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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
02/17/09

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'Black people use the internet like this - bun bun bunhh- and white people use the internet like this - doo de dooo!'
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restless
02/17/09

@HeatherNumber1: Oh a cleverly hidden Simpsons reference. Please, post the link and do me in for the day. You friggin rule.
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Ailanthus-altissima
02/17/09

@restless: I just watched this episode this weekend. A-hahahah (that is my Homer laugh impression)!!
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
02/17/09

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Sigh. Mrs. chritter uses the internet to read science blogs, math & medical sites and baseball scores. I surf cooking sites, read Jezebel and... baseball scores. So at least there's some common ground. Stereotypes: we'ze doin it rong.
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Ailanthus-altissima
02/17/09

@chritter: If you and Mrs. Chritter combined your websites, you would encapsulate my internet experience. Well, minus, the baseball. BASKETBALL FOREVER!

..wait. Does this make me a confused internet hermaphrodite?!
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
02/17/09

@Ailanthus-altissima: Does this make me a confused internet hermaphrodite?!

Perhaps, rather, the perfectly rounded, completely realized, next step forward in internet gender evolution!

*cue internet star-baby floating benevolently over sunrise on planet Earth*
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AnalogTelevision
02/17/09

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Now I just want a turkey sub.
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zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce
02/17/09

@AnalogTelevision: me too ;o(
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
02/17/09

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I think the internet might have contributed to making me a little more manly, because I was always too lazy to actually purchase porn, so when I discovered free internet porn, I was all, "Hey! Now I can masturbate while I watch porn!" That was an awesome day.
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Shamrockette
02/17/09

@..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: It's the same exact way for shopping.

I was always too lazy to go out and buy the stuff I wanted, so I have the internet do it for me. :)
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Liz11685
02/17/09

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I think this is correct- to a degree. My boyfriend uses the internet to look at things like video game information and things of that nature, where I look at Jezebel, baking and food websites. But I think this just stems from the fact that men and women tend to have different interests. However, I do look at baseball scores and read io9, and he looks at LOLcats.

Also, he does not frenetically google or wikipedia like they described, I am more prone to do so. Its called ADD, peeps. :) (Ohes, Noes, a woman using emoticons!! I enforce the stereotypes.)
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tscheese
02/17/09

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Why did you leave your sandwich for the computer again?

Um, I never left no damn sandwich for no damn computer. My sandwich and my computer GET THE FUCK ALONG, okay, we are VERY HAPPY in our OPEN RELATIONSHIP. I do not leave food for computers or computers for food. THIS IS NOT A THING I WILL BUDGE ON.
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Plum-Pie
02/17/09

@tscheese: My laptop is spooning a brownie even as we speak.
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prettycool
02/17/09

@tscheese: food? yes. drinks? they need some distance.

my keypad is still crickety from a small spill of limeade.
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Brigit
02/17/09

@prettycool: My keypad suffered from a cat and glass of water mishap. Stupid keypad.
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pandorasmittens
02/17/09

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Bridging the gender gap- :(

Porn that reminded me to sext my BFFs- ;)

Holy shit, Jess is now single on FB- :O

Another Jezebel afternoon- :)
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NefariousNewt
02/17/09

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Feh. More things psychiatrists/psychologists can't agree on.

The Internet is a tool; how you use it depends on who you are, what you like, and how many lurking psychological disorders you have.
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msAnthrope
02/17/09

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the ease of misunderstanding in comments and emails proves that emoticons, however goofy and primitive, have a place. i work all day with engineers, and a lot of them (all men) send emails that sound incredibly angry just because they're very concise.

talk to any of these guys on the phone, and they're all (for the most part!) polite and rational and not angry.

i have the same problem with a lot of my emails... i always wait and re-read before dashing off a rebuttal. otherwise, 9 out of 10 times, my email has a sarcastic, angry tone also. which happens a lot when you believe passionately in something you're saying, but the listener isn't privy to your body language and facial expressions, which would soften and inform the actual words.
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lijakaca
02/17/09

@msAnthrope: Very true. I sound very formal and cold in my emails, but I always include greetings, because emails without them sound angry. I sometimes get pissed off about one-line emails, because somehow it feels like I'm being disrespected (like, do you think they'd send an email like that to a VP? I don't think so).

/ranty work comment
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msAnthrope
02/17/09

@lijakaca:

absolutely, i find myself spicing more "conversational" and upbeat comments into my emails to make sure the tone isn't misunderstood.

i'm a UX design consultant and deal 99percent of the time with the engineers and explaining/defending design decisions. if i were in person, i'd be just as passionate, but i'd also be smiling and the natural back and forth banter would soften everything.

my direct supervisor is the master of the 1-line emails, such as "are you looking at this?" or "why isn't this fixed?" or, "what do you think, that's your job." i had to get to know him and see that he only comes across like this in his emails.

interestingly, one of my direct design colleagues always has very friendly cheerful emails... but in person, he's very uncommunicative! it's his first job though... i think he's just overwhelmed!
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morninggloria
02/17/09

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I completely agree that the interwebs make me more girly. My period blood has become neon pink, all I can think about is babies, and soap operas suddenly matter to me. I'm also wedding crazy.
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mbprice
02/17/09

@morninggloria: The interwebs make me more manly. My sperm now forms into rival football teams and after the game they drink beer and holler at chicks. It's weird.
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Zombies make the heart grow fonder
02/17/09

@morninggloria: hmmm. The interwebz leaves me with a sudden desire to scratch my crotch and look up porn...
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victoriasauce
02/17/09

@morninggloria: I can't stop drawing/dreaming of butterflies.
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
02/17/09

@morninggloria: hot pink period blood, eh? where do i sign up?

maybe i'm just visiting the wrong sites. though i'd think my heavy jez intake would help with that... humph.
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morninggloria
02/17/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: Once, I watched porn online, and grew a penis.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
02/17/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: I find I have an irresistible urge to scratch a unicorn's crotch whenever I spend too much time on Jezebel.
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morninggloria
02/17/09

@Grim Reaper of the Forest: I go home and want to interview my cat about sex toys.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
02/17/09

@morninggloria: Oh, yeah? Well I watched so much internet porn, I grew a penis and FOUR TESTES. So I am waaay more manly than you.

And they're HUGE. Like just brimming with testosterone and sports statistics and chicks' phone numbers.

Hah.
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tobesthewonderdog
02/17/09

@argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?: i'm oh-so-sorry... but i read that as "heavy jiz intake" and was like "fuck yeah!"
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
02/17/09

@tobesthewonderdog: ha! even better... i wish i'd written that!
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morninggloria
02/17/09

@..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: Do your giant boiling testicles also write articles for Men's Health and interview the cover models of Maxim?
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LocalStMary
02/17/09

@morninggloria: I started sneezing flowers, and my vadge self douches. Any pen I touch has its ink turn into bright pink, and when I cry, I slide down walls. I wake up in the morning and I have painted my nails in my sleep. I wear high heels all the time, and only pick things up by doing the bend and snap. Unicorns flock to me. When ever I release a lady fart, kittens appear. I wake up to period control ads.
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morninggloria
02/17/09

@LocalStMary: I aspire to be you.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
02/17/09

@morninggloria: Yes. Also they write for FHM, too. And occasionally they moonlight as sound guys for the Howard Stern radio show.
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undomesticgoddess doesn't sleep a wink
02/17/09

@morninggloria: But does your period blood sparkle? If not, then you are not a Real Woman.
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funnyface
02/17/09

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The "Of Mice and Men" bit is brilliant. Now I'm off to cuteoverload.com to pet the wabbits with George.
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JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!
02/17/09

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women latched onto emoticons, those colorful smiley faces and such, as bonding devices for use in Internet chat rooms.

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Zombies make the heart grow fonder
02/17/09

@Jessica Hussein Lovejoy: Haha the best.
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tscheese
02/17/09

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Um, usually when I'm eating a turkey sub, I get urges to Wikipedia things like "turkey" and "bread" and "mayonnaise." Then the mayonnaise leads me to read about emulsions, and I'll be all "man, I did not know that emulsions had lots of different medical uses, oh look, a thing about tuberculosis" and then it's two hours later and I've read about everything from beriberi to Creutzfeldt-Jakob and I'm convinced I have the consumption but hey, at least I have a sandwich, and hey, who was the Earl of Sandwich anyway?
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shorty63136
02/17/09

@tscheese: That's a tangent tree if I've ever seen one.
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
02/17/09

@tscheese: Yes.

[xkcd.com]
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tscheese
02/17/09

@tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler: YES! That is actually what I based this upon. Wikipedia makes me late for things.
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
02/17/09

@tscheese: That's beautiful. I tend to get tangled up in researching the theater and film careers of minor actors in canceled sitcoms when I'm debating whether to put them in my netflix queue, and as long as I'm checking my list there, I might as well check my bank balance and my auto payments...
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zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce
02/17/09

@tscheese: Internets be damned. If there's a turkey sub around, I am not putting that sucker down.

Unless Clive Owen is in the room. But that's a story for *night time* posts.
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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
02/17/09

@tscheese: I always browse wikipedia for background knowledge before writing a research paper. Or, more accurately, saying "huh, i don't know anything about China's Jewish population, maybe I should click..." and then an hour later, looking at pictures of artifacts form the silk road and reading up on the history of Kazakhstan when I have a paper on China's modern urban development due next week. Hey, at least my tangents are educational.
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mbprice
02/17/09

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You know, if anything the internet has just furthered my information addiction. I wikipedia EVERYTHING. All the time. I can't say it's made me girlier or manlier, but it has made me a dominant force in Trivial Pursuit.
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victoriasauce
02/17/09

@mbprice: I'm addicted to looking up movie & music statistics. I seriously know box office receipts like I know my kids' birth information.

Just so you know(!), the bridge scene from I Am Legend cost 5 million dollars, but that's fine because the movie grossed over 500m worldwide. Yeah. I'm a force to be reckoned with.
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
02/17/09

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Like HampsterPants said:

For porn.
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