Observation about this community..

Posted by: jnmunsey

Observation about this community.. - 14/08/2005 22:51

I've been conversing in USENET, online forums, and other Internet based discussion areas for many years, and quite often things can get out of hand and immature, making the experience less than rewarding. Granted I have been responsible for some of those flaws but still those are my observations.

Anyway, I just have to say this is one of the most well-behaved, mature and need I say classiest groups around! Glad to be a part of it, albeit a small one..!
Posted by: cushman

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 00:43

1st reply, w00t!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 01:07

ROFLMAO

You needed one of those exclamation marks to be a 1.
Posted by: Cris

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 05:33

ME TOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: frog51

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 07:37

Buy empeg
be well behaved and mature
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Profit

Posted by: bonzi

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 12:52

You have awoken a monster
Posted by: jimhogan

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 13:16

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You have awoken a monster

Maybe a Nazi monster!
Posted by: Robotic

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 14:39

Beowolf cluster of EMPEGS!!
Teh most Roxor of MP3 audio EVAR!!!!!!!!1!!!!
Posted by: shadow45

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 15:04

In Soviet Russia, monster awakes YOU!!!
Posted by: Foz

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 15:33

Step 1: Post about the maturity of the community
Step 2: Put on flak vest
Step 3: ???
Step 4: PROFIT!

-- Gary F.
Posted by: FireFox31

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 21:53

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Granted I have been responsible for some of those flaws

Welllllll, we are taking applications for a new resident troll. The first round application starts something like:

1. Do you possess at least 6 handguns (or 4 handguns and a pump action shot gun)?
2. Will you piss off the BBS moderators / administrator at least once every 3 months?
3. Do you possess the technical knowledge to blatantly abuse common functions of the BBS?
4. Are you, despite the above and coutless other annoyances, able to entrench yourself in the hearts of BBS users as a necessary member of the community?

Come on guys and gals, what questions have I left off the application?
Posted by: mcomb

Re: Observation about this community.. - 15/08/2005 22:21

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Come on guys and gals, what questions have I left off the application?


Well, it is always nice if the troll doesn't actually own an empeg and is just here to pimp their product/website/cult. Thats got to be worth a couple bonus points.
Posted by: frog51

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 06:08

Sometimes I miss him - very occasionally he was utterly hilarious.

If only he had refrained from being a twunt.
Posted by: visuvius

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 06:28

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f only he had refrained from being a twunt.


Wow. Is that...is that a combination of cunt and twit? Thats brilliant. How long has it been in use? Or is it a personal creation? Regional favorite? MInd if i use?
Posted by: pgrzelak

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 08:21

Hmmm... This is too easy. Some of us, including myself, meet most of these criteria...
Posted by: frog51

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 10:51

Think it was made popular by b3ta.com (my other favourite forum)

Urban Dictionary meaning of Twunt
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 11:55

It was used a few weeks ago on the TV show Rescue Me as a combination of cunt and twat. It was not well received by the one woman on the show.
Posted by: frog51

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 12:49

Bizarrely, the women I know are split almost 50:50 on that c word. Some hate it more than anything, where others like it far too much (!)

But all find twunt amusing!
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 12:59

I bet it's a lot like "nigger". If people within the affected community use it, it's okay; if people outside that community use it, it's not.
Posted by: frog51

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 13:41

Hmmm - but is there a community of c***s?

(joke)
Posted by: Heather

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 14:31

Hmmm - but is there a community of cunts?

Yep. They call it suburbia. bah-dum CHING!

Bizarrely, the women I know are split almost 50:50 on that c word. Some hate it more than anything, where others like it far too much

I find the women who are most offended by it tend to be the ones where the shoe fits. Types like the clandestine hooker (says they don't care about money, but refuses to be self supporting or contribute financially to the relationship in any way. Watch her run if you lose your job!), the kind that get accidentally pregnant on purpose for their own percieved gain, the flat out gold digger, the ones from the cunt school of feminism (I am your equal. Which means you go out and make all the money, pay all the bills, then come home and do at least half of the housework, after I spent all day shopping or sitting on my ass. I am also above criticism, no matter how many remarks I make about men being universally useless, because that would be misogynistic), the kind that get really upset about finding out a man, any man, regardless of her relationship to them, thinks there's some woman out there more attractive than her, or the bitch who stands in front of a jewelry store window talking about how she needs to find a man to buy her that stuff (no, what you need a job or a better job), or the ones who constantly bitch about how they hate rich people, yet read Vogue religiously. Basically, women who know their only worth is as a set of orifices. I can't think of any self sufficient, competent woman I know who is offended by it for more than half a second, if at all. There are way more offensive things you can call women.

By the way, I'd volunteer to fill the troll position if the profanity filter gets turned off. I have no real knowledge of electronics, but a love of insulting people.
Posted by: peter

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 14:39

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By the way, I'd volunteer to fill the troll position if the profanity filter gets turned off. I have no real knowledge of electronics, but a love of insulting people.

And, if I may say, a skill...

Peter
Posted by: Foz

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 14:41

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Quote:
By the way, I'd volunteer to fill the troll position if the profanity filter gets turned off. I have no real knowledge of electronics, but a love of insulting people.

And, if I may say, a skill...



Don't you mean talent?



-- Gary F.
Posted by: frog51

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 14:43

Brilliant
Posted by: visuvius

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 15:26

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There are way more offensive things you can call women.



Ya mind sharing a few of these? I thought "cunt" was the big bomb but apparantly not. There are some real, well, cunts here in Orange County.
Posted by: Heather

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 15:33

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Ya mind sharing a few of these?


Cum dumpster tends to be the one that pisses the most people off. Your mileage may vary.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 15:47

Yeah, most of these epithets are just name-calling, with some sort of implication at best (worst?). You need something descriptive if you want to really offend people.
Posted by: Roger

Re: Observation about this community.. - 16/08/2005 18:00

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Your mileage may vary.


I gotta get myself back on IRC. I miss these conversations...
Posted by: genixia

Re: Observation about this community.. - 17/08/2005 03:50

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3. Do you possess the technical knowledge to blatantly abuse common functions of the BBS?


I think you're giving him too much credit. He just googled well-known exploits. It's not like he actually came up with anything new.
Posted by: ninti

Re: Observation about this community.. - 22/08/2005 14:04

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Cum dumpster tends to be the one that pisses the most people off.



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Heather
Cum dumpster
Posts: 430



That is an evil sense of humor you got there Tom.

Funny, but evil.
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Observation about this community.. - 22/08/2005 14:10

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Quote:

Cum dumpster tends to be the one that pisses the most people off.



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Heather
Cum dumpster
Posts: 430



That is an evil sense of humor you got there Tom.

Funny, but evil.


That one was actually my fault, for the record.