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Tiara [my demand] ([info]mydemand) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-04-05 15:27:00
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TRIBUNAL!
I missed the first half of this wank so forgive me if it doesn't seem complete.

Avon is a popular teen messageboard. -Krissie-, one of the members, is a bit of a Big Name Poster there, but recently she's been under fire for apparently lying about her life.

Quite some debate and fights go on about her authenticity (is she really a singer? Does she really have a daughter? Does she work? etc). The posters and admins of Avon decide to hold a tribunal about Krissie.

Yes. An OFFICIAL tribunal. Just so there "aren't any unwarranted personal attacks against her".

Some time later the tribunal returns, with the verdict :

Guilty.

Turns out there is an adoption article that "exposes" Krissie as a fake..

Of course, more mud-slinging happens, with Krissie coming by every once in a while to defend herself, and many of us going "WTF do we need a TRIBUNAL for?".

Stay tuned.

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[info]cjk
2004-04-05 10:49 am UTC (link)
Er. Self-righteous much?

*has a WTFucketh moment*

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[info]nicolae
2004-04-05 03:42 pm UTC (link)
"We're not going to do anything about it if we find out she's fake, but we're going to tremendous trouble to do it anyway."

...their logic, it does not resemble Earth logic.

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Mmmm... pointless research...
[info]deoridhe
2004-04-05 05:15 pm UTC (link)
Maybe they like doing a lot of work for nothing... y'never know, they could be prepping to go into research?

*battup-ching* ;)

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[info]rann
2004-04-05 11:21 am UTC (link)
Dude... if this Krissie is the same as the girl in that article, then I don't care HOW pretentious or silly or stupid a tribunal may be, she needs to be exposed wherever she goes. o.O

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[info]cleolinda
2004-04-05 03:01 pm UTC (link)
A "tribunal" is ridiculous, but... that article? Holy crap. That shit is fucked up.

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[info]smo
2004-04-05 03:20 pm UTC (link)
Word. What a horrible thing to do to a person.

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[info]wankprophet
2004-04-05 06:56 pm UTC (link)
There's another jurisimprudence-worthy wank here too -- "you must have done something really bad in a former life to deserve this all." Somehow, I think if Christian flames of "you're evil and going to hell" are bad, so are Buddhist/Hindu "karma will get/has gotten you" reincarnation flames. Especially when they are all-too-frequently gross misunderstandings of how karma and reincarnation work.

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[info]wankprophet
2004-04-05 04:59 pm UTC (link)
Indeed. I'm having flashbacks to BitofEarth, but somehow this strikes me as much more...personal. Sociopath is a way overused word, but it seems appropriate here -- the kid seemed to have a complete and utter disdain for the emotional resonances that most of us take for granted.

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FUS
[info]deoridhe
2004-04-05 05:14 pm UTC (link)
This is like that chick who pretended to be a sick teenager, up to and including "dying."

People will do some fucked up shit for attention and money, yo.

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Re: FUS
[info]smo
2004-04-05 05:43 pm UTC (link)
Or that woman who pretended to be a young boy dying of AIDS. People never fail to amaze me.

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Re: FUS
[info]janegraddell
2004-04-06 04:00 am UTC (link)
I once clicked on a link to a "tribute" page to discover that it was a memorial to one such fan, whose repeated "illnesses" I happened to have witnessed on a mailing list I belonged to. Part of me was boggled that anyone had actually believed the fantastical BS she (or rather, her "family") fed them, but mostly I was irritated at her for duping people into grieving for her sorry ass.

And then there was the guy who posted to another mailing list I was on the day after 9/11, claiming to be a "friend" of the person whose account he was using to post, and feeding the list a pack of lies about how his "friend" was supposed to have been at the WTC that day and he was worried about him, then following up with an account of his "friend's" tragic death and how he'd died saving other people, etc.

Fucked up shit.

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Re: FUS
[info]deoridhe
2004-04-06 04:08 am UTC (link)
It's really twisted in a basic, disturbing, inhumane way. It's taking the legitimet pain suffered by people and turning it into a gag...

Ugh. 8(

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[info]nicolae
2004-04-05 03:24 pm UTC (link)
*gasp* People on the web...aren't always what they say they are!

My faith in humanity has been shattered. I will now become a hermit.

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[info]smo
2004-04-05 04:18 pm UTC (link)
Don't forget to wattle the inside of your cave!

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<--dumb
[info]nicolae
2004-04-05 04:22 pm UTC (link)
Wattle?

The only bell that rings is the previews for Ally McBeal (which, luckily, I never watched).

Somehow I don't think that's what you mean!

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Re: <--dumb
[info]smo
2004-04-05 04:33 pm UTC (link)
You never saw the Monty Python hermit sketch? With the two hermits hanging out and chatting about the neighborhood together? And all the other hermits dropping by to say hello?

...never mind, then.

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Re: <--dumb
[info]nicolae
2004-04-05 04:36 pm UTC (link)
...sadly, no. *is a poor deprived person* I've never seen the dead parrot sketch, either. Though I've heard all about it!

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Re: <--dumb
[info]smo
2004-04-05 04:50 pm UTC (link)
I think the Dead Parrot Sketch is overrated, personally. It does have a lot of excellent synonyms for "dead," though. Heh.

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Re: <--dumb
[info]deoridhe
2004-04-05 05:16 pm UTC (link)
I'm still hung up on the Spanish Inquisition.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!!

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Re: <--dumb
[info]smo
2004-04-05 05:19 pm UTC (link)
Cardinal Fang! Poke her with the soft cushions!

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Re: <--dumb
[info]deoridhe
2004-04-05 05:27 pm UTC (link)
No! NO! Anything but that! Next you'll be strapping me to *gasp* the COMPHY CHAIR!!!

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Re: <--dumb
(Anonymous)
2004-04-05 10:37 pm UTC (link)
*fetches you a cup of TEA*

Mwahahahaha...

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Re: <--dumb
[info]deoridhe
2004-04-06 12:01 am UTC (link)
*cringes* Nooooooo!!!!!

The Horror!!!!!!

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Re: <--dumb
[info]kijikun
2004-04-05 05:47 pm UTC (link)
GIP

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Re: <--dumb
[info]rann
2004-04-05 10:39 pm UTC (link)
*expected them*

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Re: <--dumb
[info]wankprophet
2004-04-05 04:55 pm UTC (link)
heheh, I saw it! Ah, the joy of having the entire Flying Circus DVD set.

You know, a recent subthread on F_W that ended with me quoting the entire "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from "Life of Brian" and almost quoting from "Holy Grail" (something to do with fangirls and Galahad) has led me to the hypothesis that there is no wank that cannot be mocked exclusively through the use of Monty Python jokes, quotes and anecdotes. I may have stumbled on some sort of jurisimprudence tangent here, though damned if I know what.

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Re: <--dumb
[info]smo
2004-04-05 05:04 pm UTC (link)
Done and done.

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Re: <--dumb
[info]wankprophet
2004-04-05 05:20 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, let's spam the comm with MP quotes. Spam, spam, chips and spam. Ah, what a delicious recipe for wank. And gives me something to do while I'm supposed to be working. looks furtively around Spam is work, right?

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Re: <--dumb
[info]smo
2004-04-05 05:31 pm UTC (link)
Spam is work, right?

Work's off.

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[info]kijikun
2004-04-05 04:57 pm UTC (link)
Yes Wattling is very imortant, espicaical what you use to wattle

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[info]cpip
2004-04-05 03:57 pm UTC (link)
Mein gott, the wank! The self-righteousness! The bizarre trial nature! The... wow.

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[info]kijikun
2004-04-05 05:01 pm UTC (link)
The tribunal thing is a bit much, but...if that girl is the same one as in the article....shit that girl needs help.

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[info]sesana
2004-04-05 05:34 pm UTC (link)
I only read a total of fifteen pages on all those threads, but they needed a tribunal to prove she was lying out her ass? It's not like she's even any good at it. We experienced liars pick only one area in which to practice our craft. I'm an accomplished gymnasts with many tropies and medals, in case you didn't know.

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[info]cjk
2004-04-05 06:32 pm UTC (link)
So, what's a tropy? ;)

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[info]wankprophet
2004-04-05 06:40 pm UTC (link)
If you're a gymnast, it's something you get for doing well on the trapheze.

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[info]sagralisse
2004-04-05 07:01 pm UTC (link)
And it's easier to get if your a gymnasts.

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[info]sesana
2004-04-05 07:24 pm UTC (link)
Sort of like a trophy, only cheaper. Consonants are expensive, dontcha know.

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[info]eiviiaru
2004-04-05 09:26 pm UTC (link)
I have two reactions to this:

One -- "Ah, wank. Much like nuclear war, the only way to win is not to play."

Two -- "What the crap. No, really, what the CRAP?"

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[info]teratologist
2004-04-06 02:34 am UTC (link)
All I could think when I read that article was, "You know, people never turn up claiming to be your long-lost abortion and ask you for things."

But that might not be the right answer.

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[info]apoplexia
2004-04-06 04:20 pm UTC (link)
It might not be, but I enjoyed it nevertheless.

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[info]kijikun
2004-04-06 04:23 am UTC (link)
You know I just read through alot of the thread and...holy crap I can't belive how many of them don't even care that she lied and don't see the big deal.

Whatever happened to their being concences to lying to people?

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