Ghost Leviathan posted:

Rodney Dangerfield seems remembered mostly for being one of the few 20th century comedians to make actual jokes.

Snow Cone Capone posted:

The LSD thing was hilarious, but IMO it's also kind of funny that there is actually an ever-increasing amount of data being generated these days showing that psychedelics can actually be pretty effective at treating addiction

Paladinus posted:

Not when self-administered based on the advice of internet strangers.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

A direct link to the Hades comic, which is widely considered the greatest post ever made in QCS: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3950449&pagenumber=10&perpage=40#post510542873

Snow Cone Capone posted:

The LSD thing was hilarious, but IMO it's also kind of funny that there is actually an ever-increasing amount of data being generated these days showing that psychedelics can actually be pretty effective at treating addiction

Actually, yeah this is pretty heavily due to stigma/drug war. Did you not see the whole thing where she got taken to jail, then after she got out immediately went on a massive drug binge? Have you ever been to jail, or more accurately have you ever been to jail and then felt like you had no options at all when you got out except to ignore the experience by doing a bunch of drugs? Try going to a therapist or hospital or anywhere really with trackmarks on your body and see how much compassion and help you'll get. You don't get addicted to heroin because of the stigma, but it makes it nearly impossible to get off.

Aphid, I am very sorry you were arrested. No drug user should ever have to experience that, especially one who is heavily dependent on them. It does nothing for anyone and serves no purpose except further ruining lives. Having been there, I would bet right now you have no intention whatsoever of trying to do anything about the court case and just letting it go and hope you overdose or whatever by the time a warrant goes out. I cannot say I wouldn't do the same exact thing, so I must preface this by saying that I fully understand the mental block you have right now. But please get a lawyer, pay for them however you can, and try to minimize the damage on your record. One day you might want a job or something, and you're gonna have a gently caress of a time getting one if you just roll over and take a felony possession of heroin.

I don't know that there are any useful suggestions anyone could possibly give you about getting clean. Rehab is such a loving joke I can't even mention it without the disclaimer that it's really not going to work at all. I know it's probably a lovely thing to say since for many people it is a last resort before death, but if anything will drive you to drug use it is rehab. Try to take a bunch of LSD or something, poo poo, just get off the drat heroin.

Len posted:

Under like lab settings which is not what the harm reduction mod was suggesting

shelley posted:

no one asked but here’s the HondaRider post where he told sunburnt_aphid to try LSD

[url=https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=416104261#post416104261]

Heath posted:

This thread is intensely depressing, and not even just for this post

Snow Cone Capone posted:

Like I said "goon takes reasonable concept and goons it into total parody" is a running theme with these sagas. It is literally the basis of the "proposal/reality" quote that set off this discussion

Snow Cone Capone posted:

TCC as a whole is mostly intensely depressing, and this is coming from someone who used to do a ton of drugs

shelley posted:

no one asked but here’s the HondaRider post where he told sunburnt_aphid to try LSD

[url=https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=416104261#post416104261]

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Here's the thread. Sadly, archives are required to view it, but here's a summary:


She got roasted by goons including an admin:


Then The Finn told everyone to shut up and post photoshops on pain of probation. A few pages later:


I think this must've been her "Trump humiliated by Obama for birther poo poo at a celebrity gala" moment regarding the forums, so to speak.

shelley posted:

no one asked but here’s the HondaRider post where he told sunburnt_aphid to try LSD

[url=https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=416104261#post416104261]

MarcusSA posted:

lol the GBS COVID thread finally got locked.

Some people have seriously lost their minds.

Edit : now lock the rest of them so that some of these posters can get the help they need.

fun hater posted:

alright now you're just saying things to make people mad

System Metternich posted:

I've heard that the GBS one was actually the least "the end is nigh!" one of the three (with the others being in D&D and C-SPAM), though I haven't read either in over a year. Can anyone confirm/deny?

System Metternich posted:

I've heard that the GBS one was actually the least "the end is nigh!" one of the three (with the others being in D&D and C-SPAM), though I haven't read either in over a year. Can anyone confirm/deny?

CaptainSarcastic posted:

The GBS thread is generally good, and at a glance it looks like it is closed due to a slapfight between posters that occurred while I was asleep.

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

I am constantly surrounded by unmasked people while I play dodgeperson. I wear an N95. It's been like this since the pandemic started. I'm not fuckin' dead yet.

I am profusely crying while I watch an old disney world fireworks show because look at all the people, listen to the joy in their voices, this is how we used to live.

pentyne posted:

Occasionally someone breaks containment in the thread and just goes off on the full scale doomposting. The last page in the thread pointed out someone who's gone full scale emotional breakdown mode over the pandemic.

shelley posted:

no one asked but here’s the HondaRider post where he told sunburnt_aphid to try LSD

[url=https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=416104261#post416104261]

Snow Cone Capone posted:

The LSD thing was hilarious, but IMO it's also kind of funny that there is actually an ever-increasing amount of data being generated these days showing that psychedelics can actually be pretty effective at treating addiction

christmas boots posted:

There's a part of me that wants to think "well at least it's a self-resolving problem" but even if that's true it hurts a lot of undeserving people along the way.

silence_kit posted:

Self-deprecating humor is funny (e.g. Rodney Dangerfield's act), but sometimes goons really get into the self-deprecation, and forget about the humor part, and that is exhausting.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

There’s definitely people who come across as not wanting the pandemic to end so they’ll take the worst read on any of the news. They started as the ones who took “there’s no proof yet the vaccine cuts spread” stuff to “the vaccine still has you spreading the virus” and they’re still mostly clinging to it because of breakthrough cases, which happen with any vaccine.

As for why they don’t want things to end, it’s probably doomscrolling addiction, or having a reason to scold people. There’s definitely a set of people online where the internet has taken the place of something like cutting and the emotional self-harm has become borderline compulsive.

Yummers posted:

So true. If you love your car and you worked hard to own it, then cup holders aren't for "cups". Water bottles only in my IS F. Over the weekend, on my way to a tailgater, some douche magouche who I barely know, and who obviously doesn't appreciate nice things, was riding in my back seat and desperately wanted to crack a beer open in my cabin. He even asked a third time after I told him "gently caress! no!" twice (strike 1). And at the tailgater he sat on my bumper (strike 2). Then he pops the lid of a beer bottle with a lighter and splashes beer on my bumper (strike 3). Needless to say he didn't get a ride back home. That classless fool can take the bus next time.

Yummers posted:

Sigh...
I didn't expect a response like that in automotive insanity. Would you let some random character, who is faded on a bender, put on a poo poo-show around your $65,000 car? I know all my friends with high dollar cars think I'm a fool for even considering driving to a sporting event like I did. At any rate, no, I didn't have a heart attack and I didn't blow my lid. I was respectful about telling him to be cool near my car. It was more of a letdown to myself for putting myself in a situation like that. You have to understand this isn't a Toyota Corolla. Minor paint work for an ultrasonic blue IS F typically starts in the low 4 figure range if you want it done right...and I don't need that hassle. Seriously though, who sits on the bumper of a high dollar sports car with a special paint job? I even saw him leaning on her a few times. You don't do that! How is my frustration not understandable?

Yummers posted:

Yeah, I know I was asking for it and you can file it under lesson learned. My car doesn't go anywhere that doesn't have valet or at least a private lot from now on. And again, I completely disagree with anyone who should think it's okay to plant their 200lbs rear end on the bumper of a high dollar car. It's a car with an open trunk to access beer, not a "tailgate". And yeah I agree the beer splash on the bumper was maybe an overreaction even though the beer probably splashed into the trunk too.

Since this is a total derail from the original topic of cup-holders, I guess I should conclude with a car related moral to this story: When you have a flashy car that attracts attention, people come at you for different reasons under the guise of friendship -- you have to be able to determine which "friends" are fair-weathered. In the case of this story, I was hanging out with some sloppy drunks who don't appreciate other peoples stuff and were pathetically lingering around my car trying to catch pussy shrapnel. Lesson learned/never again/moving on. I'm going to another game tonight with a different group of friends and they're all about taking BART. Those are my people!

ZippySLC posted:

OH MY GOD we get it you drive an expensive "high dollar" sports car. Get over it.

There's probably pussy shrapnel because they'd rather detonate themselves then deal with this kind of level of pretentiousness.

Muffinpox posted:

Don't worry Yummers, I feel you. When I first learned to drive manual, I borrowed my uncles 2004 C5 Convertible 6 speed. He came and picked me up and told me it was mine for a week. Just mine. All alone with the car and all I needed to do was give him a ride home. He asked me to stop at Starbucks on the way back and was telling me how this car would get me lots of attention from the ladies. As we parked and were getting out he said "You know Muffinpox, I know you're young but the kind of girls who come after you for having something like this aren't the type of girls you want to be in-" and then a deafening roar. The antagonistic screams of a thousand woman shrilled in the background "Oh my god that is so cool!", "Nice car, can we go for a ride with the top down?", "Sweet ride" were chanted over and over. The deafening roars of pussy bombs going off, pussy shrapnel flying everywhere. A piece caught my uncle in the leg and he laid on the ground bleeding out. I jumped through the cabin and surveyed the wound, it was bleeding badly. I jammed my finger into the wound and held the artery shut until I could figure out what to do. "We need to get you in a car and back to a hospital" I told him but all he could do is shake his head and say "No.. no.. this is an expensive car do you know what blood will do to the leather? It might have to be detailed twice." I'll never forget being covered in his blood in the parking lot and his last words to me, "Is the 3M clearbra doing a good job against the pussy shrapnel... this paint is... expensive..."

RIP Uncle David.

Harrow posted:

I can't go into COVID or climate change threads anymore. I peeked into the CSPAM climate change thread a couple weeks ago out of curiosity, read like two pages, and it sent me into a depressive spiral for the rest of the day. I just stay away for my own mental health. Sometimes it feels like I'm putting my head in the sand but at least for right now I want to focus on things I can actually control rather than doom-spiraling about things I can't.

shelley posted:

This is exactly how I feel — I read the CSPAM COVID thread regularly for a few months last year when I was anxious as hell about the pandemic. It made me feel like I had a little control by giving me knowledge, but it fed my anxiety really badly. Unbookmarking the thread and focusing on doing things in real life helped me feel like I had control over something in my life, without causing me to have a nervous breakdown because I had to have dental work done. Maybe some people can enjoy reading those threads, but not me.

Alright anyway. Vintage sagas:

The 9/11 thread.

There’s a well-known goon story that gets passed around called “The American Dream” (the whole thing is reprinted here), but the other day I found out that some of the original threads still exist, so for those who are interested:

American Dream Part 3: Protecting you from water-cooler injuries. (LONG)

American Dream Part 4: Puppies are legal tender for all debts (LONG)

American Dream 5 - "Planetary Models" are the new "Corporate Penis Size"

No idea what happened to the first two threads. (There are links to them in the third thread, but the links don’t work.)