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cptn_dr: Sep 7, 2011; Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies

Jesus gently caress guys, can we not?

# ? Apr 16, 2013 10:52

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 23:02

Daniel Bryan: May 23, 2006; GOAT

cptn_dr posted:

Jesus gently caress guys, can we not?

The 8 year old that died was a boy, for one. That's just the top of the problems with that though.

# ? Apr 16, 2013 10:54

RyuujinBlueZ: Oct 9, 2007; WHAT DID YOU DO?!

Jack Krauser posted:

The 8 year old that died was a boy, for one. That's just the top of the problems with that though.

We'll talk about the other problems Tommarow.

# ? Apr 16, 2013 10:58

shock.wav: May 25, 2009

Nevermind, I was overcome with guilt after posting it

shock.wav has a new favorite as of 11:40 on Apr 16, 2013

# ? Apr 16, 2013 11:13

Shootthetanks: Oct 1, 2010

Someone unironically shared this on my feed earlier. I'm also getting a lot of gory images with made up stories attached, like the one about the "8-year-old girl" above. The images are horrible to see, of course, but the stories people made up just to get shares and retweets are pretty awful in a different way.

# ? Apr 16, 2013 11:45

insufficient guns: May 4, 2009; personally, I would
like to fuck Wall-E

This is the first time in recent memory I've seen her post something that isn't a complaint/rant about something completely trivial. Like so:

# ? Apr 16, 2013 12:36

N. Senada: May 17, 2011; My kidneys are busted

Mods, can I get my name changed to:
"Love-cave-between-my-legs"
tia

It's a different caliber than what usually gets posted. I'm not any of the people in the conversation.

# ? Apr 16, 2013 14:41

crime fighting hog: Jun 29, 2006; I only pray, Heaven knows when to lift you out

Shootthetanks posted:

Someone unironically shared this on my feed earlier. I'm also getting a lot of gory images with made up stories attached, like the one about the "8-year-old girl" above. The images are horrible to see, of course, but the stories people made up just to get shares and retweets are pretty awful in a different way.

Whoa that dude is like 8 feet tall!

# ? Apr 16, 2013 14:55

effervescible: Jun 29, 2012; i will eat your soul

Shootthetanks posted:

Someone unironically shared this on my feed earlier. I'm also getting a lot of gory images with made up stories attached, like the one about the "8-year-old girl" above. The images are horrible to see, of course, but the stories people made up just to get shares and retweets are pretty awful in a different way.

I guess they got the CSI team on the case to zoom and enhance :rolleyes:

# ? Apr 16, 2013 15:29

Friends Are Evil: Oct 25, 2010; cats cats cats

Shootthetanks posted:

Someone unironically shared this on my feed earlier. I'm also getting a lot of gory images with made up stories attached, like the one about the "8-year-old girl" above. The images are horrible to see, of course, but the stories people made up just to get shares and retweets are pretty awful in a different way.

Mods, please change my name to "he kill his own asian .....!!".

# ? Apr 16, 2013 15:39

modernwinglish: Dec 28, 2012; I'll squawk the world and molt with you

I'm pink. In the time it took me to upload this, he has commented more about how I need to open my eyes and stop believing everything the government tells me. The past month he's been posting nothing but Sandy Hook hoax videos/macros so I shouldn't be surprised that this is happening:

# ? Apr 16, 2013 15:39

Palisader: Mar 14, 2012; DESPAIR MORTALS, FOR I WISH TO PLAY PATTY-CAKE

modernwinglish posted:

I'm pink. In the time it took me to upload this, he has commented more about how I need to open my eyes and stop believing everything the government tells me. The past month he's been posting nothing but Sandy Hook hoax videos/macros so I shouldn't be surprised that this is happening:

"My dear". Good Christ, what a dick.

A friend of mine posted this:

quote:

Facebook: The new non stop never ending policitcal & religious parade/billboard/soap box. There are several people I deeply want to block from my feed because I am just so over it but can't/won't for various reasons. Yes, some points/views are valid. Yes, we get that the govenrment sucks monkey balls. Yes, clearly you are religious and think the world would be a better place if everyone was as holy as you. But you send your propaganda out (yes, propaganda, look it up) in a non stop stream forever barraging anyone you have friended with it. Not only does it lose its potency after the first few repetitions, it quickly gets annoying and then has quite the opposite effect of what you were hoping for. You aren't exacting any change aside from pissing your acquaintences off. Go picket your statehouse. Write strongly worded letters to your congressman. Do something useful. Your pictures/quotes/banners are not making a difference. To create change you must act. Cascading your opinions on Facebook in a non stop gusher ain't doing it. This is a pointless rant. I am aware. But I feel better now. LOL.

and followed it up a few days later with this doozy:

# ? Apr 16, 2013 16:08

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

Palisader posted:

"My dear". Good Christ, what a dick.

A friend of mine posted this:

and followed it up a few days later with this doozy:

If they're really your friend and you want to educate them, you may want to drop the Arpaio Bomb:

HidingFromGogo posted:

Let me tell you about Joe Arpaio.

If you're lucky enough not to live in AZ like I do, you might not know about Joe Arpaio. He's the Maricopa County Sheriff signed a promise(1) to serve only one term when he was elected in 1992. He's still the Sheriff. When it comes to drug warriors, this guy doesn't mess around. He's got a self-propelled howitzer with "Sheriff Arpaio's War on Drugs" painted on it, with some tasteful lightning bolts added for effect.

He'll kill your dog and burn your house down(2) if you get in his way (while simultaneously crushing your neighbor's car with an armored personnel carrier).

He's got that tent jail in the desert, where you have to wear old-timey striped uniforms with pink underwear, eat substandard food, and work on chain gangs but at least he provides rebar for you(3) (pdf) to make it easier for to beat other inmates to half to death. If you don't want to read the pdf, the gist of it he got fined over $600,000 because the rebar had been used as weapons before, and he still chose not to secure them from the inmates. The judge said "...among other things, the Sheriff and his deputies had actual knowledge that prisoners used rebar tent stakes and tent poles as weapons and did nothing to prevent it." Furthermore, "the Sheriff admitted knowing about, and in fact intentionally designing, some conditions at Tent City that created a substantial risk of inmate violence."

Your tent-mates are the least of your worries, however. Joe will beat you death even if you're blind(4) (and destroy evidence in a cover-up attempt), although to be fair to Joe he really only beat that guy partway to death- he only died after being left unattended in a cell for 6 days from the perforated intestine and broken neck he got from the beating- last time he gets picked up for shoplifting.

Don't count on a wheelchair earning you any sympathy from America's Toughest Sheriff, either. If you go to jail as a paraplegic on a 1-gram marijuana possession charge and ask for a catheter to piss in, you might just leave as a quadriplegic(5) after you get a 6-hour ride in a restraint chair followed by a guard breaking your neck.

Hey, at least the chair ride didn't kill him like it killed Scott Norberg(6), right? Well, it might not have been the chair- it could have been the stun guns or the towel shoved in his mouth. Joe Arpaio personally conducted an investigation of that incident and "surprisingly" found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the officers involved. The lawsuit found differently to the tune of $8 million, possibly because he got caught destroying evidence again. A man of principle, Joe publicly addressed Norberg's family and stated that he essentially got what he deserved because he was a drug addict and besides only bad people are in jail anyway.

Mentally-handicapped(7)? Too bad, you might get killed in the chair too- on a loitering charge.

Hope you don't have diabetes(8), cause you ain't getting insulin even if you go and die on him, like Deborah did.

Yeah, Joe sure does love him some wrongful-death lawsuits(9), combined with all of his other suits, he's a defendant in almost fifteen hundred cases- if they all come to settlement, Maricopa taxpayers could pay up to $50 million.

Criticizing him in the newspapers or on the Web might get you locked up(10).

Smokin Joe and his deputies work hard outside of jail too, what with all the racial profiling and immigration crackdowns(11); so you know they play hard(12) too- nothing takes the edge off like getting a happy ending from a hooker while on the clock. Oh, it was a "sting," and sure, 60 of the 70 cases got thrown out due to that gross misconduct, but hey, got to break some eggs you know.

My next Arpaio fun fact really stretches the imagination. He staged his own assassination attempt(13), involving blowing up his personal $70,000 armored vehicle with a pipe bomb. He created an elaborate sting culminating in a televised arrest of the "assassin," who was quickly released when courts saw that he had been entrapped and most of the plot was in fact fabricated by Arpaio.

But what would Joe be without a sidekick? Meet Andy Thomas(14), Joe's District Attorney who took a break from editing his own Wikipedia entry(15) to prosecute a 16-year old boy (seeking a *ninety year* sentence- without parole) for showing a Playboy to some of his classmates. Oh, he was arrested in an early morning tactical raid and his family held at gunpoint; the family would go on to spend over $250,000 in legal fees and even when the child porn charges were thrown out he *still* tried to get the boy listed as a sex offender. Andy's other adventures include spending $2 million of taxpayer money on TV commercials about himself. Not campaign commercials, just pointless self-promotion commercials. He had a "crime-prevention book" published, which was also largely self-promotion and included portraits of himself in it. Looking at his wiki entry now, there are some curious edits which weren't there the last time I checked, so maybe he's had some down time lately to brush it up.

Let's hear Joe in his own words-

"Well you know, they call you KKK. They did me. I think it's an honor. It means we're doing something."(16) "I spend $0.40 day on inmates, and $1.50 on dogs, the dogs get air conditioning."

1 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2008/09/29/20080929arpaioprofile0929.html
2 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-08-05/news/dog-day-afternoon/full
3 http://www.cofad1.state.az.us/opinionfiles/cv/cv010239.pdf
4 http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2008/04/14/20080414mcsoallegations04142008-CR.html
5 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1997-01-23/news/jailers-show-a-paraplegic-who-s-boss/1
6 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-01-14/news/the-8-million-victim/
7 http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1305836.html
8 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-12-20/news/inhumanity-has-a-price/3
9 http://www.websupp.org/data/DAZ/355904-DAZ.pdf
10 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003661135
11 http://www.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=798765
12 http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/?sty=23162
13 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-08-05/news/the-plot-to-assassinate-arpaio/
14 http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/print?id=2791529
15 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-02-28/news/andrew-thomas-maricopa-county-s-top-prosecutor-burnishes-his-wikipedia-page/
16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFTUQ71Aq0o

If you do, be warned that apparently some of the links have died since it was originally written.

# ? Apr 16, 2013 16:16

Just Burgs: Jan 15, 2011; Gravy Boat 2k

modernwinglish posted:

I'm pink. In the time it took me to upload this, he has commented more about how I need to open my eyes and stop believing everything the government tells me. The past month he's been posting nothing but Sandy Hook hoax videos/macros so I shouldn't be surprised that this is happening:

"I've seen too much truth..." :tinfoil:

Reads like he's a Lovecraftian cultist, rambling on about the "true nature of the world" and "the reality beyond our gaze". He's also a loving moron, and should be ashamed of himself for pointing fingers at government boogie-men and looking for some "big bad entity" to blame, instead of expressing empathy and sorrow for the people affected by this tragedy.

For more in the vein of morons who should be ashamed:

Fact 1: This delightful fellow's facebook posts consist of three states: Either complaining about his job (acceptable, he works at a gamestop which I hear is not fun), gracing us with his lovely view on women (seen above), or shameless :smith:

-worthy drunkposting.

Fact 2: You may have noticed he's shared a link from a page called "gently caress my Ex". His only ex is insane, not in modern use of "annoying" or "controlling", but literally insane as in "suffers from advanced psychosis". She was recently released from a mental institution. I also want to mention that she's actually a really nice and eager person, and has been trying very hard to seek help for her problem. To that end, I find it pretty despicable that he sees a page entitled "gently caress my Ex" and says "Yup! That sums up my feelings exactly."

Fact 3: He recently expressed the viewpoint that women who wear low-cut shirts have no right to complain when creepy dudes ogle them. I don't have that gem saved for posterity, and he deleted the status after it blew up, but what the gently caress?

# ? Apr 16, 2013 16:22

Sephiroth_IRA: Mar 31, 2010

Dear lord:

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# ? Apr 16, 2013 16:39

Palisader: Mar 14, 2012; DESPAIR MORTALS, FOR I WISH TO PLAY PATTY-CAKE

vyelkin posted:

If they're really your friend and you want to educate them, you may want to drop the Arpaio Bomb:

If you do, be warned that apparently some of the links have died since it was originally written.

I'm still considering it (I almost said something at the time that she posted it). Unfortunately she tends to be extremely argumentative, and is always right; I have never once won an argument with her even in situations where I was, you know, factually correct. But there's at least the chance that someone reading her feed would change their minds, I guess.

# ? Apr 16, 2013 16:41

N. Senada: May 17, 2011; My kidneys are busted

Orange_Lazarus posted:

Also apparently people are having the nerve to mention that bombings happen all the time in the rest of the world. I don't see anything wrong with that since we (at least most Americans I observe) tend to have a history of "gently caress the rest of the world". Telling someone they shouldn't grieve is dead wrong though.

C'mon, don't bring that discussion in here.

# ? Apr 16, 2013 16:46

Sephiroth_IRA: Mar 31, 2010

You're right. I just wish Americans would think of global tragedies as national tragedies as well but it's hard not to respond to the jingoism.

Sephiroth_IRA has a new favorite as of 01:13 on Apr 17, 2013

# ? Apr 16, 2013 16:56

Duckjob: Aug 22, 2003; Pack 'n Save has everyday low prices

And here we go, fake comedian pages doing anything for more share and likes

# ? Apr 16, 2013 17:37

Kimmalah: Nov 14, 2005; Basically just a baby in a trenchcoat.

Palisader posted:

I'm still considering it (I almost said something at the time that she posted it). Unfortunately she tends to be extremely argumentative, and is always right; I have never once won an argument with her even in situations where I was, you know, factually correct. But there's at least the chance that someone reading her feed would change their minds, I guess.

There's no way you would win anyway. Every Arpaio-related argument I've ever seen kind of stalls because being appalled by his behavior first requires acknowledging that criminals (both accused and convicted) are human beings with basic rights. And that simply being arrested for a crime doesn't automatically mean being guilty.

# ? Apr 16, 2013 17:43

SpliffClavin: Jul 31, 2007; oh geez rick

Please stop questioning the validity of facebook shares during a tragedy!

Only registered members can see post attachments!

# ? Apr 16, 2013 18:45

Zapdos: Nov 13, 2010

Palisader posted:

I'm still considering it (I almost said something at the time that she posted it). Unfortunately she tends to be extremely argumentative, and is always right; I have never once won an argument with her even in situations where I was, you know, factually correct. But there's at least the chance that someone reading her feed would change their minds, I guess.

Reword what they posted earlier and reply with that.

# ? Apr 16, 2013 20:11

mentholmoose: Nov 5, 2009; YKNOW THERES ONLY ONE DIRECTION I KNOW AND THATS DRIVIN STRAIGHT TO THE NET

Somebody I know vaguely from college shared this photo:

# ? Apr 16, 2013 21:17

RideTheSpiral: Sep 18, 2005; College Slice

May as well leave this greatest hits compilation here.

http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/48093470152/two-explosives-went-off-at-the-boston-marathon-on

# ? Apr 17, 2013 00:17

Sephiroth_IRA: Mar 31, 2010

Man, thanks for sharing that. My wife and I were rolling over this one:

http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/47750780517/my-favorite-public-shaming-post-may-have-finally

# ? Apr 17, 2013 01:10

Silent Potato: Sep 7, 2011

So this was a thing I saw today:

# ? Apr 17, 2013 02:49

Defenestration: Aug 10, 2006; "It wasn't my fault that my first unconscious thought turned out to be-"
"Jesus, kid, what?"
"That something smelled delicious!"; Grimey Drawer

Stroke has a new indicator:

Inability to MS paint!

# ? Apr 17, 2013 04:03

njsykora: Jan 23, 2012; Robots confuse squirrels.

My sister just shared this.

Everyone in my family has brown eyes.

# ? Apr 17, 2013 04:29

gobboboy: Jun 5, 2006; The pride of PITR

Make 4 more of those and you have Aryan Voltron.

# ? Apr 17, 2013 04:38

senrath: Nov 4, 2009; Look Professor, a destruct switch!

njsykora posted:

My sister just shared this.

Everyone in my family has brown eyes.

Is she dating someone with blue eyes?

# ? Apr 17, 2013 04:43

Daniel Bryan: May 23, 2006; GOAT

Defenestration posted:

Stroke has a new indicator:

Inability to MS paint!

I like that the solution to solving strokes is to have a stroke.

# ? Apr 17, 2013 04:44

njsykora: Jan 23, 2012; Robots confuse squirrels.

senrath posted:

Is she dating someone with blue eyes?

Nope, though my older sister did just get dumped and that's producing plenty of passive aggressive hilarity like this.

# ? Apr 17, 2013 04:53

TheIncredulousHulk: Sep 3, 2012

njsykora posted:

Nope, though my older sister did just get dumped and that's producing plenty of passive aggressive hilarity like this.

"Everybody should just be cool, except for the people I don't like who should ALL DIE."

# ? Apr 17, 2013 06:13

a.lo: Sep 12, 2009; Can't post for 14 minutes!

It really makes you think huh; I'm just sayin....

a.lo has a new favorite as of 09:54 on Apr 17, 2013

# ? Apr 17, 2013 09:47

Segway Rave: Dec 25, 2011; this is stanley barton he is the brother of the king and feels sad alot because other people don't like him much they say hes boring and not fun

Somebody keyed my friend's car a while ago and this was the some of the Facebook fallout. It had about 70 comments on the status last time I checked. Red's the guy who everyone thinks did it, I guess. Green is the best part though, all of her statuses are like that.

# ? Apr 17, 2013 11:24

RideTheSpiral: Sep 18, 2005; College Slice

Segway Rave posted:

Somebody keyed my friend's car a while ago and this was the some of the Facebook fallout. It had about 70 comments on the status last time I checked. Red's the guy who everyone thinks did it, I guess. Green is the best part though, all of her statuses are like that.

How do you even type like that?

# ? Apr 17, 2013 11:47

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

The thoughts of a good man :colbert:

If you "pray" for, and get, a good man, and keep him pleased with "twerking", does that make you a virtuous woman or a beautiful fool (twerker)? Asking for a friend.

# ? Apr 17, 2013 12:45

Faerie Fortune: Nov 14, 2004

RideTheSpiral posted:

How do you even type like that?

I sometimes accidentally type like this when I'm typing on my phone - the screen is quite small and I have stupid fingers so sometimes I'll hit the period instead of the space since they're right next to each other, and sometimes I just don't notice it before I hit send. This person probably has that happen to them, but with the added bonus of being too lazy to correct it.

# ? Apr 17, 2013 13:26

Friends Are Evil: Oct 25, 2010; cats cats cats

Pastry of the Year posted:

The thoughts of a good man

If you "pray" for, and get, a good man, and keep him pleased with "twerking", does that make you a virtuous woman or a beautiful fool (twerker)? Asking for a friend.

I love that "praying" is in quotes.

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Soviet Commubot: Oct 22, 2008

Red is the guy from earlier that got a job in the banking industry and went into FYGM mode. Blue is another Army buddy who had a political "awakening" during the 2008 election and became a Paulbot, sliding into crazy Alex Jones territory.

# ? Apr 17, 2013 16:24

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