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Saturday, January 8th, 2005
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4:20p - Sociology Wank (aka You Have No Life! Well, You Have Less of One!)
In the blogsociology community on LJ, rance links to a Salon article on LJ's acquisition by SixApart, saying the article is well-balanced and doesn't rag on LJ users.
Coalescent thinks that calling LJ users "freaks, geeks and queers" who need a "safety net" qualifies as ragging on LJ users. After a little back and forth, it dissolves into arguing over who needs lives and how much of your human interaction should be on the internet to be healthy. People are declared to need mental help by Sahara_Dreams (who has a Ghost World icon, and therefore really shouldn't be talking about people who need lives) in bold letters of righteousness. Juliann is disabled and wants Sahara_Dreams to take a nice cup of STFU. Siderea, a grad student in psychology, tells Sahara that she's projecting her issues onto others.
And no doubt someone will post later with some sociological observation from this arguement.
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6:50p - Arabic and Conlangers
Aw, teeny tiny wank at a conlangs community. Conlangs, incidentally, are "constructed languages," i.e, ones that are invented or created such as Quenya/Sindarin, Klingon or Esperanto.
myth links to and excerpts from an article in The Daily Star on Arabic that features some very wanky quotes as to whether or not Arabic is "perfect."
As if the original article wasn't wanky enough, the commenters get jiggy themselves, with one anonymouse asserting that a superiority complex is inherent to Islam.
In other news, oneironaut is sensitive to mungojelly's broad generalization, and bc_ comes dangerously close to invoking Godwin's Law.
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7:41p - Who says asexuals can't wank?
The Asexuality Visibility and Education Network discussion board has a simple definition of asexuality on their home page, and a few links of elaboration here and here. User Carolineannie decides that the board isn't asexual enough and says this is why people make fun of us!
Various users disagree, but user stop has already had this argument and is glad to have someone on his side.
bard of aven suggests the rebels might be more comfortable elsewhere, and Carolineannie takes offence.
The mods have moved this to the "Hot Box" forum where controversial topics go to die, but there may be some life in this yet.
ETA: Carolineannie has not taken well to the disagreements! She posts that she needed to be medicated and threatens an internet lawsuit.
ETA2: And stop just keeps on going.
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