I'm ducking pissed that they can't even make a kids' movie without it being racist and sexist. DD1's class went to see Sing today and her teacher said it was horrible. One example she gave me was that the "gang members" (actually called that in the film) were gorillas. I mean WTAF?
Girl, I can attest to this. I just got home from seeing it. It was unfunny, and for a movie called Sing, it had surprisingly little music, but I was really irritated by the "gang of gorillas" and also a really unfunny ongoing joke about a Japanese girl group. It was a very tone-deaf movie.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
AND, many of your past debates that you all are longing for were full of ill-informed, microagressive opinions. Again, I personally didn't have a problem with it because I was thoroughly entertained, but let's call things what they are.
When has this board not been angry? I'm so confused. That's been the running joke for years. The only difference I see is that much of today's anger is racially motivated.
I am probably projecting, but I've always felt like I (and this board) can be intense, and passionate, and have moments of outrage and often takes itself too seriously...but the vibe is different for me post-election. I suppose I am also different post election though, so it could be my projection or mindset in that I've always been those things but also an irreverent asshole who doesn't take herself too seriously so I'd turn it on and off depending on my mood. I think for the first time I feel legit stress over the outcome of an election. Maybe it's my personal connection. I do admit that the whole DOE thing sent me into a spiral. The idea that my husband would be on a list Trumpkins requested because of his engineering work/scientific research was very weird for me. I think it was the combo of the personal connection and obviously my family's livelihood but also the sort of anti-intellectualism/anti-science stuff that always makes me rage out and feel nauseous simultaneously.
I also have often been one of the more moderate posters, and I feel like if I am bordering on hysteria, the hysteria must be legit or something, lol. Like if I'm freaked out when I'm generally all CHECKS AND BALANCES! Or I was just naive before, which is also very possible.
ETA: I'm thinking more and I do know the board has shifted a lot in this past year, but for the most part I have thought it was for the better, personally. Which is maybe more of what you are referring to... I was thinking more of the rage hysteria histrionics about the whole board/politics as a whole/the world being the shift not just these posts where someone shows their ass and everyone's all APOLOGIZE! FUCK YOUR APOLOGY (which quite frankly, I kind of enjoy and find annoying all at once somehow, likely because I'm a terrible person). I think the uncertainty and surprise people feel about the election has fed into the vibe I'm seeing since the election?
People tend to have just as many feels about cancer as they do about IF, no? They're very different feels, but everybody has an auntie/mama/grandad/friend etc they lost to cancer so I'm sure it'd have pissed off a whole lotta people. But cancer doesn't have that secret shame component for the sufferers. At least not nearly to the same extent - it's socially acceptable to talk about your cancer diagnosis at the office as long as you leave out all the uncomfortable details, but people look at you damn funny if you talk about your multiple early losses or how much money you've had to spend on IVF in even vague terms. So...maybe more likely to be forgiven by actual cancer victims, but also more likely to have pissed off more people from the jump. Feels like a wash to me. But that's all pointless speculation.
This was more my point. People aren't as angry about this statement re: IF as they would be PISSED if it was about cancer because unfortunately so many IFers have to suffer alone in silence. Because it's taboo to discuss. I make more sense in my head.
Post by unclejesse on Dec 21, 2016 21:02:25 GMT -5
Even though I was an outsider in the drama, I was tickled when LHC was finally "outed". I thought she was an over dramatic and mean person for years, and I quietly felt validated in my gut feeling.
Even though I was an outsider in the drama, I was tickled when LHC was finally "outed". I thought she was an over dramatic and mean person for years, and I quietly felt validated in my gut feeling.
And apparently always photoshopped her pictures to make herself look thin and waiflike.
Sorry I'm being a bitch, because my Wildcats are losing to the Cards and ARENT MAKING ANY FUCKING FREE THROWS and am trying to distract myself by being messy and petty in this grievance thread.
Post by EllieArroway on Dec 21, 2016 21:12:31 GMT -5
We need to stop acting like this board was ever really open to different viewpoints. The Republicans left the board in 08 and started using some random month board on to get away from us. Maybe back then we had enough non-political posts to keep more people around, but conservative political opinions weren't ever really entertained. There were a few posters that we thought of as intelligent Republican unicorns, because our default was that conservatives were idiots.
We need to stop acting like this board was ever really open to different viewpoints. The Republicans left the board in 08 and started using some random month board on to get away from us. Maybe back then we had enough non-political posts to keep more people around, but conservative political opinions weren't ever really entertained. There were a few posters that we thought of as intelligent Republican unicorns, because or default was that conservatives were idiots.
As someone who has taken conservative viewpoints...the R party has validated this and I am mad that I ever pushed back on the idea that all Republicans were idiots. Because they have made a fool of me.
I'm back posting with a Halloween AE because I'm not bothering with a permanent account on here again. (formerly ladydisdain and nofucksgiven)
LOL with all the let's have more bipartisan dialogue kumbaya. That ship sailed a long time ago and new posters won't affect the dynamic as long as ESF or heyjude can float in with snide remarks and sneering WOTs or one-liners (respectively). Why? Because of the bully effect: no one wants to get called out aggressively so no one posts dissenting opinions anymore. YWIA. Stop pretending you want even-handed dialogue when it's so much more fun to gang-pile an alternate perspective instead of trying to dig into it (pedophilia and racism excluded, of course).
Stop drinking so fucking much. When 2 out of 3 of your posts are about your alcoholic beverage... Jesus, people.
I don't care if it's a joke: WALLA is the stupidest thing ever.
Stop using completely biased news sources and links with the disclaimer, "I know this is a slanted source, BUT..." because the end of that sentence is "I really want people to get irrationally mad with me so we can do some chest-bumping!"
Get back to work. I swear some of you must be giving blow jobs to your bosses with how much you post when you're on the clock.
Anecdotes are not equivalent to actual goddamned news or facts.
Some of you claim to be feminists yet put up with the laziest, cruelest Hs I've heard of outside of fictional literature.
Halloween AE Day is dead. Let it die. And with that... so do I (the AE, that is).
Even though I was an outsider in the drama, I was tickled when LHC was finally "outed". I thought she was an over dramatic and mean person for years, and I quietly felt validated in my gut feeling.
And apparently always photoshopped her pictures to make herself look thin and waiflike.
Someone passed along a gtg photo with her in it, and it didn't even look like the same person.
When I read this board now, I waiver between being incredibly depressed and ready to kick ass, often in the same post. I'm not sure I can with the (hopefully) hyperbolic "Welp. Today is the day the end of the world begins" anymore, because that seemed to be yesterday...and the day before...and the day before. Maybe it's not an exaggeration, but, it likely is, and it's not particularly helpful.
I think this board is becoming an unpleasant place to be. I really dislike drama and I feel we can't have any discussions anymore without histrionics. It is not a stimulating exchange of thoughts right now...just drama.
Sadly, that ship sailed long ago and why I think most old-timers have peaced out (quietly, not because they are assholes)
I about died when someone (sorry, I didn't note who and I'm not going back in there) said MW should apologize to JulieF. I don't like what MW said, but Julie has been a hateful ass who plays dirty, says things that are on that same level (multiple times), then deletes them before anyone else can see them, and then plays all innocent when it's not around to quote. And trust she's never apologized to ANYONE. So while I think the apology for hurting others is totally right, I don't feel a bit sorry for Julie. I've been here for what, 10 years? She was a HUGE negative presence for probably the first 3 years. And then she bounced, except for the occasional shitty, mean comments she deletes 2 minutes later. She and SBP are the same in that they use personal info to hurt others, and then wail when people do the same. The difference is that most people ignored the shit SBP posted until it was directed at them.
y4m , could I call you a snoddy little twat for old times sake?
Festivus, indeed.
I still laugh that she got all indignant when soprano did the same thing. JulieF is an ass. That is obvious.
I'm still mad that all the Republicans were run off the board and that they created a private thing and won't include me even though I am not Republican. Because IRL people think I am so liberal, but this board makes me feel like I am so conservative.
I am only still here because I am so bored at work. Otherwise I would be out cuz y'all are straight crazy and not in a good way.
I did not know this. And I feel a little left out. I am an independent, but this was the first year I have voted for a Democrat for pres since Gore and I am not sure if I voted for Gore because I think I might've voted for Nader instead to throw support behind a third-party since I am in a very red state and knew Gore would not win Texas. I mean, I don't hate Obama. Do you have to hate Obama to be part of the party? Maybe that's it.
The only Rs that would have done so would be crazy evehusband, Goldie, 2V and JulieF. Good lord, that would be hysterical.
I did not know this. And I feel a little left out. I am an independent, but this was the first year I have voted for a Democrat for pres since Gore and I am not sure if I voted for Gore because I think I might've voted for Nader instead to throw support behind a third-party since I am in a very red state and knew Gore would not win Texas. I mean, I don't hate Obama. Do you have to hate Obama to be part of the party? Maybe that's it.
The only Rs that would have done so would be crazy evehusband, Goldie, 2V and JulieF. Good lord, that would be hysterical.
Does goldie still post on her local? These are the random things I wonder.
The only Rs that would have done so would be crazy evehusband, Goldie, 2V and JulieF. Good lord, that would be hysterical.
Does goldie still post on her local? These are the random things I wonder.
No, she stopped posting there even before she stopped posting here. We have a lot of mutual friends on FB from the NJ board but we never got along so we aren't in touch. We were both at a gtg and she's just as extra special IRL as she seems on the board.
Yup in thread referencing god! Also arbor's crazy ass talked shit and lied about us. Yet she came back randomly and people were saying hi and then later caped for her crazy ass. Shout out to @angryharpy , who created a "sex positive" thread when she came back. This reminds me, did she ever escape Mexico?
Wait what? I created a sex positive thread? I was trapped in Mexico?
Or wait. arbor was trapped in Mexico and I created a sex positive thread to mock her?
I very seriously thought about selling it about a month ago. I just couldn't stomach that I'd be telling people that the incredibly ugly clothes/patterns would look good on them.