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frequentmouse ([info]frequentmouse) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-01-04 12:13:00


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Seattle is famous for insanely wanky public arguments vigorous policy discussions, so it’s hardly surprising that the Seattle lj community is also a fountain of wank place where online debate sometimes gets a bit heated.

Yesterday, there was a school shooting in Tacoma and a short post about it has given rise to a rainbow of wank.

First, there was a brief outbreak of grammar wank, because using the indefininite plural for a singular subject is serious business but that exploration of the limits of language pales when the gomezticator declares Tacoma a ghetto. [info]melvillian, already wanking away and calling on expertise in the first thread, is a Tacoma native, and the wank takes wings.

It has spread to gomezticator’s LJ where no more sense is made. ETA I don't actually know anything about Tacoma, but I agree with you exchange, possibly the funniest thing in the whole mess.

And because I am a completist at heart, ETA 2:

Gomezticator can't understand why other people won't stop talking about Tacoma.


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[info]blackjackrocket
2007-01-05 11:05 am UTC (link)
My query with this case is why Yahoo News felt the need to tell us that the victim was male *in the headline*. I don't have it on me, but the headline was something like "School Shooting in Washington, Male Student Killed". Would they have reported it differently if the victim was female?

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[info]sabinelagrande
2007-01-06 03:01 am UTC (link)
Now I have an image of someone opening Yahoo News: "Oh my god, School Shooting in Washington! ...Oh, wait. Psh. Got all excited for nothing."

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