The FriendFeed flaming departure- an episodic in which we profile various online personas and their arc of introduction, infatuation, obsession, anger, frustration, and departure.
Are you talking about the rants about people deleting their accounts and then coming back?
- CW™
CW, you've been on here as long as me- I'm sure you've seen a fair share, like I have.
- anna sauce
Are we turning this into a documentary, or a soap opera?
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Joe, I actually don't blame the community. There are individuals that - during the election period- I learned about in a new way, and I unsubscribed. And blocked. And, problem went away. Whenever anyone has these flaming departures (minus @directeur) I think they just don't know how to use the tool.
- anna sauce
used to happen in newsgroups and forums - the same patterns now move to social networks - if only more publicly (note: I didnt see any of it, but I can imagine)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
the hate directed at people who leave and come back gets real old, real fast.
- Jim Hearts FF
directeur left and came back- and in that time he built a new tool that solved the problem that he thought the site had. If that's not a constructive channelling of frustration, I don't knwo what is, lol.
- anna sauce
Once in a while I go to YouTube comments to see the real vitriol
- anna sauce
hate is just about never a constructive channelling of anything - but it is easier online when you havent met the people to behave in nasty ways you never would do in person
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Anna, Being on social sites as long as we have, we see this like every 3 months. Its nothing new. Its nothing old. Its as it is, human nature. I personally find the bitch sessions about people leaving and coming back annoying, but like you all said its a good Drama fest for the moment and quite entertaining to see people cry and whine over things they have no control over or really any...
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- CW™
Hey if you need to leave someplace for you to be better, then please do it. Your mental and emotional well being is more important then anything. If I wanted to keep in touch with you, I can find a way some other services. :) If you want to keep in touch with me, then I'm open on all sorts of ways to be contacted.
- CW™
That is right CW - I don't need FF to stay in touch w/ whomever but I am tired of seeing people mobbed into leaving too.
- Joe
Joe, Yeah that is pretty petty in my book. I do sometimes want to know why someone left, but its just as I said, I hope they are doing better by leaving. That is ultimately more important. I do understand why the mobs complain too, its a anger on their part 1) They are angry their social FF experience will be cut by the persons departure. Cause no matter if your post is liked or...
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- CW™
Not to be a told-you-so, but the minute I saw Holden join with his name, "god of FF" based on absolutely nothing, I had a feeling his personality type might go the route of the quick flame.
- anna sauce
As someone who's deleted their account before and come back, I don't see what the big deal is. This social networking stuff isn't that serious, and to me the drama is just humorous.
- Cristo
got to go find the old flame war character types list, from the newsgroup days - wonderful stuff
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
+++Joelle + Flame Warriors. there are at least one of each of those active right now on FF and you can just about predict their departures too. EDIT: But most are here for the duration.
- Carlos Ayala
LOL oh that is funny: a new term for me, fits perfect, Jung would've loved Holden. These episodes still interest me, as often as they play out, FF is like a "Lord of the Flies" psychological case study. Holden's was particularly amusing as it played out like a High School Drama, for example, I LM-ASS-O when one of those involved DM'd a person to tell me they didn't like me- ughhh, the...
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- sofarsoShawn
For the record, I've never engaged anyone in an effort to run them off. Secondly—and you can verify this from the people who know me offline—, I'm pretty much the same online as I am away from the computer. Third, although I may get into it with people from time-to-time, I never actively seek people out in other people's threads to randomly start shit with them; I may attack the topic...
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- Akiva Moskovitz
No no no, don't say that! You've been blessed!
- sofarsoShawn
I don't buy into the belief that people can be "run off" a service or "forced to quit". FF has plenty of features to change your interaction if you're having issues with other users. You can simply walk away from posts you don't like, use the hide button, or block the person. You can make your feed private. You can unsubscribe from people and subscribe to other people. If someone gets...
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- Rochelle
I like to delete my account to remove all the content. It's a side effect that it removes all my subscriptions and subscribers too. :) Also, I agree largely with Akiva, except that he is wrong when he argues with me. P.S. Wall-E sucked. :P
- Cristo
Okay, I've changed my mind. I support running Cristo off.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I also don't believe people are "run off" from Friendfeed. I've seen some people delete their account 3 or 4 times and then come back a week later. Attention seekers who love to be fawned over when they make their return.
- Alan Simpson
Some would accuse anyone who uses social media sites like FriendFeed as "attention seekers", and I didn't delete my account for attention, although others may have.
- Cristo
I didn't delete mine for attention either (quite the opposite). Frankly, this post annoys me a bit. Why is frustration and anger any less of a valid reason to leave than anything else? We're not robots (except for Mo, of course).
- Jason Huebel
Also, I fully support Cristo's comment about Wall-E. It sucked. Like a Hoover. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
Jason - Maybe I should clarify - I only have an issue with people who continually jump into divisive arguments, get their feelings hurt, delete their account, wait a week or two, come back with an announcement that they are back, accept fawning, lather, rinse repeat.
- Alan Simpson
I'm always amazed at how well a lot of these old photos hold up today, as far as style and technique.
- Bluesun 2600
Why? They're of far better quality, composition and skill than sheer amount of digital photography today.
- anna sauce
It's more a question of contemporary feel. Do you expect a photographer, from 70 or 80 years ago, to have a look and feel of a modern portrait photographer? I am mostly commenting on that. In some cases they feel as modern as any image taken today. People have short memories of the quality of those that came before and made possible our modern works.
- Bluesun 2600
Do you think that modern portrait photographers are better than Hollywood in the 30s?
- anna sauce
Gelatin will always look better than digital.
- anna sauce
I'm not saying it's better. Glass is sharper and more crisp than gelatin negatives. Film by it's very nature has qualities that are better than digital. It can add an aesthetic that digital has a hard time replicating. New tech gets adopted, do to convenience, not do to it being better
- Bluesun 2600
I was thinking the other day that I wanted home-made rye bread around, and then laughed, as making bread is probably the last thing I have time for :(
- anna sauce
Anna, just find some simple recipes! This one took about 5 minutes to mix up. It's a quick bread so it doesn't need time to rise or anything. Just mix and pop it in the oven.
- Rochelle
I like this rye bread recipe, but need to go buy rye, and that's uh, like my other post re: not wanting to go shopping, ha. Can you just make some and give it to me? I live at...
- anna sauce
Fact: Anytime you stand up for yourself, shine your star, and/or state an unpopular position on something, someone's going to go around and say crap about you. You can't stop them from doing it, and you may have done it yourself, at some point in time.
The best thing you can do, rather than cry over being lied about (which is what I used to do all the time) and go the fascist route of shutting down any and all discussion of your person, is own up to the argument, understand that some people will always mistake hate for the expression of opinion, and move...the...hell...ON!!!
- Helen Sventitsky
We all likely have, especially about public figures or strangers. I try to remember to focus on facts rather that personal attacks and that everyone has a family, but I'm no angel and it's a learning process.
- joey
It's always a learning process. This is just some wisdom I've gathered from spending too much time online from the past 15 years or so. I used to get so upset at the other side of these flame wars I used to get involved in, and then they'd go around to these other BBSs, badmouthing me. Eventually, I recognized that I was doing the same thing, in the name of "telling the truth about...
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- Helen Sventitsky
"It’s snowing heavily, and everyone in the backyard is in a swimsuit, at some kind of party: Mom, Dad, the high school principal, there’s even an ex-girlfriend. And is that Elvis, over by the piñata? Uh-oh. Dreams are so rich and have such an authentic feeling that scientists have long assumed they must have a crucial psychological purpose. To Freud, dreaming provided a playground for the unconscious mind; to Jung, it was a stage where the psyche’s archetypes acted out primal themes. Newer theories hold that dreams help the brain to consolidate emotional memories or to work though current problems, like divorce and work frustrations. Yet what if the primary purpose of dreaming isn’t psychological at all?"
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"In a paper published last month in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard, argues that the main function of rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, when most dreaming occurs, is physiological. The brain is warming its circuits, anticipating the sights and sounds and emotions of waking. “It helps explain a lot of...
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- RAPatton
"In fact, research suggests that only about 20 percent of dreams contain people or places that the dreamer has encountered. Most images appear to be unique to a single dream. Scientists know this because some people have the ability to watch their own dreams as observers, without waking up. This state of consciousness, called lucid dreaming, is itself something a mystery — and a staple...
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- RAPatton
There's a WNYC RadioLab on sleeping- and they mention (through sources I forget) that dreaming is a form of computer de-frag, that it's sweeping through and acknowledging meaningful memories or sensations from the day, and disregarding useless or unimportant details or senses. So when you awake, you frequently have those revelations, because your brain has been cleaned up, re-invigorated and focused, prioritized. I'll find and post the link here.
- anna sauce
*lol* AWESOME!!! I'm so so glad she is being a good little kitty companion and making life funny and interesting!! We had to start keeping our toilet seat down because of Indy. Really it wasn't the accidental jumping in the toilet so much as the two times she tried to use the toilet to get up the counter and timed it so that she jumped up to the toilet seconds after I had stood up. You get the picture. ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
I wanted Khet. They put on hold, what I thought was Khet, when I called. When I showed up, they did not have Khet. They had "CATZ" a calendar full of cat photos. ARGH
- anna sauce
I have to admit I let the project languish- life has become oddly busy now. But I will return!! And yes to good dreams while writing. I think it's meditative, and fun, so my brain relaxes.
- anna sauce
Funny, though, her husband was walking through the room and said, "Don't touch that computer in there, it's working fine!" So much for my skillz.
- anna sauce
"A colleague replied that his mother-in-law’s first job title was ‘Computer’. She majored in math and worked for NACA, the predecessor of NASA. Her job was to compute the solutions to equations — because there were no machines that could do that."
- anna sauce
from Bookmarklet
Anthony is honored to have just met - and exchanged courtesies with - the President of the United States. And that was, as the kids say, pretty effin’ cool.
you promised us you'd say some dramatic line to him, did ya panic and go with "wussup?"
- Steve C
@Steve: actually no, I cried like a little girl and peed myself, as is my longstanding personal tradition whenever meeting current or former Heads of State. It's simply good protocol; they seem to love it...
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Somehow I believe you, Anthony but still - pics or it didn't happen!
- WorldofHiglet
@WoH: "somehow?" ha, gee thanks! There are no pics of this one, I'm afraid (although there are almost surely pool pics of me at the ropeline early in the night) and believe me it bugs me more than the rest o' yaz. Hopefully @ the next one I get a proper photo op.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
@ahsan: dinner at the Beverly Hilton last night. (sorry, overlooked your q.)
- Anthony Citrano
:) You LA folk have personal photographers documenting your every move don't you?!? Don't tell me that not true because I saw it on the tv....Anyway, it must have been a very special moment. I hope you didn't cry and pee too much o_O
- WorldofHiglet
Cooler than that Best of Day thread about jock itch?
- Matthew DeVries
@charlie: about my personal moment (A: right here), or about the President coming to LA? (A: just about anywhere; pick your media poison.)
- Anthony Citrano
SO, can you tell us a little more about other than the wetting/crying?
- WorldofHiglet
Even though I can't stand Obama, I have to admit, your getting to meet the president is pretty cool.
- Joey Gibson
@WoH - I don't think I'll get into the blow-by-blow here (there's absolutely nothing of substance anyway.) However, I will almost surely draw on the experience for a future article.
- Anthony Citrano
Well I hope you do deign to share some little details with us sometime. When you can be bothered. In other news, did you see the new YouTube video from the WhiteHouseTV entitled "OMG!!!!! I met Anthony Citrano!!!!! For REALS!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I hear it's going viral....
- WorldofHiglet
WoH: don't make fun o' me! we've already determined I cry easily. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Ooopsie - my bad. I forgot you were such a delicate little flower :)
- WorldofHiglet
If you shook his hand, you have been changed. : )
- Phil Boiarski
@Phil - I did twice. Should I not have showered? ;)
- Anthony Citrano
"It can be assumed that the Author, while watching a television show by himself, heard the line “the moment my brother died, I felt a searing pain in my heart” and immediately sprung from his bean bag chair to write down the line and a single word: “PHYSICS!” That word was then underlined and circled, thus beginning the creation of another scientific-concept-transposed-into-real-life cartoon."
- anna sauce
from Bookmarklet
1) nobody would say really how they felt when someone dies. It's a serious thing, and close to you, and you would probably not share it with a cruel jerk.
- anna sauce
2) Making a scholarly point out of someone's pain. It's supposed to be funny for being inappropriate, but to me, it's just inappropriate.
- anna sauce
3) This person, probably because of their youth, hasn't had anyone close to them die, and this comic pretty much proves that point.
- anna sauce
4) doesn't quite make the "we've all been this jerk" point, as it's an obscure physics reference.
- anna sauce
5) oh the inside-joke-meme of "remember that 200-level physics class?" I could throw out obscure feminist literary references. Oh Irigaray! she knew her way around a speculum! LOL. But is there *humor* beyond the cliquey knowledge? (note: http://tinyurl.com/yjzpxba)
- anna sauce
I dunno. I think it's pretty funny. But my sense of humour really does fall into the "seriously dark" side.
- Nine
Anna, the first character, he's just an actor, so it's okay. His brother didn't really die. :) I think the joke here is the social awkwardness of physicists, rather than a scholarly point. In which case, the cliquey knowledge is just bonus jokes.
- The Letter M
Marty- No he's not an actor. That's the reviewer's imagination. The actual XKCD is just the stick figure, meaning, just a friend or someone IRL.
- anna sauce
I think its hilariously funny. No offence, tho, to people who don't find this funny at all.
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto- XKCD is passed around like crack in tech circles. I'm just over it. I love this reviewer's site, tho.
- anna sauce
Oh, I see what you're saying. I wasn't even going that far, just cracking a joke about the stick figure.
- The Letter M
Marty- or the only joke is the inside jokes?
- anna sauce
Funny thing - to me- is that the "right answer" is something a lot of people struggle with. If you've ever had a sibling die, or someone close to you, getting to the basic condolences is very mature and difficult for everyone. Making a joke that physicists or nerds have a harder time, is pretty much insensitive to anyone's struggle.
- anna sauce
There could be a joke in the "cleverness trumps all" attitude of geeks, but you'd have to do it with a less charged situation.
- anna sauce
I just lost my uncle on Monday and I've been getting different kinds of "wrong" and "very wrong" responses all week so I really loved this one for turning something that was causing me pain into something to smile over.
- Alix Whitmire
Alix- I'm sorry! And glad it worked for you.
- anna sauce
Much is made of us sciencey types having a hard time with social interaction. I honestly don't see an insensitivity here (aside, perhaps, from the reviewers assumptions about the inspiration), but rather, another joke of the kind. On top of that, it has us talking about what is appropriate and what isn't in this situation, which is something that most people struggle with.
- The Letter M
Anna: i know that if i were in that situation i would be seeing this comic very differently. so, point taken.
- Roberto Bonini
That said, if this situation strikes a nerve in anyone, it doesn't matter how it strikes me. I hope that I can be panel two, and not panels three and four.
- The Letter M
Aaaand, now I can't stop reading xkcdexplained...
- The Letter M
OK the whole "science people are insensitive" doesn't work here because this guy isn't just being insensitive, he's being a complete jerk. And we all know there are jerks in every profession/major. I guess science just likes to claim that personality trait as its own. Hence, the inside jokes. I guess there's not a lot of competition either for the xkcd guy. Yeah XKCD explained is a great site.
- anna sauce
Maybe I'm weird for this but I actually think the last panel is kind of sweet... he's trying to figure out how to bring the sibling back... Yeah, it's ridiculous, but it's better than apathy to someone's situation. I guess I give too much benefit of the doubt to be offended. Update: I guess I really didn't get it after all... I didn't realize he was suggesting killing the other sibs, I...
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- Her Lindsay-ness
... he's not trying to bring the sibling back, he just wants to experiment again, at least that's how I read it, and the reviewer. And we're supposed to respond, 'oh those crazy physicists!' Like, kill more siblings.
- anna sauce
The way I understand it, if they violate causality, A would know BEFORE his brother died.
- Nine
"I found your kitten with a little blue collar (but no info) mid last September running up and down the sidewalk near the Caribou bar. I took him to the vet and got rid of all his parasites and worms, and decided to keep him. I looked around the neighborhood often for lost posters but I didn't see a poster for him until months later at the laundromat, and by then I was too attached. I named him Yukio which means "happy man" in Japanese. He is doing super and gets along great with the other cats. He is very playful and quite naughty even for a kitten and doesn't take crap from anyone! Top right is him giving his best friend Jasper a bitey-hug. He will be safe and loved all his life, so don't worry. I hope you see this poster so that you know he is ok and will have a happy life and not always wonder what happened to him."
- April Buchheit
"Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests. Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children. The bigger the difference between a woman's waist and hips the better. Researchers writing in Evolution and Human Behaviour speculated this was to do with fatty acids found on the hips."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"In this area, the fat is likely to be the much touted Omega-3, which could improve the woman's own mental abilities as well as those of her child during pregnancy. Men respond to the double enticement of both an intelligent partner and an intelligent child, the researchers at the Universities of Pittsburgh and California said. The findings appear to be borne out in the educational attainments of at least one of the UK's most famous curvaceous women, Nigella Lawson, who graduated from Oxford."
- RAPatton
*feeling markedly more confident about the size of my hips*
- tiffany
There are so many ways I could get in trouble with this. Let me just leave it at: curves good.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Christina Hendricks may be the smartest woman in the whole world
- RAPatton
from iPhone
*feeling markedly less confident about the size of my hips*
- joey
*feeling markedly more tumescent about the thought of Nigella Lawson's curves.
- Christopher Harley
Barry, I know. I'm not really fretting. I know my intellectual strengths and weaknesses despite my sad lack of hips. It's just sad that every time a story about women's bodies comes out, someone has to be the 'loser.' There is another story going around about how men don't actually like size 0-2 women and I'm just thinking (flippantly) well good thing I was lucky enough to land myself...
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- joey
The studies always say "this is better" instead of "it doesn't matter". To me, it's a sad statement about humanity that things like this are studied and that we can't get along being different. Yeah I'm thin, but no I'm not a bitch. Yeah I wear a small but no I don't find perfect fitting clothes everywhere I go. Yeah I'm skinny, but no I'm not healthier/more desirable/more whorish/richer/shallower/dumber then you. Whatever are differences are, the least of them is weight. SO fricken divisive.
- Heather
Joey - In my younger days... when I was single and *cough*, young, I used to remark that I liked 'em with a pulse. I like my women, well... female? I dunno. There have been large women that I've been very attracted to and "curvy" women that didn't do it for me at all. There have been women that I've liked on sight that I couldn't get away from fast enough once they opened their mouths....
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- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
I can finally justify my Oreo habit! It's critical to my er...intellectual growth!
- PetuniaGreenBeans
Barry, female friends of mine have said that my "type" is WOMEN. There are curvy women I have the hots for, thin women, & everything in between.
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
funny bulls hit 'science' .. probably funded by US government money, or cosmetics industry ..--- it'l be that "attractive women", unfortunately, in capitalism, will get 'better' paying jobs, attract more wealthy partners, and so will get better education, better educated partner genes - because education and healthcare is not for poor - and so will end up having also more intelligent and better educated children ... this changes nothing on a thesis that being republican /robber baron/ is a genetic disorder
- Petr Buben
"And much as we logically like the idea that men are interested in the waist to hip ratio, it actually features relatively low down the list of feature males look for in a potential partner."
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky, a big deal
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky, a big deal
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Internet's Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- Noah David Simon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent - Long Live Rock
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Sparky, a big deal
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea.
- Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business.
- Sparky, a big deal
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- Jimminy
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent - Long Live Rock
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D
- Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends.
- Sparky, a big deal
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley Farless
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream..
- David Gross
from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs.
- Jimminy
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that...
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- David Gross
from email
This thread makes me want Friendfeed to have an option for large threads to load 10 of x comments, rather than load x more comments.
- Sparky, a big deal
I definitely agree, Sparky, but I'd like both, "View x more comments - View last 10 comments" is what I'd love to see.
- Jimminy
Perhaps have it show up just after the 'x more comments' if x > 25 or something.
- Sparky, a big deal
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent.
- David Gross
from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox.
- David Gross
from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
- David Gross
from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots?
- Noah David Simon
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers
- Noah David Simon
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for!
- Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o)
- David Gross
from email
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter..
- David Gross
from email
David - yeah, you can get an early start.
- Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread.
- David Gross
from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!)
- Ian May
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"?
- Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture.
- Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture.
- Jimminy
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?"
- Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails...
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again!
- Mark Jepsen
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan...
- sofarsoShawn
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party.
- Matthew DeVries
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady.
- Jimminy
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French?
- Jimminy
I don't think even Canadians know that difference.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps
- Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- David Gross
from email
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also.
- Jimminy
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!?
- WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian.
- Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it.
- Jimminy
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do.
- Sparky, a big deal
It keeps on going and going and going....
- David Gross
from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride.
- Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine."
- Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach.
- Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he?
- Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing...
- Mark Jepsen
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM.
- Sparky, a big deal
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand.
- Travis Koger
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it.
- Christopher Harley
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB
- Josh Haley
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^
- Danny Minick
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread.
- Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs.
- Sparky, a big deal
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!
- Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE.
- Sparky, a big deal
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch..
- David Gross
from email
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach.
- David Gross
from email
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread?
- Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer?
- Eivind