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matt1993

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Nov 07, 2014 08:37

Last week, as part of an assignment in Speech class, I rewatched The Mummy and watched The Ring for the first time.

Turns out that my prediction here was actually wrong - The Ring is, in fact, a lot scarier than the parody of it on Annoying Orange ( Read more... )

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pathvain_aelien November 8 2014, 04:47:50 UTC

What did you read that was worse?

And The Ring always scared the crap out of me, btw. Why did you have to watch it for speech?

matt1993 November 8 2014, 06:41:49 UTC

What did you read that was worse?

Right now I don't think I should call it anything other than "the Forbidden Comment Threads Ω" (or Forbidden Comment Threads Omega - whichever spelling you prefer), even though it already has its own name, until I'm absolutely ready to take the chance of making it spread here.

But I can mention that the Forbidden Comment Threads Ω began in August 2014 and if the Wikipedia article about it is any indication, then in the three months that passed until I even heard about it, it already actually became a lot like what I used to think the original Forbidden Comment Threads would become: a subject so controversial that everyone who knows what it's about has picked a side on it and yells at anyone with an even slightly different opinion as them. And worse yet, I can just see almost all of my friends on LJ, including you -- no, almost everyone I know at all, including my counselor on campus -- disagreeing with me about it.

Take a look at the one part of the original Forbidden Comment Threads that's in my ( ... )

pathvain_aelien November 9 2014, 05:12:42 UTC

"And worse yet, I can just see almost all of my friends on LJ, including you -- no, almost everyone I know at all, including my counselor on campus -- disagreeing with me about it."

You don't know that until you tell me/us what it is! And even if we disagree, who cares? People disagree on just about every subject in the world, and that's okay.

matt1993 November 10 2014, 06:06:54 UTC

And even if we disagree, who cares? People disagree on just about every subject in the world, and that's okay.

Even Wikipedia hasn't managed to write about it neutrally yet, so I think that's at least a somewhat strong indicator that the apocalypse will happen if I mention what it is here. And lately I haven't compared as many trivial things to the apocalypse as I used to, so that's saying something.

And notice I called it "a subject so controversial that everyone who knows what it's about has picked a side on it and yells at anyone with an even slightly different opinion as them." So I can't imagine bringing myself to describe what it is here or mention it by its actual name until someone else either guesses correctly or brings it up thinking it's something different (in which case I'd be like "Actually, _____ is the Forbidden Comment Threads Ω").

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