Comments on: Douchehound of the day: Brevity is no longer the soul of wit

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:59:35 +0000

OMG! Sometimes, I just can’t stop laughing at the stupidity of Trolls! Thank you for making me laugh! You guys Rock!

By: Leesa

Leesa — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:15:08 +0000

I just got done dealing with a bunch of trolls over on my companion LiveJournal account and one of their biggest insults (they thought so, I didn’t) was that I was FAT FAT FAT!

I’ve long since “gotten over” what such a schoolyard insult could do and I am at peace with my body.

In fact, in a further post, I told them their insult did nothing except make me aware of how much they fear getting fat, and I suggested they stop obsessing and enjoy life, instead.

L, who has been compared to Hitler and Nazis more than once

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:46:32 +0000

I’ve just figured it out. Ripley just wanted us to have a great summer!

By: Mary Sue

Mary Sue — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:53:31 +0000

@catandjules: Yes, it’s the Godwin’s A Fat Bastard Law.

@fillyjonk, who said: I’m still rooting for “sanity tastes better than thin feels” for the tagline, though.

Oooh! I said that! I feel loved! I also need it as a t-shirt and thence to send to my eldest cousin who’s convinced herself if she ‘just loses a little weight’ her depression will magically go away and her amazing boyfriend will love her more (even though the man is utterly besotted already). Yes, there’s an ulterior motive, too, because my mother seems to think that because my cousin is depressed and unhappy about being fat, I, too must be depressed and unhappy BECAUSE I’m fat. The offer of monetary-reward-per-pound-lost has come up again. *sigh*

By: catandjules

catandjules — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:53:38 +0000

Wow. Being overweight is the same as ordering the deaths of millions of your own people? I HAD NO IDEA.

By: AnnieMcPhee

AnnieMcPhee — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:33:34 +0000

“Then she should probably post on libertarian blogs.”

Agreed.

Though I’m pretty sure she doesn’t want anyone to die :)

By: veganwobbly

veganwobbly — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:58:44 +0000

“Just as I thought you humorless, Stalinist hags were dancing in the moonlight, it turned out you were really harvesting kale. So then I scratched my grundle and pulled my head out of my uvula and exclaimed ‘Well, fuck the police! Put my hand-rolled cigarette in my composting toilet and call me a skunk ape’s illigitimate nephew.”

i’m more of a anarchafeminist really, they got it all wrong

By: sheenie

sheenie — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:35:22 +0000

ok, I’ve just started reading the comments, but I haven’t read them all so this may have been said….when I read th first “surprise me cunt”, I read it with a pirates speak followed up with an ‘arrr’

By: Shinobi

Shinobi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:27:10 +0000

Wellroundedtype2,
If you like that theme, may I recommend the audiobook Playing for Keeps at podiobooks.com. It follows a similar vein. Also, it is free.

By: wellroundedtype2

wellroundedtype2 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:02:41 +0000

SM, can we please have a SP post/thread about Dr. Horrible’s Sing a Long Blog?
I would love to read what your amazing brain (and FJ’s and KH’s and everyone else who comes here’s) has to say about it.
Personally, I love the blogging aspect — such as when Dr. Horrible learns that both the LAPD and Dr. Hammer are viewers.
And what’s also funny to me is that my little 3.5 year old has been watching this one Backyardigans episode almost exculsively for a month now, featuring superheroes and supervillians, one of the superheroes is named Captain Hammer (“played” by Austin, who is quite the opposite of Nathan Fillion’s character). So, I’ve had superheroes and supervillians on my mind.
I guess I’m mostly appreciating what I interpret as the political commentary in DHSAB — what happens when the heroes are hideous and the aspiring supervillians who want to take down the system are the only ones who are worth sympathizing with — I suppose this is well-trod ground but still, it resonates.