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Author Topic: OK, you can stop now: new 'stupid things' thread  (Read 18207 times)
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Greg Nog
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« Reply #100 on: Sep 29, 2010, 10:20:14 PM »
YOU BETTER, I READ 562 PAGES OF FRANZEN AND 2 PAGES OF DAVID BROOKS FOR IT


*nails self to cross shaped like moneyed white guys bickering*
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RoyBiggins
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« Reply #101 on: Sep 30, 2010, 12:05:38 AM »
I think I might try to go for the new 4/4, which would be to have the last post in each of the threads on the first page of the Departure Lounge.  I trust this idea is stupid enough to make this thread.
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elpollodiablo
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« Reply #102 on: Oct 18, 2010, 01:16:48 PM »
Hey, look, the Awl jumped the shark today!

http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/how-to-pick-up-a-hipster-girl
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dieblucasdie
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« Reply #103 on: Oct 18, 2010, 01:37:30 PM »
Someone who's more enterprising than me should 'shop that page so the actual article under the headline is replaced with various Nog posts from the fashion and workout threads
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jm
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« Reply #104 on: Oct 18, 2010, 01:39:58 PM »
That is so painfully, uh, I was going to say unreadable but it was short enough that I actually put myself through it.  But it's fucking terrible.  If it's serious, it's written by the worst person, and if it's satire, well, it's so badly done that you can't tell that it's satire.
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YojimboMonkey
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« Reply #105 on: Oct 18, 2010, 01:46:07 PM »
what the fuck is the awl (based on that article, I'd say it's missing the letters "FU" which is a joke haha) and why do I care?
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elpollodiablo
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« Reply #106 on: Oct 18, 2010, 01:48:06 PM »
Yeah. As parody, it fails utterly; as satire, it's waaay too unsubtle; as serious comment on dating in New York--well, I refuse to believe it's a serious comment on dating in New York. Gawker doesn't do that hyper-self conscious recursive ironic distance thing very well, but they tend to do it a fuck of a lot better than that.
Assuming, again, that it's not sincere. Which, c'mon: hipster strawman LIVETH
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coldforge
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« Reply #107 on: Oct 18, 2010, 01:50:51 PM »
This article is heartbreaking. The author puts up this half assed front of irony, but you can tell she's really been dying to write this exact piece forever.
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è l'era del terzo mondo.
jm
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« Reply #108 on: Oct 18, 2010, 02:02:45 PM »
More than anything, though, I feel like it's just straight up schizoid: hipster strawmen are being variously mocked and lauded, and the whole thing is written for an audience that is either a) self-congratulating turbohipsters, or b) people who don't read The Awl in the first place.
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elpollodiablo
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« Reply #109 on: Nov 04, 2010, 09:41:36 AM »
Something I was reading brought this gem to mind, and I've been giggling to myself about it all morning.

What made you convert to religion, i.e. Islam
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jm
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« Reply #110 on: Nov 04, 2010, 09:49:50 AM »
There's some serious gold in there, but the font makes it unreadable.
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coldforge
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« Reply #111 on: Nov 04, 2010, 10:32:35 AM »
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ !
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jm
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« Reply #112 on: Nov 04, 2010, 10:41:06 AM »
very nice.  I will have to remember that for later!
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alex
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« Reply #113 on: Nov 04, 2010, 10:52:26 AM »
Wow, yeah, that's useful, thanks!
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edison
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« Reply #114 on: Nov 04, 2010, 11:45:08 AM »
Yes, excellent indeed, thanks!
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Greg Nog
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« Reply #115 on: Nov 04, 2010, 12:47:09 PM »
I always forget I have that installed until I hit some blog that has tiny white type on black background, and then I breathe a sigh of relief.
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jm
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« Reply #116 on: Nov 04, 2010, 12:48:05 PM »
or black type on a dark red background, for when I want to read things about myself that I never knew before.
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dieblucasdie
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« Reply #117 on: Nov 10, 2010, 10:26:50 AM »
aaaahhhh what the shit

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/11/09/generation.thrisis/index.html?hpt=C2
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« Reply #118 on: Nov 10, 2010, 10:30:36 AM »
"Editor's note: Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler are authors of "The Hookup Handbook" and "Friend or Frenemy?" Their latest book "Your So-Called Life" mixes humor with advice for women headed for their 30s."

DEAR THE ENTIRE WORLD, STOP SAYING 'FRENEMY'
THANK YOU

also they did not touch on the fact that I am 32 and have both pimples and wrinkles, where is my target demographic and is there a cream or something
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elpollodiablo
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« Reply #119 on: Nov 10, 2010, 10:31:57 AM »
I can see that big three-uh-oh coming up
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jm
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« Reply #120 on: Nov 10, 2010, 10:34:16 AM »
That's so fucking aggravating.  Waah, I'm turning an entirely arbitrary age and have idiotic expectations of what my life should be, because I am incapable of reason.
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dieblucasdie
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« Reply #121 on: Nov 10, 2010, 10:36:56 AM »
I mean, that's par for the course, it was mainly the word "thrisis" that made me want to punch things.
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nonotyet
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« Reply #122 on: Nov 10, 2010, 10:38:13 AM »
it is not arbitrary, it is a decade some of us have gone through three decades with barren, cobweb-ridden wombs and no man with whom to shop at IKEA and eat brunch with, or something, oh god what?

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jm
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« Reply #123 on: Nov 10, 2010, 10:40:38 AM »
Yeah, I mean, I get that this is nothing new.  I was equally annoyed whenever that fucking quarterlife crisis book came out, so many years ago.  I guess privileged assholes have to have something manufactured to "feel" "bad" about (since they have no failings of their own).
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elpollodiablo
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« Reply #124 on: Nov 10, 2010, 10:42:29 AM »
That's as apt a summation of middle-class white America as I've ever seen.
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