I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
First?
I hate Forwarders
Heading for ... oh forget it.
"First!ers" piss me off.
Actually, that was cranky...
But at least I don't say it was *just* cranky.
Whew. He said nothing about people who blogwhore.
Add to the taxonomy: Big shot bloggers who make us little people feel like loosers just for being human beans.
Now I run off and cry in my pillow.
guilty of the defeatist one - but that's just when I'm happy.
I wish I had a fucking blog that Atrios would link to. He totally ignored my hybrid post, prolly because he takes ads from Exxon.
Happy New Year, Atrios.
And, yes, this list sounds cranky but I'm really just having a bit of fun. More than that, while Time's Person of the Year was stupid and condescending, the internets do provide an easy way for people to get involved, persuade, and lead.
See, I may be the only one who really liked the Time Man of the Year this year. I guess because I have a personal thing going with someone over Man of the Year. The fact that it was really about bloggers was a tremendous sort of schadenfreude for me.
"First!ers" piss me off.
Thus the question mark. According to Letitia Baldridge, that's the most polite way to first.
But maybe I misread.
How about cognitive offloaders?
I insist you promote my issue and take this post down!
Whew. He said nothing about people who blogwhore.
watertiger
Boy, you really dodged the bullet there. 
source, not "sort."
fuck me for being an idiot.
Parody trolls are A-OK with Atrios.
DELETE MY FUCKING ACCOUNT!
"fuck me for being an idiot."
You forgot to say please...
Here's fresh morning Curly for your enjoyment.
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fuck me for being an idiot.
Tena
if you insist
BRING BACK EMOTICONS!
I wish I had a fucking blog that Atrios would link to. He totally ignored my hybrid post, prolly because he takes ads from Exxon.
NTodd
O who do you think you are: Rorschach?
[laugh]
But maybe I misread.
CowAnotherCow
I'm joking, of course.
I try to be first as often as possible.
I'm just here for the beer (and snacks). Politics? What politics?
Actually Atrios, if it wasn't for my senile 85 year old uncle who forwards all the crazy rightwing rants he gets by email to the 30 people on HIS list (which includes me), I wouldn't know what the official Troll and Weekly Standard witers' talking points will be a year in advance.
BRING BACK EMOTICONS!
NTodd,
No smileys, no peace!
No smileys, no peace!
no smileys, no peace!
MORE SKIN ON LOVEBOAT!
The Narcissists - People who think politicians exist to cater to them personally
Is he taking about big contributors to political slush funds or merely the severely delusional?
somewhere in there we need a category for the people who, 5 years from now, are going to "see the light" and become wingers.
I DEMAND THAT ALL A-LIST BLOGGERS AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS AGREE WITH ME THAT KARL ROVE IS A GENIUS AND WE ARE ALL DOOMED
I just got an email that proves this is true, because the Federal Reserve is controlled by the Habsburgs, George Soros, Adnan Keshogi and Letitia Baldridge. As soon as I find it, I'll post the entire thing here. It runs about 2300 words. Wait a minute.....BRB
"MORE SKIN ON LOVEBOAT!|"
I always wondered what happened to you when bloom county folded.
"Sock Puppeteers - People who think that I, and every other blogger, exist to give voice to your personal issues."
Actually, they're just on the blogs to be assholes.
You don't have to be a big blog to get a shout -out on local TeeBee (my second this month!).
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Adnan Keshogi
I'll be goddamned - I turned my brain inside out the other day searching for that son of a bitch's name and couldn't find it. I was talking about Kissinger and NYC high society, in which Kashogi is also a big presence.
I always wondered what happened to you when bloom county folded.
Ah, somebody gets the literary allusion.
I will be in the bath! Alert the media!
I might need a definition of 'cognitive offloader' to understand what you mean, Mike.
Somebody who takes excess (or dissonant) cognitive baggage off his, ummm, consciousness...by ... ummm...posting to a blog?
See, I may be the only one who really liked the Time Man of the Year this year.
Tena | Homepage | 12.30.06 - 11:54 am | #
No, I loved it too
Wow, Atrios just described all my friends.
"MORE SKIN ON LOVEBOAT!|"
For some reason this reminds me of the outtakes reel at the end of "Grumpy Old Men", the 124 year old Burgess Meredith watching Ozzie Davis climbing the steps to Ann Margaret's house and gleefully announcing
"Zeke's takin' the skinboat to TunaTown!"
"I will be in the bath! Alert the media!"
you still eat at the same burger joint?
I will be in the bath! Alert the media!
Whoo-hoo! Mr. Bubble!
Wow, I hope I made it on the list!!!
Now I will have to go back and read the thing.
And thankfully i will get to change the channel from CNN in about 5 minutes.
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The Narcissists - People who think politicians exist to cater to them personally
This is especially amusing when, in reality, they're constantly being screwed by them.
while Time's Person of the Year was stupid and condescending
I am not!
It's sometimes spelt Khashoggi. For a while he was connected to every scandal with a Middle East angle.
The Forwarders
The Demanders
The Lazies
People from Fletcher, VT
I will be in the bath! Alert the media!
Perhaps you'd like me to come in there and wash your dick for you, you little shit.
Jeez Atrios, I see you sold out on the last day of the year. Tax Benefit or something?
I'm joking, of course.
Oh yeah. "Misread" was a ref to something else.
I might need a definition of 'cognitive offloader' to understand what you mean, Mike.
secondharmonic | 12.30.06 - 11:59 am | #
Tolstoy's War and Peace. Read the whole thing: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2600
I hate bloggers who TAKE AWAY EMOTICONS!!!!!
People who post random BBC links are especially annoying.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/...rem/
6219175.stm
Duncan, I agree with almost every word of that. But "any idiot" is a bad note, I think. It made me feel kind of ashamed of myself for writing.
We should never be ashamed. We are at least trying to tell the truth. The other side is trying to tell as many lies as possible, and I hate them for that. As in any life situation, virtue does not reside entirely on one side or the other. But we are trying.
Wait a minute.....BRB
Don't hurry on our account.
Perhaps you'd like me to come in there and wash your dick for you, you little shit.
Jim
The butler from Arther, right?
Gee Atrios. YOU FORGOT THE ALL CAPS SCREAMERS!!!!11!!1!!
Thank you.
Is today the last day of the year? Have they cancelled New Years? Or are we on a new Benedictine calendar?
Perhaps you'd like me to come in there and wash your dick for you, you little shit.
No thanks, Jim. It's a very nice offer, but I'd rather not catch leprosy.
THE ADDICTED: can't tear themselves away...
...I can stop any time I want...
The Magical Thinkers - People who speak in semi-riddles, hinting at webs of understood secrets, conspiracies, and truth who actually are just spouting gibberish.
I blame alcohol consumption before noon.
I demand Atrios stop whoring to Big Oil
The Royal Penis is clean!
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The butler from Arther, right?
General Zod
IF you, and your undershirt, would take two paces backwards, I could enter this comments section.
See, I may be the only one who really liked the Time Man of the Year this year.
Tena - 11:54 am
seems to me more likely the kiss of death...
but fuck, don't pay any attention to me. i'm just a defeatist/arm-chair revolutionary/sock puppeteer/narcissistic magical thinker...
waddafuckdeweyegno!?
Perhaps you'd like me to come in there and wash your dick for you, you little shit.
Oh, how I miss John Gielgud.
pool of defeatist narcissistic self-righteous fury
Now that is a pool I could relax in, but only if it is heated.
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Everybody Poops.
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GIVE US BACK OUR 11 DAYS!
Was this post about biofuels. Because if it wasn't, it was wasted. Hell, Atrios probably doesn't even OWN a Mac.
Sitting here in my chair and seeing of the hopelessness of achieving change, I call for massive public revolt over Atrios not talking about biofuels and the fact that Edwards has not bought me a pony, which echoes the Trilateral grassy knoll UFO connection. If only Atrios had posted more about biofuels, of which I know little, we wouldn't be having all these problems. I am forwarding this to ten email addresses, demanding that they agree with me, and to forward it further to keep the good work going.
It's sometimes spelt Khashoggi. For a while he was connected to every scandal with a Middle East angle.
P ONeill
Exactly. I was talking about Kissinger being a social climber, which he is, and that his wife, who is heavily connected, had pulled him into the social life of NYC, which is the big one. And I was trying to say that Kissinger isn't the only war criminal who runs in high society but I couldn't think of Kashoggi's name and I couldn't find it on google and I was just frustrated beyond belief.
http://www.nndb.com/people/321/0.../321/000024249/
Sounds like Bush Co's kind of guy.
Actually I am pretty sure Tolstoy never used the word 'cognitive offloader'.
But maybe you refer to Tolstoy's attempt to assuage and rectify some inner turmoil by writing a huge tome full of the his bitterrness toward all-too-human passions that seems to have been his biggest emotional baggage?
Oh, how I miss John Gielgud.
He's not dead. He's living with Saddam in Paraguay.
Curly caught the cold, but it's giving him no problems. Just the occasional sneeze. In a few days, it may move into one of his eyes, but I have a shitpot full of terramycin, don't I?
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I am forwarding this to ten email addresses, demanding that they agree with me,
Don't forget to send one to Atrios.
Oh, how I miss John Gielgud.
He's not dead. He's living with Saddam in Paraguay.
NTodd,
On the secret Bush exile ranch?
*Sigh*
Another year where I just have to be satisfied hating myself.
I think Haloscam completely missed teh AJAX point. Why should a complete refresh be necessary to see the new comments?
Oh, how I miss John Gielgud.
Toonscribe, BlogJohn | 12.30.06 - 12:02 pm | #
Have you seen "Providence?"
I'm in the magical thinking mode occasionally, I guess. But only because I think genuine skepticism sometimes sounds like that . . .
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Actually I am pretty sure Tolstoy never used the word 'cognitive offloader'.
secondharmonic | 12.30.06 - 12:04 pm | #
Are you sure?
Wait for the edit. He's gonna add, "everyone bitching and screeching about emoticons."
Then everyone will screech louder, and he'll have to shoot someone's face off. All this is very entertaining to someone who doesn't really care about emoticons one way or the other. All I wanna keep is the cool new Refresh link.
:D
But in that case it is more emotional baggage than *cognitive* --which usually means something dealing with reason, ratiocination, logic, deduction, inference, analogical reasoning, etc.
I don't mind The Forwarders much, but I know a few people that forward everthing that's been forwarded to them from someone else who had it forwarded to them, and so on.
That can be a little irritating, especially when you finally get to the original email only to find it's some lame joke that you've already received half a dozen times.
Don't forget to send one to Atrios.
pie
[laugh][laugh][laugh]
goddamn it - no smileys, no peace!
and as some other guy suggested, you can start by being the change.
I am $1.95 in nickles.
Samiri Khashoggi, Adnan's Khashoggi's sister, was Mohammed al Fayed's first wife.
Have you seen "Providence?"
No.
Another year where I just have to be satisfied hating myself.
Attaturk
I'll hate you, too...you know, if it'll help.
:rocket:
:rocket:
:rocket:
:rocket:
:rocket:
That's what I plan to do to Duncan Hack, Hater of Emoticons, Banner of Joy.
Q: Why don't cannibals eat clowns?
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driftglass: I am $1.95 in nickles.
They call me "fireplug," for some reason.
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You left out: Canadians. Smug bastards.
Shorter Atrio: How do I love thee? ...
That can be a little irritating, especially when you finally get to the original email only to find it's some lame joke that you've already received half a dozen times.
Central Scrutinize
My cousin's daughter put me on her email list and she is the queen of forwards. I opened my hotmail page one morning and she had forwarded 75 emails to me.
I replied to her and said: "You sent me 75 emails? 75?"
God I could have killed her.
I fear change.
BIOFUELS! Forward this link to ten friends, or I will know the Illuminati have you in their power!
Tena, you have mail, btw.
Now some asshole on CNN is stating that god must have been looking down on america when ford took the office of the presidency.
guy vanderjagt is his name, asshattery is his game.
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Lawrence now on TCM -- "At night we were shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of the stars."
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L.E.'s schnoozing, with an adorable snot-snore.
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On the secret Bush exile ranch?
The Goys from Brazil...
Another year where I just have to be satisfied hating myself.
Attaturk
I'll hate you, too...you know, if it'll help.
Uncle Smokes
You're just saying that to make me feel better.
I don't need your charitable loathing.
Tena, you have mail, btw.
pie
Hee hee hee!
I'll go look.
Yep, think i have some junk mail to forward...get ready Tena
dammit
Now some asshole on CNN is stating that god must have been looking down on america when ford took the office of the presidency.
Only if he was pointing and laughing.
"god must have been looking down on america when ford took the office of the presidency."
he couldn't have found better than Jerry - or better yet, kept Nixon out of the white house?
Fucking fundies...
guy vanderjagt is his name, asshattery is his game.
Vanderjagt is German for "whale's vagina with a yeast infection."
Another year where I just have to be satisfied hating myself.
Whilst the rest of the world admires. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Actually I am pretty sure Tolstoy never used the word 'cognitive offloader'
Vronsky was a cognitive offloader, especially when he made tracks for Anna.
Q: Why don't cannibals eat clowns?
Because they're fucking Goofy?
Salon's page just auto refreshed itself and put itself in focus. evil.
god must have been looking down on america
Anyone who spouts that shit loses credibility with me immediately.
Q: Why don't cannibals eat clowns?
Circtose intolerance?
And if you are unable to yourself "be the change," then at least get more fiber in your diet.
Thank you, and be well.
Okay, I gotta tear myself away and get some work done.
Talk louder and I'll join in when I can...
"guy vanderjagt"
well, after the cowboys let him go he needed a job.
And since blogwhoring is still cool...
"god must have been looking down on america when ford took the office of the presidency."
Some guy on NPR took his kids away from Disneyland to go to Ford's wake (or visitation or whatever you Schismatics call it)
looks like me and atrios are birds of a feather ... blanket annoyment except with people who are perfect ... of which there seems to be a woefully inadaquate supply of ... darm darn darn (does the Herman Munster feet stomp and ear smoke
"god must have been looking down on america when ford took the office of the presidency."
"Hey, Satan - watch me punk these mo fo's!"
Only if he was pointing and laughing.
Did anyone find a YouTube copy of Chevy Chase's godly treatment?
god must have been looking down on america
You would have thought Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address would have forever ended stupidity like that.
But it only made it worse.
Q: Why don't cannibals eat clowns?
They have polka dots on their penises.
god must have been looking down on america
that puts 'him' in good company, with the rest of the fucking world...
/
Wheee, he's not talking about ME!!!
Why doesn't cannabis eat clowns?
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"god must have been looking down on america when ford took the office of the presidency."
What was God doing when he gave us Bush, who is 25 times more despised than Satan himself?
Q: Why don't cannibals eat clowns?
A: they aren't usda grade a
Atrios, read your list and identified myself as five types.
Piss off!
LOLOL watertiger, Snidley Whiplash
driftglass & Spinoza -- Because they taste funny . . . But we like your answers better.
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Q: Why don't cannibals eat clowns?
Because clowns suck?
Whither the MILFs?
What was God doing when he gave us Bush, who is 25 times more despised than Satan himself?
Rousing some of us from our apathy.
What was God doing when he gave us Bush, who is 25 times more despised than Satan himself?
Attaturk
They say every country get the government it deserves.
What I wanna know is, who the FUCK ran over GOD'S DOG, and never aPOLogized!
/Lewis Black rant
Thank you, Capt. Bandwith.
Amen, Atrios.
LOLOL watertiger, Snidley Whiplash
FireFox
Isn't it Dick Dastardly, or whatever his name was?
Did you hear the one about the cannibal that ate a poker player and threw up a hand?
Ace post, Atrios, as if you need telling
OT, always, I'm listening to Robert Wyatt's "Schleep" album. It's putting me right to sleeep, as I've not had several days now.
Utterly beautiful album, so rhythmically rich, lively, yet so soothing, puts one to sleep. Quite the contradiction.
Darn, my arm hurts. Must go to bed, if possible
you may be right, atta.....I'm getting old
Another year where I just have to be satisfied hating myself.
Attaturk
I'll hate you, too...you know, if it'll help.
Uncle Smokes
You're just saying that to make me feel better.
I don't need your charitable loathing.
Attaturk
Well, then, I'll show you! I will love you from afar, wishing nothing but good thoughts and pixie dust for all your born days. I will forward these good vibes to my email list of members of the Mutual Anarcho-Narcissist International Action Committee (MANIAC) demanding that they love you.
Did you hear the one about the cannibal that ate a poker player and threw up a hand?
Was it a winning one?
Biscuits & Gravy, mofos! Biscuits & GraveeeeeEEEEEEEE!!!!!
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"Isn't it Dick Dastardly, or whatever his name was?"
Yah - from wacky races originally.
We're all just hard-wire types, without your extensive beta-testings.
Biscuits & Gravy, mofos! Biscuits & GraveeeeeEEEEEEEE!!!!!
. meh, ain't as good as the ones I make...:tounge out:
Central Scrutinizer: Did you hear the one about the cannibal that ate a poker player and threw up a hand?
Hey! NO SPLASHING the POT!
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What was God doing when he gave us Bush, who is 25 times more despised than Satan himself?
Attaturk
Mushrooms?
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Rodeo clowns don't suck.
Although I do not believe they are called rodeo clowns any longer. Maybe bovine distraction engineers.
FireFox: . meh, ain't as good as the ones I make...:tounge out:
Fuck the gumbo -- I challenge you to a Gravy Off!
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god must have been looking down on america
It doesn't take (putative) omniscience to look down on Amerika these days.
I just had an egg sammish with delicious South Carolina BBQ.
Gee, Atrios left out my category: the Practically Perfect in Every Way Person!
As I tell my wife everyday, you are so lucky I'm here!!!
Now some asshole on CNN is stating that god must have been looking down on america when ford took the office of the presidency.
He didn't want to piss on his sandals.
Rodeo clowns don't suck.
Although I do not believe they are called rodeo clowns any longer. Maybe bovine distraction engineers.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker
obviously you didnt see brokeback mountain ... DOH!
Assumers of Bad Faith - Those tho think that people who disagree with them can't possibly have come to that opinion honestly, that they must be on the take, or have a hidden agenda, or be misrepresenting themselves, or whatever
So he's saying assuming everyone else is an idiot until they prove otherwise is wrong? That's my whole method of operation. What do I do now? I can't leave the house.
Fuck the gumbo -- I challenge you to a Gravy Off!
lol suh, I accept your challenge
lolol
What was God doing when he gave us Bush, who is 25 times more despised than Satan himself?
Attaturk
It was just the nest thing on the menu.
And now that the Chosen One has both started an endless war in the middle east and strung up the Antichrist, this party can really get started.
I just had an egg sammish with delicious South Carolina BBQ.
My wife's favorite Xmas/New Year's breakfast: tamales with eggs.
Coming up!
Rodeo clowns don't suck.
I used to know a guy that worked as a rodeo clown for a few years.
He was a pure adrenaline junkie.
I wanna be there when the ad homenim fly.
This is an outstanding post, Atrios, a far better mirror than provided by Luce's rag. I was embarrassed to see myself more than once.
OK, I won't be such a Defeatist in '07.
Can I still be a pessimist?
Why doesn't cannabis eat clowns?
they taste funny.
See, I've re-nicked The Boys.
Curly is Fat Man; LarryElvis is Little Boy.
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"That's my whole method of operation."
or M.O.O. for short
I'm glad to see there is no Atri-hate for dirty, fucking hippies
Can I still be a pessimist?
Nope. Although enthusiastic optimist is available.
Although I do not believe they are called rodeo clowns any longer. Maybe bovine distraction engineers.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker
Quadriped orientation technicians
Q: why did the moron snort Sweet 'n Low?
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Why doesn't cannabis eat clowns?
You can get mime disease.
Yes, it's Dick Dastardly.
I didn't have the energy to turn Barney into Muttley.
This is an outstanding post, Atrios, a far better mirror than provided by Luce's rag.
I prefer a long string of "Heh Indeedy"s.
Like a perfect strand of Warholian pearls.
Happy New Year, Atriots!
That being said, things may get difficult for Mrs. Flint and I next year. My repeated demands that my
Boss comply with his feduciary
responsibilities may result in me being fired from the job I love.
I put him on notice that we must work together to fix this, but he is very angry that I went over his head when he didn't stop.
Nothing like a wrongful discharge lawsuit to start the New Year.
Biscuits & Gravy, mofos! Biscuits & GraveeeeeEEEEEEEE!!!!!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
I demand that Atrios and Edwards urge you to give me some, or else I will call for a massive street protest on the anniversary of the faked moon landing, which will accomplish nothing except to give me something to kvetch about.
Or...I could just make my own biscuits and gravy.
Hmmmm...Atrios is onto something here....
What're you lookin' at, Shugar-titS!
Okay I googled this :
This article is an attempt to create a formal framework for analyzing interactivity of VMRs. A number of factors affect the interactivity of VMRs. The interactivity factors presented in this article provide a descriptive framework to allow designers of MCTs to discuss and support their design choices. The framework presents 12 interactivity factors. Before presenting an indepth discussion of these factors, they are briefly defined below:
1. Affordance: Provision of interface cues to advertise possible interactions.
2. Cognitive offloading: Provision of interactions that can shoulder the load of some cognitive processes.
So...design of some computer-based learning methods to allow students to learn concepts by 'taking some of the cognitive load' (I guess like maybe rotating objects in projection without explicitly forcing the kids to solve rotation matrices as a simple example, and people who use such software are be shunned?
You could have given me a definition as I asked, nor do I see the need to read War and Peace, which comes off as rather an insult eh? Like 'Go read the Bible'. And you ARE employing some kind of new-fashioned edu/librarian/computese buzzword in fact. Without explanation of relevance. Trying to be *in*, or maybe just trying to be annoying, instead of engaging, as it were, in polite conversation?
pie - you have an answer.
See, I've re-nicked The Boys.
Curly is Fat Man; LarryElvis is Little Boy.
That would make you...teh Enola Geh?
Hey Dr. A! While you're bitching, could you also spend a minute or two thanking your regular commenters?
I know everybody in the libberul blogosphere seems to be down on the comments section here, but I always find great links and some pretty hilarious one-liners. You've got some pretty cool people watching your back.
I am out of CNN's FordPron Clutches.
Now watching G-town Michigan.
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"I won't be such a Defeatist in '07."
I'm not going to promise that - because my defeatism is well earned over years of watching, for example, the democrats fuck it up. When I read people who say now that X has happened well, good times all around! your skin will be clearer sex will be better and the team of your choice will win the title! I am obliged to respond yeah right... Then I get accused of being the problem cause I don't believe.
I'll try to be better - or keep it to myself if it's really that offensive, but change? Nah.
"I've always been afraid of clowns. Maybe it's because when I was a little kid my father took me to the circus, where a clown killed him."
Jack Handy
Why doesn't cannabis eat clowns?
You can get mime disease.
Heh. Indeedy.
five laughing smilies for you.
Curly is Fat Man; LarryElvis is Little Boy
Don't wanna be a fat man....
If the world isn't to your liking, try to change it, and as some other guy suggested, you can start by being the change.
I am trying to change it, by making this blog the change.
This blog sucks.
Oh, and one more to add to the list:
Taxonomists
driftglass: That would make you...teh Enola Geh?
No; I'm Jeffraham! a/k/a Ol' Black Betty, Bamble-Damn.
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I know everybody in the libberul blogosphere seems to be down on the comments section here
Really? I find that very amusing. I just remember that one I saw that said we were "feral". I took it as a compliment.
everybody in the libberul blogosphere seems to be down on the comments section here
Eh? Add 'em to the list, Atrios!
If the world isn't to your liking, try to change it, and as some other guy suggested, you can start by being the change.
Be the ball, Danny.
I always find great links and some pretty hilarious one-liners. You've got some pretty cool people watching your back.
tikistitch
enough with the compliments already ... you're making me self conscious
Parody trolls are A-OK with Atrios.
How about "Llorts"?:
The opposite of trolls; self-appointed guard dogs for the blogowner, they attack like dobermans when a comment contains even the mildest disagreement to the blogowner's original post.
Whew. He said nothing about people who blogwhore.
watertiger | Homepage | 12.30.06 - 11:52 am | #
I do not get your homepage when I click 'homepage'. Did something happen to DR?
Be the ball, Danny.
nanananananananananananananana
"feral"? I thought it said "fearful"!
- No Smileys, No Peace
My repeated demands that my
Boss comply with his feduciary
responsibilities
flint, yikes, I've seen this way too many fucking times. Good luck to you.
Hey Dr. A! While you're bitching, could you also spend a minute or two thanking your regular commenters?
I know everybody in the libberul blogosphere seems to be down on the comments section here
Well whoever those assholes are, I could give a shit what they think. I'm just a pissant medium blogger but many of the regulars here, also have blogs that blow those twits natterings out of the goddamned ether.
I mean, mine sucks, but I'm the exception to the rule.
Mime Disease
We here grovel before your magnificence.
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I know everybody in the libberul blogosphere seems to be down on the comments section here
I cry myself to sleep every night because of this.
Buckeye,
Now it should work.
That would make you...teh Enola Geh?
Enola Gay only had one of those. But I fail to remember which.
Jeez- I read yourblog everyday and then you write a post which is all about my bad attitudes!! It's not fair.
Thank goodness there is no mention of procrastinators.
everybody in the libberul blogosphere seems to be down on the comments section here
Like whom?
Seriously, who is down on our comments?
Biscuits & Gravy, mofos! Biscuits & GraveeeeeEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Right on JP, I am just about to enjoy my own steaming plate of the goodness.
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nanananananananananananananana
FireFox
I read that Murray and Chase hated each other so much it required Camp David-level negotiations to get them to do that one scene together.
We got a pool. We got a pool and a pond. The pond would be good for you.
take away our goddamn smileys, then start insulting everyone
DELETE ALL OF OUR FUCKING ACCOUNTS!!1!!1!!!!!
ErinPDX: Thank goodness there is no mention of procrastinators.
Speakin' of which...
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No; I'm Jeffraham! a/k/a Ol' Black Betty, Bamble-Damn.
I was going to go with a nice "Leslie Groves" parody, but that's too obscure even for me
I see all you liberal losers are mourning the death of your hero, Saddam.
Loser liberals, you need to accept the fact the world is now a better place because of George W. Bush.
Thank goodness there is no mention of procrastinators.
ErinPDX
He'll do it later. (lame, yes, I'm going for more coffee now)
- No Smileys, No Peace
Know Smileys, Know Peace.
Here's one now: :-P
everybody in the libberul blogosphere seems to be down on the comments section here
Like whom?
Seriously, who is down on our comments?
Tena
Ya know, sensible liberals, The Plank, Franklin Foer, mature reasonable types.
Thank goodness there is no mention of procrastinators.
ErinPDX
I was going to say that earlier but decided to put it off for awhile.
What? no category for the blogwhorers? I resemble that ... and at my homepage;
'From a paper on the threat of global warming, written by an environmentalist some years back,
............ beginning in the 1960s, several glacier experts warned that part of the Antarctic ice sheet seemed unstable.'
and a fantastic polar bear pic.
The opposite of trolls; self-appointed guard dogs for the blogowner, they attack like dobermans when a comment contains even the mildest disagreement to the blogowner's original post.
Del Capslock
That is not how it works, and I'm speaking as someone who has bucked whole threads before. You think at the time that people are just defending the board or Atrios, but in fact, they just agree.
And they don't agree with you.
That's how it works.
Seriously, who is down on our comments?
Probably that Altmouse person I have no reason not to ignore and utterly disregard.
- No Smileys, No Peace
The True Conservative
i NEED SEVERAL :LOL:'S STAT
Ah, the Scotsman's Annual Hogmanay List of Annoyances.
I know it well. In fact, every Scot on earth has a similar list, in his wee pocket, waiting to be read out and thrown into the bonfire of the vanities....
Duncan Black, ye're a credit to the race.
Speakin' of which...
That line was for you, tee hee. I'd rather listen to Fat Man. Actually, I did fire up the laptop today...
Whew. He said nothing about people who blogwhore.
Thats good, because by new years resolution is to blog whore more often.
I was going to go with a nice "Leslie Groves" parody, but that's too obscure even for me
Are you referring to the military chief of Los Alamos 1942-45?
"The True Conservative"
I actually looked at its website - it has got to be a parody. Got to be. No one is that stupid.
My repeated demands that my
Boss comply with his feduciary
responsibilities
flint, yikes, I've seen this way too many fucking times. Good luck to you.
ErinPDX |
Thanks, the bitter Irony here is I helped the paranoid little S.O.B. get re-elected, then he turned on me when he saw what a good job I did.
Perceives me as a threat, when all I've tried to do is do my job for our members.
Whatta puke.
What I really like from the CNN interview w/Edwards:
And I think what I'm asking America to do today, as a candidate for president of the United States, is, I'm asking Americans to take responsibility for their own country, not just for their individual responsibility, their individual actions, but to actually be patriotic enough to not wait for just the government to solve their problems, or the president to solve their problems, but to take responsibility and take action. That's what my campaign is about and it's what it's based on.
Well, it's a little hard to do that if I don't personally take responsibility for what I've done, good and bad. And I've done good and bad; I'm not perfect -- I'm human, just like everybody else.
'Seriously, who is down on our comments?
Tena'
I'm down
here.
Seriously, who is down on our comments?
Tena
Ya know, sensible liberals, The Plank, Franklin Foer, mature reasonable types.
Jim
Oh them.
I stand by what I wrote at 12:27 p.m., except in comparison to them, even I don't suck.
ErinPDX: That line was for you, tee hee. I'd rather listen to Fat Man. Actually, I did fire up the laptop today...
I'm waiting for you, but you probably know that, right?
I await patiently, since a lot of folx are out of the office, enjoying the hollerdaze.
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Are you referring to the military chief of Los Alamos 1942-45?
And designer of the Pentagon, yes.
Happy New Year, Atrios. That was a great post, in which I am certainly represented as both resembling and resenting characters. I also loved Time's Man-of-the-Year precisely because it acknowledged individual contributions in the form of Wikipedia, You Tube, Google searches, and certainly not least, Blogs. Although an armchair spectator I've been trying to get my computer-illiterate friends and family clued in for 20 years now. This year the rise in individual empowerment through the internet has become so dramatic Time has finally put it on the cover.
'Seriously, who is down on our comments?
Tena'
I'm down like a clown, Charlie brown
Q: why did the moron snort Sweet 'n Low?
Isn't that shit in diet coke?
And this:
EDWARDS: You can't wait and hope that the next election is going to produce a president or a political leader who will solve your problems. America, at its best, is when Americans, themselves, take action. That's what the `greatest generation' did, the government and American citizens working together. It's what America needs again. We can't just sit home and complain about somebody else not doing what they're supposed to. All of us have to do that --
I like that comment, too.
I've been trying to get my computer-illiterate friends and family clued in for 20 years now. This year the rise in individual empowerment through the internet has become so dramatic Time has finally put it on the cover.
Linda Kuczwanski | 12.30.06 - 12:33 pm | #
Yep. Agree agree agree. It was a cover that afforded me more personal schadenfreude than almost anything else since 11/7. I loved it.
Yum-Yum-Yummy-Yum-Yum!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
That's the last straw! I demand that it is time for lunch, despite that fact that Atrios never posts about his meals (and until Edwards recognizes the truth behind the "heart failure" of Fatty Arbuckle), I will continue to call for massive street protest, featuring oversized puppets of the Pillsbury doughboy and faces painted with coagulating gravy.
Y'all take of your good selves--you defeatist, armchair revolting, sock puppeteering, narcissistic, magical thinking, lazy, and demanding forwarders of assumed of bad faith.
Thats good, because by new years resolution is to blog whore more often.
Certified Mutant Enemy - 12:31 pm
speaking of which, Albuquerque's not seen this much snow at one time in a LONG time, if ever.
and it has started snowing, lightly, again...
/
I think Time's MOY wouldn't have gone over like such a fart at a funeral if it hadn't been for that B-Grade infomercial pantomime they did with CNN.
Didn't that also star the lovely Suzanne Malveaux, who think that the Sunni-Wahabbist Al Qaeda is about to take over Iraq?
OK, now with the pictures of the body.
Who cares!?
But it does look like the executioner was efficient.
"The True Conservative"
I actually looked at its website - it has got to be a parody. Got to be. No one is that stupid.
Uncle Blodge, DFH
obviously they consider a feather duster a adult toy over there
It's sometimes spelt Khashoggi. For a while he was connected to every scandal with a Middle East angle.
But it's OK, because he had a really cool yacht (featured in Never Say Never Again).
I was going to go with a nice "Leslie Groves" parody, but that's too obscure even for me
I woulda gotten it. I've seen Fat Man and Little Boy!
'Seriously, who is down on our comments?
Tena'
I'm down like a clown, Charlie brown
FireFox
o pbthft pbthft pbthf!
[laugh]
No smileys, no peace!
............ beginning in the 1960s, several glacier experts warned that part of the Antarctic ice sheet seemed unstable.'
Icebreakers for sale, cheap. Have the luxury motor yacht of your dreams.
Jeff, you're a doll.
Flint, I had a feeling it was some sort of assn or nonprofit. Fookin drives me so nuts, I'm working on a book about it.
'Thats good, because by new years resolution is to blog whore more often.'
We're worth it.
EDWARDS: You can't wait and hope that the next election is going to produce a president or a political leader who will solve your problems. America, at its best, is when Americans, themselves, take action. That's what the `greatest generation' did, the government and American citizens working together. It's what America needs again. We can't just sit home and complain about somebody else not doing what they're supposed to. All of us have to do that
Get outta my head, John Edwards! And stop stealing my material.
This year the rise in individual empowerment through the internet has become so dramatic Time has finally put it on the cover.
Linda Kuczwanski - 12:33 pm
to me, it's a lot like the basketball play-by-play guy telling you the shooter at the free-throw line has made 99 in a row...while the dude's throwing up a brick...
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ErinPDX: Jeff, you're a doll.
Hey, the check's been cashed -- I only wanna make sure we don't miss any deadline.
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"I was going to go with a nice "Leslie Groves" parody, but that's too obscure even for me "
"it's my party and I'll cry if i want to..." oh, not that one, huh?
People marched out to the precincts and voted this time. Way more effective than just marching.
People marched out to the precincts and voted this time. Way more effective than just marching.
Tim Finnegan |
To coin a phrase: indeed. It was gorgeous.
Everyone knows we honor the Greatest Generation by buying Tom Brokaw's books, giving our fathers cloying regular guy nicknames, and accusing people who were right about Bush and the IRaq war as DFH's and America-haterers
'Icebreakers for sale, cheap. Have the luxury motor yacht of your dreams.
Lime Rickey'
The carving possibilities ...... coming to a city near you.
Q: why did the moron snort Sweet 'n Low?
Isn't that shit in diet coke?
Seven Pound Perch
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Today's jokes brought to you by my partner, recently released from a federal pen for a crime he not only didn't commit, but that didn't even exist . . .
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my family changed their URL's when I was a child ansd never left a forwarding address )o:{
"Leslie Groves" parody
It's my party and i'll bobm if i want to...you would cry too if it happened to you...
well, mebbe that was oppenheimer's line...
,
Atrios is right about one thang -- get involved.
I, myself, may run for some obscure local office, just to get my hand in.
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Unca Blodge, seems i o u a coke...
how bout a joint instead???
...'ear'...
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Congratulations to Tiger Woods and his wife who are going to give birth to a race of Atomic Golfing Supermodels.
"I am Majikthise!" announced the older one.
"And I demand that I am Vroomfondel!" shouted the younger one.
Majikthise turned on Vroomfondel. "It's alright," he explained angrily, "you don't need to demand that."
"Alright!" bawled Vroomfondel banging on an nearby desk. "I am Vroomfondel, and that is not a demand, that is a solid fact! What we demand is solid facts!"
"No we don't!" exclaimed Majikthise in irritation. "That is precisely what we don't demand!"
Scarcely pausing for breath, Vroomfondel shouted, "We don't demand solid facts! What we demand is a total absence of solid facts. I demand that I may or may not be Vroomfondel!"
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I blame Connecticut.
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What the hell are they gonna do with saddam's body? Haven't heard a word about it.
A critical mass of voters showed on 11/7.
I'm making enough allies now that I could gain support for a run for city council, perhaps.
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everybody in the libberul blogosphere seems to be down on the comments section here
More bullshit. Who has the freaking time to even care?
Well, guess I was wrong about Saddam's jail break and all.
You know with this crew a leslie groves parody was possible...
http://www.comcast.net/news/inde.../30/
551880.html
But he enjoyed it just the same.
So blogtollopy is cool?
I get so confused about the hots and the nots these days
Sot of the Antarctic
God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink, an' David Hume, an' the television thingie, an' Robbie Burns, an' golf, without which so many coronaries would no' hae happened, an' Deacon Brodie, hanged on a gibbet o' his own devisin', an' speakin' o' the Deacon, Robert Louis Stevenson who made his Jekyll and Hyde o' his tale, an' Colin Maclaurin and his wee series, and the list just goes on for aye (did I no' mention James Clark Maxwell?! without whom there would be nae Internet and nae much else, bairns...)
What the hell are they gonna do with saddam's body? Haven't heard a word about it.
hadenough
Stuffed, mounted, shipped to Crawford.
Mounted again.
hahaha ... bring to me your huddled virtual masses ... we kneel at the Statue Of Atrios ... we are so unworthy
giving our fathers cloying regular guy nicknames
I call mine Dad. But I have little originality. I could call him All War, No Battle; he did everything from WWII to Vietnam (excluding Israel's Six Day War) and never once fired a shot.
One of the reasons I visit Eschaton is because Atrios visits all the blogs that I like but can't see every day, and provides excerpts from them for us.
the popularity of this comments section is proof of how much everyone hates it.
Hmmm. Curly's not the ratings draw he once was, Maybe I need to stick to pimpin' LarryElvis.
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Stuffed, mounted, shipped to Crawford.
Mounted again.
Attaturk
Oh, now see....the absence of laffy faces is just cruel. Cruel I say!
this is all assuming that a body exists, did you fuckers not pay attention to today's lesson?
I'm so glad when this year is over and we get new classes
Bless you, Uncle Smokes. This place could use more random H2G2 references.
(Someone gave The Fella a replica of the pen used by some Vogon bureaucrat in The Movie. He has no idea what to do with it. I don't even remember seeing it in the movie, but only watched it twice.)
An unexceptionable list, but I think the phrase "magical thinking" means something kinda different.
It's my party and i'll bobm if i want to...you would cry too if it happened to you...
well, mebbe that was oppenheimer's line...
Not many people remember that Oppenheimer had a band.
Called "I am Become Def...".
/runs away/
Jeff, you're a doll.
Flint, I had a feeling it was some sort of assn or nonprofit. Fookin drives me so nuts, I'm working on a book about it.
ErinPDX |
Labor Union. I'm an Organinizer.
With my partner we have put together a program that has given us 82%
market share in our jurisdiction,
and has our non-union competition on the run. We are dragging the worst
and largest of our non-union bad actors into court on an NLRB hiring discrimination case that will either get him to sign a Union contract,
or cost him a half a million and federal perjury convictions.
But that's not good enough.
The True Conservative
Beyond....retarded.
God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink
Drambuie?
Eschaton, they hate it every single day they come here. They spend hours every day hating it and the regulars.
'What the hell are they gonna do with saddam's body? Haven't heard a word about it.
hadenough'
the undisclosed location - and hopefully share with Cheney.
God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink, an' David Hume, an' the television thingie
to say nothing of jimmy clark, bruce mclaren, & jackie stewart...
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God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink
And the best tape.
David Derbes -- did ye nae know that James Clerk Maxwell, for some odd reason is NOT in the Scottish Potrait Museum in Edinbur' Aye. Tis a bleedin crime it is, whaich I did point out to the wee tour guide lassie.
I call mine Dad. But I have little originality. Snow
you sir, shall never host a Serious Public Affairs Television Show.
Unless you have a really good krueller recipe. One thing that unites Denny Hastert, Bill Bennett, Jerry Nadler and K-LO. They can't resist a good krueller on a Sunday morning.
the popularity of this comments section is proof of how much everyone hates it.
Atrios
I post here because it sucks.
[/cynical Gen-Xer]
Conservatives and truth, the twain that never meet.
footloose: God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink
Drambuie?
I didn't know a Scotsman founded Sierra Nevada Brewing, Chico, Cal-E-foooonya.
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Saddam's snickering and lamenting over the loss of a 3rd body-double in the last month over a bahama-momma with a leetle parasal and a orange slice with Ken Lay
Ouch--It's not technically cold here, but I'm very cold, don't know what to do. I hope all others feel OK.
What the hell are they gonna do with saddam's body? Haven't heard a word about it.
They're sending it to Crawford so Bush can have a jacking session with it.
Not many people remember that Oppenheimer had a band.
Called "I am Become Def...".
/runs away/
driftglass
No Krishna for you!
signed, the Bhaghavad Gita Nazi.
Every year should end with a rebuke.
My fingers were on the keyboard for 10 minutes waiting for the knuckle wrap.
It never came...so hang me.
God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink
Drambuie?
Repent Blasphemous Sinner!
Your penance should come in the form of a sacrifice of Johnny Walker Blue or any 17 year-old single malt.
And the best tape.
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!
[Thers says that's inaccurate. The Irish invented whiskey]
"God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink"
And groundskeeper willie.
Buckeye,
Now it should work.
watertiger | Homepage | 12.30.06 - 12:27 pm |
Whew, I was worried there.
I thought this was Sun City for old table-talk pseuds.
Atta J: that was nasty.
it's still snowing here.
Damn WGG - thats a lot of snow you got there.
Whew, I was worried there.
All these freakin' browsers and their cookies.
God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink, an' David Hume, an' the television thingie
to say nothing of jimmy clark, bruce mclaren, & jackie stewart...
James Clerk Maxwell
"God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink"
And groundskeeper willie.
And making going "full commando" socially acceptable in some circles.
You forgot Dimestore Cowboys
it's still snowing here.
Here, too.
it's still snowing here.
So strange to read that. I was just wishing for some cloud-cover; it's 79 degrees and blinding sunny here.
sheets
Biscuits in the oven. It takes precisely 11 minutes, 11 seconds for my oven to pre-heat to 400°F.
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David Derbes -- did ye nae know that James Clerk Maxwell, for some odd reason is NOT in the Scottish Potrait Museum in Edinbur' Aye. Tis a bleedin crime it is, whaich I did point out to the wee tour guide lassie.
secondharmonic
No, and thanks for this. Maybe something can be done about this... hmmm...
(The physics bldg at the U of Edinburgh is named for Maxwell, but the Great Man's portrait should be there, surely, and a handsome man Old Dafty was, as well.)
"All these freakin' browsers and their cookies."
C is for cookie!!!
Eschaton, they hate it every single day they come here. They spend hours every day hating it and the regulars.
olvlzl
Yes, that's quite noticeable.
[smile]
Atta J: that was nasty.
nick carraway
Well, that's my medium.
What the hell are they gonna do with saddam's body? Haven't heard a word about it.
They're sending it to Crawford so Bush can have a jacking session with it.
Certified Mutant Enemy
They're going to give Lynndie England an overnight pass so she can join in the fun.
[Thers says that's inaccurate. The Irish invented whiskey]
Tell the Lout it is spelled whisky and no Irishman invented Scotch whisky. Except so far as Scots are Irish, but not Scots-Irish. This gets confusing. Just tell the Lout he is wrong and to sit there and be wrong.
Is Atrios still around? I made pronto enemies with I thought very mild criticism of Atrios. Damn, the Atrios defenders jumped upon me. Won't do that again
it's still snowing here.
Here, too.
I'm shocked! It never snows in Vermont.
Conservatives and truth, the twain that never meet.
olvlzl
Conservatives and reality, too.
God bless the Scots, who gave us the world's best drink
Drambuie?
footloose
mmmmmmm, Drambuie.
Now where did I put that bottle?
Fate of Saddam’s body remains unclear
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The fate of Saddam Hussein’s body remained unclear Saturday, with one Iraqi official saying it may eventually be handed over to his family.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11669236/
I heard they were gonna send saddam's body to cheney so he could gut it, tie on the hood of his car and drive around town with it for a while. Ya know, so people would know just how big a man cheney is.
I heard they were gonna send saddam's body to cheney so he could gut it, tie on the hood of his car and drive around town with it for a while. Ya know, so people would know just how big a man cheney is.
hadenough
After Chimpy shows it to Poppy.
Sheesh, Duncan. Is there anybody you do like? What a crab.
All the best for a happy and, well, different New Year!
If the world isn't to your liking, try to change it, and as some other guy suggested, you can start by being the change.
Yes, indeed. But you lead off this post by saying,
While I spend most of my time attacking the other side for their various misdeeds
So how is that "being the change"????
I thought chimp was gonna donate SH's head to skull and bones so they could put it next to geronimo's.
Atrios is a tool, and you all know it.
The Armchair Revolutionaries...
I've been to a bunch of those mass protests, starting back in the Vietnam/Watergate era, and going through all the gay rights marches on Washington. There was a time when doing a large scale protest was a good way to prove to the politicians that you could organize. But there was no Internet back then either, and you only made the news and got your word out, if you got their attention.
No more. I think what the liberal/progressive blogs and netroots were able to accomplish last election, was a far better, and much more practical demonstration of an ability to organize. And we don't need the news media to notice us, in order to be heard anymore.
you talking to me
lol
Worst of all are the "blog snobs". "Blog snobs" write lists criticizing others and casting themselves as superiors.
just thinking of all the times i listened to atrios on Seders show and wanted to strangle him for doing such shit research before he opened his piehole.
and then thinking of the good digging he does on SOME stories...
and wondering how often he reads ALL of the weird, quirky, boring and cosmically illuminating shit we post on these threads...
and thinking wanting to whap him for his continual verbal pauses is unkind...
and then realising that occasionally some good is accomplished by all the tiny efforts we make, misguided or otherwise in this bloggieland gestalt...
and ultimately good manners requires me to say, nice of you to give us a home, tanks bud, best wishes for O7'
A Taxonomy of Annoying People
Atrios:
Excellent list! Yet somehow you left out one of the most imnportant categories:
The Stupids.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BRING BACK EMOTICONS!
NTodd, No Smileys, No Peace | Homepage | 12.30.06 - 11:55 am |
Yes, indeedy! It's impossible to emote without them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yeah, I hear ya. Wish I could be a perfect blog hero like Atrios. Gee whiz my life must be a failure. *heh* Really though, these folks take themselves far too seriously methinks. Donning flameproof suit...
--
"Worst of all are the "blog snobs". "Blog snobs" write lists criticizing others and casting themselves as superiors."
I am blogging to complain about people who blog to complain about people complaining all the time!
Lefties who are actually righties, i.e., disagree with me.
how about adding 'dirty fucking hippies who have the audacity to think that someone could be a better Senator than me'.
Whaaaaaat about us whiiiiiiiiners!?! Weeeee never get mentioooooooned!
SHOUTERS!!!!!!!!
add me to the category, assuming one exists, of annoying people who whine uselessly against the oppressive inertia of internet geekspeak terms like "meatspace". God I freakin' hate that term. It's even worse than "snail mail"
Hmmmm....you sound just a wee tad defensive. Did I strike a chord?
calvin immediately drew a parallel between these annoying groups of people and the women who invariably marry alcoholics. They, too, are divided into categories and have about as much appeal as do those on Atrios list.
Perhaps we need a new "religion". One that would empower and enhance people rather than cause them to be placed into categories of people who have negative characteristics. It would eliminate books titled: "I'm OK, You're F**ked Up."
And, perhaps it would put an end to the old saw that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who blog and those who don't.
People who use the word "internets" as if it means something. ARRRRGH
It's the internet. It is a data protocol. It is the web and ftp and and and.. Im going to go choke a 'faux-nerd'.
I have one: people who can't respect that there are a diversity of blogging styles and blog setups. What whiners, right? It seems that if something isn't an Atrios blog that they're either defeatists, arm chair revolutionaries, or that they're wallowing in self pity or self delusion. I'd say grow the fuck up, actually. I blog a mixture of political philosophy, personal observations, and comments on current events. I'm not out there organizing protests. Since my blog is largely about ideas and analysis I must be living in a self-centered magical world. Wow.
Again, grow the fuck up Atrios. You don't seem to realize that outside of Eschaton land there's something called 'freedom of speech'.
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