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[cali]

Drunken Man Careens Wildly Across Internet

PLYMOUTH, MA—Racing erratically between unrelated browser tabs, local man Eric Mancano was spotted careening around the internet in a drunken haze at approximately 2 a.m. Tuesday, sources confirmed. “He was out of control, just swerving from one site to the next without any apparent idea of where he was going,” said an anonymous witness, who saw Mancano stagger incoherently from an NHL box score to CNN’s Politics section before suddenly jumping 28 seconds into Nas’ “Hate Me Now” music video on YouTube. “At one point he must’ve been about halfway through a Buzzfeed ‘20 Most Expensive Zip Codes’ list when he blacked out, regained consciousness right in the middle of an IAmA subreddit, and then slammed headfirst into the Washington Post paywall. It was alarming to watch.” Sources then reported seeing a semi-lucid Mancano quickly reverse course and head straight for his ex-girlfriend’s Facebook page.

Hey! I'm a woman and I don't drink but that was me! Yup that's me lol lmao

To you as well

 

[michonne]

To you as well

I do so love my girls

 

[Mercedes01]

All my gals

Gawd I hope you gals realize that mrldii is a stay on topic woman.

We're in trouble now

I remember a thread mrlddi once had up and OMG I felt like I was part of a herd
any time one of us strayed one word wrong to the right or left she would bark at us
and we would straighten up real quick

 

[mrldii]

*sigh* If only everyone's reasons for visiting online communities were simply to socialize. The internet would be a lot nicer of a place let me tell you...

However there's lots of bitter people who (I assume) are very unhappy with their own lives so they look for any venue available (forums are a convenient option) to make everyone else feel as bitter & lousy about themselves as they do.
Other people have seemingly good lives and are well adjusted, they just crave conflict and they're not satisfied until they get some of it.

Anyway back on topic, we're all individuals and we're all wired differently so a person's gender (in my opinion) has nothing to do with how they behave or conduct themselves in real life or the internet. Studies and statistics may be able to tell you what most people do but they can't tell you what all people do. We're all unique and special, regardless of what body parts we have attached to us.

I agree completely...and completely disagree on one point: "If only everyone's reasons for visiting online communities were simply to socialize." After 10 years of participating on numerous different online sites and venues, there is one thing of which I am absolutely positive: every single person who participates in online discussions has one thing in common. Each one of us is NOT getting our RDA of satisfactory real-world interactions with other people, otherwise we wouldn't be online. No matter how *needy* or how *limited* each of our individual RDAs may be, if we HAD met it for that day, we wouldn't log on. This has nothing to do with being a grumpy old man who yells, "Get off my lawn" to neighborhood kids nor does it have anything to do with needing to tend to your 72 cats because you're an old, dried-up hag whom no man wants. There are a million and one real (and imagined) reasons why one can legitimately NOT be getting enough satsifactory real-world interactions with others: time constraints, geographical constraints, and physical constraints, just to name a few.

Realizing THAT fact goes a long way in understanding others - whether you like them or not, based on your own perceptions or what you've heard through the grapevine and embraced as Gospel.


Regardless of studied male/female online interactions, the fact still remains online "discussion" boards are considered "social" sites; unless Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster have been fired or overthrown, those words DO have generally-accepted connotations. Ergo, men and women who engage in "social discussions" are obviously not doing anything wrong, "whether we like it or not" (to quote a wise and revered man).


runk:

@Mercedes01

I'm glad you found a community during that extremely stressful time in your life, to find support and to help you keep your sanity. It is no accident that you would have found women with whom to share your experience...women are still the primary care-givers for children, whether they be healthy or ill. It's understandable that years later, you would still find great comfort from other women, while online.

Also, it's interesting how often people misunderstand your Aussie humor and *judge* you by American/European standards; it's almost like some don't understand the internet doesn't recognize continental borders.

Almost *like*.

runk2: <--- Fukkit...I'm keeping all the beer for myself.

=====================================================

P.S. Ahhhhh...I don't care when people go off the original topic. Some of you are thinking of my previous *wonderful* threads on various other sites which - regardless of the stated topic - were created for the sole purpose of containing others' attempted bashing of me throughout others' threads. I'd only admonish others to stay on topic when they'd come to MY threads to bash other people who were posting in MY threads.

ADHD be damned...I insisted they stay focused on focusing ALL their angst and despair on just ONE person, at a time.

 

[michonne]

I agree completely...and completely disagree on one point: "If only everyone's reasons for visiting online communities were simply to socialize." After 10 years of participating on numerous different online sites and venues, there is one thing of which I am absolutely positive: every single person who participates in online discussions has one thing in common. Each one of us is NOT getting our RDA of satisfactory real-world interactions with other people, otherwise we wouldn't be online. No matter how *needy* or how *limited* each of our individual RDAs may be, if we HAD met it for that day, we wouldn't log on. This has nothing to do with being a grumpy old man who yells, "Get off my lawn" to neighborhood kids nor does it have anything to do with needing to tend to your 72 cats because you're an old, dried-up hag whom no man wants. There are a million and one real (and imagined) reasons why one can legitimately NOT be getting enough satsifactory real-world interactions with others: time constraints, geographical constraints, and physical constraints, just to name a few.

Realizing THAT fact goes a long way in understanding others - whether you like them or not, based on your own perceptions or what you've heard through the grapevine and embraced as Gospel.


Regardless of studied male/female online interactions, the fact still remains online "discussion" boards are considered "social" sites; unless Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster have been fired or overthrown, those words DO have generally-accepted connotations. Ergo, men and women who engage in "social discussions" are obviously not doing anything wrong, "whether we like it or not" (to quote a wise and revered man).


runk:

best post I have read on Off Topix go mrld

thats a BIG thumbs up

 

[Mercedes01]

I agree completely...and completely disagree on one point: "If only everyone's reasons for visiting online communities were simply to socialize." After 10 years of participating on numerous different online sites and venues, there is one thing of which I am absolutely positive: every single person who participates in online discussions has one thing in common. Each one of us is NOT getting our RDA of satisfactory real-world interactions with other people, otherwise we wouldn't be online. No matter how *needy* or how *limited* each of our individual RDAs may be, if we HAD met it for that day, we wouldn't log on. This has nothing to do with being a grumpy old man who yells, "Get off my lawn" to neighborhood kids nor does it have anything to do with needing to tend to your 72 cats because you're an old, dried-up hag whom no man wants. There are a million and one real (and imagined) reasons why one can legitimately NOT be getting enough satsifactory real-world interactions with others: time constraints, geographical constraints, and physical constraints, just to name a few.

Realizing THAT fact goes a long way in understanding others - whether you like them or not, based on your own perceptions or what you've heard through the grapevine and embraced as Gospel.


Regardless of studied male/female online interactions, the fact still remains online "discussion" boards are considered "social" sites; unless Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster have been fired or overthrown, those words DO have generally-accepted connotations. Ergo, men and women who engage in "social discussions" are obviously not doing anything wrong, "whether we like it or not" (to quote a wise and revered man).


runk:

@Mercedes01

I'm glad you found a community during that extremely stressful time in your life, to find support and to help you keep your sanity. It is no accident that you would have found women with whom to share your experience...women are still the primary care-givers for children, whether they be healthy or ill. It's understandable that years later, you would still find great comfort from other women, while online.

Also, it's interesting how often people misunderstand your Aussie humor and *judge* you by American/European standards; it's almost like some don't understand the internet doesn't recognize continental borders.

Almost *like*.

runk2: <--- Fukkit...I'm keeping all the beer for myself.

=====================================================

P.S. Ahhhhh...I don't care when people go off the original topic. Some of you are thinking of my previous *wonderful* threads on various other sites which - regardless of the stated topic - were created for the sole purpose of containing others' attempted bashing of me throughout others' threads. I'd only admonish others to stay on topic when they'd come to MY threads to bash other people who were posting in MY threads.

ADHD be damned...I insisted they stay focused on focusing ALL their angst and despair on just ONE person, at a time.

You deserve 10 thumbs up plus.

On the subject in regard to that thread I was thinking of when we started to stray
instead of staying on topic that thread always sticks in my mind because you
had so many members posting on that thread of yours but you were the only
member I ever encountered who could control a thread with out swearing (cursing)
when so much was being thrown and tossed at you.

I've never ever encountered any one in all my time on forums who has a knack of
keeping one particular topic flowing for days.

You debate on serious threads so perfect and if people were really honest with themselves
they could learn so much from you.

Your own words..Your own thoughts.

I enjoy real raw material

Thank You