Posted on 01/11/2010 9:58:22 AM PST by VaRepublican
sick of bloggers
Guy goes into a bar, there's a robot bartender.
The robot says, "What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini." The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, "What's your IQ?" The guy says, "168". The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology.
The guy leaves, but he is curious, so he goes back into the bar. The robot bartender says," What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini". Again, the robot makes a great martini, gives it to the man and says, "What's your IQ?" The guy says, "100." The robot then starts to talk about NASCAR, Budweiser and John Deere tractors.
The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will try it one more time. He goes back into the bar. The robot says, "What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini", and the robot brings him another great martini. The robot then says, "What's your IQ?" The guy says, "Uh, about 50." The robot leans in real close and says, "So, you people still happy you voted for Obama?"
You’re not really a waterway with a handicap, are you.
To be honest I don’t golf.
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher who’s hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually, the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our president.
The old rancher said, ‘Well, ya know, Obama is a ‘Post Turtle’ ‘.
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was.
The old rancher said, ‘When your driving down a country road, and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle’ ‘.
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain, ‘You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, and he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumbass put him up there to begin with.
This is true.
heard any good jokes lately?
First, I hate the blogs that are posted as “news/activism”, mostly it’s the financial stuff from various blogs like ZeroHedge.
Second, I hate the bloggers who take a real news story, excerpt it on their blog, and then post their blog’s excerpt here, inviting people to go to their blog, where they just have the excerpt from the news site. That’s fine if you want your blog to be a news site excerpt, but why not just post the actual news link here? (we know the answer, trying to drive up google ad revenue).
Third, I hate the bloggers who post excerpts from their blogs that tell you nothing about what the story is, hoping to trick you into going to their blog to read the full entry.
Fourth, I have a true disdain for bloggers who put the source as a real news source, but the link is really to their blog, so you think they are sending you to a news site and you end up on their blog.
Last, I have contempt for the bloggers who specifically ask you to respond IN THEIR BLOG, and worse who will never respond to anything you post in their threads here, as if it is too hard for them to read responses to what they have written.
However, for most of these, I think you just need to de-select “bloggers and personal” from the list of things you want to look at. Having never done this myself, I don’t know exactly how it is done.
I prefer gandalf instead.
I totally agree with you. All sorts of bloggers who are on FR simply to pimp their blogs and increase ad revenue. And they typically only include excerpts from their blogs.
I’ve called a couple of them out on it, and they rebuke ME, calling ME names!
Yes, VaRepublican — self-serving bloggers are taking from FR more than they are giving to FR.
Grey or white version?
Just make
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index
your default bookmark for FR and you shouldn’t see the blog posts.
If people would stop clicking or responding to them they would disappear off the forum page pretty quickly most of the time.
But then I’d lose out on the childish pleasure I have of posting the blog they want us to click upon in the thread...
What usually happens is the article comes out on Drudge and the MSM. Then the blog pimps change the title and regurgitate [in more ways than one].
I’m sick of them. There should be some controls.
Not onyl the blog pimps call you names but some Freepers do as well.
Apparently they don’t mind being a party to the pimping.
We’re not allowed to advertise on FR in our taglines or otherwise. Why is it okay to blog pimp? It is advertising.
I’m going to start doing that.
We need to be more aggressive in combating them.
Absolutely ~ everything I write is copyrighted and I know it. Being a part time non-Islamic Jihadi it’s a good idea to avoid violating my copyright ~ except FR has a special exception ~ which I granted to them when I signed on to post stuff here.
Otherwise, I'm probably going to find the same content on another thread.
Along that same line, I wish people here would learn how to exerpt.
For example, the headline says, “Harry Reid Has Long List of Racist Comments.”
Then the poster here includes only the first two introductory paragraphs of the NY Post article. But he does not post the actual meat of the article. You don’t get to read the other racist comments unless you go to the original source. UGH!!!!!
/rant
Black and Blue.
Childish?
Me too.
See post 12.
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