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Starving Pelican
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 Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject: A Funny Thing Happened in the Forum |
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It transpires that a Cambo blogger isn't too impressed with K440. I stumbled across his/her blog today. Note the following entry from July 8, 2009:
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A Funny Thing Happened in the Forum
Bored as ever, Mukloi took a tour of the online forums this month, where, surprisingly, a tiny speck of meaning glinted from the cesspool. Cambodia, it seems, is like a Rorschach blot, simultaneously a haven for cheap sin and a cultural gem striving to re-invent itself. A brief spat was ignited by the claim, originally published in the Phnom Penh Post, that Western women have a hard time finding worthy partners here. As a paid up chauvinist and always anxious to join an altercation, Mukloi waded into one of the more urbane forums to heap criticism on the female reporter’s work. Though this miniature battle of the sexes was a good five-minute diversion, the shame of anonymously assassinating someone for merely expressing their opinion is hard to shake. Why do people enjoy slinging sneering insults online? Like Mukloi, many are probably under-worked consultants eking out their miniscule work quota over a long day. But some—usually the goose-stepping, Trotsky-worshipping moderators—have a much more major malfunction.
These guys, at least on the forums that egregiously see themselves as ‘edgy’ and ‘counterculture’, are the dictionary definition of failure; divorced from their podgy wives, parted from their terraced brick coffins, and slowly succumbing to their mercenary sweethearts and the evils of drink. Their almost-touchingly illiterate harangues, which masquerade as ‘front page articles’, are nothing short of tragic.
These self-important rants mark a new low in vanity publishing, their a-grammatical invective plumbing the depths of both embarrassing insecurity and sheer god-awful writing. Usually beginning with a convoluted miasma of obscure adjectives, over-intricate pseudo-leads sinuously slip out of the uninterested reader’s grasp like a slimy eel, words misapplied with infantile naiveté to appallingly simple concepts. Coherent through-lines are as common as hen’s teeth.
Like the red-faced, panting porkers they are, these ‘writers’ tend to run out of steam after the first few paragraphs, resorting to blunt metaphors unskillfully lifted from Jeremy Clarkson’s swaggering columns. Yet, while Clarkson’s inimitable excoriation of modern life can at least raise a smirk, the plodding prose of these most amateur of also-rans can only inspire a depressing mix of boredom and pity. Their choice of subject, either ‘girly bars’ or infuriatingly simplistic restaurant ‘reviews’, is symptomatic of a constrained and frustrated life; these are the highlights of existence, paraded on a pedestal for friendless, fawning acolytes to praise.
Commas are dropped left and right, and full- and semi-colons a mysterious sorcery. Why, one might ask, would someone spend hours laboriously typing with a single finger—regularly halting to hit ‘shift F7’ to make their regrettable account all the less readable—such odious garbage?
The simple answer seems to be insecurity. With few friends and the social skills of a retarded orangutan, these social lepers lack an audience willing to stomach their puerile truisms. Indeed, despite being subject to the utter contempt of those in the media industry, the worst offenders seem to be laboring under the erroneous belief they have talent enough to become a professional, repeated knock-backs and ridicule only fuelling their laughable claims that such risible dreck is ‘too real’ for publication.
Still, these deluded ignoramuses should receive our sympathy rather than our ire, clinging as they do to their fantasies of unrealized success. Perhaps the Guardian’s Charlie Brooker, writing back 2006, most eloquently summarized the bizarre mentality that pervades these online sewers. “[Forums] appeals to the “lab rat” part of your brain,” he wrote, “the annoying, irrepressible part that adores repetitive pointlessness and would gleefully make you pop bubblewrap till Doomsday if it ever got its way. An unfortunate few, hooked on the futile thrill of online debate, devote their lives to its cause. They roam the internet, actively seeking out viewpoints they disagree with, or squat on messageboards, whining, needling, sneering, over-analysing each new proclamation—joylessly fiddling, like unhappy gorillas doomed to pick lice from one another’s fur for all eternity.”
So, if you’re reading this forum jockeys, the above is how to pen a generalized character assassination without once referring to the facts. Now you know. |
His references include direct links to K440 so it's obvious he is on about this site.
Linky: www.sam-campbell-feltches-farmyard-animals.com
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SunSan
I'm on 3000; na na, na na na
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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I find his article full of complicated, difficult- to- spell adjectives. No idea whether they're placed or misplaced cuz I don't understand them...
*smiley*
And what does this mean?
| Quote: | | Over Complexity in the Generation of Ignorance |
Isn't a 'the' missing? |
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Chuangt2u
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | ...Still, these deluded ignoramuses should receive our sympathy rather than our ire... |
Isn't it ignorami?
| Quote: | | ...without once referring to the facts... |
Bang on target.
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SunSan
I'm on 3000; na na, na na na
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Location: Phnom Penh
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Chuangt2u wrote: | | Quote: | | ...Still, these deluded ignoramuses should receive our sympathy rather than our ire... |
Isn't it ignorami?
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If it's the u- declination it could even be 'ignoramusii'!
Or, whaddayaknow, if it's been anglicised, 'ignoramuses'? |
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steven lewis
I have some social problems
Joined: 02 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Truth hurts. He's spot on for the most part. |
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Felgerkarb
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Location: Felgerkarb Castle, Felgerkarbia (formerly Preah Vihear)
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Like the red-faced, panting porkers they are.. |
This nice ad hominem attack brought to you by the letter F and the William F. Buckley Jr. Word of the Day Desk Calendar.
*FAP**FAP**FAP*
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earl
I've got internet at work
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| This guy is ponderous. Ponderous. |
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earl
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe he meant "...Over Complexity in the Generation of the Ignorant."
How about "An Over Complex Generation of Ignoramuses??
"But some—usually the goose-stepping, Trotsky-worshipping moderators—have a much more major malfunction."
I think he's talking about Bubs here. |
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Licentious
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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It's that switch hitting faggot Sam Campbell. Didn't he get barred from here?
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hanky
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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That would be the Sam Cambell who admitted in the Friday pull-out in the Post that he couldnt get a proper job in England? How lame.  |
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keeping_it_riel
"440 Admin, who me? No not me, TAXI!"
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Ah yes, Sam Campbell. This fucktard is known for two main things. 1) Being sacked from more obscure magazines that no one reads and fewer people have heard of than any living expat and 2) Being a fucktard of truly epic proportions. Example - a couple of years ago when working for a magazine he was later fired from and which no longer exists, he threatened to sue Chhay Vet for writing his stories here. Campbell said he'd thought of them first. Really. Obviously we told him to fuck off.
And SP, you really are a weasel.
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logos
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | An unfortunate few, hooked on the futile thrill of online debate, devote their lives to its cause. They roam the internet, actively seeking out viewpoints they disagree with, or squat on messageboards, whining, needling, sneering, over-analysing each new proclamation—joylessly fiddling, like unhappy gorillas doomed to pick lice from one another’s fur for all eternity.” |
I found the above accurately pictures a well known controversial member of the forum who lives by proxy as Cambo's a long way from home. She'll probably jump in with yet another analysis as soon as she reads those words.
The rest is mostly pompous bullshit from someone claiming to be a professional writer, if it's campbell.
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Starving Pelican
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| keeping_it_riel wrote: |
And SP, you really are a weasel. |
HEY! Don't shoot the messenger.
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IveGotSomethingToSay
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Like the red-faced, panting porkers they are.. |
Sounds like someones not getting any.
Anyway I have six pack abs and could hardly be called a porker, seems that stereotyping guys who like to enjoy their own lives in their own way fizzed out on this mincing tard.
And I like the way he writes with big words to prove how smart he is and validate his fanciful claims. Yet I have a legit 140IQ and write so everyone can understand me on the first read through - who is smarter?
I like brown girls, I like living in chaotic Asia, I like being outside the standard comfort zone, I like the food and I like myself and my life.
How about Mr. Bogger - does he like himself or his life? I already know the answer is no or he'd be out LIVING his life whether it be chasing girls, drinking beer with mates or whater makes you happy. |
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Rick H.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: ,,,guilty as , charged; |
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| Quote: | | Commas are dropped left and right, and full- and semi-colons a mysterious sorcery. |
,,Spot on!!;;,, , you ignoramuses,,, ;;, should ,,, use more fuckin' ,,,,commas god dammit!!,;; |
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