oh good gods

[jinian]

I need a newsreader with a more sophisticated killfile, because even reading the followups to this person is making me cry. Here's a sample.

> Or maybe someday (using a cloning like process) growing an
> actual human being from ten thousand or a hundred thousand years ago. He
> or she (this newly grown human from the past) could tell us a lot about
> what life was like way back when.

Comments

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's a newsreader with a filter for stupid.

[pbrane.livejournal.com]

we just need to write an AI that's smarter than that person - which shouldn't be that hard, even with our current AI technology...

hell, maybe microsoft's "Clippy" would do the trick...

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

I see you appear to be writing a Usenet post. What kind of post are you trying to write?

• Mindless rant


• Mindless political rant


• Mindless reply to a mindless rant


• Porn site advertisement


• Porn site advertisment with on-topic subject line


• Flame


• SOMETHING IN ALL CAPS!!~!>
  

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, the porn site ad is in his .sig.

No. Really.

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Oh, I believe you. Really. Yes, just a .sig. Larger than the rest of the thread. Yes.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

*hysterical laughter*

Oh, good heavens. Is that Tal? That's priceless.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's the one.

I feel bad for mocking him now, but I just can't completely keep it bottled up.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Oh, ghod, I keep trying to give him the benefit of the Doubt.

You are a v. good person to even try to resist mocking this.

[coyotegirl.livejournal.com]

That's enough to make one weep.

time travel through cloning!

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

she's brilliant!

Cry?

[trinker.livejournal.com]

From laughter?

From pity?

Apologies for being one of the followups you wish you could killfile, but the utter stupidity of the post grabbed me by the throat and demanded questioning.

Re: Cry?

[jinian.livejournal.com]

From "I can't even start processing proper emotion between laughter, pity, and sheer stunned astonishment," I think.

If anything I admire your ability to engage with him without going completely mad, so no apologies are necessary. It's the terrible temptation to respond myself that makes me want to make those posts go away. It would be bad if I responded. I don't think he's a bad person, and I don't want to use three hours trying to write a post that won't be, at best, exceedingly impolite.

Re: Cry?

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I can understand crying from that, or from the sheer frustration of trying to have a rational discussion.

Believe it or not, I don't post nearly as many words as I'm tempted to use. And the only ones that make it out anymore are the ones I can't suppress without severe strain. I start out with the intention of doing a careful, long post, and then realize that it's not worth my time, because it'll all get snipped away in the response.

Seriously, though

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

It was kind of a side-trip from the point he was trying to prove...but it wasn't quite as hilarious in context as out of. I think he got sidetracked into talking about physiology instead of religion, without realizing it.

(Of course, I will be forwarding the quote to people out of context. {*laugh*} Without attributions, of course.)

[elynne.livejournal.com]

S'olright, it looks like Theresa is going to attempt to... "educate" Tal. Personally, I've given up on "educating" the bugger with anything less than a nailed club and a month's worth of deprogramming, and just ignore him routinely. My Pal Tal. :) You remember that? Still makes me giggle...

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Aha! So that was from who I thought it was. Anyone else find "Woof woof" as irritating as "Your Pal"?

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Not as annoying, but there is a definite "what the fuck" factor with the woofing.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I gave up on this particular poster after a thread last fall.

This is an example of why (since I don't use killfiles) I only skim alt.poly nowadays (and resist the tempation to even open alt.callahans). Signal -to-noise seems to have increased, and much of the content that I used to enjoy now resides in various friends LJ entries instead...

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

I think signal-to-noise dropoffs prompted me to flee Usenet back in '97 or so; less than a year later I gave up on IRC for the same reason.

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

You've made me cry, too. I saw that in context, and sort of gagged at the sheer bleeding idiocy. Then I saw it here in a different context, and injured myself with laughter.

Thanks.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Uh oh. Is that from who I think it is? I haven't come across that yet, but I'm a bit behind in ng reading, and it sounds awfully like the style of someone who posts in a ng you and I both participate in.

Cry, he does not make me do, but roll eyes and drop my jaw and mutter incoherently in exasperation. Hell yes.

[baxil.livejournal.com]

I would recommend the Standardized Bonehead Reply Form (http://www.tomorrowlands.org/humor/flameform.txt). :)

Ohmygodhereallymeantit.

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

The latest bit between him and Tigerspot is simply...unbelievable.