Listen! The Yahoo! Answers Tribal Shaman Speaks!

[dave_littler]

This morning, I have been browsing Yahoo! Answers relationship board, and I have been disgusted by what I have seen. These people with their problems... they make such frivolous and and irresponsible decisions in their mating habits, they serve only to endanger the future of the tribe by producing weak and helpless offspring. Plainly, they require

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Praise (and lolz) to the wise words of the Yahoo Answers Tribal Shaman!

[squidb0i]

*genuflects*

Re: Praise (and lolz) to the wise words of the Yahoo Answers Tribal Shaman!

[dave_littler]

And let all in the sound of your voice hear the wisdom in this praise, that they may emulate it.

[ephemeralize]

Third from last is brill. Clearly, the best way to confront an ex's sibling is to fight them for glory.

Really reminds me of The Yahoo Answers Tumblr, you should submit some. :)

[dave_littler]

This bears scrutiny! I will investigate this matter shortly.

[hako_neko]

Never stop being this amazing.

[dave_littler]

I had had plans for a gradual reduction is amazingness, with a scheduled 30% reduction over the course of the next ten years.

In light of this comment, though, I suppose I will need to scrap this plan in favour of a more sustained commitment to awesomeness.

[nerdfury]

Every time I visit Yahoo!Answers, I get into a blind rage about how ridiculously stupid the majority of the internet is, and become saddened that the mentally-retarded lowest denominator can be allowed to dwell in my precious tubes.

And what's with the trend of apologising for two paragraphs of writing being 'too long'!? This happens at work, too! A manager will send out an email with, say, half a page of easily-digestible information and apologise for it being 'so long'!

GRAAARRRRGHRAAAAGE!

[dave_littler]

In fairness, people have brief and fleeting attention spans these days. TV and movies are produced in such a way that people don't need to look at a single stationary object for more than ten seconds at a time. We've become so accustomed to constant sensory overload that focus is actually a detriment to our ability to function.

This having been said, it's not the people who are writing lengthy - or indeed even longer-than-instantaneous messages that should be appologizing. It's those who have established this insane standard with their blitzkrieg approach to entertainment.

Oh, to have lived in an age when "tl;dr" is a term I need never have read.

[sarieverna]

I must say, this has pleased me greatly. Do continue!

And I'm inclined to agree with nerdfury, but not with respect to just Yahoo!Answers. It saddens me to see the lowest denominators wherever they pop up on the intertubes.

[dave_littler]

Unfortunately, with the exception of those brave and noble grammar nazis who patrol our series of tubes and periodically stop these people in their quasi-illiterate tracks, there's nobody holding these people to a higher standard. It's a task more of us really out to take up. It's a noble work.

But yes, I do indeed plan to continue. I have not created this tag frivolously! :)