| A bunch of UNbelievable JERKS |
[09 Jan 2009|09:02am] |
This is a little wank about a girl and a dating site.
Girl joins OkCupid. Girl contacts boy. Boy agrees to meet girl. Boy is aloof and meeting doesn't go as planned. Girl goes home and drinks a bottle of wine. Someone texts someone. Girl goes to boy's apartment. Girl and boy share some drinks. Girl has sex with boy. Boy never calls girl again. Girl posts giant rant on OkCupid forums about how much of a jerk he is. Forum members WTF at her. Boy shows up and gives his side of the story. Social news sites become aware of the thread. Thread explodes. An Encyclopedia Dramatica (obviously NSFW) entry is written. Wank is had by all.
There are a lot of anti-fat and other hateful comments (hence the unfunny), but that doesn't stop the girl (zxyz) from being truly delusional. And this wasn't her first bad experience with OkCupid. Previously, she conducted a little experiment where she replaced her own pictures with pictures of a "very attractive girl." She got quite a few more messages from more interesting men, including one who claimed to like her for her personality. She actually wanted to meet this guy, so she eventually replaced the fake pictures with real ones. He didn't respond as she'd hoped he would:
So I wrote to him, told him the truth, even sent him a link to this thread. He responded with a short message, basically saying he wasn't comfortable with the situation, and wouldn't feel right meeting me after this. He said next time I should use my real pictures and not to deceive the next guy blah blah blah.
Okay, so I am full on heartbroken and feeling extremely jaded. This guy was actually deceieving me. He pretended to be a cool guy who cared mostly for personality when it turns out he was a tool like every other guy. And I hope he reads this, and even has the balls to respond, though I doubt it. I am furious right now, and all your jerk-off posts are what's pathetic. God, I hate that asshole, but at the same time, I love him.
The hypocrisy eludes her.
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| How bout a morning dose of Unfunny? |
[09 Jan 2009|09:07am] |
Sorry all, I'm in a foul mood and I'm taking you all down with me.
In Parenting101 on LJ Digitalexx makes a post requesting help disciplining her 18 month old.
The 18 month old rips her older sibling's book and is told to apologize. She 'refused' so she was put in time out.
18 month old apologizes twice to sibling but not to parents.
The next day, she still isn't apologizing to her parents, so what does Digitalexx do?
Why, refuse to nurse her and leave her in the car all alone of course!
Parenting101:WTF is wrong with you?
EDIT: Deleted. But it's on Stupid_free and CPS has been called.
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| Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children meets Ghostbusters |
[09 Jan 2009|11:01am] |
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Who you gonna call?
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| LJ Has Spoken About It's Recent Layoffs! |
[09 Jan 2009|06:07am] |
LJ Makes an Official Announcement In Regards to the Changes at LJ HQ: News at Eleven
As always LJ responds back to the community to debunk all media rumours days AFTER it's already taken place. A bad business move on their part, but needless to say, the post was met with mixed reactions.
Some sympathise with SUP, others are worried about the future of the site, its customers, and treatment of their US employees, and the rest blame the economy.
[Edit]: Okay, perhaps it isn't SUP's intention is to sound chauvinistic, however I still feel that better wording would help clarify a few things, without coming off that way. Or maybe they should have just reposted what they wrote here. Somehow I think that would have lessened the impact of the restructuring news a bit.
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| Vintage Friday: Dolores Del Rio |
[09 Jan 2009|02:37am] |
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| I de-friended you for a SAMMICH! |
[08 Jan 2009|03:00pm] |
(See what I did there?)
Anyway, Facebook has a new application, where you de-friend 10 of your facebook friends and get a free Whopper.
Considering how srz bzns friending can be, and to throw it all away for a sandwich, I predict WANK.
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| Fanartist rips compositions off other fanartists, news at 11 |
[08 Jan 2009|10:58am] |
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The curious case of Omar González (some images NSFW), a Spanish-language fanartist whose art seems to have been entirely copied (though perhaps not traced) from other fanartists. Ho hum. The more surprising part: he charged $25-$150 commissions for his work.
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[08 Jan 2009|01:25pm] |
A New Year's Day shooting in which a subway police officer fired a deadly shot into the back of an unarmed man has the San Francisco Bay Area demanding answers as authorities appeal for patience.
Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesman Linton Johnson told CNN affiliate KTVU-TV in Oakland, California, that the officer is presumed innocent and described him as devastated.
Attorney John Burris called the shooting "unconscionable" and said he filed a $25 million claim with BART on Tuesday, alleging wrongful death and violation of civil rights by use of excessive force. BART has 45 days to respond, Burris said.
"It's a clear shooting in the back that should not have taken place," Burris said, characterizing the incident as a case of "overagressiveness by police."
They have two videos of the officers forcing this guy to the ground and shooting him, and they call it 'overagressiveness by the police'? That's the understatement of the year. What really gets me is that further down in the article it says that he was trying to calm everyone down and get them to do what the police said.
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| Darryl Stephens |
[08 Jan 2009|03:09am] |
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| LJ, redux |
[07 Jan 2009|03:26pm] |
Is LJ being exceptionally robust, or is it just me? Vandalism by pissed-off ex-employees?
It's probably just me. But I can't get to LJstatus to find out for sure, so I thought I'd post here.
Sorry to bother everyone (okay, I'm not. Not really.)
Edited to add: Okay, not just me, then. On the one hand, Phew. On the other hand...I bet this has the potential to become epic. Even when it turns out to be just a hiccup.
Edited again to add: Now when LJ comes up it shows the following message: LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem. Thank you for your patience.
Final edit: It's baa-ack. And I'm going to the bookstore.
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| RIP, GJ. |
[07 Jan 2009|05:15pm] |
And GreatestJournal is dead.
http://www.greatestjournal.com
A week in the new year, and two journaling services are already dead? That's harsh. Check out the 403 error.
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[07 Jan 2009|11:31am] |
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While gamer sites are doing the "Best/Worst of 2008" awards, Zero Punctuation decides to do one too... but a little bit differently.
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| Posting to multiple journals with Semagic? |
[07 Jan 2009|09:50am] |
Back when Strikethrough was happening, I started using Semagic, and found instructions on how to use it to post to more than one journal at once. Of course, I forgot how to set it up, and the directions I'd bookmarked were on Greatestjournal. I have a new computer and I'd like to be able to simulpost; does anyone know how I can set that up again?
Thanks in advance!
ETA: Copious thanks to ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) whiteserpent and tephra!
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| Freida Pinto |
[07 Jan 2009|12:04am] |
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| Portollies.com poll |
[06 Jan 2009|06:54pm] |
Doubtless you saw this in Metafandom, but I thought I'd post it here too.
Portfollies.com poll
"Portfollies will be a social networking website where people can upload their portfolios (text, image, video and audio files), both original and fan works. The website will also offer communities/forums, and a variety of tools to help with creation and communication."
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| Unfunny ANN Double-Header Wank |
[06 Jan 2009|03:58pm] |
On Anime News Network's Chicks On Anime, this week's topic is censorship/editing in anime and manga. (Gee, this sure isn't going to cause wank at all.) The participants talk about different kinds of editing that North America and Japan do including nudity, violence, sexuality, smoking and alcohol, racism, AIDS, homophobia, loli/shota, and anything editors/publishers force the creators to change because they say so. It doesn't take long for the forum to become unfunny. (Ex-Answerman Zac is in there too. I am so surprised. Really.)
Speaking of censoring, ANN also posted about Kodomo no Jikan's second season promo being streamed. (Zac, the one blamed for KnJ being canceled for release in NA, in this one too.)
Edit: For anyone who wonders whether KnJ is pedo or not, all you have to do is look at the official merchandise. (Warning: Keep Brain and Eye Bleach near you, you'll need it. Oh God...)
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| So Transfan, I Herd U Liek Pedo Bear? |
[06 Jan 2009|12:54pm] |
Transformers comic book fandom wank.. Early this morning, it was about pedophilia.
My doppelgänger from the IDW fan forum Skwege learned that he had been accused of having sex with children by the IDW forum fantards on Transfans.net. Sprunkner is a real internet tough guy. Unfortunately, he made it quite easy to find his dox.
Skwege was not happy to find he'd been slandered as a pedo. So he calls (yes, as in calls Sprunkner's landline) to tell him to take it down. No yelling, just something along the lines of "call me whatever you want but accusing me of child fucking is not cool."
What does Spencer (Sprunkner's IRL name) do? He freaks out and hangs up!
That's right-he's a coward. So Skwege leaves him a voicemail:
"Hi Spencer :
You like to make libelous accusations about people having sex with kids? That is really grown up of you. Oh wow, you live in Washington State as well? What a coincidence! Bellingham is only an hour from here.
It's not funny! I know little punks like you think they can run around all anonymous on the internet and think nothing can bite them in their ass. However let me tell you little man, you are going to retract your statement, and then apologize. Talking shit about someone is one thing, but making a disgusting and FOUL comment like that is libelous. I have the time, money, resources, and most importantly the fucking patience to see this through so don't toy with me little man."
Then Sprunkner has his wife (yes, someone actually agreed to marry him) respond. He doesn't have the balls to answer Skwege himself-he makes his wife call him back and tell him not to call. Unfortunately, Spencer posted her phone number and email as his contact information.
Some PMs get exchanged on the IDW forum and Sprunkner accuses Skwege of threatening him (although I doubt the police consider being asked to take down a post or telling someone you're suing them for slander are violations of any particular laws). He makes an announcement on Transfans.net, crying that Skwege is harassing his family and that he called the po-po on him.
Sprunkner did call the police and they in turn contact Skwege.
The result? The police are highly pissed off-at Sprunkner. Because this is much ado about comic books.
All this name calling and wank is over whether or not the comic book series All Hail Megatron is in continuity.
The police were not too happy about being called to mediate a dispute over Starscream's alt mode.
They lecture Sprunkner and felt Skwege was somewhat justified. Skwege apologizes for dragging the wife into the mess because being accused of fucking children is serious business that involves the IRL banhammer.
The wank continues on Tranfan.net where Sprunkner whines some more (I guess his wife made him sleep on the couch) and Skwege threatens to post a scan of the police report.
These fine examples of male adulthood continue to fight about giant robots. I believe Sprunkner's wife summed it up succinctly in an email to Skwege: "This is a fight over made up robots-let it go."
Unfortunately, everyone ignores her.
Edit: I accept this is total fail. Need more recipes and fail macros, please.
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| LJ going under? |
[06 Jan 2009|09:57pm] |
The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.
The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone.
Source
Can you imagine the amazing bitchfest wankery that would go on if anything happened to LJ??? The internet would implode...
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| Liam Neeson |
[06 Jan 2009|12:40am] |
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