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Words catapulted to fame by the internet

Feb 20, 2015#1

fade

I was thinking that there are words the internet gets its collective hands on and then overuses. What are some that come to mind?

Conflate: this is the latest one I see everywhere. It's like the world just learned this word, and now everyone uses it for everything.

Schadenfreude: this was the last one I noticed. Same deal. Suddenly everyone knew it and was using it everywhere.

Feb 20, 2015#2

Dave

Troll

Feb 20, 2015#3

Terrik

Minotaur Penis

:awesome:

Feb 20, 2015#4

Bowielee

Well, there has to be a distinction made here. Do you mean words that would be of somewhat common usage in normal language, such as the ones you noted in your original post, or do you include words that were pretty much birthed BY the internet, such as Dave pointed out.

I'd say the term Strawman Argument has been drawn out quite frequently on the internet, generally without an actual understanding of what it really means.

Feb 20, 2015#5

Bubble181

Bowielee said:
generally without an actual understanding of what it really means.

This goes for Schadenfeude too, and actually most of those trendy-for-a-while-in-internet-discussion words. People somehow pick something up and think they found a magic way of shutting someone down with Impressive Words.

Feb 20, 2015#6

Charlie Don't Surf

#humblebrag, by Harris Wittels (RIP

)

hashtag, for that matter.

Feb 20, 2015#7

Fun Size

Bukkake

Feb 20, 2015#8

sixpackshaker

MILF - Then I am stunned by all the people that call a woman over 30 a MILF and expect it to be taken as a complement.

Feb 20, 2015#9

Charlie Don't Surf

sixpackshaker said:
MILF - Then I am stunned by all the people that call a woman over 30 a MILF and expect it to be taken as a complement.

I didn't realize American Pie was released on the internet

Feb 20, 2015#10

mikerc

Charlie Don't Surf said:
I didn't realize American Pie was released on the internet

Yarr! All movies be released on the Internet matey.

Feb 20, 2015#11

Celt Z

"Uber" was beaten into the ground by the internet, and seems to have fallen out of favor as of late.

Feb 20, 2015#12

sixpackshaker

Charlie Don't Surf said:
I didn't realize American Pie was released on the internet

I am pretty sure there are more websites dedicated to MILFs than American Pie.

Feb 20, 2015#13

GasBandit

Celt Z said:
"Uber" was beaten into the ground by the internet, and seems to have fallen out of favor as of late.

Noob keeps coming back around, though, inexplicably.

I assume we're also ignoring obvious words, like "Download." I still grind my teeth remembering an old 90s commercial for... I forget if it was AOL or Compuserve or Prodigy or some other early dialup service that touted one of its uses was to "download the internet!"

Feb 20, 2015#14

Bowielee

GasBandit said:
Noob keeps coming back around, though, inexplicably.

I assume we're also ignoring obvious words, like "Download." I still grind my teeth remembering an old 90s commercial for... I forget if it was AOL or Compuserve or Prodigy or some other early dialup service that touted one of its uses was to "download the internet!"

Feb 20, 2015#15

GasBandit

Bowielee said:
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EVERYBODY would TOTALLY download a car, were such a thing feasible.

But nobody downloads the (entire) internet. There's not enough drive space, not even at Google.

Feb 20, 2015#16

Celt Z

Bowielee said:
View attachment 17539

Hells yeah I would! But with my luck I'd only get a third of the car and the rest would just be buffering...

Feb 20, 2015#17

Gruebeard

GasBandit said:
EVERYBODY would TOTALLY download a car, were such a thing feasible.

But nobody downloads the (entire) internet. There's not enough drive space, not even at Google.

You're forgetting the NSA. They download the internet every day.

Feb 20, 2015#18

GasBandit

Gruebeard said:
You're forgetting the NSA. They download the internet every day.

They only keep the saucy bits. Sniffing isn't "downloading."

Feb 20, 2015#19

HCGLNS

Epic - now means mediocre
Tweet - no longer the sounds of birds
Facebook - as a verb?!!
torrent - why doesn't it mean rain anymore?

Feb 20, 2015#20

GasBandit

Also, burn means to copy, not to destroy.

I remember an old college professor reacting with horror when I asked him if I could burn a copy of his CD.

Feb 20, 2015#21

HCGLNS

a gas bandit - now means image swiping instead of gas stealing

Feb 20, 2015#22

Zappit

Pwn - to defeat one completely

cis-scum - what self-loathing teenagers on Tumblr call other people who are exactly like them while pretending to not be like them at all

Feb 20, 2015#23

PatrThom

Zappit said:
Pwn - to defeat one completely

Rekt
Bro
Click
"Click through" (or "Click thru")
"Weird trick"
Site

--Patrick

Feb 21, 2015#24

Bowielee

Feminism

PATRIARCHY!

Feb 21, 2015#25

Chad Sexington

Zappit said:
cis-scum - what self-loathing teenagers on Tumblr call other people who are exactly like them while pretending to not be like them at all

I don't know if it brought it to fame - that is, I don't know that it's really used that much, but just 'cis' in any context other than "cisalpine."

Feb 21, 2015#26

doomdragon6

salty - meanspirited, butthurt

thirsty - horny

literally - figuratively

I'M SCREAMING - lol

Feb 21, 2015#27

Jax

Chad Sexington said:
I don't know if it brought it to fame - that is, I don't know that it's really used that much, but just 'cis' in any context other than "cisalpine."

I've never come across the term "cis" or anything that starts with it before until last year, when every piece of American media threw it in my face.. It's probably a term that has existed for a long time, but was it mentioned this frequently say, five years ago?

Feb 21, 2015#28

DarkAudit

Jax said:
I've never come across the term "cis" or anything that starts with it before until last year, when every piece of American media threw it in my face.. It's probably a term that has existed for a long time, but was it mentioned this frequently say, five years ago?

I usually only see it on tumblr, and then usually only as a slur.

Feb 21, 2015#29

Charlie Don't Surf

Zappit said:
cis-scum - what self-loathing teenagers on Tumblr call other people who are exactly like them while pretending to not be like them at all

are you trying to say that transgendered people are just "pretending"?[DOUBLEPOST=1424516639,1424516149][/DOUBLEPOST]if we're gonna be passive aggressive:

Gamergate - a bunch of babies crying really loud and attacking women for playing in their sandbox

Meninism - men realized they're too fucking stupid to stop their patriarchy from fucking themselves over as well[DOUBLEPOST=1424517140][/DOUBLEPOST]

Jax said:
every piece of American media threw it in my face..

what.

I highly doubt the word "cis" or "cisgendered" has been uttered more than a handful of times on any major news network. I missed the television shows throwing this in your face. I might be wrong, but I don't even think that word was used much/at all in Orange is the New Black (not a significant piece of American Media anyways, I bet fewer people watch it than much stuff on TV), which is the only even remotely mainstream show I can think of with a transgendered character that isn't a joke/constant target of transphobia. Has there been a slew of hit songs I've missed with "cis" thrown all over the place?

Now, granted, Dallas Buyer's Club was fairly major (although no one actually saw it) and won Oscars, but even with that I didn't notice people calling Jared Leto cisgendered to denote that he wasn't actually trans.

I think you're really making something out of absolutely nothing because of your cis-privilege tbh

Feb 21, 2015#30

blotsfan

Charlie Don't Surf said:
are you trying to say that transgendered people are just "pretending"?

I think theres a big difference between actual transgendered people and the "I'm a woman thats stuck in a man thats stuck in a woman's body" types that he's talking about.

Also, I doubt anyone here still takes gamergate seriously as a protest. In fact, I'd say "its about ethics in gaming journalism" has become a punchline at this point.

Feb 21, 2015#31

Jax

[Translation:]

Charlie Don't Surf said:
"Someone exaggerated, I must take offence!"

Lol, I got a rise out of Charlie, what a surprise (that's cis-privileged sarcasm btw, in case you really can't see the difference). Please, carry on the way you are. I in-cis-t.

Feb 21, 2015#32

HCGLNS

I feel good that I have no idea what cis means and have never encountered it.

Now back to Wizards of Waverly Place.

Feb 21, 2015#33

Charlie Don't Surf

exaggerating isn't the difference between "is rarely mentioned in any form of American Media" and "every piece"

Feb 21, 2015#34

Hailey Knight

Charlie Don't Surf said:
are you trying to say that transgendered people are just "pretending"?

Stop being intentionally dense. He's saying generally the people who say "cis-scum" are also cis. I've known many trans people in my life and none of them have ever been shitty to cis people. It's always been the other way around. The whole "cis-scum" thing comes from what I'm guessing is an earnest human need to hate something, and with all other forms of hate being prejudice, they choose to hate themselves. But that part's just a theory.

HCGLNS said:
I feel good that I have no idea what cis means and have never encountered it.

Cis is short for cisgender, which means you're not transgender.

Feb 21, 2015#35

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Rekt
Bro
Click
"Click through" (or "Click thru")
"Weird trick"
Site

--Patrick

And of course, one of the first ones to get an online meaning - Spam.

Feb 21, 2015#36

HCGLNS

Zero Esc said:
Cis is short for cisgender, which means you're not transgender.

I find the notion of inventing words for negative assertions to be ridiculous and hereby dismiss this new knowledge from my mind.

Feb 21, 2015#37

Hailey Knight

HCGLNS said:
I find the notion of inventing words for negative assertions to be ridiculous and hereby dismiss this new knowledge from my mind.

It's not; that's just the easiest way to explain it (to me, because I'm a negative person).

HCGLNS, you are cisgender if you are happy with your pee-pee.

Feb 21, 2015#38

Charlie Don't Surf

HCGLNS said:
I find the notion of inventing words for negative assertions to be ridiculous and hereby dismiss this new knowledge from my mind.

There's nothing negative or positive here, just different. If people will say "there are people that are transgendered and normal", that's kind of implying that trans folk are abnormal/weird/bad, etc. So you just say "People are transgendered or cisgendered". Then the "tumblr strawman" you guys love so much (and isn't as prevalent as you think), calls people "cis-scum". Even if everyone did it, I don't really fucking care since cis people aren't getting murdered in droves (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mya-adriene-byrne/stop-killing-trans-people_b_6721064.html) for being cis, and you can't get fired from your job or denied housing or any other amount of things for being cisgendered.

Feb 21, 2015#39

blotsfan

I agree with chuck on that. I think the term cis is fine (same reason you don't say gay people vs regular people) but I don't think there's anything wrong with shittin on the people that use it like a slur, same as should be done with people who use trans as a slur.

Feb 21, 2015#40

GasBandit

Hence the pejorative suffice -normative. One of the cardinal sins of our new enlightened age is to call anything "normal." Unless it's climate, of course, because THAT definitely hasn't been in constant flux for millenia, and it's definitely abnormal now and it's our fault! Why, those Romans growing wine grapes in Britain 2000 years ago clearly drove their in their SUVs and powered their war machines with coal and oil. And we do it so much now that even Mars' icecaps are melting. All our fault! We need to go back to stone age technology so that the climate will return to normal, and any discomfort we feel will just naturally be our deserved penance for being awesome for far too long.

But don't you dare call a trait held by a majority of people normal.

Feb 21, 2015#41

Charlie Don't Surf

lmfao why are you bringing climate change into this

Feb 21, 2015#42

GasBandit

Charlie Don't Surf said:
lmfao why are you bringing climate change into this

To show the discontinuity of getting mad when you call normal things normal but arbitrarily assign a "normal" to something that has never had a normal.

Feb 21, 2015#43

HCGLNS

Negative Assertion: Gasbandit is not from California.

While this is true it's not useful when compared to a

Positive Assertion: Gasbandit is from Ohio.

Feb 21, 2015#44

blotsfan

I think the difference is that climate isn't treated like a second class citizen for not being normal.

Feb 21, 2015#45

Hailey Knight

Charlie Don't Surf said:
There's nothing negative or positive here, just different.

He meant in the way I defined it. I didn't explain what cisgender is, I defined by what it isn't. EDIT: Ninja'd.

GasBandit said:
Hence the pejorative suffice -normative. One of the cardinal sins of our new enlightened age is to call anything "normal." Unless it's climate, of course, because THAT definitely hasn't been in constant flux for millenia, and it's definitely abnormal now and it's our fault! Why, those Romans growing wine grapes in Britain 2000 years ago clearly drove their in their SUVs and powered their war machines with coal and oil. And we do it so much now that even Mars' icecaps are melting. All our fault! We need to go back to stone age technology so that the climate will return to normal, and any discomfort we feel will just naturally be our deserved penance for being awesome for far too long.

But don't you dare call a trait held by a majority of people normal.

It's really as simple as "there isn't a word for this, there should be a word for this, let's have a word for this." Ignoring that it sounds assy to say "you're trans, I'm normal," the word normal is vague and of poor descriptive use. If I need to describe someone and I say they have normal eyes, what does that mean? Normal height? Etc.

And now I've looked at the word normal so much it's lost all meaning. :confused:

Feb 21, 2015#46

GasBandit

Zero Esc said:
If I need to describe someone and I say they have normal eyes, what does that mean?

Two.

Feb 21, 2015#47

Hailey Knight

GasBandit said:
Two.

If someone said "he has normal eyes," I would needing more info, because that could mean their number, or color, or their shape, or they need glasses, etc. It's too vague for specificity, even when contrasting it with another term.

And hell, we can go higher up in the population percentages from gender orientation.

"Are you gay?"
"No, I'm normal."

"Are you Jewish?"
"Normal religion."

"What's your ethnicity?"
"Normal."

Feb 21, 2015#48

DarkAudit

GasBandit said:
Two.

Binoculist scum.

Feb 21, 2015#49

GasBandit

Zero Esc said:
"Are you gay?"
"No, I'm normal."

"Are you Jewish?"
"Normal religion."

"What's your ethnicity?"
"Normal."

There are actual demographic studies that back up number 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United_States

Basically, as far as we can measure, the human race is still 90%+ heterosexual.

As for religion, while christians are by far the largest minority, there is still no simple majority (much less overwhelming majority), so "normal" in that use is incorrect. Similarly, Han Chinese is the largest ethnic group on earth, but is nowhere near a majority.[DOUBLEPOST=1424538262,1424538248][/DOUBLEPOST]

DarkAudit said:
Binoculist scum.

BURN THE TRINOCS

Feb 21, 2015#50

Hailey Knight

GasBandit said:
There are actual demographic studies that back up number 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United_States

Basically, as far as we can measure, the human race is still 90%+ heterosexual.

As for religion, while christians are by far the largest minority, there is still no simple majority (much less overwhelming majority), so "normal" in that use is incorrect. Similarly, Han Chinese is the largest ethnic group on earth, but is nowhere near a majority.

On a global scale? What about America, the most important demographic? What you're talking about is majority, which is a word with more specificity than normal. Normal has several connotations, is vague at best, and is overall useless as a descriptor.

BURN THE TRINOCS

Why is Dave allowing hate speech?

Feb 21, 2015#51

HCGLNS

Zero Esc said:
On a global scale? What about America, the most important demographic? What you're talking about is majority, which is a word with more specificity than normal. Normal has several connotations, is vague at best, and is overall useless as a descriptor.

Not in a mathematical sense.

Feb 21, 2015#52

GasBandit

Zero Esc said:
On a global scale? What about America, the most important demographic? What you're talking about is majority, which is a word with more specificity than normal. Normal has several connotations, is vague at best, and is overall useless as a descriptor.

Not at all, it denotes the absence of a special case. Being homosexual is a special case. Being transsexual is a special case. Being handicapped is a special case. The very lowest prerequisite hurdle to something being considered "normal" is that, at the very least, it should manifest in the majority of cases. Otherwise, it can't be said to be "normal," but perhaps merely "common."

Why is Dave allowing hate speech?

Because he knows the threat posed by the trinoc scum. They take our jobs with their added perceptional advantage, and seduce our women with their heat vision!

Feb 21, 2015#53

Hailey Knight

HCGLNS said:
Not in a mathematical sense.

But I'm speaking in a linguistic sense, and maybe that's where the wall is.

GasBandit said:
Not at all, it denotes the absence of a special case. Being homosexual is a special case. Being transsexual is a special case. Being handicapped is a special case. The very lowest prerequisite hurdle to something being considered "normal" is that, at the very least, it should manifest in the majority of cases. Otherwise, it can't be said to be "normal," but perhaps merely "common."

I can understand that, but if someone were to go around saying "GasBandit's a normal guy," what different people get out of that is going to be more on their perception of normal as opposed to actually informing them on anything about GasBandit.
I don't see as a helpful or particularly useful word.

Feb 21, 2015#54

Charlie Don't Surf

it's really easy for y'all to make those jokes, isn't it

Feb 21, 2015#55

Bowielee

GasBandit said:
Not at all, it denotes the absence of a special case. Being homosexual is a special case. Being transsexual is a special case. Being handicapped is a special case. The very lowest prerequisite hurdle to something being considered "normal" is that, at the very least, it should manifest in the majority of cases. Otherwise, it can't be said to be "normal," but perhaps merely "common."

Because he knows the threat posed by the trinoc scum. They take our jobs with their added perceptional advantage, and seduce our women with their heat vision!

So, you have trouble with calling yourself a straight man, then?

I still have yet to grasp why people have such a problem with a word classifying something. It's just an identifier, nothing more. Normal is too broad a term. The point that is being made is that normal could apply from anything to blonde hair to heterosexuality.

And again, I love pointing out the irony of how people are so irked by this word. Because someone using who you are as an insult encapsulated in one word really must suck. Not that I would know or anything.

Feb 21, 2015#56

GasBandit

Charlie Don't Surf said:
it's really easy for y'all to make those jokes, isn't it

It's really easy for you to harsh on our jokes, isn't it

Zero Esc said:
I can understand that, but if someone were to go around saying "GasBandit's a normal guy," what different people get out of that is going to be more on their perception of normal as opposed to actually informing them on anything about GasBandit.
I don't see as a helpful or particularly useful word.

Well, it at least tells them I have the right number of eyes, arms, legs, am not a psychopath, don't have any overt odd proclivities, etc.

(In other words no one will ever come close to uttering that sentence)

Feb 21, 2015#57

PatrThom

Zero Esc said:
"Are you gay?"
"No, I'm normal."

"Are you Jewish?"
"Normal religion."

"What's your ethnicity?"
"Normal."

Bartleby the Cis-norm?
[DOUBLEPOST=1424539939,1424539881][/DOUBLEPOST]

Charlie Don't Surf said:
it's really easy for y'all to make those jokes, isn't it

It is easy to poke fun at that which is ridiculous, yes.
(and by that I mean the amount of value/passion people assign to this stuff)

--Patrick

Feb 21, 2015#58

GasBandit

Bowielee said:
So, you have trouble with calling yourself a straight man, then?

I still have yet to grasp why people have such a problem with a word classifying something. It's just an identifier, nothing more. Normal is too broad a term. The point that is being made is that normal could apply from anything to blonde hair to heterosexuality.

And again, I love pointing out the irony of how people are so irked by this word. Because someone using who you are as an insult encapsulated in one word really must suck. Not that I would know or anything.

I'm not irked by being called straight (actually, some charlies have pointed out that "straight" is too close to "normal" and so it is also heteronormative). I'm also not irked by being called a "breeder" or "non-fabulous american" or any other number of terms. What I'm irked at is not being allowed to use a perfectly cromulent word in a normal (HA!) fashion because of manufactured social edicts. Some of the more vocal decriers of the term are the same types who wear T-Shirts that say "Normal is boring" on them, having their cake and eating it as well.

Also, blonde hair is not normal. Black is the most common hair color, if wikipedia is to be believed, but I couldn't find a particular study of it quickly.

Feb 21, 2015#59

DarkAudit

Ninja'd before I could give a proper mocking.

Feb 21, 2015#60

Cajungal

Thirsty is a creepy word and I'm tired of it--unless you actually need a sip of water or something, in which case, carry on.

Feb 21, 2015#61

Jax

Is there another context for thirsty?

Feb 21, 2015#62

Bowielee

GasBandit said:
I'm not irked by being called straight (actually, some charlies have pointed out that "straight" is too close to "normal" and so it is also heteronormative). I'm also not irked by being called a "breeder" or "non-fabulous american" or any other number of terms. What I'm irked at is not being allowed to use a perfectly cromulent word in a normal (HA!) fashion because of manufactured social edicts. Some of the more vocal decriers of the term are the same types who wear T-Shirts that say "Normal is boring" on them, having their cake and eating it as well.

Also, blonde hair is not normal. Black is the most common hair color, if wikipedia is to be believed, but I couldn't find a particular study of it quickly.

My point is that you don't HAVE to use the word cis if you don't want to, but it has every right to exist as an identifier. What I don't get is why all the ire over this one word when words like cracker, breeder, etc... never made any headway in the way of being an actual insult towards the "normal" folks, but everyone's flipping their shit over being called cisgendered.

Feb 21, 2015#63

GasBandit

Bowielee said:
My point is that you don't HAVE to use the word cis if you don't want to, but it has every right to exist as an identifier. What I don't get is why all the ire over this one word when words like cracker, breeder, etc... never made any headway in the way of being an actual insult towards the "normal" folks, but everyone's flipping their shit over being called cisgendered.

I only object that *I* am expected to use it, and am chastised for saying "normal." Well, that and to the few, loud people who are actively trying to use it as an epithet.

Feb 21, 2015#64

blotsfan

Jax said:
Is there another context for thirsty?

Horny

Feb 21, 2015#65

Bowielee

GasBandit said:
I only object that *I* am expected to use it, and am chastised for saying "normal." Well, that and to the few, loud people who are actively trying to use it as an epithet.

Maybe it's the scientist in me, but normal is just far to broad of a term for me to use for just about anything. It can be applied to so many things in so many situations as to be nigh useless as a descriptor.

Then again, I'm a pedant, and love clear operational definitions, so there's that.[DOUBLEPOST=1424544065,1424543977][/DOUBLEPOST]

blotsfan said:
Horny

I seem to recall someone telling me that the sign language for hungry and horny are so close that there are often issues with mistaking one for the other.

Feb 21, 2015#66

GasBandit

Thirsty, however, is more than just horny, it implies desperation and lack of success. A horny guy might get laid. A guy is thirsty because he can't.

Bowielee said:
Maybe it's the scientist in me, but normal is just far to broad of a term for me to use for just about anything. It can be applied to so many things in so many situations as to be nigh useless as a descriptor.

Then again, I'm a pedant, and love clear operational definitions, so there's that.

Well, that's what the internet is for, after all (after porn).

Feb 21, 2015#67

Gruebeard

GasBandit said:
Well, that's what the internet is for, after all (after porn).

Cat pictures have been demoted to third?

Feb 21, 2015#68

doomdragon6

I have been a part of the Halforums community since the PVP Forum days, and here is my question:

WHY IN THE DICKING SHIT DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY STILL ARGUE WITH CHARLIE

He may as well be an antagonistic spam bot, or at the very least a bot that identifies the topic and offers the alternative.

To be clear, I have no problem with you at all Charlie, I appreciate a Devil's Advocate, but I honestly don't understand why people still feel the need to defend or persuade against you.

Carry on.

Feb 21, 2015#69

HCGLNS

doomdragon6 said:
I have been a part of the Halforums community since the PVP Forum days, and here is my question:

WHY IN THE DICKING SHIT DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY STILL ARGUE WITH CHARLIE

He may as well be an antagonistic spam bot, or at the very least a bot that identifies the topic and offers the alternative.

To be clear, I have no problem with you at all Charlie, I appreciate a Devil's Advocate, but I honestly don't understand why people still feel the need to defend or persuade against you.

Carry on.

Just because some one is addle minded does not mean we should exclude them from our community. We must welcome everyone equally.

Feb 21, 2015#70

PatrThom

Bowielee said:
What I don't get is why [...] everyone's flipping their shit over being called cisgendered.

Because gender and orientation are two separate issues, and people these days are more weirded out by gender ambiguity than they are by orientation.

--Patrick

Feb 21, 2015#71

Hailey Knight

Bowielee said:
So, you have trouble with calling yourself a straight man, then?

I still have yet to grasp why people have such a problem with a word classifying something. It's just an identifier, nothing more. Normal is too broad a term. The point that is being made is that normal could apply from anything to blonde hair to heterosexuality.

And again, I love pointing out the irony of how people are so irked by this word. Because someone using who you are as an insult encapsulated in one word really must suck. Not that I would know or anything.

Certain demographics have gotten used to not being categorized and being able to consider the default in their society/culture, so they get irked by not being the default. White, straight, etc. It's why this stupid meninist shit has come up; the idea that male isn't a default is for some reason offensive to morons of our gender.

Like when filling out an online form and when you get to the section for country, United States of America isn't the top choice. I mean, the fuck is that shit?

Charlie Don't Surf said:
it's really easy for y'all to make those jokes, isn't it

I can make jokes and give a shit. It's nice having more than 1 dimension to a personality; you should try it sometime.[DOUBLEPOST=1424561257,1424561202][/DOUBLEPOST]

doomdragon6 said:
I have been a part of the Halforums community since the PVP Forum days, and here is my question:

WHY IN THE DICKING SHIT DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY STILL ARGUE WITH CHARLIE

He may as well be an antagonistic spam bot, or at the very least a bot that identifies the topic and offers the alternative.

To be clear, I have no problem with you at all Charlie, I appreciate a Devil's Advocate, but I honestly don't understand why people still feel the need to defend or persuade against you.

Carry on.

Spoilers for Watchmen

Charlie is Ozymandias's creation for our forum, keeping us united.

Feb 21, 2015#72

Jax

What's the point of having a domesticated troll if you don't feed him once in a while?

Feb 21, 2015#73

Charlie Don't Surf

People hate being called cisgendered because it's treating them the same way they treat transgendered people.

Feb 21, 2015#74

HCGLNS

Having only learned of the word this morning, I can say that I have no feelings what so ever regarding being called that word.

I do get a little torqued when people tell me how I treat other people when they have no actual understanding of my person or my actions towards others.

Feb 22, 2015#75

DarkAudit

HCGLNS said:
Having only learned of the word this morning, I can say that I have no feelings what so ever regarding being called that word.

I do get a little torqued when people tell me how I treat other people when they have no actual understanding of my person or my actions towards others.

Consider the source. In CharlieWorld, we're all racist, bigoted hate monsters.

And Osama bin Laden is a victim.

Feb 22, 2015#76

Hailey Knight

Bowie and I already said what Charlie did, but now that he's said it, no one's going to listen.

Thanks, Chuckles.

Feb 22, 2015#77

Charlie Don't Surf

DarkAudit said:
And Osama bin Laden is a victim.

again I'm not sure to what this is referring

Feb 22, 2015#78

Hailey Knight

We need a Bucky symbol for "I don't get that reference."

EDIT: That works. Thanks @Bubble181

Feb 22, 2015#79

DarkAudit

Charlie Don't Surf said:
again I'm not sure to what this is referring

You. White knighting Osama.

Feb 22, 2015#80

Charlie Don't Surf

DarkAudit said:
You. White knighting Osama.

and again I don't think I ever did that?

Feb 22, 2015#81

DarkAudit

Charlie Don't Surf said:
and again I don't think I ever did that?

https://www.halforums.com/xenforo/threads/bin-laden-is-dead.25427/#post-830028

Feb 22, 2015#82

Charlie Don't Surf

"The United States media never reports about the army blowing up children with drone strikes" != "Osama Bin Laden is a great guy"

Feb 22, 2015#83

Bowielee

DarkAudit said:
https://www.halforums.com/xenforo/threads/bin-laden-is-dead.25427/#post-830028

QUIT MAKING ME DEFEND CHARLIE, IT MAKES ME FEEL ALL OOKY INSIDE!

But for reals, did you even read the posts from that thread? There's a HUGE difference between white knighting someone and refusing to dance in the streets over their murder. Besides he started out by commenting on how racist the news is towards non-white people in general and just using the whole Osama thing as an example of one of the few times the news will focus on the death of someone with dark skin. This, of course, is utter stupidity and bullshit, but not the utter stupidity and bullshit you're accusing him of.

(I can't believe I even have to say this again) I'm all for calling Charlie on his bullshit, but the complete fabrication of things he's saying into something wholly different is, among other things, intellectually dishonest and a poor argument tactic.

Feb 23, 2015#84

fade

I very much agreed with Charlie on that linked post, and had the same reaction.

Feb 23, 2015#85

sixpackshaker

teh

Feb 23, 2015#86

GasBandit

sixpackshaker said:
teh

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