I don’t get Guin stuff–most of the snottiness I remember seeing aimed at her was stupid bullshit about her working at Kmart and having epilepsy uncontrolled enough that she had to quit. Which, I mean, really? If a shitty job and medical issues are the worst you can sling at someone, they’re probably not so bad.
Otoh, I can shed some light on the Lindsay Bluth thing. People give her shit because she’s more than a little bit of a know-it-all, even for around here.
OMG.
I had visions of a poster named jarjarbaby or even jarjarbinksbaby.
Always posting stuff like “Mesaass right! Yousaaa wrong!”
Imagine the horror. I need to go throw up and lay down for a bit now.
Could be worse.
Could be Jar Jar Dio.
I still don’t see it, Starving Artist, but thank you nonetheless. (I WISH I looked like Tori!)
This I have to correct. I didn’t quit Kmart because of my epilepsy – in fact, I didn’t start having seizures until about, oh, four or five years ago? I quit Kmart back in 2002. Mostly because I hated that place so fucking much that I was seriously slacking, my worth ethic there was nil, and I was sobbing at the very thought of going into work. Hell, I was crying AT work. It wasn’t fair to my fellow coworkers.
Now, the science center, I loved working there, and I really miss it. It was a great place to work, I liked the people I worked with, and most of the people coming in where HAPPY to be there.
(How can you NOT like a job where you’re required to watch laser shows?)
BUT, they were laying people off, and I happened to be one of them. 
I was having seizures every few weeks before I was let go. I was having my meds adjusted, and naturally I wasn’t capable of working*.
Unfortunately,
*Hell, even with the little ones, I’d have to go sit in the back room. So finally my boss started sending me home when I’d have them, because I’d usually have more than one. Good thing – the day he did, I ended up having a convulsion on the way home – the first one I had had in about six months. Fortunately I never had one of THOSE at work. The closest I came was at the bus stop.
And before anyone asks, flashing lights have never bothered me. My triggers are caffeine, illness, and before I was on my meds, really strong odors.
I can’t say whether you look like her in real life or not, but you really really resemble her in that picture.
Also, I think Guin is cool. She is one of the only posters I would like to actually hang out with in real life. We have a lot in common (I’m not saying what, because then I’ll start being called names or something), but I like her.
Definitely within acceptable limits.
Having personally spent some time in an epic Lindsay Bluth pit thread, I might be able to shed some light on this as well. She catches shit for reasons similar to those for which Rachelellogram received a pit thread still on the front page (although in most respects the two individuals, I gather, couldn’t possibly be more different): in addition to being a know-it-all she is terribly unsympathetic, judgmental, on occasion rather nasty. But shake some “spoiled brat” on top of that as well, with a dash of “succeeding vicariously through the diligence of her parents”.
So there you go.
I also don’t really get the Guinrage. The first time I noticed Guin, it was because others were being hostile to her for a reason I couldn’t fathom.
Maybe some posters take the 4chan trawling, late-20s-teenager thing badly when it comes from a woman.
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I seem to remember she used to be a bit of a woe-is-me, nobody-understands-me drama queen. But, really, so what? Everyone goes through times when they whine too much. Haven’t noticed it for years.
ETA: And she’s kind of cute, or so it seems. I’ll forgive lots for that. She should have posted pictures where I’ll notice them earlier.
-Joe
Since it was my post quoted in the OP, I should probably weigh in.
If you look at what I quoted before I posted what I posted, you’ll see another useless “me too” post. I don’t hate her, at best she mildly annoys me. But after watching her do the same thing over and over again for 10 years, I thought it worth a quick post. If people think I’m a dick for it, so be it. I’ll get over it.
By the way, do I get to count this as my first pitting?
No, people give LB shit because she started an “ask the child of privilege”* thread that many people interpreted as a stealth brag about how rich her parent were (wrongly, IMHO, but perhaps understandably).
Other people assumed she’s a spoiled brat because of that thread even though she was obviously very grateful for everything she’s been given.
*well, something like that. Don’t remember exactly what it was.
Your post made me laugh out loud because it was spot on. I’ve seen Guinastasia take part in many pile-ons, but I don’t recall seeing her take a stand against popular opinion.
This, exactly.
Once you get a reputation, fair or not, it’s hard to shake.
I started the Lindsay pit thread and can say with 100% honesty that the child if money thing was far down on my list of grievances with her. It was absolutely the know-it-all attitude, complete with name-calling and over-the-top insults towards others.
That said, I think she has toned things down a huge amount lately.
Just in case I haven’t mentioned it before, I also drink Diet Dr Pepper* with junk food. Does that count as horrible?
Oh, and funny you should mention canopy beds – my bed USED to have a canopy. Back when my sister and I started sharing a room, we got new beds, since I had previously had a full bed. I was upset about having to share a room, so my parents said we could have canopy beds.
But then when we moved to this house, (when I was around ten), we had to take them down, because the bedrooms all had ceiling fans. So now the posts are down, and it’s just your normal twin bed. Yes, I still have the same bed since I was a kid. It’s still in good shape, and I bought a new mattress and box spring a few years ago. (And even then I had had a new one from when I was a teenager)
So, for about four years, I DID have a canopy bed. 
No princess phone, though.
*That’s the only kind I can find that’s Caffeine-Free. I know they have regular Caffeine-Free Dr Pepper, but I have yet to find it.
“Rich girls have a canopy over their beds, poor girls have a can o’ pee under theirs.” – Redd Foxx (or words to that effect)
Now look at this post. It’s the marshmallow style of posting. All fluff and air- nothing of substance has been said.
But at least she doesn’t do it with every single post any more, like she used to.
Well, there it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
Unlike all those deep, substantive posts you’ll find in a typical MMP thread.
I think the problem with Lindsay’s “Ask the Child of Money” thread was that she made it sound like having a nanny and TV in her room and fresh fruit at all times were great privileges, usually only granted to royalty and industrial magnates. It took some reading between the lines, but it seems like the reason all this and colanders too seemed like such a big deal is because her parents emigrated to the US with little or nothing, and worked their way up to the upper middle class. Which is actually something to be proud of, and if she’d titled her thread “Ask the Child of Immigrants Made Good”, I’m fairly certain it would have been well received.
