CUTEST WEB SITE EVER DISCOVERED!!!

ToeSocks06 writes "The cutest site i've ever or youve ever seen is this one CLICK IT NOW LOL!!! because they have the cutest pictures you will ever see :) :) :) Like hamsters wearing SO CUTE hats and so many kittens zomg i love kitties especially that brown one i hope they show him with hats to LOLOLOLOLOL!!! Ok I gottta go now bye!!!"

Comments

I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[XorNand]

I humbly submit my website as the Cutest Evar! (Hey, at least it's mildly amusing in a totally random, non-April Fools way. It's recently been moved to a new server; I'm curious to see how it would hold up against a Slashdotting.).

Between Slashdot and Fark, I think I'll just spend tomorrow outdoors. :-\ BTW, if Hemos and crew actually want to make it an interesting April Fools for once, they ought to enable all color, formatting and image related HTML tags in the posts. ;-)

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[skreeech]

if by "interesting" you mean "goatse"

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[rdoger6424]

Ix-nay on the Image-ay ags-tay then.

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[Firehed]

Hm... outdoors. That is a good idea! We actually have weather that's not complete crap right now. That must be an April Fools joke too... right next to my having chosen Mercantile as one of my main seven skills in Oblivion. It's never too late to start over...

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[tylernt]

Nice idea, but after failing to get your little image catchpa correct several times in a row, I had to change my answer from 'happy' to 'sad' (and that was only because there wasn't a 'suicidally depressed' option).

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

Nothing like a captcha to top off a :( day. :(

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[oirtemed]

its crap like this that pisses me off. You should not be allowed to serve google ads on that page...there is no real content.

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[evanism]

Like, you know, this is Oh My God sooooooo, like good.

Like, if you don't like it, then der. you know?

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[eric76]

What we really need for April Fools Day is for everyone to have unlimited moderation for any April Fools topics.

And no minimum or maximum on the ratings of any post.

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[springbox]

I recommend Stuff On My Cat! Cute and funny!

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[Anonymous Monkey]

All I can say to that is...'w00t'. I would love to go thorugh this topic and make every one +5 insightfull. It could be like granting amnisty from bad karma. Or prehaps that isn't such a good idea.

LOL, bunneys are so cute, they are just so cuddly, the way they jump and frlic is just darling. I love it when they lick my little nose.

Sorry, I use ot have rabits and think they make great pets, and all this pink...I just had a moment...it has passed.

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[beacher]

All I can say is how about doing something original instead of copying Maddox's 2004 "oh my little sister updated my webpage OMG LOL CUTE!" and then posting the emails that he got from people that thought his site was hacked.

April fools is a lot more fun than this.

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[dantheman82]

Yeah, I'm really scared...
According to 666 people the zeitgeist for today, Saturday, April 01st 2006, is: SMILEY
On April Fools, I'm not sure whether that 666 number is fake or real...

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[gooman]

Consider yourself warned; Bunnies are bloodthirsty killers! Your only defense against them is a holy handgrenade.
I know its true, I saw it in a movie.

--
Hi from Reno, where they play Keno in the casino.

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[buswolley]

Suddenly my wife approves of Slashdot!

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[Ohreally_factor]

Unfortunately, it looks like Maddox is continuing his massive slack off, (too busy with "other projects", i.e., his right hand and thehun.net), and there is no April Fools joke from him this year.

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot should have traded websites with digg so that when you went to slashdot.org it gave you digg and when you went to digg.com it gave you slashdot

Re:I absolutely, empathically disagree.

[Anonymous Monkey]

For all you know I am that rabit. And maybe it didn't die, maybe it was just pretending to be dead to get the knights to fall into a trap....wow, things become so clear without sleep for a weekend.

Time to Overload the Cute!

[Kelson]

I don't know how much traffic Cute Overload gets, but judging by the number of large images on their home page, I think they're about to get overloaded themselves...

Re:Time to Overload the Cute!

[Red Cape]

Actually cuteoverload is just a frame that leads to a typepad site. I'd say it's pretty safe from slashdotting but reloading the cuteoverload its getting slower.

Re:Time to Overload the Cute!

[Morkano]

I like kitties^h^h^h^h^h^h^h Linux!

Re:Time to Overload the Cute!

[Kelson]

Well, they do at least have penguin pictures. It's kinda Linuxy.

Re:Time to Overload the Cute!

[tolan-b]

Hey I'm a coder and I love cute overload, sue me :p

Kittens?!

[Sartak]

Slashdot is getting better by the minute!

OMG WTF BBQ

[jrockway]

FIRST POST.

(Can I get modded up for that on a day like today?)

Re:OMG WTF BBQ

[balster neb]

No FIRST POST! YOU are too late i am first!!

HAHAHA OMG I fooled you lol!!!! APril Fools!! lol

Re:OMG WTF BBQ

[modecx]

Ooops, looks like someone took a crap in grub's slippers. Oh the unfortunate timing!

By the way, I'm really sorry about that. I'll try not to do it again.

Re:OMG WTF BBQ

[Nimey]

People who use "faggot" as an insult are often in denial about their homosexual tendencies.

Re:OMG WTF BBQ

[forceflow307]

"fucking fuckers FUCK!"

Well that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word...

Re:OMG WTF BBQ

[Anonymous Coward]

go suck on some cock assface, every april fools story has been tagged "gay"

Re:OMG WTF BBQ

[Leiterfluid]

I'm kinda disappointed they didn't do anything special for April Fool's Day. Normally, they change up the site, or add a bunch of pro-Microsoft articles. Ohhhh, I get it. Maybe there won't be any dupes today!

Re:OMG WTF BBQ

[Anonymous Coward]

That is why it's all pink and THIS ARTICLE YOU HAVE COMMENTED IN! and A FEW MORE ARTICLES!
YAY!

Re:OMG WTF BBQ

[42Penguins]

Troll? Please! It was a reference to Monty Python, for cuteness sake!
Usage of the Word Fuck:
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/m/montypython9364/th eusageoffuck1051372.html

Re:OMG WTF BBQ

[jrockway]

Hey, hey... haven't you been paying attention to Pat Robertson? We should all be denying our homosexual tendencies... since it's pure evil sent from Satan! You should be honored to be in the presence of The Englightened Grub!

LOLMG MORE!

[TheComputerMutt.ca]

PUPPIES! KITTENS! LOL! OMG, SO MUCH CUTENESS!!! lololoolololololol omg fitlered! so cute! lol not yelling lol omg so dumb!

CmdrTaco Has Been Taconapped!!!

[Red Cape]

It's the only explanation.. Fear now fellow slashdotters for the opposite side of the gender pool has stolen our CmdrTaco

Re:CmdrTaco Has Been Taconapped!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

No, that would involve CmdrTaco having the following:

• Sensitivity.
• A sense of humor.
• HTML skills

OMG BUG H4X! Try putting a non-ASCII character in the subject field. It gets double-escaped. Foreign characters don't appear in the comments, either. This can't be standards-compliant.

Re:CmdrTaco Has Been Taconapped!!!

[mark_hill97]

I knew it!
Be afraid people, the burrito people are going to kill our tacos!

I bet cuteoverload.com...

[DaveM753]

never thought they'd get slashdotted.

Re:I bet cuteoverload.com...

[mfh]

never thought they'd get slashdotted.

Yeah but they also never thought /. would finally come out of the closet, either.

Re:I bet cuteoverload.com...

[FuturePastNow]

cmdrtaco.net won't load either, now that's irony.

Re:I bet cuteoverload.com...

[Anonymous Coward]

zomg! cuteoverload is not longer just a clevar name lolz!

Re:I bet cuteoverload.com...

[Christopher Rogers]

Does anyone have a link to a mirror?

Re:I bet cuteoverload.com...

[IgnoramusMaximus]

never thought they'd get slashdotted.

I think that's Gaydotted from now on...

Or perhaps whatever term exists for laying face-down in the muck with numerous pony hoof-prints on one's back ...

Re:I bet cuteoverload.com...

[Thamyris]

I bet /. never thought it would make the front page of cuteoverload.com...

You Know

[Dante Shamest]

We can add slashdot to that site now.

Very cute, but...

[neongrey]

... where are the ponies that are being OMGed over? I want my motherfucking ponies.

Re:Very cute, but...

[HABITcky]

No, you can't have a pony.

Re:Very cute, but...

[Aqua OS X]

OMG ROFL!!! LOLerskates!!!

Re:Very cute, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

I want my motherfucking ponies.

Dude, that's a completely different part of the Internet.

(And thanks for the disturbing mental image. Must find brain bleach.)

Re:Very cute, but...

[TeacherOfHeroes]

You gawl-dern kids these days are too lazy to even go and do a google search for OMG PONIES!!!.

If you did, you'd see that the first result is to a page with OMG PONIES!!!

And they have such wonderful hair - i wonder where they go to get it done...

Re:Very cute, but...

[Foxxz]

http://foxxz.net/ ;P

Re:Very cute, but...

[bewebste]

Go check again, they've uploaded a motherfucking cute pony just for you. .... *sigh* OMGWTFBBQ LOL blah blah w00t rofl rofl rofl!!11!leleven etc. etc. They'd better change this damn pink theme back pretty soon or I'm gonna go nuts. rofl. Agh!

Re:Very cute, but...

[flynns]

Motherfuckin' ponies on a plane?
 
/sorry.

Re:Very cute, but...

[Spit]

They actually mean "OMG p0wn13s!!!".

So, how many were expecting....

[masterzora]

So how many people were expecting the "cutest site ever" link to be goatse?

Re:So, how many were expecting....

[Anonymous Coward]

Goatse.cx was taken down years ago.

Re:So, how many were expecting....

[masterzora]

Hence why I didn't say goatse.cx. Without the .cx, I'm just referring to the image (which is in existence on several mirrors across the internet).

Re:So, how many were expecting....

[Billly Gates]

www.tubgirl.com is still up.

Yes, its non worksafe folks and its equally as disgusting... be warned.

Re:So, how many were expecting....

[Anonymous Coward]

I certainly was...
I have been hit by goatse in clever and unexpected ways several times now, so I am perpetually wary...

Re:So, how many were expecting....

[Anonymous Coward]

meatspin.com is just as bad as goatse IMHO (NOT safe for work)

Re:So, how many were expecting....

[Anonymous Coward]

Why thank you.

I am gay and not a troll but it was hot and much better than the garbage I downloaded last night. Funny

Re:So, how many were expecting....

[spectre_240sx]

Goatse is offensive, but Tubgirl made me literally vomit a little. How you can compare the two is beyond me.

Re:So, how many were expecting....

[Anonymous Coward]

Me. Of course, since I only ever post AC, I'll have to add a bunch of meaningless text to this post or else... Hey, how come the lameness filter is still on posts, since it's obviously been suspended for articles?

Re:So, how many were expecting....

[Billly Gates]

I dont know that www.meatspin.com like the guy above mentioned is pretty bad and its sister link mudfull is NASTY!

I bet it will now take years of therapy before having sex again.

Aaaaaaah!

[phalse phace]

My eyes! My eyes!

Re:Aaaaaaah!

[barefootgenius]

The goggles, they do nothing?

Re:Aaaaaaah!

[Andrzej Sawicki]

I had the very same impression. Fortunately, my brain managed to block the cutiness now. Phew, that was close.

Re:April Fools Jokes

[Valarauk]

yeah I know, I've been refreshing that motherfucker like crazy and it's still loading at an acceptable speed. Get with it guys! /. FTW

Hey guys :)

[Toxicgonzo]

:) This is like the cutest site ever :) ever http://www.catsinsinks.com/

Like the kittys are soooo cute :)

g2g ttyl

Re:Hey guys :)

[Andrew Kismet]

I would give you all the mod points in the world if I had them.

Re:Hey guys :)

[dacarr]

Nuuuuuuuuu! Here!

Re:Hey guys :)

[SpaceballsTheUserNam]

i must respectfully disagree www.stuffoncats.com

Re:Hey guys :)

[SpaceballsTheUserNam]

wait, i mean http://www.stuffonmycat.com/index.php?catid=2 thats the cutest ever

Re:Hey guys :)

[Gryle]

Cats In Sinks? How 'bout Cats On Plates As A Main Course?

Re:Hey guys :)

[stevey]

Cute site. Look like I could even add one...

Re:Hey guys :)

[Anonymous Coward]

This cat is SOOOOO cute to!!!111one

Re:Hey guys :)

[arkhan_jg]

Nooooooooo. I WARNED everyone that cats were trying to take over the world via their parasites and cute fluffyness, and now even slashdot has succumbed to teh cuteness!

The end of the world is nigh, we're all doomed by the cute fuffy kittens in sinks... *clicks link* OMG!!! That's like the best thing EVAR. Stuff the kernel recompile, I need to go buy a KITTEN!!!!

Slashdotting

[pjameson]

Okay guys, at least popular tech sites can be prepared for slashdotting, but to bring fiery servers to random "cute" sites on the internet, this is one cruel april fools prank for someone out there.

Re:Slashdotting

[barefootgenius]

"but to bring fiery servers to random "cute" sites on the internet, this is one cruel april fools prank for someone out there."

I don't know about that. They seem to be holding up so far. Maybe we should all have spent more time in Home Economics.

Re:Slashdotting

[JT Snortbuckle JrIII]

"...but to bring fiery servers to random "cute" sites on the internet, this is one cruel april fools prank for someone out there."

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Re:Slashdotting

[phxhawke]

It /.ed already. I never thought I would see that happen.

Re:Slashdotting

[shadowbearer]

  Tonight we slashdot the Internet, Pinky.

SB

Re:Slashdotting

[swmccracken]

It's a blog on typepad.com. TypePad is SixApart's hosted MoveableType-esque service and has withstood slashdot in the past, so it's unlikely to melt under the load. :)

My only fear....

[tktk]

... is that today's articles will be duped next week.

Re:My only fear....

[moorcito]

You must be new here, that happens already.

Hmm... What about Goatse?

[Ack_OZ]

I wonder if Goatse is offtopic today. I don't think it would significantly add to the pain...

Ack_OZ

You can't break my geek-essence.

[Aslan72]

No matter how hard you try. No matter how much I stare at pink, you can't break me.

Who saw the picture of the lizard and thought of SUSE...

--pete

Re:You can't break my geek-essence.

[Anonymous Coward]

i just looked at you typing in "SUSE" and thought "SUSE!!!".

how fucking stupid can everyone here get? people, GET A LIFE. I understand you are all "nerds" and "geeks" and so am I, but I mean the only reason im here is because i have the RSS feed on my google-homepage. All of you should seriously consider therapy, disregarding the conditional being of it a "joke" or otherwise (that would be sad).

Re:You can't break my geek-essence.

[Dante Shamest]

Who saw the picture of the lizard and thought of SUSE...

I thought of SEX.

Don't judge me.

Re:You can't break my geek-essence.

[barefootgenius]

Oh, you too? I think Beta 9 might have some bugs to work out.

On a more serious note. WTF happened to the RC 1 release yesterday. I thought they were skipping nine and going to RC 1 on the 31st, not beta 9.

Re:You can't break my geek-essence.

[Anonymous Coward]

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

Re:You can't break my geek-essence.

[Anonymous Coward]

Scoot Dog!!!!

Re:You can't break my geek-essence.

[grahamkg]

I saw the pictures!!!!!!!!! They are soooo adorable. They reminded me of the cute little lizard on the color PostScript test print page.

Hey, you know, if Novell was really smart, they'd call it Suzy Linux. It's so, you know, girly. Advertize it with a couple of girls in poodle skirts, but instead of poodles, have lizards. It would be soooo sweet!!!!!

So what, this is another marketing dept. idea?

[oDDmON oUT]

Soon we'll be swimming in kittens, kitsch, and lace as the tie ins to unutterably *cute* sites come, due to the /. site redesign.

ooooooo...*HOW I DESPISE YOU MINDLESS MARKETING DROIDS*!

Tomorrow's Headline...

[Winlin]

Tens of thousands of geeks have been found in what appear to be diabetic comas. Doctors are baffled.

Slashdot Fanboy Index -- March 2006 Edition

[Anonymous Coward]

Declining

BSD Fanboys (-50) -- Half of the small number of posts in the BSD section are arguments with trolls, and the other half is the same tired "BSD is more stable" stuff from 10 years ago. Apparently there's nothing else to talk about. BSD Fanboys are Dying!

OpenOffice/ODF Fanboys (-75) -- Trying to get excited about a word processor format is difficult. Especially when said word processor sucks.

Linux Desktop Fanboys (-85) -- The last person to virulently believe that KDE or Gnome was critical to the future of desktop computing switched back to Windows on Thursday.

Neutral

AMD Fanboys (0) -- It turns out that saving a few bucks on an off-brand CPU is a religious experience, not unlike Dianetics. Who knew?

Ascending

Nintendo Fanboys (+30) -- Imagine a video game controller which you can swing around like a wand. Now imagine a 30 year old man, wearing nothing but Mario Bros Underoos, swinging said controller around. Happy days are here again!

Firefox Fanboys (+40) -- Now that the price-fixing RAM Cartel has been broken up, the sky's the limit for Firefox.

Apple Fanboys (+100) -- A six month Vista delay equals six more months of free trolling!

Missing In Action

Matrox Fanboys (?) -- Would the last guy who brags about the superior image quality of his G400MAX please stand up?

Amiga Fanboys (?) -- I guess proprietary 500Mhz G4 hardware and a 20 year old OS isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Windows Fanboys (?) -- What's the fun of being a Alterate OS fanboy if we don't have you guys to kick around? Please come back!

Re:Slashdot Fanboy Index -- March 2006 Edition

[spectre_240sx]

Matrox cards rock. Unfortunately, they're just a bit too pricey to justify for my needs.

Today's Formula

[Ctrl Alt De1337]

1. Periodically visit and submit every story from this collection of all of this year's prank stories: http://aprilfools.urgo.org/
2. ???
3. Slashdot Hall of Fame!!!

I just discovered...

[c41rn]

I never thought about it before, but it sucks to get mod points on March 31st....

Re:I just discovered...

[Barnoid]

I never thought about it before, but it sucks to get mod points on March 31st....

...otoh you could just wait one day.

Re:I just discovered...

[Anonymous Coward]

Or go to day-old stories and mod down borderline OT stuff that'll never be read again anyways... That's been happening a lot to me lately :/

Re:I just discovered...

[whoseon3rd]

lol, if I had mod points, I would mod you up ;)

LOL

[zx-15]

Suddenly, I feel urge to take a laptop, go to public places and read there slashdot.

The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Y-Crate]

A few of my friends have been known to sarcastically utter "LOL" when mocking AOL-speak and for some reason there has been a tendency to pronounce it "Laal" as opposed to "Lohl" (rhymes with "bowl").

No one can explain how this came to be, but once we realized we had suddenly started mispronouncing it, we decided to keep on keeping on with our crime against language simply due to the fact the "word" is so inherently stupid, we feel we are truly doing it justice.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Embedded2004]

Most people I know that say it pronounce it as "lohl"

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[qengho]

Um, isn't it pronounced "eloel"? I don't have a teenage girl handy to ask.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[fbjon]

Indeed, "lohl" it is. Try it with a Schwarzenegger accent, and you'll find it really shines:

Whea is maah pohnee??? Ah need mah quut leetul pohnee OhMG LOOOOhL <3 ya ohkay see yoo on MaahSpace

Sorry if I ruined any and all future Arnold-action flicks for everyone.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[eluusive]

If only I had mod points, I'd give you +5 Hilarious.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[MrNougat]

"LOL" is a written - not spoken - word. Attempting to speak it is as rediculous as trying to spell a specific fart.

With that, let the fart-spelling commence.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Crizp]

pt... frh... ptfBRAAAAAAaaahfffft!

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[kryten_nl]

I don't have a teenage girl handy to ask.

I've got one tied up in the basement, but can't be bothered...

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Anonymous Coward]

It is pronounced the same as loll. Anyone who says otherwise is itching for a fight.

And ROFL rhymes with waffle, bitch.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[freeweed]

Attempting to speak it is as rediculous as

Or, apparently as RIDICULOUS as trying to spell English words correctly.

Since it's April 1st, can I beat you mercilessly with a club until you remove that annoying fucking E from a word which never is spelled with an E, doesn't sound in the least like it has an E in it, and hell, just the presence of the E makes the Universe tremble in terror?

Sorry.

I really hate people who can't spell that word.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Anonymous Coward]

Why am I not allowed to speak the word "lol". It is a perfectly normal Dutch word meaning "fun". Which indeed is a funny coincedence seeing the context it is being used in a lot in the last decade.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[pr0f3550r]

My personal favorite is the actual Tagalog word for fart....UTOT

(the O is long...of course)

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Ranx]

Well, in Dutch 'lol' *is* a word, meaning fun. (Look it up in the dictionary if you don't believe me).

It's spoken with a short o, not like the English long Boooowl.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Anonymous Coward]

If you did pronounce it, surely it'd be like 'loll', not rhyming with bowl or marl. (Unless perhaps you're in a country where 'loll' rhymes with 'bowl', although that'd be weird.)

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[jazman]

phthrrrt. Adjust number of r's as required.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Anonymous Coward]

Eff Eh Ar Tea

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Anonymous Coward]

Dumbass, he wasn't trying to use the word "ridiculous." He was using the word "rediculous" correctly -- meaning "diculous again."

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[MrNougat]

Oh my god, I know plenty well how to spell "ridiculous," but having seen it spelled with an 'e' here so many times, I thought it was a running joke.

I just wanted to be part of the in crowd.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[Anonymous Coward]

With that, let the fart-spelling commence.

No way, man. He who spelt it dealt it.

Re:The pronunciation of "LOL"

[cobras2]

>"LOL" is a written - not spoken - word. Attempting to speak it is as rediculous as trying to spell a specific fart.

Actually, it's an acronym (laughing out loud), not a word. And by the way.. people have often tried (both successfully and unsuccessfully) to pronounce acronyms 'properly' before.
Consider laser.
or radar.
Gnu. (How *do* you pronounce that, anyway? Is it "new" or "g-new"?)
Emacs. (ee-macks? eh-macks?)
GIF? JPEG? WAV? MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) (do you say "em ay dee dee" or just "mad"?)

Dude.. we live on them.
And yes I have said "lol" out loud before instead of actually laughing :)

Um...

[Perseid]

These stories give me the idea that this is what the admins here are always like and this is their only chance to show their true selves.

So I really think we should...

NO CARRIER

Re:Um...

[fbjon]

Actually, it's kind of refreshing to have a day of general mayhem to weed out the people who are too stuck up for their own good. I have only two things to say: Good riddance, and OMG PON1ES!! xoxo

On a more serious note, this might be be a good day to study how some people are able to take things in stride and play along, while others have difficulties coping with perceived "childish" things. I've always thought that those who still have their inner child within them are happier people.. life is only an insignificant play anyway.

A note to slashdotters: If you feel an urge to point out right now that /. is for "stuff that matters. Only!" then you're kind of missing it.

On a completely different note: pink is actually a pretty cool color. This theme is meant as cutey-pink of course, but otherwise pink seems somehow underutilized these days in many respects because of it's perceived cutesy-ness. Just for reference, pink hasn't always been a "girl colour", it has been a masculine colour in the past.

Re:Um...

[the phantom]

I dig the inner child bit. I work in an elementary school -- I don't think I could do what I do and not be in touch with my inner child. However, the first of April on Slashdot tends to be more random than funny. It is like Saterday Night Live in recent years -- over the top and, ultimately, not funny. True humor comes from the appropriate application of subtlety... i.e. one or two completely random stories during the day; purposefully duping the exact same article three times during the day (but not in a row, for god's sake); intentional misspellings to tweak the grammar nazis; a story on the front page in hex... something subtle, humerous, and far less annoying.

Re:Um...

[Bork]

Thought I lost the blue gun on my monitor at first.

To much of a good thing - taken one to far.

Oh well, wife's turn with the computer.

Re:Um...

[Omestes]

Long live the evil bit!

God, I don't beleive I remember that...

Seriously though, the pink thing isn't good, though perhaps I did need my eyes to bleed for a bit. Thinkgeek killed /. this year.

Re:Um...

[valdis]

The Evil Bit is fully documented in RFC3514, which coincidentally enough came out 3 years ago today.

Re:Um...

[fbjon]

But you have to admit that staring at all the pink and the "OMG!!! Ponies!!! <3" was a surprise. I know it shocked me at first even though I was fully prepared for something silly. I mean, site layout changes on April 1st are common... but ponies on slashdot!?

Re:Um...

[Anonymous Coward]

+ Interestng? + Insightful? Oh, man. This really is April Fools Day...

pssshh

[Anonymous Coward]

its all about the beedogs!

OMG OMG

[nastro]

OMG OMG /me head asplodes. KITTAH! http://alienintelligencer.com/images/hobbesandtuck er.jpg

Oh god oh god...

[Krakhan]

I think I'm going to blow up at any second with all of these stories.. AND PINK! PINK OF ALL COLOURS! MY EYES!!

I think...

[Meowing]

... I like Slashdot better this way.

I dunno...

[Scareduck]

The cats and racks section could be pretty useful...

Re:I dunno...

[Lord Zerrr]

or how about http://catsinboxes.com/ ?

OMG, my blood pressure!

[Anonymous Coward]

"Think you have a cute photo, Punk? [Clint Eastwood voice]"

Comedy gold. Thanks slashdot.

Bring it on, bitches

[ocelotbob]

I'm glad for two things this AFD. One is for the slashdotter extension(if you don't have it, you can google it your own damn self) to get rid of most of the pink, and two is that I'm colorblind, so my eyes aren't quite at the bleeding stage. Sometimes it pays to be a mutant freak.

Robbie the rabbit!

[Spy der Mann]

Can anything be cuter than this?

Awwww!! T_T

Re:Robbie the rabbit!

[Anonymous Coward]

the fuck is YOUR deal, you sick piece of shit?

Re:Robbie the rabbit!

[Spy der Mann]

the fuck is YOUR deal, you sick piece of shit?

A simple "yes" would have sufficed as answer, now you hurt my feelings :'(

LOLLLLLLL

[dauthur]

zomg i no, these are so kawaiii!11 ne???!

Hmmm....

[still-a-geek]

I would say it's more cruelty to animals than cute.

Here goes...

[nobodynoone]

And this is the point that I dont look at /. for the next 36 hours..... ...the ponies were funny though.

Slashdot: Once know as nerd-central, now is wussy

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot: Once know as nerd-central, now is wussyland central. Cute? Oh, shoot me now!

Holy fucking Shit!

[raider_red]

I'm assuming the changes to the front page represent an early April Fools Joke. If not, I'm going to have to stop reading this site, or I'll throw up.

Re:You want cute?

[nastro]

Hahahahaha you paid money for internets.

Respectfully disagree...

[dingDaShan]

The CUTEST WEBSITE EVER BY FAR is the Hudson Valley Youth Soccer League's website. It was proudly made in frontpage and sports some very intuitive features. Enjoy

Re:Respectfully disagree...

[qzulla]

Wow! That was cruel, dude.

qz

Re:Respectfully disagree...

[Nimey]

That's too obviously a troll site. Nobody could create such a bad web page by accident.

Re:Respectfully disagree...

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude... as a web designer? I'd believe this. It's surprising that websites like this still exist for reasons other than pure novelty value, but they do, and I could point you to a few which would be a notch or to better than this, but not by much.

Metanalysis

[Anonymous Coward]

The reason the joke is old already is that it's crypto-sexist.

Quoth the humorists:
our audience is strangely disproportionately skewed towards males. Like, 98.3% males to be precise. To correct this oversight, we have decided to subtly tweak Slashdot's design

Okay, so. Pink is for girls. Understood.

But lol and kitties and stupid ... that's not the women I know.

There is either a fundamental flaw in the humor formula, or the alleged joke is a thin veneer laid over a real misogyny.

Or more likely, both.

Grow up, boys. Mommy still loves you.

Re:Metanalysis

[Anonymous Coward]

Christ. Get a fucking sense of humor.

Re:Metanalysis

[Anonymous Coward]

Please leave us alone.

Re:Metanalysis

[themusicgod1]

"But lol and kitties and stupid ... that's not the women I know."

Yes, but how many 6 year old girls do you know?

wow

[glwtta]

Man, this shit is coming in fast and thick this year.

I think the "editors" enjoy our quiet desperation - we know this pablum is just about as close to the bottom of the barrel as it gets (not to mention that they seem to have missed the point of the day's theme entirely), and yet are utterly unable to do anything about it.

Angry diatribe or not, there's gonna be a solid 24 hours of this - not to repeat myself - shit.

*ahem* you mean second cutest

[UnCivil Liberty]

*obligatory Goatse link here*

something wrong on Slashdot?

[digger_chen]

Is there something wrong on Slashdot, I would spend my time on this site to read some useful news today:)

S u c k M y B a l l s

[Anonymous Coward]

I am so DRUnk THAT SLASHDOt looks funny LODFahsjd;fasdfkklsdf jklasd;asdfj
dsj;kagdak;s'fasdjl;glasdgasdg
lolololLOLOLOLO>OLOOLoasdfj;agdnj;lasdgjsadg

ahfasfdhadfhaa hahahahahaha 1111

imp arasonjic by the way

I'm about to vomit over the Slashdot site

[Hangtime]

...its great nice work guys, I am looking forward to my day of entertainment.

Maybe some Google news today as well. *crosses fingers*

OMG LMAO

[bmecoli]

that is liek sooo kute and kawii!! =^_^= omg you are sooo kewl to show us that lolz. omg i have liek fotos of my kittie to show u but i duno how to sent them cuz computars ar liek sooooo um... complicated lolz!

Early

[sinfree]

...and here I was thinking that April Fool's day was tomorrow. Man, nobody ever tells me anything.

The Perfect Expression for Situations Like This

[stuffman64]

OMGWTFBBQ!

WHAT'S WITH THE CATS TODAY?

[zanderredux]

does Taco has something to do with all the cats on Flickr's Explore page??? It only shows CATS! CATS!

Re:WHAT'S WITH THE CATS TODAY?

[blamanj]

In France, an April Fool is called "Poisson d'Avril" or April Fish. Clearly the cats are looking for the fish.

Well,

[AWhiteFlame]

I, for one, welcome our new cute pony overlords.

Re:You want cute?

[rdoger6424]

You mean Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Crap Crap Shit?

OMG We Slashdotted CmdrTaco

[thegreenbandit]

Beaten by your own site, eh?

Re:You want cute?

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"My subscription shouldn't pay for this tired old crap, you cunts!"

Bitch bitch bitch.

Slashdot does this EVERY year. You don't have any excuse for buying a Slashdot subscription if the one day out of the year they act a little silly is a deal breaker.

NOT EVEN April 1st YET!

[artemis67]

The pink makeover must be for real.

Helloooo, Brokeback Website...

Re:You want cute?

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet your soon-to-be-born daughter would be so proud of daddy when she finally gets old enough to understand your misogynistic dreck. I only hope she's taken away from you by child welfare services before you have a chance to molest her.

Pink

[Anonymous Coward]

This pink makes me feel so calm inside...

Have you seen this pretty kitty?

[Toxicgonzo]

http://tinyurl.com/cqp2z like
like
like
like
like
like
like
like
like
like
like
like
like
like
like
hahaha admit it, you feel for that
TinyURL FTW

What is it about ponies and girls?

[MichaelSmith]

Years ago when I was at high school I took a shortcut through the corridor where the year 10 girls had their lockers. I overheard the following conversation. It wasn't difficult to do so because it was shouted from one end of the crowded corridor to the other.

Girl 1: Hey! you hear $othergirl is pregnant again?

Girl 2: No? How did that happen?

Girl 1: Rode a horse bareback in the nude, how do you reckon?

Aw... I love you man. OMG! Ponies!!!!

[IronTeardrop]

Lighten up, Francis. It's only one day a year.

Cuteness

[_J_]

I like the fact that AF /. slogan is "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" and the fortune is:

"We will bury you."
-- Nikita Kruschev

IMHO, as per

J:)

TRUE SCIENCE FACT!

[Anonymous Coward]

Bad news sounds better coming from cute fuzzy animals.

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It's "Gay"

[stewartj]

> [+] lame, aprilfools, gay, omg, cute (tagging beta)

I find it pretty offensive that you use the term "gay" as a derogatory term.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn straight. Mod parent up!

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

I find it pretty offensive that you use the term "straight" as a laudatory term.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

But it's YOU who thought of it as derogatory, moron.

Gay could be in the same context as Cute.

Re:It's "Gay"

[An ominous Cow art]

Perhaps it's just a typo for "gag"...

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

I second that!

Re:It's "Gay"

[NilObject]

This is something of a disturbing trend among kids these days. I play lots of Halo online and it's flooded with immature tweens always screaming "THIS LAG IS GAY" and tripe of that nature. I'm not a huge English nut, but this perversion of English really busts my nuts. It doesn't even make sense! "This lag is homosexual!" "That computer is heterosexual!"

This "ZOMG YUR GAY" shit bugs the shit out of me, and I'm straight. I can only imagine how the gay community feels about this. How does pink imply homosexuality anyways? Because it's a feminine color? Does that mean blue is "straight"?

Sadly, the tagging here on Slashdot doesn't allow people to remove tags or moderate them. I guess I better start tagging stories based on their perceived sexuality!

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

Me too. In it's place, please use the term "faggotry".

Thank you.

Re:It's "Gay"

[bbkingadrock]

agreed

Re:It's "Gay"

[stewartj]

> But it's YOU who thought of it as derogatory, moron.

Your argument isn't strengthened by name-calling.

> Gay could be in the same context as Cute.

You might've had a point if a precedent hadn't been set in the previous 3 articles:

[+] aprilfools, lame, omg, gay, thinkgeek (tagging beta)
[+] aprilfools, lame, omg, gay, birthday (tagging beta)
[+] aprilfools, gay, ponies, omg, pink (tagging beta)

I'm not sure how the tagging system works, but Slashdot is a moderated site, and the use of the term "gay" in this context arguably should be moderated out. I doubt the mods would let tags through if they had racial or misogynistic meanings, and homophobia should be treated no differently.

Re:It's "Gay"

[slashdotmsiriv]

Dude, don't be gay... It is just funny. it's a fun word to use. I even have a couple of gay friends, in front of which we use this word with absolutely no offense. SouthPark uses it too.

Re:It's "Gay"

[jibjibjib]

Just because gay means homosexual in some contexts, doesn't mean every time we use the word we are being homophobic. Words change their meanings.

I know gay people who use "gay" in the context you described, so obviously it doesn't offend all gay people.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

I find it pretty offensive that you use the term "straight" as a laudatory term.

Go get bent! ;)

Re:It's "Gay"

[Copy, Paste, Repeat]

OK, I'll bite. I've set "Show Tags" to On. Earlier, that page said I was unable to view tags "at this time." How come I still can't see them?

Re:It's "Gay"

[evilviper]

That's life. Get used-to it. MAny of us are absolutely fed-up with moronic political correctness, and don't give a damn.

How about "kids" being used as a derogatory term? How about "old men" being used as a derogatory term?

Don't like it, screw you. Welcome to being a member of the public, and having to put up with others, as they put up with you.

Re:It's "Gay"

[geniusj]

I second that.. I like my constitution. At least, when it's followed.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Omestes]

Er... don't stomp on the only day that /. isn't completely self-righteous.

Offence is completely in offendee, you choose to be offended, especially if you aren't in the target audience. You can't be offended FOR someone, it is absurd being that there isn't an objective particle of offence in the world.

And perhaps the tag just means happy/full of joy? Why does "gay" have to mean homosexual? Queer is strange, gay is happy. Live with it. Or perhaps, even, it was a statement of fact, men in pink are generally gay, our beloved (ahem!) editors/admins are men, they dressed their manhood in pink. They might be gay. No value judgement.

Re:It's "Gay"

[zmollusc]

Right On!
I get annoyed by people saying that things are 'lame' ( disrespectful to physically handicapped persons ) , 'weak' ( disrespectful to physically handicapped persons ) , 'stupid' ( disrespectful to mentally handicapped persons ) , 'retarded' ( disrespectful to mentally handicapped persons ), and 'handicapped'( disrespectful to persons of differing ability ).

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not being tagged as "gay" to insult anyone.

Fact: if you're a male who spends hours looking at and commenting about pictures of kittens and puppies, chances are you're up there on the Kinsey scale.

Hence, "gay" is an accurate, descriptive tag. There is no insult involved.

Re:It's "Gay"

[emilng]

You must be the new gay here.

Re:It's "Gay"

[shutdown -p now]

As you no doubt well know, the word is often used thusly, and not just on Slashdot. Perhaps you should consider why it is so for a moment. Perhaps it is because many heterosexual people still find the very idea of two copulating men disgusting.

By all means, have your equality. I don't care what you do in your bedroom. But when you decide to let everyone know what it is, exercising your freedom of speech, I shall exercise mine and call it what I see it is - something in the same category as coprophilia. Insofar as "shit-eater" is offensive, so is "gay". Whether to be offended or not is, as always, your choice.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

Offence is completely in offendee, you choose to be offended, especially if you aren't in the target audience. You can't be offended FOR someone, it is absurd being that there isn't an objective particle of offence in the world. And perhaps the tag just means happy/full of joy? Why does "gay" have to mean homosexual? Queer is strange, gay is happy.

Right, and we all know that:

• Racism doesn't really exist: 3rd world labor and proxy wars are just a coincidence.
• Patriarchy don't exist: Women are treated equally as men and they hold the same privilege as men in society. Maybe the 95-5 ratio in real estate entitlement is just because not enough women sought it? or perhaps women were/are too busy to ask to vote? Yes, maybe they're too busy enjoying commodification and being objectified.
• Homophobia doesn't exist: Queer Marriage is hotly contested in the states not because of homophobia, but because of the high cost of photocopying marriage applications! and the disproportionately high violence against the visibly queer (such as transpeople) is a result of, uh, gender stereotypes?!

I suppose by that logic it's a mystery why the word offence even exists! I mean, if no one in the world has ever been offended and no one can possibly be offended because there is nothing to offend, then it boggles the mind why this word ever made it into a dictionary.

Live with it.

Get your head out of the sand.

Re:It's "Gay"

[andytuna]

And what exactly do a bunch of kittens have to do with "two copulating men".

Re:It's "Gay"

[starling]

It's called "evolution" and it works with languages as well as organisms. Are you some kind of whacko creationist or something?

Re:It's "Gay"

[aXis100]

We're just stealing it back.

Re:It's "Gay"

[shutdown -p now]

We don't want to see either.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

Gay didn't always mean homosexual...

"OMGzorz! That link is so happy"

Re:It's "Gay"

[moonbender]

Welcome to the world of language change. In other news, apparently people use jackass when they're not talking about male donkeys and we were outraged to find out that people still are using the fundamental metaphor "time as space" to cloud their speech and consequently their judgement.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Da Fokka]

If you were an english nut, you would know that using 'gay' for homosexuals is also a quite recent development. 'Gay' used to mean 'happy'. Of course, complaining about the happy lag doesn't make much sense either :)

Re:It's "Gay"

[ickoonite]

Oh dear. I don't even know where to begin with this. That you post as an anonymous coward gives some idea of how secure you are yourself, but anyway...

It's not being tagged as "gay" to insult anyone.

It is, by its very nature, insulting. Just for argument's sake, were I to describe the posts on here as a bit "nigger", I would be modded into oblivion. It would be racist and utterly uncalled for. But because there is still this tacit acceptance of gay-bashing, the tag is, alas, acceptable. Its meaning here is clear - in some of the summaries it is accompanied by the word "lame", and as anyone can see, the sentiment is therefore negative. If you must use a label, why not just use "lame" exclusively - it conveys the point reasonably well and avoids offence.

But of course, that's less fun.

Fact: if you're a male who spends hours looking at and commenting about pictures of kittens and puppies, chances are you're up there on the Kinsey scale.

Using your definition of the term "fact", a response:

Fact: you're a fucking moron.

Do not conflate facts with opinions. That's pretty basic stuff.

Idiot.

iqu :|

Re:It's "Gay"

[ickoonite]

Offence is completely in offendee, you choose to be offended, especially if you aren't in the target audience. You can't be offended FOR someone, it is absurd being that there isn't an objective particle of offence in the world.

Someone else has already offered a robust rebuttal, but unless you are of spectacularly limited intellect, you should be aware of the fallacy of your statement. It is such an incredible denial that it in fact borders on the absurd. I must ask - is it genuinely your view that when, say, some dimwitted hick from the Deep South bludgeons a gay man to death to cries of "Die fag, die!", the term "fag" is only offensive in the eyes of the offendee? Are you seriously suggesting that all the homophobic sentiment behind that epithet is as naught?

Intention is everything. Everything. When a gay man calls another gay man "gay", in the way an African American calls another African American "nigger", there is no offence behind the term, rather it is intended as a term of brotherhood or endearment. But when the above-mentioned dimwitted hick comes at me brandishing a piece of farm equipment and shouting "Kill the fucking queers!", "queer" is intended as an offensive term. It cannot be argued otherwise.

As the other response urged, pull your head out of the goddamn sand.

iqu :|

Re:It's "Gay"

[pafrusurewa]

Don't you know what "gay" really means? For me everything about today's Slashdot is gay. Nothing to do with homosexuals.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Jugalator]

I think it's a "pink == gay" mentality, which is kind of silly, because I think it's supposed to look like about young girls, with the ponies and AOL speak too. "aol" instead of "gay" would've been a funnier tag to me, if we have to generalize.

Re:It's "Gay"

[kronocide]

Is that a royal "we", Mr. Bigot? (Don't complain about me calling you names, just exercising my right to free speech. Up to you if you want to be offended or not.)

Re:It's "Gay"

[Josh teh Jenius]

May I Axe you a question?

Do you suppose, had we all held hands and sung a song in tune, we might have stopped Katrina from washing New Orleans into the sea?

So stop being "gay" and let the chimps act like chimps.

Your pal,

Josh the half-kike, half Irish-nigger cracker who done gots self esteem.

Re:It's "Gay"

[shiva19]

I'm giving up mod points to reply to you.

The word is used as a derogatory term because our dominant screwball religions decided that a practice seen in the real world, amongst every mammalian species, doesn't fit in with a heterosexual, go-forth-and-multiply world view. This filters down through the ages into societies and so-called "separation of church and state" governments still scarred with arbitrary facets of religion such as the above, much to the aggravation of the psychological and genetic sciences and the people you consider 'shit-eaters', whose lives and sexual habits you have such a lack of information about.

You pretend to accept diversity with 'by all means, have your equality' and then condemn it almost in the same breath by inciting irrational hate by comparison with something entirely out of scope. These kinds of comparisons -- my personal favourite is equating all homosexuals with NAMBLA members -- solely aim to spread inaccuracies to fuel diatribes by other people. Your choice of imagery is specifically chosen to inflict harm on a cause you supported at the beginning of the same paragraph.

You should be thankful that your genetic makeup lies within the boundaries that your society has defined as "normal". Consider the outright lies that America held as truth during the last century. Imagine the hate you would have faced if you were born a 'nigger' during the 1940s. That's fear of difference and stereotyping in action. They're all alcoholics! They cook their children!

They eat shit!

Oh, and taking offense isn't a voluntary action when the poster is so loudly, and without invite, pidgeonholing people they clearly know nothing about. This includes me. When I personally start telling you about the things I do in my bedroom, then you can tell me what you think of it. I didn't give you an invite to tar me with your one-color brush.

Re:It's "Gay"

[caffeination]

Fuck "offensive". It's pathetic. I'm disappointed. Here's a big Fuck You to anyone who tagged it "gay". Get a better pejorative you immature little pricks.

If you're offended by it, your English sucks. The word gay is more than a descriptor for a minority sexuality. It has a completely seperate meaning in this context, where it can only offend those who innately make the link between "homosexuality" and "bad". I don't make that link, and if I were gay, the use of the word "gay" as a pejorative wouldn't offend me any more than the word "gringo" does now. I don't make any link between "white European" and "bad", so all it tells me is that the person saying it is xenophopic and doesn't like me.

It takes two for offense to occur. One to act, and one to react. Reacting to shit like this is like a server responding to every packet sent to every port. It's a pointless vulnerability. Patch it today - the exploit code is already out there, it's called trolling.

Re:It's "Gay"

[dfgchgfxrjtdhgh.jjhv]

why should gay be a bad word? what do you have against gay people?

Re:It's "Gay"

[m50d]

You don't think it might just be the way the story appears in BRIGHT PINK?

Re:It's "Gay"

[neo]

They aren't! They mean this:

      1. Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.
      2. Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
      3. Bright or lively, especially in color: a gay, sunny room.
      4. Given to social pleasures.
      5. Dissolute; licentious.

Re:It's "Gay"

[spiritraveller]

I find it pretty offensive that you use the term "gay" as a derogatory term.

I find it funny that you're offended.

Perhaps you aren't aware that "gay" is in common usage by the youngsters as a pejorative term, and this is nothing but a parody of that usage.

If you would relax your offensive sensors a little, we wouldn't have to parse words so carefully for you, and you would instantly become a more attractive person.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Anonymous Coward]

The word is used as a derogatory term because our dominant screwball religions decided that a practice seen in the real world, amongst every mammalian species, doesn't fit in with a heterosexual, go-forth-and-multiply world view.

Do you still not realize that homosexuality is not normal? It by definition is destructive to the continuation of a species, and hence does not survive naturally.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

I'm not sure how the tagging system works, but Slashdot is a moderated site, and the use of the term "gay" in this context arguably should be moderated out.

(First off, it's no more homophobic than "sucks" is oralphobic. But that's another post.)

Tags, as far as I can tell, are only positively moderated. There's no real system for people with mod points to change tags (I know, 'cause I had mod points last week.) Once there's a tag that has made it to the main page, it can't be removed. There's some cutoff for the number of different people who have nominated an article to use that tag - the only way that number could decrease is if people go and clear their tagging lists.

Also, tags aren't viewable by the public. If you can see tags, you can add your own tags. (Notice that everyone who's quoted tags has quoted the "[+]" label also.)

Re:It's "Gay"

[Omestes]

So you can read the intent behind the tag of "gay" on these stories? Amazing power you have there. And I like how you equate the use here with southern yokels murdering people, I'm sure Taco is dragging some dead queers behind his John Deere tractor right now. What if the intent was just as a humorous joke for those of us who still have a sense of humor? Then can we just rest upon it as a joke, and not offensive, since offence was not intented?

It isn't even offensive by your definition then.

Its a word, period. Nothing more. You supply the meaning, and you supply your reaction to it. Sure, words change their meanings over time, and sadly people supplanted two very good words (Gay and queer), and took them out of common usage, unless we want to fact the consiquences of letting some sensative people get offended.

To solve this, I say we actually take a poll of gay /.ers and see how many of THEM are offended. Not how many straight, modern, liberal (meaning, to PC spec, feminized) men are offended. I'm sick of outside groups declaring their offence on behalf of other people. It's like forcing that Florida team to change their name (From the Seminols, I think), when the actual tribe had no problem with it. If the offendees aren't offended, then what right does anyone have to step up and be offended FOR them? After this poll, we need to see if a majority (or supermajority) is offended, and not just a handful of vocal advocates too.

I could go on. This is the reason I stopped being a liberal, its a hot button for me. Its a word. I'm sure no gay men lost their livelihood from these story tags, nor did they lose their lives. Meaning it is completely harmless. Those tags made a good number of people chuckle, and a far far smaller number get into hypersensative mode. Basically trying to rain on the majorities party.

No one got hurt, or will get hurt, therefore there is no story. Move along.

Re:It's "Gay"

[ickoonite]

Oh dear. Where to begin...

For the record, I am not a fan of political correctness either. I believe that political correctness enshrined in law as positive discrimination is incredibly detrimental to society. I generally like to blame bra-burning feminists from the 1960s who set about renaming terms like "manhole" and "manufacture" (despite its unconnected etymology) for the situation we find ourselves in today, but recognise that it is not fair to lump all the responsibility on them. Anyway, I digress somewhat...

I am also gay. My flickr page has proof - nothing explicit! - if you think I am still one of those reactionary types getting offended on behalf of others. My issue with the use of the term "gay" here runs roughly as follows:

"Gay" as "happy"
First, I think we ought to agree that this usage is now almost dead. The Oxford American Dictionary states:

As a result, the centuries-old other senses of gay meaning either 'carefree' or 'bright and showy,' once common in speech and literature, are much less frequent. The word gay cannot be readily used unselfconsciously today in these older senses without sounding old-fashioned or arousing a sense of double entendre, despite concerted attempts by some to keep them alive.

Etymology
"Gay" as applied to homosexuals was originally evidently a British coinage and presumably derived from its meaning of "brightly coloured; showy; brilliant" (OAD), a stereotype of the effeminate and flamboyant homosexual man. It was then co-opted, much like the epithet "nigger" among African Americans, by, at first, homosexual males, and then became the de-facto term for homosexual men and women. As expressions of homosexuality have diversified in the intervening years, the meaning of the term "gay" has broadened, such that it no longer explicitly only refers to those who are effeminate.

Offensive Associations
Whether or not femininity should be viewed negatively is another issue entirely, and it speaks volumes about the inherent sexism in our society, but that is for another time. The issue is that now that "gay" has a broader meaning, attempts to use the term to refer to what Slashdot has been exhibiting today are misguided. There is, certainly, a reasonable association between effeminate gay men and pink, but as someone who is both gay and who has never worn pink in his life, and who counts among his colleagues at work two very-definitely-heterosexual men who wear pink shirts to work, I fail to understand the blanket association. It simply makes no sense.

Hence my taking issue with the term. As alternatives, I might propose the tags "myspace-user"* or "clueless" (the film) - the latter certainly espouses the type of pink-obsessed vacuous teenage girl mentality with which Slashdot is seeking to associate itself on this day.

iqu :|

(* I realise this is a trifle unfair, and goes against everything that I have said above about the dangers of generalising. I only include it with tongue inserted firmly in cheek.)

Re:It's "Gay"

[ickoonite]

Beautifully put.

Unfortunately, I believe it is wasted on here - I tried reasoning with someone elsewhere, but I can't see it going anywhere.

It's incredible when you think about it - certainly at school here (in Britain), we learn all about the civil rights movement in the USA, and so I presume that the same happens in the States, so people ought to be conscious of discrimination. Yet when it stares them right in the face, we are just a bunch of whining politically-correct faggots...

*sigh*

iqu :|

Re:It's "Gay"

[shutdown -p now]

No, it isn't. Just go out on the street and start asking random people what they think of homosexuals. You'll find the true meaning of "we" soon enough.

Re:It's "Gay"

[shutdown -p now]

First, allow me a short disclaimer. I am not an American, nor do I belong to a religion that conemns homosexuality as sinful (I am a Slavic heathen). Furthermore, I fully believe in the right of people to do what they want, provided that does not hurt me - so homosexuality itself, same-sex marriage etc are all fine in my book, and I bear a strong dislike of people who speak out against it (because they might well go after my religious beliefs next, for example).

I do not hate homosexuals, nor am I inciting hate against them. I am merely telling how I see the practice itself. Irrational? You bet! I do not pretend it is. Many people find oral sex disgusting as well, without explanation; I don't, but I believe they are within their right to do so and to speak out regardless. Now, when the majority of a given society consider some practice disgusting, that does not give them the right to intervene directly and stop it. It does, however, give them full right to shun it in the open. You can live with it, or you can find a better place to live. But don't tell people around you what they should and shouldn't like - it's their choice to make.

By the way, while defending homosexuals, you still seem to treat coprofiles in a derogatory way (at least there was no objection from you that "shit-eater" is inherently offensive). How so? If you want to be fully consistent, you should've rather said that "shit-eater" is not an offensive term in the first place. Otherwise, sir, you're just as discriminating as I am.

Re:It's "Gay"

[pjp6259]

SouthPark uses it too.

Oh well, then it must not be offensive.

Re:It's "Gay"

[Omestes]

This is getting more and more dead-horse-like.

I am partly out of the loop of the "new english", it seems the labels that people apply to themselves are rapidly accelerating, and increasing at a rate that I can no longer keep up with. Meaning my command of self-labels have stopped someplace in the mid-90's. And, perhaps I am a bit reactionary in this, I have gotten sick of everything changing its name because someone might be offended (generally a decision made by insecure white males, not by what ever group that would take offence).

If a word is used in humor, I do find it hard to see the offence. The tag here wasn't used as a "gay bash", or anything else of duragatory nature. It was using the word in a more common use way, and not in a cultural insult way. As you are gay do you mind if I ask if you were authentically offended, or offended because one ought to be offended? By this distinction I mean, what it a gut reaction, a non-thinking offence. Or was it just a conditioned response that one ought to be offended by the term "gay"?

About 5 years ago, one of my best friends came out of the closet, and this did make all of his friends quite happy, and him happy as well. There was very little fallout from this action. I generally still call him a "queer", or my "little gay friend" (he's short), and never intend any insult in this, and he knows it too. He generally retaliates by insulting my straightness. Some of his SO's have took offense for him though, which is obnoxious, since I don't joke with them in the same way (right off, until I know they have a good sense of humor) so it has nothing to do with them.

I think the problem is a cultural backlash against how serious every "special interest" (I use this for lack of a better word) takes their labels. People are getting sick of words becoming so powerful and sacred at the expense of good humor. Its getting to the point where everyone must watch what they say to every person of "special interest" membership carefully, or they might offend. As opposed to any natural equality, we have forced equality, which builds resentment, and a sense of a new form of inequality in that we notice more and more difference only for the purpose of non-offence. So of course people are going to reject this. I do.

But then again I like sexist, racist, anti-gay humor, while being pretty much okay with everyone individually (while many cultures are beginning to miff me). I realize the difference between humor and reality. Between mere words and reality. We give language to much power these days. Everyone should just relax. /rant

a confession

[Anonymous Coward]

i am a guy. i am straight.

i read slashdot and cute overload regularly.

Already done

[Transcendent]

Ya know, Maddox did this type of prank last april 1st...

OMG!!! You /.'d the kitties!!!

[AngryNick]

There is blood and little bits of fur everywhere. The poor little guys didn't even see it coming.

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY CMDRTACO!!! KITTY KILLER!!!

For heaven's sake, someone get a mirror up before the cute little baby ducks become part of the carnage too.

I Submit for Site Vote...

[Quantam]

that CmdrTaco immediately be castrated and then beheaded.

Matrix

[JustinKSU]

Curious Matrix is the coolest looking cat. No real point her, but that is an awesome pattern.

Press Release: ibiblio proposes BLiNG tag to W3C

[Anonymous Coward]

Press Release: ibiblio proposes BLiNG tag to W3C
http://ibiblio.org/

Gay Kittens

[kamapuaa]

And judging from the meta-tagging, these kittens are gay homosexual kittens.

I hate you.

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah! I, for one, welcome our new kitten overloads.

Frikin heartless robots. Don't like cute kittens. I hate you all.

christ jesus, my eyes!

[RLiegh]

At least living in Ak, this BS not only starts early; but it'll end early too.

See you guys in 24.

This just in

[Anonymous Coward]

Physicists from the California Nuclear labs have admitted that in a freak experiment the area containing slashdots server was switched with an alternate universe, where slashdot readers are all teenage loser girls and the boys are out somewhere getting sun and being culturally inclined

~*''ByZeeeezZ''*~

[knapper_tech]

r we still going to see final destination 3 tomorrow? i called you a little while ago and you didnt text me so i thought you might be feeling bad. get better *flowers xoxo*

Looks like

[Webler707]

...Cmdrtaco's mind has finally exploded from all of the opium abuse.

Neat ranking system

[Chazmati]

You know, I had to check out the link, but seriously that's a pretty cool ranking system they have for the cute picture contest (Cute Tracker, I guess they call it). Very fast way to sort through large amounts of images, especilly during high traffic periods like this one.

Sigh...

[_Griphin_]

Strange submissions you people post. OMG that's so cute?!?

Tom, is that you?

[Siffy]

Come out of the closet... We have ponies! Like, OMG!

Cats 'n Racks ?

[pg--az]

There IS a category on the site for males... http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/cats_n_rac ks/index.html

Bonsai

[TheSeer2]

Did anyone else expect a link to bonsai kitten when it said "i love kitties"? ^_^

Cmdr Taco got slashdotted

[sarcasticfrench]

haha cmdr taco's site got slashdotted. it's been loading for about 5 minutes!! Now THAT's funny: a slashdot admin's site getting slashdotted. lol.

p.s. cmdr taco's one is the second link.

I'm so confused

[Anonymous Coward]

Are we supposed to touch ourselves now?
All this stuff I seen on the Internet; it's getting to where I can't tell anymore.

The best thing

[phorm]

Would be if "everyone" got April 1 mod points. Oh the chaos!

In the meantime, you can always take advantage of +1 funny :-)

Nothing from Google Yet ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Has Google come up with any prank yet ?

Re:You want cute?

[stor]

"Shut up and smoke this... it's The Law" --Bill Hicks

Cheers
Stor

Thanks a whole farking lot.

[CrosseyedPainless]

CO was my home page. Now that they will have been slashdotted, probably not.

Thanks a bunch, bungholes.

Happy farking April Fool's day.

well

[standsolid]

Ahhh.... Just another refreshing day on slashdot.

OMG! Pls keep this lovely pinky after April 1st!

[twinchang]

I honestly love this pinky Slashdot! It should be keep for everyday default appearance for our dearly loved Slashdot!

Please! Please keep it after April 1st for everyone default, ok?

Cat of the Day.com is the leader in cuteness

[animalfriend]

Cat of the Day.com is the leader in cuteness since 1997.

The real joke:

[MrNougat]

It's a link! Posted on Slashdot! I must not only click the link (as opposed to just reading the URL in the link and being amused by proxy), but also scroll down the resulting page to review all of the content, and perhaps dig deeper into the site! Because it's on Slashdot!

The real joke is that many /.'ers (present company included) are sometimes just as much like sheep as the unwashed masses that are oft mocked by said /.'ers.

Matrox Fanboy

[wintermute1974]

I've been running a Matrox Millennium P650 for the last three years in my PC and I absolutely love it. Matrox video cards rock.

Seriously, when you grow up and stop worrying about the number of 3D pixels you can render per millisecond, do yourself a favor and get yourself a decent card.

Ah, Matrox is goodness itself for 2D GUI applications. Mmm.

required plug...

[skogs]

I for one welcome our new feminine slashdot overlords!

Re:OMG! Pls keep this lovely pinky after April 1st

[jibjibjib]

i agree. We should have it on the next slashdot poll

Incredible Irony

[bloglogic]

CmdrTaco's kitty site wouldn't load when I clicked. It's suffering from the slashdot effect! OMG! WTF!! LOL!!!

Re:You want cute?

[fbjon]

Nah, he's just drunk. It was somewhere in another comment from him.

Bring on Britney

[Anonymous Coward]

Bring on Britney Spears and stop censoring comments ;-)

Windows Fanboy

[Valarauk]

Sorry, I would have posted sooner but auto update caused ultimate poker to crash and I had to coldboot. By the time I had loaded back into my desktop I'd forgotten what I was about to do. I'd stay and chat longer but it's running kind of slow and I dont' want that soundloop that starts when IE runs to come back.

No, that's "ghey"

[budcub]

that's like, the ghey, LOL!!!

Don't click on the submitters link!

[phaetonic]

*in warbly voice* IT'S A TRAP!

Other cute sites

[kjoonlee]

• Cute Overload
• Cats in Sinks
• Kitten War
• Daily Kitten

No one's mentioned Daily Kitten yet.

wow

[Anonymous Coward]

holy shit, slashdot finally admitted that it is gay

Mmmkk

[Anonymous Coward]

This layout looks way GAYER than my Gay boy friend.

OMG!!! CUTE!!!

[OMG!!! Me!!! LOL!!!]

OMG!!! THATS SO CUTE!!! LOL!!! Ok, seriously, so i don't look like a total fucking new target audience member, I'd like to say that this is THE CUTEST SITE EVER!!! OMG!!! Seriously, it is pretty cute. I know this isn't exactly insightful, but I really do think this is cute. I totally believe that this new image thing isn't gonna last, but it is alot more amusing than the boring old blue. GO CMDR TACO!

Re:OMG!!! CUTE!!!

[OMG!!! Me!!! LOL!!!]

Sorry, I think I had a little too many Mocktails last night. Really, this new image thing isn't gonna last, so I'm being supportive when I can. Although Cmdr Taco may be going a tad bit overboard here.

Slashdot immortalized as a YTMND

[Anonymous Coward]

http://gayslashdot.ytmnd.com/
nuff said

Excuse me....

[Nick Driver]

...while I go and dig my eyeballs out with a fork.

I think I won't be back to Slashdot until at least Sunday evening.

Re:Excuse me....

[Anonymous Coward]

Visit http://it.slashdot.org/ or.. http://games.slashdot.org/
uh.. or any other valid department dot slashdot dot org.
For the win, you know.
Oh, I didn't realize they have different sets of articles.. but still..

Hey, maybe you can change some setting for.. low bandwidth, or a text browser, or something. I don't know. I haven't logged in for ages.
Or maybe you can *use* a text-only browser, yeah. Slashdot, promoting open source text browsers!

Yes,

[ColdWetDog]

story on the front page in hex... something subtle, humerous, and far less annoying.

Yes, very subtle

Go back to bed, life will be normal when you get up again.

April Fool's

[Dpaladin]

I think it would be great if, next April Fool's day, /. turned into a fake news site that only posted news about Google and Linux. That would be so off-the-wall and unusual!

Sorry /.

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting AC but I am a slashdot reader, and have bought a subscription..

BUT

Why are we fu****g talking about this!!?!?!

Why doesent' anyone care about http://www.nubuntu.org/ nailed with a ciest and desist?!? And development is going to stop, in complance?!

All of the sudden I'm reading it hours before on digg. I have a need for more of this stuff that changes more then 20? times a day? I need more then that.

It seems that /. went from awesome to, well, kinda lagging behind and digg seems to be where it's at.

Oops

[Anonymous Coward]

I made the mistake of showing my wife the new Slashdot. Took me 2 hours to get the hell of the damn website you linked to Taco. You will pay for this indignity!

re:the kitten sitting on the cat

[Anonymous Coward]

am I the only one who saw that and thought of Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh?

note: I am NOT a real cat =^_^=

omg, wtf!?1!!!

[geekbruin]

please excuse me while i puke all over myself and/or punch out my monitor.

and i object to this being pejoratively tagged "gay". not only does it illustrate some of homophobia that goes on on slashdot, it's not even accurate. i don't know any gay people that act like half-witted suburban 12 year old girls that put pony stickers on their trapper keepers and have animated "Diva!" GIFs on their myspace homepage. unless they're being ironic. and something tells me slashdot is not being ironic.

if you have "nothing against gays" i heartily suggest you take that usage of "gay" out of your vocabulary. people won't know that you don't unless you do. and if you do have a problem with gays, well then that's another issue entirely.

p.s. no fair, it's not midnight on the west coast yet.

Re:omg, wtf!?1!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

But according to ductionary.com, gay means "bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer". If cute happy pink ponies arent gay, I dont know what is!

Oh, you mean the other usage that was stolen by the homosexual community. I can see why they might be offended, but it's not like they own the word or anything.

Better april fools

[NiroZ]

DUDE, if you really wanted to make a good april fools, you should have inserted a minor bug that stopped anyone from posting anything. then create fake accounts and have them post, thus making people think that it is just them

editors...

[torrents]

is it me or has the editing gotten worse in the past few hours

Nothing is cuter than...

[Cinder6]

Nothing is cuter than this site.

Gay?

[NefariousAryq]

Could the mods stop "tagging" these stories as "gay"? Uhm, thats all. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

More of t3h cuteness

[Anonymous Coward]

http://rinacat.deviantart.com/

Kittens just rule

[schlumpf_louise]

The pink, love hearts & ponies .... kinda offensive.

The "LOL!!! OMG!!!! !!!!!" & jokes about women .... kinda offensive.

The kittens .... oh so very cute! look at the puddy cats! awww....

Re:Kittens just rule

[Anonymous Coward]

thank you cuteoverload/unusual animals, now i'll have to migrate my girlfriend from debian to suse for cuteness...
i really hope the next story is not about freebsd... "oooh, what a cute 'lil devil"

Infinite Kittens and Mod Points

[twitter]

Here's all the pussy you ever wanted but were afraid to ask for. Look and mod to your hart's content.

ha ha... their answer to slashdot...

[advocate_one]

CO Discovered by /. Nerds

OMG! Like the emotionally stunted Slashdot Fanboys (pictured below) have totally discovered Cute Overload. W00t!

Since they're all l33t hax0rs, who are smarter than all of us combined, we should relinquish the comments and let them debate:

1. Why Microsoft sux!

2. Why you are so lame for not encoding your music to Ogg Vorbis. What a luser! You probably listen to Brittany anyway, so what's the point.

3. Why Jerry Taylor is, like, a total dick.

4. How you should delete Windoze and install FC5. It's like totally easy to use.

5. Some endlessly stupid circular argument that got started because one of their egos is as delicate as a butterfly fart.

So everyone put away their My Little Pony dolls and pop an Anime disc in your DVD, because the comments sections are going to be worthless until the Slashdot Effect passes.

Then again, if you're really nice and bat your eyelashes, you can probably convince one of these guys to fix your WiFi connection. (You, like, totally should be running WPA2 security. *snort* *snort*)

And for every Fanboy that buys a t-shirt, we'll set you up on your first date. LOL!

Re:ha ha... their answer to slashdot...

[Triock]

Hey, I personally think the pix of the geeks are FAR cuter than Mr. Bun Bun any day of the week. But that's just me... (I married a geek, after all) My only question is why there aren't any slashdot geekettes in that picture. I know *I'd* proudly volunteer to wear one of those black T-shirts...

Re:ha ha... their answer to slashdot...

[quanminoan]

You have to love one of the responses to this:

I actually might take you up on that T-shirt deal...

Posted by: Anonymous Coward | Mar 31, 2006 at 10:16 PM

My cat hates you

[Anonymous Coward]

Home of the the satan-worshipping, pistol-whipping death mongers we mistakenly call "cute."

are you guys nuts?!?!?!?

[proudhawk]

man, whats this place comming to?

did someone hand the admins a badly coated paint brush or what?

Overlord

[salweem]

Now we must except our new overlords of all verse.

Okay Slashdot, that's enough.

[Rachel Lucid]

I like my My Little Ponies as much as the next girl, but if I wanted to be doused in this kind of hyper-sugar and high-school spazzoness, I'd have stayed in high school. I like my men smart, my sushi raw, and my Slashdot over my head. Oh, and my code working, but hell, it's a CS major, some trauma is expected there. I'm glad it'll be back to normal tommorow. ... but the pink theme is kinda cute.

I'm cured!

[tsa]

One look at this site and my headache non-mysteriously disappeared! Thanks, /. team, you really made my day. This is the greatest April Fools /. ever had!

Well...

[Virak]

I guess this finally explains this .

Technical error

[DarkIye]

The title should read 'CUTEST WEB SITE EVAR DISCOVERED!!!'.

Oh yes, also, I have just poured hot grits down my pants. Thankyou.

URA

[moogleii]

No one can explain how this came to be, but once we realized we had suddenly started mispronouncing it, we decided to keep on keeping on with our crime against language simply due to the fact the "word" is so inherently stupid, we feel we are truly doing it justice.

Yeah, it's stupid, but it's just a fast way of expressing amusement for me. I'm usually not even laughing.

My friend had an issue with the term "LOL" too, so I switched to "URA", or "User Returned Amusement." He said he would prefer that over LOL, but he broke pretty fast, and agreed that LOL was much better. URA!

better

[artificialj]

I think it may have been less offensive if it was goatse.

CATURDAY!

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

It's caturday!

Thanks Cmdr Taco!

APRIL FOOLS!

[Eideteker]

APRIL FOOLS!

I, for one...

[Kelson]

...welcome our new Cute Overloads.

cute eh?

[SeaFox]

Oh, I have a link to a cat in sink shot for you here.

And in other news... Microsoft changes name of

[Anonymous Coward]

And in other news...Microsoft Changes Name for "Vista" to "Windows XP Service Pack 3"

http://pocky.theanonymousbrit.com.nyud.net:8090/HT ML/index.html

Going home late

[Knutsi]

When I saw Slahsdot today, my frist thought was: "someone with administrator access got home drunk last night".

That's it - I'm not drinking another beer...

[MindPrison]

GUUUUUURL power!

I mean c'mon - I've had like ... One STRONG Danish beer and now even the monitor is PINK.

Weeeee!!!!! OMG PONIES! Yes, I see PINK PONIES
A really fresh change from the usually Pink Elephants.

OMG! OS X FOR THE PC!!!!

[PoconoPCDoctor]

OMG - I CAN'T BELIEVE IT BUT IT'S SO VERY TRUE! BILLY AND JOEY ARE BEST BUDS AND HAVE AGREED TO RELEASE OS X FOR THE PC MARKET!!!!

This is so awesome I even figured out how to type in upper and lower case! What a OMG awesome totally cool thing to happen all in one day!!!!

I like this new colour scheme

[Supersonic1425]

I like this new colour scheme. Please keep it :[

Necoconeco

[Requiem18th]

I bet cuteoverload is workig with slashdot in this one, unless cuteoverload is only a sock puppet for today's aprilfool.

But I don't know what's worse, the pink fluffy girly news, or the fact that I ACTUALLY LIKED the photos in this site.

One last word:

NECOCONECO!!!

dailykitten.com

[Anonymous Coward]

http://dailykitten.com/

So cute...

OMG

[Angelwrath]

Man... I bought this hook, line and sinker. TOTALLY forgot about April Fools.

Empathically?

[BeanThere]

I think you probably meant "emphatically". Those are completely different words that mean completely different things.

My eyes

[Anonymous Coward]

OMFG my eyes!

I for one

[ThomS]

I for one, welcome our cute overloads

It turned April the 1....

[David Munch]

And it was as if a thousand /. geeks cried out all at once..

(And then a few went silent, and came out of the closet on their new ponies)

Kitten-Tech Crossover

[ickoonite]

Seeing as we're talking about kittens, and this is Slashdot, I ought to link to this:

iCat?

It's not that cute, but...well, it's my cat on an iBook. Kinda seems appropriate given the mood of today.

iqu :D

stuffonmycat.com

[Anonymous Coward]

OMG!!! Funniest website EVER:

http://stuffonmycat.com/

Nah...

[Morosoph]

They just like to eat Pork Meatballs!

So is a Kosher Faggot an oxymoron?

RTFA?

[Eljas]

I'm really surprised that no-one mentioned the pussies and racs section of website. That's practically free porn.

Stuff on my Cat

[WarpGiGA]

Stuff on my Cat is so much fun and cuteness at the same time, you might never surf away from the domain again.

really...

[polaralex]

Oh shit! Slashdot has just became cr@pd0t... lolerz... This pink is really great... How did u do it ... pownerz...

Oh my.

[KimJongSick]

omfg datz so kuet!!!!! liek srsly im guna go to da pet stor nd by a kiten now cuz datz just so kute!!!!! plz send mor picz of kuet aminalz plz k?

Now, if you'll excuse my, I'll be launching myself off of a very high bridge into very deep, frigid waters.

You know what's really funny?

[Simon Brooke]

Seeing how quickly an innocent sight-gag on /. can turn into a flame-war!

And then I pull out my gun!...

[mindaktiviti]

if slashdot doesn't come out of the closet I'm going to shoot someone!

(South park ref.)

Re:And then I pull out my gun!...

[Moghedien]

Oh! Oh! Shoot me! Shoot me!

Seriously though...

[ral8158]

The sad thing is, I know girls who actually talk like this on AIM.

Re:Seriously though...

[Triock]

Well yeah...unfortunately.... that's true. (long, heavy sigh...) But then again, I've also heard guys about their age spewing equally vacuous phrases on the bus. "Like, Dude - that's so awesome! totally..." It's like we're being invaded by the valley girls/valley guys of the 1980s Then for the pre-teen crowd, there's always runescape - a place where NO ONE writes in complete sentences - LOL, W00T and Noob! are de riguer over there.

Is it just me, or......

[Anonymous Coward]

Is the guy in the middle of that photo with the glasses wearing WOMEN'S jeans? I mean, I've tried, and there is NO WAY IN HELL that I can hike my jeans up that high.

Dear Cute Overload - Signed Pinkdot

[celest]

Ninja Chipmunk PWNS Cat!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-347349663 7717418735

When cute goes Ninja!

Well...

[hey!]

Cats In Sinks? How 'bout Cats On Plates As A Main Course?

Anything tastes good with enough hoisin sauce.

Karma

[mkiwi]

I refuse to be a Karma whore and post on April 1.

Drain?

[Usayd]

Slashdot going down the drain? First time i've recieved two topics with caps and crap content.