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Title: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Reb on January 02, 2013, 08:44:21 AM
- usage of "dat" followed by anything, I will only barely tolerate "dat ass".
- usage of the terms salty/salt

more to come
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 02, 2013, 08:51:41 AM
dat tldr ur salty tearz taste delish
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 02, 2013, 08:52:50 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/5NYZy.gif)
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 02, 2013, 08:54:02 AM
(http://i35.tinypic.com/28vzymx.gif)
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 02, 2013, 09:40:47 AM
DAT SALT
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Reb on January 02, 2013, 09:45:40 AM
- rating everything on a great/horrible scale
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: demi on January 02, 2013, 09:45:46 AM
salt dat azz so i can glaze it with my sperm
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Reb on January 02, 2013, 09:47:26 AM
btw thanks for that subreddit link the other day demi
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: demi on January 02, 2013, 09:49:46 AM
Good to know other people have good taste
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 02, 2013, 09:56:39 AM
u salty bout dat OLED
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: bork on January 02, 2013, 10:10:19 AM
Going with salt/salty (dat fighting game community), there is also the annoying over-usage of the term "godlike" or "gdlk."
Title: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 02, 2013, 10:16:17 AM
Twatter talk - No Internet post should have a hash tag, lest you be thought of as a semiliterate twat.

Also anything that has origins in 4chan and Reddit.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 02, 2013, 10:27:14 AM
I hate the overabundance of "sir" more than anything else about the rise of nerd internet slang.

YOU'RE NOT LIVING IN THE 1800's, YOU'RE NOT A GENTLEMAN, YOU DON'T WEAR A TOPHAT AND MONOCLE, IT'S NOT FUNNY OR IRONIC, STFU
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 02, 2013, 10:33:29 AM
-making a new thread just to complain about something dumb
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: headwalk on January 02, 2013, 10:47:06 AM
twitter is an omnipresent manifestation of all my worst nightmares.

it was bad enough when it excused regular twats from the burden of having to reinforce their opinion with anything more than a satirical hashtag, now its become this hideous self reinforcing oligarchy of everyone you could previously forget by just switching your TV off.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Beezy on January 02, 2013, 10:50:00 AM
I can't stand the sudden influx of using words like "breh", "brah", "bruh" etc.

Even "bro" was pushing it, these new words are distinguished mentally-challenged.
I 'm actually agreeing with Borys. Bruh has taken over twitter and breh has taken over forums.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Brehvolution on January 02, 2013, 11:01:06 AM
I like using 'brah' cause it gets the point across while also subliminally sneaking in a reference to boobies.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 02, 2013, 11:02:38 AM
People that cherrypick comments on Twitter or Facebook and try to soapbox off it.

Actually, using the phrase 'something I read on my Facebook wall" in any part of your post is a mistake.

Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Timber on January 02, 2013, 11:03:41 AM
Really, guys?
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Mupepe on January 02, 2013, 11:08:27 AM
The only one that really bugs me is posting "Ding, ding, ding!" to agree to a post.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 02, 2013, 11:10:00 AM
Whining about language used is understandable but pointless since language changes eerrrday
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 02, 2013, 11:11:19 AM
This is how we do!

Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 02, 2013, 11:14:14 AM
You know that annoying phrase you hate?

Someone else just heard it today for the first time.

 :miyamoto
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 02, 2013, 11:15:12 AM
The only time when it's ok to laugh is when something like DAT makes it into mainstream marketing on network tv in 2017.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Brehvolution on January 02, 2013, 11:24:50 AM
It's irritating when Polack's post in Dutch on an English forum.

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Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: headwalk on January 02, 2013, 11:24:52 AM
The only time when it's ok to laugh is when something like DAT makes it into mainstream marketing on network tv in 2017.

nothing will ever reach the high water mark set when a leading fast food brand included a guy declaring that he'd fuck a hamburger in their marketing campaign.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Don Flamenco on January 02, 2013, 11:26:41 AM
Whining about language used is understandable but pointless since language changes eerrrday


and "brah" was in non-ironic usage for like 30 years in the U.S. prior to it hitting the net full force.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 02, 2013, 11:28:04 AM
The only time when it's ok to laugh is when something like DAT makes it into mainstream marketing on network tv in 2017.

nothing will ever reach the high water mark set when a leading fast food brand included a guy declaring that he'd fuck a hamburger in their marketing campaign.

what

link plz

HotPockets' recent commercials have been getting dangerously close to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I76LkYUyVzo
Title: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 02, 2013, 11:29:04 AM
People that cherrypick comments on Twitter or Facebook and try to soapbox off it.

Actually, using the phrase 'something I read on my Facebook wall" in any part of your post is a mistake.

People like to say that because it gives two impressions:

1)  That they are plugged into a social network and have friends on it.

2)  That it is part of an exclusive group that the forum proles are not a part of.

Neither of which are impressive, even if the author of that post desperately hopes for it to be.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 02, 2013, 11:30:42 AM
People that cherrypick comments on Twitter or Facebook and try to soapbox off it.

Actually, using the phrase 'something I read on my Facebook wall" in any part of your post is a mistake.

Agreed. Stupid people exist that type stupid things on a stupid social site. News at 11.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: headwalk on January 02, 2013, 11:32:45 AM
The only time when it's ok to laugh is when something like DAT makes it into mainstream marketing on network tv in 2017.

nothing will ever reach the high water mark set when a leading fast food brand included a guy declaring that he'd fuck a hamburger in their marketing campaign.

what

link plz

(http://www.businesspundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Idhitit.jpg)
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Don Flamenco on January 02, 2013, 11:36:21 AM
:lol 

that's like stealth goatse appearing in various public forms
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 02, 2013, 11:40:01 AM
The only time when it's ok to laugh is when something like DAT makes it into mainstream marketing on network tv in 2017.

nothing will ever reach the high water mark set when a leading fast food brand included a guy declaring that he'd fuck a hamburger in their marketing campaign.

what

link plz

(http://www.businesspundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Idhitit.jpg)

:rofl

I wonder if he's a dollar whore guy too.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: king of the internet on January 02, 2013, 12:01:40 PM
- everything
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 02, 2013, 12:02:35 PM
You'd think the king of the internet could do something about it.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2013, 01:58:08 PM
Epic and fail are the worst things. Especially when they penetrate real world crap like newspaper headlines. Texans sucked cock the other day, the headline the next day? EPIC FAIL. ::)
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 02, 2013, 02:12:39 PM
I can't stand the sudden influx of using words like "breh", "brah", "bruh" etc.

Even "bro" was pushing it, these new words are distinguished mentally-challenged.

Come on, bryh.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: T234 on January 02, 2013, 02:29:29 PM
I hate that some people, even though they're beautiful and I'm not, even though they've made more in one year than I have Life-to-Date (all the black market money I ever made went up my nose down to the penny, so it don't really count, even if it was alot), and even though they're lucky enough to find somebody to love and the best I've done is have a chick who checks in on facebook every couple days from Ramada Inn with a different guy put her tongue in my mouth, they still spew insane vitriol at me for no reason. None whatsoever.

Kick 2000 dollar a day cocaine habit through the use of the worlds oldest teacher? Fuck you, shut your mouth.
Finally get a girl to kiss your crazy self after 26 years of complete lunacy? LOLZ NOBODY TAKES THAT MUCH MDMA LOLZ

Why the hate, biz, why the hate?   
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: bork on January 02, 2013, 02:33:59 PM
I can't stand the sudden influx of using words like "breh", "brah", "bruh" etc.

Even "bro" was pushing it, these new words are distinguished mentally-challenged.

Come on, bryh.

Damn, broo, why u mad tho?
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Trent Dole on January 02, 2013, 02:40:40 PM
brah bruh beh makes me think of :nsfw 4 racism bix nood (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bix_Nood)  :nsfw
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 02, 2013, 02:50:02 PM
I hate that some people, even though they're beautiful and I'm not, even though they've made more in one year than I have Life-to-Date (all the black market money I ever made went up my nose down to the penny, so it don't really count, even if it was alot), and even though they're lucky enough to find somebody to love and the best I've done is have a chick who checks in on facebook every couple days from Ramada Inn with a different guy put her tongue in my mouth, they still spew insane vitriol at me for no reason. None whatsoever.

Kick 2000 dollar a day cocaine habit through the use of the worlds oldest teacher? Fuck you, shut your mouth.
Finally get a girl to kiss your crazy self after 26 years of complete lunacy? LOLZ NOBODY TAKES THAT MUCH MDMA LOLZ

Why the hate, biz, why the hate?   

(http://i.imgur.com/e99nY.gif)
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Mr. Gundam on January 02, 2013, 02:51:51 PM
I hate that some people, even though they're beautiful and I'm not, even though they've made more in one year than I have Life-to-Date (all the black market money I ever made went up my nose down to the penny, so it don't really count, even if it was alot), and even though they're lucky enough to find somebody to love and the best I've done is have a chick who checks in on facebook every couple days from Ramada Inn with a different guy put her tongue in my mouth, they still spew insane vitriol at me for no reason. None whatsoever.

Kick 2000 dollar a day cocaine habit through the use of the worlds oldest teacher? Fuck you, shut your mouth.
Finally get a girl to kiss your crazy self after 26 years of complete lunacy? LOLZ NOBODY TAKES THAT MUCH MDMA LOLZ

Why the hate, biz, why the hate?   

(http://i.imgur.com/e99nY.gif)

Yeah. I read a lot of words, but I'm not really sure what they mean.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Steve Contra on January 02, 2013, 02:56:37 PM
 :lol ??? :lol
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2013, 02:59:05 PM
I hate that some people, even though they're beautiful and I'm not, even though they've made more in one year than I have Life-to-Date (all the black market money I ever made went up my nose down to the penny, so it don't really count, even if it was alot), and even though they're lucky enough to find somebody to love and the best I've done is have a chick who checks in on facebook every couple days from Ramada Inn with a different guy put her tongue in my mouth, they still spew insane vitriol at me for no reason. None whatsoever.

Kick 2000 dollar a day cocaine habit through the use of the worlds oldest teacher? Fuck you, shut your mouth.
Finally get a girl to kiss your crazy self after 26 years of complete lunacy? LOLZ NOBODY TAKES THAT MUCH MDMA LOLZ

Why the hate, biz, why the hate?   

DRUGS.txt
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: demi on January 02, 2013, 03:22:31 PM
I hate that some people, even though they're beautiful and I'm not, even though they've made more in one year than I have Life-to-Date (all the black market money I ever made went up my nose down to the penny, so it don't really count, even if it was alot), and even though they're lucky enough to find somebody to love and the best I've done is have a chick who checks in on facebook every couple days from Ramada Inn with a different guy put her tongue in my mouth, they still spew insane vitriol at me for no reason. None whatsoever.

Kick 2000 dollar a day cocaine habit through the use of the worlds oldest teacher? Fuck you, shut your mouth.
Finally get a girl to kiss your crazy self after 26 years of complete lunacy? LOLZ NOBODY TAKES THAT MUCH MDMA LOLZ

Why the hate, biz, why the hate?   

gain some more weight and i'd top you off with the quickness.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Shadow Mod on January 02, 2013, 03:24:52 PM
Probably just like fanboys and developer brown nosers more than anything else. It stifles critical discussion and it's always "you're too negative" in response to valid points.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Positive Touch on January 02, 2013, 04:43:08 PM
i hate myself for reading this thread
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 02, 2013, 06:40:25 PM
Buddha once said that "you will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger." #wisewords
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 02, 2013, 06:41:09 PM
@DumbFuck696969 I got soooo drunk last night and slept through my biology test! #yolo
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: pilonv1 on January 02, 2013, 07:48:52 PM
I don't mind retweets for links for things I might have missed. Anyone who retweets more than 2 tweets in a row usually gets unfollowed by me.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Shadow Mod on January 02, 2013, 08:09:54 PM
I really can't get into twitter, I just don't follow enough shit closely enough to care.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: CajoleJuice on January 02, 2013, 08:27:00 PM
if you don't like twitter you just suck at twitter
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Post by: pilonv1 on January 02, 2013, 08:27:29 PM
if you don't like twitter you just suck at twitter

#datrealtalk
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 02, 2013, 08:28:42 PM
Twitter sucks unless you want to meet fatties from Toronto.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: CajoleJuice on January 02, 2013, 08:29:19 PM
Twitter sucks unless you want to meet fatties from Toronto.

jealous?  :smug
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 02, 2013, 08:30:49 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 02, 2013, 09:33:21 PM
Buddha once said that "you will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger." #wisewords

2deep4u
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 02, 2013, 10:31:10 PM
Twitter is great if you want breaking news or just want a snapshot of reactions from people during a breaking event. Facebook on the other hand is the worst aspects of humanity amplified by a factor of 10.

Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: DCharlieJP on January 02, 2013, 11:15:39 PM
Internet people aren't real people, neither is the contents of their posts particularly a reflection of how they are in reality - at least on hobbyist message boards.

It's the internet - it sucks, either you switch off and let it all wash over you, or fight however you eventually either become another annoying cog, or you throw your arms up and (try to) leave.

I've tried the "ah just let it all slide" angle and it simply doesn't work. So all that is left is to crawl back to pre-internet times where free time was gaming time and not "faffing about in the internets"

Quote
obvious mugging for their followers

what does this mean?

twitter i don't mind as long as you go in accepting that it is what it is : plugged into peoples brain farts. Whilst i get Oscars complaints about RTs and in jokes what i don't get is some of the "stop talking about <subject> , i'm not interested" - usually followed by one of that Tweeters personal fringe interests. "EVERYONE SHUT UP ABOUT THE NASA LAUNCH, WHO CARES?!" ---> "At the Cricket match - bowling action of the Essex team needs serious lookiing at #cricket" "wow - caught in the slips, shocking #cricket" "a beautiful 4 from that wayward bowl... #cricket". Perhaps a stringent mandatory subject matter hashtag from day 1 would have helped filter this out, but hey - i can live with it. It's MY (NOT) Secret Diary - for the world to read.

Facebook - I am still baffled by the amount of self incriminating stuff a load of people put up . And whilst i only several sentences ago said that "internet people aren't real people" i unfortunately am wrong when it comes to Facebook: if twitter is plugging into brainfarts , then Facebook is the front row seat to peoples darkest thoughts that, now they have dialup or broadband, they think the world should know about. Some deep rooted beliefs that i was happy to not know about - but now i know the various things about these people i want to put as much distance between us as possible. I've been stunned at some of the (previously) closely held opinions that have come flooding out on Facebook. Just.... ugh.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: tehjaybo on January 02, 2013, 11:24:32 PM
The only thing that bothers me about the internet is that I can never tell when people are being serious or blatantly trolling, so I just always take things as literally as I can while still keeping a certain comedy about it.  It makes the world go 'round.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 02, 2013, 11:57:48 PM
Hate: When people think they know something about / have some insight into / have some contribution to make on some topic but they fucking don't! aka 99.9% of blog/forum posts and comments
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: drew on January 02, 2013, 11:58:09 PM
thought better of this
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Himu on January 03, 2013, 12:19:11 AM
Thing is, if it's the person I'm following tweeting dumb shit, it doesn't bug me as much.  It's the retweeting.  Just because I want to follow what you're talking about, doesn't mean I want to follow the people you're following, y'know?

Another twitter thing that bugs me is people who are doing obvious mugging for their followers.  Who the fuck do you think you are, Johnny Carson or something?

This is because of me retweeting pd's tweet about not seeing that movie aint it
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Himu on January 03, 2013, 12:32:04 AM
Sleeping on subway train = starving artist. Makes sense.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Robo on January 03, 2013, 12:33:01 AM
I hate twitter because I don't have a smartphone.   :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: CajoleJuice on January 03, 2013, 12:34:45 AM
Sleeping on subway train = starving artist. Makes sense.

:lol
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: pilonv1 on January 03, 2013, 12:51:06 AM
I mainly tweet about basketball or what game I'm playing. Some of it is usually terrible, so there's a warning before following me!
Title: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Huff on January 03, 2013, 12:55:46 AM
Got to agree the retweeting aspects of twitter are usually used in a way that pisses me off
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: DCharlieJP on January 03, 2013, 01:38:38 AM
Mugging for followers refers to people who act like they're a talk show host in front of a live audience.  They directly address their audience (hey followers!, etc) and generally act like they're putting on a fake personality for show.

ah right - got you.

It's all a bit weird for sure - as is the "HUZZAH! <number> of followers!" - perhaps it really is just one big popularity contest?

RTs i don't mind if it's something interesting i might have missed. The big one that just baffles me is people RT'ing when other tweeters give them a pat on the back or agree with them. That can actually cascade into an infinite RT RT RT RT RT RT RT RT RT RT RT ... mutual jack off.

Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 03, 2013, 01:41:35 AM
Yeah a big problem for people is that they don't realize that the internet is a very public place and a very small place as well.  I think the Library of Congress saves and archives every twat that gets sent out.  Any forum post is likely archived on a web archive service.  Every self shot of yourself in the buff never really goes away.  Most people really don't think a lot of stuff through (I'm very guilty of that) but it almost seems you need a mandatory class in the 5th or 6th grade about the basics of the Internet.  The golden rule of the internet should be "assume that everything you put out there is public information."  Maybe people will make smarter decisions.  Probably not but at least you're educating them and making an attempt.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: DCharlieJP on January 03, 2013, 02:07:31 AM
yeah, the idea that certain forums aren't real or of consequence (gaming forums mainly) is about right as long as you don't go completely ape.

But Facebook where you attach your deep inner most thoughts to your real life name and personality? Yeah - it's not the same.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Momo on January 03, 2013, 03:40:46 AM
Thing is, if it's the person I'm following tweeting dumb shit, it doesn't bug me as much.  It's the retweeting.  Just because I want to follow what you're talking about, doesn't mean I want to follow the people you're following, y'know?

Another twitter thing that bugs me is people who are doing obvious mugging for their followers.  Who the fuck do you think you are, Johnny Carson or something?
I've unfollowed quite a few people I actually like because they retweet cretinous pondscum subhumans. I wish there was a block retweet function
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: pilonv1 on January 03, 2013, 04:03:46 AM
Thing is, if it's the person I'm following tweeting dumb shit, it doesn't bug me as much.  It's the retweeting.  Just because I want to follow what you're talking about, doesn't mean I want to follow the people you're following, y'know?

Another twitter thing that bugs me is people who are doing obvious mugging for their followers.  Who the fuck do you think you are, Johnny Carson or something?
I've unfollowed quite a few people I actually like because they retweet cretinous pondscum subhumans. I wish there was a block retweet function

Pretty sure some of the mobile apps do that. They at least let you filter out by hashtags and stuff
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 03, 2013, 07:04:57 AM
Mugging for followers refers to people who act like they're a talk show host in front of a live audience.  They directly address their audience (hey followers!, etc) and generally act like they're putting on a fake personality for show.

Blech.

Also sorry to my followers for the inordinate amount of web dev stuff I retweet.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Brehvolution on January 03, 2013, 09:14:12 AM
Mugging for followers refers to people who act like they're a talk show host in front of a live audience.  They directly address their audience (hey followers!, etc) and generally act like they're putting on a fake personality for show.

Sounds like elpresador to a T.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 03, 2013, 09:20:27 AM
If you're of a certain age you will see the following quite a bit:

"Besties"

"Yeppers"

"Yummo"

 :-X
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 03, 2013, 09:32:51 AM
I don't understand Twitter.  It really makes me feel like a bewildered old man, like when my mom asked me if I ebayed my brother and I said "you mean email," and she said "ebay, email, whatever, you know what I mean." I'm going to have to learn how to use Twitter to sell my stuff pretty soon, and I dread it.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Brehvolution on January 03, 2013, 09:41:56 AM
I don't know if twitter is the best way to sell stuff. The only people who see your tweets are your followers.

 The quickest way to get followers is to post a comment on an article at mediatakeout.com with your twitter handle.

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Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Barry Egan on January 03, 2013, 09:45:57 AM
I'm going to have to learn how to use Twitter to sell my stuff pretty soon, and I dread it.

You mean ebay
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 03, 2013, 09:46:52 AM
ebay, twitter, whatever, you know what i mean
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: MrAngryFace on January 03, 2013, 10:00:20 AM
I get how twitter works for other people, but I still haven't figured out how it works for me. I already throw my stupid thoughts into the void via facebook and if that makes people mad WHY U ON MY FRIENDS LIST BIIITCHEEZZ?!
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Yeti on January 03, 2013, 10:05:08 AM
Twitter is a million times better than facebook because the posts are in chronological order.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: MrAngryFace on January 03, 2013, 10:17:00 AM
you're acting like there's a pattern to my nonsense to begin with
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 03, 2013, 11:07:19 AM
I don't understand Twitter.  It really makes me feel like a bewildered old man, like when my mom asked me if I ebayed my brother and I said "you mean email," and she said "ebay, email, whatever, you know what I mean." I'm going to have to learn how to use Twitter to sell my stuff pretty soon, and I dread it.

I got a twitter account recently just to understand it basicly.

Im following cool people like Wrath, DCharlie, Wario...

I forget to look at it though, but Im learning how it works.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: bork on January 03, 2013, 11:18:45 AM
I made a Twitter account a few months ago.  I dunno...I just don't use it.  Too much stuff to wade through.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: bork on January 03, 2013, 11:19:28 AM
I get how twitter works for other people, but I still haven't figured out how it works for me. I already throw my stupid thoughts into the void via facebook and if that makes people mad WHY U ON MY FRIENDS LIST BIIITCHEEZZ?!

MAF never added me on Facebook.   :'(
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Reb on January 03, 2013, 11:19:41 AM
- FB people sharing obviously fake stories
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Yeti on January 03, 2013, 02:01:19 PM
My facebook friends list also got way too bloated. Got sick of all the blunt cards being posted, and the "like this picture of a deformed child or you're a horrible person" typese of posts. But really I just use twitter mostly as a news aggregator.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: pickle on January 03, 2013, 02:23:05 PM
I don't understand Twitter.  It really makes me feel like a bewildered old man, like when my mom asked me if I ebayed my brother and I said "you mean email," and she said "ebay, email, whatever, you know what I mean." I'm going to have to learn how to use Twitter to sell my stuff pretty soon, and I dread it.

You don't want to know how much that made me laugh. We're talking about dribbling saliva, the works.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: bork on January 03, 2013, 02:38:46 PM
My facebook friends list also got way too bloated. Got sick of all the blunt cards being posted, and the "like this picture of a deformed child or you're a horrible person" typese of posts. But really I just use twitter mostly as a news aggregator.

I would like to drop some people from my FB friends list-- in this case, not people I have never met in real life and know from boards or wherever, but people I knew in high school that I am not friends with now.  We have absolutely nothing in common and seeing their posts is more of an annoyance than anything else.  I don't care about the Phish concert you went to and your 4983 photos of it, sorry.  And yet for some reason I feel bad for wanting to do so after they sent me requests.   :-\

Ditto for some relatives.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: headwalk on January 03, 2013, 03:10:31 PM
Internet people aren't real people, neither is the contents of their posts particularly a reflection of how they are in reality - at least on hobbyist message boards.

It's the internet - it sucks, either you switch off and let it all wash over you, or fight however you eventually either become another annoying cog, or you throw your arms up and (try to) leave.

I've tried the "ah just let it all slide" angle and it simply doesn't work. So all that is left is to crawl back to pre-internet times where free time was gaming time and not "faffing about in the internets"

the people are george lucas.

previously, we were thrust in to society to find definitions of ourselves, thrown in to a hornets nest of different personalities buffering against each other, personalities who'd see you in all colours and at all tides. these people kept you in check.

nowadays, personalities are constructs. the written communicate has made everyone of us a lead character in our own shitty movie over which we have total directional, scriptwriting and production control. we churn up influences and leverage the weight of our own myopia to convince ourselves that we have every bit of the suave conviction of don draper, the narrow eyed presence of the man with no name, the wry cavalier confidence of han solo.

we are the phantom menace.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 03, 2013, 03:15:34 PM
Internet people aren't real people, neither is the contents of their posts particularly a reflection of how they are in reality - at least on hobbyist message boards.

It's the internet - it sucks, either you switch off and let it all wash over you, or fight however you eventually either become another annoying cog, or you throw your arms up and (try to) leave.

I've tried the "ah just let it all slide" angle and it simply doesn't work. So all that is left is to crawl back to pre-internet times where free time was gaming time and not "faffing about in the internets"

the people are george lucas.

previously, we were thrust in to society to find definitions of ourselves, thrown in to a hornets nest of different personalities buffering against each other, personalities who'd see you in all colours and at all tides. these people kept you in check.

nowadays, personalities are constructs. the written communicate has made everyone of us a lead character in our own shitty movie over which we have total directional, scriptwriting and production control. we churn up influences and leverage the weight of our own myopia to convince ourselves that we have every bit of the suave conviction of don draper, the narrow eyed presence of the man with no name, the wry cavalier confidence of han solo.

we are the phantom menace.

(http://i.imgur.com/e99nY.gif)
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 03, 2013, 03:28:16 PM
I don't understand Twitter.  It really makes me feel like a bewildered old man, like when my mom asked me if I ebayed my brother and I said "you mean email," and she said "ebay, email, whatever, you know what I mean." I'm going to have to learn how to use Twitter to sell my stuff pretty soon, and I dread it.

You don't want to know how much that made me laugh. We're talking about dribbling saliva, the works.

I don't know if the facebook/twitter tactic still works, but regardless of quality, these two:

http://www.amazon.com/John-Locke/e/B003ATT1YO/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

http://www.amazon.com/Amanda-Hocking/e/B003H4L762/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0621/Amanda-Hocking-John-Locke-poster-children-for-self-publishing-success

sold a fuckload (like, each of them sold a million +) of ebooks using facebook and twitter

i'd be overjoyed to sell 1/100th of that
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 03, 2013, 03:31:42 PM
I'm telling you Eel, get into the erotica genre.  So many success stories on Something Awful where several people there make thousands of dollars a month writing disposable erotica for a couple bucks a pop.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: headwalk on January 03, 2013, 03:31:57 PM
I don't understand Twitter.  It really makes me feel like a bewildered old man, like when my mom asked me if I ebayed my brother and I said "you mean email," and she said "ebay, email, whatever, you know what I mean." I'm going to have to learn how to use Twitter to sell my stuff pretty soon, and I dread it.

You don't want to know how much that made me laugh. We're talking about dribbling saliva, the works.

I don't know if the facebook/twitter tactic still works, but regardless of quality, these two:

http://www.amazon.com/John-Locke/e/B003ATT1YO/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

i preferred his earlier work. surprised he's still around.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 03, 2013, 03:33:05 PM
:lol if i'm getting that right
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 03, 2013, 03:34:14 PM
I'm telling you Eel, get into the erotica genre.  So many success stories on Something Awful where several people there make thousands of dollars a month writing disposable erotica for a couple bucks a pop.

i don't really think i can pull it off, but do you have a link to that thread
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: demi on January 03, 2013, 03:35:49 PM
I would immediately buy some porn from you, Eel. I want to know what mechanically cold sex you can come up with.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 03, 2013, 03:38:02 PM
i don't think i could do it, i tried it years ago with penthouse letters (they paid $50 per letter) and could never finish anything i started without it slowly turning into a parody
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: CajoleJuice on January 03, 2013, 04:45:26 PM
Biz :rock
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Yeti on January 03, 2013, 04:50:45 PM
Unsubscribing friends from facebook creates real world drama, fuck that. It's bad enough dealing with it in the digital realm. Much safer to just ignore the whole thing.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 03, 2013, 05:19:43 PM
I'm telling you Eel, get into the erotica genre.  So many success stories on Something Awful where several people there make thousands of dollars a month writing disposable erotica for a couple bucks a pop.

I saw an anthology called Cthulhurotica on Amazon, and I'd like to get into something like that, but I feel like it would be a bit too niche. I bet Steampunkrotica would make mad bank, though.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 03, 2013, 06:36:10 PM
I'm telling you Eel, get into the erotica genre.  So many success stories on Something Awful where several people there make thousands of dollars a month writing disposable erotica for a couple bucks a pop.

i don't really think i can pull it off, but do you have a link to that thread

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3503700

You may need a subscription but here it is.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Positive Touch on January 03, 2013, 07:08:35 PM
with facebook it takes two clicks to hide someones posts from your feed so you can avoid them without unfriending them

with twitter you can easily search for and join in to a conversation on every fucking topic with millions of different people

fuck how can a bunch of internet nerds be so bad at social networking on the internet

OH WAIT
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: pilonv1 on January 03, 2013, 07:11:48 PM
twitter is my real time newsfeed + some cool peeps whose thoughts I like reading. nothing more
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 03, 2013, 07:25:57 PM
You all need to read between the lines when people are bitching about Facebook and Twitter.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
It's a stealth brag that they have friends on a social networking site.  This is insignificant to most of society but to nerds, having friends in general, even if they're online, is a pretty big deal.  It's kind of like saying "My girlfriend keeps choking on my extremely huge cock!"

See also: Posts here on The Bore that say, "On Prole's Facebook, I saw this..." notice the exclusionary tone about a fucking Facebook account.  Nerds will always have weird hangups about friends.  It's unfortunate that the adverse effects of high school still impact grown adults 10-20 years after the fact  :-\
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Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 03, 2013, 07:39:01 PM
with facebook it takes two clicks to hide someones posts from your feed so you can avoid them without unfriending them

with twitter you can easily search for and join in to a conversation on every fucking topic with millions of different people

fuck how can a bunch of internet nerds be so bad at social networking on the internet

OH WAIT

 :lol
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 03, 2013, 07:57:40 PM
i get all that, and know all about unsubscribing and hiding posts and all that shit on facebook (which i don't normally do unless there's an election or something because, well, i like to be exposed to different - even stupid - opinions about things)

i just don't understand the mechanics of twitter, what's acceptable or not, how to gain followers, how not to just turn it into pure shilling, etc.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 03, 2013, 08:09:35 PM
what about my facebook
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 03, 2013, 08:10:14 PM
I am kind of the opposite, in that I used to have no tolerance for that kind of thing but find it pretty useful now

stupid motherfuckers make awesome characters
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 03, 2013, 08:10:36 PM
@Oscar

For Twitter, lists + TweetDeck is the way to go.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 03, 2013, 08:13:05 PM
hm, let it slide works for me. i'm good at choosing my battles, which is why i have such an enormous internet cock*

spoiler (click to show/hide)
it's not that it's actually that big, rather i just find the smallest holes to poke :smug
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Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 03, 2013, 08:25:37 PM
@Oscar

For Twitter, lists + TweetDeck is the way to go.

Somehow, I doubt they'll be sufficient.

(http://memegenerator.net/instance/32867413)
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 03, 2013, 08:53:38 PM
You all need to read between the lines when people are bitching about Facebook and Twitter.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
It's a stealth brag that they have friends on a social networking site.  This is insignificant to most of society but to nerds, having friends in general, even if they're online, is a pretty big deal.  It's kind of like saying "My girlfriend keeps choking on my extremely huge cock!"

See also: Posts here on The Bore that say, "On Prole's Facebook, I saw this..." notice the exclusionary tone about a fucking Facebook account.  Nerds will always have weird hangups about friends.  It's unfortunate that the adverse effects of high school still impact grown adults 10-20 years after the fact  :-\
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uh, complaining about facebook is a pretty ecumenical pastime afaict
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 03, 2013, 09:02:23 PM
You all need to read between the lines when people are bitching about Facebook and Twitter.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
It's a stealth brag that they have friends on a social networking site.  This is insignificant to most of society but to nerds, having friends in general, even if they're online, is a pretty big deal.  It's kind of like saying "My girlfriend keeps choking on my extremely huge cock!"

See also: Posts here on The Bore that say, "On Prole's Facebook, I saw this..." notice the exclusionary tone about a fucking Facebook account.  Nerds will always have weird hangups about friends.  It's unfortunate that the adverse effects of high school still impact grown adults 10-20 years after the fact  :-\
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uh, complaining about facebook is a pretty ecumenical pastime afaict

So is bitching about people bitching about Facebook.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: DCharlieJP on January 03, 2013, 09:06:32 PM
with facebook it takes two clicks to hide someones posts from your feed so you can avoid them without unfriending them

with twitter you can easily search for and join in to a conversation on every fucking topic with millions of different people

fuck how can a bunch of internet nerds be so bad at social networking on the internet

OH WAIT

That's not what I'm saying - Facebook is people you'd normally like blurting out just how they feel about gays/blacks/Asians etc - in a per-Facebook life these thoughts would have remained tucked away - no amount of post ignoring is going to change that I now know certain friends hold certain views that I had noooooo clue about
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Positive Touch on January 03, 2013, 09:15:56 PM
yeah, i'm with you on that. there have been a few people i've just had to say "fuck it - defriended" because some out-of-nowhere comment they made hit me so hard that i knew i'd never want to be in their presence again.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 03, 2013, 09:34:08 PM
i usually LIKE seeing the "true" side of some folks come out, at least in a context as protected as facebook, as opposed to, say, a family gathering or a reunion or whatever. however, my tolerance does have limits: if you preach any sort of racist or misogynist hate, or homophobia: BYE BYE
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Beezy on January 03, 2013, 09:48:59 PM
I hate when being expected to know every game, movie, tv show, book, etc. abbreviation that you guys use. Unless its insanely popular and common to regular folk, please use the full name at least once plz.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Inspector Thatcher on January 03, 2013, 09:57:57 PM
Social media being what it is, one's pages are the "Public Relations" versions of you, and if not, then be damned if you ever apply for a job in a field that requires any sense of social or political acuity.  Privacy settings?  We all know there are ways around that.

People who post racist, sexist, ...-ist (etc) and needlessly inflammatory material need only wait for the karma train to come 'round again.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 03, 2013, 10:27:25 PM
I wish there was a Facebook just for your family.

 I would like to stay connected with them in a general sense since we are all so far apart. But it appears once you join you have this pressure to friend all your former classmates, cousins, workmates, etc and on and on until you have this crazy amount of people you don't give a fuck about.

I guess you could do it with Google+, but it seems like no one wants to sign up for it.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: hampster on January 03, 2013, 10:29:10 PM
I wish there was a Facebook just for your family.

 I would like to stay connected with them in a general sense since we are all so far apart. But it appears once you join you have this pressure to friend all your former classmates, cousins, workmates, etc and on and on until you have this crazy amount of people you don't give a fuck about.

I guess you could do it with Google+, but it seems like no one wants to sign up for it.

Tested tells me this is what Path is but I've never used it
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Vertigo on January 04, 2013, 08:46:43 AM
I wish there was a Facebook just for your family.

 I would like to stay connected with them in a general sense since we are all so far apart. But it appears once you join you have this pressure to friend all your former classmates, cousins, workmates, etc and on and on until you have this crazy amount of people you don't give a fuck about.

I guess you could do it with Google+, but it seems like no one wants to sign up for it.

Google+ will remain a social graveyard no matter how hard Google tries to force it on users

FB offers a lot of control of who sees what and when.

You can add people but then decide just how much you want to show them and lock them out of most of your profile. I have 5 user tiers on Facebook all with different settings So I'll add old schoolfriends etc but they're pretty much hidden from my view.

Same with some family members who are morons, but I have to add to keep the peace. The great thing is this extends to the chat settings too.  So anyone I wish to avoid talking to it looks like I'm never online.

Perfect.

Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 04, 2013, 08:48:15 AM
things I hate about internet people

1. they are on the internet
2. they are people
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eric P on January 04, 2013, 09:08:30 AM
I bet Steampunkrotica would make mad bank, though.

yes

FORSOOTH!  LADY CHANTEUSE'S DILDOMETER DEVICE FOR HER WOMANLY HYSTERIA HAS GONE OUT OF SERVICE!  TO PRESERVE HER SANITY WE MUST LINE UP AND PROVIDE HUSBANDLY DUTIES TO HER!  GET ALL OF THE STABLEHANDS PREPARED OR THESE MAY BE VAGTON ABBEY'S DARKEST HOURS!
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: hampster on January 04, 2013, 09:13:15 AM
I hate when people pretend a piece of media doesn't exist because they don't like it. "Star Wars prequels? What prequels? I sure wish we got more Star Wars movies, too bad we only got three! Am I right guys?"  :yuck

Stupid internet people. We get it, you don't like it. Pretending it doesn't exist doesn't make it go away, your quips aren't funny, and it existing doesn't diminish your love or respect for the original. Get over it
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 04, 2013, 09:35:48 AM
The problem with internet people is that there is millions of them.

In ages past you would never be exposed to so many opinions so it's only natural there will be lots of things you don't agree with.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 04, 2013, 11:17:24 AM
:bow Google+ :bow2
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: demi on January 04, 2013, 11:35:30 AM
:bow Google+ :bow2

#whitespace
Title: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Huff on January 04, 2013, 11:38:23 AM
Andrew is making me hate google
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 04, 2013, 12:03:18 PM
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-NFtLSmzt9sE/UONg3sXlcUI/AAAAAAAADLE/6rInivsNRgQ/s500/x-tans-wallpaper.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-J0lj6eBr09Y/UOZG9V_SBUI/AAAAAAAADTI/4pqbwXz0iUk/s500/ily-gplus.jpg)

:heart
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 04, 2013, 12:05:38 PM
If you're going to post your personal comics on The Bore, Andrex, at least make a new thread for them!
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Himu on January 04, 2013, 12:17:32 PM
Jesus christ
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: hampster on January 04, 2013, 12:19:13 PM
The day I learned imgur was an internet community and not just a image hosting service was weird
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 04, 2013, 12:22:39 PM
The day I learned imgur was an internet community and not just a image hosting service was weird

The day I learned that imgur was an internet community was today.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 04, 2013, 12:23:12 PM
Google-tan. :uguu

The day I learned imgur was an internet community and not just a image hosting service was weird

I used to think the comments were mirrored from Reddit or something, they're a little too tied together IMO.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Himu on January 04, 2013, 12:25:37 PM
andrex did you make that comic
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Momo on January 04, 2013, 12:25:58 PM
The day I learned imgur was an internet community and not just a image hosting service was weird
To you that was the greatest day in your life, for me .. it was today
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 04, 2013, 12:31:20 PM
Twitter looks super genki.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 04, 2013, 12:34:46 PM
andrex did you make that comic

No Himu sama. :uguu (https://plus.google.com/100319088930300409440/posts/bkeuJ5XqdRK)
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 04, 2013, 12:50:35 PM
But you did make this one.

(http://i47.tinypic.com/34ispza.jpg)
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Brehvolution on January 04, 2013, 12:53:35 PM
 :lol :lol
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Tasty on January 04, 2013, 12:55:43 PM
But you did make this one.

(http://i47.tinypic.com/34ispza.jpg)

I wish my dong was that big enough to pleasure my Wii U that way. :fbm
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Beezy on January 04, 2013, 12:59:46 PM
The day I learned imgur was an internet community and not just a image hosting service was weird

The day I learned that imgur was an internet community was today.
.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 04, 2013, 01:07:54 PM
But you did make this one.

(http://i47.tinypic.com/34ispza.jpg)

I wish my dong was that big
The screen is only 5" wide.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Trent Dole on January 04, 2013, 01:52:28 PM
things I hate about internet people

1. they are on the internet
2. they are people
People that are not on the internet are WAY worse. Take it from a 15 year + retail fuckhead. :(
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: bork on January 04, 2013, 02:04:56 PM
But you did make this one.

(http://i47.tinypic.com/34ispza.jpg)

:rofl
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Steve Contra on January 04, 2013, 02:59:44 PM
But you did make this one.

(http://i47.tinypic.com/34ispza.jpg)

:rofl
:lol

I just learned imgur was a community.  I don't know how it is a community though.  I don't want to find out.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 04, 2013, 03:05:10 PM
But you did make this one.

(http://i47.tinypic.com/34ispza.jpg)

:rofl
:lol

I just learned imgur was a community.  I don't know how it is a community though.  I don't want to find out.

I think people get together and then fap to cam whores. If that's not right, then I don't care to find out the truth.
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 04, 2013, 03:05:56 PM
:lol
Title: Re: Things I hate about internet people
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 04, 2013, 05:13:14 PM
The day I learned imgur was an internet community and not just a image hosting service was weird

The day I learned that imgur was an internet community was today.

Ditto