Darkside...

What happen?

What happen?

Well done, men. And ladies. And men who like men.
Today was a classic. Like the May 1st Meltdown. The NSJ Panera Incident. The day Mac got suspended. The day Blackcloud broke bad on Hawkeye. The day Mac got suspended. The day that webio shut down. The day Mac got suspended. All top notch days.
And today added to that list.
You... you are all heroes. Except for JORR. He's just an old bastard.

There was something like 125 guests at one time. I screen capped it whenever someone wants to discredit this place as "4 or 5 guys in their mom's basement" or something.

Spiegs wife apologized to the girl with the boobs directly on twitter. Mrs Bernstein. Has said nothing at least publicly

Good Lord. Has Obama apologized for Bernstein yet?

Yea...this is getting ridiculous.

There was something like 125 guests at one time. I screen capped it whenever someone wants to discredit this place as "4 or 5 guys in their mom's basement" or something.

Blackcastle. Not Blackcloud.

You're probably mixing her up with whiteshadow or something.

"Dan doesn't understand because he doesn't have a daughter" was the precision drone strike of the day. Just perfect.

It's really kind of sad that to a man I don't think anyone here was offended by what Dan did, its just that he's pissed off so many of us over the years that we just wanted to see him get got.

Pretty much. Dan has said some things that have genuinely bothered me and made me feel really bad about how highly I thought of him for years, but "I like boobs" was not one of them. I also like boobs.

It's really kind of sad that to a man I don't think anyone here was offended by what Dan did, its just that he's pissed off so many of us over the years that we just wanted to see him get got.

Reminds me of my step grandma dying last Thursday.... She was such a bitch to everyone that nobody in my family was even shaken up a little bit.... But you reap what you sow you know?

At my grandmother's funeral several people stopped to tell me stories of how mean she was to them.

I wasn't offended, but then, I rarely am. However, within the context of a conversation that began with Spiegel criticizing a woman's competence at her job, bernstein's dismissiveness of her as a human being/sportscaster and his reduction of her to body parts was clearly going to offend at least a few people.

you know what really fucks with me darko? last convo i had with the recently-deceased step-grandma = she was steamrolling me with cutdowns putdowns and shit-talking and i decided to stand up for myself. not "tell her off" as my brother sums it up, but instead when she asked me "do you have any friends?" i was like "kacha, this is why people think you're rude. you just asked me if i have any friends and while you're at it you might as well ask me if i know how to wipe my ass cuz what you're insinuating is pretty damning. i think i know what you're trying to do here, you're trying to motivate me like "FUCK HER! I'LL SHOW HER!" and to do better and i think you're coming from a genuinely positive place with that but you have to understand that this is why people don't like talking to you. nobody likes to have you call up and tell them what a loser they are and how much better than them you are*"

"well jimmy you know it's not like i asked you if, uh, you know, you have any friends.... i only asked if you, you know, have any friends you can go out with on the weekend and stuff.... you know, if when you go out you can do things with other people"

fuck the cognitive dissonance gong, the cognitive dissonance M80 exploded right there in my fucking head. and even tho i was legitimately under attack and being as diplomatic as i could in making it stop, i still feel like an asshole for even doing it especially now that i know it was the last things i said to her in life. i can't ever take that back. but she put me in that situation and it was on her and i was on GP and like, sigh. ust sigh dude.

* = first time i met her she asked me what i do for a living and i said i was THE computer guy at a library. she decided to regale me about how she's been running IT departments since 1970 IN THE REAL WORLD.

it wasn't even the job description, it was the IN THE REAL WORLD part like i live in some fantasyland where nothing matters but she's out there in a world that matters. that was par for the course, lamentably.