Rant or Trolling?

The BBQ Pit
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I am loathe and swelled with agony over something I’ve seen lately in the Pit:

People are complaining about someone else’s posting style, but they DON’t post their credentials as Posting Style Critics thus generating a lot of carefully reasoned refutations.

Fenris does this here, but he is by no means the only one. I believe that I could safely say (though I’d be wrong) that there are thousands. Thousands!

True enough, I played along at first. I thought ‘Hmm. I think this guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s a good egg and a talented song satirist.’ And yea verily, once I understood that he wasn’t just talking out his butt, I realized that it was a thoughtful plea for reason. But until then, he might as well have been composing a rant about “Them Backstabbin’ Injuns”.

And it’s not just that I feel singled out, I’ve expressed concern on one or two occasions before, see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

I’d just like to know, rantists, how exactly does it ruin your day just to let other people (HINT: have someone show you the window — those things moving around out there are things that are people like you, but might think differently from you) have a bit of fun, eh? Is is too much to ask for you to just step outside yourself for a moment and go something like, “Gee! Y’know what? I guess I didn’t get it, but those other people did, and they seemed to enjoy themselves, so what the fuck? I guess just this once, I won’t impose my ass-puckering concerns on them.”

I realise that people doing this don’t mean to come across as hair-splitting ankle biters intent on ruining everyone else’s fun, but what they mean doesn’t matter in this case. I think it’s a habit (kind of like that blond girl in Clueless), but it’s long past the time that this habit was twisted into a pretzel and shoved back up the tight anus from whence it came.

I’m NOT saying to stop the rants, they’re interesting in a wreck-scene sort of way once you realize that they mean no harm to others. I’m just saying post a curse-your-deity credential that establishes you as the absolute and objective mind-frame that we all should share.

Lib, prepared to be called a renegade.

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me too

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Is it just me or do none of those links work?

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Ah Libertarian, couldn’t stand to be out of the overdone parody spotlight for even one fucking second.

Great use of bandwidth guys. Four threads about the same fucking god damn thing on the front page.

YOU ROCK.

And by rock, I mean, suck fucking asstulips.

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ok so it’s me, I was whoosed.

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Wow, the second parody thread parodying a thread that’s a criticism of parody threads. The only thing better would be a third parody thread parodying a thread that’s a criticism of parody threads. That would really be amusing. And original. And unexpected.

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Thanks, Jar! A bit of advice, if I may. Since you’re in the windiest of cities, you might consider investing in some ear plugs.

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Oh, Grim, you dear thing. How would we manage without your erudition?

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I disagree.

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I don’t know how you do it, Lib. I read that thread parodying Fenris’ rant about parodies and just rolled my eyes. I just thought it was dumb and not at all funny, and said so.

When I saw the title of this one, same reaction. I thought, “Sweet Og, not another one!”

But you still made me laugh. I’ll say it, and mean it: You rock!:smiley:

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Ferrous, what was that address again where I should send the fifty bucks?

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And just when was it that “anke biters” became a bad word? (or two bad words?)

And Lib, I’m guessing that you’ll soon be posting your bona fides to criticise other people’s posts.

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My credentials? Certainly.

I am a past vice-assistant undersecretary of the Illuminati. I currently occupy the Limbaugh chair at the Schlessinger Institute for Hysterical Paranoids, where I am engaged in post-doctoral work on Aztec relations with Poland in the 12th century. I have served as advisor to eight presidents and four kings on matters of posting protocol. I have more than one hundred magic rings collected from various cereal boxes, and I know several liberals personally.

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I thought we agreed on a hundred! You want high-quality ass-kissing, it don’t come cheap!

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Huzzah! A toast, a toast to Libertarian!

Bloody cutting!

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The worst aspect of these %^$#& parody threads? They are making the SDMB boring and are exactly the kind of cutesy insider bullshit that inspires talk about "cliques.

I come here for discussions, for education, for information, not to get suckered by some jagoff’s linkless, not to mention entirely unfunny, parody of some thread in a wholly different forum. If you’re going to do satire, it should be obvious (hint, include a motherfuckin’ link), it should be clever, it should be humorous. The parody threads here are merely painfully dull.

IOW, knock it off.

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Ok Lib, your credentials are all well and good, but what I really want to know is, Do you have the secret decoder ring?

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No, Robb […wink… …wink…] I don’t.

Gobear, I’m trying to remember whether I asked you before I posted. […squinting… …grunting…]. Nope, I didn’t.

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Oh. […ahem…] Carry on.

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Ahhh, now this is making sense. I was wondering why Libertarian was so quick to jump in Fenris’ shit, until I saw that Fenris had complained to Libertarian about the way that parodies had been handled in the past. Based on the link (Oooh, look, this URL thingie works!) seems like a while to nurse a grudge.

Seriously though, how are parodies that are designed to whoosh people funny? The point is well made that others should be allowed to have fun, but it seems to me that if you post things that are in an outrageous voice and have no link to show what you are making fun of, you would have to be a drooling moron not to suspect that it will cause a negative reaction.

That said, you are deliberate causing bad feelings. Naughty!

And perhaps worst of all is that when you do this you send Dog alone knows how many people off searching to if you are joking or just a fuck, thus slowing the boards down! Very naughty!