Friday, September 16, 2005

A World Without 46 Stupid Definitions of the N-Word: Urbandictionary.com and the case for the extinction of the human race


I've said it before, I'll say it again and it even says it on SomethingAwful.com, the Internet makes you stupid.
Case in point: Urbandictionary.com
The idea is a solid one: a site with which people can define funny little slang words like 'bling', 'freebase' and 'Abraham Lincoln'. All of which are useful definitions for me describing a typical day in my life.
The problem with this site is that nowhere is it made clear that everybody attempting to define a term on this site is functionally retarded. Let's look at some case studies:

Amy Lee is the singer of the pop group* Evanescence, who many of you will remember from the soundtrack to the documentary film Daredevil. Despite being physically attractive and having a pleasing operatic vocal style, the music of her group has been objectively verified, by science, to be 'as much fun as hearing your children die' (Prof. Francis Avenue Going Under a farm animal to lick its balls: The music of Evanescence in light of Post-Marxist theory, 1981, Harvard University Press) Despite miss Lee's negliable contribution to modern music she warrants fourteen definitions, and all but one are gushing praise of this 'amazing singer'. One poster admits to crying during the song 'My Immortal', another explains that 'people who call her a wannabe goth r (sic) just dumb. she is also stunning'. One battles through illiteracy to write: "(she is the) Mortal shape asumed by God when (s)he comes down to Earth to sing", which clearly conflicts with miss Lee's oft-stated Christian beliefs.

Another nugget of wisdom is farted onto the Interweb when the Urbandictionary community attempt to define Communism. Now, obviously it would be foolish of me to dismiss Marx's work simply because it was written during a three day binge of nutmeg and the ammonia from toilet cubes, or because pages 46-79 of the Communist Manifesto are Harry Potter/Rugrats slash fiction (and extensively illustrated I might add). I firmly believe that people should be able to believe in whatever ludicrous bullshit they want. Now most people on Urbandictionary express the view that Communism is evil and/or unworkable, technically right I suppose, but choose to do so by using the dumbest, most ignorant arguments available to humankind. Sixty-Nine times. Read just a little of Urbandictionary and you'll notice this trend: it's not enough to define something, a word can only enter the cannon after being defined dozens of times. Dozens of times. Yeah, dozens. Oh, and capital and lowercase letters are definitely either/or for the Urbandictioneers. Let's look at some of the many turds thrown at communism, like a shit-bullet in a heavily politicised all-monkey production of John Woo's The Killer:

murderous atheistic/satanic political ideology- 'stupid fucks'
I want to dig up Marx's body and shit right in his mouth and all over his face and wipe my ass on his beard! - 'Communism sucks dick'
Communism is the most homosexual form of government of all.All forms of government are homosexual but communism is the gayest,most retarded of all. - HEY,let's "NOT" all fag off together!
It's great to see intellectual heavyweights like fucks, dick and together! weigh in on this important issue.
Next, after five minutes of pressing the 'random' button I finally landed amongst the most important and contentious arguments of our time: Race. Specifically, the use and meaning of the N-word. Please don't click that link if you have any faith left in the human race.
Generously titled 'author' "STEVIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" advances this argument immensely with this crack-addled post:
Niggers are the kind of kids who come from farmingdale and freeport to steal the bikes from inocent white kids in massapequa
Niggers are the kind of people who on madden "role wit vick" and dont appreciate the warriors in the NFL such as John Lynch or Mike Alstot instead niggers know how to role right and throw a no look 60 yard bomb to Randy Moss (who they got because the turned off fair trades) from vick, who by the way is being layedf out by Brian Urlacher while randy Moss's helmet isnt on his head cause Donjnie Edwerds layed him the fuck out
There are forty-six other definitions. Maybe there are some that are even more stupid than the one above. I doubt it.
The existence of people who look at forty-five retarded definitions of the N-word and decide that tEh IntErwEb would not be complete without their latest musing on the injustice of why it's okay for black people to say it but not for eleven year olds who think Linkin Park invented music to use it as generic insult over IRC chat flies in the face of Darwinism like a 737 hijacked by militant Creationists.
Please click this link, read the arguments and give generously. Thankyou.

* I know many 12-14 year olds will disagree with my definition of Evanescence as a 'pop group', and many of you will no doubt want to use the comments box to call me a homosexual. However, I also consider the Beatles and The Jesus and Mary Chain to be 'pop groups'. If you wish to insult me, do so because I truly believe that Evanescence are talentless wastes of organs that could be better used to prolong Bob Dylan's life enough for him to record a new album.

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