Durp Snark 112: a Hundredweight of Snark

[Someone]

Well, he's a shitty guitar player, singer, and web designer. Not sure what else I'd stick around for. Extremely not remotely whelmed after 40 seconds.

[Someone]

Holy cats, he's made himself a whole knockoff SDMB page.

[Someone]

It's all amateurish and awful but I feel sorry for the guy and am glad people are saying nice things there.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

How did that turn out?

Please, just...don't ask, okay? It was...unfortunate.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Holy cats, he's made himself a whole knockoff SDMB page.

Bottom of the page.

This page may or may not evolve further! Depends on SD reactions

That's not evolved, that's some horrid mutation caused by an unknown form of radiation last seen in a movie being mocked by Joel and the bots.

[Someone]

Worst injury thread. How many posts until "snapped off wrist bone?" Taking all bets!

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Oh, lawdy, squish7 has made a thread to present (ominous pause) his projects.

And I'm all out of popcorn

Originally Posted by Someone

It's all amateurish and awful but I feel sorry for the guy and am glad people are saying nice things there.

Mr. Plumbean, that's my take exactly on it as well. I'm under no illusion -- it's not like I think my writing is any good -- but if you're convinced you're already the next Shakespear you're not gonna improve.

I tried to give some honest feedback without being a Dick about it.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Please, just...don't ask, okay? It was...unfortunate.

I'm liking this idea more and more.

[Someone]

Yeah, but you pee in people's beer when they don't flush the toilet so what do you know?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

It's all amateurish and awful but I feel sorry for the guy and am glad people are saying nice things there.

I don't have sympathy for him. And I'm nice to people. He's a little jerk. And wears his mental problems like badge of honor. And for all his bragging about his creativity you could do better in a junior high school.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

It's all amateurish and awful but I feel sorry for the guy and am glad people are saying nice things there.

Yes, come on, let's not bully the legit mentally ill person.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I'm nice to people.

You are? OWW! I mean, sure whatever you say Beck.

[Someone]

LHOD and Asahi are having a White Knight-off in the Huey thread. Huey wandered off ages ago. They just keep going, whitesplaining blackness to the rest of us.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

LHOD and Asahi are having a White Knight-off in the Huey thread. Huey wandered off ages ago. They just keep going, whitesplaining blackness to the rest of us.

That seems fair to me, since Huey is constantly blacksplaining whiteness to the rest of us.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

And for all his bragging about his creativity you could do better in a junior high school.

In all fairness, I've seen screenshots of the MEMZ virus running rampant on a computer and the art is about the same. No dancing cat though. If you stopped mocking the nuts over there, there's be nothing left but a handful of people with real lives.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Oh, lawdy, squish7 has made a thread to present (ominous pause) his projects.

And I'm all out of popcorn

Does he discuss his fractal-graphic software/cure for cancer (I was never sure if they were two projects or one intertwined one) that seven (7!!!!!!) Harvard professors all were awed

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Yes, come on, let's not bully the legit mentally ill person.

Ok, when was it decided that he was mentally ill and not just a dunning-kruger(?) vicitim? Because his older posts all point to d-k, not schizophrenia.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Does he discuss his fractal-graphic software/cure for cancer (I was never sure if they were two projects or one intertwined one) that seven (7!!!!!!) Harvard professors all were awed

I looked for this and didn't find it. Two different threads I guess. He does have a lot of food and supplement style crankery mixed in with (very few, < one a year) posts about his "projects").

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Ok, when was it decided that he was mentally ill and not just a dunning-kruger(?) vicitim? Because his older posts all point to d-k, not schizophrenia.

He talks about the meds he's on. But to me it's apparent from his posts.

[Someone]

In his own words:

Originally Posted by Someone

Let's skip a light-year of convolution to the part where I just tell you my diagnosis under the DSM. I have very potent ADHD, and also am schizoaffective (a sort of misc. category they throw you in when they can't quite figure you out, technically a combination of elements of both bipolar and schizophrenia). Now on paper, these are called mental "disorders" but history has shown ad nauseam that people with these braintypes in some contexts can be incredibly beneficial to the world in the way of leaders, entrepreneurs, geniuses, CEOs, etc... In other contexts, they can be troublemakers. There's not a lot of in-between, and I try my best to live in the positive end of the spectrum, so I don't know what I can possibly say that isn't going to offend someone hell-bent on being insulted that someone is different.

I'm 39. I've already been through the lifetime process of medication refinement (I'm on Lamictal, Seroquel, and always some stimulant for ADHD), in other words we've warded off most of the troublemaking downsides. The ONLY THING LEFT is to harness the beneficial creative elements, to change the world for the better etcetcetc.... What do you suggest I call all this that isn't going to summon hostility from others?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Holy cats, he's made himself a whole knockoff SDMB page.

TIL Geocities is still online.

Seriously, the design seems inspired by Sylvyr Tygyr Gyrl's "work".

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Mr. Plumbean, that's my take exactly on it as well. I'm under no illusion -- it's not like I think my writing is any good -- but if you're convinced you're already the next Shakespear you're not gonna improve.

I tried to give some honest feedback without being a Dick about it.

I cannot, and therefore shall not try. Those pages are somehow both shocking and exactly what I thought they would look like.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

In his own words:

Fair enough. Thanks for the link and I'll be leaving him alone going forward

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Worst injury thread. How many posts until "snapped off wrist bone?" Taking all bets!

Took 'til this morning.

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...3&postcount=34

[Someone]

I get that many of the people in the thread are assholes who are only there to shit on the guy. Welcome to the internet. But I offered real feedback, that took time to compose. His response? Link to a YouTube video, Rudolph the Red Nosed Fucking Reindeer.

Originally Posted by Someone

I tried to give you legitimate feedback and this is how you dismiss it out of hand. Any sympathy I had for you is gone. Continue down this path and you'll drive away anyone who is actually going to try and engage with you, leaving only those who want to crap all over your thread.

Enjoy, I'm ducking out.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I get that many of the people in the thread are assholes who are only there to shit on the guy. Welcome to the internet. But I offered real feedback, that took time to compose. His response? Link to a YouTube video, Rudolph the Red Nosed Fucking Reindeer.

Well I guess his ego remains intact.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

TIL Geocities is still online.

Seriously, the design seems inspired by Sylvyr Tygyr Gyrl's "work".

you mean this?

[Someone]

Good lord Dr. Dumbth, or whatever he's called, is tiresome. In an innocuous thread about cover songs, he drops this turd:

Originally Posted by Someone

Well, first of all you have to define "cover".

I have had three definitions:

1. The first version is "original" the rest are covers. This would make all tunes not done by the writer = covers.

2. The first recorded for sale version is "original" the rest are covers.

3.The first version to hit the charts is "original" the rest are covers.

I like #3 myself. Certainly, many many hit songs are such that the big hit version of is the one we all think of. To say that it is just a "cover" because the songwriter plinked it out on her/his piano before selling it is ridiculous.


However, Otis Redding's take on the OPs song would still be the original, since it charted in the top 40.

Nobody else has a problem understanding the extremely basic concept of a cover song. When challenged, he gets even dumber:

Originally Posted by Someone

But here's the thing- if a artist puts their own original stamp on it, who cares if it's a 'cover"?

Ass goblin.

[Someone]

He's an idiot.

I know the guy with the youtube channel somebody linked to. He used to work in radio and is obsessed with this topic. I once tried to dig up a single "original" he didn't know about; I can't remember if I did it. He's like a fucking encyclopedia.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Good lord Dr. Dumbth, or whatever he's called, is tiresome. In an innocuous thread about cover songs, he drops this turd:

Nobody else has a problem understanding the extremely basic concept of a cover song. When challenged, he gets even dumber:

Ass goblin.

Originally Posted by Someone

He's an idiot.

I know the guy with the youtube channel somebody linked to. He used to work in radio and is obsessed with this topic. I once tried to dig up a single "original" he didn't know about; I can't remember if I did it. He's like a fucking encyclopedia.

So, pretty much the opposite of Dumbth.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

You are? OWW! I mean, sure whatever you say Beck.

What DO you mean?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

He's an idiot.

I know the guy with the youtube channel somebody linked to. He used to work in radio and is obsessed with this topic. I once tried to dig up a single "original" he didn't know about; I can't remember if I did it. He's like a fucking encyclopedia.

Except an encyclopedia doesn't talk back.

At least the one I grew up with didn't.

[Someone]

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Growing up, we had an old Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia that was published in like 1970. In 4th or 5th grade I had to do a report on Ronald Regan, so I dutifully went to look him up in the F&W and all there was was a few paragraphs about his movie career and when he was president of the Screen Actor's Guild, but zilcho about him as POTUS.

Less than useful.

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[Someone]

Potential misogyny thread alert!

SpoilerVirgin wrote:

Try thinking about women who are over the age of 50. Some of them are very good looking, but not typically "pretty" because (in general) they are no longer attractive to younger men.

Women have a long history of being valued primarily for their appearance, particularly as it relates to finding a mate, while men have been valued more for other qualities. So a man can be good looking without needing to be attractive to women, while historically a woman must specifically be attractive to men, which would include the ability to bear children. A good looking woman who can no longer bear children isn't pretty because she is not desirable as a mate.

And yes, all of this is in general -- I know that there are a limited number of older women who are pretty and even beautiful.

That's post 28 in this thread:

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...8#post21448178

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

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Growing up, we had an old Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia that was published in like 1970. In 4th or 5th grade I had to do a report on Ronald Regan, so I dutifully went to look him up in the F&W and all there was was a few paragraphs about his movie career and when he was president of the Screen Actor's Guild, but zilcho about him as POTUS.

Less than useful.

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I had a 1972 World Book Encyclopedia, but it was in 1973 so that was OK. But it was illegally photocopied -- the whole damn encyclopedia -- in Taiwan so there was all kind of weird censorship like removing all references to Mongolia as a country, the commies taking over big China, lots of sexual topics, etc.

[Someone]

Weird.... where would you buy something like that.

[Someone]

Korea. We were living there doing diplomatic stuff and dad decided we needed an encyclopedia. He thought he was getting a great deal -- we didn't know until I came upon some of the changed entries that anything was amiss.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Yes, come on, let's not bully the legit mentally ill person.

He doesn't post here. It's only 'bullying' if you do it to their face. We're 'gossiping'. Totally different form of 'mean-girl' behavior.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Does he discuss his fractal-graphic software/cure for cancer (I was never sure if they were two projects or one intertwined one) that seven (7!!!!!!) Harvard professors all were awed

To be fair to him, that 'cure for cancer' bit wasn't something he claimed to have invented, it was an analogy, so he didn't have to put out details of his actual idea, so no one would steal it. You were supposed to understand that his parkour movie idea was as impressive as a cure for cancer, so some Hollywood producer should want to jump on it. To be fair to you and everyone else who didn't get that, his presentation of his so-called 'ideas' in that thread was as clear as mud.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Potential misogyny thread alert!

SpoilerVirgin wrote:

That's post 28 in this thread:

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...8#post21448178

Somebody needs to show him this:

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

You were supposed to understand that his parkour movie idea was as impressive as a cure for cancer, so some Hollywood producer should want to jump on it.

Gotham city, girl meets boy
Boy called away on vitally important mission
Zoom dolly squeeze frame action shots
Girl ineffable sadness - camera angle, mise en scene
Tear jerking reunion scene - flowers, hillside

Note - Have Hollywood drones fill in details

[Someone]

why is everyone ignoring my retrosnark find it took like 3 minutes of searching i hate you all

[Someone]

How little class, and little else to do, must you have to go trawling through archived pages on squish7's page? Guess the durper:

Originally Posted by Someone

Funny you should mention the Time Cube guy--Squish has a page about him linked on his site. The original link is dead, but fortunately there is a cached version.

That thread is gonna turn into a nasty bullying haven now that the OP isn't even trying to engage honestly....

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

why is everyone ignoring my retrosnark find it took like 3 minutes of searching i hate you all

I saw it as a supporting footnote, not stand-alone snark.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

why is everyone ignoring ...

Did you post something? I missed it...

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

why is everyone ignoring my retrosnark find it took like 3 minutes of searching i hate you all

Sorry, there's just so much current snark going on.

[Someone]

Guess the derper who wants to know if Reefer Madness was a documentary.

Some people who drink think they can fight everybody in the bar. Jekyll & Hyde transformation.

I saw a few bar fights and decided it wasn't worth going.

...

Is combative behavior typically associated with marijuana consumption?

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...d.php?t=869425

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Guess the derper...

I guessed

Urbanredneck.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

How little class, and little else to do, must you have to go trawling through archived pages on squish7's page? Guess the durper:

That thread is gonna turn into a nasty bullying haven now that the OP isn't even trying to engage honestly....

I was right.

[Someone]

Babale, you can't link quotes on the Derp here the way you would an intra-board quote. Copy the goddammn URL and post a link.