DNW bandwidth exceeded D:

[blacklid]

Anon: "I think when people unfriend, there should be a box to enter the reason why. Like when you quit Netflix and they make you take a survey."

THIS.

LOL. Shit is bananas. I'm all about live and let live and if you have to vent, do it in email. But peeps getting publicly dissed and defriended because "their" shared static corporate network IP shows

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[shoiryu]

Huh?

Also that's, um... quite a tag you've got there. :/

[blacklid]

Taggy goes with this icon! *is irreverent*

It's just an eyeroll post about a story that a friend told me. I'm not involved in the wank at all, I just thought it was hilarious that the person wielding the B7 hammer was dramatically uninformed about how to ID people's surfing presence on the internet.

[shoiryu]

Yeah, I can see that. Just kind of thrown off by the word in general and the interchangeability with "stupidity" I guess. I don't really... well. I don't know. "Gay" doesn't mean "stupid."

I see. Yeah, there's been some epic wank/defriendings in fandom the past few days. I'm just trying to ignore it mostly.

[blacklid]

"Gay" doesn't mean "stupid."

Everyone who uses 'gay' for 'stupid' knows that... it's slang. To mention that I'm bi shouldn't lend itself to my own regular use of the term... so let's argue semantics for a minute just because we can.

The word play on "faggotry" in my icon is actually very close to the original meaning of the word. A "faggot" is literally a bundle of sticks used for starting a fire. A "fag" is literally a cigarette, which is also burned. Through abuse of alliteration and misunderstanding of word origin, the sucking of a cigarette became an ill-begotten idiom for people who suck dick and "should go DIAF", and so we have the judgmental form of 'fag' and then suddenly 'faggot'.

So. If I want to say "what is this thing that sucks and should go die in a fire?", I am actually using a metaphor that's more in line with the word's original intent and meaning

[tiffiny]

lol I don't handle defriending well.

[blacklid]

Obviously it's because you suck and should go DIAF. Obviously.

ETA: make that WE suck and should die in a fire. Oh, and make a note: gay does not mean stupid. *nods*

[tahirire]

Those IP addys are pesky.

*bats eyelashes*

[blacklid]

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

[bluetambereen]

*looking around*

What'd I miss?

*does the robot for no apparent reason other than it looks cool when you do the robot*

[blacklid]

*stares at icon*

WHAT IS THAT FUCKERY?

[bluetambereen]

THAT IS WHAT WE CALL A PRETTY PRETTY PRINCESS.

OR MAYBE IZ JUST HIS THINKING CAP??

WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME HARD QWESTIONS??

*PETS THE BOW*

[blacklid]

IT IS FOLLOWING ME. IT IS EVERYWHERE. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? *cue existential crisis*

[moonilicious]

But peeps getting publicly dissed and defriended because "their" shared static corporate network IP shows up somewhere they've never been?

I uh, WHAT? *facepalm* That's something I'm worried about. I have a gazillion IP addresses: one at home (dynamic), one at work (dynamic), and a few VPNs (static, shared with other customers of the service of which there are many). IPs, unless you know what you're doing, are not a fool proof way of identifying someone and most definitely not a solid ground for accusations/defriendings.

[blacklid]

Yes! Grounds for questioning, certainly, but anything else is an overreaction, in my book. People are already gun-shy and you can be defriended for merely SEEMING to do something that you're not.