Grief Athletes and Moderation Martyrs04 Feb 2010 11:27 am
By Alex

Someone’s dead.

Who?

Dave Perry, Pembroke, where sanity rules in a world that is cross wired

You wouldn’t have heard of him anyway. But maybe if you’re lucky you’ll run into one of the moderators at a bus stop in Pembroke-where-sanity-rules-in-a-world-that-is-cross-wired and they’ll be able to explain it to you.

JD who?

Dick Barton, Somewhere on page 165 just after the debate’s closed. Marxist censorship from the BBC., United Kingdom

Here’s a tip: If your paranoid, whiny, self-obsessed signature is several times longer than anything you have to say, don’t expect the mods will rush to share your brilliantly insightful location with the world every time.

48 Responses to “While Making a Wider Point”

  1. on 04 Feb 2010 at 11:45 am Much Adair About Nothing

    What a cunt.

  2. on 04 Feb 2010 at 11:47 am Magnus V. Inkerman

    What a terrific bunch of self-indulgently ignorant dicks.

  3. on 04 Feb 2010 at 11:48 am That Bloke in the Corner

    Who?

    Dave Perry, Pembroke, where sanity rules in a world that is cross wired

    I was thinking exactly the same about yourself Dave, Who are you and why do you think that we care if you comment?

  4. on 04 Feb 2010 at 11:48 am Rod Wrongnob

    So “where sanity rules in a world that is cross wired” would be… Wales?

  5. on 04 Feb 2010 at 11:51 am Jones

    And I thought those on HYS that chucked around claims of censorship, commie-bum-lovin’, and 1984 returning for real were well read. That’s that myth sorted out.

  6. on 04 Feb 2010 at 12:05 pm Petpete

    The problem is, you’ll never be able to please these people. If a shitstick populist writer (Dan Brown et al) died tomorrow, the stock standard comments would be “Dan who?”, “Never heard of him” and “the Da Vinci what?”.
    It matters not whether they are vaugely aware of a writer/musician/artist’s work, they will consistently and thoroughly wear their ignorance as a badge of honour. Like a Dog turd on a lapel but much stinkier.

  7. on 04 Feb 2010 at 12:19 pm Christonabike

    Ah but come one be fair- there are lots of books in the world- how could anyone read all of them? The fact that the last book they read was Mr Tickle, and was in fact read to them by somebody literate is by-the-by.

    The most surprising thing is they haven’t heard of it, despite its role in assasination conspiracy theories. It’s the missing piece of the jigsaw linking Lennon, JFK, global warming, the faked moon landings and Gordon Brown’s missing eyeball. If you play Mambo Italiano backwards, Dean Martin speaks about it at length.

  8. on 04 Feb 2010 at 12:20 pm Christonabike

    Come on even. Pillock.

  9. on 04 Feb 2010 at 12:23 pm Philbert

    What a terrific bunch of self-indulgently ignorant dicks./

    To be fair, you could post this after almost any quote from HYS.

  10. on 04 Feb 2010 at 12:24 pm Philbert

    Fuck.

  11. on 04 Feb 2010 at 12:26 pm Linda Snell

    Actually, I think you’ll find Dick Barton is a famous British secret agent, who has every right to pompously dismiss some yank author.

  12. on 04 Feb 2010 at 12:35 pm Manly J. Panda

    Please stop reporting the JD Salinger comments. The people posting on this thread make the Panda sad, I really mean it, I do.

  13. on 04 Feb 2010 at 12:52 pm Cuger Brant's books now appear on my Amazon home page in teh "other things you might be interested in" bit thanks to you lot

    Cuger Who?

  14. on 04 Feb 2010 at 12:53 pm teh

    tut

  15. on 04 Feb 2010 at 1:19 pm rbino

    Even after two excellent posts on the topic, I think you’ve missed the best example of ‘empty-box-filling solipsism’:

    I never knew the man and have no knowledge of his work. I have absolutely no opinion on this subject whatsoever.
    SiHy, Newcastle Upon Tyne

    It’s rare that you find a HYSer who doesn’t have an opinion on something, and it’s only on HYS that you find someone with no opinion commenting regardless.

  16. on 04 Feb 2010 at 1:25 pm pigfrottage

    @rbino

    SiHy, Newcastle Upon Tyne has won
    today’s Catherine Oliver award.

    Nominations are open for tomorrow.

  17. on 04 Feb 2010 at 1:32 pm Naich

    Right. I’m suych a fucking hrad core sololipsolisrt thyat not only hacve I not rerad any pots on this board, I havben’t read the comments, or even my own erply tjhaty I’m typeoing now. Beray thaty for ifnorance, Have toyr Say wimps.

  18. on 04 Feb 2010 at 1:42 pm Dunc

    The real irony is that if these twats were to read Catcher they’d probably quite like it, seeing as it’s about a self-obsessed adolescent with an over-inflated sense of his own worth.

  19. on 04 Feb 2010 at 1:44 pm Ugly Newt

    Our old friend -~</[{(Dennis Junior)}]\>~- has made a token attempt at the CO award while also running in the competition to miss the point of voting:

    That is sobering news, regarding the reform in elections will be a
    planning vote next week….

    NB: I am not a political operative in the United Kingdom.

    -Dennis Junior-

  20. on 04 Feb 2010 at 1:48 pm Edwin

    Dunc

    Sadly, they’re too pompous to reailse.

  21. on 04 Feb 2010 at 2:26 pm Vole

    I wonder if that’s bandanna-wearing Dave Perry off of TV’s Gamesmaster.

  22. on 04 Feb 2010 at 2:34 pm I did Nineteen-Eighty Farm and now my paranoia's gone all boring

    Marxist censorship from the BBC., United Kingdom

    Notice how that full-stop comma combination looks like the forced grin of a one-eyed man? It can’t just be crap punctuation; it means something. It’s a secret sign. They pop up all over the place once you bother to notice, like “Kirbys” or the Trystero Post Horn.

  23. on 04 Feb 2010 at 2:35 pm kukomanga

    Ah Gamesmaster. Before the internet, the only way you could get cheats for games was to ask the giant floating head of Patrick Moore.

  24. on 04 Feb 2010 at 2:54 pm john Adair's Gerbil

    Why do people take pride in their ignorance? They perch there in their cages, reading the few headlines of the Daily Mail that isn’t obscured by their droppings and squawk “Educaytion is a sgambles, whi is our kids not learning, I blame the leftyliberalNuLieBourZanu” and then profess their ignorance to the rest of the HYS squawkers.

    Sigh.

    (5 minute check for accidental spelling errors, their/there confusion…)

  25. on 04 Feb 2010 at 3:01 pm Philbert

    JD who?

    Dick Barton, Somewhere on page 165 just after the debate’s closed. Marxist censorship from the BBC., United Kingdom

    How do you get Marxist censorship? When did Karl Marx ever censor anything (or Groucho, Zeppo, Harpo or Chico for that matter)?

  26. on 04 Feb 2010 at 3:27 pm That Bloke in the Corner

    NB: I am not a political operative in the United Kingdom.

    -Dennis Junior-

    You have just got to love Dennis, ‘I can’t vote in the UK’ turns into a political operative. I can just see the rest of the HYS twats jumping on this one:
    “as a tax paying political operative….whine, whinge, turdspurt”

  27. on 04 Feb 2010 at 3:58 pm Schroduck

    Somewhere on page 165 just after the debate’s closed. Marxist censorship from the BBC

    Having seen the wank that makes it to page 1 of every Have Your Say, I’d have thought finding yourself on page 165 is a compliment.

    Of course, if he really wants to get to the front, he just has to give Nick Griffin a blowjob* and the BNPers will mindlessly recommend it to the top.

    * Metaphorically speaking. I wouldn’t wish Nick Griffin-fellatio on anyone.

  28. on 04 Feb 2010 at 4:42 pm Pierre De La Resistance

    Ah Gamesmaster. Before the internet, the only way you could
    get cheats for games was to ask the giant floating head of Patrick
    Moore.

    I once had lunch at Patrick Moore’s house after my dad filmed part of The
    Sky at Night at his house. He was a lovely man and I asked him about
    Gamesmaster, to which he replied that he had no idea what he was talking
    about and gave all of his fee to the Multiple Sclerosis
    Society. What a nice man.

  29. on 04 Feb 2010 at 5:39 pm Nelson

    That’s wicked. “The Sky At Night” gives me a warm fuzzy feeling that I imagine is the equivalent of what a BNP bedwetter feels as they shout “INNGEEERLAAAND!”.

  30. on 04 Feb 2010 at 5:56 pm Alex

    Metaphorically speaking. I wouldn’t wish Nick Griffin-fellatio on anyone.

    Especially not Nick Griffin.

  31. on 04 Feb 2010 at 6:03 pm SoulBoy

    How do you get Marxist censorship? When did Karl Marx ever censor anything (or Groucho, Zeppo, Harpo or Chico for that matter)?

    Why do you think Harpo never spoke? His brothers were filthy Marxist censors

  32. on 04 Feb 2010 at 6:06 pm Pirate Pete

    Dear Dennis’s “political operative” phrase makes me suspect that he is using Google Translate in his native language, and doesn’t actually speak the Queen’s English. Either that, or he thinks that every third person in England (not Britain) is a member of MI5.

  33. on 04 Feb 2010 at 6:07 pm Schroduck

    The are you a massive hypocrite thread is back with a vengeance. Already it’s ripe with “TALKING TO PEOPLE ONLINE IS FOR LOSERS WHICH IS WHY I’M TELLING YOU THIS ONLINE” comments.

    Plus:

    Facebook is fast eroding real human face.

    Quick question: who’s talking here? O’Brian or Rorschach?

  34. on 04 Feb 2010 at 6:12 pm Mr Cat

    Social networks have become a sort of enigma- brutally but naively replacing traditional network and human contact . To simply put it ,its a misuse of technology and resources.
    Human feel and touch has nearly lost its taste and desire as more and more global vilagers tend to communicate and socialise through the wires – something really very boring .Body language is part of our convectional exchanges through which much of human communication is done . A shame that all is being lost .

    Hashim, london

    Fail

  35. on 04 Feb 2010 at 6:19 pm Wanking mournfully into an eggcup

    Wetherspoon. Idiot.

  36. on 04 Feb 2010 at 6:22 pm Manly J. Panda

    Mr Cat for today’s ‘Parklife’ Prize!

    Add +1 for your next Internetz roll.

  37. on 04 Feb 2010 at 7:00 pm Jesus Chris

    Those comments show that the mods can instigate a word limit and the fun won’t be reduced.

    They also show that even without the blah filter, HYSers have already found a way to bypass it.

  38. on 04 Feb 2010 at 7:02 pm Cora

    am wary about making too much personal information available.
    Neil Probert, Cernusco Sul Naviglio, Italy

    Eh?

  39. on 04 Feb 2010 at 7:05 pm Cora

    Yay! Finally, a blockquote fail and obligatory apology to my name.

  40. on 04 Feb 2010 at 8:21 pm Nevermind JD Salinger

    Who is Alberto Giacometti? Even the Helvetic Republic, in its violent and bloody history, has produced many more noteworthy and useful people.
    Average Realist, Edinburgh

    From the ‘Would you pay £65m for a piece of art?’ thread.

  41. on 04 Feb 2010 at 9:43 pm Schroduck

    Even the Helvetic Republic, in its violent and bloody history, has produced many more noteworthy and useful people.

    Perhaps he means Joy Pattinson?

  42. on 04 Feb 2010 at 10:03 pm Cora

    I have probably attended over 1000 art exhibitions over the past 30 years. At least 100 of these have heralded the arrival of a new major force in world art. I googled these names this morning. It’s as if they never lived.
    martin harris, London, United Kingdom

    Thanks for the giggle Martin Harris!

  43. on 05 Feb 2010 at 12:35 am funny peculiar

    At least 100 of these [art exhibitions] have heralded the arrival of a new major force in world art.

    Is he refering to the violent and bloody Helvetic Republic?

  44. on 05 Feb 2010 at 1:53 am First time user

    “Is social media a waste of time?”

    Since it seems to take up most of some people’s spare time, I’d agree that it was a huge waste of time – that should be used instead, to communicate with each other via personal contact.

    What an insular kind of life we are heading towards.

    Only unreal friendships can be forged via an ethereal Media…

    REALITY-CHECK NO-PC, DERBY, United Kingdom

  45. on 05 Feb 2010 at 2:27 am I'm not a doctor

    [blockquote]
    Human feel and touch has nearly lost its taste and desire
    [/blockquote]

    Human see and hear has also lost its smell

  46. on 05 Feb 2010 at 2:28 am I'm not a doctor

    Oh [blockquote]arsebiscuits[/blockquote]

  47. on 05 Feb 2010 at 10:17 am Rotwatcher

    Quick question: who’s talking here? O’Brian or Rorschach?

    Quick question: which O’Brian? Flann or Patrick?

  48. on 05 Feb 2010 at 11:06 am Jesus Chris

    Rotwatcher

    Quick question: which O’Brian? Flann or Patrick?

    Quick question: flan or quiche?