Why I love Fark.
My roommate doesn't understand how I can spend so much time reading Fark.com
I've had other friends express their incredulity as well when they discover that I read Fark. "You go to THAT website? But it's offensive!/racist!/sexist!/right-wing!/left-wing!/too christian!/too anti-christian!"
Well, yes and no. There are people there who express idiotic opinions there, but there's also a fair bit of intelligent discussion too. And a lot of stuff that's hilarious. You just have to be good at skimming past and ignoring the stuff you don't like to read.
One farker summed it up this way:
"This is not a venue for the faint of heart.
People who take themselves too seriously are going to get their asses handed to them in short order.
If you don't like raunchy jokes, insult contests and impassioned arguments about everything from baseball to stem cell research, and if you can't handle ethnic slurs, extremes of the political spectrum and very blunt talk, this may not be the place for you. Not saying those things are all wonderful, but they're all part of the FARK landscape.
If you can enjoy what's on here without getting your undies in a bunch because not everyone shares exactly the same point of view as yourself, there's a lot to enjoy here.
If you voice an opinion, be prepared for an argument. If you can't handle that, you probably shouldn't be using the internet unsupervised.
What FARK is not: Facebook, MySpace, a lonely hearts club, an agony aunts forum, a place to post pictures of your kids, a huggy place to have your "feelings validated", or an online version of "The View".
What FARK is: an informational "human interest and news of the odd" website with a message board attached. Some of the message board/"community" members are fine human beings and some are flaming assholes -- just like any other random group of humans.
If you're jake with that, take a virtual seat and hang on to your hat.
If not, don't let the door hit you in the ass."
Anyways, I keep a file of things that people have said on fark that have made me giggle.
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"You mirror the qualities of people around you. If you want to be successful, surround yourself with successful people."
"I call bullshiat. I've got a whole basement filled with successful people, and I'm still just a homicidal drifter with no job."
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Gay marriage is here in Massachusetts, and let me tell you, the radiation towers they built to gather, amplify and redirect the GAYdar waves make me want to marry my cute neighbor Ted.
And my dog.
And my lunch.
Mind you, flaming rocks have been falling from the skies for three years, the sun no longer rises, and I can't keep my wife chained to the stove anymore.
I guess civilization really is over.
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I've seen the pictures and statues, Jesus was definitely from northern Italy.
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“Another uneventful day in Vermont, another man caught sexually molesting cows”
“Shouldn't that be moolesting?”
“you are udderly correct.”
“Now you're just milking it.”
“Don't have a cow, man.”
“This thread is being steered in an odd direction”
“So is he going to be branded a sexual predator?”
“I'd steak my reputation on it..”
“I think we should wait for his calf of the story.”
“We cud do that”
“/I got mutton”
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This kind of crap is why i want my funeral to be simple.
wood chipper + deceased + discharge spout aimed in an amusing direction = best funeral evar!
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What if we all amassed on the Florida border with shovels on an appointed day & started digging? I bet we could have it floating toward Cuba by dinner time.
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Oh my God. I have a degree in Literature, I'm a 26 year-old straight guy, and I'm on FARK at 1:50 am on a Friday night militantly defending the sexual preference of a dead wizard in Harry Potter.
I'm gonna go eat a gun.
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" Who accidently brings a knife anyway? Good luck graduating high school, kid."
"I once accidentally brought a chainsaw to my dentist appointment while I was nude. It's entirely possible."
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"After the Dark Ages came the age of enlightenment. I hope this is true for our future too."
"It's more likely that after the dork ages will come the age of entitlement."
I've had other friends express their incredulity as well when they discover that I read Fark. "You go to THAT website? But it's offensive!/racist!/sexist!/right-wing!/left-wing!/too christian!/too anti-christian!"
Well, yes and no. There are people there who express idiotic opinions there, but there's also a fair bit of intelligent discussion too. And a lot of stuff that's hilarious. You just have to be good at skimming past and ignoring the stuff you don't like to read.
One farker summed it up this way:
"This is not a venue for the faint of heart.
People who take themselves too seriously are going to get their asses handed to them in short order.
If you don't like raunchy jokes, insult contests and impassioned arguments about everything from baseball to stem cell research, and if you can't handle ethnic slurs, extremes of the political spectrum and very blunt talk, this may not be the place for you. Not saying those things are all wonderful, but they're all part of the FARK landscape.
If you can enjoy what's on here without getting your undies in a bunch because not everyone shares exactly the same point of view as yourself, there's a lot to enjoy here.
If you voice an opinion, be prepared for an argument. If you can't handle that, you probably shouldn't be using the internet unsupervised.
What FARK is not: Facebook, MySpace, a lonely hearts club, an agony aunts forum, a place to post pictures of your kids, a huggy place to have your "feelings validated", or an online version of "The View".
What FARK is: an informational "human interest and news of the odd" website with a message board attached. Some of the message board/"community" members are fine human beings and some are flaming assholes -- just like any other random group of humans.
If you're jake with that, take a virtual seat and hang on to your hat.
If not, don't let the door hit you in the ass."
Anyways, I keep a file of things that people have said on fark that have made me giggle.
----------
"You mirror the qualities of people around you. If you want to be successful, surround yourself with successful people."
"I call bullshiat. I've got a whole basement filled with successful people, and I'm still just a homicidal drifter with no job."
----------
Gay marriage is here in Massachusetts, and let me tell you, the radiation towers they built to gather, amplify and redirect the GAYdar waves make me want to marry my cute neighbor Ted.
And my dog.
And my lunch.
Mind you, flaming rocks have been falling from the skies for three years, the sun no longer rises, and I can't keep my wife chained to the stove anymore.
I guess civilization really is over.
----------
I've seen the pictures and statues, Jesus was definitely from northern Italy.
----------
“Another uneventful day in Vermont, another man caught sexually molesting cows”
“Shouldn't that be moolesting?”
“you are udderly correct.”
“Now you're just milking it.”
“Don't have a cow, man.”
“This thread is being steered in an odd direction”
“So is he going to be branded a sexual predator?”
“I'd steak my reputation on it..”
“I think we should wait for his calf of the story.”
“We cud do that”
“/I got mutton”
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This kind of crap is why i want my funeral to be simple.
wood chipper + deceased + discharge spout aimed in an amusing direction = best funeral evar!
----------
What if we all amassed on the Florida border with shovels on an appointed day & started digging? I bet we could have it floating toward Cuba by dinner time.
----------
Oh my God. I have a degree in Literature, I'm a 26 year-old straight guy, and I'm on FARK at 1:50 am on a Friday night militantly defending the sexual preference of a dead wizard in Harry Potter.
I'm gonna go eat a gun.
----------
" Who accidently brings a knife anyway? Good luck graduating high school, kid."
"I once accidentally brought a chainsaw to my dentist appointment while I was nude. It's entirely possible."
----------
"After the Dark Ages came the age of enlightenment. I hope this is true for our future too."
"It's more likely that after the dork ages will come the age of entitlement."