people who go into a thread just to say "this thread sucks", C/D?

I vote Classic, better that these people get their aggression out on the internet rather than real life. And if you're bothered by such aimless assholery then you're obviously too delicate for the internet and they're doing you a favor by giving you a thicker skin. Plus the minute things get too polite around here you might as well just fuck off to some wah-wah crybaby boo hoo my life is so terrible forum for emo teens or people supporting each other losing weight. Or metafilter.

i'm not posting the obvious first post here

then I will. This thread sucks. I'm so classic.

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8'---O

great thread imo

What was the line someone posted years back about certain posts being nothing than someone farting in the room, then leaving?

That.

the smelt it/dealt it dichotomy is even more meaningful on ilx

I vote Classic, better that these people get their aggression out on the internet rather than real life.

You're implying they do it either here (on the net) or in real life. Well, fuck you, asshole, I am consistent in my behavior; I do it here AND in real life. And in my dreams I kill kittens too.

I don't think it's about aggression, more a genuine desire to help people to be less fucking awful posters.

Insipid, kneejerk contrarianism is never not compelling or endlessly fascinating

xpost by being an awful poster yourself? you have a post, moran (I kid I kid.... not... yes, I do.)

POINT. Crap. Slaps self. You dimwitted idiot.

Hey, easy with the self-aggression there kiddo.

http://www.cis.udel.edu/~yarringt/103/labs/PSimages/babyAnteater.jpg

xpost i treat myself just like i treat others. with a lot of disrespect.

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Are we drawing a difference between people who go into a genuinely questionable thread to go "this thread is racist/sexist/ethically unacceptable?" and people who just wander into a discussion of some band they disapprove of and go, like "Poison ROXX U R all gay" ?

Jesus, who cares? Dnftt.

Needs more smiling squid pictures IMO.

a genuine desire to help people to be less fucking awful posters

...and Moses came down from the mountain bearing wisdom (sorry Noodle).

This work better for you?

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http://chasingdaisy.com/blogimages/naked_mole_rat.jpg

THE PENIS, IT HAS TEETH!

ok could have done without that tbh

This thread sucks.

I LOL'd.

(at the penis dentata, not what followed)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg

http://www.mexfish.com/fish/spguit/spguitsnow303c.jpg

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

That giant hairnit in a swimming pool thing that ledge posted; is that fucking real? Fuck.

now the scary space crab here:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg

THAT IS THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES

seriously. I'm gonna get the creeps if I look at that too much.

aw, they like doritos too!

http://pictureisunrelated.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/wtf_from-outer-space.jpg

it's so comic-book evil it's almost cute. (xpost)

^^^ loooooool display name respec' A+++

slocombe if you got 'em?

Giant Isopod, take one home for the family today!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg

They are fucking horrible. More llamas, please!

http://www.guy-sports.com/fun_pictures/llama.jpg

When a significant source of food is encountered, giant isopods gorge themselves to the point of compromising their locomotive ability.

homer simpson, giant isopod.

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ARCH CANCERPED!

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POOTER

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IIII CAN'T HEEEAAAARRRRRR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I am just going to have to make an image macro of that)

(It helps if it's shouted in a Fred Schneider tone)

That space crab is fucking horrible. I think I might cry.

the smelt it/dealt it dichotomy is even more meaningful on ilx

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smelt it/dealt it isn't a dichotomy!

smelt-dealt tautology

people who can't properly post images in their own vaguely trollish threads c/d

classic or suck

http://www.perhapanauts.com/blog/uploaded_images/GiantIsopod-764949.jpg

i'm not reading this thread, because that would suck, but i never say "this thread sucks" unless it really warrants it. a thick skin on the internets is one thing, but if being a douche or being negative on a web board is what made me happy, i think i'd really need to find some new hobbies.

are giant isopods edible?

can i get an isopod cake please

YUM!

What was the line someone posted years back about certain posts being nothing than someone farting in the room, then leaving?

I read this as 'fainting' and I thought 'oh dear, that's me lately.' Farting: I always leave the room beforehand.

I've never seen anyone do this with the "this thread sucks" but I think it's awesome and I'm behind it.

try it, there are plenty of threads to choose from

Also I love that isopod.

Was coming to post that last pic that Am0n posted. I can't get over these scary MFers. Seriously. That these things even exists is mind blowing.

They look genuinely adorable next to those doritos.

i love their eyes

They have a lot of personality/

are giant isopods edible?

Wikipedia claims:

in Northern Taiwan and other areas, they are not uncommon at seaside restaurants, served boiled and bisected with a clean lateral slice. The white meat, similar to crab or lobster in texture, is then easily removed

Which, for a creature related to the woodlouse, must mean something.

They look genuinely adorable next to those doritos.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Thursday, July 2, 2009 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

"The Doritos were tasty, but what I'd really like is...

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...YOUR SOUL!!!"

Naw what he looks like is 'man I am kinda cold, does anyone have a sweater with 20 sleeves?'

The person who made this could help him out:

http://blog.craftzine.com/lobstersweater.jpg

CAN WE TALK ABOUT TARDIGRADES?
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5706/20071009tardigrade.jpg

zomg like the water bear? yes!

They are too small to fashion sweaters for, however.

They live on every continent.

But they are hard to find if you're looking for one!

Some of them you can see with your eyes.

Isopods really need their own thread. FFS, people, it's a giant fuck-off slater, and people are missing it because this thread looks like a big ol' meta clusterfuck from the title.

Tardigrades are cool but too small to be all OMGWTF about, tbh.

I have an article from Watchtower (Jehovah's Witness magazine) abt the water bear on my fridge. It shares the usual crazy facts on them, and ends with the amazing observation that "truly, in their own unique way, these 'creeping things' praise Jehovah.'

Ever let JWs or Mormons in your home for bible study?

I have learned:

-JWs are attractive people
-Mormons are gullible and pesky

I drew a picture yesterday of some Jehovah's Witnesses who are sad and conflicted because they knocked on a door and a Christmas tree in a Santa hat came out.

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hmm

Hmmm.

I genuinely read that as JW or Momus, and wondered what sort of nutjob ILX religion you were pushing here.

I drew a picture yesterday of some Jehovah's Witnesses who are sad and conflicted because they knocked on a door and a Christmas tree in a Santa hat came out.

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I want to see this.

uhoh

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xp you've just reminded that I still can't find the copy of the Mormon Missionary Handbook this boy I had a crush on in highschool gave me. But seriously, these are boys that are taught to avoid masturbation by avoiding condiments.

;_;

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But seriously, these are boys that are taught to avoid masturbation by avoiding condiments.

Squeezable mustard containers I can understand, but even ketchup bottles?

You have no idea what horseradish does to them.

xp yeah ... all condiments ... that's only if the boy has or suspects he has a problem. If he's a good Mormon Missionary and doesn't feel the urge to jack off, he can have ketchup, mustard, you name it.

xp Abbott: horseradish - that's a condiment AND spicy - double plus ungood

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Sweet Hot Mustard

BEAVER Sweet Hot Mustard

Jesus.

et cetera

That mustard is fucking dope, fyi

As I remember it, the next step - if condiment avoidance doesn't work - is for the missionary's partner to tie his hands to the bedposts at night.

^^^isn't the this where the missionary position got its name from

what the fuck? condiments? is that a joke?

i think youre doing it wrong xpost

people fucking condiment bottles is no joke

i didn't know condiments made people want to sin

driving down dark salt lake streets searching for some grey pupon

Vinaigrette? I barely know 'er

That mustard is fucking dope, fyi

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sinners

xp LJ - I think the "missionary position" predates Mormonism, I think it's a colonial reference, probably from your country

xp harbl - not a joke! It's in official Mormon Missionary literature. The Mormon Missionary experience is structured so that the individual missionary is alone as little as possible.

we shall drive the mustard-lovers from the temple

i knew about them having to be together all the time and never swimming but i did not know about condiments. every time i find out something new about mormons i am more shocked tbh

have you heard about the "Adopt-a-Lamanite" program?

no.........

btw sarahel it's for young men of allM ormon stripes, not just missionaries (tho of course they give it to them), here's the text

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Make a pocket calendar for a month on a small card. Carry it with you but
show it to no one.

If you masturbate, color that day black. Your goal will be to have no
black days.

!!!!!!

i think everyone should have one of those

Adopt-a-Lamanite = adopt children of color into superior white homes

I don't want to seem overly harsh towards Mormons. A lot of their ideas and practices are retarded -- retarded in the sense that they held them/followed them long after they fell out of fashion with general Western thought. In Mormon theology there were Nephites (white people) and Lamanites (not-white people). It goes without saying that the Nephites were thought superior to the Lamanites. This seems pretty WTF now, but at the time the Americans and British were hard at work trying to scientifically prove their superiority to people of color, so it wasn't that outlandish a concept in the 1800s. However, the Mormons kept up this line of thinking well into the 70s.

oh man my pocket calendar would be totally blacked out

that's what i mean, it would be easy to tell who was an uptight weirdo lol

I wonder what Michael Jackson's pocket calendar would look like.

sarahel were you ever a Mormon?

Mormon de-gayifying programs ;_;

xp grew up around a lot of them. My big highschool crush was a black sheep that later returned to the fold. My bf was raised Mormon but equated the Mormon teachings with the black & white B movies he watched Saturday afternoons - and the latter were more compelling than the former. Basically he called bullshit on it at a pretty early age.

Have you seen this movie:
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No I want to v bad!

http://www.imagesoftherestoration.org/blog/wp-content/nggallery/Mormon%20Art/firstvisionssmall.jpg

xp I had an ex-Mormon co-worker who was given degayifying electroshock ... it didn't work.

Best frame:

http://www.imagesoftherestoration.org/blog/wp-content/images/chaseplatesaccountsmall.jpg

Mormon religion is way creepier to me than isopods.

how does reforming gays via ECT work in theory, even

:(

Fromapamphlet they give to missionaries:

There are some men who entice young men to join them in these immoral acts. If you are ever approached to participate in anything like that, it is time to vigorously resist.

While I was in a mission on one occasion, a missionary said he had something to confess. I was very worried because he just could not get himself to tell me what he had done.

After patient encouragement he finally blurted out, "I hit my companion."

"Oh, is that all," I said in great relief.

"But I floored him," he said.

After learning a little more, my response was "Well, thanks. Somebody had to do it, and it wouldn't be well for a General Authority to solve the problem that way"

Fuck them.

Best frame

What's he doing, throwing a goatse at Joseph there?

xp elmo: pretty sure the thinking was, "If it could work for paranoid schizophrenia, then couldn't it work for other mental illnesses?"

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*resists vigorously*

I lived in upstate NY for a while not too far from Palmyra. There were missionaries everywhere and as a joke a friend gave them my name and number as someone interested in learning more/possibly converting. They called me all the fucking time. I had to leave a msg on my voicemail saying ". . . please leave a msg unless this is the Mormons again. If it is, stop calling me because I'm an atheist and not at all interested".

oh dear

also this:
http://www.creationism.org/books/TaylorInMindsMen/TaylorIMMogSkinnerBoxM.jpg

Hey I was brought up in one of those.

xp ENBB: every six months or so, missionaries or church elders will try to pay the bf a visit. It is next to impossible to get your name off their rolls once it's on there.

Oh yeah. They kept calling even after I put that msg on and told them numerous times I wasn't interested. I transfered schools and moved out of the area otherwise I'm pretty sure they'd still be calling or knocking on my door.

Ok if they show up don't shake their hands, according to Mormon scripture if you don't shake hands with someone it indicates you are a demon. It is like the meanest/best way to get them to go away forever.

Oh sure now you tell me. Seriously wish I'd known that then.

xp what if you shake their hands with one of those hand buzzers?

the one time missionaries came to my door they REFUSED to give me a copy of the book of mormon

ha, what?

they came and were like hi and i was like
hi mormons what's up i wanna read your scripture
and they were like
cool that's a good idea but we can't give you a book of mormon now, can we come back next week.

come to think of it, i don't think i shook their hands, maybe they thought i was a demon.

Are you?

probably. i mean i figured they were there they might as well give me something to read, right????

The Mormon girls used to come by my place, set up the Dixie cups and show me how the prophets were organized.

My dad still has the missionaries over for spaghetti.

had a friend who ordered the book or Mormon after seeing one of those lds tv commercials

i mean i know it's pretty easy to get my hands on a copy but they were there, i was there, and it's like, hey free book

Reason # 5,041,000,438,742 why religion sucks ass. Seriously this stuff is ridiculous. Masturbation? They can't even deal with *that*? I had no idea Mormons were that fucked up. Glad I know now.

CRISIS AVERTED

CRISIS ON INFINITE KOLOBS

this thread makes me proud of ILX and its well honed derailing skills

Masturbation?

conflating mormonism with "religion" is a bit unfair to most other religions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWwXmB9I75g

Bimble lots of religious groups frown heavily on masturbation, I would have thought it was pretty common actually.

Maybe it's the efforts they go to that inspired his wtf-ery.

Yeah point.

This thread sucks now.

Really now?

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YA RLY

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