Year in review!
Dec. 31st, 2006 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingAnd now, my annual tradition: The posts from this year that garnered the most comments.
January: High-schooler sues school board based on grounds of bias against male students: "The system is designed to the disadvantage of males," Anglin said. "From the elementary level, they establish a philosophy that if you sit down, follow orders, and listen to what they say, you'll do well and get good grades. Men naturally rebel against this."
That's right. He just said that since boys won't follow rules, a system that punishes breaking rules must naturally be biased against boys.
Reason for all the comments: sexist inbred arguing that the original complaint was valid as the public school emasculates men and makes them all weak and womanly.
February: Mob sacks Danish embassy in Damascus.
Reason for all the comments: Cartoons of Mohammed, dude. That, and I took the position that while the reaction to being offended was absurd, the offense in the first place was not so unreasonable.
March: "I just killed a kid," Charles Martin told the emergency services operator. "I shot him with a goddamn 410 shotgun twice."
Reason for all the comments: Guns.
April: Mindless religious bigotry: it's what's for breakfast!
Reason for all the comments: Cartoons of Mohammed combined with blaming American students for the actions of Saudi terrorists.
Honourable mention for April: The first thing you see in Dachau are the walls and the barbed wire. (warning: many images)
May: "If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby, and baldness is a hair color."
Reason for all the comments: For some people, apparently "not collecting stamps" is how they spend all their free time.
June: Oh, dear.
Reason for all the comments: Look at that picture! OF COURSE it got comments! There are parents who read me!
Disqualified from June competition due to friendslocking, otherwise it would have won:
"I'm painting on the board: Rattlesnake Jake. Murder. Kidnapping. Extortion."
"You spelled Extortion wrong!"
"Quiet, you. I'd spell better if I didn't have YOUR BULLET in MY HEAD."
"At least take out the C!"
"This is paint! We can't just erase things!"
"I'll add a line and turn it into a K. That's better, right?"
"Oh, great. A sign that saysRattlesnake Jake:
Murder,
Kidnapping,
Ecks
Eksto
Extro
Stealin' Stuff"
July: A fast food restaurant cashier in Dayton, Ohio, found that it doesn’t help to be right when you’re dealing with police thugs. The cashier took an order from a cop at the drive-thru window. She gave him change for a ten, but the cop claimed he gave her a twenty. The manager confirmed that there wasn’t even a twenty in the register, but the cop came in behind the counter, pepper sprayed the cashier, and arrested her.
Reason for all the comments: Police brutality always causes discussion.
Honorable mention for July It's an announcement!
August: I think I'm offended.
Reason for all the comments: A discussion on piracy and the best way to make Apple (Interface designed by for and by geniuses! Functionality designed for and by the "more than one mouse button is too complicated" set) software work.
Disqualified from August competition due to friendslocking, otherwise it would have won:
September: For the majority of students, reading and writing are difficult enterprises with limited payoffs in the modern world.
Reason for all the comments: MSNBC does Jonathan Swift!
Honourable mention:
Reason for all the comments: Oh, come on, a *JPG* that contains the full works of HP Lovecraft deserves comments.
November: Why coders must not write UIs
Reason for all the comments: THERE'S A "PRO MODE" BUTTON ON THAT WINDOW!
December: The New Yorker tells me that the crazies have gotten even crazier.
Reason for all the comments: Arguing over whether Judaism is fundamentally a delusional bronze-age cult or a delusional iron-age cult.
Honourable mention: A Slice Of Life - because everything is better with bacon.
January: High-schooler sues school board based on grounds of bias against male students: "The system is designed to the disadvantage of males," Anglin said. "From the elementary level, they establish a philosophy that if you sit down, follow orders, and listen to what they say, you'll do well and get good grades. Men naturally rebel against this."
That's right. He just said that since boys won't follow rules, a system that punishes breaking rules must naturally be biased against boys.
Reason for all the comments: sexist inbred arguing that the original complaint was valid as the public school emasculates men and makes them all weak and womanly.
February: Mob sacks Danish embassy in Damascus.
Reason for all the comments: Cartoons of Mohammed, dude. That, and I took the position that while the reaction to being offended was absurd, the offense in the first place was not so unreasonable.
March: "I just killed a kid," Charles Martin told the emergency services operator. "I shot him with a goddamn 410 shotgun twice."
Reason for all the comments: Guns.
April: Mindless religious bigotry: it's what's for breakfast!
Reason for all the comments: Cartoons of Mohammed combined with blaming American students for the actions of Saudi terrorists.
Honourable mention for April: The first thing you see in Dachau are the walls and the barbed wire. (warning: many images)
May: "If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby, and baldness is a hair color."
Reason for all the comments: For some people, apparently "not collecting stamps" is how they spend all their free time.
June: Oh, dear.
Reason for all the comments: Look at that picture! OF COURSE it got comments! There are parents who read me!
Disqualified from June competition due to friendslocking, otherwise it would have won:
"I'm painting on the board: Rattlesnake Jake. Murder. Kidnapping. Extortion."
"You spelled Extortion wrong!"
"Quiet, you. I'd spell better if I didn't have YOUR BULLET in MY HEAD."
"At least take out the C!"
"This is paint! We can't just erase things!"
"I'll add a line and turn it into a K. That's better, right?"
"Oh, great. A sign that says
Murder,
Kidnapping,
Ecks
Eksto
Extro
Stealin' Stuff"
July: A fast food restaurant cashier in Dayton, Ohio, found that it doesn’t help to be right when you’re dealing with police thugs. The cashier took an order from a cop at the drive-thru window. She gave him change for a ten, but the cop claimed he gave her a twenty. The manager confirmed that there wasn’t even a twenty in the register, but the cop came in behind the counter, pepper sprayed the cashier, and arrested her.
Reason for all the comments: Police brutality always causes discussion.
Honorable mention for July It's an announcement!
August: I think I'm offended.
Reason for all the comments: A discussion on piracy and the best way to make Apple (Interface designed by for and by geniuses! Functionality designed for and by the "more than one mouse button is too complicated" set) software work.
Disqualified from August competition due to friendslocking, otherwise it would have won:
Statement:The kind of player who would stop playing if their character did not accumulate XP is a plague on the game and do not deserve to play at all. As such, the best policy is to give out no XP at all except for exceptional play, as a way to prevent bloat AND get rid of bad players.Discuss!
September: For the majority of students, reading and writing are difficult enterprises with limited payoffs in the modern world.
Reason for all the comments: MSNBC does Jonathan Swift!
Honourable mention:
Soon I discovered that this cult thing is true...October: Fun with images!
H.P.Lovecraft is the Devil.
Cthulhu was a Priest before he became a God.
All of a sudden I found myself in love with the Void!
And there's only one thing left for me to do...
And that's Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Reason for all the comments: Oh, come on, a *JPG* that contains the full works of HP Lovecraft deserves comments.
November: Why coders must not write UIs
Reason for all the comments: THERE'S A "PRO MODE" BUTTON ON THAT WINDOW!
December: The New Yorker tells me that the crazies have gotten even crazier.
Reason for all the comments: Arguing over whether Judaism is fundamentally a delusional bronze-age cult or a delusional iron-age cult.
Honourable mention: A Slice Of Life - because everything is better with bacon.
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