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Google Social Network: Orkut
shelleymonster writes "According to CNET, Google has quietly released its own version of Friendster, called Orkut. About 3 months ago, Google entered into talks to acquire Friendster, but was turned down. Named after one of its engineers, Orkut Buyukkokten, the new social network looks even tougher to get into than Friendster. An initial 12,000 invitations were sent out, and new users can only join through an existing user. Someone want to invite me?"
I miss the old exclusive LiveJournal. Perhaps this can assuage my lost status?
Aw, fuck it, i'll post as me. Mod me all you want.
This is just stupid, and poor reasoning. Following your thinking, an inbred society does not imply its invitation-only. Also, it's not a very apt metaphor of the south -- Park Avenue is more "invitation-only" than the Deliverance. You are thinking "something-else-only."
Pantywaist city folks when they meet rurual folks tend to question their own masculinity and usually get teased about being fags -- and they feel like fags next to "real people." I expect that the hollywood writers of Deliverance probably felt like fags when they met some "real rednecks" or bikers and tried, probably subconsciously, to get revenge by portrarying rednecks as fags.
Betcha a dollar its true.
Dude, lighten up. I wasn't saying Deliverance was an invitation only society, but it was inbred and cannabalistic. Whether it's an accurate depiction of the South or not is pretty much moot. It *is* a depiction, and one most people laugh at (even some Southerners).
As for whether Southerners are real men or not, there is a reason the North won the war, ya know.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
No, you need to check yourself. How dare you ridicule southerners for exhibiting any type of stereotyping when you yourself are the A#1 example of stereotyping.
"Do under others"
Yes, I can lighten up -- but I can also see when people are *not* laughing with you, or laughing at life, but are being cruel -- because I grew up with racists. Your joke was in the same spirit as their jokes. Southerners get reamed whenever they make any comments like that -- rightly so, and they should work hard. You need to do it too.
What I object to is the automatic injection of a negative stereotype of a people in a situtation that is utterly not related to that stereotype -- in the context, had their been *some* relation, it would have been funny. This is not.
Fact: 76% of people who use the word "fag" are closeted homosexuals. When "fag" is used more than once in the same sentence, it goes up to 93%.