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Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: dractivisionary on May 24, 2016, 09:41:46 pm: A split off thread of the "The Grossest Episode?" topic but what episode makes you the most angery.

For me it is 210: Tales in ReTale (I can't even get through the episode). I currently work in retail and have never had anything like this happen at all. Like where do these people work?!
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Cleretic on May 24, 2016, 09:47:22 pm: Tropers. Both episodes, but them trying to write stories is probably the most enraging.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Nifty Nif on May 24, 2016, 09:50:15 pm: Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Patreon, et al. The curators and ridiculists do a great job of leaving out people who actually deserve to receive money in any capacity, so the episodes make me want to scream. I don't think I could contribute to a crowdfunding campaign at this point unless I knew the people running it (except for the $8 I threw at some caffeinated toothpaste. It was $8, it barely counts).
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Yavuz on May 24, 2016, 11:05:40 pm: A split off thread of the "The Grossest Episode?" topic but what episode makes you the most angery.

For me it is 210: Tales in ReTale (I can't even get through the episode). I currently work in retail and have never had anything like this happen at all. Like where do these people work?!
dractivisionary, May 24, 2016, 09:41:46 pm

I've never worked in retail, but that episode was so hard to listen to. I don't think I've ever heard such an enormous pile of bullshit. And the obvious, flagrant bullshit just made me mad.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Cyberventurer on May 24, 2016, 11:21:15 pm: For me, it's Dozerfleet. It's not like he's the only one featured on the podcast who has his head that far up his own ass, but writing a self-made wiki all about himself just bugs me in a uniquely irritating way.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Cleretic on May 24, 2016, 11:46:50 pm: For me, it's Dozerfleet. It's not like he's the only one featured on the podcast who has his head that far up his own ass, but writing a self-made wiki all about himself just bugs me in a uniquely irritating way.
Cyberventurer, May 24, 2016, 11:21:15 pm

If nothing else, he's the person wasting the most space for the least gain. I don't think I ever have or will see more extensive masturbation.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Gyro on May 25, 2016, 12:35:44 am: Anti-vaxxers really make me want to jump off a bridge, every time.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Bodark on May 25, 2016, 12:58:18 am: Most of the episodes piss me off to some degree, but the monkey moms and anti-vaxxers piss me off the most.

ETA: The troper writing, too. Those fucking people make me want to rip off my ears
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on May 25, 2016, 01:10:30 am: The Unschooling moms. They are not only fucking themselves up, but fucking up children who don't know better.

To quote Portaxx: "the cunts so big they could engulf Mt. Olympus in all its majesty!"
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: positive stress on May 25, 2016, 10:47:41 am: MRAs. Fuck MRAs forever.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on May 25, 2016, 11:55:24 am: retrospective parts 1 & 2.

those self aggrandizing FUCKS
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: dractivisionary on May 25, 2016, 12:05:08 pm: For me, it's Dozerfleet. It's not like he's the only one featured on the podcast who has his head that far up his own ass, but writing a self-made wiki all about himself just bugs me in a uniquely irritating way.
Cyberventurer, May 24, 2016, 11:21:15 pm

If nothing else, he's the person wasting the most space for the least gain. I don't think I ever have or will see more extensive masturbation.
Cleretic, May 24, 2016, 11:46:50 pm
Extensive masturbation about stuff that either never existed or did to a very small degree.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Digital Walnut on May 25, 2016, 06:04:42 pm: The Unschooling moms. They are not only fucking themselves up, but fucking up children who don't know better.

To quote Portaxx: "the cunts so big they could engulf Mt. Olympus in all its majesty!"
FattyBoBatty, May 25, 2016, 01:10:30 am
I can't think of anyone more fucking awful than those people. Runners up for me are the monkey moms who kept having their pets mutilated, the Christian spousal abuse group and noted pro-rape advocate Michael Byc.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Baldr on May 25, 2016, 07:21:22 pm: The Unschooling moms. They are not only fucking themselves up, but fucking up children who don't know better.FattyBoBatty, May 25, 2016, 01:10:30 am

I disagree.

Most people remember almost nothing from their childhoods, and so I don't see the harm in letting your kids run around and do whatever. I mean, it's clearly worse than actually trying to teach your children stuff. But at least it's better than having an institution teach your kids that all learning is meaningless bullshit like K-12 education did for me.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Nifty Nif on May 25, 2016, 07:32:04 pm: Runners up for me are the monkey moms who kept having their pets mutilated
Digital Walnut, May 25, 2016, 06:04:42 pm

Seconding monkey moms. If you can't keep your pet without mutilating it, it's not supposed to be a pet!
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Knitting Machine on May 25, 2016, 07:43:57 pm: Monkey Moms was hilarious right up to the mutilation. Dang it, I just wanted to hear more people getting scammed because they wanted a pet monkey!
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: John Toast on May 26, 2016, 02:53:50 pm: I made my grievances clear in the episode, but the people on the smokers episode really pissed me off. The episode itself is still pretty funny (especially my bits) but it just infuriated me that they were advocating and fetishizing excessive self harm because hey, it feels good dude!
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Blandest on May 26, 2016, 03:08:05 pm: The Unschooling moms. They are not only fucking themselves up, but fucking up children who don't know better.FattyBoBatty, May 25, 2016, 01:10:30 am

I disagree.

Most people remember almost nothing from their childhoods, and so I don't see the harm in letting your kids run around and do whatever. I mean, it's clearly worse than actually trying to teach your children stuff. But at least it's better than having an institution teach your kids that all learning is meaningless bullshit like K-12 education did for me.
Healslime, May 25, 2016, 07:21:22 pm

The fact that you can type out that sentence and have it make sense means that your education wasn't meaningless. It's basically child abuse to purposefully fuck your kid's life by not teaching them some fairly basic things like maths, a language, and general knowledge about the world.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: moooo566 (taylor's version) on May 26, 2016, 03:56:03 pm: A lot of shit you did in primary school stages is important. Sure, you did a lot of pointless shit, but you also learned things like maths and basic grammar, and even the pointless shit probably helped develop basic social skills. Even if you don't remember or use a lot of that stuff now, it's a useful stepping stone to the stuff you do use. Being able to communicate and write and solve problems are skills that take years of practice.

Homeschooling and even a small amount of unschooling style choice probably can work in the right environment, with the right direction from the parents. I do not trust those mums to be giving the right environment and direction.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Nikaer Drekin on May 26, 2016, 03:57:35 pm: The Unschooling moms. They are not only fucking themselves up, but fucking up children who don't know better.FattyBoBatty, May 25, 2016, 01:10:30 am

I disagree.

Most people remember almost nothing from their childhoods, and so I don't see the harm in letting your kids run around and do whatever. I mean, it's clearly worse than actually trying to teach your children stuff. But at least it's better than having an institution teach your kids that all learning is meaningless bullshit like K-12 education did for me.
Healslime, May 25, 2016, 07:21:22 pm

The fact that you can type out that sentence and have it make sense means that your education wasn't meaningless. It's basically child abuse to purposefully fuck your kid's life by not teaching them some fairly basic things like maths, a language, and general knowledge about the world.
Blandest, May 26, 2016, 03:08:05 pm

Also, if your range of childhood experiences ONLY consists of watching cartoons and hanging out with your mom and/or dad, I have a feeling your social life might be pretty stunted after a while?
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: junior associate faguar on May 26, 2016, 04:07:47 pm: I somehow survived being completely unschooled until I was like 13, and still homeschooled until my sophomore year of high school. I got in trouble as a kid because I asked my parents to get me math textbooks at one point, even. The only way that I can imagine that I didn't end up completely fucking retarded was that I just naturally gravitated to 'smart' things like programming and history, so I ended up learning the sorts of normal math and english in the best-case-possible situation; if I had been more into just playing Halo on Xbox Live and watching cartoons I could have easily ended up borderline illiterate and unable to do even basic arithmetic. I didn't even learn to write until I was ten or eleven, for shit's sake! I'm still struggling to get over the near-complete lack of basic social experience, as you can tell from the fact that I'm spending my time off sitting around posting on an internet forum.

Anyone who supports unschooling or honestly even homeschooling should at least have their kids taken away if not actually imprisoned.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Baldr on May 26, 2016, 09:52:35 pm: The fact that you can type out that sentence and have it make sense means that your education wasn't meaningless.Blandest, May 26, 2016, 03:08:05 pm

I learned almost nothing about reading or writing from K-12. My parents read to me as a kid, and then abruptly stopped. They said, "Here's a book and if you want to know what the story's like then you have to read it yourself." I remember throwing a giant temper tantrum, and then the book was still there when I finished. So I started trying to read it. Everything more or less worked itself out after that. I was always better at reading than most of the people in my grade level. No surprise given that my fellow students were being forced to read books that they hated, and I was reading for fun. If you read enough it also gives you an instinctive sense of grammar. As a kid I would always fail the parts of grammar exams that involved identifying a grammatical structure. But I had no problems with finding errors in incorrect sentences or writing reasonably well.

I know that's just one anecdote and I think I can do better. In the United States we have Sudbury schools, which allow students to learn whatever they want to learn whenever they feel ready. It's sort of extreme-Montessori meets unschooling. Those kids still all learn how to read and write.

Even if you don't remember or use a lot of that stuff now, it's a useful stepping stone to the stuff you do use. Being able to communicate and write and solve problems are skills that take years of practice.moooo566, May 26, 2016, 03:56:03 pm

My reading of educational psychology leads me to believe that there's not a generalized problem solving or critical thinking skill. Educational psychologists use the technical term "transfer of learning" to refer to what laymen would call critical thinking. The lesson of the research on transfer of learning is that short jumps, which are referred to near transfer are possible. Large jumps, or far transfer almost never happen.

I know that's kind of abstract, so here are some examples. For near transfer, playing the piano transfers to the accordion, and ice skating transfers to roller skating. Learning one skill helps you with the other when the skills are very similar.

For far transfer, Western Civilization taught all students Latin for several hundred years, on the grounds that learning Latin would make other languages easier to learn. This has been experimentally disproven, but not before making generations of children miserable for absolutely no reason. Similarly, when educational psychologists studied the effect of logic classes on reasoning they also found no change. And then there's one of the weirder findings I've encountered, which is that students who take a Psychology class in high school do just as well in college Introductory Psychology as students who have never taken Psychology before. I mean, those K-12 kids spent an entire semester learning Psychology, so you'd think they'd be better at it once they got to college, but they're not.

Also, if your range of childhood experiences ONLY consists of watching cartoons and hanging out with your mom and/or dad, I have a feeling your social life might be pretty stunted after a while?Nikaer Drekin, May 26, 2016, 03:57:35 pm

Yeah, obviously kids should be doing kid stuff with other kids. But isolation isn't a necessary condition of homeschooling or unschooling.

I got in trouble as a kid because I asked my parents to get me math textbooks at one point, even.journeyman faguar, May 26, 2016, 04:07:47 pm

Okay, that's legitimately fucked and it wasn't what I had in mind when I mentioned unschooling. I was thinking of something much more along the lines of the Waldorf model. Actively stopping children from learning basic skills they've expressed an interest in is not what I'm arguing for.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on May 27, 2016, 02:17:28 am: It's a good idea to teach kids that they will often have to do shit they don't want to do in order to survive.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: goombapolice on May 27, 2016, 08:57:24 am: Hot take: Unschooling or homeschooling your children without any supervision from a governing body should result in CPS taking your kids away.

Guess which episode mad me the most mad?

If there's an Fplus episode primarily about homeschool forums and the like I might burn the earth away in my rage
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: SirSlarty on June 01, 2016, 09:14:02 pm: Creepy people.
169: I'm Gonna Cuddle Everybody In This Room (https://thefpl.us/episode/169)
74: Our Love Doesn't Need A Third Dimension (https://thefpl.us/episode/74)

How can these people function in the real world?
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Nifty Nif on June 01, 2016, 10:25:04 pm: Creepy people.
169: I'm Gonna Cuddle Everybody In This Room (https://thefpl.us/episode/169)
74: Our Love Doesn't Need A Third Dimension (https://thefpl.us/episode/74)

How can these people function in the real world?
sirslarty, June 01, 2016, 09:14:02 pm

They don't. :(

I think there's a pretty big distinction between typical public K-12 (babysitting) and typical unschooling (when you forgot to hire a babysitter), and I don't think Healslime is advocating for the brand of unschooling portrayed in the episode.

My take on it is that I got the most benefit out of 4 grades: K, and 10-12. Kindergarten was rad because I got to interact with other kids; instilled in me a love of rules, respect, and order; and introduced me to a standard, a grading scale, and a personal standard that I liked to measure my own progress against. I wouldn't say I learned anything, though. I already knew how to read. I was pretty good at it. Social interaction was great, though. Grades 1-9 were more or less a waste of time for me except for ~gifted classes~ which stopped after grade 5. The schooling experience might have even reinforced the elitism I was already learning at home. However, my parents did not want to homeschool me. After elementary school I may have even been motivated to seek out my own curriculum and research the logistics, but Mom and Dad had purposely settled in a suburb with acceptably good public schools.
Grades 10-12 were also filled with busywork but I guess they were alright because I took AP classes. I got to college just before administrators wised up and realized AP test scores are meaningless, so I got credit for all of them. For reference, a 5 (top score on any AP exam) represents a score ranging anywhere from 100% to 60%. A 4 is much worse--I believe the minimum score is around 40% So I think I got obscene amounts of credit--over a year's worth--for 6 tests that I may have failed and 1 that I certainly failed. I think these credits ultimately fulfilled a number of arbitrary requirements that I might have fulfilled anyway, because hippy-dippy liberal arts college requirements are also meaningless. I guess it all evens out.
The only real benefit that I reaped from public school was from our exceptional string orchestra program. However, I did not go on to become a professional musician. I'd say the stress, anxiety, and monetary investment was a massive net loss. If I had grown up without viola lessons, I may have even chosen a better college without a conservatory somewhere else in the country and I wouldn't be pigeonholed with a shit-tier salary and residual guilt from abandoning music. I can't say for sure.

I don't think little Nif was like the kids that are unschooled in the episode, but also Mr. and Ms. Nif are not like those parents, either; they are similar in that they definitely don't want to teach a kid themselves, but my parents lean strongly towards the "lawful" side of the alignment chart. I also got pushed around a lot in middle school, and public school fucking sucks. Not every kid goes into public school knowing how to read, though. Everyone's situation is different, and everyone's ideal is often different from what their actual is.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Sherman Tank on June 11, 2016, 04:24:13 pm: If I had the chance, I'd put the assholes responsible for the shit in the bottled water episode up against the wall before anyone else.

That probably says something bad about me.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Ambious on June 11, 2016, 06:35:46 pm: PUA's and MRA's.
Fuck their entire existence.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Sherman Tank on June 12, 2016, 02:29:35 pm: PUA's and MRA's.
Fuck their entire existence.
Ambious, June 11, 2016, 06:35:46 pm

I'd still shoot the fucking Bling H2O fuckers first, but these would be next on my list.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Gyro on June 13, 2016, 09:24:07 am: I have to jump on the bandwagon and say it's the redpill / PUA people. We should stuff Roosh V and Davis Aurini into a nuclear waste storage facility, where they belong.

Hot take: Unschooling or homeschooling your children without any supervision from a governing body should result in CPS taking your kids away.

Guess which episode mad me the most mad?

If there's an Fplus episode primarily about homeschool forums and the like I might burn the earth away in my rage
goombapolice, May 27, 2016, 08:57:24 am

I don't think homeschooling should be tarred with the same brush as unschooling, since in one case at least you tried to educate your children and in another case it's all magical rainbows and pixie farts and now your kid is retarded whoopee~

Hey, I was homeschooled grades 2-8, and look how I turned out?

Wait.

:C
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on June 13, 2016, 10:28:22 am: I have to jump on the bandwagon and say it's the redpill / PUA people. We should stuff Roosh V and Davis Aurini into a nuclear waste storage facility, where they belong.

Hot take: Unschooling or homeschooling your children without any supervision from a governing body should result in CPS taking your kids away.

Guess which episode mad me the most mad?

If there's an Fplus episode primarily about homeschool forums and the like I might burn the earth away in my rage
goombapolice, May 27, 2016, 08:57:24 am

Hey, I was homeschooled grades 2-8, and look how I turned out?
Gyro, June 13, 2016, 09:24:07 am

Pretty fuckin well, all things considered?
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Gyro on June 13, 2016, 10:43:22 am: I have to jump on the bandwagon and say it's the redpill / PUA people. We should stuff Roosh V and Davis Aurini into a nuclear waste storage facility, where they belong.

Hot take: Unschooling or homeschooling your children without any supervision from a governing body should result in CPS taking your kids away.

Guess which episode mad me the most mad?

If there's an Fplus episode primarily about homeschool forums and the like I might burn the earth away in my rage
goombapolice, May 27, 2016, 08:57:24 am

Hey, I was homeschooled grades 2-8, and look how I turned out?
Gyro, June 13, 2016, 09:24:07 am

Pretty fuckin well, all things considered?
jack chick, June 13, 2016, 10:28:22 am

I know that you're probably being positive and nice just because you're a nice person and you know I've had some emotional troubles (and thank you very much for that! <3) -

but I can't help but read this as "This guy wants to throw Roosh V into the nuclear hell pits, he's okay in my book."
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on June 13, 2016, 12:36:41 pm: I have to jump on the bandwagon and say it's the redpill / PUA people. We should stuff Roosh V and Davis Aurini into a nuclear waste storage facility, where they belong.

Hot take: Unschooling or homeschooling your children without any supervision from a governing body should result in CPS taking your kids away.

Guess which episode mad me the most mad?

If there's an Fplus episode primarily about homeschool forums and the like I might burn the earth away in my rage
goombapolice, May 27, 2016, 08:57:24 am

Hey, I was homeschooled grades 2-8, and look how I turned out?
Gyro, June 13, 2016, 09:24:07 am

Pretty fuckin well, all things considered?
jack chick, June 13, 2016, 10:28:22 am

I know that you're probably being positive and nice just because you're a nice person and you know I've had some emotional troubles (and thank you very much for that! <3) -

but I can't help but read this as "This guy wants to throw Roosh V into the nuclear hell pits, he's okay in my book."
Gyro, June 13, 2016, 10:43:22 am

You can recognize that Roosh V is deserving of being thrown into nuclear hell pits. So you're objectively better off than anyone in the MRA/PUA community. That's a simple, basic example. I bet we can find a whole lot more too!
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Baldr on June 13, 2016, 12:54:45 pm: Gyro's a better writer than a lot of my students are. So he's got that working for him.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Carbon on June 16, 2016, 11:44:09 pm: Lou Reads: The Bug Chaser Forums is by far the worst thing I've ever heard. Most of them are basically trying to kill themselves and the rest of them are there to help.
One HIV-positive guy claims to sabotage condoms for use in consensual sex, and to have raped a man in the ass.
AIDS can't kill Bug Chasers fast enough. I wish they'd chase Ebola instead, or just tie each other up on train tracks if they want to die so badly.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: A Meat on June 16, 2016, 11:59:25 pm: I want to believe that whole forum is make believe and fantasy, but there might be something real there somewhere
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Ashto on June 17, 2016, 10:33:57 am: From my interactions with him, Gyro is a pretty nice guy, with loads of self-awareness and empathy. These traits are often missing in all of the worst-subject candidates we've covered so far.

Lou Reads: The Bug Chaser Forums is by far the worst thing I've ever heard. Most of them are basically trying to kill themselves and the rest of them are there to help.
One HIV-positive guy claims to sabotage condoms for use in consensual sex, and to have raped a man in the ass.
AIDS can't kill Bug Chasers fast enough. I wish they'd chase Ebola instead, or just tie each other up on train tracks if they want to die so badly.
Carbon, June 16, 2016, 11:44:09 pm

OH FUCK, why did you have to remind me that was a thing? Well, now that it's in my head, I guess I have to say the worst F-Plus subjects have to be people who not only claim to believe horrible, destructive things that impact people other than them, but also act them out. Want to fuck a car or split yourself in half with a dragon dildo? Be my guest, it's a free country. Want to share love bugs with a consenting partner? Whatever, keep it between you two. Want to spread those bugs to someone unknowingly? Fuck you. Want to go out and harass woman with the hopes of breaking their self-esteem down to the point where they will sleep with you? FUCK YOU! Want to give someone something worse than a bug, like a horrible, life-threatening, deadly disease?
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Gyro on June 17, 2016, 11:05:06 am: From my interactions with him, Gyro is a pretty nice guy, with loads of self-awareness and empathy. These traits are often missing in all of the worst-subject candidates we've covered so far.
Gryo, June 17, 2016, 10:33:57 am

Ahaha, I'm too clever to be snagged by this [ you ] tag. I'm not springing your tra - wait, it's sincere. Awww, thanks! [heart]

e: this would look really narcissistic to somebody who's bad at spychecking, hah
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: positive stress on June 17, 2016, 11:32:36 am: I don't know what spy checking is and I'm very confused
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on June 17, 2016, 11:51:06 am: I don't know what spy checking is and I'm very confused
fruithag, June 17, 2016, 11:32:36 am
It's probably easiest if you're playing Pyro
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Gyro on June 24, 2016, 01:00:07 pm: Oh shit I forgot about Trina Brunk from the GoFundYourself episode.

J e s u s.

I too love reiki and unschool my children!
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: dractivisionary on July 03, 2016, 08:16:07 pm: If I had the chance, I'd put the assholes responsible for the shit in the bottled water episode up against the wall before anyone else.

That probably says something bad about me.
Lift Like There's No Sherman Tank, June 11, 2016, 04:24:13 pm
honestly, the bottled water people are pretty low on the list for me. i mean the only people who are gonna be affected by them are rich assholes who want things to be "special" and very expensive. no harm done.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: ham burger on July 04, 2016, 07:16:20 pm: There are plenty that made me super mad but one subject that always stands out in my mind is that IDKYBILY person.

Every word of that pitch was more upsetting than the last, it was this perfect storm of arrogance and self-absorption disguised as charity and kindness. The kind of person who tweets endless meaningless affirmations and is part of #teamfollowback. The sort of person who desperately begs for everyone to share their "kind words" because they know someone needs to hear them right now. The kind of person who looks at their own charmed life and decides they're qualified to solve everyone else's problems simply because they're too sheltered or lucky to realize they really don't understand them because they've never had them. The kind of person who helpfully does an art project in a national park to beautify the scenery.

The internet's bred this absolutely terrible sort of kindness that's really similar to slacktivism, where folks will just firehose meaningless positivity and "support" at people and all the while loudly wonder at what great people they are when it's really all about them, and IDKYBILY was peak that.

I don't know why that gets under my skin so much, it just does.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Breakfast on July 06, 2016, 12:06:16 am: The MRA episode is so horrible, so upsetting, and so hilarious. Every single word made my blood boil. The fact that people believe that stuff makes me deeply upset.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: dractivisionary on July 06, 2016, 09:57:01 am: There are plenty that made me super mad but one subject that always stands out in my mind is that IDKYBILY person.

Every word of that pitch was more upsetting than the last, it was this perfect storm of arrogance and self-absorption disguised as charity and kindness. The kind of person who tweets endless meaningless affirmations and is part of #teamfollowback. The sort of person who desperately begs for everyone to share their "kind words" because they know someone needs to hear them right now. The kind of person who looks at their own charmed life and decides they're qualified to solve everyone else's problems simply because they're too sheltered or lucky to realize they really don't understand them because they've never had them. The kind of person who helpfully does an art project in a national park to beautify the scenery.

The internet's bred this absolutely terrible sort of kindness that's really similar to slacktivism, where folks will just firehose meaningless positivity and "support" at people and all the while loudly wonder at what great people they are when it's really all about them, and IDKYBILY was peak that.

I don't know why that gets under my skin so much, it just does.
turkey smoothie, July 04, 2016, 07:16:20 pm
what episode is this from?
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Nikaer Drekin on July 06, 2016, 10:37:05 am: There are plenty that made me super mad but one subject that always stands out in my mind is that IDKYBILY person.

Every word of that pitch was more upsetting than the last, it was this perfect storm of arrogance and self-absorption disguised as charity and kindness. The kind of person who tweets endless meaningless affirmations and is part of #teamfollowback. The sort of person who desperately begs for everyone to share their "kind words" because they know someone needs to hear them right now. The kind of person who looks at their own charmed life and decides they're qualified to solve everyone else's problems simply because they're too sheltered or lucky to realize they really don't understand them because they've never had them. The kind of person who helpfully does an art project in a national park to beautify the scenery.

The internet's bred this absolutely terrible sort of kindness that's really similar to slacktivism, where folks will just firehose meaningless positivity and "support" at people and all the while loudly wonder at what great people they are when it's really all about them, and IDKYBILY was peak that.

I don't know why that gets under my skin so much, it just does.
turkey smoothie, July 04, 2016, 07:16:20 pm
what episode is this from?
dractivisionary, July 06, 2016, 09:57:01 am

Indiegogo, maybe? Which is a good source of infuriating in general.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: JonRG on July 06, 2016, 10:47:37 am: There are plenty that made me super mad but one subject that always stands out in my mind is that IDKYBILY person.

Every word of that pitch was more upsetting than the last, it was this perfect storm of arrogance and self-absorption disguised as charity and kindness. The kind of person who tweets endless meaningless affirmations and is part of #teamfollowback. The sort of person who desperately begs for everyone to share their "kind words" because they know someone needs to hear them right now. The kind of person who looks at their own charmed life and decides they're qualified to solve everyone else's problems simply because they're too sheltered or lucky to realize they really don't understand them because they've never had them. The kind of person who helpfully does an art project in a national park to beautify the scenery.

The internet's bred this absolutely terrible sort of kindness that's really similar to slacktivism, where folks will just firehose meaningless positivity and "support" at people and all the while loudly wonder at what great people they are when it's really all about them, and IDKYBILY was peak that.

I don't know why that gets under my skin so much, it just does.
turkey smoothie, July 04, 2016, 07:16:20 pm
what episode is this from?
dractivisionary, July 06, 2016, 09:57:01 am

Indiegogo, maybe? Which is a good source of infuriating in general.
Nikaer Drekin, July 06, 2016, 10:37:05 am

Yup. Indiegogo. I remember she got some ridiculous amount of money given the worthlessness of her idea.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: dractivisionary on July 06, 2016, 09:13:44 pm: There are plenty that made me super mad but one subject that always stands out in my mind is that IDKYBILY person.

Every word of that pitch was more upsetting than the last, it was this perfect storm of arrogance and self-absorption disguised as charity and kindness. The kind of person who tweets endless meaningless affirmations and is part of #teamfollowback. The sort of person who desperately begs for everyone to share their "kind words" because they know someone needs to hear them right now. The kind of person who looks at their own charmed life and decides they're qualified to solve everyone else's problems simply because they're too sheltered or lucky to realize they really don't understand them because they've never had them. The kind of person who helpfully does an art project in a national park to beautify the scenery.

The internet's bred this absolutely terrible sort of kindness that's really similar to slacktivism, where folks will just firehose meaningless positivity and "support" at people and all the while loudly wonder at what great people they are when it's really all about them, and IDKYBILY was peak that.

I don't know why that gets under my skin so much, it just does.
turkey smoothie, July 04, 2016, 07:16:20 pm
what episode is this from?
dractivisionary, July 06, 2016, 09:57:01 am

Indiegogo, maybe? Which is a good source of infuriating in general.
Nikaer Drekin, July 06, 2016, 10:37:05 am

Yup. Indiegogo. I remember she got some ridiculous amount of money given the worthlessness of her idea.
Nyarai, July 06, 2016, 10:47:37 am
Just listened to that episode and i really want to punch them in the face.
Title: What is the most infuriating episode to you?
Post by: Gyro on July 07, 2016, 06:49:59 am: Ohhhh my fucking god the mothering.com episode is more horrible than I remembered it being.

I really really really really really really really really really hate anti-vaxxers.

"We shouldn't vaccinate against Hep-B since that'd encourage our kids to become SLUTS, just like if there was a vaccine against AIDS (which would be bad)!"

FUCK you.