Why Humans Love the Internet

from the we're-primates dept

Thu, Sep 8th 2011 5:59am — Nina Paley

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Filed Under: culture, grooming, internet

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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 6:46am

I've been sitting here in front of my PC for the past 6 hours, avoiding to go out and tend to the businesses of the day, doing exactly what this M&E strip depicts.

I'm going out now!
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:12am

Good one, Nina! And you didn't even have to whine about IP to entertain.
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AJ, 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:25am

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"Good one, Nina! And you didn't even have to whine about IP to entertain."

This was the absolute worst attempt at trolling I've ever had the displeasure of witnessing. You sir, need to turn in your troll card, then strangle yourself with your cordless mouse cable..
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Marcus Carab (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:25am

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Good one, AC! And yet you still had to whine about IP to comment.
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:36am

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4/10
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:37am

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5/10
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:39am

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Where are 3, 2 and 1?
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Marcus Carab (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:43am

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Four? FOUR?

I'm offended that you gave me such a high grade. Under no circumstances would I want you to find me or my statements appealing...
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:46am

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You are the one that failed to grasp the depth of the comic strip. The Internet is all about IP: It's how packets get around. Duh!
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Dark Helmet (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:48am

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10012312/10
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Liz, 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:50am

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One day we'll be able to IP freely.
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:51am

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9/10 !
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Qritiqal (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:52am

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10/10
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 8:23am

What is truly funny is that I made no comment on this strip at all.

However, I will say that it reads like something a 1st grader would come up with, after watching a monkey grooming video on Sesame Street.

As always, Nina goes for the lowest common denominator by just being herself!
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AJ, 8 Sep 2011 @ 8:37am

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2/10
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 8:46am

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Well rated!

You get 9/10
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 8:58am

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sort of classic techdirt, the truth only gets a 2/10 rating.
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Trollololol, 8 Sep 2011 @ 9:02am

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OVER 9000! / 10
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AJ, 8 Sep 2011 @ 9:06am

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When you say "the" truth, you really mean "your" truth right? Because if you mean anything else, you really should add some sources, studies, reproducible factual information of some sort..... but you don't have that do you? Because if you do, I would be very interested in reading it and debating it's merits with you...
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Marcus Carab (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 9:16am

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What is truly funny is that I made no comment on this strip at all.

Then what am I reading, exactly?
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 9:19am

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You WISH opinions counted as facts. Maybe then you'd be right for once.
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 9:24am

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Nope, the truth. It is a kids mentality level cartoon, it isn't even barely amusing, and really isn't much about anything - so much so that most of the comments here are about ratings of ratings, and not the content itself.

The truth is the truth, sucks but hey, it's true.
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 9:24am

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my observation was only that a bunch of people are trolling the post, and none of them was me.

Go back to work marcus, some copyright material needs to be made!
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ethorad (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 9:42am

grooming?
Uh oh - using the words "grooming" and "internet" together likely gets us all on the FBI paedophile list ...

Thanks Nina :/
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Chronno S. Trigger (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 10:02am

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It may seem like a child's cartoon, but there is an underlying meaning that you obviously don't see. Lots of child cartoons do it; Sponge Bob, Reboot, Futurama, Simpsons, others that I can't think of off the top of my head. Each on the surface seem like a child's plaything, but hold a deeper meaning that require a certain level of intelligence and maturity to understand.

Those of us that can see it don't need to say anything, it's already been said. Those of us who can't, at this point probably never will and need to get off of the Internet and out of the way.

You have my pity.
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Marcus Carab (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 10:15am

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In case you didn't notice, you all comment as "Anonymous Coward" so it's rather hard to tell you apart. Despite your narcissism, you are not the only troll here.

At least you have admitted here that you take pride in being a nuisance and even admit that what you do here is "trolling" - quite good of you to own up to your total lack of value
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Marcus Carab (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 10:16am

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Go back to work marcus, some copyright material needs to be made!

You really, really don't know anything about what I do for a living, do you?
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Anonymous Coward, 8 Sep 2011 @ 10:17am

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Your opinion is anything but truth to anyone but yourself, jackass.
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The eejit (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 10:38am

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Sorry, man, it's wireless, so he'd strangle himself with a fricken LAZOR.
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The eejit (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 10:39am

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Wow, with that kind of logic, maybe you should run for President as the GOP candidate.
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MrWilson, 8 Sep 2011 @ 11:57am

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Congratulations. You have won 5 internets! Please to send money order to cover shipping costs to my London address and I will be promptly to send you your internets forthwith.
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Dave, 8 Sep 2011 @ 1:02pm

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IP on your IP.
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Shane C (profile), 8 Sep 2011 @ 7:19pm

Yes I do this
I do this day in, and day out. I'm doing it right now. I constantly refresh my news feeds, my Facebook stalker feed, and occasionally my LinkedIn feed all looking for little tidbits of data. Something, anything to give me hope that things are getting better. That somewhere, someplace someone has figured out a plan to straighten things out again.

The worse things get, the worse news I find, the more intense I search. There's got to be a way out of this mess the world is coming to. Now if I could just find it.
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