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^ TB

held in higher regard as poster/banner

Who knew the many twists and turns this thread would take? Thread of the year, imho.

Whenever i read arguments on the internet i always get "Break My Stride" by Matthew Wilder stuck in my head.

I miss greenspun.

Tbh this hardly qualifies as an "argument".

RT @jon/via/chi2.0 Tbh this hardly qualifies as an "argument".

eh ok my word choice is imprecise
still got that song in my head though

still think kshighway is a sock

Mr. Que holler!

guys i don't know why you're even wasting your time arguing with someone who makes more than twice your annual income, and is far and away held in higher regard as a writer/author

yeah gonna just flat-out say that I am 100% certain that Ott doesn't make twice MY income

people actually say shit like that if they have the Brandoesque swagger and six figure paychecks to pull it off

I randomly read this and thought you said "Bandwagonesque swagger" and I wondered if this thread took another kickass derailing.

Dan, do you drive a solid gold submarine? Do you? Because if you don't, you might wanna think twice about that statement.

Well of course Dan doesn't drive it, he hires someone to do that.

I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids.

whoa baller

http://rlv.zcache.com/coffee_is_for_closers_mug-p1686222212046479332lnt7_400.jpg

Man this thread got AWESOME.

what a lunatic stalker.

Whiney leaving Idolator mid-way through his list>Steven Tyler leaving Aerosmith for a weekend.

Yeah, he "left". Hahahaha.

This is some man in the moon wrestling heel shit right here.

For a few of you, maybe. For me, it's "I told you so" to peer(s) I warned off this path the day they started down it.

This is some serious

http://www.smeddum.net/images/articles/through_the_mirror.jpg

shit going on here right now.

"i told you so" - always the classy, dignified route to take!

"WAH, you should pay me for my opinions about pop music, especially now that it doesn't generate any capital! It's my right to expect this!" is much classier and more dignified. I mean, sui generis, Chris.

Pipecee-oh-cee-kay

This thread got pretty stupid, I have no idea what's going on any more, definitely unbookmarking it now. Please start a new thread when you return to talking about crappy songs of the 00s.

This is some man in the moon wrestling heel shit right here.

http://www.fortunecity.com/olympia/jordan/278/pics/bubba4.jpg

i love when ott shows up and takes everything all seriously

as if the most important statement one can make is a statement about music blogging on the internet

dude you really are a complete dick, you know that?

Woops, that was a photo of Bubba Ray Dudley.

He must be really really bitter for him to take such pleasure in the failure of others.

Or he's just so successful and well paid and highly regarded that he feels the need to remind those below him of their station in life.

Or that.

in other news, apparently Idolator is now making dummy comment accounts to keep up appearances...

by dsven at 6:45 am
Who are these “new” commenters? Half of them say “User Not Exist” when you click on their names…”Janet” and “Amanda” link to articles on Janet Jackson and Amanda Overmeyer from AI.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.

guys he needs this

I wonder if he has his manservant print out Idolator posts for him to line his gold-plated litter box.

you only wish you owned a jeep

you realize that talking about him and addressing him is only making him happy, right

"WAH, you should pay me for my opinions about pop music, especially now that it doesn't generate any capital! It's my right to expect this!" is much classier and more dignified.

^ I'm totally with you. all of those posts where Maura and her writers complained about not getting paid were just awful. I mean, did you fucking READ her last post? completely undignified. I'm so with you here.

you know, people should be paid for their opinions about music, especially when those opinions are as worthwhile as those of the people who ran and wrote for Idolator. i want to read intelligent writing on pop music, as do many others, and we're lucky that smart people who know a lot about the subject want to produce it.

it's super funny that you think Idolator "failed" in some way. they had an amazing three year run, which is more than anyone can say about most blogs—most things—in life. Maura and all of the other writers did more to make the discourse about music on the internet far more intelligent, wide-ranging, and worthwhile than the majority of other music sites out there. it's hilarious that you're making fun of people who actually put the effort into raising the bar instead of just bitching on a message board about how bad music sites are.

alright, that's about it. done giving time to this bullshit.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2514/3949496086_607ed46a98.jpg

everything's so blurry

you realize that talking about him and addressing him is only making him happy, right

dude he's going to be happy either way, his old friend got laid off

TS: ignoring him in the hopes he goes away vs. calling him out as the bitter asshole he is

can we just agree to do the former now that we've done the latter?

the point being, the more you call him out the more likely he is to stay

oh wait, I can ban him ^_^ want me to?

nah i feel like just straight up banning him for making a few dickish posts is too far