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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Comic 931: I Never Metastasis I Didn't Like
[Comic title: Lanes; Alt text: Each quarter of the lanes from left to right correspond loosely to breast cancer stages one through four (at diagnosis).]
Interestingly, Randy is here accurately describing why merely avoiding XKCD isn't an option. Think of XKCD as a cancer, and the various friends and blogs that constantly inflict it upon you as individual cells. Even if you stop reading every single blog and block or cut off contact with every single friend who is constantly sharing XKCD, you still haven't won. Some new one will discover it or find one that they think is particularly awesome for some reason. They will inflict it on you. Every day is lived in the fear that one day some new person will demonstrate that they have absolutely no taste whatsoever.
The relapse is in many ways worse--while you are actively battling the cancer of XKCD you're emotionally prepared for its slings and arrows, but when you've been living clean for some weeks or months and it strikes it can be devastating. Suddenly all the happiness and joy you knew in your life is shattered when one of your so-called friends messages you out of the blue with those hated words:
277 comments:
Rob, where did you steal that title it is too good for you.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 3:10 PM
With this comic xkcd demonstrates how far it has fallen. In the good old days, Randall would have used this as a way to explain that cancer is pretty cool because it gives you an excuse for hypochondria and annoying quirks like that are the best, then everybody would have said "GOOMHR I fear for my life every time I feel an internal twinge too!"ReplyDelete
But no, now it's all negativity. Out with the ball pit, in with the heartache.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 4:19 PM
Keeping it classy, asshol[i][/i]e.ReplyDelete
Okay, it is time I came clean, on the reason I deleted my blogs and disappeared from the face of the internets.ReplyDelete
I had to travel back in time. Adopt a new persona, you know, I was getting tired of my old life. I'll do a few time travelly things, like kill Hitler and make it look like suicide, and witness the end of xkcd. Afterwards I'll settle for a spot 10 years in the past, and start anew.
I will still visit this blog, but under a different name. From then onwards you will know me as... Aquarians Love To Fuck.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 7:25 PM
If you're not sure if something you've done is wrong, imagine explaining it to your mother.ReplyDelete
"Hey Mom, it's me. So I have this website about a comic on the internet I don't like, and I make fun of the writer every week. He made this one about his wife having cancer and - get this - I said HIS COMIC IS LIKE CANCER. Isn't that hilarious? Anyway, let me know how that biopsy goes. Love you!"
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 8:21 PM
"Hey Mom, it's me. Today I got that thing that I pee out of and I inserted it into a woman. Love you!"ReplyDelete
lol jk as if 7:25 is ever going to have sex
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 9:06 PM
Who said they were unsure if they did something wrong?ReplyDelete
everyone knows ALTF is my motherReplyDelete
- Rob's MomJuly 31, 2011 at 9:17 PM
Rob did a good thing.ReplyDelete
A very good thing.
Rob's such a good boy.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 9:21 PM
So, like, what's the deal with Carl? He left xkcd sucks to do webcomics.me, but then he never does anything for webcomics.me and sometimes he comes back here and decides to do a guest post?ReplyDelete
Oh! I get it! Carl is busy dealing with his fiancee's cancer, right?
stfu Anon 9:21, Carl is going through a tough time and he doesn't need you making fun of him all the timeReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 9:24 PM
Randy put this out there. If he wanted it to remain private, he could. Instead he made weird, unfunny comics about it.ReplyDelete
Why on earth would we pull punches?
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 9:38 PM
9:24 is right. This is war. Us vs. xkcd. Randall pulled the sympathy card to try and get us to back down, but war doesn't work that way. War only ends when one or both sides have been mercilessly obliterated. No quarter.ReplyDelete
Then the survivors get together to decide on a new war.
- R.A. venzo, mgJuly 31, 2011 at 10:33 PM
I'm putting it out there that Ravenzomg never came back, and every single post to date has been by Ann Apolis fulfilling some weird fantasy of his.ReplyDelete
Except for the one Jon Levi made, because it has a picture and everything so clearly it's her they must be the same person. Thanks, blogger, for making the user identification process utterly infallible!
- A guy with an opinionJuly 31, 2011 at 10:37 PM
Honestly, were it not for the panel saying "Fuck cancer" and xkcds history of attempting to funny, this specific comic wouldn't really bother me. I wouldn't enjoy it, but I wouldn't be irritated.ReplyDelete
But when you add those two things together, it just makes this entire thing seem really fucking annoying.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 10:50 PM
Rob probably ate Ravenzomg.ReplyDelete
- RobdallzomgJuly 31, 2011 at 11:12 PM
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.ReplyDelete
Captcha: BACAUN.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 11:28 PM
I was kinda hopin' to be sweet-ass imilatedReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 12:04 AM
Newest comic is about how much the hacker group "anonymous" sucks without actually saying it. Randy doesn't want to get several annon's arrested for DDOSing him with LOIC (translates to: being completely retarded).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 12:19 AM
Why would a computer expert hear "took down the website" as "tore down a poster"? It does make sense as a metaphor, but then you read the alt-text and can only assume that computer experts are kinda stupid. I guess that's why Randall isn't one!ReplyDelete
- Technician FryAugust 1, 2011 at 12:34 AM
My TV is on a desk 4 feet in front of meReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 12:38 AM
So...the mainstream media says a moderately complex statement, and normal "PEOPLE" only hear a simplified version of that? Is Randy suggesting that the media is smarter than the average person? In previous comics, he's gone out of his way to paint them as "HURR DURR WE NO UNDERSTAND TECHNOLOG HOW USE COMPUTUER"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 12:39 AM
hao did that women teleported from tv screen to armchair between framesReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 12:43 AM
THIS JUST IN: FEMALE BRUNETTE COMPUTER EXPERT MASTER RACE DECLARES WAR ON BLONDE NORMAL PEOPLEReplyDelete
I like the latest comic, though it might be a bit of an exaggeration. Also, randy's portrayal of media accuracy is unusually complimentary.ReplyDelete
To clarify for people who don't really get the distinction, because some of you don't seem to:
Any large and powerful organization will generally make sure that its public website and its important databases are entirely separate. In fact, the US government has a network of private connections, circumventing having to use the public net for internal communication entirely. So even if you did hack into the CIA's website, you would have no chance of finding any sensitive data; it's just a site for public information on the organization, while the 'real' computers are undoubtedly guarded by some insane level of security.
In addition, taking a website down is different from hacking into it. Websites can be taken down simply by barraging them with bogus requests. In order to hack into a website, to gain access to the files on it, you'd need to find a flaw somewhere in its security, which often requires patience and skill (things the teenagers over at anonymous often lack).
So the "tearing down a poster" analogy seems pretty accurate. It's just a poster that billions of people can see, so it's a little more serious.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 1:57 AM
ThePirateKing, I'm pretty sure we all got it. Thanks for making us read all those words, though, it was a good opportunity for me to make out that reading a couple of paragraphs is some sort of major task.ReplyDelete
It seemed like some commenters were a bit confused. I just wanted to clear the air, and make out that typing a couple of questionably accurate and unsourced paragraphs is some sort of major accomplishment.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 2:19 AM
I didn't get it before ThePirateKing explained it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 3:21 AM
Anonymous 9:38 said: Randall pulled the sympathy card to try and get us to back down"ReplyDelete
Rumours of your significance have been greatly exaggerated
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 3:26 AM
Someone wise once said "people aren't dumber than you just because you think you're smarter than them". Who was that? Anyway. Yeah Randall once again separates himself from society by making out the average Joe to be some idiot who doesn't understand words.ReplyDelete
I wish they would hack xkcd.ReplyDelete
On another not, Rob didn't put up my review for 931 because it contained the N word, and Rob is a leftard with white guilt.
Rob's response: "No, I didn't put it up because it sucked."
The main thing that bugs me about today's comic is that it's pretty much like the Simpsons: it's topical, but about 6 months too late.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 5:17 AM
hmm, http://blag.xkcd.com/ReplyDelete
his fiance is suffering from cancer at the moment, possibly the reason for this topical doom and gloom.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 5:18 AM
This one was a bit below the belt.ReplyDelete
His comic is more likely not meant to be funny, but something on his mind of late?
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 5:58 AM
5:17 and 5:18, you must be new.ReplyDelete
- megabotAugust 1, 2011 at 6:23 AM
I don't get it. And with "it" I mean the purpose of this.. ehm.. ranting blog(?) about XKCD. XKCD isn't good because it's funny, it's good because it touches on subjects from the p.o.v. of an engineer.ReplyDelete
If you're into the whole science thing, it's mostly interesting, and slightly witty, but never actually funny. (try explosm if you want funny and don't mind crude jokes)
What I don't get, is why anyone would want to rant about XKCD not being funny "as a hobby". That doesn't strike me as a fun activity at all, so why do you bother keeping this blog?
(and srsly, if you really like ranting about stuff, that's fine, but it would be nice if you would rant about something more interesting)
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 6:28 AM
megabot, you must be new.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 6:31 AM
Oh boy, a whiny English major is butthurt that Randall made fun of his field and decided to make a blog bitching about it. Funtime.sReplyDelete
- megabotAugust 1, 2011 at 6:34 AM
Ehm. What.
Tearing down a poster, as in:
That's the amount of effort it takes to put up, tear it down and the general value it has to any computer expert.
- megabotAugust 1, 2011 at 6:36 AM
Srsly? lol.
- That's what sheAugust 1, 2011 at 6:40 AM
"try explosm if you want funny"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 6:44 AM
@6:31 *you* came to *this* blog to accuse *someone else* of being butthurt??ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 6:49 AM
"f you're into the whole high school science and grade school math thing, it's mostly interesting"ReplyDelete
@megabot, fixed that for you
- megabotAugust 1, 2011 at 7:08 AM
Ah, I see. Everyone is butt-hurt and it makes for the lulz. Thanks for clearing that up, the knowledge does make it all more entertaining.ReplyDelete
@6:49 I'm flattered, but no. Science, as in: presenting a powerpoint slide showing a graph with fabricated numbers to validate 3 months of work on something you find totally worthless but others deem sell-able.
megabot wins!ReplyDelete
megabot for president, oy oy oy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 8:39 AM
"This is war."ReplyDelete
Lawl. Good to see the culls around here still have delusions of significance.
Kudos for using 'culls' as an insult. That's pretty classy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 9:03 AM
931: Good - informativeReplyDelete
Bad - not funny and shut up about your situation, Randall, we already know
Summary - The lane metaphor might make great material for a picto-blog, but completely fails as a comic strip.
932: Good - For once, Randy manages to get his point across relatively quickly, if a bit clumsily.
Bad - Randy's usual pretentiousness, stupid alt-text
Summary - Randall again makes sure that we know how he hates the "uneducated masses". Also, nice way to imply that "computer experts" are not people.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Hi mom, look at me! I'm tangled in a web of delusions!ReplyDelete
CAN'T YOU SEE THIS IS A WEB OF DELUSIONReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 9:48 AM
What annoyed me most about 932 is that smbc has got shit due to that 'normal person does this but a geek does this haw haw haw'.ReplyDelete
Its like a disease.
DISCLAIMER: xkcd was never good
Since when did making fun of a webcartoonist because his fiancée has cancer suddenly become okay?ReplyDelete
I don't think it's okay.
6:31? appropriate timingReplyDelete
hahaha disregard that, I suck cocksReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 11:09 AM
Not making fun because she has cancer. We are using the fact she has cancer to make fun of the webcartoonist because he is awful.ReplyDelete
- scottmctonyAugust 1, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Are we doing that? It doesn't feel like we're doing that. It feels like we're using the fact that he's awful to make fun of him because he's awful, and happen to be doing this while his fiance has cancer.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 12:06 PM
@9:48 AMReplyDelete
I don't mind at all, personally; I think smbc carries it much better than xkcd did. Heck, I think smbc has pretty much rendered xkcd irrelevant by being a better much xkcd than xkcd ever was.
"On another not, Rob didn't put up my review for 931 because it contained the N word, and Rob is a leftard with white guilt."ReplyDelete
you wrote a review?
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 12:45 PM
scottmctony, are we doing THAT? I thought we were using the fact that he's trying to profit and garner sympathy off his wife's best cancer to make fun of him because he's awful.ReplyDelete
Yes, I sent it to your mysterioustaffer email a few days ago.
Since when did accusing a webcartoonist of using his fiancée's cancer to make profit and garner sympathy just because he draws a comic about the cancer suddenly become okay?ReplyDelete
I don't think it's okay.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 1:49 PM
To answer your question Ed - since Friday.ReplyDelete
And megabot, I'm an engineer and I don't think xkcd is good. In fact, I'd say it sucks. Hey-oh
no u suckReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 3:38 PM
Shut up 3:38ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 3:39 PM
No YOU shut up!ReplyDelete
who the fuck hyphenates butthurt, that's like leaving the apostrophe at the front of fridge, or hyphenating tomorrow or cooperate.ReplyDelete
People like that should get cancer and die.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 4:11 PM
^ butt-hurt.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 4:19 PM
I find this comic acceptable given the fact his fiancee was diagnosed with cancer.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM
"[...] just because he draws a comic about the cancer suddenly become okay?"ReplyDelete
It's funny because he's done multiple cancer comics.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 4:45 PM
By continuing a relationship with Randy, Megan is an xkcd-enabler. If there is a God, I expect he would be quite angry with Megan. Now God is not just an angry God but also a just God, so he would respond to the cancer of xkcd with cancer for the xkcd-enabler. Balance is returned.ReplyDelete
If that one doesn't please the cynics, how about: Normally, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. But occasionally God gives us false hope that the world is fair by doing something reasonable.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Ves, I know someone on the internet who steadfastly writes 'phone. It irritates me immensely. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that he is 30 and has only held one job in his entire life (and that was a seasonal temp that only lasted 3 months). Fortunately he lives in Britain and has been able to collect unemployment or welfare or something this whole time so he can afford to go to the pub every Thursday for trivia games and to buy CDs for bands nobody cares about!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Hey, 5:14, the '80s are on the 'phone, they want their canard about the workshy leeching off the hard-working taxpayer back.ReplyDelete
There's not much love to go around =[ReplyDelete
- ATTENTION XKCDSUCKS REGULARSAugust 1, 2011 at 5:32 PM
You are now thinking about Ranvenzomg in a 69 with ALTF while Randall looks on and masturbates.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 6:02 PM
5:14 that's just how they write it in Britain.ReplyDelete
- UndercoverCuddlefishAugust 1, 2011 at 6:42 PM
@megabot: "XKCD isn't good because it's funny, it's good because it touches on subjects from the p.o.v. of an engineer."ReplyDelete
have you considered: xkcd simply is not good
unless by "engineer" you mean "self-diagnosed aspie with a meme fetish" the basis of your assertion is not even accurate
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM
Something I've noticed: the story of Xkcd is very much like that of cancer.ReplyDelete
It starts out as a lifeform, it is normal and healthy. Soon though, it grows more and more rapidly; it becomes deformed and ugly. Treatment begins, and the chemo that is curing Xkcd takes form: this xkcdsucks blog.
However, in spite of our best efforts attacking this malignant and horrifying piece of fuck, it refuses to go away. Even when it seems as if it is finally shrinking, it comes back in a new and appalling form.
Although we will always continue this fight, we understand it very well may be futile. Even if we finally do destroy it, the damage will have been done and its existence will affect us forever.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 8:33 PM
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM
Don't worry, 7:18. xkcd will buckle under the might of our onslaught before long. The climate on the very message boards are changing. Randall has been forced to remove the link to them. We are gaining ground, people will see the light and xkcd will fall. Then we can rebuild.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 10:58 PM
There are so many beautiful metaphoric parallels in the comments section for this one. It is this that assures me of one thing: xkcdsucks posters might be mindless, idiotic slobs, but at least we possess the scrapings of a soul, whereas Randy has obviously sold his soul, and therefore any artistic sensibility, for the success of his webcomic, which clearly could not survive on its own merits and must therefore be the work of Satan.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 12:13 AM
10:58, can a hive-mind have a soul?ReplyDelete
who the fuck even says butthurt, vesReplyDelete
oh right internet morons. i forgot
haha disregard me i suck cocksReplyDelete
forgot about butt-hurt impostors tooReplyDelete
haven't you fuckers got anything better to doReplyDelete
thanks for proving my pointReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 2:12 AM
In my life I have found that I can judge people I work with by whether they like cats or xkcd. Put bluntly, a man who either dislikes cats or likes xkcd is an idiot and I would have no hesitation sticking a knife through his heart.ReplyDelete
Harsh? No. A man who either dislikes cats or likes xkcd has no soul, thus has no working heart. But at least, bringing back memories of the indelible Stars of David, these soulless zombies would be identifiable by the knife stuck in their chests.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 2:13 AM
So guys I had kind of a weird experience. I was masturbating and after I was done I decided I was thirsty and grabbed the glass that was in my bedroom and the next thing I knew i was on the floor in the kitchen with broken glass and fallen refrigerator magnets all around me. Is this normal?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 2:14 AM
A hive-mind can certainly have a soul. Dependent on the perspective, either it is a single soul that is fractured into "cells" that can operate semi-independently, or a merger of several unique souls that then create a monster-blob-soul thing. The latter is probably what xkcdsucks most likely resembles.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 2:40 AM
From a utilitarian PoV, would it be better if Megan were to die and Randall were to bury himself in a pit of depression, unable to produce another cancerous time-wasting xkcd?ReplyDelete
And does Randall read these posts and think, "I'm gonna get through this - I'm not gonna let them get me down! I'll show them!" not realising that the only way he can "show us" is by having the strength to realise that he is wasting his and everybody's life and that he should go back to school and try to make something of himself?
2:13 - on meth, it is.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 6:20 AM
@ Rob on July 31, 9:14 PM,ReplyDelete
Though I am very proud of all my crotch fruit, you have an especial place in my heart.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 6:40 AM
ATTENTION XKCDSUCKS REGULARS said August 1, 5:32 PM,ReplyDelete
"....You are now thinking about Ranvenzomg in a 69 with ALTF while Randall looks on and masturbates....."
Ravenzomd is Canadian. Canadian women smell. Therefore, by Transitive Theory; Ravenzomd must smell.
I do not gratify, nor will I be gratified by, 'Smellies'.
- River WatchAugust 2, 2011 at 6:52 AM
That's true.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:10 AM
ALTF, I can't work out whether you're trolling or just less intelligent than you think you are. You remind me of a GP I would regularly meat at a Christmas thing. I think medical doctors in general have this ability to recall random facts not quite correctly but are very mediocre at joining the dots (otherwise they'd be statisticians, and I'd still be looking down at them for not being proper mathematicians).ReplyDelete
Also, it's syllogism, not transitivity.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:26 AM
Other than the fact that I do not troll - I trawl - you have me pegged!ReplyDelete
To address your dilemma, could I not be both trawling AND less intelligent than I think I am?
That's not the transitive theory, you dumb shit.
Captcha: surch
derp derp! but ah surched tranzurtive thurry on dur inturrrrnetz!
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:42 AM
You read the "or" as exclusive but it was not intended so.ReplyDelete
What's your field? I know the urge is there but try something other than "cunts".
- That's what sheAugust 2, 2011 at 7:47 AM
Actually, it would have to be exclusive because the second literal has the word "just" in front.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:51 AM
"You remind me of a GP I would regularly meat at a Christmas thing."ReplyDelete
Eeek. Cannibalism?
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:51 AM
"...a GP I would regularly meat..."ReplyDelete
Is that what the kids call it these days, or are you insufferably stupid?
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:52 AM
Dearest Derp,ReplyDelete
I know.
It's a syllogism you dumb Thalidomide Stump Sucker.
You will read this as Burns-esque but it was not intended so - my field for a' that!
Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Trawls and Brains, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bare their Gee(1), an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Cunt to Cunt, the world o'er,
Shall sisters be for a' that.
@ That's what she,
I shall bear your crotch fruit, whether you agree or not.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:52 AM
Damn you, other 7:51, damn you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:54 AM
I let the 'meat' thing slide. I two am often guilty of homophonic errors.ReplyDelete
Pot - Kettle and a' that.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:55 AM
@7:47: "Just" in the sense of "slightly": ALTF clearly isn't stupid but plays slightly above her station as if challenging herself. I thought she'd pick up on the usage since she's usually one to pick the alternative meaning of some word.ReplyDelete
Oh well, they can't all be gems.
(But nice white-knighting effort. A sex IOU will be in the post.)
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 7:58 AM
The "meat" thing was intentional, sorry. My ex would deliberately write "meat" for "meet" in otherwise eloquent professional discourse to throw people. It was one of her few amusing traits, and great artists steal.ReplyDelete
Thinking about it, the whole deliberate-error-insertion-for-attention thing is ALTF's staple. Maybe she reminds me a little too much of her.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:00 AM
So insufferably stupid it is, then.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:00 AM
ALTF: Like I said, http://www.bbc.co.uk/robertburns/works/ill_tell_you_a_tale_of_a_wife/ReplyDelete
Teens may want to get out the tissues and hit "Listen" on the right.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:02 AM
@8:00: The biggest problem with ALTF threads is the idiots who come in and miss the point entirely.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:02 AM
"....ALTF clearly isn't stupid but plays slightly above her station as if challenging herself...."ReplyDelete
And to think you perceive all this through my dross written in a language I am just (in the sense of 'slightly') learning?
You are a jem indeed.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:05 AM
@ Anonymous 8:02,ReplyDelete
That is the biggest benefit - not problem!
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:08 AM
Your grasp of written English is fine and you're even making in-roads on the culture with your attempt at English false modesty.ReplyDelete
If you socialised more then your oratory skills might improve, but there's not much free time between doing your duty and trolling, right?
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:10 AM
@8:02: Is it reinforcing the histrionic behaviour to play both the Anon who white-knights ALTF and the one who spars with her?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:12 AM
I know this is off-topic but I'm bored and contemplating. I want to know whether to do a part time law degree. More importantly, I want to understand what's considered so hard about law - apart from the tedium of learning legislation and case histories, it seems something anyone with a high school comprehension of language should be able to grasp.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:12 AM
I'm not seeing any white-knighting here.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:13 AM
".....Thinking about it, the whole deliberate-error-insertion-for-attention thing is ALTF's staple......"ReplyDelete
Actually, my errors are real errors.
@ Anonymous 8:08 AM,
I do not 'troll' - I 'trawl'.
I socialise in Spanish. Care to join me Cervantes?
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:14 AM
Si te apetece, ALTF.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:15 AM
En qualquier lugar de la Mancha, 8:14?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:16 AM
No quiero acordarme, 8:15.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:22 AM
Y yo que fui a rondarleReplyDelete
la otra noche a ALTF
la bella, la traidora
había ido a escuchar a Alfredo Krahus
Y yo con mi canción
como un gilipollas, madre
Y yo con mi canción
como un gilipollas
Y entré con el salero
al comedor de ALTF
la bella, la traidora
ya estaba acabando el flan
Y yo allí con la sal
como un gilipollas, madre
Y yo allí con la sal
como un gilipollas.
Y cuando por su santo
le compré una bicicleta
la bella, la traidora
ya se había agenciado un Rolls.
Pegado al manillar
hice el gilipollas, madre
pegado al manillar
hice el gilipollas.
Y le llevé una orquídia
a nuestra cita en la Glorieta
la bella se besaba con un chulo
y apoyada en un farol
Y yo allí con mi flor
como un gilipollas, madre
y yo allí con mi flor
como un gilipollas.
Y cuando ya por fin
fui a degollar a ALTF
la bella, la traidora
de un soponcio
se me había muerto ya.
Y yo con mi puñal
como un gilipollas, madre
y yo con mi puñal
como un gilipollas.
Y lúgubre corrí
al funeral de ALTF
A la bella, la traidora
le dio por resucitar.
Y yo con mi corona
hice el gilipollas, madre
y yo con mi corona
hice el gilipollas.
captcha: comenses.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:28 AM
Step-o up to the plato (now there's a horrible pond-crossed Americanism), ALTF.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:41 AM
You cunts make only ONE mistake in your intercourse with me - but it's one fuck of a mistake.ReplyDelete
Three things to consider when you might confront me:
I am not a Westernised Woman.
I have no Internet ego.
I am morbidly obese.
The Internet is not real.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:41 AM
Oh look, it's ALTF, the mysterious far Eastern polyglot MD who does a great impression of a bored country American housewife.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:45 AM
"I have no Internet ego" was the eye of your storm of Internet ego, ALTF. No-one cares how fat or Western or female you are or aren't except, perhaps, you.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:45 AM
Bored American country housewife please.ReplyDelete
Polyglot indeed!
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:48 AM
Please? Couldn't you just put an advert in the usual places?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:50 AM
What is the one mistake we make, ALTF?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:50 AM
@ Anonymous 8:45 AM,ReplyDelete
Many of my imaginary heterosexual lovers care a great deal 'how female I am'.
You do not need to 'care', you just need to consider when in the throes of your dubious gamesmanship.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:52 AM
OK, this is fucking ridiculous. His fiance was just diagnosed with serious cancer and he's trying to find a way to deal with his feelings. You're seriously criticizing a man's attempt to come to terms with the high likelihood that the woman he loves will die a painful death in the immediate future?ReplyDelete
Jesus, I can understand you not liking some of the things that he makes, but making fun of a person going through a personal tragedy is just too much, even for you.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 8:55 AM
@ Anonymous 8:50,ReplyDelete
Re-read my comment of 8:41 AM.
The answer to your query will come to you - eventually.
@ Anonymous 8:52,
You're a cunt!
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:02 AM
8:52, I thought I'd correct some schoolboy errors in your post:ReplyDelete
(1) "Fiancee" - I'm fairly sure Randall, unlike ALTF, is not homosexual;
(2) "Serious cancer" - as opposed to fun cancer? Anyway, it's "best cancer";
(3) "You're seriously criticizing...?" - American spelling aside, yes, the criticism is damn serious - perhaps more serious than the cancer. What could the alternatives be?
(4) "Woman" - no evidence. Strip history suggests just as likely to be a girl or a papier mache (one e acute) doll;
(5) "He loves" - no evidence;
(6) "High likelihood" - no evidence;
(7) "Immediate future" - vague. Certainly not likely to die within 10 minutes. Certain to die in the geological immediate future;
(8) "Jesus" - appeal to mythological creature;
(9) "Some of the things" - deliberately vague. All of the things;
(10) "Making fun of a person going through a personal tragedy" - also vague. All people are going through personal tragedies. You don't have to milk the tragedy for profit before you earn a get-out-of-mockery-free card;
(11) "Just too much" - in what sense too much? Quantify your hyperbole.
(12) "Even for you" - ad magnum hominem.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:11 AM
@Anon8:52 Randall, like most people on the autism spectrum, is not capable of love.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Even for you - ad magnum hominem.ReplyDelete
Without me - ad magnum eminem.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:13 AM
1) Fiancée, not fiancee.ReplyDelete
2) You can get non-serious cancers.
3) American spelling is better.
4,5,6) Lots of evidence. You just don't have it.
7) "Certainly not likely to die within 10 minutes." - No evidence.
8) Used as exclamation.
9) No, some of the things. Not vague, accurate.
10) You don't have to, but you can.
11) "Quantify your hyperbole." It would hardly be hyperbole if objectively quantified.
12) Cunt.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:16 AM
"....I'm fairly sure Randall, unlike ALTF, is not homosexual...."ReplyDelete
Isosexual my friend, isosexual.
@ Anonymous 9:13
That's the spirit!
Hate, hate and yet more hate!
With some humour too!
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:18 AM
Though American spelling is not better.ReplyDelete
Granted as the Yankee now rules the world, their spelling should also follow the 'boots on the ground', but still, the Queen's English is best.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:19 AM
@9:13 It's like 9:02 handed you twelve sheets of paper declaring that you are stupid and you stamped your seal of approval on each one.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:20 AM
9:13, if you can get non-serious cancers than Megan's cancer is not serious. Or do you disagree?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:24 AM
Jesus fucking Christ, the dude has close person to him that has cancer and it is weighing on him, so he expresses it in his comics. When someone is worried about a life that is close to them, just let it go. It sucks, and I figured most people know that from experience by now. Have at least a minimal amount of decency out of respect for another human being.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:25 AM
@ Anonymous 9:19,ReplyDelete
It is you who is stupid. Think deeply about it.
You see?
@ Anonymous 9:20,
Stop ignoring me!
I will not suffer neglect!
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:27 AM
9:24 you went too far. First post was convincing cuddlefish but now it's just an obvious troll. Sorry :-(. 2.5/10.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:27 AM
Anonymous @ 9:24,ReplyDelete
"....Jesus fucking Christ...."
Goodness gracious!
Do you eat with that same mouth?
Get some new bait - that one is redundant.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:29 AM
9:19 - It's like someone handed you a bland simile and you used it in the dullest way possible.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:30 AM
Of everyone non-anon on this blog, ALTF reminds me most of Rob. The whole "writing helps you be a better writer even if your writing is shit" thing. Are you Rob, ALTF?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:31 AM
@9:29: You failed your troll and you fail in life. This evening you will seriously consider suicide.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:38 AM
@9:31 - Why must every internet conversation end with 'you fail at things'? Is it because of a lack of imagination, or is it force of habit?ReplyDelete
Captcha: Hancer. Five grades worse than cancer.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM
@ Anonymous 9:31,ReplyDelete
You are a cunt. And no mistake.
@ Anonymous 9:30,
Was that statement self-referrential? You being anonymous and all.
See my comment of 6:20 AM for your answer.
@ Anonymous 9:38 AM
The 'fail' usage is pre-pubescent Lingua Franca - doncha know?
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:46 AM
@9:38: If every Internet conversation you have ends up with "you fail at things", you ought to be asking yourself why.ReplyDelete
I suspect the forumites miss me on their forum, now that I've been banned, and are crowding over here to beg my attention.ReplyDelete
I'd like to raise the argument that anyone here may possibly dealing with a family illness, but is not making webcomics about it.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:50 AM
Precisely, 9:46. Why don't you go ahead and do that?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:50 AM
BP has terminal Priapism.ReplyDelete
Though comical, no comics are involved.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:52 AM
9:50: It was 9:38 suggesting that it does. A few reading comprehension exercises might help clear things up for you - call up your local community college, perhaps?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM
Terminal priapism is by definition not pathological.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:56 AM
Fernie: It was just a third rate troll.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 9:57 AM
@ Anonymous 9:52,ReplyDelete
We all could use some reading comprehension exercises - and Kegel ones too!
@ Anonymous 9:54,
Not if the offense takes place at an airport.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:02 AM
I had sex with a girl with cancer once. She was exhausted from the chemo and fell asleep half way through. I took off the condom and finished off inside her. She figured out what I did the next morning but was so needy she didn't raise a fuss.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:05 AM
Sentences can have more than one meaning, 9:52.ReplyDelete
Maybe you should try again.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:07 AM
@ 10:02ReplyDelete
She had an STD
She felt releived, not needy.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:08 AM
If I slap my dick against your face any harder, 10:05, it'll just get sore.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:10 AM
And yet I feel nothing, 10:08.ReplyDelete
Could you all go back to bugging ALT-F again, before these idiots break out the yo mama jokes?ReplyDelete
That would be quite a low point for all of us.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:26 AM
A life time of slapping has rewarded you with comfortable numbness, 10:10. Can you type anything without it making you look bad?ReplyDelete
@U Kitten: I don't think the sparring with ALTF is any more sophisticated. Less honest, though.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM
10:18, yo moma was a pussy.ReplyDelete
Yo momma's so fat and stupid, she was in a java class and thought JRE stood for Just Repeat Eating.ReplyDelete
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Dearest Non-U Kitten,ReplyDelete
They are not 'buggering' me - at least not in the Eton sense.
@ Anonymous 10:26,
If only you could see that which is truly 'bad'. Perhaps flailing your flaccid penis across the keyboard in a more adroit manner would be more visionarily honest?
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:43 AM
"a java class"ReplyDelete
If you need a class to learn java, you will never succeed as a programmer.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:44 AM
ALTF, in your wilder days we had sex. I'm fairly sure my penis wasn't flaccid then, although I'd have more trouble around you now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 10:54 AM
"A Java Class" refers to teaching etiquette to Komodos at the Surabaya Zoo, you daft idiot.ReplyDelete
@ Anonymous 10:44,
I recall our tryst with pleasant memories. I am ashamed that I no longer fire your ardor.
Alas, woe is me.
"If you need a class to learn java, you will never succeed as a programmer. "ReplyDelete
I did say she was stupid. Pay attention.
"I am ashamed that I no longer fire your ardor."ReplyDelete
Who's the non-U now, huh?
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 11:00 AM
cptnoremac: You know that you are currently attending a Java class.ReplyDelete
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
No, I graduated a year ago. I program for a living.ReplyDelete
And my language of choice is C++, not java.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 11:06 AM
I reckon 'tis I.ReplyDelete
You have to stop using the terminology of popular discourse of social dialects from the Brit 1950s - people will think you're old.
What Capt. Cameron means is that he programmes for a living.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 11:07 AM
That above comment was directed at The Non U Kitten.ReplyDelete
Actually, I was trying to say I allow researchers to test their new drugs on me for a living.ReplyDelete
The U in my name has very little to do with 1950s Britain.ReplyDelete
It does make me sound old though.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM
It is a vowel challenged 'I Robot' kinda thing them?ReplyDelete
"U Kitten"
Starring Derek Jacobi et. al.?
Nice try, but no.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 11:23 AM
@cptnoremac: No-one who graduated a year ago has a real job as a programmer. Even the Oxbridge and the Ivy League grads are outflanked by the thousands with experience at top firms who have just been made redundant.ReplyDelete
tl;dr Enjoy your father's business and/or fantasy.
Guest reviews are always welcome at the other xkcd hate blog.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 11:29 AM
It is fecking dead over there Gamer_2x4.ReplyDelete
Besides you let me pollute your comment facility.
Granted, you do delete me often enough, so, well, yeah, it's a good thing.
@ Anonymous 11:23,
Yins sure is a knowledgeable cunt about employment trends in the High-Tech sector. How would I go about not getting a desk-cunt job like y'all have?
@ Non U kitten,
It was a brilliant try!
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Better a desk-cunt than a slab-cunt, ALTF. But's nothing new under the sun.ReplyDelete
Who hyphenates "no one"?ReplyDelete
Maybe you sucked too hard in school to get a good job, but lots of people get jobs right out of college. Stop projecting your failures onto people smarter and more successful than you.
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM
cptnoremac, everyone not on hick side of the Pond hyphenates it.ReplyDelete
I don't believe you got a programming job in the last year straight out of college, sorry. I think you're almost certainly still in education and fantasising about where you'd like to be. There are so many people from the best schools with experience who are looking for a job again that you'd have to be some sort of genius to be selected. Either that or your daddy did you a favour.
Which is it?
It actually took me two months of interviewing out of college to find this one. It's a semi-small (about 80 employees) business that designs software for utilities. And no, I'm not related to anyone here.ReplyDelete
I think the difference is cptnoremac is in America and anon is in England, where it's much harder to find a job.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 12:00 PM
@ Anonymous 11:31,ReplyDelete
You mean "Slow, Low And Bangin'" like some fully customised automobiles in the deep south of the US of A?
I don't get it.
I work for Uncle Sam in Government Property Repo.
I retrieve from the amputated arms and legs of malicious thieves in S. E. Asia who dare to try and abscond with embedded exploded bits of 45 year old 'American War' Era ordnance they misappropriate from the fields.
The peculating cunts!
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Milking a government-licenced corporate monopoly, eh? You could have made something fancier than that up... but it's certainly the place you're most likely to find dead wood, so you get 7/10 on the plausibility scale.ReplyDelete
Bah, I can't even remember what this argument was about any more. The only people worth trolling are Rob, ALTF and the cuddlefish because they're the only ones who act as if they have reputation to maintain (vicariously, in the last case). I'm in my 30s now and got a programming job straight out of "high school" during the .com boom[tm], so through no work of my own I got to avoid all the shit the current generation has to put up with. Doing something completely different now.
We don't have a government license. There are two other (larger) companies competing with us.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 12:07 PM
ALTF, despite your lackadaisical pusillanimity you demonstrate an underlying bitterness about US treatment of gooks. This may be your undoing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 12:08 PM
cpt, not you, your employer's client. If bottom-feeders had bottoms, your firm'd be feeding from them. But this is the Internet and you're being far too defensive.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 12:09 PM
why can't you all just die alreadyReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Foop is correct. And the situation really is grim for new graduates in England, no matter how intelligent you are. Unfortunately England is full of homosexual milquetoasts, otherwise we'd see something like what has been happening in Madrid.ReplyDelete


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This is a lesson about how and why ice flows, especially in a large mass such as a glacier. Learners will experience the qualities of viscoelastic materials and view videos of glacial ice flows. They will observe ice flows and materials other than... (View More) ice flowing differently under stress, and will investigate landscape changes as a result of large scale glacial movement. Activities include small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. This is lesson 5 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
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3:00 am
Outdoor Idaho "Idaho's Salmon" The once abundant salmon runs into the heart of Idaho disappeared. Since then efforts have concentrated on maintaining their genetic lines. OUTDOOR IDAHO explores the causes for the decline, what is being done to save the fish, and what the salmon mean to native cultures. Underwater cameras capture sockeye salmon returning to Redfish Lake.G
3:30 am
Dialogue "Media, Ethics and the Election" Marcia Franklin talks with Kelly McBride, a senior faculty member of the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida who specializes in ethics, reporting and writing at the school for professional journalists, news media leaders, future journalists and journalism teachers.G
4:00 am
Sesame Street "Telly The Tiebreaker" Elmo, Zoe, Rosita and some friends are making a beautiful block house together but can't agree whether to put a square or circle on top. Alan helps them solve the problem by having them raise their hands for the one they like best. After counting up the votes, the square wins by one. D
5:00 am
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "The Class Votes/The Neighborhood Votes" The Class Votes - At school, Daniel and his classmates get to choose their new class pet! Teacher Harriet explains that they can either get a bunny or a turtle. The kids learn what it means to 'vote' and that sometimes it doesn't always turn out your way. Luckily, ALL of the kids find something to love about their new pet, 'Snowball'! The Neighborhood Votes - The Tiger family is going to Clock Factory Park today to hear a big announcement from King Friday. D
5:30 am
Martha Speaks "Skits and Mr. Scruffles/Brave Truman" Skits and Mr. Scruffles - Everyone's too busy to play with Skits. While he's moping around the neighborhood, he meets Milo, a lonesome newcomer who just moved to Wagstaff City. The two bond, but when they tell their respective families about their new companion, no one believes they're real. D
6:00 am
Austin City Limits "The Civil Wars/Punch Brothers" A program of new American acoustic music begins with The Civil Wars playing tunes from their Grammy-winning album Barton Hollow. Then Punch Brothers showcase their latest recording Who's Feeling Young Now?.G
7:00 am
Rick Steves' Europe "The Majesty of Madrid" Rick tours the lavish Royal Palace, enjoys art-packed museums, and looks deep into Picasso's greatest masterpiece. Experiencing the Spanish city at its fun-loving best, he is mesmerized by flamenco dancers and munches on pigs' ears.G
7:30 am
Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "French Riviera" Rudy drops in on the hot spots along the Mediterranean's Cote d'Azur. From Nice, he leads the way to local beaches and modern art museums. A short hop up the winding Grande Corniche is wealthy Monaco.G
8:00 am
The Desert Speaks "Palms in the Desert" Palm trees have long been a symbol of the desert and, more importantly, a sign of water to a weary desert traveler. In this episode, ecologist Jim Cornett joins host David Yetman for a look around California's Coachella Valley, the lowest and hottest inhabited place in the Northern Hemisphere. After a walk around Palm Springs to examine the area's most famous residents, Yetman heads for the largest undisturbed palm oasis on Earth, Palm Canyon. D
8:30 am
Chef John Besh's New Orleans Pasta Milanese, Mudrica, and Stuffed Artichokes. D
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America's Heartland Researchers in Oklahoma protect source material for farming at the National Seed Bank (Jason Shoultz). Chef Dave Lieberman cooks up special dishes with a unique variety of South Carolina rice. Idaho farm family members work together to get in a crop of barley destined for brewing beer (Rob Stewart). D
9:30 am
New Scandinavian Cooking "Captain Haddock" Andreas visits the wind-blown peninsula of Stad in Western Norway, where boats set sail to catch haddock. Andreas makes haddock "envelopes" stuffed with carrots, saffron, cabbage and prosciutto, and then a brightly colored salad with smoked haddock. After a trip to Scotland to meet the official fish-and-chips champions, he prepares a smoked version of the dish. D
10:00 am
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Mediterranean Specials" Test cook Bridget Lancaster reveals the secrets to making the ultimate Beef Kebabs. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Christopher Kimball to a tasting of Greek yogurt. And finally, test cook Bryan Roof uncovers the test kitchen's secrets to perfect Greek Spinach and Feta Pie. D
10:30 am
P. Allen Smith's Garden Home "Wonderful Wildflowers" Smith deals with the past season's disappointing wildflower display, but has high hopes for a new seed mix designed especially for "drought prone" areas.G
11:00 am
Live from the Artists Den "Adele" Just days after the release of her record-breaking sophomore album, "21," British sensation Adele performed for a small group of lucky fans at the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club in Santa Monica, CA. Her powerful voice filled the elegant ballroom with hits like "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You" from "21," and "Chasing Pavements" from her Grammy-winning debut album, "19," as well as a cover of the soul classic "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." Recorded February 25, 2011, Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club, Santa Monica, CA. D
12:00 pm
Sesame Street "The Camouflage Challenge" Elmo is taking pictures of his friends when they hear someone say something. It's Camouflage Carla! She is camouflaging and blending into the wall behind her. Elmo and Rosita want to camouflage too! Camouflage Carla tells them to join The Camouflage Club. D
1:00 pm
Dinosaur Train "Dinos A to Z, Part 3, Classification/Dinos A to Z, Part 4, A To Z Picnic" The Pteranodon family rides the Dinosaur Train - now with extra cars attached -- as it continues picking up more dinosaurs that are in the `Dinosaurs A to Z' song. The Pteranodon family reunites with some dinosaurs they've met before, and are introduced to species they've never met! The Pteranodon kids also learn about classification, and Don leads the way organizing the dinosaurs on the Train by their species, features, and size. The Pteranodon family is on the Dinosaur Train, now very crowded with all 26 dinosaurs mentioned in the `Dinosaurs A to Z' song. D
1:30 pm
Super Why! "Molly's Dance Show" The curtain rises on Princess Pea's dance recital but she's too scared to come out of the wings! Super Why and his friends head into the story Molly's Dance Show to meet a ballerina doll with similar stage fright. When Molly's dreams of performing come true, thanks to a fairy princess and some magic slippers, Princess Presto wonders what it will take for her to have confidence, too. Educational Objectives: To learn about self-confidence. D
2:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "The Surprising Bean/Hear Here" The Surprising Bean - Nick keeps trying to surprise Sally, but he just can't do it! The Cat takes them to find a real surprise in the Skippylarito Fields! Once there, Cat shows them a special bean - that suddenly moves! With a shrunken Thingamajigger, they go inside the bean and meet the moth larvae that lives there. They learn that it's really the moth that causes the bean to move. What a neat surprise indeed! Hear Here - The kids hear chirping but can't find where it's coming from. D
2:30 pm
Wild Kratts "Secrets of the Spider's Web" When the creature adventuring Kratt Brothers take a nasty tumble, the Wild Kratts sets off on a mission to find and recreate one of the greatest of all biotech engineering secrets. Spider silk. D
3:00 pm
Outdoor Idaho "Idaho's Salmon" The once abundant salmon runs into the heart of Idaho disappeared. Since then efforts have concentrated on maintaining their genetic lines. OUTDOOR IDAHO explores the causes for the decline, what is being done to save the fish, and what the salmon mean to native cultures. Underwater cameras capture sockeye salmon returning to Redfish Lake.G
3:30 pm
Dialogue "Media, Ethics and the Election" Marcia Franklin talks with Kelly McBride, a senior faculty member of the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida who specializes in ethics, reporting and writing at the school for professional journalists, news media leaders, future journalists and journalism teachers.G
4:00 pm
Bluegrass Underground "The Vespers" Absolutely one of "alternative Nashville's" biggest buzz bands, the Vespers feature sisters Callie and Phoebe Cryar and brothers Bruno and Taylor Jones. Their hard-to-pin-down sound leads to a fresh and dynamic mixture of folk, rock and Appalachian stomp, a place where banjos battle drums and fuzz-toned guitars shred mountain ballads, all held together by the Cryar sisters' saintly/sinful harmonies. The Huffington Post's Michael Bialas recently dubbed them ". D
4:30 pm
Music Voyager "Israel: Songs from the Holy Land" Music Voyager host Jacob Edgar travels to Jerusalem and northern Israel to discover the sights and sounds of a region rich with ancient history and religious significance. Israel is a land of contrasts and conflicts: between tradition and modernity, war and peace, spirituality and secularism. The popular band Hadag Nahash blends hip-hop, funk and soul with politically expedient Hebrew lyrics to draw attention to the complex issues facing Israeli society. D
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Land Girls Lady Ellen turns Hoxley Manor into a military hospital and is confronted by a man from her past. Joyce awaits news of her missing husband. Connie is surprised by an old flame at her engagement party. Iris, a new Land Girl, joins the group.G
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Midsomer Murders "Judgement Day (Part 2)" In a town still hoping to win the Perfect Village competition, DCI Barnaby finds there is no shortage of suspects for the pitchfork murder of a local thief and womanizer. Then too, there are the murders of two of the competition judges to solve. Part 2 of 2G
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New Tricks "Wicca Works" The UCOS team reinvestigates the suspicious 10-year-old murder of librarian Craig Rossiter, who was an active member of a coven of witches. Team members soon find themselves involved in witchcraft, magic and curses - plus special tea leaves that have strange effects on the investigators.G
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Former High School Bully Apologizes After Seeing Classmate's Viral Gay Marriage Proposal
We were all blown away by Lucas Bane and David Devora's epic viral marriage proposal/street party, but today it's the aftermath that has us reaching for the tissues!
As their video blasted its way across the interwebs, it also made its way in front of someone who's probably best described as a former high school bully of Lucas's.
So what did he think?
Here's the Facebook interaction between the two all these years later:
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We want to get beers with all of these guys!!
Thanks for sharing, gentlemen!
(H/T: The Gaily Grind)
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I really dislike hypocritical Christians who can quote pieces of the bible for their own gain. It's makes them sound illiterate, and Malicious. You really believe God will favor someone who attacks sin with more sin??? That doesn't even make sense. Dylan, you're obviously bored, lonely, and need attention, but there are better ways than attracting negative attention to yourself. My advice: Grow the fuck up, and stop looking at everything in black and white. Maybe then you'll attract positive friends, and a better.... Happier existence. Possibly you're having a hard time excepting who you really are ;) good luck.
as a true Christian...one who believes in the Bible and the teachings of Christ, i, along with the majority of real, educated Christians, have lived my life following 3 simple rules found in the Bible - christian or not - these are the basis for living and sharing this life we are fortunate enough to have: 1. love thy neighbor as thy brother. 2. God is love. 3. judge not lest ye be judged. i apologize for the dylans of this world who practice their hatred and hide behind their unsupported and frankly, wrong, belief that God requires, or even suggests that we hate anyone different than ourselves. it is a true shame that someone would use the supposed "word of God' to further their idealogies of hatred, bigotry and repression. i pray nightly for these people that they will wake up one morning to the true reality - that we are ALL God's children. I love you all, male or female, gay or straight, black or white, jewish or muslim, lovers or haters!!! THAT is what my God taught me to do. oh....and FYI....NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE IS THE WORD HATE EVER MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have nothing to add to the story here... but I'd like to say that this article is oddly presented, perhaps poorly. The facebook posts might have been screen grabs, but to conceal identities perhaps more could have been done. Let's look at this now... We know the guy's name is Lucas Bane. The facebook posts block out his last name... but the article mentions his last name. So he is searchable, and boom... his photo is right there so we know who to look for. Then the former bully's name starts with a B, and though it is blocked out there are time stamps. If Bane's facebook is open publicly then anyone can search for who the guy is, and look over the timestamps of various dates to find out who he is. So... what good has the censoring done here? Maybe an online editor might like to take note here, eh?
The bible is gross and full of "detestable" things. If I listened to my Bible unquestionably I would have killed people, stoned women, and promoted slavery. I think letting your fellow human live and love has he or she sees fit is far more godly than some of the horrid things in the bible, and constantly cursing those around you who are gay, or who oppose what you believe. If God exists, he probably put everything you need to know in your heart. My heart says to love people as they are, for who they are, and that is all. If I'm wrong, and that lands me in hell, then I will forever burn knowing I'm better than the almighty.
Well i can see that people have NOT read the bible...id rather him be gay than be a rapist and child molesting priest who rapes children and preachesbur beloved bible..oh please the bible was creates humdreds of years by men to promote power and by the way ur lively oppasals...of the last supper live alone happily ever after.( no women all men...hmmm i wonder if they are gay too)...bible states love thy neighbour...(that means no matter what...lgbt disables.)
the bible says a lot.... Yes it says that a man should not lay with another man, but it also states that we are all the children of god.... He is our creator and if he saw it to be so wrong then he wouldn't have created hay men and women.... It also states in the bible that we all should love and be loved..... It does not state we need to be loved by the opposite sex... I praise the lord that u can find solitude some day and come to terms..... FYI most anti gay activist are usually secretly gay.... So do u have a secret to tell..
How about we all have this convo on another site and let Lucas and David have there time to shine!!! As for you Dylan you are all talk on this site and think you are better than everyone! Well your not you are actually below us taking the b-a-t out of basement ! Let's see how you show up in real life! My email is firstname.lastname@example.com lets met up and we will see what kind of man you really are !!!!!
My, My! What language for a so-called follower of Christ. I have a strong feeling that You only "Hate Homosexuals with a passion" because You don't know any personally...and I do NOT mean "Sexually"...I mean as a "Friend".- You've obviously been misled by all the phony stuff going around about gay people being deviants and child molesters; but IF You do Your research, You will see that Child Molesters AND Rapists are Heterosexual!! - NOT Homosexual.- and I have a very strong feeling that You are NOT as much of a "Christian" as You claim (Especially with the way You speak); So, My suggestion is for You to clean Your own house BEFORE You start cleaning someone else's. One last thing since You seem to like to quote The Bible: Have You ever read the passage where Jesus said to the crowd; "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
death to homosexuals. amen
Grow up it's the 21st century dude bible is old as shit got be more open to things we all now you are a pathetic old moron living in a basement who can't get anyone so you wanna try crushing over people's happiness because u have none and before u say anything I'm married with 2 kids and there godfather is gay and my best friend and has been since I was 5 and it's 2 girls by the way
Hi Dylan,
It is completely understandable that you use those scriptures to condemn men who sleep with other men and women who sleep with other women -- it's just one of those things that seems to be clearly stated in the Bible.
Another thing that is clearly stated in the Bible is we were all created by God and God can use anyone regardless of their past, present, or future. Moses murdered a man and look how God used him. David slept with another man's wife (Bathsheba) and had her husband killed so that he would never find out (2 Samuel 11 and look how God redeemed him. Saul killed countless Christians before becoming a Christian himself. The point is that our light requires us to love our neighbors as ourselves. I don't think you would like for anyone to say, "Death to Dylan."
As a Christian (which means Christ-Like), I do want to urge you to let your light shine in such a way that your beliefs do not offend one of these little ones. Please take a look at Matthew 18:6-7.
I love you. Jesus loves you, and God loves. Everyone on this message board is enveloped in love. Please love your neighbor as yourself. As a Christian and fellow human, I apologize to everyone who is hurt, angered, and offended by Dylan's comments. Please send light, love, peace and your prayers to him.
You're the perfect example of a christian asshole. Please go and have a fatal csa accident. The idea that some vile asshole like yourself is somehow ordained by god - god would spit in your ugly face, Please die and leave the world a better place. Jesus says you should kill yourself and the rest of us agree. Please feel free to kill yourself, don't bother asking for help, no one cares. Good riddance die soon.
Remembe, r Jesus wants you to kill yourself. At least you'd stop getting a stiffie every time t you think male penises. Don't disappoint Jesus.
you're the perfect example of a filthy homosexual. god will make your asshole wider when you die of aids faggot. all of you are going to burn in the lake of fire. you chose to become faggots cuz you couldnt find a girl. get a sex doll hahahahahahah. its better than taking gay dicks up the butt. filthy homos ahhahahaha
Dylan you and people like you are the reason for wars in this world. Discrimination, racism, homophobia are the only reasons for hate and wars which idiots like you try and prove are wrong to be different. For all the proud and happy lgbt out there , more power to you, the world needs you and people who can speak up for you. If my children were to come home one day saying that they are lgbt let me be the first to say. IWILL SUPPORT MY CHILDREN NEVER DISOWN THEM, for all you bible preachers i have read every single page line and word to find not only does it NOT state that ut is a sin but god love all his children that means gay, transgender bisexual ALL people.....it only states man and wife shiuld lay together to procreate...which thats an obvious to naturally produce....gays are not the ones having ingnorant children and/or abandaning them. Think of that for a moment.
Well, apparently you'll be burning just as well for judging and condemning others. You have no right to tell people that they are going to hell, Jesus Christ is the ultimate judge and the one who will let us know who is going where. Jesus said, Love one another for love is of God. He who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. Your message is full of hate and that just tells me that you do not know the same God that I do. The God I know loves everyone in this world, regardless if they love Him. It's people like you who give Christians like me a bad connotation. You bring shame upon our community and I pray for God to forgive your narrow-minded, bigoted remarks.You're an awful human being and you do not deserve the gift of quoting scripture.
I think the post is awsome to see how someone changes over years. It is nice to see how some assholes turn into mature adults its too bad now everyone is mature enough to let 2 people who love eachother alone. If my son or daughter ends up lgbt at least the will know that they can come to me and be proud of who they are and no one will mess with this mama....and for those who are posting stupidity it shows that u have no life no love and no job on your hands which is why u are angry.
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Ultimately this is a great story being shared, encouraging other great stories by so many, that are being attacked by one...just remember everyone, just because he is only one person with a bad attitude and poor choices in words...(Dylan Whatever his true name is) isn't a complete waste of a human being, we can always learn from his mistakes, and so many already have...
Best wishes to all those with great life stories to tell.
hey old fart queer. wrap your dildo in barbed wire and take it up the butt so that your gay butt bleeds to death. i'm sure you already have hiv by taking all those gay dicks up the butt. all you faggots must die to make this world clean. your dad must have molested you as a kid and that made you a fag. shame on you homo hahahahahahhahah
JonathAn he chose the name Dylan lentils to send this message under if you recall who that was then that alone says everything about the individual writing the horrible messages above. Be better than him and ignore his juvenile and clearly disturbed posts. Your reply is just what he is looking for. He is obviously bored and has too much time on his hands which explains his attempt to get a rise out of anyone he can. Cheers!
Don't mean to get into other people's business, but say you, 'Dylan', have kids, and say your son or daughter comes out as gay or their kids comes out, will you disown or still want to "get a gun and shoot them in the head" (your words) for being gay?
I get that this is your opinion, but if that's what you really think maybe you should be careful what you say, It may just come back to kick you in the ass. Though I don't know of any bible that says anything about guns or committing any acts of murder.. I don't know what kind of bible you were reading.
Just some food for thought.
First, that is an awesome story. It proves people can rise above petty ignorance and fear. Bravo.
To 'Dylan'
Me thinks you doth protest too much. For someone so against it, you sure spend a lot of time focused on gay sex. Does the idea a of two men together keep you up at night? Do you fret and worry constantly over the idea? I bet you do. Statistically, those who protest the most against gays are often gay themselves or recognize a kernel of same-sex attraction. When you come to terms with yourself, we'll still be here. If you're lucky some of the people you've most likely wronged in your life will be as forgiving as the guy in the story above.
@Dylan. I take it then that you don't wear clothes of two different threads and that when you sin you make a blood sacrifice as that same book of the bible people like you quote ad nauseum demands.
Or how about this. Leviticus 19:17-18 'You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason fairly with your neighbour, lest you incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengence or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the lord'
How about you actually read the rest of that bible and pay attention to what it says instead of spouting off the few quotes that agree with your small minded view of the world.
@Dylan (not your real name): You are aware that the Old Testament also calls for the death penalty for those who pick up sticks on the Sabbath and for girls who aren't virgins on their wedding nights, right? I'm betting not. By the way, your using the name of a mass murder for your screen name seems appropriate ...
awwww your dad likes it up the ass too . all you homosexuals came out of your mom's butt thats why all of you like it up the butt. and jonathan the fag's mom was an anal queen. she took 1000 dicks up her ass and then jonathan came out hahahahahahha. filthy queer. son of an anal queen. hahahahahah
I think you're a moron, Dylan. You put Humanity to shame. We always need more firewood in the deep south...no need to thank me, your spot was reserved long before your birth. I look forward to you shoveling coal for me, and as a reward you may swim in my burning lake of sulfur.
Sincerely, L.
Same thing happened to me when this letter showed up in my FB inbox...
Conversation started October 5, 2011
10/5, 3:55am Hi Matt. I've been trying to write this message for a few years now, since I joined Facebook and you accepted me as your friend. I'm finally writing tonight because of another story in the news of a bullied kid killing himself. When we were about 12 maybe, we were playing at my house and I put you in a trashcan. I doubt that you've forgotten. Some time later, you came to my door and informed me that we were no longer friends. That act was so honest and courageous. I think I realized that you were bigger than me, even at that time. I certainly did in retrospect. I guess I thought you were gay, because you were feminine, but I don't think that's why I did that. I really think it was about size and fear. I was, and still am to a large extent, afraid of men. It was years later that I learned that my grandfather had played "games" with me, Kim, and my cousins. And though I played football and stuff, was terrified of the associated violence. I think I trusted you enough to know that you wouldn't fight me, and I had a size advantage, so I bullied you. I want you to know that I regret my actions very much and to this day remember that huge kid on my porch informing me that I'd lost a friend. I wish I'd had him all along. Scott
10/5, 6:45am Hey Scott, I'm not gay...what are you talking about?? : ) Honestly, I don't remember this at all, so don't beat yourself up over it. I am sure that I thought it was a size thing at the time as well, or I would remember this incident vividly...I was picked on a lot for my size which I knew at the time I could not change. I thought I could change the gay thing... Although from about 12-15 years old, I wanted to die. I have been fully aware of being gay since I can remember...so I had to hide it... it got exhausting by my teens. As for suicide...I never would kill myself, but just to die and fade away would have been desirable so no one would have known I was gay. However, since I was a champion gymnast, 4.0 student, good son, brother, and friend I was armed with many successes as a child further strengthening me. I guess my family telling me not to take shit from anyone worked! I am sure this was hard for you to write... It was certainly hard for me to read since you obviously have been thinking about this a lot, and are trying to work out your guilt. Your grandfather sounds like he was a dangerously confused man who may have caused a fatal chain reaction. Thank god the buck stopped here, and I somehow blocked it from memory. I have no tainted memories of you at all. I do remember our friendship, which I cherished, mysteriously ended abruptly...now I know why. -m
10/5, 6:54am I just stalked your photo albums You know I used to live in Japan on the JET Program... I use my Japanese still today in business. My company rolls me out when Akio Toyoda and all the Toyota higher ups go anywhere in the world...I go with. Kind of cool.
October 9, 2011
10/9, 6:02pm Hi Matt. I'm relieved that you didn't remember. Now you know why our friendship ended at that time. I listen to Dan Savage, and every time he talks about bullying, I remember that incident. I knew through Facebook that you'd lived here. It's a great country, ne? I'm happier here than I could be in the US. Next time you come, I'd love to meet you if you have time.
What kind of woman married you? An 800 pound crack whore? You're such an asshole, seriously, KILL YOURSELF. No one would miss you, you idiot. Some fat slob drooling on his keyboard salivating about buttsex with men. No one wants you, either female or male. What a stupid buffoon. You think you're special because you're straight? Please, no one would fuck you. PIG.
You faggots started fucking each other in the butt because you were tired of being alone. None of you could get a girl in real life. Thats what homosexuality is all about. And an asswipe like you couldn't even get a faggot in real life so you decided to marry your dildo hahahaha. Filthy homo
You got a girl??????????? REALLY? Is she under 400 pounds and does she have a moustache? I can't imagine any woman worth having would have anything to do with you. All you'd have to do is open your mouth and the sane or desirable would flee. Likely excuse themselves to the restroom and call a cab.
Hell, they'd Change their telephone number and enter a witness protection program to get away from your beer gut, missing teeth, flatulence and BO. You might want to propose to a dildo, given your obsession with buttsex it might be long overdue. You appear to be VERY HUNGRY for some sweaty mansex.
I think this is a great article. I was bullied so many times. I was very shy, short and skinny and was a damn easy target. In primary school (all male) I was bullied by this guy who was the ring leader for this group. He was popular. He unfortunately doesnt know that I one of the guys I dated he fooled around with multiple times. I have kept that to myself. Small world huh...
The other one was in my co-ed secondary school. Puberty didnt hit me till I was 16. I was always the smallest and not the typical jock boy. A lot of the guys who poked fun at me ended up being gay. They used me as a scapegoat. One boy in particular was pretty awful. He since went to the US, got his doctorate, lived with his bf when our paths crossed again. He had no recollection of making my life a living hell. Selective memory. Sadly he committed suicide a few months after we reconnected.
My educational life up to age 18 was something I would never want to relive...but you dont stay in school forever and people move on. I have forgiven, but I certainly have not forgotten.
When I was young I was beaten regularly by my mother. This led me to being very shy and nervous and as a result I was bullied at school. Years later I met the ringleader who spoke to me like we had been best friends. I couldn't help myself and told her how her and her friends had made my life a misery at school. All she said was " well we were just kids". No apology -nothing. She thought that it was Ok. I just walked away from her. Not everyone changes for the better!
I was not so eloquent with my bully. I was at a Dance with my BF and heard my name called out and the voice sent shills down my spine; I started to shake.... He tapped me on the shoulder as I was trying to get through the crowd of people to escape him beating me to pulp again.
he said, "I'm sorry I was......." he was trying to think of an appropriate word, to which I said, "A Fucking Asshole, Douche bag!!?" .... he looked at me and said, "yes"... "I guess I deserved that..."
"What do you want?" I asked, he proceeded to ask if I was seeing anyone and if I'd care to go for coffee or a beer sometime.... he even apologized. I told him to fuck right off .... and NO he couldn't have my number as I was with someone and have been now for 20 years... but then would've been only 3....
So I guess I'm thankful he apologized but SHOCKED he is gay. i guess in retrospect, i guess maybe now not so shocked he's gay.... just more shocked he looked me up.
I don't know how I would react. I would maybe accept the apology. But, I couldn't let it pass without telling my bully, that he essentially ruined my life. He hurt and shamed me in ways that I didn't know would be so damaging. And, have such long term impact. And, ot in a good way. He took an already rough situation, and made it worse. Maybe, I'm still making it worse by holding on to it. But, it was truly awful to live through.
Good for these guys. Glad it's had this kind of outcome for them.
This is absolutely amazing!! I too was bullied in school my whole entire life. I have never been apologized to from anyone regarding it. But as I grew, I became someone more amazing then they will ever know. To all the bullies who have bullied me (you know who you are), I want you to know that in the end I win. Because I don't have to live with the guilt of ever treating any human or living thing in general like crap! I get to live with the fact that I survived it, and I am a far better person then you will ever be. The bully above is a great guy for making it clear that he is sorry, I love that. People can change, whether you are the bully or the bullied. Thank you for this post, it has clearly made an impact on me.
The act of asking forgiveness is so important to help heal the person you wronged. I can't stress enough how much it meant to me to have this friend step up and ask to be forgiven, not once, but twice.
I am close friends as an adult with a guy that wasn't very nice to me when we were kids. When we were in college he apologized to me...it was heartfelt and I had given him forgiveness before he asked for it. Then he apologized again, after he had his own children. I remember crying with him and telling him how much I love him and how the past is just that...the past. I love him...always will. He is a friend for life.
Jeff, I disagree quite strongly with your first paragraph. Apologizing to someone you've wronged is important, then let it go. (Which is what "B"'s first email was.) Asking that person to forgive you is just another demand on them, and selfish. Almost another type of bullying. Very passive/aggressive. It does not help the wronged person at all! (Though forgiveness will help them, having their former tormentor plead for it really won't.)
"B" never asked for forgiveness, showing how truly grown up he is. In the first email he didn't ask for anything - no forgiveness, no response, no acknowledgement at all. He just offered an apology and good wishes. In the second he thanked Lucas for forgiving him, but that's all. A class act.


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07/22/2014 9:06pmTwenty-one people from 10 states were arrested Monday during a protest that "became physical" at a controversial tar sands mine in northeastern Utah, according to the Uintah County Sheriff's Office.
10 ways to enhance your introverted child's leadership qualities
07/22/2014 9:16pmHighly successful individuals as diverse as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Hillary Clinton and J.K. Rowling are self-described introverts. The secret of their successes? Embracing rather than battling their innate strengths as introverts.
Bluffdale man who shot neighbor released from prison
07/22/2014 9:18pmA man convicted in the shooting of a neighborhood watchman in Bluffdale three years ago was released from prison on Tuesday.
Lindon man accused of killing ex-wife's husband appears in court
07/22/2014 9:39pmA Lindon man accused of trying to kill his ex- wife and instead shooting her husband to death returned to court Tuesday afternoon.
Utah legislative candidate accused of kidnapping, selling pain medication
07/22/2014 9:52pmA Democratic candidate for the Utah Legislature was charged Monday with aggravated kidnapping.
Kamas family shaken by tragedy receives support from community
07/22/2014 10:24pmFamily and friends are pulling together to buoy up a Kamas family who in the wake of a tragic accident with a daughter also lost a mother.
Mother of missing 13-year-old girl hands out fliers, hopes for clues
07/22/2014 10:30pmJaelyn Gruenebaum, who turned 13 this past weekend, is missing after walking away from the Kearns Recreation Center Monday evening.
Residents on standby as fire rages in Tooele; firefighters fight blaze in Morgan
07/22/2014 10:33pmA community in Tooele County on is standby Tuesday as a wildfire continues to char the landscape behind their homes. Officials say they "don't have much containment" on the fire due to hot weather and windy conditions.
Cross-state data sharing system helps find missing infant
07/22/2014 10:54pmA month-long search for a missing infant from Montana ended right here in Utah this week, and law enforcement agencies said it's all thanks to a cross-state data sharing system.
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