What can I say, people like me. I'll post pretty much anywhere that opts not to ban me. The real tools in this situation are anyone who thinks the internet is important enough to have "sides."
SlingBlade's ode to the McGriddle. Spoiler Tucker Max: "Dude--That thing looks disgusting. It has to be nasty, with the syrup shit in it. What is that?" Sling Blade : "I can only assume from your cavalier attitude that you have not yet partake of the wonderment that is the McGriddle. Let me enlighten you. What happens is the One True God grows them on trees in the Elysian Fields using a heretofore unused incantation. He then proceeds to magic them down to your local eatery where whatever Ghetto Bastard cook your McDonalds has rescued from welfare that week proceeds to wrap it in cellophane and pass it along to you, the fortunate consumer. You proceed to ingest this finery in the vain hope that your obviously overmatched taste buds can somehow grasp the delectable intricacies it is suddenly faced with. Is that egg? why yes it is, and bacon too. But wait-They didnt add... yes they did, yes they did indeed. They added cheese. And then, then my friends, they wrapped it in a sumptuous pancake bun! As your taste buds try to process that amazing piece of information, IT hits them... the syrup nugget. THE MOTHERFUCKING SYRUP NUGGET!!! It announces itself with a burst of confectionery grandiosity the likes of which your palate has never seen." Tucker Max : "So you like them?" Sling Blade: "if you EVER speak ill of the McGriddle again I will personally force-feed you one while I fuck you in the butt using the wrapper as a condom and then donkey punch you when the infused syrup nuggets explode in your mouth." SlingBlade had many memorable posts, but this one tops them all for me.
And yet, when you hear Joey from Hackers read it, verbatim, with an image montage to accompany it...not so awesome. Humor is weird.
It's the Calvin and Hobbes phenomenon. Had Watterson relented and allowed for an animated C&H, forcing a voice onto the dialogue (especially Hobbes) would've taken away from it immensely. The legend of Slingblade is far more appealing than the reality.
I hadn't seen FreakSafari yet but holy shit. I'd rather be in Rwanda than on that board... From their "Dear Assholes" forum: Happy gas and all.
Dude, this is like Jimmy Johnson making fun of Jeff Gordon. At the end of the day, we're all in NASCAR together.
Holy shit, I can't believe Freak Safari still exists. Just from 2 minutes of scanning the main forum, it looks like all the people that got banned from RMMB for being obsessive weirdos. I always wondered how the fuck lame ass IamRob got so many rep points, and now I know.
Lay off Freak Safari. Some of their threads skyrocket to over 100 views. Bling-bling, bee-yach. Besides, if you want to watch your intelligence disolve in a pool of acid you need to hit up OffTopicz. When the RMMB shut down, I was looking for a new message board (because for the first 10 days or so I was oblivious this place was already up). The first thing I did on OffTopicz (which pointlessly allows political and religious threads as well) I immedietly tried to start a LOLFATS thread. I was almost instantly crucified as being cruel by their so-called prominent members. Goodbye, not coming back, fuck you all. This is one of very few sites I actually use on the internet at all. More than 50% of my 'net time is the TiB. Every other place sucks that I know of simply sucks.
While I certainly respect other folks' opinions regarding FS, I have to say for a lot of my time there, I enjoyed it. I had been a lurker on RMMB for many years, and then for whatever reason started posting. It was my first real experience posting on a message board, and for a while I really liked it. As time went on, and my style started to draw a little bit of attention (not much, as no one seems to remember me from there), I had a bit of a disagreement with the powers that be, respectful from my end, but it was made clear that my presence was no longer welcome, so I faded away, no flame outs, no angry pm's, etc, as it's not my style. I didn't post for a long time anywhere, but since I wasn't banned I had kept in touch with several folks on RMMB and ended up going over to FS. It was nice to post again, and for a fair amount of time, I tended to be the dissenting opinion (a role I still tend towards here) and it was accepted. Which I liked. I was a moderator over there for quite a while as well. Anyway, as with all things, some things changed, such as the style of certain mods there and I didn't particularly care for the atmosphere any longer. I actually signed back into my RMMB account to find that it was shut down, and found the link to this place, and voila, my third message board in 7 years. Again, not disagreeing with anyone's opinion, as with anything of this nature it's a subjective type of a thing, but I did have some good times there, as I do here and did at RMMB. And while I'm cognizant of not slagging mods, I do have to say I enjoy the moderation style here (which believe it or not was similar to FS in the early days) as I have disagreed (respectfully I hope) with several mods here and not received so much as a red dot. The tough thing with any message board, such as this one, is RMMB had a huge advantage over most: everyone there was a fan of Tucker, or liked his stories at some point, so there was a commonality in humor. Which is why my hat goes off to Chater and IamRob as well, because it is a difficult thing to keep one of these going and keep it fresh in the absence of a built in commonality. Just my two cents.
I was a lurker at RMMB from the early days and now a lurker here at TIB. Both these places have saved me from the insane monotony of my cubicle life. I have heard his name mentioned more than few times here but our man Rosh Koch still exists out there: <a class="postlink" href="http://twitter.com/roshkoch" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://twitter.com/roshkoch</a> <a class="postlink" href="http://www.roshkoch.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.roshkoch.com</a>
Pffft, and you call me a whore. It's not about sides, it's about the dumb and the dumber. I'm sure their traffic is up because we're clicking those links.