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karnythia ([info]karnythia) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2005-08-16 14:18:00
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Blackfolk
[info]cmestrange writes [info]blackfolk a letter and says we should all stop being such "Debby Downers". The letter is condescending and inspires [info]blackfolk to turn the thread into a free post. It's a little wank but it's bound to grow, and after [info]toodani's comment of

Try not to cry as the woman in me stomps on the lady in you with my stilettos. I repeat: Take your BULLSHIT elsewhere because we all see through you and your weak ass attempt at "uplifting" while cutting off at the knees. Good Riddance

I knew you'd all want to watch and giggle with us.

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[info]hangingfire
2005-08-16 08:40 pm UTC (link)
I need to steal this graphic.

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2005-08-16 09:03 pm UTC (link)
I was just thinking that. I really need that graphic.

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[info]sashenka
2005-08-17 12:23 am UTC (link)
Oh, now that's just amazing.

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[info]smo
2005-08-17 05:53 pm UTC (link)
I do as well. So much love.

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[info]kadath
2005-08-16 08:44 pm UTC (link)
People besides caricatures of 40-something motivational speakers actually use the phrase "Debby Downers?"

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[info]gal_montag
2005-08-16 10:21 pm UTC (link)
It sounds like a delicious chocolate covered quaalude.

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[info]nevadafighter
2005-08-16 09:29 pm UTC (link)
Clearly a fan of the Harlem Renaissance over the Black Arts Movement.

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[info]chaimonkey
2005-08-16 10:55 pm UTC (link)
WTF is [info]hisprophet doing in there!? Ay, deva!

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[info]kittikattie
2005-08-17 02:50 am UTC (link)
Trying to convert us away from the gay and to Jeebus.

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[info]chaimonkey
2005-08-17 08:39 am UTC (link)
Perhaps if her logic were more... I don't know, relevant to what's on hand, she wouldn't be so damn embarrassing to the religion.

Dig this "conversation" we had a few weeks ago: oy.

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[info]khym_chanur
2005-08-17 09:16 am UTC (link)
Paraphrasing:

Matcha: Your comment was a non-sequitor to my post.

Hisprophet: Before you complain about the splinter in someone else's eyes, you should remove the plank from your own.

Matcha: Bzuh?

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[info]sepiamagpie
2005-08-17 11:04 am UTC (link)
and then she made a friend! It always scares me when the wankers do that.

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[info]kittikattie
2005-08-17 09:34 pm UTC (link)
They're amassing! Flee!

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[info]rosehiptea
2005-08-17 08:05 am UTC (link)
In a way this reminds me of what I've seen on depression and mental health communities. Every now and then someone will show up with a shpiel about how we can all improve our lives and get over this if we just get determined and eat better (or something along those lines...) or a guilt trip they found in some publication about how suicide hurts our loved ones and when we shouldn't even think about it... (It does? Wow, gee, I never thought of that!) Then when the community answers honestly that they are being a pain in the ass they wander away muttering that no one ever wants to hear anything positive or anything they disagree with.

OK, it's not really the same, but maybe it's similar.

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[info]smo
2005-08-17 05:56 pm UTC (link)
Kinda like all the Scientology posters one sees about town proclaiming psychiatry to be bunk and anti-depressants "brainwashing." Those gave me multiple Anime Poundsigns even before Tom Cruise got on his high heels horse.

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[info]necronomist
2005-08-19 02:45 am UTC (link)
proclaiming psychiatry to be bunk and anti-depressants "brainwashing."

Because what we really need is to be told we are a bunch of alien ghosts stuck together to lift us up where we belong. Yeah, I've seen those posters too.

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[info]smo
2005-08-19 12:05 pm UTC (link)
*sings* Alien ghosts will lift us up where we belong....

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[info]pokecheck
2005-08-17 12:31 pm UTC (link)
"Debby Downers" sounds like a children's sedative shaped like a Powerpuff Girl.

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[info]pyratejenni
2005-08-17 03:35 pm UTC (link)
isis_venomz' icon scares me. It's the Pink Furry Cute Thing O' Death.

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[info]smo
2005-08-17 05:56 pm UTC (link)
Dear Concerned,

Debbie Down these.


Sincerely,

Cho Midori.

*dies and is ded*

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(Anonymous)
2005-08-18 06:17 am UTC (link)
Forgive my ignorance, but what's a "Debby Downer"? Urban Dictionary tells me nothing!

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(Anonymous)
2005-08-18 10:25 pm UTC (link)
Debbie Downer is a character played by Rachel Dratch on Saturday Night Live. Basically she says depressing things in contrast to happy occasions, accompanied by "wuah wuaaaaaa" trumpets and an "uh oh" face at the camera. Occasionally she tries to fool the audience into believing that Saturday Night Live is still funny.

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[info]njyoder
2005-08-19 04:53 am UTC (link)
Maybe, if that community wasn't full of self-victimizing whiners, that post wouldn't be necessary.

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[info]karnythia
2005-08-19 04:54 am UTC (link)
Right, because that's not at all a wanky comment.

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[info]njyoder
2005-08-19 05:06 am UTC (link)
I'm sorry that you're not familiar with basic English, but you have to learn to communicate with it more effectively. What comment are you referring to? And if said comment is 'wanky', as you say, how does that make its point any less valid? To invalidate the point on that basis is a logical fallacy, with an implicit ad hominem.

The fact remains that not a single reply in that perfectly valid post attempting to 'refute' it was remotely rational. It was just childish and sarcastic dismissal, which is what you would expect from a community fraught with whiners. It's not at all surprising either, since any time someone makes a valid point that goes against the whiner mentality, their only possible reply is a humor-defensive reaction and a very uncreative one at that.

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[info]karnythia
2005-08-19 12:56 pm UTC (link)
My, aren't we taking the Internet seriously today.

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[info]njyoder
2005-08-19 05:51 pm UTC (link)
Hello pot, meet kettle, it's black! Er--oops--was that a racist expression? Sorry.

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(Anonymous)
2005-08-20 04:58 pm UTC (link)
LOL@you, the running LiveJournal joke.

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