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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
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1:17p - Virginia is for self-lovers
I’m always amazed there is not more newspaper wank here, because every time I read a Washington Post blog, it’s exploding with spooge. You have to register to read the blogs and comments, so I’ll post some highlights. This is all for the best anyway, as the Post has giant non-threaded columned comments of haaaate.
The Washington Post Style section posts a short (and I mean short) article about the differences between Northern Virginia (NoVa) and the “rest of Virginia” (RoVa).:
( Amusing in a 'You Might Be a Redneck If…' sort of way. I guess. )
As you can imagine, readers waste no time getting into Rural vs. Urban arguments.
( You suck! No, you suck! )
So, despite the fact that they can’t decide whether Roanoke or Maryland is the problem, readers in general agree that the Style piece was not very funny, so there is minimal back and forth. But Marc Fisher decides that, no, there has not been enough wank on the topic, thanks, so he posts a continuation in his blog
( And now it gets good )
Also included: Tonio shares her/his thoughts on the NoVA/RoVa OTP, inspiring much boring serious discussion; plenty of macaca jokes because George Allen has no brain stem; and many, many attempts at being as equally witty as the original Style article. Luckily, one anonymous poster best sums up how I feel about the whole matter:
Lighten up Virginia.
Posted by: | October 20, 2006 11:16 AM
current mood: endlessly amused (92 comments |comment on this)
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2:16p - Wank on FARK.com? I'm shocked!
To think, I was afraid the elevator story would bring wank . . .
A story about female circumcision in Britain is posted on Fark, with the tagline, "Live in Britain and can't seem to find any locals willing to mutilate your daughters? Well, you are in luck. Just fly in some elders from Africa to handle the promiscuity-reducing mutliation." Naturally, people are sicked by the thought that it's still happening, even in the Western world . . . or are for all of two comments. Comparisons are made to male circumcision, and the wank is mighty as farkers fight over whether there are any advantages to being circumsized, if it's equal in magnitude to FGM, and whether or not circumsized guys do have reduced sensitivity.
242 comments later, it's calmed down, but still wanky.
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