Online Discourse Fan Prints

I've founded my own religion. Of course you have, Rudy. It's off to a good start. Already, it's being mocked by people of other faiths. If history's any guide, within a couple hundred years, it'll be widely accepted and people who don't believe in it will be persecuted. What are the central tenets of your religion? A true Rudian knows that life is suffering, and winning arguments online is salvation.

"Would you relax? All you guys are so tense. I just wanted to tell you to your face how enigmatic I find you."

Hello, my name is riskyy@ronny5 and I am addicted to comments boards.

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

Blog Breakdown

Political Analysis

"With the whole world in NATO, we won't have to take any more crap from Mars."

"I can tell you about this article or you can just read the comments online."

Unsocial Networking.

“Face it, dear...you’re a chair. You’ll see a lot of ends, but very few beginnings.”

"Tell you what, just tweet me your order when you're ready."

"I just wish I hadn't spent most of my life reading the comments below online news articles"

"It killed on social media yet you say it's horrible?" "Lousy is lousy."

'First you come down, then we talk.'

"No, it's not my birthday, either."

Petition to ban petitions from outside this market.

"Bile exits the gallbladder, passes through the cystic duct, gets released into the intestines, and, ultimately, winds up on the Internet."

Instant Message from your wife: Your Dinner's getting cold!

Give Bots the Right to Vote

"Given a choice they'd rather a good red... the blood of capitalists!"

"They were my friends until I raised a controversial issue on social media."

'Oh, it's not that I don't like humans, it's just my allergies.'

"Many years ago during the Brexit debate, your grandfather was one of the greatest keyboard warriors of his time."

'I wouldn't say I'm apathetic, I just don't give a hoot.'

'For now, just watch it -- we can dissect the plot later!'

"We met through an internet chat group. Now he wants to mail me his digitalised sperm."

The Internet

"I read the comments."

'It wasn't a hasty decision. A lot of blogging went into it.'

'I'll take your money when you're ready.'

Two men discussing hanging

3 Minutes since you totally overreacted to someone's online post

'I don't really know what a 'liberal' is. I only know that people online call me a liberal whenever I ask them to cite a reference.'