Truth? I had no idea who or what she was until I read this thread. Lots of links in here, all to very stupid shit. So if she’s for real, she’s a bitch. If she’s not for real, she’s a bitch. End of story.
Technically, anyone who posts in this thread is FTT. I don’t plan to do it again, do you?
I don’t see the problem with it. Someone else already dealt with the breaking fantasies (it’s normal.)
I think all that Blanche has been guilty of is being too honest and a little naive.
I’m also wondering what is causing all the hostility towards Blanche seen in this thread. I had to do a search on her posts to understand why people have such a negative opinion of her, and while some of them did make me raise my eyebrows a bit (her stance on animal rights is completely different from mine, for example), I still don’t see it. I don’t think she’s a sock, I don’t think she’s a troll, and I’d very much like What Exit? to explain why he thinks she’s the latter. I think she’s just inexperienced about message boards in general and this one in particular.
Now for the particular accusations made against her in this thread:
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[li]The “awful thoughts”, as has already been mentioned in this thread and the other, are completely normal. I get them all the time. I see nothing objectionable about her post in this thread, and in fact, it is the people in that other thread who were creeped out about the whole thing who seem close-minded to me.[/li][li]The thread about dogs getting killed in China seemed to me to be just another of those “OMG, see what the awful people of [some place] are doing!!!11” moral outrage things. I don’t agree with taking pets from people and bludgeoning them to death in front of them, but Blanche’s post seemed like a way to put all of this in perspective. Especially given the fact that this OP seems quite racist to me.[/li][li]Now, about making kids cry: while I don’t think making children cry is a very worthwhile activity, I don’t see it as very immoral either. Blanche says she makes her son cry “for her amusement” by showing him some particular toy. I don’t see why this is wrong, except that she was probably too candid in her phrasing. My girlfriend’s three year old son is afraid of a lot of things and really dislikes change. I’m sure that more than once I’ve done something that in all likelihood would result in him crying or screaming, both to see his reaction and to eventually habituate him to change. In fact, my girlfriend recently bought him a plush toy that he doesn’t like for some reason. I distinctly remember showing it to him fully knowing and expecting that his reaction would be to scream “NO!” I even sometimes think about throwing this toy to him, or “tormenting” him with it, although I probably won’t do it. I don’t think it makes me a child abuser, but if you disagree, please say so.[/li][/ul]
I also want to say that every time I see her name, I think of the song Blanche by Michel Rivard.
I’d be an attention whore but no one pays me for it.
Ok, let’s be honest, no one ever has paid me for it.
“That other board”? Sounds like OSU fans talking about Michigan. :dubious:
All the posters who are not Blanche should speak up and end the confusion.
I posted that example because so many people (I’m assuming you’re one of them) think that making toddlers cry is some horrible crime. My best guess is that none of them are parents, or if they are parents they are the coddling “my child can do no wrong” types that raise the little Tylers and Kayleighs that are responsible for most people’s hatred of children.
Most parents I’ve known don’t see anything wrong in scaring their kids now and then, and none see anything wrong with disciplining their children in ways that they know will make them cry. Kids cry a lot, especially the toddler age ones. It’s one of their best ways of getting attention. As I mentioned before, if I take a toy away from my little boy, he will cry. This means that every night I make him cry because he’s not allowed to take all his toy cars to bed with him.
As to the making him cry for my amusement, I feel a little guilt about it but it’s so funny. He’s a rough and tumble little boy who shows hardly any fear of anything, but there is this one Halloween decoration (a animatronic singing and dancing vampire that’s very goofy looking and not at all scary) that freaks him out. We don’t know why, but he’ll start backing away if he sees it from across the house and will cry if we bring it in the same room. For a while he seemed to lose his fear of it, but a few months later he started being afraid again. We used to keep him under the kitchen sink because it would keep him out of it. If I don’t want him wandering around in the kitchen if he wakes up before me, I’ll put him on the kitchen counter and he stays away.
It’s really funny and I am guilty of bringing out the vampire to show others how he responds to it.
Blanch is the best troll in a while. “Tylers and Kayleighs” hahahaha
I’ll miss him.
Uh, no, I’m not one of them. Of course toddlers cry. I’m not stupid; I’ve raised kids of my own.
Yeah, normal. Also not what you posted in that thread.
Whatever floats your sick little boat, honey; I’m already on record in another thread as not giving a hot goddamn one way or another how someone raises their fucked up little spawn. I hope you manage to come up with the funds to get a full membership before your guest time is up, too. You’re one of the most entertaining trolls to cast a line across this shallow gene pool in quite a while. Maybe you can stick your kid on a street corner and taunt him into crying so people can toss coins at him or something. I bet you could come up with the fifteen bucks in no time.
Not that anyone asked, but here’s what makes my finely tuned Troll-Detector go off:
“Blanche” is smart enough to lampoon the latest crop of interchangeable ankle-biters as “Tylers and Kayleighs” – complete with authentic ridiculous spelling – but when someone tosses out a line about her living off Whoppers in her parents basement – an obvious stereotype of the no-life-having Internet geek – her response is “What are you talking about? I live in a house with my husband! I haven’t lived with my parents for years!”
It’s not out of the realm of the possible that a person could be such a humorless literalist that they would not see the point of the basement/Whopper comment, but that person is not going to herself make the same type of comment about kids. That person isn’t going to be talking about “Kayleigh” unless an actual Kayleigh lives next door.
Ergo: Troll.
I responded to that thing about living in my basement because I have posted about my economic hardships, and since people are accusing me of being someone else, I thought they might be implying I was some person who was known to live in their parents basement.
I love these threads simply because I have no idea what anyone is talking about. It is like reading a 1930s mystery story.
“On another message board that cannot be mentioned, a poster whose name is known to all of us has posted links to the blog of a former banned, then unbanned, then rebanned Doper whose name we all utter as a curse. I have been misrepresented.”
Are there really message boards with posts about the goings-on at other message boards? Why?
I also don’t get how I’m obviously a troll because I don’t act like someone who is new to message boards or the internet in general. I’ve been on the internet off and on since the mid 90s. I’ve participated in several message boards, including mrcranky.com, somethingawful.com (before they went to pay), and various anorexia and new mother support groups.
Of course I’ve heard the term “attention whore” before and I know it doesn’t literally mean I’m a whore. That doesn’t mean that I, as a woman, shouldn’t take offense at the “whore” part of the phrase, especially as the term tends to be thrown at women more often than men and that attention whore accusations are usually followed shortly by accusations of being an actual whore (see this thread for examples). It’s not the same as “drama queen” as nobody would be offended to be called a queen - well, maybe men would, and I’d think if someone called a man a drama queen part of the insult would be the insinuation that they are behaving in an effeminate manner.
Yes, indeed, and it’s not unique to the SDMB and the other-board-that-must-not-be-named. I’ve known of a few other cases. Why? Well, people get worked up about things, and they know they can’t say what they think on the main board without getting banned, so they say it somewhere else. It’s not surprising at all to me.
Personally, I think it was wrong to label you a “whore” just because you slept with half your ex’s family in some sort of twisted revenge scheme. After all, you never mentioned taking money.
Yes but everyone else seems to know about theseother boards whilst I have no idea what they are talking about. Perhaps I am slow.
That was a post made weeks ago about something I did over a decade ago, and nobody called me a whore because of it until Giraffe primed the pump.
Well, Giraffe primed thev pump, but someone else just keeps on pumping. I didn’t thinkyou were an attention whore at the start, but you keep on trying to make me change me mind :rolleyes:
DONTASK, people are only talking obliquely about the Voldemort Board (i.e., “The Board That Cannot Be Named”) because – well, because it cannot be named. The powers that be have decided not to fan the flames of that alternate forum by discussing it.
But if you e-mailed someone, they would probably send you the link. Not me, though. I’m not being coy, but I followed the link when it was on Wiki and was pretty well disgusted by it – lots of bitching and vicious anonymous slagging off of Board members, all done in the time-tested method of cowards: anonymously. I logged off and promptly forgot all about it. I can see you wanting to know what the kerfluffle is about but seriously; it’s the sort of mean-spirited circle-jerk that really isn’t worth your time.
<grizzled old prospector>
There’s oil in them there whores! Yeeee hoo!!
</grizzled old prospector>
Not like the Pit. This place is a playground made of candy and rainbows!
The Other Place is a land of ghosts and shadows. Nothing there is real. Just don’t light any fires or swallow any seeds, and leave your faith in humanity at the door.