Obvious Foggot
May 9, 2011 12:25 PM Subscribe
Dear George,
Thank you for your email. While I have no idea what a foggot is, I will assume it is a term of endearment and appreciate you taking time out from calculating launch trajectories or removing temporal lobe tumors to contact me with such. I have attached a signed photo as per your request.
Regards, David.
David Thorne previously and previously and previously.
David Thorne previously and previously and previously.
This post was deleted for the following reason: We've seen his stuff a few times already and the whole Being A Clever Asshole schtick isn't really something that begs for more attention for something that isn't earth-shatteringly interesting. -- cortex
Thorne has published material from the website as a book, The Internet is a Playground, which debuted last week on the NYT Paperback Bestseller list at #4.
The current fascination with online interaction is already beginning to show signs of wear. I give it another six months or so before people are bored of it and rediscover fun family activities like slip'n'slide and Jenga.
posted by dhartung at 12:34 PM on May 9, 2011
The current fascination with online interaction is already beginning to show signs of wear. I give it another six months or so before people are bored of it and rediscover fun family activities like slip'n'slide and Jenga.
posted by dhartung at 12:34 PM on May 9, 2011
The Long Troll.
posted by The Whelk at 12:34 PM on May 9, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 12:34 PM on May 9, 2011 [4 favorites]
I give it another six months or so before people are bored of it and rediscover fun family activities like slip'n'slide and Jenga.
I'd suggest that the slip'n'slide needs to be brought out before 6 months have passed... They're hellish to use once autumn sets in.
posted by hippybear at 12:36 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
I'd suggest that the slip'n'slide needs to be brought out before 6 months have passed... They're hellish to use once autumn sets in.
posted by hippybear at 12:36 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
This guy is more of an asshole than he is funny. Especially in the lost cat poster one.
posted by Threeway Handshake at 12:36 PM on May 9, 2011
posted by Threeway Handshake at 12:36 PM on May 9, 2011
Lewis 7.04pm: Dont bothering emailing me again becasue I wont read it.
Thorne 7:12pm: Yes you will.
Lewis 7:16pm: No I fucking wont fag
Classic.
posted by quin at 12:37 PM on May 9, 2011 [6 favorites]
Thorne 7:12pm: Yes you will.
Lewis 7:16pm: No I fucking wont fag
Classic.
posted by quin at 12:37 PM on May 9, 2011 [6 favorites]
this was delightful fun.
my favorite moment: ...no basis to the proposition that those least assured of their persuasions are the first to condemn others for theirs.
posted by herbplarfegan at 12:37 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
my favorite moment: ...no basis to the proposition that those least assured of their persuasions are the first to condemn others for theirs.
posted by herbplarfegan at 12:37 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
So it's wrong to call David Thorne a "foggot", but it's OK for David Thorne to make fun of his attacker's girlfriend for being fat and living in West Virginia?
(Though replying "Did she eat them?" when informed the girl's family were dead, was classic.)
posted by orthogonality at 12:38 PM on May 9, 2011 [6 favorites]
(Though replying "Did she eat them?" when informed the girl's family were dead, was classic.)
posted by orthogonality at 12:38 PM on May 9, 2011 [6 favorites]
I know a guy who was almost good enough to play guitar in Foggot, but some other guy got the gig.
posted by Floydd at 12:38 PM on May 9, 2011
posted by Floydd at 12:38 PM on May 9, 2011
West Virginia incest jokes AND fat girlfriend jokes. Way to keep it classy.
posted by xbonesgt at 12:39 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by xbonesgt at 12:39 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
At first I only saw "George" and "foggot" and hoped for an entertaining letter from George Takei.
posted by _Lasar at 12:39 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by _Lasar at 12:39 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
Just to forestall some of the usual outrage: these are pretty obviously fake. Some are funnier than others, but dude isn't (necessarily) as huge a prick as he appears.
posted by ixohoxi at 12:39 PM on May 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by ixohoxi at 12:39 PM on May 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
Creating internet hoaxes without clearly identifying them as such doesn't necessarily make you less of a prick.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:40 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:40 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
Some are funnier than others, but dude isn't (necessarily) as huge a prick as he appears.
posted by ixohoxi
Something I think we should all aspire to have carved on our headstones.
posted by Keith Talent at 12:42 PM on May 9, 2011
posted by ixohoxi
Something I think we should all aspire to have carved on our headstones.
posted by Keith Talent at 12:42 PM on May 9, 2011
I know a guy who was almost good enough to play guitar in Foggot, but some other guy got the gig.
Well, that certainly puts "Slow Ride" and other hits in a whole new light!
posted by Celsius1414 at 12:42 PM on May 9, 2011
Well, that certainly puts "Slow Ride" and other hits in a whole new light!
posted by Celsius1414 at 12:42 PM on May 9, 2011
If we're going to do this again, at least let's link to the earlier conversation in which David Thorne himself showed up and talked things over with everybody.
posted by gurple at 12:42 PM on May 9, 2011
posted by gurple at 12:42 PM on May 9, 2011
Overall it was pretty mean, but responding to the subject line "tarded" with the subject line "dneck" was pretty hilarious.
posted by Huck500 at 12:44 PM on May 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by Huck500 at 12:44 PM on May 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
EVERYBODY KNOWS A FOGGOT IS A BUNDLE OF MIST
posted by everichon at 12:44 PM on May 9, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by everichon at 12:44 PM on May 9, 2011 [3 favorites]
successful couch fabric selection capabilities
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 12:44 PM on May 9, 2011
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 12:44 PM on May 9, 2011
If these stupid things were real, that would be lame enough, but how colossally lame do you have to be to write fake stories about trolling people in order to make yourself look clever? Do we really need a new FPP every time this guy gets bored and decides to play "Watch Me Bat the Low-Hanging Fruit"?
posted by Gator at 12:46 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Gator at 12:46 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
Creating internet hoaxes without clearly identifying them as such doesn't necessarily make you less of a prick.
Consider the sources.
posted by y2karl at 12:46 PM on May 9, 2011
Consider the sources.
posted by y2karl at 12:46 PM on May 9, 2011
Nice work, making fun of facial tatoos. Guess the Māori are beneath Mr Thorne.
posted by Ad hominem at 12:49 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Ad hominem at 12:49 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
If these stupid things were real, that would be lame enough, but how colossally lame do you have to be to write fake stories about trolling people in order to make yourself look clever? Do we really need a new FPP every time this guy gets bored and decides to play "Watch Me Bat the Low-Hanging Fruit"?
I'd never really consumed the name David Thorne in any conscious way before today, although once I saw the spider thing I remembered reading about that.
I know MetaFilter is inherently distrusting, but I'd welcome actual proof showing this exchange didn't actually happen.
Anyway, if you really didn't like the post, take it to MeTa or FIAMO. I was amused enough to think about sharing it here, which I don't do with just everything that amuses me. So, there you go.
posted by hippybear at 12:50 PM on May 9, 2011
I'd never really consumed the name David Thorne in any conscious way before today, although once I saw the spider thing I remembered reading about that.
I know MetaFilter is inherently distrusting, but I'd welcome actual proof showing this exchange didn't actually happen.
Anyway, if you really didn't like the post, take it to MeTa or FIAMO. I was amused enough to think about sharing it here, which I don't do with just everything that amuses me. So, there you go.
posted by hippybear at 12:50 PM on May 9, 2011
Didn't they play Slaw Ride?
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 12:51 PM on May 9, 2011
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 12:51 PM on May 9, 2011
David Thorne is a self-absorbed, pompous attention hound. But I repeat myself.
posted by chairface at 12:51 PM on May 9, 2011
posted by chairface at 12:51 PM on May 9, 2011
"Gay people are good at interior design," "It's amusing that you are an unsuccessful male because your girlfriend is heavy," and other classics of "humour." Oh look, there's the back button.
posted by regicide is good for you at 12:51 PM on May 9, 2011
posted by regicide is good for you at 12:51 PM on May 9, 2011
3 times wasn't enough?
I generally find Thorne's style of humor to be funny, but I'm pretty sick of the whole "he's an asshole/he's a comedian/he's an asshole comedian/wait I just got here and didn't read the rest of this thread yet but I wanted to say that guy is an asshole kthanks"
I know MetaFilter is inherently distrusting, but I'd welcome actual proof showing this exchange didn't actually happen.
I can't prove that something didn't happen. I can only wait for convincing evidence that something did happen.
posted by muddgirl at 12:54 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
I generally find Thorne's style of humor to be funny, but I'm pretty sick of the whole "he's an asshole/he's a comedian/he's an asshole comedian/wait I just got here and didn't read the rest of this thread yet but I wanted to say that guy is an asshole kthanks"
I know MetaFilter is inherently distrusting, but I'd welcome actual proof showing this exchange didn't actually happen.
I can't prove that something didn't happen. I can only wait for convincing evidence that something did happen.
posted by muddgirl at 12:54 PM on May 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
It's pretty impressive how polarizing this guy's writing is. Look back through all the previous Thorne posts, all of which became train wrecks like this, and consider the mere fact of how many there are.
The guy is doing what he's trying to do quite well, I think.
posted by gurple at 12:55 PM on May 9, 2011 [4 favorites]
The guy is doing what he's trying to do quite well, I think.
posted by gurple at 12:55 PM on May 9, 2011 [4 favorites]
Best. Troll. Response. Evar!
posted by Mental Wimp at 12:55 PM on May 9, 2011
posted by Mental Wimp at 12:55 PM on May 9, 2011
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There wasn't.
posted by gurple at 12:28 PM on May 9, 2011 [2 favorites]