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Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Nuns with Guns posted:

There was also the guy who baked to death in his car after taking some (he had already hit a psychotic state while on it and terrified his wife enough with a gun that she had fled the home with the kids).

Iirc that wasn't joose, I thought it was way later than joose. Iirc I think it was just opiates or maybe a shitload of Imodium or something like that.

What happened afterward was the wife came on and posted about his death, and some goon quickly replied like "sooo he owned me drugs [maybe money?], can you send me that now?"

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Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

I think you mean aeglus. He was a little over-the-top but I was a fan

# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 23:12

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

aeglus was the short cute one who taught English in Asia. He looked great, but he definitely put a lot of effort into it and people dunked on him. There was also a tall gangly one, iirc from the UK (e: wait I think Scandinavian!), who iirc was very into military surplus stuff and got dunked on a lot

Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jan 17, 2020

# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 23:26

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

One More Fat Nerd posted:

I can't find the thread, but there was a memorable scandal in one of the old E/N fabgoon or trans threads. A poster came in and made an impassioned plea to get people to write letters or donate or spread the word to help this imprisoned trans woman who was being treated as the wrong gender in prison and had attempted suicide, etc. Disadvantaged person getting chewed up by the US system, common, but sad. There was an initial outpouring of support and then like 10 pages in someone actually looked up the person and found that they were in prison for like 20 counts of raping their own child and filming it for people on the internet.

The OP already knew this, but genuinely did not seem to understand why this should have been disclosed, or why it made the person less sympathetic. I've always been mystified by this one because the US criminal justice system really sucks. If you want an example to push people to recognize that, it can't be all that hard to find a trans person in the exact same position, except their crime was like: "having a bunch of weed".

I don't think this was a SA thing specifically. In like 2010-2015 there were a bunch of letter-writing campaigns for imprisoned and mistreated trans women of color, and because it was obv all grassroots, there was obviously nobody like officially okaying who was chosen, it was just whoever got popular on social media. I don't remember child rape specifically but it turned out a lot of them were in for murder or rape. While that obv doesn't justify their abuse in prison, I think it did contribute to those letter-writing campaigns not being such a thing anymore.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2020 18:19

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Moon Slayer posted:

I asked this a couple times in the old sagas thread and only a few people vaguely remembered it, but maybe I'll have more luck in the new sagas thread!

Many years ago there was a thread, I'm 90% sure in GBS version 1, about someone teaching in rural China, and somehow he was doing an assignment where the students had to write questions that they had for LGBT people, and he posted those questions in the thread. The questions were about what you would expect from a rural conservative society with no sex education and only second- or third-hand experience with openly gay people, stuff like "why did you choose to like men" or "aren't your parents angry you won't give them grandkids" or "I read that gay people get AIDS, aren't you worried about AIDS?" Innocently ignorant stuff. This being the bad old days of GBS there were plenty of earnest replies but there was also a very vocal minority posting "hey OP, give this to your students: 'dear student, how loving dare you. How can you be so stupid, it's not our job to educate you ...'" I think the thread was closed or gassed because it devolved into a slap fight.

I think there might have been a couple of these threads. At least one was in A/T.

Iirc like 75% of the answers were positive, but of the anger there was, I think the focus of the irritation was less "gently caress your students" and more "why are you making us write this instead of just telling them we don't all have AIDS?"

# ¿ Jan 17, 2020 22:01

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

GBS circa 2005-2006 was a magical, stupid place

was 2008 (I had regged before it was a thing)

Britney Spears' " :wom:

anizer" was also 2008

# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 01:19

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

When the video came out, he got a year of paid suspension. Then after his vacation, he went back to work as a judge for 2 more years before being defeated in an election. He didn't face any charges due to the statute of limitations. Today he's a lawyer in private practice. He specializes in family law.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 03:05

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Crime on a Dime posted:

what does found me playing mean in this context

it just means playing?

Sweet As Sin posted:

The next thing I know, there's a new player on a magic/spiritual/whatever game I play declaring his love for me.
Understandably I was very wary of that but it turned out I fell stupidly hard too and we got married.

Dude had seen me once in Paris like 11 years ago, then found me playing lol.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 15:29

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

I thought she was still with him??

Last I knew, she married him, he was still an enormous rear end in a top hat, she cheated with their mutual best friend, mutual best friend ended up not wanting a relationship, she went back to rear end in a top hat husband, they decided to fix it by having a baby, she conceived but miscarried

I hope she left since then because gently caress that guy.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2020 17:42

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Len posted:

Something awful was where I first heard the phrase "your toxic womb is crowding heaven" so don't act like this place hasn't been mocking miscarriages since before loss

I don't think you can really cite this as a huge part of your culture if you don't even know what the quote is

# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 17:51

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

There are a lot of lurkers on SA. Even if people posting in the thread seemed chill, it's most likely that someone who read the thread (but didn't necessarily post) sent the link to the stalker.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2020 23:06

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Stalker became aware of that thread and stalked them through it. Why Drunk Nerds still posts with that account I have no idea.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2020 04:05

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

The ultimate goal obv is musk ox, but you should also try to get yak if you can

e: actually you know what feels loving amazing is zebu. Small though

Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Mar 27, 2020

# ¿ Mar 27, 2020 08:48

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

So the Bernie people now not only have to pay $10 to rereg, they have to pay more to get the right tag to post in a Bernie thread? SA just lost a ton of people, I'm not sure it's a good idea to put up more barriers for them to rejoin

# ¿ Apr 9, 2020 07:01

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

One More Fat Nerd posted:

I was literally reading those threads when that was first posted. The phrase has really stuck with me and its basically what made me quit reading LF entirely. I cant tell you exactly how much it was posted/emptyquoted, but it was more than one thread, it went on for pages. It was genuinely sickening. Folks had hosed up leftism till they had anime villain reasoning.

Related, pretty sure TS12 was an LF poster, but they suicided (see loving above) after getting in a fight with a cop at a party, not because of womens rights. They just put in their suicide note that ppl would be well served taking a gender studies class, they didn't yell "Read Dworkin ya'll!" and yeet themselves off a bridge.

It was one specific bro of his that he recommended a class to, not the world afaik. But yeah it was because he was freaking out about the cop thing and thought his life was over

# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 19:24

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Are you maybe thinking of wren, who had terminal cancer and was tbh kind of an rear end in a top hat?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Thing is the catlady crew generally end up eating themselves anyway, it's just trading one type of toxicity for another.

None of the catladies were turned on by other catladies afaik. It was regular male goons who harassed off Ozma (chubby! porn that looks like her!) and Eggplant Wizard (wrote porn! doxable!) and so on.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2020 06:09

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Not (e: WrenP-Complete) who posts now, her username was literally "wren"

It was a long time ago, but from what I remember, obviously she was going through a lot of poo poo, and she took it out on people here a lot. And stuff like going into threads and being like "how can you care about [topic of thread] when I'm dying"

Again, going through a lot, obviously sad when anyone has terminal cancer, but. I also didn't "know" her before she had it, though.

Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Apr 18, 2020

# ¿ Apr 18, 2020 06:15

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Solice Kirsk posted:

Didn't Bobbie W get ridden out on a rail for enabling a child abuser?

Yes. Way before that, in the fabgoons thread, she probed a bunch of people who were trying to warn others about a predator. Then she shut down the fabgoons thread. That was considered fine and she kept modding.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2020 20:36

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

At SA's peak, there were so many goons and they were so good that they dominated basically everything. One summer I was really into a very silly game called Puzzle Pirates, and there was a goon guild and it dominated. Goons were everywhere. And of course they destroyed and griefed their opponents, which didn't build goodwill

# ¿ Apr 18, 2020 23:10

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Goons are 35-40 now

# ¿ Apr 25, 2020 08:38

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Can we be more specific? What are we talking about here that's worse than choking -- the idea that women deserve elaborate proposals?

# ¿ May 4, 2020 17:24

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

I mean that's definitely a thing, but like Revenge of the Nerds and the other stuff was 1980s. At this point it's 35 years old, so I'm not sure how much it influences kids today. The most recent example I remember is the Love Actually cue card guy, who everyone makes fun of, and Love Actually was 2003. Romcoms aren't such a big genre anymore. Are you guys still seeing it in current stuff -- like the last ~5 years?

# ¿ May 4, 2020 17:44

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Since when did you think this ever stopped? It's literally been the standard formula for romcoms and romantic subplots in everything from sitcoms to action movies to anime as long as all of us have been alive.

The big romcoms I remember from the last couple years are Isn't It Romantic, The Big Sick, and To All the Boys I've Loved Before, none of which really have a plot like that.

But obviously there's a lot of stuff I haven't watched or seen, which I'm asking about. Pentyne has a great example

Snow Cone Capone posted:

lol even the Always Sunny gang understood that the famous Revenge of the Nerds locker room scene was sexual assault and that's a show about literally the worst people imaginable

e: they even mention the whole "why did they call these things 'pranks' when they're obviously just sexual harrassment/assault" bit

yes I totally get that, it was appalling, Sixteen Candles, Porky's, etc., I'm just asking about more recent examples that would affect kids today and not 35 years ago

Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 18:00 on May 4, 2020

# ¿ May 4, 2020 17:57

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Catharsis is valuable. If someone stalked and harassed my family for over a year, I'd probably bitch about it here, too.

I totally get that too. What I absolutely don't get is why he continues to post with the same account when he knows the stalker is reading every word.

# ¿ May 6, 2020 15:56

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

Spanish Manlove posted:

I thought the preferred term was "paypig" not "findom"

The person getting the money is the findom and the person giving it is the paypig. Sheesh!!

# ¿ May 15, 2020 21:07

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 04:50

Anne Whateley: Feb 11, 2007; i like nice words

It was unreadable when there were just pages and pages of posts consisting of a number for the death pool.

The actual info was interesting, and it was cool it inspired people to get into hiking (I never saw anyone who did it for rear end in a top hat reasons, it was mostly just people who got very into Into Thin Air).

There are just always a couple assholes who take it too far.

# ¿ May 29, 2020 19:43

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