Wow, you moved their threads and called them stupid? That's some pretty toothless medicine right there. Why don't you grow some balls, drop the unique-visitors-driven big tent shit for a day, and start BANNING MOTHERFUCKERS? And publicly - hang some corpses from the castle walls, like in the good old days. You want to start with me for practice, go nuts.
Gawker could be the one place on the Web we can find smarts and snark, where people are intimidated to post because of the high caliber of the commentariat. It was that, once. Instead it's become the one trillionth place on the Web where we find ugliness and idiocy and rote talking points and cretins smearing their every base thought on the walls. Nut up, for Christ's sake.
Gawker could be the one place on the Web we can find smarts and snark, where people are intimidated to post because of the high caliber of the commentariat. It was that, once. Instead it's become the one trillionth place on the Web where we find ugliness and idiocy and rote talking points and cretins smearing their every base thought on the walls. Nut up, for Christ's sake.
There's the rub - the total lack of wit, of any standard of commenting. Gawker's been going downhill for some time now, long before the past week. It's the starred right wingers that got me - not because of their political stance, but because so many of them are utterly witless. I'm not talking about the Swifters of the world here, but the morons who post fucking Drudge links and spam every conversation with cut-and-pasted talking points. God, what happened to the days of mass commenter executions? In chasing pageviews, Gawker's sacrificed the culture of the comments. Now it's the CNN of the Internet, cravenly entertaining morons of every persuasion to get their precious clicks.
Oh well, there's still Wonkette. I'm out.
Oh well, there's still Wonkette. I'm out.
Naming a digital newspaper "The Daily" just seems to be utterly missing the point of being online and in real time. I know they said they will have live updates, I just don't get the anachronistic name.
@Thunderclees: Really? That's our loss, because he was one of the few devout right-wingers around here who wasn't a total fucking retard.
He's starting to look like Richard Lewis.
@MinkyMankyII: Fantastic.
@AnnieGetYourFun: The question is, will Bachmann speak out as boldly against volcano monitoring?
This will make Bobby Jindal's fiasco look like the Gettysburg Address.
@mozzy: Ha! That place sounds AWESOME.
Window dressing. The really meaningful pairings happen later, in the men's room.
@Arken: But we use that as a term of affection. And by "affection" I mean primarily "road rage".
But do you have a combination Olive Garden/Red Lobster, Massholes?
What set him off was that Times piece on how lame and desperate balding dudes are.
Nonsense. Americans give up something? NEVER. We're all Captain Kirk in the Kobayashi Maru scenario; we believe that there's always a third way, one that involves no sacrifice and preferably someone else - like those suckers in the future! - footing the bill.
Wherever he's headed, he's towing a planet full of good will behind him. Way to live it, Jack.
If the new political dialog means listening to George Will discuss erogenous zones, I'll take the old violent rhetoric, thanks.
@Swifter: Particularly since the article mentions the "Pirate haven of Garad", which narrows the scope considerably from the whole Somali coast.
I guess I don't really understand how, in this day and age, there can be such a thing as a known pirate haven. Wouldn't this be fairly easy to blockade, bomb, or at least track every vessel going in and out?
I guess I don't really understand how, in this day and age, there can be such a thing as a known pirate haven. Wouldn't this be fairly easy to blockade, bomb, or at least track every vessel going in and out?
Equip these with some of those airport scanners that see through clothes and we got ourselves a party. The cops will never want for recruitment again.
I expect the town of Deadwood, South Dakota to shine on this map like the cocksucking North Star.
@Elves.ate.my.unicorn: Agreed on all points. And don't get me wrong, I understand why Japan was compelled to complain and the BBC to apologize - this is the way of the world. The hand-wringing from Gawker is a little more of a head scratcher. Is this site following Judd Apatow out of the humor business and into the self-seriousness business? Because that latter is some pretty crowded turf.
