High Street at Cruelery.com - The Web's Bitter Afterbirth / And Betsy Ross used to sit at home and...

pALEPHx · 2007-10-06 04:34:22

OK, so now I vaguely exist. Why did HS.org become so popular, even before the official death of Cruel? Were y'all waiting to leave, or was Cruel already untenable? I'm admittedly confused. Should I just stop posting new links there; should I give up on it because all the personalities I liked have shifted over?

choad · 2007-10-06 08:26:46

pALEPHx wrote:
Why did HS.org become so popular, even before the official death of Cruel? Were y'all waiting to leave, or was Cruel already untenable?

You knew parental arms were about to fly over the back seat long before the car hit the shoulder, am I right? Even when your sister lied like a rug? You never touched the little bitch?!

Let's say it was Tuesday, April 19, 2005, to choose a less than arbitrary date. Call it Patriots Day or the day of the last Papal Coronation.

I'll let someone else pick up the narrative from here. My own 30+ year old infant is demanding my attention.

edit: Red line it, Dhal!

sofaking · 2007-10-06 13:40:01

pALEPHx wrote:
Should I just stop posting new links there; should I give up on it because all the personalities I liked have shifted over?

Welcome, Palephoenix! And thanks for joining our cult. It answers all the major life questions, and encourages you to get wasted enough to forget your problems. We don't want your money. We just want your soul.

We also encourage you to think for yourself. Just remember, however, It's always wise to jump into the lifeboat before the ship sinks.

George Orr · 2007-10-06 11:20:39

Well, pALEPHx, you have the distinction of being the last interesting person to board Cruel before the mass exodus. For this reason, I am going to give you my thoughts on the matter:

Very briefly: Mr. Cadenhead provided us with a free-wheeling, joyfully malicious forum for many years. He did a great deal of work and charged us nothing for any of it. He was/is the sole moderator, and to my knowedge he never deleted any post that wasn't child porn (or borderline) and the only people he banned were those who tried to take their grudges off-board (ask someone else about Meg Kelso).

It seems that Mr. Cade just got tired of his labor- and money-pit, and I can't really blame him. I'd have done the same thing.

Personally, the reasons I jumped ship so quickly are that I realized the archives were never going to come back; the last redesign was a complete pain in the tits to navigate; many of the best personalities weren't posting any more, and most of the new people were illiterate bores lol.

I like this place much better.

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Dmtdust · 2007-10-06 14:02:57

I loved Cruel, but with the steady loss of functionability over the last year, and then loosing the image function was the last straw.

I have high hopes for High Stree.org; Seeing some of the old personalities show up is a much needed speedball for my mental system.

My hats off to Cadenhead for putting up with this rabble for so long, and to Choad for providing the bolt-hole where I could publish the random images that range in my brain.

Nice to see you here btw.

Taint · 2007-10-06 14:13:46

I've already said so but I'm never one to resist blabbering endlessly about a given topic. I'm pleased and surprised by how quickly and easily the Cruelties have moved from Cruel to High Street. When I read Rcade's announcement, I felt a small pang of loss and was sure most would just decide to disperse and get on with other things.

I hadn't realized there were so many of us losers with little else going on in our lives.

George Orr · 2007-10-06 17:46:24

Taint wrote:
I hadn't realized there were so many of us losers with little else going on in our lives.

I seem to need the cyber-cruelty. It prevents me from telling co-workers what I really think of them, and other things, like aiming my car at puppies. Most days.

Fled · 2007-10-06 18:02:25

Shall we do eulogies? Perhaps not. Cruel was often funny but the owner declared he would provided no more Alpo. The dog will soon starve and go bloodless, and we fleas have found a new host. And if you find insult in being cast as fleas, I can only say at least we are not lice. We are far bigger than that.

pALEPHx · 2007-10-06 18:42:59

Thank you for the welcomes, and the somewhat lysergic narrative. I should probably say that I'm grateful you guys kept Cruel going long enough for me to grab the caboose and hop on (I foresee that metaphor being mishandled almost immediately). I hope I can contribute with the same finesse at fomenting that so many already possess. And before I develop any best friends/mortal enemies, I will say that I'm glad to be the newest miscreant among fellow misanthropes.

And since we've got no avatars (I have heard rumors that they are teh gehy), sigs, or any fancy geegaws, I figure I'll give you something a little more tangible to imagine when I'm writing charming, thought-provoking things about fistfucking kittens with a barbed wire bracelet:

Taint · 2007-10-06 18:53:24

I'd hit it.

pALEPHx · 2007-10-06 19:20:41

Thanks...I think. I look better after I've been awake more than fifteen minutes, drank my 32 ounces of coffee, and have decided to do something else with my morning than engage in cellcam narcissism. I figure, by this time tomorrow, we'll have five different versions supplied by our fellow High-Streeters, prominently featuring me felching some sort of livestock. Oh, well.

Lurker · 2007-10-07 11:53:18

Lurker · 2007-10-07 11:57:31

the flames are for the phoenix...not that you are a flaming queen....

martymefurst · 2007-10-07 12:39:54

pALEPHx wrote:
And since we've got no avatars (I have heard rumors that they are teh gehy), sigs, or any fancy geegaws, I figure I'll give you something a little more tangible to imagine when I'm writing charming, thought-provoking things about fistfucking kittens with a barbed wire bracelet:

I have to ask about the shirt - is that from the old QE2 in Albany?

Dmtdust · 2007-10-07 13:29:29

That is a Sex Pistols T-Shirt from what I can see... Look closer Padiwan.

pALEPHx · 2007-10-07 13:50:51

the flames are for the phoenix...not that you are a flaming queen...

No explanation necessary. It was amusing, either way. What sort of filter has been used to convert my flesh into a topographical map?

I have to ask about the shirt - is that from the old QE2 in Albany?

Yes, it is. Though, technically, Dusty is correct, too. They co-opted the Pistol's logo so that it reads "God save the Queen...of clubs." Don't strain your eyes. It's all but illegible now, but good catch.