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| 11/30/04
| ccmay
Posted on 11/30/2004 10:23:30 PM PST by ccmay
There are so many things that make FR great. It's my favorite place on the Internet and I am proud to support it financially.
However, there are a few things that have been getting under my skin too.
- Jokes about the "72 virgins" every time there is news of a Muslim terrorist being killed. Please. Over the last three years, every possible variation of the virgins joke has already been done. Hundreds of times. It is far, far beyond cliché by now.
- Jokes about spitting one's food or drink on the screen or keyboard, in response to someone else's humorous post. Again, every possible variation has appeared here a hundred or a thousand times over. I dare say 99.99% of them are exaggerations for comic effect. It's getting almost as banal as the virgins.
- FR slang (beeber, moose, cheese, hugh, series) in every thread, to no effect at all. At least donate to Jim if you are going to waste everyone's bandwidth like this.
- Over-zealous moderators who zap cross-posts from DU as soon as they appear. Prime opportunities for hilarity, gloating, and schadenfreude, especially after they lose an election, are lost forever. Can we assess these individually on the basis of their merits?
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To: nopardons
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:19:41 PM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
To: ApesForEvolution
To: ApesForEvolution
203
posted on
11/30/2004 11:19:55 PM PST
by
bonfire
To: Graybeard58
Vain Vic:(Fluffing hair. Gazing deeply into vanity mirror.)
Why, I'M GORGEOUS!!!
To: ApesForEvolution
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
205
posted on
11/30/2004 11:20:00 PM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
To: bonfire
206
posted on
11/30/2004 11:20:21 PM PST
by
bonfire
To: hosepipe
FR tries to remain profanity free.
A couple reasons for using the "substitutions".
Some corporations and locations will screen out sites that are classified as "mature". This includes lunchtime surfing and any student who might want to search news articles using FR keywords, links to earlier articles, etc.
Also whereas FReepers can find other colorful words to use (like bullzogby or clymer), sometimes an article is posted to FR that uses foul language.
207
posted on
11/30/2004 11:20:24 PM PST
by
weegee
(WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
To: Graybeard58
Graybeard58 said: "People who post links to
most worthwhile important threads that have
nothing everything to do with
the topic at hand what Freepers believe in, in a
vain noble attempt to
draw attention to their own vanity raise the discussion level up a few notches.
Graybeard, I will never tire hearing about a parent's pride and joy.
208
posted on
11/30/2004 11:20:32 PM PST
by
bd476
To: ApesForEvolution
You were robbed .. I demand a recount!
209
posted on
11/30/2004 11:20:52 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: k2blader
The prayer request threads make me uneasy. There's something about typing a prayer into the Internet that just seems wrong to me. I don't mind the prayer requests, just the posted prayers.
210
posted on
11/30/2004 11:21:01 PM PST
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: weegee
211
posted on
11/30/2004 11:21:53 PM PST
by
Petronski
(One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, not much between despair and ecstasy.)
To: Clemenza
I got #8 for you...
Calling someone a RINO for not following in lock step with whichever person is calling the subject a RINO and his opinion....
212
posted on
11/30/2004 11:21:55 PM PST
by
MikefromOhio
(40 days until I can leave Iraq for good....)
To: WRhine; Lynx; link; zelda; nopardons
ANOTHER LINK ON THE CHAIN
-Phil Ochs
To: bonfire
Everything but win...that's my biggest peeve!
214
posted on
11/30/2004 11:21:56 PM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
To: ApesForEvolution
215
posted on
11/30/2004 11:22:19 PM PST
by
weegee
(WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
To: bonfire
I know;me too. LOL
Tell me to NOT go get a piece of my daughter's apple spice bunt cake,which she doused with rum. :-)
To: weegee
But I'll tell you--- there's nothing like reading a pithy thread from begining to end, even if you don't post a response.
Still, there is nowhere else, even after all these years, where that happens like here.
217
posted on
11/30/2004 11:23:11 PM PST
by
Dec31,1999
(www.protestwarrior.com)
To: My2Cents
To: Mo1
Horseshoes and handgrenades...lol
And, well...nevermind. !!
219
posted on
11/30/2004 11:23:57 PM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
To: Do not dub me shapka broham
220
posted on
11/30/2004 11:23:57 PM PST
by
weegee
(WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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