Pet Free Republic peeves-- please contribute.

Self | 11/30/04 | ccmay

[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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I'm beginning to detect some symptoms of acute, severe, respiratory Zogbyitis.

[Dec31,1999]

I see you haven't been around in a while. Welcome back!

[k2blader]

I know I mean what you think!

[nopardons]

They do?

[ApesForEvolution]

...no...

I just said that.

[WRhine]

And how'd you know I'm a chief? (hmmm....)

Would you believe that I am a mind reader?

[ApesForEvolution]

Copy cat...;)

[ApesForEvolution]

Yes, because I'm a mime reader!

[bonfire]

Tomorrow night: "Annoying Posters: who are the most annoying posters and why?"


nite all!

[ajolympian2004]

Two ideas:

1) Create a Vanity forum

2) Come up with a way to show bandwidth charges with each Vanity post and reply. If you have ever walked into a machine shop many shop owners post how much a lathe or milling center earns per hour or per day.

At the end of each Vanity post and reply have a running tally that will read something like, "This Vanity post has cost $nnn.nn in bandwidth charges so far".

[ApesForEvolution]

Thread killer, thread killer, THREAD KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

'night

[nopardons]

WOW...great pictures!

Sadly,James G/Tony Soprano IS a damned LIBERAL;however,the rest of "the boys" are President Bush loving Conservatives.

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. :-)

[nopardons]

Okay...lol

[nopardons]

oh...........

[ApesForEvolution]

Thread Death Spiral Marker BTTT

[onyx]

How about simply the overuse of the term "RINO" (usually used by people who are not Republicans themselves).





Had to read thru to your post (#191) to find mine.
You got it: RINO.

[nopardons]

True,but now it's time for me to hit they hay...........

I know,I know,I'm being aparty pooper.

[Bullish]

Excerpts are on thing, I understand the rules about them. I'm talking about constant {snips} which I don't think are for the same reason.

[Dec31,1999]

To me, it just feels weird and insincere. I'm sure many or most or all are sincere about it, but I couldn't type in a prayer and post it here and feel right about it. It also seems a little like idolatry to me, praying to the Internet.

No, vanity prayers are almost always individual FReepers REQUESTS for others to pray for them or their loved ones. No one here prays to the Internet to my knowledge. If you used the telephone to ask someone to keep you in their prayers, would you consider it to be praying to the telephone? Of course not.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

Top 5 FReeper pet peeves.

1. The "Hollywood is ruining our children...let's ban it all" buffoons and their cousins, the "Rock is the devil's music" contingency. Miserably ignorant and sheltered beyond belief.

2. The "Boycott everything with any actor or musician even remotely left-wing" crowd. F*** You man, I love the Beasties and Springsteen.

3. O.C.-Old Cracker and his "fogeys against South Park".

4. War on Drugs parrots (big government spenders in conservative clothing).

5. Buchanan supporters (the man is a flaming anti-Semite, for the love of God!)