Well after fooling around with my websites control panel and upgrading WordPress to 2.0.5 I have my blog back in working order. Or so I hope.
Lately I’ve been reading alot of forums. Mainly regarding two things I love. My car and my computer. And I’ve read both of these forums for a good time, but if I ever get bored I can go read up on just about anything and get what I would call semi-reliable, as in I would verify anything posted by these internet-know-it-alls/experts with at least three reliable sources not connected in anyway to the internet. But I digress..
Recently with the proliferation of photoshop and other basic photo editing software, image search engines , and digital cameras dropping into the price range of just about any body able to hold a minimum wage job the masses have started to create what I’ve come to know ,and usually derive a good chuckle out of, as thread bombs.
The Life Cycle of a thread on the internet usually goes as follows:
- Statement or question, usually of a technical manner at least in the forums I frequent. Another type of thread starter are the look at me’s, which usually just consist of stupid pictures of what someone has bought or done to what they purchased or them desperately seeking attention from faceless people that think alike on the internet.
- Replies. If the question or statement was well formed and in complete sentences once in a rare while useful information can change hands. However, those are the exceptions and not the norm. And if you read forums you know what I’m talking about, but heaven forbid you forget to read the stickies, because if so do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, and proceed directly to receiving multiple replies along the lines of “can’t you read”, “are you retarded?”, or “use the search, jackass”.
- Counter point/example explaining why all the previous replies were stupid/and or wrong. This is the fuse of the thread bomb, so to speak. It usually goes down hill quickly after this.
These are by no means set in stone rules, but if you have ever followed or participated in a forum you can probably relate to at least a few of the points. Now thread bombs are the random gifs interspersed into threads, usually, but not always containing 4 letter words.
Here is a good source for a few examples —> http://www.ondmis.dk/forumpics1.htm
And lately my greatest joy has been including these pictures in my reply-to-all messages, as the images work just as well to the stupid mass e-mails that everyone’s friends usually send out. Don’t get me wrong I like getting them, but I like hitting reply-to-all and attaching a funny pic just knowing what some of the recipients faces/reactions are going to be when seeing them.