78 thoughts on “Flamewar Report from the Front Lines!”

1. bwahahahahahah

2. I thought it should be immortalized before they kilt the thread. Which they probably will do.

3. So glad I actually started *reading* the forums today, as opposed to just using them to search for a bugfix.

   ‘Cause this was Internet comedy gold, I tell ya.

4. Rain! You horrible, horrible person, you! ;) You have no idea what this thread has done to my Dashboard’s Blog Surfer! LOL I faved it in the Forums, but I’m fully expecting to find a 404 tomorrow morning when I wake up. (Or actually make that later this morning…) Thanks for the late night chuckle. Ta!

5. What I found amazing is that this person, who supposedly needs to do some advertising and presumably needs to focus on their rebate processing business (eek!), could afford to spend an hour spouting off like this about other people being “rude”.

   Wow.

6. Priceless. That’s why I’ve got to stay out of there – too much action. I’d never sleep. But I do love reading your great forum encounters.

7. And still, after 59 posts, we do not know exactly what help the poster was looking for.

   I needed a laugh today and this did it. Yes, I’m sick…

8. people refused to help her ‘cos they just don’t have the knowledge to help her, and she goes mental like that… methinks someone swapped her medication. :P

9. I love it! Thanks for the drama this morning. It’s much better than the drama that was going on at work yesterday.

10. Oh god, is she STILL going? Maybe I should add to this…

    I can hardly wait to see how successful her “buisness” is.

11. Too funny.

12. Hey, it’s easier than coming up with blog content!

13. can you say “troll”

    i knew you could.

    there’s always a million of them where you least want them.

14. I don’t think she actually IS a troll. I think she’s a moron, actually.

15. Ah am thoroughly impressed.

16. Great. Would you like to invest in a great new rebate processing opportunity via the internet.

    Oh, sorry. I meant:

    GRATE WUD U LIKE TO INVEST IN A GRATE NEW REBATE PROCESING OPORTUNITTY VIA THE INTERNET LOL

17. And now someone has submitted it to Stumbleupon. Who am I to resist the stumbleanche?

18. …and this, my friends, is why I LOVE Raincoaster. She just knows how to handle these morons perfectly.

    I think what’s most frightening is that so many of “them” talk just like the OP. Where do they learn that language? When did sentences cease existing? I feel like I’ve stepped into that nether world at the end of Twin Peaks, filled with creepy dancing dwarves, and strange giants. Of course, it’s now populated with these things that show up in forums as well.

    This is why every forum needs a Raincoaster.

19. I’m honoured, and if I had any decency I’d be humbled as well, but as you can see, I don’t.

    Twin Peaks. Yes, that’s it exactly. This is what the Log Lady was when she was in her Thirties, before she stopped talking and began living off toadstools and wildflowers and enjoying long, imaginary orgies with her friends the dryads.

20. this forum post is the best one I’ve seen yet since
    I joined wp.com… just priceless… :)

21. Thanks! I’m surprised it’s still there, but sometimes I get away with murder.

    Once, staff actually posted to the forum “Normally we’d delete this, but this one was just too funny!”

22. Fantastic!

23. she couldn’t possibly be serious. surely it was just some bored dickhead trying to start a flame war.

24. Is it your experience that there are more trolls than morons, though?

    Staff have let the thread stand, I note!

25. It’s a toss up in my experience. And I’m not sure who is the more annoying…

26. Morons who BECOME trolls! Which is why I sent her to 4chan; she would be among her kind there.

27. FUC U REATARD . . . oops, wrong forum.

28. hav u seed Dirty Muppet Outtakes?

29. wunz u sed Muppet ay nu wut u wuz tryin tu do.

    ALL I WANTED WAS SOME HELP WITH BLOGSPOT AND MY NEW BUISNESS!!!!!

30. oh, and forever and ever my ass >B^D>

31. Her Grace the Marchionesse de W etc and FFE Esq

    Your Grace and Senor FFE

    Guido Fawkes is surely worth a visit

    London’ Economy is about to collapse, because he has just received a 3-year driving ban for drink driving

    So for the next few years, no more London congestion charge payments for Boris from Guido

    Puir Guido – lucky for him that Sauron the Brown & Cruella de Blair weren’t his Magistrates

    I’m sure you can give him some much needed North-Amerikan sympathy & humour

    Your horribly (at the moment) sober servant etc

    G Eagle

32. All I know is that,
    SHE LIVES IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!

33. THAT WAS FUCKING HYSTERICAL!

    Seriously, it was a bit disturbing also, to know that she has procreated.

34. My college roommate’s husband used to say “Stupid people shouldn’t breathe… or breed!”

35. I love it when Rain gets down and dirty!

    Although my favorite line:

    ‘First you asked for help. Unspecified. Now you’re talking about “fucking help.” Which is it?’

    Yes! Pass the popcorn, please! Oh, and perhaps you should pass on a link to an old copy of The Joy of Sex?

36. ‘My college roommate’s husband used to say “Stupid people shouldn’t breathe… or breed!”’

    Brave new slogan for Pro Choice peeps?

37. Hilarious, sorry, HILARIOUS LOL

    I want some peach ice-cream.

    BTW: What is is rebate processing? Please excuse my ignorance, I’m English.

38. Stiletto:

    Stupid people do have a purpose – to show that there’s hope for everyone.

39. This absolutely would have fallen flat if not for ella’s icy dignity.

    Guido’s got a three-year suspension? Well, he can damn well afford cabs, can’t he? Get him a Blackberry and his word count will go up, so it’s good news for fans; although I can’t WAIT till he’s busted for boozing on the Tube, just because all the politicians will put THAT in their blogs.

    Rebate processing is just paperwork for people who have sent in their forms to get rebates, but this sounds like a total scam: send $500 now and we’ll send you everything you need to make billions! That kind of thing.

40. @FFE & Stiletto
    Until November, you have the world’s finest example.

    @Philipa
    After November, Dubya will likely take on a new career in “rebate processing.”

    Rebate processing is one of those e-mail scams usually appearing under the subject line “Make $$$ in youer Spare Time!!!!!”

    If the multiple exclamation marks don’t give it away: It’s basically the same sort of scam as Amway or other “multi-level marketing” outfits.

    You sign up and pay a “one-time fee” of $25-100. This entitles a mailing or phone list and some instructions. Then, essentially, you have to sell stuff. You don’t “process” the rebate. Usually you have to offer the rebate to people who haven’t yet purchased anything.

    I sure as hell wouldn’t ever pay anyone to let me work for them. If it was such a great moneymaker they’d just hire the population of Gujurat and keep the profits instead of spamming the gullible and willfully ignorant and extorting $75 from them.

    Of course, some “gullible and willfully ignorant” people sometimes seem to deserve it, case in point. I hope homeworkermom saves enough to keep the kids fed.

    Interesting reading here:
    http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/index.php

    I don’t vouch for it, but Frank Matthews, the guy who’s the mover behind that site, also has another one:
    http://www.scammer-alert.com/index.html

    Here’s his take on rebate processing:
    http://www.scammer-alert.com/index.html

    I quibble with his claim that four out of 65 sites were legitimate. He might just be another scammer. But the first site seems solid.

41. Maybe I ought to point out that I’m bitter because Amway scammed me out of $100 once.

    But only once.

42. Amway? Have you been hit by the melaleuka plague yet?

43. What? The? Fuck?

    And I got BANNED from that fucking Forum by that Nazi prick because I dared to tell some jackass to piss off?!

    What the fuck?

    WordPress, you are a pack of pricks!

44. Mike, for some unfathomable reason Akismet put you in spam. Can’t imagine why…

    Talk to TT about arbitrariness in the forum. At this point I was the beneficiary, but any day now I expect to be the loser. It’s just out of our hands.

45. ‘Stupid people do have a purpose – to show that there’s hope for everyone.’

    Not when he’s your President.

46. Oops. Make that ours. OUR President.

47. He’s my president only in the sense that he works for us and his job performance is such that he should have been fired before his 90-day probation was up.

    I voted in 2000 and 2004 (not for that dumb fuck) and that gives me as much right as anyone to criticize him for the piss-poor job performance he’s demonstrated consistently. I wouldn’t let the stupid sonofabitch clean toilets at a service station.

48. I would. I would MAKE him do it.

49. err … Your Grace

    Nervous as I am on intruding into the incisive young Senor FFE’s private autographical grief

    — especially when a certain Texican currently has control of several Giant Aircraft Carriers that could as easily be cruising within easy range of this Eagle’s personal Naval Base in the Middle of Inglaterra, instead of in the warm, comfortable Waters of the Gulf

    … but je suis tres troubled by his Logic …

    … shouldn’t he be advocating that cleaning toilets ANYWHERE is precisely what Shrubs should be limited to

    … and where is everyone’s sympathy for puir Guido Fawkes who has had his Driving licence taking away and been subjected to tagging and a curfew … und much hilarity & blogge-mocking …. and only because he took Mlle Stilletto’ advice to focus on the Wine, and not the Bread

    G/E

50. OMG, they ran Guido to ground, stuck a tag in his ear, and are now tracking him via radio?

    FUCKING.
    FABULOUS.

    I would give anything to see that Nature Channel video.

51. I sense a blog post coming up…

    once I, myself, sober up.

52. I bet he tore a limb off of one of the naturalists! He’s Irish, you know.

53. Ah, but given the state of service station restrooms, would YOU want him cleaning them?

    I rest my case.

    As for Guido, he better watch out before they decide to reopen the Maze. Even then, that may not be enough.

54. Or he could join Boris’s drinking club.

55. Hey, and homeworkermom finally got her blog going – it’s truly inspiring and – the best part – she got her new keyboard.

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56. I’d join Boris’ drinking club if he’d pay my dues.

    What can I say? I’m not proud!

57. Oh, FFE, you’re not serious. Like, you didn’t REALLY go to her blog and copy that, did you?

    Eep, I may need a de-lousing.

    Seriously at some point one almost feels sorry for the stupid.

58. Hallo from Syster Yster in Sweden. Thanks for looking at my pictures. I´m proud that someone so fameus as you have done that! ;) More than a miljon visitors to your blog.
    I´m am so glad that I have more than 100 000 in a year. But ofcourse, USA i bigger ;)
    Have a nice day

59. That is seriously brilliant. I love it!

60. At first I felt kinda sorry for the woman. I mean, come on, rain, you can sound somewhat harsh…diplomacy isn’t your style. Well, not harsh but direct. VERY direct. LOL

    But wow. Did she ever turn into a freak out! Heedless.
    And I loved the fact she assumed you were a guy!
    She was full of assumptions.

    On the other side, it’s interesting reading, this internet sub-culture. (Do I sound like a “moron”? Years go by and I still haven’t jumped on the bandwagon.)

61. Rain: I enjoy a good freak show once in a while.

62. Jae, you aren’t a moron, you’re just quiet. No harm in that.

    Syster Yster, welcome. It takes awhile to get the hits up, but keep blogging and they will come.

63. “… a good freak show … ”

    Vot is THE SAGACIOUS FFE REFERRING TO ….. errr … I mean, referring to

    Is he anticipating the November elections …. or is he referring to the current Primaries …

64. I think he’s referring to this blog?

65. Oh, no, no. I was refering to homeworkermom. This blog is far beyond a freakshow. Perhaps something as delightful and intellectually stimulating as Hannibal Lecter’s memory palace or as fascinating as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. but definitely no freak show here.

66. Oh no, perish the thought!

67. errr

    ummmm

    Oi tink Oi’d rather be a freak show

68. The freak show would be better company, that’s for sure.

69. the problem with most blogger forums is they are so polite,
    Not the Wp.com forums, not with raincoaster and some others there…LOL this thread is priceless!

70. I try to be polite, I honestly do. But lowering the politeness bar on me is VERY dangerous.

71. What’s funny is that sometiems these trolls will try and slam Raincoaster on the forums – calling her names and such. Sometimes I foolishly think “wait, I’ve got to stand up for her!” – and then I stop and think about it.

    Dude- this is Raincoaster – there’s nothing an internet troll can toss at her that she can’t redefine the proper procedure for handling in an effective and gut-burstingly hillarious style.

    Just let the master work her magic. We’re just lucky that we can admire from a distance.

    I got say though – Ellaella was in fantastic form as well! :)

72. I swear sometimes these people must have “please abuse me” tattooed on their forehead.

    Raincoaster is just setting an example of how to accommodate them.

73. Ah, thank you. Honestly, though, I TRY to be polite, right up until they start namecalling, etc. And there are two munchkins in Off Topic that I would love to smack down, but they might never recover.

74. Hahaha, oh my. That is brilliant.
    Collectively, your patience with abusive cretins is very impressive.

75. Also: the satelitetvonpc-amy.blogspot link has now convinced me that this “homeworkermom” is sincere.
    I am now disturbed. Imagine the child.

76. God yes, some people should never breed.

77. Brilliant material. Simply brilliant.

    Although I am terribly tempted to post under a false name with the following:

    HELLO, I AM HAVING A PROBLEWM WITH MY LITTLE KITTEN MOWING AT ME ALL THE TIME PLEASE CAN YOU TYELL ME WHAT TO DO TO MAKE HIM SATOP? IF YOU DO NPOT HELP ME WITH MY KITTEN i WILL CONTACT THE COMPANY THAT YOU WORKING FOR FOUR YEARS AGO AND HAVE THEM COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND BEAT YOU UP BECAUSE YOU SAY YOU WILL HELP PEOPLE HERE AND SO I NEED HELP WITH MY KITTEN AND SO YOU HAVE TO HELP ME WITH THE KITTEN. THANK YOU FOR HEWLPING ME WITH MY KITTIN.

    ALSO, HOW DO i MAKE MONEY WITH MY KITTEN?

    However, because I’m not a complete whack-job, I will not do so.

    Although, perhaps I just did? Dang. ;-)

78. You just did, Compete Whack-Jobs are always welcome here, though!

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