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Thursday, July 8th, 2004
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12:13p - The Return of the Knitting Wank
What is it about the ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) knitting community on LJ that attracts so much wank?! I never thought I'd be bringing a third wankfest over here, and yet, here I am.
It starts off when neau posts to the knitting community, asking how she can graph a picture onto a pattern for a sweater for her mother. The picture in question is the W stands for Women ad from the George Bush campaign. Minor wank ensues in the comments as valid questions about making the sweater (such as, what if Dubya loses in November?) are met with snarky replies from the OP, and her friend everybabyweeps. The first sign of trolling? A comment about knitting pom-poms for the mother is met with the reply, "LOL, knit pompoms would rock. She could use them when she rallies against homosexual marriages. !".
At this point, it becomes blatantly obvious to the moderators that neau and everybabyweeps are simply trying to stir up trouble in the community. ew_yer_creepy proceeds to ban both of them from the community, not just because they were stirring up trouble, but because upon further investigation into neau's journal, the mods found out that neau and everybabyweeps had actually plotted their post to knitting beforehand. The mod took two screencaps of the two of them plotting - apparently someone from the knitting community insulted neau's cat, so she decided to troll. (I'm not kidding people, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.)
But wait! The wank doesn't end there! sorrows_crow, who is a friend of neau, refuses to believe that neau would do such a thing, and accuses the mod of photoshopping the LJ comment images. The entry from which the comments were taken has since been friends-locked, leaving the mod with no physical proof that the comments are real, except, of course, for the screenshots, and the fact that neau did exactly what the comments said she would, and trolled the community. But that's not good enough for sorrows_crow, who basically says that the whole thing is a conspiracy against neau, and that she won't believe anything without actual proof.
I'd like to remind you all that these people participate in a hobby that involves long, sharp, pointy objects. Be afraid folks, be very afraid.
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2:47p - You did what with the what now?
Ok, this is old, and locked, but too good not to share.
Over on Babycenter (warning: the whole site is infested with pictures of fetuses) there is a support page for women who want a child who are in partnerships with men who don't. It is kind of a sad situation, to be sure. But....( Sometimes it gets weird over there )
ETA: a non-cracked link.
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7:12p
Okay. I have stumbled over this delicious bit of wank and haven't been able to stop reading. Apparently, a few years ago, a poster identifying himself as John Titor, or "timetravel_0" started posting on the Internet. He claimed to be from the year 2036, and was coming back to -- if I understand this right -- get a unix machine from the IBM 5100 series. Or something. He then began talking about inevitable civil war (look at the link given, and check the "predictions" on the left sidebar) and nuclear holocaust and multiple worlds theory, and then offered up a guideline for averting disaster straight from a Green Party pamphlet. In other words, some decent ideas, but still rather transparently polemical. He provided pictures and diagrams of his time machine to awe the masses. Four months later, he disappeared, saying that he was returning to his own time.
Predictably, people believed him. Or passionately disbelieved him After stumbling over the johntitor website, I idly clicked a couple of links, and ended up on a discussion forum devoted to time-travel. It seemed impossible that there wouldn't be wank. And sure enough, I found several cases. I finally settled on one in particular that amused me, though nosing around some will reveal many others to laugh at.
( John Titor is dead!!!! )
Oh, this is beautiful stuff. But, then, what would one expect from the discussion boards of something called the Time Travel Institute?
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