Mock_The_Stupid - In the OP, Comments, ETC

[heroine68]

A post is approved in mock_the_stupid, a community with the ostensible mission of mocking things that are, well, stupid, that mocks the following New Zealand road sign:

"YOU ARE AN INSECURE LOAD.
BUCKLE UP"Now, I just got back from New Zealand, and I passed these signs more than once. I would laugh, but that's because I'm immature and I find the word "load" to

Comments

[matchbox360]

Taken out of context, YOU ARE AN INSECURE LOAD, is kinda funny.

Also, according my FIREFOX SPELLCHECKER insecured isn't a word and unsecure isn't a word... So insecure exists and so does unsecured but not the alternatives?
I'm quite confused at this point.

[heroine68]

"You are an insecure load" is hysterical. But I think the stupid is found in the person posting this to MTS as some sort of grammatical error. Someone in the comments there mentions that "insecure load" is actually in the wording of the NZ seatbelt law. I'll assume they've got proofreaders!

[taldragon]

half the "stupid" in that community...isnt.

[lickintoadz]

Seriously.

[futuristicplans]

Half the "stupid" in that community is pedantic douchebags licking each other's oh-so-intellectual assholes.

Pardon mah language. :D

[taldragon]

exactly.

i've given up reading MTS, because of the lame grammar/OMG THEY CANT SPELL... "mocks".

(and yes i'm bitter because all of my 3-4 submissions got rejected :) )

[pleiades]

I like how it's become a personal mission to starchild_295 to point out the error.

exam time!

[dazeydevyne]

and not to respond to anyone who points out that s/h/it is wrong, and there is another definition for the word.

I quit that comm a long time ago, when I realized that one person was the decider of what was stupid, and the decider of the dumb wasn't too sharp herself...

[rintheamazing]

Same here.

[theblackdragon]

"Is opalcat a masochist?"

opalcat is a very special little snowflake of a mod. don't expect her to make any sense, especially where other cultures are involved -- she's very US-centric when it comes to the posts she allows through, and god forbid you attempt to educate anybody otherwise, or she'll step in and start banning.

there's a reason she's got her own tag here. :3

[jananaphone]

I believe that she may very well be a masochist. She absolutely will not allow anyone, under any circumstances, to help her mod the community. This causes posts to show up anywhere from a week to a month and a half after they were posted. And when people ask why it takes so damned long for shit to get posted, she whines that she's "tried it in the past and it didn't work". Probably because whoever else she let mod wasn't... her. But, dear god, it's irritating when 3-week-old posts all show up in one chunk on my friends list.

[kitschyduck]

bah, UK ENGLISH IS THE ONLY RIGHT ENGLISH

[amokk]

So what's left English?

[kitschyduck]

American!