Post All The Times Ed's Been a Dick

[harmless]

I've never been a bro. I don't know what it means to be a bro, I just know that I fucking hate bros.

[stip]

I was introduced to the phrase 'first world problems' last year. It really helps me understand a lot of what happens in these threads.

[Norah]

I was introduced to the phrase 'first world problems' last year.

I can't decide if this belongs in the most stip posts thread or not.

[stip]

how many years behind was I on that one? I remember thinking 'this thing is gonna change my life!'

[harmless]

Ed was already pissed off so it was fine.

No, that's not what he said. That's what YOU said, because for whatever Harmless reason you have you will currently feel better if Eddie is a raging misogynist. He said that Eddie was in a bad mood, and pretty clearly implied that a person who is not normally/naturally a dick is more likely to be a dick when they are in a bad mood. Which is the case for, you know, most people.

I don't give a fuck if Ed is a raging misogynist, although it's definitely not without the ballpark of reason. However, I believe that the rant he gave that night was absolutely full of raging misogyny. Whether that makes him one now is anyone's guess, but I'm not ruling it out just because I happen to like the band's music..

I guess this makes sense. Your initial response to that awesome Batman San Francisco thing for the kid with cancer was that it was just a way for people without cancer to feel good about themselves. So it stands to reason that one obnoxious drunken rant over a 20+ year career negates a life of supporting woman's issues.

It doesn't negate a life of supporting women's issues. But for me, it does throw their sincerity into question, as do a lot of anger fits that Ed's been responsible for.

As for the cancer thing, I didn't say it was *just* that. What I started with was that I was happy that it had happened, for the kids' sake. I'm just aware of what the media ultimately makes of these things. People with various disabilities and diseases are made archetypes for the betterment of the lives of able people. It was always thus, and it's fine. But, you know, context. I have a lot of it to go on.

[Norah]

how many years behind was I on that one? I remember thinking 'this thing is gonna change my life!'

Quite a few.

[harmless]

I was introduced to the phrase 'first world problems' last year. It really helps me understand a lot of what happens in these threads.

"First world problems" according to what I've read lately on the Internet = "stuff I have the privilege of not having to think about."

[stip]

Ed was already pissed off so it was fine.

No, that's not what he said. That's what YOU said, because for whatever Harmless reason you have you will currently feel better if Eddie is a raging misogynist. He said that Eddie was in a bad mood, and pretty clearly implied that a person who is not normally/naturally a dick is more likely to be a dick when they are in a bad mood. Which is the case for, you know, most people.

I don't give a fuck if Ed is a raging misogynist, although it's definitely not without the ballpark of reason. However, I believe that the rant he gave that night was absolutely full of raging misogyny. Whether that makes him one now is anyone's guess, but I'm not ruling it out just because I happen to like the band's music..

I guess this makes sense. Your initial response to that awesome Batman San Francisco thing for the kid with cancer was that it was just a way for people without cancer to feel good about themselves. So it stands to reason that one obnoxious drunken rant over a 20+ year career negates a life of supporting woman's issues.

It doesn't negate a life of supporting women's issues. But for me, it does throw their sincerity into question, as do a lot of anger fits that Ed's been responsible for.

[harmless]

Yes, because statement A inevitably leads to conclusion B.

[stip]

I wonder if Eddie is punching a cat right now.

[harmless]

"Better the occasional faults of Eddie Vedder who lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of Bono, frozen in the ice of his own indifference."

[stip]

The definition of First World Problems should be having the luxury of being offended by Bono drawing attention to African issues.

[harmless]

To and fro, the pendulum throws.

[Jorge]

Stip, "first world problems" was one of those terribly hacky things that fundamentally unfunny people obsessed over for a period of a few months before they gasped in horror at the blandness of their existence. Like Bitstrips, or the show How I Met Your Mother.

[Norah]

A few years ago I used that term at work and the most insufferable person in the newsroom thought it was the funniest thing ever. It was then I knew what I had done.

[stip]

I have to spend all day reading and talking about all the ways our society is collapsing, so it was a great phrase for me to put the stupid shit people whine about into context.

I probably would have it if I was there when it was everywhere.

What is bitstrips?

[Norah]

Bitstrips, I can say with no hyperbole, is the worst thing I have ever done.

[Lament]

What is bitstrips?

The manboob/boytit version of titstrips, obviously.

[Jorge]

Bitstrips, I can say with no hyperbole, is the worst thing I have ever done.

No, you've done worse things.

[Norah]

Bitstrips, I can say with no hyperbole, is the worst thing I have ever done.

No, you've done worse things.

Nope.