The "official" Boxxy thread, because it's a rotten mess, and best kept off other threads Options

[EricBarbour]

I'm putting in a new thread, just to try to keep discussion out of
unrelated threads. Actually i"m surprised this was only mentioned today,
it's one of the biggest and foulest stinks in internet history.

Original WR mention here.

Article (rather crummy) here, AfD here.

I've disagreed vehemently with deletionists in the past,
but this is one time that I'm forced to agree with them.

That poor foolish girl is a victim of 4chan troll idiocy, which has blown completely out of proportion.
Now she's the focus of endless death threats, stalking, you name it.

She is underage, was not seeking widespread publicity in the usual sense, does not deserve such treatment,
and is not otherwise notable enough to deserve a WP article.
There are thousands of similar personal videos on YouTube, by other non-notable teens.

At most, it should be folded into this list.

The berserk crap surrounding Boxxy is BAD and should be discouraged.

Perhaps a good official policy for persons deserving creation of a BLP would be:
someone who obviously seeks publicity, does not use pseudonyms, and
is over the age of 18. Just saying.

(A note to the BLP inclusionist bastards: you are hypocrites. If you want to post
the real identity of Boxxy online for all to read, then it's time for YOU to post
your personal details online, as well.)


(crap...how does one edit a thread title?)

This post has been edited by EricBarbour: Thu 29th January 2009, 10:03pm

[lolwut]

There was a girl I worked with last year who was 16 and I felt attracted to her as well. And I tradtionally have gone for chicks that are older than me. What happened? Did I just get old myself?

[wikiwhistle]

There was a girl I worked with last year who was 16 and I felt attracted to her as well. And I traditionally have gone for chicks that are older than me. What happened? Did I just get old myself?

Who's to know why something does it for us lol, in that respect we're at the mercy of the gods. Just think yourself lucky you're not a bestialist or something, then you'd really have something to worry about.

I did used to go for older men but find now I'm not as much, so maybe you're right and it means we're getting old lol.

But you would have to write to Dear Deidre for further advice.

[lolwut]

There was a girl I worked with last year who was 16 and I felt attracted to her as well. And I traditionally have gone for chicks that are older than me. What happened? Did I just get old myself?

Who's to know why something does it for us lol, in that respect we're at the mercy of the gods. Just think yourself lucky you're not a bestialist or something, then you'd really have something to worry about.

I did used to go for older men but find now I'm not as much, so maybe you're right and it means we're getting old lol.

But you would have to write to Dear Deidre for further advice.

Yeah, I'm not like that guy FT2, if Grawp is to be believed. I'm not into bestiality, pedophilia, or any other sick shit. I'm pretty normal when it comes to my sexual preferences. Sometimes I just look at the people out there and facepalm over the weird shit that people are into.

But no, with me being 23 this year and having restarted education from scratch, I can't help but thinking I'm falling behind somehow. Sure, I've done office jobs in the professional world in the past, but nothing properly, like, good. I had an interview with a job for a major company like a year ago, but they didn't accept me. That was during my 'alcoholic' phase, though.

I'd probably rather refrain from having anything to do with Rupert Murdoch, by the way.

Actually, come to think about it, make that two different 16 year old girls in two different jobs I was working in last year that I was attracted to.



I wasn't trying to pursue either of them of course. It'd just be inappropriate.

Seriously, a friend of mine is the same age as me, actually a couple of months older, and he's got a girlfriend who has just turned 17, and he lives with her. I can't understand that, really.

[Sarcasticidealist]

I had an interview with a job for a major company like a year ago, but they didn't accept me.

Despite your eloquent listing of the various breeds of faggotry to which you object?

[lolwut]

I had an interview with a job for a major company like a year ago, but they didn't accept me.

Despite your eloquent listing of the various breeds of faggotry to which you object?

wat

Wikipedia simply cannot help itself here. Remember, Wikipedia is not the metropolis it pretends to be but really just a village of 2,000-3,000 people with serious problems of over-involvement, making thousands, tens of thousands of even a hundred thousand edits each. Of these a certain number, in itself worthy of further discussion and more precise definition, but certainly at least several hundred strong are people obsessed with internet culture.

This much I agree with. WP is definitely not a metropolis; oh no. It may get a whole load of mainstream media attention, but I know most of the major administrators and people who control it. Hell, sometimes I think I'd make a good admin myself if I was paid to do so and was made to abide by its policies...

[Sarcasticidealist]

wat

lol

[lolwut]

wat

lol

I notice you list Catch-22 on your userpage as your favourite novel. I read some of that book, then ended up giving up on it. Same with Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. Both of these novels I started reading when I was like 16 or 17, and kinda gave up on them. I started reading some of Crime and Punishment again recently, though, but don't have the discipline to keep reading the damned thing.

[Sarcasticidealist]

I notice you list Catch-22 on your userpage as your favourite novel. I read some of that book, then ended up giving up on it. Same with Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. Both of these novels I started reading when I was like 16 or 17, and kinda gave up on them. I started reading some of Crime and Punishment again recently, though, but don't have the discipline to keep reading the damned thing.

I didn't care for Crime and Punishment, which is probably more a problem with me than with it. But Catch-22 is brilliant.

Reputedly, somebody once asked Joseph Heller if he regretted that he hadn't written anything as good since (Catch-22 was his first novel). He responded "No. Because really, who has?"

I'd agree.

[LaraLove]

I didn't care for Crime and Punishment, which is probably more a problem with me than with it. But Catch-22 is brilliant.

Reputedly, somebody once asked Joseph Heller if he regretted that he hadn't written anything as good since (Catch-22 was his first novel). He responded "No. Because really, who has?"

I'd agree.

Only two weeks left... better bid quickly. $1.750.00 buy it now price. "Appears to be a first issue" and is damaged but "otherwise in very good+ to near fine condition"!

[Sarcasticidealist]

Only two weeks left... better bid quickly. $1.750.00 buy it now price. "Appears to be a first issue" and is damaged but "otherwise in very good+ to near fine condition"!

I'm hardly an expert on the pricing of rare books, but I can't imagine this one's that rare. The first edition of Catch-22 was well-advertised (ads taking up more than half a page of the New York Times), which I assume meant that it enjoyed a large print run. The book was well-appreciated during the author's lifetime; Heller died in 1999. I'm not aware that he was in any way reticent with his autograph. All of this adds up to there being plenty of autographed first editions out there, probably including quite a number in better shape than this one.

What was the topic of this thread, again?

[LaraLove]

What was the topic of this thread, again?

Sorry for derailing the Boxxy thread.