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burn_this_city · 10-16-2009, 12:54 PM

I rated it 1 star and wasnt surprised it was the common consensus.

Boblobla · 10-16-2009, 01:01 PM

ahahahahahaha

the thread rating is an average of 1.36 with 11 people. That just happens to work out to 10 1-stars and 1 5-star. I wonder who ranked the 5-star?? Isn't giving your own thread a 5-star rating kind of like self-fellatio??

Sliver · 10-16-2009, 01:06 PM

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ahahahahahaha

the thread rating is an average of 1.36 with 11 people. That just happens to work out to 10 1-stars and 1 5-star. I wonder who ranked the 5-star?? Isn't giving your own thread a 5-star rating kind of like self-fellatio??

lol wasn't me. I'll hit 5 stars right now to prove it so you should see the average go up.

Sliver · 10-16-2009, 01:08 PM

Okay I just did it and brought the rating up to two stars so who the hell rated it 5 lol?

Boblobla · 10-16-2009, 01:19 PM

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Okay I just did it and brought the rating up to two stars so who the hell rated it 5 lol?

So was it like self-fellatio??

Gozer · 10-16-2009, 01:20 PM

Sliver · 10-16-2009, 01:21 PM

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So was it like self-fellatio??

If I was flexible enough to know the answer to that question I doubt I'd have time for a chat forum.

EDBTZ12 · 10-16-2009, 01:22 PM

This thread is comic gold...not so much the link that was posted though.

Russic · 10-16-2009, 01:30 PM

Neither insulting nor particularly funny (to me). Different strokes I suppose ... not my thing. For some reason I found after the first paragraph it felt like a chore to keep going. I can't imagine doing an entire blog in that style.

Sliver · 10-16-2009, 01:33 PM

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Neither insulting nor particularly funny (to me). Different strokes I suppose ... not my thing. For some reason I found after the first paragraph it felt like a chore to keep going. I can't imagine doing an entire blog in that style.

Thanks for commenting on the blog and not on me personally.

Seriously, this thread is giving me a complex lol.

Russic · 10-16-2009, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Sliver

Thanks for commenting on the blog and not on me personally.

Seriously, this thread is giving me a complex lol.

I laugh at 99% of everything (ask kermitology), so I get heat for that quite often.

kermitology · 10-16-2009, 01:45 PM

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I laugh at 99% of everything (ask kermitology), so I get heat for that quite often.

No.. you BUY 99% of anything made by, used by, or used with Apple products.

Also, the blog isn't funny in the slightest. The best point made here is that Tourettes sufferers wouldn't type any of that out. Using that as a gimmick is lazy and unoriginal. How old is your friend? Because if he (and I'm pretty sure I'm safe in saying he) wants to actually be funny, then he needs to deliver the comedy with some maturity, style and elegance. That serves to get your point across and be humourous, and people will actually laugh.

There is a time and a place for the ludicrous.. but that doesn't work.

Sliver · 10-16-2009, 02:24 PM

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No.. you BUY 99% of anything made by, used by, or used with Apple products.

Also, the blog isn't funny in the slightest. The best point made here is that Tourettes sufferers wouldn't type any of that out. Using that as a gimmick is lazy and unoriginal. How old is your friend? Because if he (and I'm pretty sure I'm safe in saying he) wants to actually be funny, then he needs to deliver the comedy with some maturity, style and elegance. That serves to get your point across and be humourous, and people will actually laugh.

There is a time and a place for the ludicrous.. but that doesn't work.

Well I'm not going to defend the humour because clearly the jury isn't out on that (except for the mystery CPer that five-starred this thread). But I don't know if humour has to be mature or elegant. That's a pretty narrow definition.

jeremywilhelm · 10-16-2009, 02:25 PM

Wow, that was ######ation in literary form.

flip · 10-16-2009, 02:29 PM

First of all Sliver your friend needs to realize that only about .0001% of people with tourettes shout out dirty words like that.

In reality it is actually just a tick that comes thru frequently. They can vary quite greatly. One of the greatest fallacies in our society when talking about disabilities is the CONSTANT jokes about tourettes having anything to do with yelling out stuff like "vagina" or "donkey raping sh** eater".

If anyone has seen that South Park with the girl that tilts her head and snaps her fingers , that is a more realistic interpretation of Tourrettes than 99% of society views Tourettes as.

That was a great episode BTW.

Sliver · 10-16-2009, 02:31 PM

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First of all Sliver your friend needs to realize that only about .0001% of people with tourettes shout out dirty words like that.

In reality it is actually just a tick that comes thru frequently. They can vary quite greatly. One of the greatest fallacies in our society when talking about disabilities is the CONSTANT jokes about tourettes having anything to do with yelling out stuff like "vagina" or "donkey raping sh** eater".

If anyone has seen that South Park with the girl that tilts her head and snaps her fingers , that is a more realistic interpretation of Tourrettes than 99% of society views Tourettes as.

That was a great episode BTW.

I'm pretty sure my friend knows that, but if this wasn't funny it certainly wouldn't have been funny if his ticks were SNAPS FINGERS, TILTS HEAD TILTS HEAD.

jeremywilhelm · 10-16-2009, 02:34 PM

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I'm pretty sure my friend knows that, but if this wasn't funny it certainly wouldn't have been funny if his ticks were SNAPS FINGERS, TILTS HEAD TILTS HEAD.

But it's not funny with what he has now. I actually had more of a smirk imagining your imaginary friend tilting his head and snapping as he was writing the review.

Sliver · 10-16-2009, 02:38 PM

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But it's not funny with what he has now. I actually had more of a smirk imagining your imaginary friend tilting his head and snapping as he was writing the review.

Yes I realize you don't think it's funny as it is written now. I've had about 50 posts tell me that exact same thing. I was telling flip it wouldn't have been any better to use more authentic ticks.

Traditional_Ale · 10-16-2009, 02:45 PM

If he had been reviewing a porn it might have been funny.

pylon · 10-16-2009, 02:54 PM

No offense sliver, but are you sitting there right now repeatedly hitting F5 waiting for someone thats actually gonna give this tripe a nod of approval? This thread need to die a peaceful death. 17 of the 57 replies are from you in the thread (29%).

Someone please post the kill it with fire picture.

Thanks