Eavesdropping (June 27, 2011)

Child-Avatar Lobby Tries to Forcibly Re-Size the Virtual World on Second Thoughts.

Prokofy Neva said:

"The outrageous premise of the stubby robot child of SL with adult female features plopped on her in a rather creepy way is that the entire sizing and proportion functionality and features of SL are 'broken'. That's because 'people aren't really 6'3'' or 7'1"' and therefore we must resize the entire world."

"It's breath-takingly ballsy software hubris -- but also quintessential child avatar lobby outrageousness. They hate feeling like a despised minority, so their solution is to re-cast the world in their image and make everybody else fit into their 'vision'. Yuck."

The Cathedral and Bizarre on Second Thoughts.

Prokofy Neva said:

"What I'm interested in as well is psyching out the "why" of this attack. My working hypothesis now is that it is the work of a very troubled gay man who is not "out" in RL, is conflicted about his homosexuality, experiences deep hatred for women, especially older women, is over-attached/involved with his mother, is absolutely hypersensitive to any criticism (mama's boy), has experienced a number of RL and SL failures or obstacles or setbacks, and has lashed out at me as a visible public figure, where he knows his griefing will get maximum visibility and effect."

"Fuck with my land and my tenants and my build? I will engage in Internet sleuthing and pop psychology on your motives and madness, big guy."

Some Feedback from a banned to share on gV.

Tarzan said:

"Using a image of a Klingon delicacy to make a point is racist."

Blog posts on Broken Toys.

Scott Jennings said:

"There Ain’t No Drama Like Spaceship Drama Cause Spaceship Drama Don’t Stop (Now With 200% More)" and "I Feel A Disturbance In The Force, As If Several Servers Cried Out In Terror, And Then Were Silenced"

I just like the blog post titles.  Even more so in juxtaposition with Neva's and Tarzan's quotes.



The true poetry of love...on Pep's Parenthetical Postscripts.

Pep said:

"The true poetry of love . . .

 . . . lies in the unconditional acceptance of one who pongs, farts, belches and picks his nose.

According to Carole Franizzi, that is. 

Pep (has just realised why all those women are still vainly chasing after him.)"

Yes, that must be it.



PEP DECLARES A HOLIDAY THIS WEEK... on SC MKII.

Ishina said:

"Oh! This reminds me of that time when nothing interesting happened."

Got Milk? on SC MKII.

Dakota said:

"YES it's gross! I've got spit in my mouth all the time; it mixes with everything I eat and drink and I swallow it. That's not gross. Someone else getting their spit on me? Gross. It's that way for all body fluids. Mothers feeding their own babies is the sole permitted exception. Would you let some woman you don't know just walk up and start breastfeeding your baby? She could have hepatitis or bird flu or something!"

Mulch said:

"what is your opinion of bukkake?"

Stephie liked Mulch's reaction on that one.  Cow's milk and bee's vomit (honey) was later referenced.  Who's hungry?



FORUM CONFIDENTIAL IS A "HAPPY" COMMUNITY on Forum Confidential

Storm said:

"Fuck you anonymous, my letter was not for you, regardless of who the fuck you think you are."

Anonymous said:

"Who the fuck I think I am? I know who I am. YOU don't know who I am. Pronouns are important."

Oh, the irony.



Raise Social Security on SC MKII.

Lum said:

"I'm trying to catch up with this thread but I'm confused. Are people with totalitarian personalities supposed to advocate leaving the elderly to die on ice floes to make the Volk weak? Or are people with totalitarian personalities supposed to steal the money of the poor oppressed hyperrich in a vain attempt to keep the losers of the world from starving to death, thus blocking valuable growth opportunities in soylent products?

I'm also confused by Mero posting as a caricature of a Randian hyperdarwinist (with Wad madly nipping at his heels in METOO fashion) while his avatar is of a manipulated chump in a bad Vin Diesel movie. Is this metacontext - does he see his role politically as the antihero pulled to one side than the other before finally kneeling at his better - or merely marginalia? 

Or is he just hot for Karl Urban? 

I'M SO CONFUSED fuck it time for Oprah to buy everyone a new retirement plan."

Who's fucking with the Coco? on SC MKII

Ayu Sura said:

"I find the parody threads distasteful."

Not the parody threads!



Community Assistance - RAGEQUITTERS Seeking guidance..... on gV.

Liona Clio said:

"Ragequitting is for the weak.
Ragestripping is the new ragequit. DO EEEET!
" 

And last, but not least...a stolen picture.  Lula's Coco-lovin' Loki.

Forum Bits June 26, 2011 - A Snapshot

It was a homecoming week of sorts on gotVirtual.net.


Chaos returned and posted a qualified concession to Ishina in the Saloon thread.  Mulch alerted SC MKIIers on the return of Chaos in the "Chaos Factor: I'm calling you out" thread and got feisty in a gV thread he opened called, "So, Chaos Returns After a Month With No Internet At All," a title that slightly overstates the case as Chaos logged in on RLetc.com on June 16th and much of Mulch's OP is actually about nina and her forum policies and procedures, but his point was likely taken regardless.

Wasted Engineer's ban on gV expired and he had a few things to say about the experience in the "Some Feedback from a banned to share" thread.

And speaking of Wasted and his bans...having been effectively silenced on gV, SC MKII and SLU, Wasted resorted to using the wasteland of his own forum to post about his bans in a thread called "The SL Related Forums Suck."  Cristiano and Monna both got special mentions in the thread.

Wasted has a snazzy new banner, details of the evolution of said banner, including Sarah Nerd's role, are in the thread "Should I ban the banner?"

Wasted is also asking the general public once again for money as evidenced by a Shout in his Shoutbox on his own website.

Things got a little tense on SC MKII when Cocoanut Koala posted a thread, "BOYCOTT DELTA," in response to a Huffington Post article written by Rabbi Jason Miller called "Delta Adopts Saudi Arabian Airlines' No Jew Policy," an article that was later discredited.  Coco seemed to feel that the issues with airlines in general, e.g. partnering and servicing airlines and countries with discriminatory practices, reliance on Saudi Arabian oil, etc., extended beyond the contested article on Huffington Post.  A debate ensued.  Mulch responded with a parody thread called "Boycott El Al."  Coco was not amused, and in a move that surprised and dismayed many SC MKIIers, she excused herself from the forum.

In lighter SC MKII news, Fester celebrated his birthday, and finally, after months and months of waiting, received his spices from Mulch and Kita.  Season in good health, Fester.

sephirot@vella joined both gV and SC MKII. He was welcomed on gV by Lias for "a very well worded post and a fair offer" in the "Interested in SHARING a Private Full Region?" thread on gV and treated as a spammer on SC MKII after he posted his offer and a link to the aforementioned gV thread in the SC MKII ChatBox.

Kokoro Fasching said:

"git yer bloody spam out of my chatbox! That is what the forums are fer. I just stapled the spammer to the L person over on gV... :) "

gV was also joined by new members Ethel Lipsky, sinfilpeck, Mateo Lopez and BrittaBerry.  A gV form letter for newly registering members was created and gV holiday logos were assembled into an album.  Tarzan continued to provide news feed services for gV and Lias tracked both real and imagined flounces in the "Community Assistance - RAGEQUITTERS Seeking guidance....." thread.

SC MKII was finally joined by the charming poster, Deca, the pinko space muffin, and apparently has Quimby to thank for that.  My one complaint might be that Deca has abandoned her Agnes forum avatar...

Agnes from Despicable Me

...in favor of this one: ,  a charming and amusing forum avi gif, to be sure, but I admit to being unduly influenced by people's avatars and Deca's "Agnes" avatar made me read her posts as cute and spunky, possibly more than some may have deserved, which is why I might describe some of her saucier posts as, well, "saucier," rather than say, "bitchy," "argumentative" or "flaming."

botalcks also registered on SC MKII but has yet to make it over to Ellis Island.  Politics continued to be one of the most lively sections of SC MKII.  And speaking of politics and homecomings, GreenLantern Exelsior returned to post on SC MKII this month after a four month absence.

Robert Jung, a member on SLU since September of 2008, decided to introduce himself with a new thread, "Introducing Robert."  Annabella, Teetefa, Ferran, Gio, davidventer, Highly Bashly, Neena Andretti and Sintax also posted introductory posts in the New Users section of SLU.

Hot Topics on "the largest and longest running community site dedicated to the virtual world of Second Life," otherwise known as SLUniverse, are:

➲  Would you post the way you do...

➲  Firestorm Public Beta - Released!
➲  Mesh Coming to Second Life This Summer
➲  Controversial Viewer Feature Survey
➲  guess who's working on the new avination viewer?
➲  How to troll a dating site
➲  Game of Thrones or Borgias?
➲  We don't need socialized health care.
➲  Goreans outside of gor sims  & Do you judge goreans?
➲  What's the gentlest way to remove contacts from the friend list

Yevad Doobie, frustrated by what he felt were flaming pile-ups and bullying posts on SLU, decided to check out RLetc.com and registered there as a new member.

Yevad Doobie on SLU:

"I have decided to become an occasional visitor to this site rather than a regular one. When I began coming regularly I was yearning for a new forum home. I had been missing another forum and thought that SLU might be right for me, but it isn't. There is just too much nastiness here for my tastes. It is like a text version of the Jerry Springer Show most of the time. Not all the time, and there are some great people here, but how those great people live with the nasty ones is a mystery to me. I can't cope with it at the moment and I just keep making a fool of myself, so there is no point trying to become part of the 'family'."

rosane bento rodrigu also joined RLetc.com.

Active topics on RLetc.com were in the playful game and chit chat sections as well as the sections covering Second Life, Inworldz, Avination and the Utherverse, with a focus on products, places and demographics.




The Bon Mots:

Tarzan said: "Wasted Engineer, you need a lawyer in this forum, that is obvious. You can hire me for 50,000 Lindens. As soon as you pay my account 50,000 Lindens I will begin to represent you against all of these "fakers" as you put it. Do not delay, pay me now so I can get to work."

Wasted said: "Tarzan if you defend me, God will pay to you."

colleen criss said: "'True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It’s knowing what should be tolerated and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn’t.'"

Tarzan said: "'True tolerance' is a tautological slogan I use as an escape hatch to avoid ever having to see the naked truth about myself."

Wasted Engineer said:  "...you can take my accout but you´ll never take my freedom."

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A Woman After My Own Heart

I got a Skype text from Stephie last night:  "What are batwings?  There's a thread about it in SC MKII and I don't get it.  You're the world weary one.  'Splain it to me" or words to that effect.


Govi, an SC MKII poster, had posted the following in Batwings?:

"Really, guys? Is it a problem? Would you solve it this way? Or do a baseball adjustment?"

 

Thank goodness for Google cache!

As Written In The New York Times by Andrew Adam Newman"

MICHAEL LEVY was returning to his desk from the restroom one morning when a female co-worker asked what he had spilled on himself. “It looked like I’d powdered the outside of my pants,” Mr. Levy said.

At home that morning Mr. Levy, 34, had used a men’s talc marketed for below-the-belt use called Bálla Powder — a bit more, perhaps, than necessary. Mr. Levy, as the marketing director of the Grooming Lounge, a men’s hair salon and spa with locations in Washington and McLean, Va., had been working on promotions for the product, which is available in original, unscented and “tingle formula,” costs $15 for 3.5 ounces and promises in its directions to alleviate “batwings,” an expression for the sticky discomfort some men experience.

Once marketed obliquely, powder for men is now going lower. Sales for men’s powders at the Grooming Lounge more than doubled in the first four months of this year compared to the same period a year ago, according to the company, which sells four brands.

Introduced last year, Dry Down Friction Free Powder by Jack Black ($18 for 6 ounces), with cornstarch, lavender and green tea, “works great south-of-border,” according to its packaging. “Guys have a great sense of humor about this stuff, and they appreciate us saying, ‘We know where you’re going to use it, and it’s great for that area,’ ” said Patricia Finn, vice president for marketing at Jack Black, which has no affiliation with the comedian of the same name.

Man Powder, by Matte for Men ($26 for 10.5 ounces), another talc-free powder that includes baking soda and aloe extract, was introduced in 2008, and its directions recommend using it on “underarms, feet or ‘down below!’ ”

The Urban Dictionary has the following helpful things to say about "batwings":

"When you're sweaty, and your sac starts stickin to your inner thighs."

"I get batwings everyday at work from sitting for hours. It tickles when i yank them apart from my thighs."

"Guy1: Dude, what the hell are you doing down there, have you got crabs or something?
Guy2: No, sorry man just have to adjust the bat wings."

I love a woman who will so openly express her curiosity about such things and boldly seek the truth.

Fresh Turd On The Loose!

Today is a good day.  There is a fresh turd on the loose.  That is to say, the potty blogger has posted.  (ALERT:  Turd on the Loose.)

Late last year Stephie and I stumbled across two blogs written by an anonymous potty blogger in San Francisco.  We probably spent about six hours one night, connected by Skype, laughing so hard we nearly pissed ourselves reading the entirety of the two sites all in one go and pointing out our favorite lines to each other.   Some were hilarious, some where alarming, some were gross, some led to uncomfortable questions, some just left us stumped and cautiously curious.  The whole experience was tremendously entertaining and to this day we are fans of the potty blogger.  We're not alone in this, he has many fans and has even made the news with his potty-centric posts.

If you like toilet humor, you may well find you are a fan too.  Check him out:

http://720california4thfloormensroom.blogspot.com/
http://340brannan5thfloormensroom.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/pottyblogger

The Potty Blogger said:

"This blog is not about poop. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man."

"This ain’t toilet porn, friends. It’s a community of freedom fighters."

A post script and a little trip down memory lane.  The blog is about a men's room.  There are some aspects of the culture and language of the men's room that Stephie and I just did not know, so we asked some of the male forum whores on RLetc.com in the old Leeland social group and in a public thread entitled "Questions for Men."

Lee said: 

"What is meant when a man says he kept his hands on 'the wheel' when relieving himself at a urinal? What is the wheel? Steph said it might be a nickname for penis, but if that's the case, why? They're not round. Not any that I've seen. Oh wait. Is it a driving metaphor? Like 'keep both hands on the wheel while operating the vehicle?' That makes some level of contextual sense."

Mitch said: 

"just like in driving... you want to stay on the 'road' you had best keep your hands on the 'wheel'... or you might find your feet get wet...."

Kris said: 

"I've never heard of this term before, but I'm going to say it leaves very few interpretations, and that the most likely would be the one easiest to let the mind wander to.

That being said, I don't think I've ever taken both hands off the wheel while urinating, I find it rather odd that there are some who do.

Oh, and you have some very strange tastes in blogs."

Lee said: 

"Seriously. It took me more than half an hour to work that one fully out. Pardon the phrasing, given the topic. I actually posted the urinal pic because I was looking for a wheel-like object. Then Stephie and I worked out that the wheel was a penis and then it became, 'well, why?' As you can see, I did eventually get there...even without a wheel of my own.

Steph on Skype:

[9:00:46 PM] Steph: BREATHE!!
[9:02:20 PM] Steph: get a glass of water ffs

Trip down memory lane continued here.