Dubya, Britney and the bare naked truth
January 15, 2001 5:50 PM   Subscribe

Dubya, Britney and the bare naked truth... about homo chatroomus Americanii. I'd have read it and wept, but I was laughing too hard.
posted by allaboutgeorge (22 comments total)
 
someone get me a tissue
posted by ritualdevice at 6:18 PM on January 15, 2001


I have not laughed so hard in quite a while..... my eyes are watering.....
posted by elf_baby at 6:36 PM on January 15, 2001


It's so so, compared to HG-ULTRA it's really weak. However - "Scoobdoo1fan: bush wants to make it illegal to have an aborshone".

Try reading this.
posted by tiaka at 6:58 PM on January 15, 2001


Tomservo55 is a good one to start with.
posted by tiaka at 7:01 PM on January 15, 2001


This is a weird question but does anyone know what hospital britney was born in?
posted by leo at 7:03 PM on January 15, 2001


I think scoobdoo1fan is cool. It's like she's trying to have a brain in spite of herself.

Be right back. I think my jello is done

posted by rodii at 8:03 PM on January 15, 2001


I know this may sound like a weird answer...but she wasn't "born".
posted by Kikkoman at 8:15 PM on January 15, 2001


Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Make me think, Britney, Britney, Britney?
posted by leo at 9:26 PM on January 15, 2001


leo,

Hast thou been "ministering unto thineself"
Whilst thoughts of Sweet Britney raced?
'Tis true a man hath little defense
Against such well-endowed innocence.


posted by Optamystic at 11:23 PM on January 15, 2001


I have to say: I thought this article was extremely dumb and insulting, a complete straw man attempt to make teenagers look stupid by asking a few (AOL-using! chat room frequenting! BRITNEY SPEARS loving) teens to answer political questions (which were irrelevant to the forum the journalist was in, and thus rightfully ignored), seemingly for the sole purpose of showing that these unrepresentative specimens of youth were unable to discuss the (again, irrelevant to the forum) issues involved.

It's especially irritating to think that there are so many politically aware and active teens out there who are being tarred by this guy's brush-- who were probably in the Politics chat room, thoughtfully considering the same questions the reporter posed to the Britney Spears fans to such hamhanded comedic effect.
posted by wiremommy at 11:52 PM on January 15, 2001


Sounds like wiremommy needs to spend some time in AOL chatrooms. I don't think you'll find significant variation from what was presented here, sadly.
posted by rushmc at 9:55 AM on January 16, 2001


You're right wiremommy. This isn't funny. Not one little bit.

People who hang out in Britney Spears chatrooms looking for nude photos have nothing to do with the youth of America.

What a cheap shot. Not funny.

Not funny in any way.
posted by y6y6y6 at 10:12 AM on January 16, 2001


Reads like an old Dave Letterman "Man on the Street" interview with lots of background noise. Hey, can I have a job shooting fish in a barrel for the Washington Post?

posted by xiffix at 10:26 AM on January 16, 2001


You know what? I think that scoobdoo1 girl could possibly be one of the few saviours for America. She said she was only 13 for f*ck's sake. To be honest, she seemed smarter than the average 13 year olds I've ever talked to. Sure she can't spell "abortion" but ask some 18 year olds and I wouldn't be surprised if a good 10% of them couldn't spell it right (maybe more).

So lay the hell off.
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 10:40 AM on January 16, 2001


People who hang out in Britney Spears chatrooms looking for nude photos have nothing to do with the youth of America.

They probably aren't even the youth of America. They're probably middle-aged perverts pretending to be the youth of America.


What do you expect people in a Britney Spears chatroom to say about politics, anyway? I think most people ignored the intruder, which is what I'd do, because he is the intruder. It's like the newsgroup alt.fan.bonzo-dog, dedicated to a 60's rock band, where we don't get many messages and end up mocking the spammers who think our newsgroup is devoted to dogs. This guy posted a link to an online store which raises money for some charitable thing. One of our posters mocks it. This spammer actually reads this and responds with righteous indignation that we are mocking his cause. Well, yeah. alt.fan.bonzo-dog is about dadaist irreverance. If you take this to mean people on usenet are heartless people who don't care about charities, you're taking it entirely out of context.
posted by dagnyscott at 12:03 PM on January 16, 2001


"France" - LMAO
posted by stbalbach at 12:17 PM on January 16, 2001


The poor child, she actually engaged this moron in what she thought was a real conversation and ends up being discussed and dissected. So what if she can't spell abortion and eats jello, at least she wasn't doing the trolling. My hope for the next generation is a little less dim.
posted by Dreama at 1:50 PM on January 16, 2001


but ask some 18 year olds and I wouldn't be surprised if a good 10 of them couldn't spell it right (maybe more)

That doesn't make me feel a whole lot better.

I did think the be right back I think my jello is done line was absolutely brilliant. Also when the reporter asked scooby's age and as a matter of course she responded gender/age/state I thought the subtext in that was tragic.

BTW - It isn't funny because the kids couldn't/didn't want to converse with the troll so much as the absurdity of the typical conversation in that room compared to the troll.


posted by willnot at 7:35 PM on January 16, 2001


wiremommy: I have to say: I thought this article was extremely dumb and insulting...

I think most people just found this extremely funny. The journalist had every right to ask these questions and we're perfectly justified in laughing at the responses.
posted by leo at 11:39 PM on January 16, 2001


Sure, it was funny; it just didn't strike me as particularly novel or insightful or side-splittingly hilarious. It read like any number of countless "here's me posing as [troll_type] in [chatroom_name]!" pieces I've seen tossed about over the ages. That it appeared in the Washington Post seems to be pretty much the only noteworthy thing about it.
posted by youhas at 1:18 AM on January 17, 2001


The journalist had every right to ask these questions and we're perfectly justified in laughing at the responses.

Umm, actually, isn't he violating AOL's terms of service?
posted by dagnyscott at 7:06 AM on January 17, 2001


Like AOL's going to sue a reporter from the Washington Post.

P.S. It's still funny.
posted by leo at 9:45 AM on January 17, 2001


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