McCain's recent statements indicate he was not tortured in Vietnam

McCain's recent statements indicate he was not tortured in Vietnam

You're missing a critical piece of Bush Administration Logic (tm). It's only torture if our enemies do it.

Update: The post was deleted within 24 hours

Mocking the Violent Core of Human Nature

Israeli PM Ehud Olmert hopes a peace deal can be reached with the Palestinians by 2008, because scientists estimate they will have thrown all their rocks out of the country by then

Please. If there's one thing human beings excel at, it's finding creative ways to kill each other. Out of Rocks? Then compact some dirt to make clods. Better yet, crack up some boulders to make BIGGER rocks than the ones than WERE being thrown. THAT'S human ingenuity!

Easy Pickings: Bashing Hollywood

Life imitates The Onion: Striking Hollywood writers stress over whether or not their picket sign is funny

My post:

2007-11-20 12:11:23 PM
Given the quality of the drek from Hollywood and Network TV, I'm not sure a writer's strike is a bad thing. To tell the truth, I'm not sure anyone will even notice.

The above did appear briefly, but was deleted in about an hour. The post is pretty mild compared to some of content that's still there.

Secret Cities on the Moon!

U.S. scientists unveil NASA’s secrets about cities on the Moon and microbes on Mars

Posted on: 2007-10-31 10:57:01 AM

He claims to have photos from NASA of ancient moon bases, yet the photos in the book are described in that article as being of poor quality. The ONLY photo shown in the article appears to the heel portion of a footprint.

I'd LOVE to see some photos of these ruins. Anyone got any?

(Holding breath waiting for ancient alien moon base photos.)

On Thongs

Victoria's Secret selling children's play dolls scantily clad in underwear. Sure, you SAY you're buying them for your kid. The problem is, some people actually are

My post:

Thong: Butt floss

I never understood why women wear those things. They seem to be designed to create an ongoing, constant wedgie which can't be comfortable.

What's the appeal?

Posted on: 2007-10-31 10:46:19 AM

Gay Footballers

A third of US high school footballers have gay sex, claims sociologist

My post was:

This was why I was in Theater Guild. While we had just as many gay members as it seems the sports teams did, they were out, so everyone knew where everyone else stood, at least on that playing field.

Of course there was always one or two women who made it a goal to seduce the gay guys. Based on how often it worked, I'm inclined to suspect there were a few guys who were only pretending to be gay in order to easily score with these women. Two guys in particular spring to mind. They always talked about how cute such-and-such guy was, but whenever their actual sex lives came up, it was about the WOMEN they'd tagged.

High school was a messed up time.

Oddly, soon after I posted an earlier comment, the Fark Message threads would only load a dozen or so comments even when the main page claimed there were hundreds in the tread. I've noticed this pattern before. Are the servers just overloaded, or is the user experience for "undesirables" downgraded?

Regardless, the comment was successfully posted at 2007-10-31 10:30:39 AM. We'll see how long it lasts.

Update: It's gone

A Tip of the Hat

Fark has many chestnuts, old jokes that get reused shamelessly, as if by repeating the same gag used 1,000 times before you're magically funny. One of these gags is the "I work for ____ so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies," formula. The "joke" is to pretend to be someone "in the know" on a story. The joke however has gotten to the point where it's posted two or three times in every article.

Every once in a blue moon however, it's actually a little bit funny, and this Fark comment was my attempt at complimenting someone who managed it. The article in question was "How shyness became a mental illness: Scientific breakthrough reveals the importance of drug maker profits in the discovery of new diseases"

I quoted the comment to which I was responding:

friendly fire isn't friendly
"I'm an introvert who also has restless leg syndrome so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies."

Friendly, I think that's the first time that gag has been used and actually been funny.

I tip my hat to you.

The first time I tried to post the comment I got the infamous error message:

FARK.com database is down; try again later. (We spilled beer on the servers again.)

If I were Drew (The owner of Fark.com) and I had as many server problems as the error messages claim I'd fire my administrators, but then I'm used to environments where 99.999% uptime is expected, not a happy accident.

The second time I tried to submit the comment it wen through and posted at 2007-10-31 09:48:35 AM. If the past posts are any indication, it may take up to 24 hours for the mods to delete it.