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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 05:11 PM
Response to Reply #15
18. If that is your understanding of Twitter, then
no wonder you're angry and confused.
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  -Why I believe Twitter and it's ilk are extremely dangerous Party Person  Jun-21-09 04:55 PM   #0 
  - Dennis Miller, is that you?  Hugabear   Jun-21-09 04:57 PM   #1 
  - Which ones should we ask?  girl gone mad   Jun-21-09 05:10 PM   #14 
  - I still don't understand how newbies can put up original posts.  aquart   Jun-21-09 04:59 PM   #2 
  - Facebook is a problem too  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:02 PM   #4 
  - reminds me of someone who hates rope until they are drowning.  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:21 PM   #155 
  - Welcome to DU! Like hazing? Some people forget that his site only does one thing:  jazzjunkysue   Jun-22-09 09:43 AM   #245 
  - I think they only need to make what, a dozen or two posts and they're in.  MADem   Jun-21-09 05:14 PM   #20 
  - HELLO! since I didn't even fill out a profile  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:46 PM   #62 
  - Hello!!! I was speaking "generically." If I were going to "call you out"  MADem   Jun-21-09 10:34 PM   #166 
  - it took me a little searching  hfojvt   Jun-22-09 02:47 AM   #218 
     - I never understood why that hide feature was even available.  MADem   Jun-22-09 03:41 AM   #219 
  - Okay aquart, I have a question for you: exactly WHICH post is it that makes a "newbie" into  bertman   Jun-21-09 05:17 PM   #25 
  - Could be their first post  WeDidIt   Jun-21-09 05:31 PM   #40 
  - exactly  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:48 PM   #64 
  - actually, it is not the post count, its the shit in the post. I have  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:25 PM   #156 
  - I got the same flak  shellgame26   Jun-21-09 10:26 PM   #158 
     - Same thing happened to me years ago  Mojorabbit   Jun-21-09 11:25 PM   #199 
        - There's a strong bias against low post count members here n/t  Party Person   Jun-22-09 09:36 AM   #244 
  - Most site neophobes think it takes 1000  Posteritatis   Jun-21-09 07:02 PM   #129 
  - Perhaps the poster should have asked about Susan Boyle?  timtom   Jun-21-09 06:17 PM   #99 
  - get off your high horse  TorchTheWitch   Jun-21-09 10:16 PM   #154 
  - well said  UpInArms   Jun-21-09 10:27 PM   #159 
  - git off my lawn!  Uzybone   Jun-21-09 05:01 PM   #3 
  - Man, you just don't quit, do you?  WeDidIt   Jun-21-09 05:04 PM   #5 
  - I agree and yet..  livetoride   Jun-21-09 05:04 PM   #6 
  - Txtspk is called short-hand, makes for easier and faster texting and IMing  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:21 PM   #27 
     - I twitter, text, IM, and am under 30  tabbycat31   Jun-21-09 05:42 PM   #57 
     - I also use complete sentences  Codeine   Jun-21-09 05:52 PM   #70 
     - That is your choice. Just don't be snooty and snobish and elitist about it.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 06:11 PM   #92 
     - Netspeak is very difficult for me to read  tabbycat31   Jun-21-09 06:17 PM   #98 
     - Never trust anyone under 30.  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:26 PM   #113 
        - I'm only under 30 until March of next year  tabbycat31   Jun-21-09 06:58 PM   #125 
        - I'm twice as 30 as all of ya. :-D  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:28 PM   #160 
        - age bigotry?  havocmom   Jun-22-09 11:38 AM   #271 
     - Not to mention character limits when texting....  Kaylee   Jun-21-09 06:15 PM   #96 
     - Exactly!  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 06:21 PM   #106 
     - In the 20th century, back when the Appalachian Mountains  tblue37   Jun-21-09 10:46 PM   #180 
     - I am twenty three and like big words!  EndersDame   Jun-22-09 01:50 AM   #214 
  - Twitter and FB are not different than real life  supernova   Jun-21-09 05:05 PM   #7 
  - actually, given pete hoekstra and other dimwits on the Team of Evil tm  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:29 PM   #161 
  - Wow. Definitely a contender for Stupidest Post Of 2009.  BlooInBloo   Jun-21-09 05:06 PM   #8 
  - Not quite, but damned close.  WeDidIt   Jun-21-09 05:08 PM   #10 
  - Heh. That's different from any other day how, exactly?  BlooInBloo   Jun-21-09 05:09 PM   #13 
  - Has this one been here before?  supernova   Jun-21-09 05:10 PM   #16 
     - Touche.  BlooInBloo   Jun-21-09 05:14 PM   #21 
  - The loony Marxist-Leninist armchair paranoid revolutionaries are coming out of the woodwork.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:30 PM   #37 
     - HEY... I've known some real Leninist Marxist in my lifetime  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:33 PM   #41 
        - That's why I said ARMCHAIR revolutionaires.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:37 PM   #50 
           - I like Popper too... but I had to read Das Kapital  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:39 PM   #54 
              - Cool!  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:51 PM   #67 
                 - They were as off as Adamn Smith and the Wealth of Nations  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 06:00 PM   #81 
                 - If Adam Smith came back today the Market Fundies would call him a Communist.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 06:21 PM   #103 
                    - I make that point often  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 06:23 PM   #108 
                       - LOL! So true.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 07:16 PM   #132 
                          - That is fascinating  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 10:30 PM   #163 
                             - Actually it was Socrates that was took the hemlock  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 11:17 PM   #194 
                                - I need to go get some sleep... damn that is a basic mistake  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 11:34 PM   #202 
                                   - You're welcome!  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 11:53 PM   #204 
                                      - I never was a marxist  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 12:01 AM   #205 
                                         - That guy who survived Franco sounds like an interesting guy!  Odin2005   Jun-22-09 08:23 AM   #224 
                                            - The reverence of the female goes back to the caves  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 09:47 AM   #247 
                 - WhAT HE SAID!  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:30 PM   #162 
                    - Thank you!  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 11:19 PM   #195 
  - LOL  proud2BlibKansan   Jun-21-09 10:06 PM   #151 
  - I'm not sure there's a causitive link between "C U L8er" and the decline of journalism  Bucky   Jun-21-09 05:07 PM   #9 
  - My great-great granddad was in newspaper business. So were great & regular granddads  havocmom   Jun-22-09 11:42 AM   #272 
  - I'm sure you're free to choose what you want to use  lunatica   Jun-21-09 05:08 PM   # 
  - Unabomber, is that you?  Lex   Jun-21-09 05:08 PM   #11 
  - Twitter is very important  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:10 PM   #15 
  - If that is your understanding of Twitter, then  Lex   Jun-21-09 05:11 PM   #18 
  - well, I wouldn't know  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:22 PM   #29 
  - Here is something for you to listen to  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:25 PM   #32 
  - I don't allow people to Tweet in my home  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:34 PM   #47 
  - The TImes are a changing (you can read)  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:38 PM   #51 
  - Your ridiculous and arbitrary line  Codeine   Jun-21-09 05:55 PM   #72 
  - You still use dial-up.  Baikonour   Jun-21-09 06:12 PM   #94 
  - Dial up is much safer from viruses, trojans, etc., and cheaper  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:21 PM   #102 
     - No, it is not  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 06:25 PM   #112 
        - wrong  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:29 PM   #117 
           - My point thank you  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 06:30 PM   #119 
           - I Heard You Get Them From Toilet Seats  Beetwasher   Jun-22-09 09:23 AM   #237 
  - So let's see...  MineralMan   Jun-21-09 07:25 PM   #137 
  - I'm second guessing the OP on this...  timtom   Jun-21-09 06:26 PM   #114 
     - The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is nonsense, few linguists take it seriously anymore.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 07:20 PM   #136 
        - I quit linguistics in the late 60's (after 1 quarter at UC Berkeley)  timtom   Jun-21-09 07:31 PM   #144 
           - If a language doesn;t have the abillity to talk about certain things the abillity will be created.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 10:08 PM   #152 
              - I'm ill-equipped to entertain a substantive discussion  timtom   Jun-21-09 10:33 PM   #165 
                 - one could replace "assailant" with "attacker" or "person who hurt you".  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 10:54 PM   #186 
  - I don't know anything about x, but I'm certain it's evil evil evil! (nt)  Posteritatis   Jun-21-09 05:46 PM   #60 
  - I don't need to eat dirt  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:59 PM   #80 
  - That's funny  NeedleCast   Jun-21-09 05:55 PM   #73 
  - But you DO post on message boards  nonconformist   Jun-21-09 06:23 PM   #109 
  - lol  fishwax   Jun-22-09 09:14 AM   #232 
  - Fine, don't believe in it, don't have one  havocmom   Jun-22-09 11:44 AM   #273 
  - I can imagine it helps in some small way that Neda's family knows  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:33 PM   #164 
  - Well some of the tweets have been on things like  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:13 PM   #19 
  - wow. thank you, nadin, regarding the supreme council. I hadn't heard.  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:35 PM   #168 
     - The link to teh news story I got it in one of the Iran threads  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 10:29 AM   #255 
  - Actually, one does not 'take a dump', one leaves one. nt  Obamanaut   Jun-22-09 12:24 AM   #209 
     - this poster might. n/t  Bill McBlueState   Jun-22-09 07:32 AM   #220 
  - LOL  Clintonista2   Jun-21-09 06:21 PM   #105 
  - No, not really  OKNancy   Jun-21-09 05:08 PM   #12 
  - A month ago, I would have (and did, I admit it) say that Twitter was stupid.  MADem   Jun-21-09 05:11 PM   #17 
  - A good tool, but if used by fools it's still a stupid outcome  lunatica   Jun-21-09 05:16 PM   #23 
  - If we wanted to keep fools from tools, we'd require IQ tests before people could sign up  MADem   Jun-21-09 11:37 PM   #203 
  - Twitter is still stupid. But now it's dangerous and deceptive too.  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:22 PM   #107 
     - Naaah. I'm loving Twitter. It's keeping my people in touch with the world.  MADem   Jun-21-09 10:37 PM   #171 
     - The argument made by the OP  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 11:25 AM   #269 
     - You don't use it, you don't read it  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 11:21 AM   #268 
     - No, using Internet posting of admonishments against using technology to relay information is stupid  havocmom   Jun-22-09 11:30 AM   #270 
  - Says the idiot that was saying Neda is an invention of the CIA.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:14 PM   #22 
  - What an offensive assertion. Tell that to her family.  MADem   Jun-21-09 05:16 PM   #24 
  - Why are you bringing Iran into this?  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:19 PM   #26 
  - And you're ignoring that the Iranians  supernova   Jun-21-09 05:21 PM   #28 
  - well, I've already made my feelings known on the other threads  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:30 PM   #38 
  - In other words you are a crackpot out of touch with reality.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:33 PM   #43 
  - Neda is as real as the Princess Leia hologram in Star Wars, IMO  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:24 PM   #110 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Jun-21-09 06:28 PM   #115 
     - whatever  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:31 PM   #120 
        - TYhankfully, I don;'t have to see your tinfoilhat unthinking cruel bullshit any longer  WeDidIt   Jun-21-09 06:33 PM   #122 
     - You are disgusting.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 07:25 PM   #138 
     - they have new video of Neda. her eyes are rolled back in her head,  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:40 PM   #174 
     - I see...  MineralMan   Jun-21-09 07:28 PM   #139 
  - And how do you know this?  supernova   Jun-21-09 05:33 PM   #44 
  - Because some idiot on Counterpunch said so, probably.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:35 PM   #48 
     - You're prolly right  supernova   Jun-21-09 05:39 PM   #53 
        - Or both?  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:53 PM   #71 
  - You realize Agent Mike is a regular round these parts, don't you?  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:35 PM   #49 
  - "cuz"? (nt)  noamnety   Jun-21-09 09:59 PM   #150 
  - Good catch...nt  SidDithers   Jun-22-09 01:40 AM   #212 
  - dear tool, give proof or accept scorn. Unless you work for the CIA  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:38 PM   #172 
  - The two-minute hate on DU's a site tradition by now  Posteritatis   Jun-21-09 05:51 PM   #66 
     - I have an amateur interest in lingustics so the grammar Nazis drive me nuts.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:59 PM   #79 
  - We see you  WeDidIt   Jun-21-09 05:23 PM   #30 
  - I don't care what you said, because you are lying.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 05:25 PM   #33 
  - The phrase ""Speaking truth to power"  Codeine   Jun-21-09 05:57 PM   #76 
  - When newbies speak truth to power on DU  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:37 PM   #123 
     - And when they think that DU qualifies as "power" they look ridiculous (nt)  Posteritatis   Jun-21-09 07:01 PM   #127 
     - You're adorable.  Codeine   Jun-21-09 07:14 PM   #131 
  - what truth and what power? you gave an opinion, one of 134K that  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:37 PM   #170 
  - Not an invention  conscious evolution   Jun-22-09 10:09 AM   #253 
  - Since anyone can tweet, that means anyone can post whatever they want--true or not.  bertman   Jun-21-09 05:25 PM   #31 
  - It has a name, PATTERN RECOGNITION, a tool of Intel analysis  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:28 PM   #36 
  - Thanks for the info, Nadin. So, if there is a methodology devised for pattern recognition, is  bertman   Jun-21-09 09:54 PM   #148 
     - Right now it is the other side, aka the secret police  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 10:35 PM   #169 
        - I see what you mean, Nadin. That is pretty obvious. I fear that when the day comes we  bertman   Jun-21-09 11:02 PM   #190 
        - I'm afraid we will go back to scribbling things  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 11:09 PM   #193 
           - Are you referring to inside and outside the government in Iran. I'm not sure I understand  bertman   Jun-21-09 11:30 PM   #200 
              - People who are inside the country and those who live outside  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 12:09 AM   #208 
                 - Yes, or be ready to suffer from writer's cramps of the tenth magnitude. Thanks for  bertman   Jun-22-09 08:01 AM   #223 
        - forget Guantanamo, this is the true definition of torture  Party Person   Jun-22-09 09:22 AM   #236 
           - It's Twue! It's Twue! We Know Nothing Of Tweets! No Matter How Hard We Twy!  Beetwasher   Jun-22-09 09:35 AM   #243 
           - With all due respect, you have no clue what you are talking about  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 09:50 AM   #248 
              - Mika B., is that you?  Party Person   Jun-22-09 10:07 AM   #252 
                 - No, not even close  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 10:56 AM   #257 
                    - Go to bed now so that you can make it on time to Morning Joe tomorrow n/t  Party Person   Jun-22-09 11:04 AM   #260 
                       - Ah now we got into the personal attacks  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 11:09 AM   #262 
  - the ones that talk about how an Israeli agent killed Neda are fake.  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:43 PM   #176 
     - Yes, roguevalley, but that one is blatant. It's the others that aren't as obvious that would  bertman   Jun-21-09 10:59 PM   #189 
        - I agree, bertman, but what else do they have? God bless IT that it was  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 11:23 PM   #197 
        - SInce you were in the bizz you know a young CIA  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 11:06 AM   #261 
  - Why back in my day we didn't even have food.  DefenseLawyer   Jun-21-09 05:28 PM   #34 
  - Oh geez you had dirt?  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:30 PM   #39 
  - School?  DefenseLawyer   Jun-21-09 05:43 PM   #59 
     - Damn you are right... we 'ad it good  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:48 PM   #65 
     - YOU HAD COFFEE!?!?!?!?!  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:44 PM   #177 
        - LOL!!!  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 11:22 PM   #196 
        - Nope.  DefenseLawyer   Jun-22-09 12:07 AM   #207 
  - Dirt tar tar.. quite the delicacy ..  Peacetrain   Jun-21-09 05:34 PM   #45 
  - It's just a form of communication, plain and simple  CreekDog   Jun-21-09 05:28 PM   #35 
  - Look, I understand your concerns  Canuckistanian   Jun-21-09 05:33 PM   #42 
  - For every thing, there is a place and time  Duer 157099   Jun-21-09 05:34 PM   #46 
  - No doubt there were people who considered that new fangled written language thing dangerous too.  Garbo 2004   Jun-21-09 05:38 PM   #52 
  - And Plato*, of all people bemoaned writting as being bad for memory, LOL  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 06:04 PM   #85 
  - And those who wrote had mystical power over those who didn't  timtom   Jun-21-09 10:42 PM   #175 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jun-21-09 05:40 PM   #55 
  - Oh com'om Foucault can be fun....  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:47 PM   #63 
  - I think you misunderstood  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:52 PM   #69 
  - Since you don't use it, you don't get it  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 05:56 PM   #74 
  - I don't use heroin or crack either  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:55 PM   #124 
  - If it's a personal safety issue then leave your sophomore-level  Codeine   Jun-21-09 06:03 PM   #83 
     - Could please, pretty please this person use Foucault?  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 06:05 PM   #87 
        - invagination, differance, real-ity  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:10 PM   #91 
           - speaking of spelling  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 06:18 PM   #101 
  - I think it was proven recently that Derrida's writtings were mostly word-salad!  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 06:09 PM   #89 
  - That's charitable (nt)  Posteritatis   Jun-21-09 07:03 PM   #130 
  - How do you pronounce Foucalt? Fuck you? Fawk yawh. I don't know.  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:46 PM   #179 
     - foo-KAHL?  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 11:23 PM   #198 
     - Foo-koh. The guy was French.  Kaleko   Jun-22-09 12:45 AM   #211 
  - Yep, The Nazi, the hedonistic party animal, and the nut with sexual issues. Some trio!  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 06:08 PM   #88 
     - sure, throw the baby out with the bathwater  Party Person   Jun-21-09 06:14 PM   #95 
        - double entendre perhaps?  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 06:21 PM   #104 
        - More like I get skeptical of wannabe armchair leftists name-dropping philosophers  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 06:24 PM   #111 
        - but if we all get to judge reality, we can assume you spent your  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:48 PM   #181 
  - You're not writing a grad school paper, you're posting at DU.  undeterred   Jun-21-09 05:41 PM   #56 
  - To be fair it's more a philosophy freshman paper (nt)  Posteritatis   Jun-21-09 05:52 PM   #68 
  - Use Heidegger, Betham's panopticon, and "blithely jaywalk" in a single paragraph.  undeterred   Jun-21-09 05:57 PM   #75 
  - That sounds like a dare... where is my Bentham  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 06:03 PM   #82 
     - Behind the windmill.  undeterred   Jun-21-09 07:01 PM   #126 
        - BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHA!  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:49 PM   #182 
        - LOL...  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 11:14 AM   #263 
  - I'm sorry people can't keep up with my ideas  Party Person   Jun-21-09 05:57 PM   #77 
     - Then limit yourself to 144 CHARACTERS not words, CHARACTERS  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 06:04 PM   #84 
     - here is a shortcut for Heiddegger: Hd!@#*R. I would have thrown in a  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:50 PM   #183 
     - No ideas.  Codeine   Jun-21-09 06:05 PM   #86 
     - Well, you could work on usage, too.  woo me with science   Jun-21-09 09:32 PM   #145 
  - LOL  NeedleCast   Jun-21-09 05:43 PM   #58 
  - I think that it is contributing to the death of the English language.  EndersDame   Jun-21-09 05:46 PM   #61 
  - Every generation bemoans the death of the English language,  Codeine   Jun-21-09 06:12 PM   #93 
  - I guess so...  EndersDame   Jun-21-09 06:17 PM   #100 
  - I personally am decimated with postmodern angst over it.  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:52 PM   #185 
  - Have you ever read Chaucer? That was modern English in its day  lunatica   Jun-21-09 07:19 PM   #135 
  - And rock music will be the downfall of goodness and morality.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 07:30 PM   #142 
  - I just think it is a sad when people actually verbalize LOL  EndersDame   Jun-22-09 01:48 AM   #213 
     - I verbalize "lol". I don't see the problem, it's an acronym that becomes pronounced phonetically.  Odin2005   Jun-22-09 08:27 AM   #225 
  - the DCRN OF INDEPDCE on a postage stamp. THink of the  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:51 PM   #184 
     - But I like big fancy words and lengthy, flowery prose!  EndersDame   Jun-22-09 02:00 AM   #215 
  - Luddite.  tekisui   Jun-21-09 05:58 PM   #78 
  - +1  WeDidIt   Jun-21-09 06:29 PM   #118 
  - generally, speaking foucault references instantly put me on guard  paulsby   Jun-21-09 06:10 PM   #90 
  - So don't use it, then.  ShenandoahAspen   Jun-21-09 06:15 PM   #97 
  - I strongly disagree, I'm 45, been on-line since I was 16  indie_voter   Jun-21-09 06:28 PM   #116 
  - C'mon, Al Gore wasn't even born yet, was he? Internet hadn't been invented.  timeforpeace   Jun-21-09 07:30 PM   #141 
     - I don't know if you mean this as sarcasm or not  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-21-09 10:39 PM   #173 
  - I was monitoring twitter last night and then again a few minutes ago  Just-plain-Kathy   Jun-21-09 06:32 PM   #121 
  - thanks, I'm glad someone here gets it  Party Person   Jun-22-09 08:36 AM   #226 
  - Twitter and "it is" ilk  noamnety   Jun-21-09 07:01 PM   #128 
  - I think I love you. :-) nt  Codeine   Jun-21-09 07:16 PM   #133 
  - Don;t get the problem, -'s is being used as the normal possesive case inflection.  Odin2005   Jun-21-09 10:12 PM   #153 
     - possessive pronouns don't use apostrophes.  noamnety   Jun-21-09 10:44 PM   #178 
  - "We're now trapped in the living hell ..."  ColbertWatcher   Jun-21-09 07:18 PM   #134 
  - Twitter is a text recording of ...  MindMatter   Jun-21-09 07:29 PM   #140 
  - I mostly agree with you but ...  drmeow   Jun-21-09 10:25 PM   #157 
     - Make the technology work for you, not the other way around  MindMatter   Jun-22-09 12:04 PM   #274 
  - Why I believe Paper and it's ilk are extremely dangerous  boppers   Jun-21-09 07:31 PM   #143 
  - It's = it is  Ezlivin   Jun-22-09 07:56 AM   #222 
  - I Know A Guy Who Bludgeoned His Wife To Death W/ Moby Dick  Beetwasher   Jun-22-09 09:27 AM   #238 
  - My cat is over 20 years old! nt  Warren Stupidity   Jun-21-09 09:50 PM   #146 
  - best post on this thread, which is prty dmn grvy.  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:55 PM   #187 
  - it's = it is (contraction) its=possesive...no apostrophe needed..trolls have this trouble.  likesmountains 52   Jun-21-09 09:54 PM   #147 
  - Damn it, posted before I saw this one!!  REP   Jun-21-09 11:07 PM   #192 
  - This is just really stupid.  dorkulon   Jun-21-09 09:54 PM   #149 
  - I hadn't thought of that, dorkulon. you are my new hero. That is almost  roguevalley   Jun-21-09 10:55 PM   #188 
  - Wow, I'm a hero!  dorkulon   Jun-21-09 11:32 PM   #201 
  - Telegrams are directed to one person, though  muriel_volestrangler   Jun-22-09 10:25 AM   #254 
  - I think this summarizes your OP quite well:  Starbucks Anarchist   Jun-21-09 10:34 PM   #167 
  - thanks, but  Party Person   Jun-22-09 08:42 AM   #227 
     - 56k Modems Are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!!!!  Beetwasher   Jun-22-09 09:20 AM   #234 
     - The 300 Baud are even worst, they're bigger  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 11:15 AM   #264 
     - It's the Marshall Mcluhan scene from "Annie Hall" spliced with an iPhone ad.  Starbucks Anarchist   Jun-22-09 09:21 AM   #235 
     - Maybe if you didn't party all night you could afford a better modem.  WilliamPitt   Jun-22-09 10:56 AM   #258 
  - Pretty fancy allusions for someone who doesn't know possessive "its" doesn't take an apostrophe  REP   Jun-21-09 11:06 PM   #191 
  - "blithely jaywalk across the boulevard"  madeline_con   Jun-22-09 12:06 AM   #206 
  - lulz. uz 2 series.  burning rain   Jun-22-09 12:31 AM   #210 
  - "We're now trapped in the living hell of Bentham's panopticon, by way of Foucault."  WildEyedLiberal   Jun-22-09 02:10 AM   #216 
  - I do not think that word means what you think it means.  Starbucks Anarchist   Jun-22-09 09:32 AM   #241 
     - Perhaps it was typed by a six fingered man?  myrna minx   Jun-22-09 12:26 PM   #278 
  - I think there is a veracity problem with Twitter and such.  JVS   Jun-22-09 02:36 AM   #217 
  - People are gullible -- "if it tweets, it's true"  Party Person   Jun-22-09 08:45 AM   #229 
     - Umm, that's "Twue"  Beetwasher   Jun-22-09 09:31 AM   #240 
  - Freshman college student,  woo me with science   Jun-22-09 07:35 AM   #221 
  - Is it possible to fall in love with a thread?  WilliamPitt   Jun-22-09 08:44 AM   #228 
  - Well of course you would, *Me on Twitter*, if it is said all families have a black sheep...  bridgit   Jun-22-09 08:58 AM   #230 
  - Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.  WilliamPitt   Jun-22-09 09:01 AM   #231 
  - The Most Fun I've Had W/ My Pants On In Quite Some Time!  Beetwasher   Jun-22-09 09:34 AM   #242 
  - Only if you write your own vows in 140 characters or less. n/t  WeDidIt   Jun-22-09 09:45 AM   #246 
  - You are sounding like my four year old nephew now Will  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 11:17 AM   #265 
     - OMG NW  WilliamPitt   Jun-22-09 12:07 PM   #275 
        - There, there it will be ok  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 12:12 PM   #276 
  - GODDAMN YOU'RE RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Beetwasher   Jun-22-09 09:15 AM   #233 
  - Dancing is the work of the devil, too.  graywarrior   Jun-22-09 09:29 AM   #239 
  - The saddest thing about this silly post  alcibiades_mystery   Jun-22-09 09:51 AM   #249 
  - Stuf iz dumn  dropkickpa   Jun-22-09 09:55 AM   #250 
  - question everything  Just Saying   Jun-22-09 09:59 AM   #251 
  - LEAVE THE INTERNETS THEN, kthxnai  lies and propaganda   Jun-22-09 10:36 AM   #256 
  - Per Foucault, *everything* is dangerous  fishwax   Jun-22-09 11:00 AM   #259 
  - Well in the archeology of knowledge he didn't quite go that far  nadinbrzezinski   Jun-22-09 11:18 AM   #267 
     - Foucault didn't do deconstruction  alcibiades_mystery   Jun-22-09 12:18 PM   #277 
  - You shure do have a purdy mouth.  Swede   Jun-22-09 11:17 AM   #266 
  - Locking  cbayer   Jun-22-09 12:30 PM   #279 
 

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