AntiSocial Media, Slideshow Presentation by Judd Bagley Options

[written by he who wrote it]

Nobody* could confuse British and Canadian accents. Canadian English resembles American more than it does any other Commonwealth accent.

You have clearly never spoken to a Newfie.

I have, in fact, but the Newfoundland accent is not much like the Canadian accent that prevails in the other Anglophone parts of the country. It's about as representative of Canadian speech as the strongest hillbilly drawl or Down East mutter is of American.

This post has been edited by written by he who wrote it: Sat 7th March 2009, 10:09pm

[SirFozzie]

BTW Judd (if you're still reading this).. DeepCapture/ASM and the fight over Naked Short Selling has made it to a Sports Sim board that I hang out at. It was rather freaky to see it there (it was in a discussion about the economy), but it's a good sign that your message IS getting out.

[WordBomb]

BTW Judd (if you're still reading this).. DeepCapture/ASM and the fight over Naked Short Selling has made it to a Sports Sim board that I hang out at. It was rather freaky to see it there (it was in a discussion about the economy), but it's a good sign that your message IS getting out.

It's really interesting, in that over the past two to three weeks, traffic to both DeepCapture.com and ASM is consistently up about ten-fold, originating mostly from blogs and message boards dedicated to non-financial topics.

They say it takes a war to get Americans interested in geography. Apparently it takes a depression to get us interested in economics.

[Son of a Yeti]

Patrick B. of Oversold.com, whose theft of a [[French fry]] from Mack 20 years ago made him a target of British intelligence, told ''The New York Times'': "I'm a gentleman, so of course I can't say whether we had sex. I *can* confirm that she was really good at accents. Especially in bed."

I can continue:

It has been established on [[Wikipedia Review|a BADSITE]] that Mack did not leave her bed from 8 months in [[2007]]. She is believed to have spent the time [[harassment|encouraging]] Wikipedia editors, [[wikilawyering|performing admin duties]] and communicating with other [[ Kaballah | Cabal members random persons]].

[Random832]

I had never before had occasion to use a pseudonym, and hope to never have to again.

And yet you use it now.

Don't look at me that way. You know where to find my name; I don't know where to find yours; it's that simple.

When you and wikiwhistle were attacking Lar I was half-tempted to characterize it as "two pseudonyms attacking a real name", but I figured it would be unproductive. You have buried it - the average person who wasn't previously clued in to this doesn't know who you are, nor whom to ask.

Well?
Now that you're making accusations at me, I think your claimed principles would seem to imply I have a right to know who you are.

This post has been edited by Random832: Sun 8th March 2009, 4:28am

[Daniel Brandt]

To the extent that this was a contest of stamina and/or message discipline, she won hands down.

Re: The French Fry that triggered the global depression:

It's true (sigh), she's still playing games. Back to max GooJuice on her Russian bio, which I had removed some weeks ago from the search engines, hoping that Real World Values were beginning to emerge.

Now I think I'll keep it juiced up for a decade or two, if I live long enough. Maybe someone will come forward with more evidence someday.

[Proabivouac]

To the extent that this was a contest of stamina and/or message discipline, she won hands down.

Re: The French Fry that triggered the global depression:

It's true (sigh), she's still playing games. Back to max GooJuice on her Russian bio, which I had removed some weeks ago from the search engines, hoping that Real World Values were beginning to emerge.

Now I think I'll keep it juiced up for a decade or two, if I live long enough. Maybe someone will come forward with more evidence someday.

What's the root of this conflict? What does SlimVirgin have to do to end it? Just curious…

Also, have you ever met Linda Mack?

This post has been edited by Proabivouac: Sun 8th March 2009, 10:10am

[GlassBeadGame]

What's the root of this conflict? What does SlimVirgin have to do to end it? Just curious…

Also, have you ever met Linda Mack?

Such tenderness. Why Clarice, they will say we're in love.

Cunning Linguist:

[Proabivouac]

Such tenderness. Why Clarice, they will say we're in love.

Actually, I was listening to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLooMzB_lgc

[Moulton]

What's the root of this conflict?

It's a fair question.

All conflicts and adversarial relations are rooted in complementary fears. To get to the root of any conflict, it is necessary to name the complementary fears and show how the two antagonists are ensnared in a drama in which each one feeds the other's fears.

In this case, Fear of Exposure is almost surely in play.

Counterbalanced against that are a variety of subordinate dreads, including Fear of Failure, Fear of Alienation and Abandonment, and Fear of Humiliation.

But I daresay none of this will makes sense until all the unrevealed backstories are laid bare.

[GlassBeadGame]

Such tenderness. Why Clarice, they will say we're in love.

Actually, I was listening to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLooMzB_lgc

Fond of showtunes, are you?

[Proabivouac]

Fond of showtunes, are you?

Miles Davis played this song, you moron.

This was the golden age of our American nation; there will not be another.

[wikiwhistle]

When you and wikiwhistle were attacking Lar I was half-tempted to characterize it as "two pseudonyms attacking a real name", but I figured it would be unproductive.

There is a tradition of many decades, or probably hundreds of years of anonymous whistleblowers.

I will have no problem revealing my real name to those in the wikihierarchy if it ever needed to be used for legitimate reasons.

You know where to find my name; I don't know where to find yours; it's that simple.

Exactly.

When you and wikiwhistle were attacking Lar I was half-tempted to characterize it as "two pseudonyms attacking a real name", but I figured it would be unproductive. You have buried it - the average person who wasn't previously clued in to this doesn't know who you are, nor whom to ask.

Well?
Now that you're making accusations at me, I think your claimed principles would seem to imply I have a right to know who you are.

You are very keen to characterise things as 'attacks', aren't you? How about just calling it 'letting people know the facts'? Or in your case- Proab asked a question of you; that's not an attack, you're free to answer or not answer I suppose. As to Proab's real name, it is readily available to those who search I expect.

This post has been edited by wikiwhistle: Sun 8th March 2009, 1:33pm

[GlassBeadGame]

When you and wikiwhistle were attacking Lar I was half-tempted to characterize it as "two pseudonyms attacking a real name", but I figured it would be unproductive.

There is a tradition of many decades, or probably hundreds of years of anonymous whistleblowers.

I will have no problem revealing my real name to those in the wikihierarchy if it ever needed to be used for legitimate reasons.

This is fascinating. I agree about the history of whistleblowers. But the usual thinking is that the whistleblower needs to be shielded from those in authority. But WW is perfectly willing to give the "wikihierarchy" anything they might want. Could this be a distinction of "snitch" (or "informer" to be a little more...well neutral) and a whistleblower? A whistleblower strikes a blow against authority. A snitch strikes out against neighbors, friends or peers.

I don't think WW can fairly assume the mantle of Whistleblower here.

[Bottled_Spider]

My feeling is Slim pretty much pwn'd the Review on this thread.

To the extent that this was a contest of stamina and/or message discipline, she won hands down.

Yep. She's good. "The Review" - not necessarily you - was, indeed, pwn'd.

There is a tradition of many decades, or probably hundreds of years of anonymous whistleblowers......

Wikso - you're going about this the wrong way. The only reply you need give to the Lars Appreciation Society is "Arse!". Anything else is superfluous.

[Jon Awbrey]

I can't believe there continues to be so much nonsense about this — well, not here, anyway.

Wikipedia = Anonymous Tip Line?

That might explain why readers have to filter through a mountain of Wiki-Pitchblende for every micron of radiant fact.

But I don't think sensible people are really talking about that kind of thing.

No doubt many our more juvenile Wiki-Phantasizers imagine themselves in the role of Deep Throat — well, one of the roles in Deep Throat.

But whether you believe that Dep. Director Felt was the sole source or just the main source behind Deep Throat, you cannot believe Felt gave his information to Bernstein and Woodward as a Pseud or Anon. They had to know who their sources were. They had to publish under their real names. They had to stand behind their story and take the heat for it.

None of that applies to Wikipedia.

So why do you waste time pretending it does?

Jon Awbrey

[Heat]

Slim has a quite distinctive accent, actually - a regional British one - but it's a million miles away from anything Canadian

And Americans are notoriously bad at distinguishing British Commonwealth accents from one another. So what? I'm something of a connoisseur of Commonwealth accents, and there are still a few midlands accents that I can't distinguish from mild Australian ones.

Nobody* could confuse British and Canadian accents. Canadian English resembles American more than it does any other Commonwealth accent.




*Nobody who knows anything about accents of English other than their own, that is.

Americans often do - witness South Park in which the "Canadian" show within a show characters Terrence and Phillip are voiced with fake English accents rather than anything that sounds remotely American. There's also an antiquated Canadian accent, called Canadian Dainty, which has a heavy British affectation and the Newfoundland accent and some regional Canadian accents sound like regional British accents to the untrained American ear.

Nobody* could confuse British and Canadian accents. Canadian English resembles American more than it does any other Commonwealth accent.

You have clearly never spoken to a Newfie.

I have, in fact, but the Newfoundland accent is not much like the Canadian accent that prevails in the other Anglophone parts of the country.

I guess you've never been to Nova Scotia or the Ottawa Valley then.

[gomi]

And Americans are notoriously bad at distinguishing British Commonwealth accents from one another.

Nobody* could confuse British and Canadian accents. Canadian English resembles American more than it does any other Commonwealth accent.

Americans often do - witness South Park in which the "Canadian" show within a show characters Terrence and Phillip are voiced with fake English accents ....

No, on South Park you can tell Canadians because the tops of their heads come off when they speak. Is this not true in Real Life™?

[Heat]

And Americans are notoriously bad at distinguishing British Commonwealth accents from one another.

Nobody* could confuse British and Canadian accents. Canadian English resembles American more than it does any other Commonwealth accent.

Americans often do - witness South Park in which the "Canadian" show within a show characters Terrence and Phillip are voiced with fake English accents ....

No, on South Park you can tell Canadians because the tops of their heads come off when they speak. Is this not true in Real Life™?

If Americans hear Canadian accents as sounding British then perhaps they also see Canadians as having the tops of their heads coming off. Americans see the world differently than the rest of us

In any case, someone affecting an English accent will usually model their speech on Received Pronunciation or an Estuary accent. They usually won't fake a Yorkshire or other regional accent so if Allison says she SV speaks in a "regional" British accent then it's likely genuine and not acquired (or at least not acquired in adulthood).

[Sarcasticidealist]

I have, in fact, but the Newfoundland accent is not much like the Canadian accent that prevails in the other Anglophone parts of the country.

I guess you've never been to Nova Scotia or the Ottawa Valley then.

Or Fort McMurray, Alberta, for that matter.

This post has been edited by Sarcasticidealist: Mon 30th March 2009, 4:56pm