17776

[Phoebe]

TL;DR. Really. With no reward. One day the great-grandchild of James Joyce, a spoiled rich boy who pretends to be a feminist and posts a lot of Twitter memes he thinks are funny, got really high while watching Monday Night Football and wrote a really bad short story. His drunk roommates found it while trying to write their Philosophy 101 final papers at 2 am the night before the deadline, fed it through Google Translate into a mysterious language called Heideggerian German, back into Garrison Keillor Americana English, and then cut and pasted chunks of it together and turned it in. They posted it on the web for all y'all to read. Their professor stabbed himself (non-fatally, since he used a butter knife) and was never seen nor heard from again.

[Mike]

People who like things you don't like are morons.

[salvation122]

[Phoebe]

[Kyle]

Yeah- you're just repeatedly shitting on something everyone here seems to like-- with no purpose except to let everyone else know (repeatedly) how much dogshit you think it is.

You're trolling- whether intentional or not.

[buckett]

[Kyle]

That's hilarious.

[Phoebe]

[Kyle]

Defensive much?

[Mike]

I keep imagining this thread as a live conversation among workplace friends.

[buckett]

Was reminded of this old Bois post today, it's several pages deep into an article that starts off as a straightforward analysis of how the NFL defines a "catch" (a notoriously impossible-to-interpret rule). As this thread indicates, your mileage may vary:

[Phoebe]

See now, I kind of like that thing!

[Nadia Jaen]

[Kyle]

[Mike]

I was being funny! What were the chances that she was ever going to read this thread?

[buckett]

Heads up - if y'all had any questions or concerns about 17776, or just want to tell Jon that he's a moron, he just posted up a Google Doc soliciting that very thing:



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