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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]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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[info]altoidsaddict
2007-06-21 03:38 pm UTC (link)
*note - not trying to dis Christianity, just that it sounds kinda silly. And my own religion believes that bushes speak to you but only when they're on fire, so YMMV.

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[info]vigilanterodent
2007-06-21 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Hey, I fully cop to the fact that my religious beliefs are completely fucking insane. God is three figures but one figure at the same time, and one of those figures is a zombie Jewish carpenter who happens to be the messiah? What the hell?

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[info]barankhy
2007-06-21 04:02 pm UTC (link)
So, comparing the amount of sockpuppets, we can conclude that Msscribe > God ._O ?

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[info]eljuno
2007-06-21 10:34 pm UTC (link)
Also, God is his own dad.

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[info]seiberwing
2007-06-21 04:21 pm UTC (link)
This was actually brought up.

The beardlings are sad now.

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[info]altoidsaddict
2007-06-21 04:56 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's the comment I was referring to.

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[info]seiberwing
2007-06-21 05:02 pm UTC (link)
Ah, right.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-06-21 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it's not like this country supports a statistically destructive abstinence-only program in significant portions of its school systems. No sirree!

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I HAS SOLUTION, BUT I EATED IT. (It tastes like lemon squares!)
[info]altoidsaddict
2007-06-21 11:41 pm UTC (link)
Oh, abstinence-only programs don't work, since they acknowledge sex exists if only to avoid it. Personally, I see a huge rise in teen sex right around the time it stopped being mandatory for girls to take home ec. Since idle hands lead to sinnin' in the back of a Chevy, I propose that we keep all them gals busy knitting scarves for their boyfriends. Problem solved!

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Re: I HAS SOLUTION, BUT I EATED IT. (It tastes like lemon squares!)
[info]queencallipygos
2007-06-22 09:24 pm UTC (link)
Oh, God, no, that means a greater market for "Fun Fur," and we already have plenty of people attempting to make garments that look like they skinned a Muppet.

(/end knitting snobbery)

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Re: I HAS SOLUTION, BUT I EATED IT. (It tastes like lemon squares!)
[info]heddychaa
2007-06-25 07:14 am UTC (link)
I rather enjoyed the "Bling Bling" yarn I saw on my last trip to Michaels!

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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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[info]essinad
2007-06-21 05:51 pm UTC (link)
Oh, dear god, I just read his arguments in that hyphen wank. Talk about mocking the stupid...

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[info]evening_rose
2007-06-21 07:13 pm UTC (link)
How did I miss that one devolving?? O_O

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[info]frequentmouse
2007-06-21 07:54 pm UTC (link)
Oh fucking wow.

(Or is that Oh-fucking wow? Oh fucking-wow?)

The stupid, it burns!

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-06-21 08:29 pm UTC (link)
Troll. For my sanity's sake, please, let it be a troll.

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[info]doomsday
2007-06-21 08:39 pm UTC (link)
But "Christmas-Eve dinner" I would definitely hyphenate, to distinguish from a Christmas dinner cooked by Eve.

What?

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[info]chash
2007-06-21 09:19 pm UTC (link)
I would use words to do that, but maybe that's just me.

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[info]vigilanterodent
2007-06-21 11:36 pm UTC (link)
And of course, "Eve dinner" is entirely grammatically inaccurate, since it'd obviously be "Eve's dinner" or "the dinner Eve cooked" or whatever.

The worst part is that if his real name is Clive Jones (as stated in his info), I would guess he's likely to be a native speaker, which means he really is just that much of a fucking twit.

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It makes my fancy linguist brain cry.
[info]lyssa
2007-06-22 01:19 am UTC (link)
I see your "what?" and raise you a "the fuckery."

See, if I were going to get it confused, I would think it was an annual Christmas dinner that included eating Eve (like Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner), which I maintain is the cooler interpretation anyway.

But then, I actually speak non-crazy-bitch English and process "Christmas Eve" as a phrase referring to that pesky night before Christmas rather than being cute and trying to force myself to process it as something else. Lol constituent phrases, indeed.

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[info]squib
2007-06-22 06:43 am UTC (link)
That's seriously epic stupid. "Run a 25-man raid for two months and it still probably won't drop" level of Purple Stupid. /WoWgeek

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[info]renata_hpjc
2007-06-22 06:05 pm UTC (link)
I haven't seen a stupid that obtuse and persistent since the 52-state wank. Wow.
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I haven't seen a stupid that obtuse and persistent since the 52-state wank. Wow. <lj-user=gerald_duck></lj> wins. For values of "win" approximating "epic fail", that is.

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[info]wankismyfandom
2007-06-22 08:49 pm UTC (link)
My favourite part of that one is where someone refers to the "Miriam-Webster" dictionary.

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