Woohoo! An election thrown to our side, for once.
As Plato said (Phaedrus), winning an honest victory just means that you're talented, but winning by cheating means that you really did something.
I hope they'll still spend time with us folk now that they've made it to the big time.
Now comes the part of w-lfs-n's plan where he tries to act all sensitive and offer consolation to Howley.
The winner in "Hottest Female, PR" actually is really hot.
5: as opposed to the winner of which category, exactly? (Be very careful here...)
Catherine: when do we get our cookies?
I wonder if that's ever going to get old.
The winner of "Hottest Male, PR" must have physically intimidated some nerds into making bots for him.
Catherine: when do we get our cookies?
She says to have your people call her people and maybe they can arrange something in a month or two.
6: I know! But she is.
7: As opposed to Bill Press, obvs.
thank you, thank you. though i ended up fairly mortified by the obvious cheating, i still found it hilarious and my heart is warmed by the efforts of people on the internet to bot on my behalf. no doubt capps feels the same.
cookies: how to do this? i would say i would bake cookies for everybody who set up a bot, but then that would ignore the valuable contributions of those who put hard work into the manual voting. maybe i will bake myself some cookies, and vlog them.
maybe i will bake myself some cookies, and vlog them.
How soon we come to feel entitled and superior to others, don't we.
12: Bot people get store-bought, mass produced cookies.
Manual people get lovingly hand-crafted artisinal cookies.
You can't be serious--reneging on your campaign promises already??
Those who voted more than once manually aren't able to accept cookies anyway.
16: They are if they used a different computer each time, hater.
15 - not reneging. just trying to figure out...cookie logistics.
Some of us botted *and* voted manually repeatedly in order to increase our chances for a huge cookie haul efforts on behalf of the kind and beautiful Catherine.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
the kind and beautiful Catherine.
s/b the kind and beautiful and generous Catherine.
Amateur.
I thought the rewards were going to be signed copies of LOL WTF D00D: A Sober and Reasoned Consideration of the Bush Doctine.
maybe i will bake myself some cookies, and vlog them.
That would actually be really funny.
So, what's Armsmasher doing for us all?
Maybe Armsmasher will vlog a reenactment of Adrian Parson's performance art installation for us to enjoy.
22: Why paint the lily?
I can't believe you people read that thread.
29: Why, when I can just share the original with you?
Catherine and I have a victory speech written, but I can't deliver it right now, because I'm on my deathbed.
because I'm on my deathbed
Sounds like it's now or never. Better get to it.
If Catherine is unable to come up with cookies, we'd settle for worms, viruses, or trojan horses. Bu nice ones.
Better get on that speech while people can still masturbate to pictures of you.
Vlog, speech, celebrate!
We wanna masturbate!
All right people. We've had our little experiment with group-comity (minus ben, but really, who cares about ben?), and we've seen its pernicious effects. It's time to pack up our bots and get back to sniping and ad hominem attacks.
(Oh, and congrats!)
T/J: So I post this, then receive this comment from this guy. In the (rediscovered) spirit of enmity, could someone parse that then mock me for not being able to?
could someone parse that
It sounds like he's being sympathetic to a fellow traveler in the world of furdom.
Yes, but he's a furry who, um, furries under his real name, runs a WikiFur or whatever, so presumably he's not concerned with people discovering he has sex while wearing anthropomorphic animal costumes, right?
(Also, you forgot to berate me.)
STANLEY IS A TOOL OF THE CORPORATE CLASS
THEY PIT US AGAINST EACH OTHER
OUR COMMON ENEMY AT THE MOMENT IS STILL THE CHIMPEROR
I'm really not sure what your fucking issue is here, SEK.
I'm really not sure what your fucking issue is here, SEK.
It's not my fucking issue, it's his.
Maybe. I'm confused. (But not about the fucking issue.)
End T/J.
Is there some background I'm missing here? I don't know what SEK is confused about (43 seems right, and 44 seems irrelevent), and I don't know why ogged's 46 is so angry.
Ogged is berating on request, and the furry guy is being sympathetic because even though he's out, I'm sure he knows lots of people who aren't and would be devastated to be exposed.
44: It sounds like:
A) He missed the slightly sardonic edge in your tone viz. the furry community, and responded to you with honest words of encouragement;
B) You haven't the heart / stones to make him suffer for this error.
Also, you forgot to berate me
Okay, you nitwit: the fact that
he's a furry who, um, furries under his real name
doesn't mean he's utterly insensitive to the issues of closeted stuffed-animal lovers like you.
All right people. We've had our little experiment with group-comity (minus ben, but really, who cares about ben?)
Hey, I voted lots for catherine and Armsmasher, and I wrote the friggin' bots that LR windowsized for the damn windows users among us!
Oh, and because of B): I berate thee! I berate thee! I berate thee!
Why is everyone so confused and angry? Let's all just get along?
Assholes.
49: Ah, thank you for that LB. It's about the closet. Confusion vanquished.
he's utterly insensitive to the issues of closeted stuffed-animal lovers like you.
As of 1:22 p.m., I'm not in the closet anymore.
was 49 to 48? I understand the furry guy's sympathy; I don't understand SEK's confusion about it.
Maybe ogged thinks "furry" just means "hairy" and these people are talking about him? Ogged: they have sex in animal suits.
As of 1:22 p.m., I'm not in the closet anymore.
Clearly, you owe the world a copy of this item.
I don't understand SEK's confusion about it.
I blame stupidity.
59: No. No no no. No no no no no. I remember what happened the last time I shared an item about someone else's sexual proclivities.
I think a stuffed animal lover is a "plushy", not a furry. Furries love other humans while being dressed as stuffed animals.
No. No no no. No no no no no.
Aw, just a teeny weeny little further adventure?
61: Yes, but what's more important? Your physical and psychic well-being, or the entertainment of the ravening virtual hordes of Unfogged? I believe the choice is clear.
I think a stuffed animal lover is a "plushy", not a furry. Furries love other humans while being dressed as stuffed animals.
My, this blog is educational.
the last time I shared an item
Also, not to be lawyerly, but this is different, innit. That was an item available, albeit unintentionally, on limited release. This is a public listserv, right?
This is a public listserv, right?
There's a chance you're on it.
Also, the letter itself was a fairly typical example of the I'm-mad-as-hell-about-you-misrepresenting-my-community genre. The only funny part is that it was signed with what must be his furry name.
Surely you know your own furry name, SEK?
Furries love other humans while being dressed as stuffed animals.
Stuffed in which sense, precisely?
"Nitwit!?" Surely you can berate SEK with more wit and urbanity than that.
"Nitwit!?" Surely you can berate SEK with more wit and urbanity than that.
Sorry, I'm worn out after bickering with Ben. Also, my real wit and urbanity are always going to fall short of the legend that is now slol.
the letter itself was a fairly typical example of the I'm-mad-as-hell-about-you-misrepresenting-my-community genre
But these are always good.
Sorry, I'm worn out after bickering with Ben
That was four hours ago!
Just so long's your refractory period's shorter than ogged's.
Dude, I heard slol's got, like, a refractory exclamation point.
I heard he has, like, thirty goddam refractory exclamation points.
64
pamela brown does look rather plastic in a perky pleasant way.
there was a pic of a cspan reader, greta something?
looked stunning.
pamela brown does look rather plastic in a perky pleasant way
Pleasant?
doesn't please me in particular.
but calculated to please.
It sounds like he's being sympathetic to a fellow traveler in the world of furdom.
Yeah, that was pretty much it. Hi again. :-)
Congrats to Armsmasher and Catherine!
I'm angling for mix CDs.