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hallidae ([info]hallidae) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-06-21 09:13:00


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"Worth Mocking!" "Is not!" "Is too!"
I know, I know, wank from [info]mock_the_stupid is like shooting ducks in a barrel of honey, but still-

A post is made, mocking a Ugandan AIDS education pamphlet for including what would seem to us to be really obvious information but apparently...isn't to them.

Many commentors think the poster has gone to the wrong place, and aren't really seeing anything worth pointing and LOLing at, considering the actual AIDS education situation in Uganda.

Mod Opalcat, however, isn't at all happy with the people criticizing her decision that it's mockworthy, and after arguing with a handful of commentors in aforelinked threads, posts a comments-locked modpost:

10:32 pm - MTS is not PC. And it isn't going to be.

If you can't live with that, please don't let the door hit ya.

The overkill PC whinging is really fucking tiring. We get it already. Get over it or leave. Honestly.


This brings more comments to the original post, mostly by people venting what they couldn't say in the modpost.

Of course, there are also others who think the mock is perfectly hilarious and are quick to call those who don't oversensitive PC pussies defend the post's merits.

Relatively small, but considering the modpost, I thought it had progressed beyond the clairvoyant stage.


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[info]seiberwing
2007-06-21 01:46 pm UTC (link)
When did PC become a bad thing? *blames O'Reilly*

It's not funny, first off, any more than a booklet for young American children on the spread of disease. They don't know this stuff.

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iwanttobeasleep
2007-06-21 02:43 pm UTC (link)
Better question: What does this have to do with being PC? The Ugandans don't have the same education as we do, how is pointing that out politically correct?

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(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2007-06-21 02:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lyssa, 2007-06-22 01:09 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2007-06-22 01:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]lyssa, 2007-06-22 01:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2007-06-22 01:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]lyssa, 2007-06-22 01:29 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2007-06-22 01:37 am UTC

[info]funwithrage
2007-06-21 06:44 pm UTC (link)
Hey! We didn't do anything! We publish computer--oh, the *other* O'Reilly.

I think my company should take a hit out on that guy.

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(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2007-06-21 06:56 pm UTC
*is divabat in that post*
[info]mydemand
2007-06-21 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Nice. A wank I got caught up in gets posted for once. I was actually wondering when it'll show up. XD

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Re: *is divabat in that post*
[info]seiberwing
2007-06-21 02:53 pm UTC (link)
Your picture looks...familiar. Have I seen you before in the intertubes?

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Re: *is divabat in that post* - [info]mydemand, 2007-06-21 11:08 pm UTC

[info]essinad
2007-06-21 03:24 pm UTC (link)
OP: What's immoral about making fun of people who are underprivileged, war-ridden, diseased and undereducated? Making fun of them because of those circumstances is immoral, sure, but as it happens I was mocking them for being stupid.

Which is what this community is for.

And I happen to be an egalitarian when it comes to mocking the stupid; I mock stupidity wherever I find it.


Oh, I get it now. Their stupidity makes them not understand AIDS. Not their life circumstances.

*head asplodes*

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[info]altoidsaddict
2007-06-21 03:37 pm UTC (link)
I loved that someone threw in Christianity. Americans do plenty of stupid shit too, but we don't see it because we're viewing it from our perspective. Myself, I'd probably compare this pamphlet to the fact that we need an entire online database of urban legends to debunk shit that makes no damn sense. ("Proctor & Gamble is Satanic!")

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(no subject) - [info]altoidsaddict, 2007-06-21 03:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]vigilanterodent, 2007-06-21 03:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]barankhy, 2007-06-21 04:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]eljuno, 2007-06-21 10:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2007-06-21 04:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]altoidsaddict, 2007-06-21 04:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2007-06-21 05:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wrongly_amused, 2007-06-21 08:26 pm UTC
I HAS SOLUTION, BUT I EATED IT. (It tastes like lemon squares!) - [info]altoidsaddict, 2007-06-21 11:41 pm UTC
Re: I HAS SOLUTION, BUT I EATED IT. (It tastes like lemon squares!) - [info]queencallipygos, 2007-06-22 09:24 pm UTC
Re: I HAS SOLUTION, BUT I EATED IT. (It tastes like lemon squares!) - [info]heddychaa, 2007-06-25 07:14 am UTC
Re: I HAS SOLUTION, BUT I EATED IT. (It tastes like lemon squares!) - [info]queencallipygos, 2007-06-25 01:29 pm UTC
Re: I HAS SOLUTION, BUT I EATED IT. (It tastes like lemon squares!) - [info]chibicurmudgeon, 2007-07-05 07:17 am UTC

[info]eilan
2007-06-21 04:50 pm UTC (link)
I replied to that (yes, before I saw the F_W post). Making fun of them because they need to be told something obvious is not making fun of the undereducated now?

By the way, he already wanked in MTS yesterday.

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(no subject) - [info]essinad, 2007-06-21 05:51 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evening_rose, 2007-06-21 07:13 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2007-06-21 07:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wrongly_amused, 2007-06-21 08:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]doomsday, 2007-06-21 08:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]chash, 2007-06-21 09:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]vigilanterodent, 2007-06-21 11:36 pm UTC
It makes my fancy linguist brain cry. - [info]lyssa, 2007-06-22 01:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]squib, 2007-06-22 06:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]renata_hpjc, 2007-06-22 06:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wankismyfandom, 2007-06-22 08:49 pm UTC

[info]vigilanterodent
2007-06-21 04:21 pm UTC (link)
I really relish how unless you've fully experienced another culture you're on your PC high horse for criticizing someone saying something maliciously insensitive about said culture.

I mean . . . what?

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[info]lyssa
2007-06-22 01:21 am UTC (link)
I've fully experienced another non-Western culture, and studied two in depth.

And said person is a moron. It's like Ebert's Law for anthropology!

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(no subject) - [info]squib, 2007-06-22 06:44 am UTC

[info]oar
2007-06-21 05:03 pm UTC (link)
This is going to be worse than the sugar-in-milk debacle.

Also, opalcat continues to astound me with how thick her damn skull is.

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(no subject) - [info]lyssa, 2007-06-22 01:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]marylake, 2007-06-22 05:48 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]eilan, 2007-06-22 06:40 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]delcj, 2007-06-22 07:24 am UTC

[info]eilan
2007-06-21 05:12 pm UTC (link)
I am so tempted to report that post itself to m_t_s, but I think opalcat has totally lost her humour and wouldn't approve it.

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[info]freezer
2007-06-21 06:05 pm UTC (link)
And to think... I gave up on MTS (due to the massive amounts of garden variety brainfarts held up as "LOL U STUPID!") before Opalcat began her reign of error.

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[info]evening_rose
2007-06-21 06:29 pm UTC (link)
I was wondering when this was gonna show up here. I actually debated making popcorn last night and waiting.

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(no subject) - [info]antigone, 2007-06-21 07:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evening_rose, 2007-06-21 07:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-06-22 12:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evening_rose, 2007-06-22 12:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-06-22 12:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evening_rose, 2007-06-22 12:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-06-22 12:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evening_rose, 2007-06-22 12:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-06-22 12:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evening_rose, 2007-06-22 12:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-06-22 12:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evening_rose, 2007-06-22 12:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-06-22 12:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evening_rose, 2007-06-22 01:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-06-22 01:02 am UTC
(no subject) - verthandi, 2007-06-22 04:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-06-22 04:55 am UTC
(no subject) - verthandi, 2007-06-22 05:06 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-06-22 05:13 am UTC

[info]luthe
2007-06-21 07:20 pm UTC (link)
So they are mocking the AIDS education efforts of a country with one of the best AIDS prevention programs in Africa?

That's just special.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-06-21 08:24 pm UTC (link)
Heh, y'know, I'm somehow reminded of a joke I got in an email - The Westerner who looks down on cultures where natives beat drums to summon rain is the same one who honks horns to move gridlock traffic.

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(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2007-06-22 10:03 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]thesilentsenshi, 2007-06-22 03:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2007-06-22 05:02 pm UTC

[info]oxydosic
2007-06-21 08:26 pm UTC (link)
God I love wanky mods. They're just the icing on the stupid cake.

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[info]black_spot
2007-06-21 08:27 pm UTC (link)
Sod it! Wish I’d come here earlier and saved myself some righteous indignation. I was reading stupid_free this morning and thought the mod post was about the Czech flag – shows how awake I was.

What is it with the mock-at-foreigners there?

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[info]omega
2007-06-21 08:39 pm UTC (link)
Her icon always reminds me of a serial killer.

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[info]doomsday
2007-06-21 08:43 pm UTC (link)
Maybe this is just a brilliant ironic twist and Opalcat is actually mocking the stupid people who think they are mocking the stupid.

Probably not, though--she's far too wanky to be that clever.

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(no subject) - [info]delcj, 2007-06-21 08:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]doomsday, 2007-06-21 09:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hyaenid, 2007-06-21 11:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2007-06-22 12:36 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2007-06-21 11:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2007-06-22 01:21 am UTC
She's pretty entertaining. - [info]irised, 2007-06-22 02:09 am UTC
Re: She's pretty entertaining. - [info]eilan, 2007-06-22 07:28 am UTC
Re: She's pretty entertaining. - [info]irised, 2007-06-22 10:39 pm UTC
Re: She's pretty entertaining. - [info]thesilentsenshi, 2007-06-22 03:19 pm UTC
Re: She's pretty entertaining. - [info]irised, 2007-06-22 10:42 pm UTC

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(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2007-06-22 01:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wrongly_amused, 2007-06-22 03:56 pm UTC

verthandi
2007-06-22 04:51 am UTC (link)
Why is opalcat a mod of that comm? She seems to make a lot of posts that should end up there to be mocked.

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(no subject) - [info]greenling, 2007-06-22 05:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2007-06-22 10:38 am UTC

[info]dragonfangirl
2007-06-22 09:57 am UTC (link)
"This is NOT safe, especially not if his brother died of AIDS..." Oh lord.

I mean. I know they need to know this, and all.

But.

Oh lord.

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(no subject) - [info]thesilentsenshi, 2007-06-22 03:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2007-06-22 04:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]thesilentsenshi, 2007-06-22 07:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]greenling, 2007-06-23 10:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]lyppy, 2007-06-25 03:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]warchio, 2007-06-22 09:17 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2007-06-23 12:36 am UTC

[info]aerobot
2007-06-22 01:26 pm UTC (link)
And I tell people to get over it because it's ridiculous the degree to which people get themselves worked up in indignant outrage over a post in a humor community on LiveJournal. I mean honestly.

....... Woah.

I don't even know what to say to that. Irony is usually funny, but DAMN.

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[info]elemcee
2007-06-22 04:42 pm UTC (link)
Wow...that is some massive fail.

And I hate when I'm made to associate cute animals with idiots.

Also, just out of interest, I wonder how many of those who think it's OMGLOLSFUNNY smoke or something equally obviously dangerous.

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