I have Cloudiah to thank (again!) for putting me onto this amazing article about a devious prankster who trolls pickup artists and other lonely horny hearts with a fake OkCupid account … that replies to all come-ons with selections from the ouvre of the legendary horse_ebooks, “the surreal Twitter bot that streams nonsensical snippets of text. The result: dozens of conversations from horny men desperately vying to have sex with a robot.”
And yes, it’s as funny as it sounds, especially when the guys try to use their PUA magic to “game” this imaginary HB10 (Hot Babe 10) – or should that be HRH10 (Hot Robot Horse 10)? – only to receive responses like “VERY SOME VERY NO VERY SOME VERY CHANCE LITTLE CHANCE GOOD CHANCE LITTLE CHANCE GOOD CHANCE CHANCE CHANCE CHANCE , NAVAL” and “CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION Corp. CHAMPION Corp. CHAMPION Corp. CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION.”
And of course the guys keep trying.
(All this made me wonder if anyone had set up a Gertrude Stein_ebooks account, and … yes, someone has! FOLLOWED!)
Anyway, you all need to go read the post. Check out the Okc_ebooks Tumblr blog for more.
I have been lurking for a while, and just wanted to let you all know I have been laughing and laughing reading this blog. The MRAs get in to every news thread and make me really depressed, this site is such a tonic. The thing about chairs being misandry was so absurd, I love it. Also loved the one about the MRA annoyed because he wasn’t allowed to be a Big Brother. Also, love kittens. Much love
Robots are people too! Robot rights for all! Call me robotist but I’d rather the PUAs keep their attention that way.
@Katz
A friend of my younger brother actually took that picture of young Stalin into a hairdresser, who copied the hairstyle very well. He’s small and bright-eyed, with a very patchy beard, and his Macedonian-Anglo genes definitely ended up making him look Caucasian. It was a close likeness and very offputting until he got another haircut.
It’s hard for me to separate the look from the person, personally, but my love of beards and strong parted hair leads me to personally prefer Stalin’s look a few years later, rather than the one in the photo everyone gushes over.
That is a good photo, lowquacks. I think this was the first one of him as a young man I saw:
http://flashyourstache.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/stalin-2.jpg
Gods know what he was thinking with
fur hathaircut:http://russianbrideguide.com/img/stalin.jpg
The standard picture used in “omg young Stalin was so hot” discussions seems to be this one.
Lowquacks, was your brother’s friend a fan of Stalin, or did he just like the look?
Katz
Just liked the look, I’m reasonably sure. His older brother, my friend, was a fan of the Spanish anarchists, which I think was a family thing and would suggest anti-Stalinism? Stalin’s not very likable as it is.
Still a reasonably tasteless move.
Well, “brought down by” Stalin’s probably not quite accurate, but his “aid” and agendas certainly took over the leftist Republican groups.
@ArchaeoHolmes
Hello, welcome, and thank you!
I read Milo’s “article”. Either I’m getting better at recognizing this stuff or these guys are being more honest and obvious.
I am new and just going through the archives at the moment. I know it is off-topic, but want to mention I just read the imaginary sexbots post. The site is a treasure trove of surrealism.
ArchaeoHolmes — has anyone given you your complimentary hard chair, matching bath towels and SCENTED MOTHERFUCKING CANDLES? If not, here you go!
Kitties, puppies, other adorable animals, these can be obtained frequently throughout the comments (and sometimes the post)
…and as for animals, one of my cories just managed to get stuck behind air line tubbing for a second. *shoots to surface, shoots back down* OH NO I’M STUCK!! *wiggle wiggle wiggle* FREE!! *shoots to bottom of tank* /narration of fish chaos
You know, I’ve had an OKC account for many years, and I’ve never encountered a male profile that was a bot. Elderly Nazis hitting on me, yes*, but no male bots. I wonder if it’s like the Twitter spambots that frequently have photos of attractive young women as their icons. I don’t recall seeing one with a hot young guy photo.
There’s a thought buried in there, but I’m sick and too tired to dig it out.
(* – dude who was old enough to be my father messaged me and informed me his favorite movie was “Triumph of the Will.” ALL TRUE STORIES.)
If I ever find myself dating via OKC again, this will actually be really useful information. It doesn’t matter what you say to these guys, they’re gonna ignore everything about you and just beg for sex anyway, so you might as well just ignore or block them right off the bat. Ugh, and the troll on the “Nice Guy” video thread was demanding that we prove that male entitlement is a thing…
So… somebody could theoretically set up a web crawler to register pick up lines from PUA pages and feed them into another agent that automatically blocks messages containing them on OKC?
That would really be using the Power of Google for good.
Finding Nemo 2?
After Nemo the blizzard, I hope not! (Never saw the movie >.< )
This is my new favorite blog.
Welcome, ArchaeoHolmes! Love your handle. 🙂
@Kakanian – I’d like to see something that just fed PUAs profiles to each other on OKC and such sites. Imagine if all they ever got was other PUAs saying “I’m going to fuck you, baby, I won’t take no for an answer!”
Thanks for your welcomes lowquacks and the kittehs. Very happy to be here.
Oh, and thanks Argenti too. I’m amazed scented candles and chairs are legal under the UN human rights convention, frankly
So Rebecca Watson posts about a sixteen year-old atheist activist who endured harassment from her community when she forced them to take down a prayer banner (Jessica Alquist, who is my hero despite being six years younger than me) who was told on Facebook to post to Sexy Atheists and why that is wrong. (See here http://skepchick.org/2012/02/seeing-the-patriarchy/)
And then someone calling herself a traditional women’s rights’ activist decides that the cause of men telling sixteen year olds to post to sexy facebook pages is caused by the lack of Patriarchy, because men will always be in charge. I have not read such a steaming pile of horseshit since… well, since the last time Manboobz updated.
Here that is if you want:
http://femininemystiquetwra.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/rebecca-watson-seeing-the-decline-of-patriarchy/
My “favorite” bits were when she claimed that men will always be more powerful (tell that to the Na!) and that women were protected because they didn’t have to work outside the home, ignoring the fact that only applied to very few women in certain historical contexts and that there was an awful amount of work to be done in the home so that men could go out and work outside it.
RE: Kittehs
No, it’s just the concept of low-stress early twenties that boggles me. Like, intellectually, of course, I understand that most people don’t end up semi-homeless and batshit in a nail-studded crawl space at twenty-five… but part of me is like, “HOW DO THEY DO IT? WHAT IS THEIR SECRET?” (Like it’s a matter of, I dunno, putting the right cheat code into the Life Machine.)
Ah, gotcha.
I guess it starts earlier than the twenties to land someone in that situation, though … I guess the secret is that horrible things didn’t happen to them!
To kitteh and LBT, I could always spot north shore boys (even into adulthood), there was always a sense of entitlement and confidence because no-one had ever pulled the ladder out from under them. I suppose they were right because the old boys network WOULD keep looking after them probably for the rest of their lives.