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Posted by French Toast on Wed Nov 2nd at 3:23am 2005

Harumph.



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Posted by Windows 98 on Wed Nov 2nd at 3:29am 2005

Half-Dude..... I love you



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Posted by satchmo on Wed Nov 2nd at 6:05am 2005

What was a joke? The article and the nineteen-year-old are all real.

The headline with the crowbar was the joke.



"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Nov 2nd at 6:23am 2005

No I think both Tracer and I realized the second was a fake headline.




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Posted by wil5on on Wed Nov 2nd at 8:36am 2005

Taking the thread back to its previous topic... Satch, I'm curious... what did you use for breasts?




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Posted by French Toast on Wed Nov 2nd at 12:15pm 2005

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe he's just really buff.




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Posted by satchmo on Wed Nov 2nd at 3:40pm 2005

? quoting French Toast
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe he's just really buff.

I am very buff. Those are my pec muscles you're staring at.

On a different note...

This follow up article from the Los Angeles Times brings up something serious about the responsibilities of our moderators at the SnarkPit. ReNo, Lep, if you're reading, this post may interest you.

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Threats Online: Is There a Duty to Tell?

An Aliso Viejo man's menacing postings foretold his rampage. Chat room operators wonder how they would handle a second case.
By Kimi Yoshino, William Lobdell and Christian Berthelsen
Times Staff Writers

The operators of an Asperger's syndrome message board on which an Orange County teen threatened a "terror campaign" in the days before he killed his two neighbors and himself said Tuesday that they felt no responsibility to have alerted authorities to the threat.

Yet within a few hours of the shooting, there was soul-searching and second-guessing among members of the online forum even though they had tried to seek out the shooter's parents before the incident.

The case has renewed questions about the responsibility of website managers to monitor and act on violent comments made online.

"There has been some talk of what do we do in the future when somebody posts. How do we handle this kind of situation?" said Dan Glover, 17, co-founder of wrongplanet.net, a resource for people with Asperger's syndrome. "It's difficult. Whose responsibility is it?"

Those are among the many questions raised in the aftermath of Saturday's shooting in Aliso Viejo in which William Freund donned a dark cape and paintball mask and terrorized his neighborhood. He shot and killed Vernon Smith, 45, and Smith's daughter, Christina, 22. He fired at a house and tried to shoot another neighbor, but his shotgun jammed. Then he walked home and killed himself, firing once into his torso.

The shooting came days after Freund posted messages threatening to "start a Terror Campaign to hurt those that have hurt me." In other messages, he wrote of buying a gun and ammunition and contemplating suicide.

Website moderators tried to contact Freund's parents but did not want to call police, fearing it would complicate his already difficult life. They did alert authorities to Freund's postings after the shootings.

Some of the website operators said they felt guilty and sick to their stomachs. Many agreed they would learn from the experience. Already, they were debating privacy policies and better oversight of the online forums. And one of the founders said they would probably do things differently next time.

Experts agree they had no legal obligation to contact authorities.

"Are we going to impose a legal obligation on a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old who want to do something good for people and to take the time to read all the postings and figure out which ones they need to react to and which ones they can ignore? The law has generally said no," said Jennifer Granick, executive director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University.



"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by French Toast on Wed Nov 2nd at 6:14pm 2005

Hmm, interesting read. Unfortunately it is a bit of a hard future situation. If every post as such results in police contact and stuff like that, the MSN "My Space" thing must be shut down.

All those melodramatic emo kids are going to start a riot...




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Posted by French Toast on Thu Nov 3rd at 2:23am 2005

Hahaah, bet none of you thought of this.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Nov 3rd at 2:31am 2005

That's sweet!




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Posted by Crono on Thu Nov 3rd at 2:50am 2005

Ha ha.

That's awesome.

This guy I used to be friend with posted a thing up on his journal on who he was: Patrick Bateman. image

I wonder if he quoted Christian Bale the whole night ... and carried around business cards.


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Posted by satchmo on Sun Nov 6th at 8:02pm 2005

I read more about the nineteen-year-old killer with Asperger's syndrome. He was the butt of all jokes at his school, and when he tried to find acceptance online, he was taunted and rejected again. When he made comments about suicide and homicide, people thought he was joking.

I think he's someone like half-dude. Unfortunately, when I made the comparison earlier, I turned it into a joke too. All the people who dismissed the Asperger victim earlier as a joke regret it now.

I wonder whether half-dude could have Asperger's syndrome. It's not easily diagnosed, even by mental professionals. Language problem is one of the traits for those afflicted with Asperger's, and perhaps we shouldn't harp on people's inability to spell perfectly.

I just don't want to be one of those people who regret only when it's too late. People with Asperger's are often interpreted as being rude or angry. Even though they lack the skill to make friends, they desperately need companionship and understanding.

We should all try to be nice to each other, and give the benefit of the doubt in this online community. Because even with emoticons, the real intention of the post may be lost without communicating face to face.



"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Nov 6th at 9:22pm 2005

? quoting satchmo
As I promised earlier, here is the picture...

image

I blocked out my eyes because I still want some degree of anonyminity on the internet.

LOL!!! I know who you are already, Scratchmo!

nice boobs.




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Posted by asterix_vader on Sun Nov 6th at 9:37pm 2005

you "have an air" of jackie chan.

(if that doesn't make sense) you look like jackie chan... but he doesn't have long hair





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Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Nov 6th at 9:48pm 2005

OH I SEE HOW YOU PERUVIANS ARE!!! "THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME?!?!?" HUH?! BIGOT JERK!!


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Posted by asterix_vader on Sun Nov 6th at 9:51pm 2005

hm.. i don't understand.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Feb 23rd at 8:24pm 2006

I didn't want to create a new thread -- so I decided I'd just bump this old one.

The men's swim team annually dresses up as a random theme for one night when we're cheering on the girls during their 3 day championships which were this past weekend. Last year we had 1 guy dress up as Waldo and the rest of us were the people of the world.

This year we dressed up as smurf. Here we are:

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Please note smurfette on the left and papa smurf in the red hat and pants (and beard).

That is all.




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Posted by parakeet on Fri Feb 24th at 9:57pm 2006

haha , next year.. i'm gonna make a GIANT snark costume.. it's genius!!

i'll use stuffing to fill it up <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">.

my head will prolly be around the belly
and my arms will prlly come out of the sides..


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