#1 2017-03-29 19:38:44
High Street turns 10 in October and I haven't a clue what to do about it. That's 21 in Cruel Years.
My best approximation is to recall the breathtaking exemplars of uniquely human cruelty we've shared.
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#2 2017-03-30 03:01:59
Two examples which come to mind immediately:
We are but amateurs about the Megan Meier suicide after being bullied by Lori Drew via MySpace (original news article linked from that topic seems to be gone).
Crack a window about children dying after being forgotten in cars.
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#3 2017-03-30 09:58:58
The first time I saw Cruel.Com and became instantly addicted is simple enough to remember.
I arrived looking for something else entirely on Saturday, 2003-02-01 and first thing I noticed were accounts of scavenging lunatics racing across Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in search of bloody relics from the scattered wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
I mentioned this before (2013-09-02) but one of cruel.com's finest moments was watching the family of a hapless motorist, hit by a single engine plane crash landing over a busy CA freeway, berate every one of us - especially phreddy - for amusing ourselves at their expense.
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#4 2017-03-30 12:30:33
I would have massive withdrawal pains but, honestly, burning it to the ground and living under an assumed name the rest of your life is probably the right play call.
But since we're all just high, and not hard or cruel, I dunno, an ice cream cake?
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#5 2017-03-30 17:51:28
Goatsie Man...motorcycle wreck face....that Asian girl in the bathtub...all gifts from that "soft underbelly".
Changing lives (for better or worse) one toPIC at a time.
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#6 2017-03-31 14:23:20
choad wrote:
one of cruel.com's finest moments was watching the family of a hapless motorist, hit by a single engine plane crash landing over a busy CA freeway, berate every one of us - especially phreddy - for amusing ourselves at their expense.
I had forgotten all about that. I do remember, now, that I did not believe for one second that that illiterate waterhead scold was related to the victim, or knew the victim, or even lived in the same state as the victim.
I cannot remember where I first heard of cruel.com--I expect it was the man who is now The Spouse, or his equally twisted roommate--but I checked it every day for years. Then on one idle day I noticed there was a comments section. Then, much later, I summoned the courage to go there and read. Then, even more later, I summoned the courage to start commenting myself.
Changed my life.
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#7 2017-03-31 15:58:30
Cruel ruined my life, and I owe a debt of gratitude for that. It was meaner then, but aged like cheese, or maybe cheese-stuffed dirty sock, and then, in the moment of its apparent demise, emerged in a new form, like Velveeta on a piece of styrofoam.
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#8 2017-03-31 16:50:56
George Orr wrote:
I cannot remember where I first heard of cruel.com--I expect it was the man who is now The Spouse, or his equally twisted roommate--but I checked it every day for years. Then on one idle day I noticed there was a comments section. Then, much later, I summoned the courage to go there and read. Then, even more later, I summoned the courage to start commenting myself.
I don't know how I stumbled upon it either but I merely lurked. Can't even remember how I found my way here after it croaked - there must have been a link. Lurked here for a long time then started trolling Fnord for shits and giggles; settled down and became another of the bored faces at the bar.
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#9 2017-03-31 21:48:10
Fled wrote:
Cruel ruined my life, and I owe a debt of gratitude for that. It was meaner then, but aged like cheese, or maybe cheese-stuffed dirty sock, and then, in the moment of its apparent demise, emerged in a new form, like Velveeta on a piece of styrofoam.
I wept reading this.
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#10 2017-03-31 22:31:07
I just love to be able to end my day with a quick stop at a place where nobody knows who I am, but the same irregular regulars show up. I can say my piece without giving a rats ass if anyone agrees, then stalk back out into the night. You know, like bars used to be before the potted plants and guava infused brettanomyces fermented pale ales.
So, thank you all for that little consolation to my soul.
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#11 2017-04-01 00:44:07
George Orr wrote:
Changed my life.
Mine, too, in several ways.
Rcade nominally launched Cruel as a parody of "Cool Site of the Day" and I've often wondered what part the name played, if any, aside from the fact it was still unclaimed in 1996. For me, the word - identical in so many languages - lies at the heart of human dysfunction, the weapon of choice of the big turds forever floating to the top. Cruel helped me define the dynamic as it applies to municipal malfeasance, an invaluable laxative in flushing my local turds out of public office.
More important, cruel and its bastard offspring were the best imaginable companionship for a skint shut-in like myself.
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