Social WR Lounge v262: Pansy Division

What mini power do you choose?


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Ok, i'm mad. I knew it was happening, but the confirmation is fucked.


Doesn't surprise me. The more shocking thing was the number of posters here that supported it.
Unlike a lot of ICT issues it's not even something that required any technical knowledge to understand.
How anyone could credit Pai was beyond me.
 


Ok, i'm mad. I knew it was happening, but the confirmation is fucked.



Interesting. I don't want to dispute it, but how does someone keep this under wraps?

I mean, like 9 million comments? Is it a bot that does it? or a few skilled cut and pasters? or a room filled of Indians making twenty five cents an hour?

Seems like something you would want to keep hush hush.....
 
1) which of your kids turned on your phone so you could type that?
2) "Fergie was right, yer fans are shite!"
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Interesting. I don't want to dispute it, but how does someone keep this under wraps?

I mean, like 9 million comments? Is it a bot that does it? or a few skilled cut and pasters? or a room filled of Indians making twenty five cents an hour?

Seems like something you would want to keep hush hush.....

Marketing firms, it's their entire job. I assume there has to be automation in there somewhere, but I have no idea in what capacity. They have astroturfing down to a science though.
 
Boxing is such a great sport. It never needs this sort of shenanigans outside of Larry Holmes jumping off a car at Trevor Berbick.

Shame poor matchmaking and politics ruined the sport. 1950s to 1970s boxing is the pinnacle of all sport IMO.
I mean, you’re gonna dis Tyson, Sugar Ray, Hagler, Hearns, RJJ, Duran, Chaves, Holmes, De La Hoya, Trinidad, Morales, and Barrera like that? I get where you’re coming from, but the 80’s and 90’s were pretty dope.
 
I mean, you’re gonna dis Tyson, Sugar Ray, Hagler, Hearns, RJJ, Duran, Chaves, Holmes, De La Hoya, Trinidad, Morales, and Barrera like that? I get where you’re coming from, but the 80’s and 90’s were pretty dope.

True, but that was when the bad trends were starting. Isn't to say that wasn't still a very good time to be a fight fan, but it wasn't the pinnacle.

That was the beginning of the alphabet title, 20 undefeated champions at once era... which seemed to get worse with time along with just a watering down of the talent pool.
 
Man I can't stand the Paul brother's...


All those cameras and nothing visible.

Reminds me of a scene from White Noise:

Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America. We drove twenty-two miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the signs started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were forty cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We walked along a cowpath to the slightly elevated spot set aside for viewing and photographing. All the people had cameras; some had tripods, telephoto lenses, filter kits. A man in a booth sold postcards and slides—pictures of the barn taken from the elevated spot. We stood near a grove of trees and watched the photographers. Murray maintained a prolonged silence, occasionally scrawling some notes in a little book.

“No one sees the barn,” he said finally.

A long silence followed.

“Once you’ve seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.”

He fell silent once more. People with cameras left the elevated site, replaced at once by others.

“We’re not here to capture an image, we’re here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it, Jack? An accumulation of nameless energies.”

There was an extended silence. The man in the booth sold postcards and slides.

“Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We’ve agreed to be part of a collective perception. This literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism.”

Another silence ensued.

“They are taking pictures of taking pictures,” he said.

He did not speak for a while. We listened to the incessant clicking of shutter release buttons, the rustling crank of levers that advanced the film.

“What was the barn like before it was photographed?” he said. “What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can’t answer these questions because we’ve read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can’t get outside the aura. We’re part of the aura. We’re here, we’re now.”

He seemed immensely pleased by this.
 
True, but that was when the bad trends were starting. Isn't to say that wasn't still a very good time to be a fight fan, but it wasn't the pinnacle.

That was the beginning of the alphabet title, 20 undefeated champions at once era... which seemed to get worse with time along with just a watering down of the talent pool.
Fair enough, but, put me in a room where all I can watch day in and day out for a year is whatever boxing matches I name, I’ll mostly take the bouts from those 80’s and 90’s fighters.
 
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