There is more Cloak Room in Daily Texan than there is in Cloak Room.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Just now, Lobo said:

No the election thread, not the erection thread.  

[Hate 20157]

99% of the traffic is the same three people jerking each other off in the CR.

I can guarantee there are more than 3 people in that circle jerk since Tuesday night. At least we know now that there will be zero issues in our country going forward.

[Fondren & Main 6763]

2 hours ago, Hate said:

I can guarantee there are more than 3 people in that circle jerk since Tuesday night. At least we know now that there will be zero issues in our country going forward.

Am I holding my breath thinking that any of those cocksuckers will admit they fucked up?  I’ll probably be taken to the gulag for re-education as my social credit score will be in the shitter...

[atomheartbevo 90053]

2 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

If 90% of your traffic's about the election, it's time to think about a rebrand. 

It's a board whose main demographic is a crowd of college educated people, not fucking 4chan.

Surprise! That demographic is paying close attention to shit that is going on.

And more importantly, the board caters to a group of sports fans who are Really Fucking Pissed Off with the state of the sports in their lives.

Edited November 5, 2020 by atomheartbevo

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

It's a board whose main demographic is a crowd of college educated people, not fucking 4chan.

Surprise! That demographic is paying close attention to shit that is going on.

And more importantly, the board caters to a group of sports fans who are Really Fucking Pissed Off with the state of the sports in their lives.

it's a UT sports-- read, football-- board whose traffic is 90% dedicated to something other than UT sports. Thus, the joke about rebranding.

[atomheartbevo 90053]

Just now, SwanderedTalent said:

it's a UT sports-- read, football-- board whose traffic is 90% dedicated to something other than UT sports. Thus, the joke about rebranding.

https://firetomherman.com has been taken already.  I suppose they could go with a .net or .org, or even http://fucktomherman.com but advertisers don't like "fuck" in the domain name.

[immamac 43562]

wait, you guys think that Shittastic no news at all fucking god awful Texas football and no other sports at all worth a shit is driving traffic on a Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday when the President of the United States is tweeting shit like this:

 

 

Are you fucking braindead or just like having your head buried under the sand?

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Now we trust Twitter as the Arbiter Of All Things Correct? Cool.

[immamac 43562]

Just now, Cheeseweasel said:

Now we trust Twitter as the Arbiter Of All Things Correct? Cool.

Totally normal election day. Sec of Defense just quit seems normal. No reason for traffic on election thread.

[Guest Lobo]

What?  Secretaries of Defense always quit the day after Election Day when their Commander-in-Chief still have 50 1/2 months left to serve.  Been the norm of the Republic for almost 2.5 centuries.  

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

5 minutes ago, immamac said:

Totally normal election day. Sec of Defense just quit seems normal. No reason for traffic on election thread.

You seem really agitated by the fact that we aren't participating in your Circle Jerk. 

[immamac 43562]

1 minute ago, Cheeseweasel said:

You seem really agitated by the fact that we aren't participating in your Circle Jerk. 

I'm not, I'm just telling you to stop thinking that you are even close to the majority of what is driving traffic on a thursday during one of the worst football seasons in modern history.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

3 minutes ago, immamac said:

I'm not, I'm just telling you to stop thinking that you are even close to the majority of what is driving traffic on a thursday during one of the worst football seasons in modern history.

Never said I was. It doesn't surprise me at all. Politics is the New Spectator Sport in 'Merica.

[Captainant 27972]

lol engaging with cheeseweasel expecting serious replies

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Shhhhhhh. The adults are here. Go and play in your sandbox, son.

[atomheartbevo 90053]

17 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Never said I was. It doesn't surprise me at all. Politics is the New Spectator Sport in 'Merica.

No matter how crazy it is, it makes more sense than UT losing in 4 overtimes to the worst OU team to take the field in 20 years.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

5 hours ago, immamac said:

wait, you guys think that Shittastic no news at all fucking god awful Texas football and no other sports at all worth a shit is driving traffic

No. I can't for the life of me even figure out where you would get the idea that someone said or thought that. I guess the politics here have gone to your brain, too. 

[Anastasis 23504]

16 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

No. I can't for the life of me even figure out where you would get the idea that someone said or thought that. I guess the politics here have gone to your brain, too. 

Keep the political discussion in the CR.

*puts electoral college map at top of every thread on the board*

Edited November 6, 2020 by Anastasis
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[clapclapclap 9000]

Can we maybe rotate what is pinned at the top of every thread?  This would be good for a day:

Cwilssa

 

@chriscrss

 

Replying to

@RubinReport

Someone recently pointed out that Montana looks like Biden sniffing Idaho, now I can’t unsee it

 

[clapclapclap 9000]

This might be a little controversial:

[clapclapclap 9000]

Also can we get a green banner with this PSA?

Stop Telling My Staff to 'Shove Sharpies in Uncomfortable Places'

https://sports.yahoo.com/michigan-ag-stop-telling-staff-004702718.html

Edited November 6, 2020 by clapclapclap

[Bullneck 19316]

[workswithseed 2139]

What's with the fuck around mascot rep?

[Guest Lobo]

He's your God now! 

[Captainant 27972]

27 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

What's with the fuck around mascot rep?

why don't you fuck around and find out

[immamac 43562]

1 hour ago, workswithseed said:

What's with the fuck around mascot rep?

philadelphia pushed a candidate over into the nomination. It's meme city right now, but will go back to normal after tomorrow.

['stache 21901]

1 hour ago, workswithseed said:

What's with the fuck around mascot rep?

[workswithseed 2139]

1 minute ago, 'stache said:

[Hagbard Celine 10995]

the flyers have a shitty mascot but then again artificial manufactured caricatures are the norm for mascots this century

yeah philly

[Hate 20157]

Fuck all things Philly. Everything. Fuck those people and fuck that city. Phuck the Phillies, Phuck the eagles, phuck the flyers, fuck the sixers, fuck temple, fuck la salle, fuck penn, fuck St Joe’s...I kind of like Villanova though. And I like cheesesteaks so don’t fuck Villanova or cheesesteaks but fuck everything else about that city.

[phdhorn 6224]

8 hours ago, Hate said:

Fuck all things Philly. Everything. Fuck those people and fuck that city. Phuck the Phillies, Phuck the eagles, phuck the flyers, fuck the sixers, fuck temple, fuck la salle, fuck penn, fuck St Joe’s...I kind of like Villanova though. And I like cheesesteaks so don’t fuck Villanova or cheesesteaks but fuck everything else about that city.

I've been to Philly enough times.  You haven't used nearly enough derogatory things here.

Philly the afterbirth of the Mid-Atlantic.  And that's an insult to afterbirths.  

Oh, also just for the record, Villanova isn't in Philly.  It's in Villanova, PA.  So you can like Nova but still hate Philly.  It's doable.

 

[Bash Riprock 1695]

So I guess the guys who have no balls are having high English tea time, how many participation trophies did you get? 

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

I’m kinda worried about tjhooker. He posted a thread in the cloak room election night and hasn’t returned. Years earlier he posted about threats to his life and is constantly bitching about the cloak room. Is he ok?

[Willfully Horn 8091]

I got to wondering at what point would a successful overturning of the vote, assuming that had played out, be talked about as a current event, and not be tacitly seen as partisan politics?

 

[DDD Dad 14372]

I just noticed that several of my posts in the apolitical Daily Texan thread got deleted.  @immamac What's up with that?  I see that perennial shitposter cheeseweasel's posts remain up.

[bad_teammate 13301]

What is "politics"?

What is "partisan"?

[Pam Cummings 9697]

Just merge CR and DT into one forum.

[Guest Lobo]

It'd be fun for a few days just to see how much shit we could politicize.  

Heck, there was a thread on LULZ that had a funny letter to the editor about food safety, and it somehow devolved into claims that it was a cloak-room worthy thread because food safety was a personal choice.  Chicken should be cooked to 165 degrees no matter how you feel about the 2020 election.  

But even if we merged them with the understanding that if a thread topic sounds like it might offend your snowflake sensitivities,  I'm sure immamac could add a feature on the site that allows you the option to not click on those threads.  

Nobody of any political stripe wants some political cartoon in the middle of a game thread, but it baffles me that a site of mostly educated adults can't accept the fact that sometimes current events in business or society or education or health care or pandemics sometimes have a political component to them.  

Really all the Cloak Room is anymore is a few threads about how Trump is going down but is never going down.  And then a handful of batshit crazy members of Congress.  I'm sure when the massive Biden Socialist takeover of America happens later this year, I think traffic on Cloak Room will really increase on both sides.  

[Parliament 14372]

The Afghanistan Onion thread got moved because of political posts.  Pity, as there was lotsa good stuff in there.  

Am I allowed to start a "No CR Afganistan thread" in DT, or will it just devolve again?

[immamac 43562]

3 minutes ago, Parliament said:

The Afghanistan Onion thread got moved because of political posts.  Pity, as there was lotsa good stuff in there.  

Am I allowed to start a "No CR Afganistan thread" in DT, or will it just devolve again?

Man I totally agree. I'm thinking about changing the rules for political hot button issues in DT. The DT thread can be for jokes/memes/dark humor/whatever and CR is for any discussion. 

People are just too fucking stupid to understand that you can have a serious conversation without having to talk about any kind of politics. If you want to talk politics you go to CR. If you can't understand that then stop posting in either. 

[Guest Lobo]

The three biggest things to happen to the United States in a very long, long time...Ending the 20 year war in Afghanistan, the Delta Variant producing perhaps our worst wave yet of Covid-19, and our own citizens attempting to topple our own seat of Government.  All in the last 7 months.  And none of them can be considered "news" or "Current Events."  What the fuck does constitute a "current event" with some of you fucking people?  

[troph 24928]

 Not sure how you discuss the US government response to Afghanistan without talking about elected officials and career government officials.  What happens next and what the US should do or what went wrong don’t have to be my team vs your team but the unavoidably involve a discussion about politicians and the like. Not my hill to die on I can avoid DT like I’ve avoided CR too. 
 

if you want just a news thread about Afghanistan then disallow comments only allow factual news.  But that thread is going nowhere. 

[InkaUtexas 26354]

NO shit. Same shit happened to my COVID Thread. Figure out a way to hammer the assholes who take over and let the normal folk talk about news. And agree @troph , the last two posts in the new CR (NOT DT THREAD) made me not want to post information. OK, they all fucked up, can we focus on today, etc? What if the CR was for the dark political shit and DT was just for news? Easier to patrol I think. Plus for the most part they are the same asses who had the original COVID thread moved to CR. Do we need another Corch?  @immamac

To my point. This is news. It is not political. So where do I post it? 

As many as 15,000 Americans remain in Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover of the country, Biden administration officials told Senate staffers Tuesday, two aides said.

Two Senate aides confirmed that they were given that figure in a briefing led by national security and defense officials.

 

Edited August 18, 2021 by InkaUtexas

[InkaUtexas 26354]

7 hours ago, Parliament said:

The Afghanistan Onion thread got moved because of political posts.  Pity, as there was lotsa good stuff in there.  

Am I allowed to start a "No CR Afganistan thread" in DT, or will it just devolve again?

Go for it. I will post my daily updates and understanding of the country after quite a few years living there, plus over 20 within Islam. I know a few who were posting there do not touch the CR. Sad, they had some good information. 

[Parliament 14372]

I'm gonna do it.  Afganistan news and people who have been there sharing their views with the rest of us.

immamac, are you willing to move political posts from that thread to the CR thread?

[InkaUtexas 26354]

49 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

Texas Covid thread in DT is totally CR’ed. I can’t stand this Board’s tolerance of poking fun at Abbott’s handicap. People are so emotional right now, but that commentary isn’t helpful and I don’t want to be associated with it. 

Can’t decide whether to limit my presence to Ticket and Oil threads, or just go away. This Board doesn’t reflect anything close to the real world, and certainly not my ideals, and that far outstrips any humor on the board, which frankly isn’t there. I am certain people would welcome my departure, which only furthers my feelings. 

Fuck it, I’m out. No funeral. 

Brah, we tried to create one. It was moved to CR and died in oblivion. 

[immamac 43562]

legit everyone is braindead and can't understand the rules. If you want to add commentary use the CR thread, if you just want to post updates and make jokes use DT

I don't know why that's so hard for people.

[DonkeyCigars 143]

1 hour ago, Dr. Beeper said:

Texas Covid thread in DT is totally CR’ed. I can’t stand this Board’s tolerance of poking fun at Abbott’s handicap. People are so emotional right now, but that commentary isn’t helpful and I don’t want to be associated with it. 

Can’t decide whether to limit my presence to Ticket and Oil threads, or just go away. This Board doesn’t reflect anything close to the real world, and certainly not my ideals, and that far outstrips any humor on the board, which frankly isn’t there. I am certain people would welcome my departure, which only furthers my feelings. 

Fuck it, I’m out. No funeral. 

I agree 100% that it’s pathetic to constantly make fun of a disability. But that’s just me.

[EuroHorn 3276]

1 hour ago, DonkeyCigars said:

I agree 100% that it’s pathetic to constantly make fun of a disability. But that’s just me.

Oh come on, they’ve moved on to wishing death.  Such a pleasant and well rounded group of people in the cloak room!

[Captainant 27972]

1 hour ago, immamac said:

if you just want to post updates and make jokes use DT

Imma, I think the problem you'll find is that the jokes about topical things in DT threads tend to be right wing boomer memes ripped from facebook. And people (read: snowflakes) don't complain about those "jokes" until someone fact checks them only to be met with accusations of politicizing the thread. Shit, a year ago we couldn't even fucking talk about facemasks and COVID precautions in DT without "mUh FaUcI" partisan shitslinging.

I'm all for posting news updates and discussing them, but you can't exactly talk about a football game without talking about coaching and locker room if you get my drift.