Minneapolis is Burning-+* The moderators and admins of this site are TERRIBLE and STUPID and IGNORANT.

[Captainant 28539]

4 minutes ago, mulletpelini said:

worst thread title of 2020 goes to you @Bama Chick

It actually goes to @blacklab who created the thread and title

[mulletpelini 5225]

sup Bama Chick

[blacklab 12064]

hey, the software copies the thread title from the old thread and I just added her words to it.

so it's not completely my fault. this time.

[DDD Dad 14650]

22 hours ago, blacklab said:

hey, the software copies the thread title from the old thread and I just added her words to it.

so it's not completely my fault. this time.

[immortal13 4059]

On 6/14/2020 at 9:18 PM, atomheartbevo said:

28,000+ posts say otherwise.  And the 10,000 on the old site say that as well.   If we assume that he spent 5 minutes or so (including reading the posts he's responding to, or reading the responses), that's a few thousand hours he's invested in this.   When you make that many posts, and when the majority are about a specific topic such as politics, you are heavily invested in something. 

My math maybe wrong, it's been a long day, but he's potentially spent over 100 24-hour days of his life posting on shaggy/surly.   He is a Believer with a capital B.

The problem for him is twofold - speaking of the old site, we all up and left and moved to a new site at the drop of BL's hat.    We all just up and walked away from years of posting history, and that site could go down any day.  And a shitload of us had migrated from other platforms before that.   That lack of permanence does not make for a good platform to change hearts and minds.  This isn't usenet, where I have thousands of posts that are archived on various servers out there where I battled valiantly to defend Linux and OS/2 and DESQview and the Houston Astros and Houston Oilers.  It's more akin to the BBSes I used to post on, where they go down and the posts are lost somewhere on a now long-forgotten floppy disk being used to level a desk or something, and that community would sometime migrate to another BBS.  Well, I have a shitload of FidoNet posts that somehow made it onto the internet, much to my chagrin, but anyways, I'm drifting.

 Which gets into the issue of the importance of the actual nuts-and-bolts platform made of software and hardware vs our little merry band of revelers being the actual platform, but that's getting kind of esoteric.

The bigger problem for Hugo is that this platform is known for cartoon dicks, lots of swearing, lots of photos of scantily clad women, lots of really off-color jokes and hot takes.  It's not going to reach the people that Hugo wants to, or rather can actually change the minds of.  The people that Hugo reaches here are, for the most part, pretty set in their views, or their views have been shaped by their real-life experiences and not somebody's posts on the internet.  

Surprisingly, or maybe not, heavy/older internet users seem to trend towards the libertarian/independent side of things, which is not good for those with a message to spread, because we can laugh at Trump being unable to properly drink water as well as Uncle Joe smelling somebody's hair equally.  Not helped that we have an educated base as well, which makes it a little harder.

We have the occasional catalyst that brings a lot of differing viewpoints into the same thread - the subject of this thread, the covid thread, Tom Herman.  And we have a lot of stuff that helps fill the off-season or the times in-between games when we aren't in the mood to talk about football or basketball or baseball or whatever.

But I just don't see many changing their minds over internet opinions - it's going to be the video of a cop openly murdering somebody, or our football team being murdered or whatever.

Stopped reading at Hugo is my leader(paraphrase)

[immortal13 4059]

IIRC, the last shaggy poster that garnered so much praise in a short amount of time turned out to be a lunatic rock-throwing kiddie diddler.

[gail the snail 31]

39 minutes ago, immortal13 said:

IIRC, the last shaggy poster that garnered so much praise in a short amount of time turned out to be a lunatic rock-throwing kiddie diddler.

Tor?

[elfenix 34751]

2 hours ago, immortal13 said:

Stopped reading at Hugo is my leader(paraphrase)

that post was above a 1st grade reading level, so i know it's difficult for you.  but keep on trying and you'll get there someday!

[Captainant 28539]

10 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

He didn’t create shit. He regurgitated what she produced. 

Blacklab cherry-picked a post out of a thread and chose the thread title to be intentionally inflammatory based on the post he chose to cherry pick.

Edited August 10, 2020 by Captainant

[Nicole44 22315]

1 minute ago, Captainant said:

Blacklab cherry-picked a post out of a thread and chose the thread title to be intentionally inflammatory based on the post he chose to cherry pick.

You should tell her bamachick how you feel. Give her flowers and shit. 

[Captainant 28539]

18 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

You should tell her bamachick how you feel. Give her flowers and shit. 

Wait, so do you disagree with me or just want attention?

[Nicole44 22315]

2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Wait, so do you disagree with me or just want attention?

Pot meet kettle much?

[Moby Ric 2058]

38 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Blacklab cherry-picked a post out of a thread and chose the thread title to be intentionally inflammatory based on the post he chose to cherry pick.

Well she kind of sucks so......

 

[Gatorubet 30720]

IIRC, the last shaggy poster that garnered so much praise in a short amount of time turned out to be a lunatic rock-throwing kiddie diddler.

A lunatic kiddie-throwing rock diddler would been ok. But Surly has limits.

[Gatorubet 30720]

Oh it's not a notion.

I’d like to know where you got the notion...

Don’t rock the boat

[Gatorubet 30720]

hey, the software copies the thread title from the old thread and I just added her words to it.
so it's not completely my fault. this time.

[RDCanecutter 26893]

20 hours ago, immortal13 said:

IIRC, the last shaggy poster that garnered so much praise in a short amount of time turned out to be a lunatic rock-throwing kiddie diddler.

Careful, you can't prove the lunatic part.

Oh, you meant somebody else, NM....

[Mole 4339]

The story arc of TxTow was amazing.

[Guest Lobo]

Did he start his jail sentence yet?  Or is he still appealing?  

[Hate 20249]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

Did he start his jail sentence yet?  Or is he still appealing?  

I would say he never was very appealing, but to each his own.

[Guest Lobo]

Not quite as weird as your wanting that black murder victim to drop to his knees and plead for his life.  Or your random rant on immamac last week.  
 

you do have an uncanny ability to remember random Throwaway posts from months/years back.  That gift leads me to this admission:  
everybody was wrong about you, you’re not Rex Kramer.  You’re a woman.  

Edited August 11, 2020 by Lobo

[Guest Lobo]

You are truly an inspiration to other women in the energy industry.   

 

[immortal13 4059]

2 hours ago, Dr. Beeper said:

That was like 3 months ago, and everyone remembers it. Also, you really think I created a sock and blasted Imma?  Really?  Haha. 

The facts are, I didn’t want Arbery to drop to his knees, and you stated over and over again you wanted the Cletii to be anally raped and were overly demonstrative and graphic in your fantasies. 

That's some weird shit 

[Guest Lobo]

21 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

You’re a disaster of a human. Fuck your own face. 

At least you’re using new vocabulary instead of weirdo.  Try “tremendous” next time like your hero.  However, you do say “face” a lot.   Kinda weird, but we’ll workshop it. 

[washparkhorn 9973]

Lobo - be nice to the women. She might be pregnant. 

[Guest Lobo]

She can’t get pregnant if I fuck her face.  
(checks notes). 
shit, my bad... I’m to fuck my own face.  

[atomheartbevo 90650]

23 hours ago, Mole said:

The story arc of TxTow was amazing.

If Fitlump somehow makes it onto the Austin City Council, nobody will remember TxTow after the first week of November.

7 hours ago, RamjetFDO said:

 

[atomheartbevo 90650]

And she managed to make it onto the ballot.

Edited August 12, 2020 by atomheartbevo

[Bash Riprock 1695]

BamaChick

 

[President Camacho 17]

those are cool glasses

[Armybrat 41408]

On 8/26/2020 at 11:40 PM, President Camacho said:

those are cool glasses

No, these are cool glasses....

 

[Guest Lobo]

Your wife know you're still banging Elton John?  

[Armybrat 41408]

Those were my MIL’s glasses.

EJ would think they are too mundane.

[Guest Lobo]

Your MIL accessorized like a "Far Side" cartoon housewife.  You lead a rich and interesting life, sir.  

[atomheartbevo 90650]

They didn't have plastic back then, so they are made of what, ivory?

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

45 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Those were my MIL’s glasses.

EJ would think they are too mundane.

Looks like something Elvis would have worn.

[Cheeseweasel 26439]

5 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Looks like something Elvis would have worn.

Maybe she inspired Elvis.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

1 minute ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Maybe she inspired Elvis.

Thank ya..... thank ya very much.....

[Armybrat 41408]

6 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Maybe she inspired Elvis.

Hardly.

[elfenix 34751]

17 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

They didn't have plastic back then, so they are made of what, ivory?

the bones of the last cro-magnon

[atomheartbevo 90650]

3 hours ago, elfenix said:

the bones of the last cro-magnon

That she killed with her bare hands.

[Armybrat 41408]

13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

That she killed with her bare hands.

True story.... for her 80th b’day I gave her a card that said on the front, “Remember the Alamo”. On the inside it said, “I bet you do”.

She was not amused, but my kids still chortle some about it.