.
Wintermoon3 says, sensibly,
If you are so irritated by interviews and websites that reveal the author's additional thoughts or statements on the books, then why are you torturing yourself in a community specifically designed to discuss theories on these books - theories which are frequently developed, proven or discounted based on statements by that very author in those very interviews and websites?And Poetheather reminds Menolike about the fact that
Professor Tolkien did give several interviews, as a matter of fact. And in them he did discuss the characters of his stories and clarified parts of the narrative. To which Menolike
just keeps going ON.
ETA: Menolike tells a girl with a learning disorder that the reason she didn't do well in school was that she was spoiled. And tells her thoughts on the nobility:
Yours is a family who has lots of money, where I come from, that's how your family would be viewed.
They would not be considered rich unless they have lands of their own and an above than average history to go with it. If this family has 'cash in the bank', then that would be considered a plus. But that's it.
My own family doesn't have much 'cash in the bank', but we have the history and land, and so we are considered 'rich'. And yes, my parents made sure our education was much better than average. After all, we must preserve the family's name and honor. To fail would be a disaster (unfortunately that used to lead to some cases of suicide in some families). After all, there still exists the different families rivalry.