For someone of skill, it would be trivial to influence the outcome of the voting.
For someone of means, there are "clickfarms."
For America, its' popularity might just be the final crippling blow to our dignity.
Let's not forget that Obama may have won the Presidential Election, but voter turnout was still lower than for American Idol competitors during high season.
@Jack_Burton: Hey now, let's not forget that American Idol voters can do it many times over. If you could've, wouldn't you have voted for Obama eleventy times? The voter count on AI does NOT equal the viewer count, I'll bet.
i can't believe that guy is telling the girl he's going to the gym at 8am when he's actually meeting a hot girl for coffee. friends, my ass. he's waiting for an opening with coffee girl, so dump his sorry ass.
What must it feel like to be the second party in these situations? Do most people agree beforehand that they will use sidetaker to solve their problem? I doubt that. So what they do, I guess, is write up their rant and then go inform the other party that they have done so... I would feel like an idiot enabling that.
My side of the story would probably be "Well, s/he's trying to solve the issue by bringing it here, instead of talking about it. So... I win."
It doesn't matter how many people take your side. 20,000? 2? Whatever. At the end of the day it's YOUR opinion and feeling and you have to do what's best for you for the eff of ess.
@zombie.nancy11372 is a godess of fierce: Well, you can (or at least I can- I don't know you! :)- but some of the posts on the site were about petty nonsense. So, you can choose to disagree & move on and be happy. Or you can keep at it to the point of posting it on line and making each other miserable.
That said, I jsut read a few more. And I think if you have to post an open question to the world at large on whether you should break up with your partner, you already know the answer!
@georgina: good point! there's one post about a guy preferring to go out with friends vs staying at home with his girlfriend who had the flu. And like a commenter said on the site, obvsly that relationship has some underlying issues.
Finally, I can retire my Ouija Board. A new source of dubious answers is in town. Now instead of relying on the psychic energies of spirits departed to resolve my arguments, I can rely on the reason of utter strangers. It sounds much more reliable!
In high school, my BF was like "What's a maraschino cherry?" And I was all "R U kidding? Everyone knows what those are."
So, somehow, we decided we needed to poll ten people to see if people really knew what this mystery topping was. I lost.
But really, you see, I won, because I still know what A FUCKING MARASCHINO CHERRY IS. But, uh, really really, I lost because I got pulled in to the dumbest argument ever.
So, in conclusion, putting stuff up on this website is really lose-lose. Or lose-lose-lose.
@captainhaddock: I have the feeling that the person whose idea it was to put the story up on the internet in the first place will always, always be the loser. PS. In the fourth grade I couldn't believe that my best friend had never heard of Kosovo (like duh, don't you ever watch the news with your parents?) and so we conducted an informal poll. Turns out I was the ONLY KID in the fourth grade who knew what Kosovo was.
Finally! When my friends and I argue a committee of mouth breathing internet folks with nothing better to do can decide our fate! It should be called American Idle.
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For someone of means, there are "clickfarms."
For America, its' popularity might just be the final crippling blow to our dignity.
Let's not forget that Obama may have won the Presidential Election, but voter turnout was still lower than for American Idol competitors during high season.
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My side of the story would probably be "Well, s/he's trying to solve the issue by bringing it here, instead of talking about it. So... I win."
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That said, I will read, mock & vote!
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That said, I jsut read a few more. And I think if you have to post an open question to the world at large on whether you should break up with your partner, you already know the answer!
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In high school, my BF was like "What's a maraschino cherry?" And I was all "R U kidding? Everyone knows what those are."
So, somehow, we decided we needed to poll ten people to see if people really knew what this mystery topping was. I lost.
But really, you see, I won, because I still know what A FUCKING MARASCHINO CHERRY IS. But, uh, really really, I lost because I got pulled in to the dumbest argument ever.
So, in conclusion, putting stuff up on this website is really lose-lose. Or lose-lose-lose.
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PS. In the fourth grade I couldn't believe that my best friend had never heard of Kosovo (like duh, don't you ever watch the news with your parents?) and so we conducted an informal poll. Turns out I was the ONLY KID in the fourth grade who knew what Kosovo was.
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Dear Internet 8 Ball, my friend and I can't agree who's cooler, Don Johnson or Vanilla Ice. Who's right?
Internet 8 Ball: All Signs Point to Yes. Shake Again?
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