This is not The Haters Club You're Looking For discussion
I hate when people join, post, then unjoin. Do you hate it too? Do you like it? Are you indifferent?
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Apr 26, 2010 09:16AM
It bugs me! I'm not sure why it bugs me, but it does! It leaves me feeling snubbed and angry. If you have enough hate to post you have enough hate to stick around. Do you need to join for just a second so we can hear what you have to say but you're too good to actually be a member? Or what? You're afraid you'll get kicked out if you stay? You don't want to get an email notification when someone responds to your post? You don't want Haters to show up on your profile as one of your groups? It's the equivalent of a sucker punch, in my opinion. What do you think, Haters?
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I think of it more like a Chihuahua trying to piss on your leg, mostly missing, then running away.
Rusty wrote: "I think of it more like a Chihuahua trying to piss on your leg, mostly missing, then running away."This seems just about right, to me.
How about people who join, lurk for a year, then only speak up in defense of a drive by hater?
Fuckers.Oh wait. You weren't talking bout me, right? :D
Tom, partaking in polls doesn't count? : )
Tom wrote: "How about people who join, lurk for a year, then only speak up in defense of a drive by hater?"Hey, now. Let's take it easy on lurkers. I like lurkers and I especially like them when they "come out".
Gretchen wrote: "Tom wrote: "How about people who join, lurk for a year, then only speak up in defense of a drive by hater?"Hey, now. Let's take it easy on lurkers. I like lurkers and I especially like them when ..."
That reminds me – we haven’t randomly kicked out lurkers in a while now. That always amuses me. Let’s do it again. Gretchen, you’re the only active mod these days, so you’re in charge. I’ll make the selections so you don’t have to feel guilty.
I will only kick out lurkers if I can send them a PM warning them that they have 72 hours to post something amusing.
No, Ben! No! Polls don't count I told you! If your name has a zero next to "comments" you are a lurker. I don't care how many times you voted for sushi.Rusty, where's my list? What are you working or something? Oh never mind you. I'm just going to broadcast a message to all members. Hey! You! Did you know you belong to a group about hate? Post something amusing in the next 72 hours or you're gone. Do you think that would get any action? How funny if I did that and no one at all did anything. Now I want to try it.
It got a reaction when Nick did it some time back, Greachen.
what did he do? I don't remember get a message from nick when i was lurking!
I don't remember, just that there was an uproar, and for a while we had some lurkers actually posting. Some also left because they got offended, and some were actually kicked out. If only there were some kind of thread where you could ask people if they remembered that, and point out the thread where the discussion took place...
Polls are for lurkers. A pre-written, pre-proscribed multiple choice version of hate is the best we can expect from the repressed admirers of this club. Give lurkers the shaft.
When Nick sent that message to all the members that he was going to chop ten Haters and it was my fault, I started getting these emails from wackos in the club saying, "I never did anything wrong!" and other stuff.
There you go Greachen...send a message to all haters that you're going to start cutting 10 a day, and it's all Tambo's fault...
I'm just going to broadcast a message to all members. I approve of your proposal.
Tom wrote: "There you go Greachen...send a message to all haters that you're going to start cutting 10 a day, and it's all Tambo's fault..."heh, Tom. You're funny
You can blame it on me, if you like. I'm tired of looking at the list of members currently online, and not recognizing any of them.
Ok, you drove me out of lurkerdom. I enjoy this group but don't really post much here or anywhere else these days but I like knowing that I have the option of coming here and spewing out all kinds of hate-it makes me happy. Now if I was supposed to say something amusing to prevent being booted I've probably failed-too much pressure to be funny on the spot I guess.
As a last ditch effort to save myself I will tell you that today I'm hating the fact then when I left for work this morning I had no hair sticking out of my chin but when I got to work and looked in the mirror there was a 1/2 inch long black hair coming out of my chin. How does that happen? Did the iced coffee I drank in the car act as some type of Miracle Grow? Do I just need better lighting in my bathroom? WTF?
Hooray! Rogue face hairs are horrible!
I'm pretty impressed that you came out of lurkerdom and immediately disclosed unwanted hairs. I keep tweezers in my car and spend time plucking at stoplights. Sure, I can't drive and talk on a cell phone anymore*, but I'll be damned if anyone tries to come between me and my Tweezermans during my commute.
*I still drive and talk on the phone. ALL THE TIME.
Why is the mirror in your car the very best place to see zits and stray eyebrow hairs?
Why are you looking at yourself in the mirror in your car, instead of at the goddamn road and traffic behind you?
Tom wrote: "Why are you looking at yourself in the mirror in your car, instead of at the goddamn road and traffic behind you?"Who has time to look at the road? I have a manual transmission to shift and a cigarette to smoke, along with some lipstick to apply and a phone call to make.
I do my makeup in the car. It drives my boyfriend crazy, but I just do it at stoplights and stuff. Then he says, "You drove slow to hit that stoplight on purpose!"
i, too, was scolded. i suppose it must be annoying to have people listening in on your conversations but not contributing. just pretend we are all in an elevator together and i am just trying to get to my floor while the rest of you are yelling about television and computers and dog poop or whatever, and i am listening and laughing, but getting enough conflict at work, i would rather not spend my downtime engaged in distance-battles. but i watch... and learn...i just like to pop and and see what fucked up shit alfonso is saying for the day. but then, i get to hear it live, in the form of "i hate your clothes," so i suppose i don't even need this group, except for bunny's recipes. and montambo's love-bliss. and the rest of y'alls free-floating rage. so, yeah - don't kick me out! i'm quiet but full of simmering rage.
You all understand that note went to everyone, right?
you mean the note you sent?? to "all the lurkers"?? yeah, i don't feel singled out because i am totally guilty of not contributing. i just sometimes get exhausted at the prospect of scrolling through 800 new pages of in-jokes and conversations to get to the one thing i do understand. even if i am frequently entertained, i don't have a lot to add sometimes because i am largely uninitiated. but look - that's two posts now. i have doubled my contributions!
no, i think in this case, i am too late to the party - there are years and years of backstory here that i have no chance of getting caught up on, and i am okay with that - however, if there is a more occult ceremonial ritualized initiation involving swords and chanting and bloodletting, then yes - yes, i am asking to be initiated.
So this is the point, people! If more of you lurkers would post we'd have something to talk about besides in-jokes. That's why Tom held me at gunpoint and demanded I message everyone in the group. He was bored and wanted you all to amuse him. No, wait, that was me. Tom just wanted me to kick everyone out. Never mind.
i like in-jokes, conceptually. and i don't mind being "the other", i'm like the margaret fucking mead of goodreads.com, watching you and taking notes...but look, now i am an unstoppable chatterbox.
oh, that's sweet!whenever i make that delicious soup, i praise the heavens above for you.
last week i made buffalo chicken mac and cheese, and it was amazing. now i have a quart of leftover spicy cheese sauce and i am going to make roast beast sandwiches with molten cheese sauce.
this is all neither here nor there, but when i see bunny, i think "delicious food" and "genius", and i didn't do anything particularly genius last week. except make a brilliant mac and cheese. oh, and i got two a's on papers.
So, for the Buffalo chicken mac and cheese, do you put the buffalo sauce directly in the cheese or do you put it on the chicken and then mix it with the mac and cheese?
And why is this the most important question in my life right now?
no, it's like a play on buffalo chicken wings- it contains celery and onion and garlic, right, and chicken, and a ton of hot sauce, and then into all that you melt cheddar and pepper jack cheese and sour cream and half and half and then you pour that over the noodles and then you make a topping of panko, butter, and blue cheese and parsley, and then you bake it all up and you just die with pleasure.so it's more like a casserole.
karen, marry me and cook dangerous dairy-loaded foods for me. Do you have a brother? I wouldn't mind being your sis-in-law. Or a spare uncle? I would be a great aunt-in-law.
Gretchen wrote: "You all understand that note went to everyone, right?"Note?
my family... it is complicated...you are going to have to just marry me if you want the food. or work with me - co-workers get thanksgiving plates and occasional soup and stuff. greg gets stuff... book club gets stuff... this summer i am planning to cook more - school has really gotten in the way of experimentation. i have a freezer full of spotty bananas i need to make bread out of.
Lurker here..posted once or twice. But get my evil chuckles from this group most days. Dont kick me!!!I know a witch doctor...I'm from Africa! You know that magic shit is real here..you'll all wake up with warts!! Or worse...you'll stop hating on shit.
Hi Denell! Our South African hater! I've missed you. How are your neighbors? (don't you hate your neighbors?)
Once again I'm late to the party but I agree that the car is the best place to pluck. I usually try to wait until the car is stopped but I've been guilty of plucking while driving-it's bad. I made a buffalo chicken casserole with cornbread and blue cheese topping that sounds kind of similar to your mac and cheese recipe Karen-I bet it would be really good over pasta. We'll have to swap recipes.
Sorry for the lack of hate in this message-I'll try to muster some up for the next time.
