hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

I don't think I've ever read anything by vargas cooper that didn't make me feel a bit icky.

clover, the points you're rebutting are "I thought I liked scorpions but as it turns out, I don't" and "I've always thought scorpions sucked" so harping on the "Gawker = scorpion" angle doesn't actually address any of the comments anti-Gawker people are making

xp it is v much scorpion/frog territory, you read some posts and lol, then some more and lol, then you read something w/ fucked up aspects to its tone and/or intent and you're unsettled (and in this latest instance especially that discomfort is legitimate), the scorpion that has the combined faces of, idk, biddle denton ham noles and drew magary is like "ummm you knew what i was when you clicked"

― slothroprhymes, Thursday, April 16, 2015 4:06 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great job being late to the scorpion references party y'all B)

which is not to say that the scorpion/website is by default entitled to be what it is just bc people are capable of knowing what it is

you knew it was a jacket with a scorpion on it all along, the ebay storefront replied to the millennial

disappointed sterl's in his "guys of course they're the scorpion" mode rather than his "guys am i the only person watching scorpion" mode

lol sloth I thought your earlier post was by s. clover, hence "harping"

sorry everyone, next time I will cite

think you should buy this as penance

http://i.imgur.com/FXwNxAt.gif

http://i.imgur.com/X2JYUVd.png

your lowercase i's look like l's sometimes.

http://jezebel.com/stacey-dash-owned-by-meredith-viera-after-calling-wage-1700912960?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

I realize this is parroting common Internet slang without really thinking about it but a) maybe take the 5 seconds necessary to think about where the "own" verbiage comes from, and b) don't use it in headlines, especially when you end up with "[famous black person] owned by [famous white person]", particularly when a whole bunch of black people are currently rioting over system dehumanization?

yeesh

i'm waiting for the day when each celeb is given an alphanumeric id like a stock ticker and all celeb news is just a brief string like

SDsh < MVra

that's a really good idea actually

Wait, where does 'pwned' come from?

Computer nerds

hacker/l33t speak typo-originated version of "owned"

xp yes.

ymmv but the typo moves it into lol territory for me

Always lol when people try to pronounce it in irl and say "pawned"

"pawned" makes more sense to me than "owned"-- "I picked you off like a pawn on a chessboard" as opposed to "I made you my property"

Utterances of 'pwned' rank very highly among the most cringe-inducing moments I've personally ever experienced.

It's pronounced 'pooned', grandads!

don't complain about the excelsior thread ever again

powned

j. sarge you v v bad man

my twitter feed is all hands on deck to defend a white guy's unalienable right to brag about working at a food pantry while baltimore is on fire

i dont give a damn abt yer extra fancy computer language

xp

my twitter feed is all hands on deck to defend a white guy's unalienable right to brag about working at a food pantry while baltimore is on fire

that's on you, then; follow better people

tru

all things being equal scahill prob shouldn't have bothered to throw his two cents in but i wouldn't exactly say "bragging" is what he was doing

especially not in the context of his coda tweets, where he explicitly states that his empathy epiphany isn't comparable to actual lived experience

it feels like, in a twitterverse full of terrible people who deserve ridicule, j0rd picked the most visible person who said something relatively defensible and then edited down his comments to make him look like a jackass, undermining a valid and easily defensible point

Yeah that's the impression that I got too

I admit that I lolled pretty hard at the inherent irony of Not every story a man has is a good one. Please log out.

^^^this OTM.

if i were in a roomful of people talking about baltimore and police brutality and longterm structural american racism and jeremy scahill told that story i would be rly uncomfortable and embarrassed for him but if i were in a roomful of people talking about baltimore and property destruction and the victim mentality and jeremy scahill told the same story i would think he was right on. twitter is both, altho i guess for jeremy scahill it is more the former than the latter, so a dorky move for the jez, but i feel like pouncing on it while baltimore is on fire is dorkier

all things being equal scahill prob shouldn't have bothered to throw his two cents in but i wouldn't exactly say "bragging" is what he was doing

― slothroprhymes, Friday, May 1, 2015 2:12 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most of social media is bragging

all is bragging and vexation of spirit

Do Gawker writers have to hit a snide irrelevant shit quota before they can get on with the good stuff?

do you?

It's there a quota of posts I have to make before someone will get out of the greys?

most of social media is bragging

― clikbait ikatowi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, May 1, 2015 11:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no such thing as a selfless act, etc

Does it change Scahill's story if he doesn't mention the soup kitchen, if it was just a guy from the neighborhood?

this is so fucking stupid. putting aside the amiguous question of whether scahill's tweets were gauche or self-serving, how is this not a misleading way to present the "story" on the front page of gawker?

http://s8.postimg.org/pzqobkwrp/Screen_Shot_2015_05_01_at_8_01_17_PM.png

Treeship, man, you need to get wise. You're in a den of wolves here. Some dude killed himself on this board after getting bullied. And after that lesson, these people lured in a mentally ill woman to torment her, and it was such a hit it became messageboard canon. Are you not aware that these people manipulate you and fuck with you for megalolz? Snap out of it. The whole "social justice" "leftism" stuff people talk about on here is just a mask to cover up all of this demented, fucked up stuff they do to people. The conflict you seem to be having is this mask going up against reality. Wake up and stop wasting your time.

Wake up treeple

ozmodiar

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, May 30, 2014 3:34 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Used to post as "butthurt"

― mikelovestfu (wins), Friday, May 30, 2014 3:47 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

look on his works, ye lauded assholes, and despair

― estela, Friday, May 30, 2014 3:55 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus christ d40 posted as butthurt for a long time. are you saying it's him or is there some other butthurt?

Are you not aware that these people manipulate you and fuck with you for megalolz?

that was more like a 2013 thing

You're hopeless, man. Alright ILX, have at it.

ok. you're a cunt.

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