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Started by bugo, November 19, 2017, 11:42:43 PM

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bugo

Does anybody remember the mtrlogs? There were several competing blogs dedicated to the shenanigans that took place on MTR back around 2001-2002. The morons that ruined MTR are much like some of the morons who ruined this forum. The more things change the more they remain the same. These blogs were lighthearted takes on road enthusiasts. Some of them are hilarious and some of them, not so much. I can't find the original mtrlog (even on archive.org) but here are some of the imitators:

http://mtrlog2.pitas.com/
http://mtrlog3.pitas.com/
http://mtrlog4.pitas.com/
http://mtrlog5.pitas.com/
http://mtrlog6.pitas.com/
http://mtrlog7.pitas.com/
http://mtrlog9.pitas.com/
http://mtrlog10.pitas.com/




kurumi

Some stuff (this is from 2002) has aged... oddly:

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Gee, I hope I don't have to wait until 2010 to see the Saints win Super Bowl XLIV or the (New Orleans) Hornets win the NBA Finals! - Andy P. Jung
...
But back to Andy Jung, wonders if he can hold out until 2010 (New Orleans = I-10). Sorry Andy, I-10 si not the number. Maybe 55. But look at teh Saints. Its not 10.

The Saints won their only Super Bowl (so far) on February 7, 2010.

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Arizona: no were not going to build a fwy to Las Vegas & call it inetrstate 11 goddammit so stop asking
But... that's what's happening now
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1995hoo

Quote from: kurumi on November 20, 2017, 01:10:17 AM
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Arizona: no were not going to build a fwy to Las Vegas & call it inetrstate 11 goddammit so stop asking
But... that's what's happening now

Well, to be hypertechnical, the original comment is right: They're not going to call it "inetrstate" 11!  :bigass:
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commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

Hot Rod Hootenanny

Please, don't sue Alex & Andy over what I wrote above

Hot Rod Hootenanny

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Quote from: bugo on November 19, 2017, 11:42:43 PM
Does anybody remember the mtrlogs? There were several competing blogs dedicated to the shenanigans that took place on MTR back around 2001-2002. The morons that ruined MTR are much like some of the morons who ruined this forum. The more things change the more they remain the same. These blogs were lighthearted takes on road enthusiasts. Some of them are hilarious and some of them, not so much. I can't find the original mtrlog (even on archive.org)

Jeremy, your obsession with MTRlog goes back nearly 16 years...
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/misc.transport.road/mtrlog%7Csort:date/misc.transport.road/DwPViZAm3Sw/GVphBrCLyAIJ
Please, don't sue Alex & Andy over what I wrote above

hbelkins

The whole mtrlog thing is just another reminder that there have always been people around this interest that take themselves waaaaay too seriously. There were actually people who got all bent out of shape any time Tom From Ohio gave them the "DUAAFAFO" treatment instead of realizing that it was all in good, although crude, humor. There are a lot of things I take seriously, but I don't take myself too seriously. I mean, I realize that I'm not important enough to get on Facebook Live and do a broadcast and actually think that anybody cares.


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Roadgeekteen

I don't think I would do well on mtr.
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Quote from: Brandon on November 21, 2017, 01:35:23 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on November 21, 2017, 01:00:54 PM
I don't think I would do well on mtr.

Eternal September.
I know what is it, but how is it related?
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froggie

If you have to ask, kid, you probably shouldn't...

Roadgeekteen

Quote from: froggie on November 21, 2017, 10:58:06 PM
If you have to ask, kid, you probably shouldn't...
And why? I'm clueless...
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kphoger

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on November 22, 2017, 01:30:28 AM
Quote from: froggie on November 21, 2017, 10:58:06 PM
If you have to ask, kid, you probably shouldn't...
And why? I'm clueless...

Since no one has spelled it out yet...  He was saying you are the freshman.
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bugo

Speaking of the Eternal September, I've noticed a major drop in quality on social media. Facebook is easy to use and a lot of internet novices use it. A lot of them can't spell very well and they just seem ignorant. The worst thing right now is not capitalizing proper nouns. "I went to walmart and I bought a fish." It is annoying. But Facebook has been swirling in a cesspool of poor grammar, ignorance and political radicalism and it gets worse every day.

hotdogPi

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Quote from: bugo on August 27, 2019, 11:20:16 AM
Speaking of the Eternal September, I've noticed a major drop in quality on social media. Facebook is easy to use and a lot of internet novices use it. A lot of them can't spell very well and they just seem ignorant. The worst thing right now is not capitalizing proper nouns. "I went to walmart and I bought a fish." It is annoying. But Facebook has been swirling in a cesspool of poor grammar, ignorance and political radicalism and it gets worse every day.

1. Poor spelling and grammar are everywhere on social media. It's not just Facebook.

2. At which Walmart can I get a fish? I'm near the ocean, and my local Walmart doesn't have fresh seafood.
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english si

Quote from: bugo on August 27, 2019, 11:20:16 AMFacebook is easy to use and a lot of internet novices use it.
So I joined Facebook in 2006 when they finally let UK unis on. It was great. Then they had their 'eternal september' event allowing the general public on and by about 2009 my timeline was full of posts by 40 years doing memes badly, or trying to do twitter-esque politics virtue signalling. I muted the worst offenders and used it sparingly as it just wasn't fun anymore. Part of that was the novelty wearing off, part of that is the massive decline in quality as we moved from only college students, to a 16-30 age bracket (friends of college students mostly, plus recent grads), to a 10-60 age bracket with the kids and the 'hey there fellow kids' adults dominating.

Plus they tried to get people on their curated data - I was initially happy enough to click sort by time every time, but then they stole that. So rather than something where likes and comments are a bit of fun, they became a race, a game - where if you lost, you weren't heard even by those who wanted to. YouTube is more famous for "Like and Subscribe", but Facebook started this nonsense.

10 years later it's only gotten worse. My grandmothers have both been on for some years (though to be fair, one is too self-doubting/inept to do much more than post the odd holiday pic, and the other is so frugal that the internet only goes on on special occasions and so doesn't post junk just to fill time - forgetting that she's getting plenty of data per month thrown in with her landline). Those 40 year olds doing memes badly that I muted 10 years ago are now 50 year olds doing the same stuff - high volume low quality posting - quite how they haven't got bored is a mystery...

kphoger

Quote from: 1 on August 27, 2019, 11:23:35 AM

Quote from: bugo on August 27, 2019, 11:20:16 AM
Speaking of the Eternal September, I've noticed a major drop in quality on social media. Facebook is easy to use and a lot of internet novices use it. A lot of them can't spell very well and they just seem ignorant. The worst thing right now is not capitalizing proper nouns. "I went to walmart and I bought a fish." It is annoying. But Facebook has been swirling in a cesspool of poor grammar, ignorance and political radicalism and it gets worse every day.

1. Poor spelling and grammar is everywhere on social media. It's not just Facebook.

Indeed.  Specific to capitalization, I remember people not using capital letters on mIRC back in the 1990s.

Quote from: 1 on August 27, 2019, 11:23:35 AM
2. At which Walmart can I get a fish? I'm near the ocean, and my local Walmart doesn't have fresh seafood.

My wife and I took our honeymoon in southern Nayarit, and we went to the Wal-Mart in Puerto Vallarta a couple of times while we were there.  At that Wal-Mart, one could buy fresh octopus at the meat counter, laid out up there on ice.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

hbelkins

Quote from: bugo on August 27, 2019, 11:20:16 AM
But Facebook has been swirling in a cesspool of poor grammar, ignorance and political opinions with which I disagree and it gets worse every day.

FIFY.

But I've been saying for years that what started out as IM-speak and is now text-speak will ruin the language. "HRU" for "How are you," "going 2 b hot 2day" for "going to be hot today," and other such aberrations.


Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.

MNHighwayMan

Quote from: hbelkins on August 27, 2019, 02:52:17 PM
But I've been saying for years that what started out as IM-speak and is now text-speak will ruin the language.

Nonsense.

Scott5114

Quote from: 1 on August 27, 2019, 11:23:35 AM
Quote from: bugo on August 27, 2019, 11:20:16 AM
Speaking of the Eternal September, I've noticed a major drop in quality on social media. Facebook is easy to use and a lot of internet novices use it. A lot of them can't spell very well and they just seem ignorant. The worst thing right now is not capitalizing proper nouns. "I went to walmart and I bought a fish." It is annoying. But Facebook has been swirling in a cesspool of poor grammar, ignorance and political radicalism and it gets worse every day.

2. At which Walmart can I get a fish? I'm near the ocean, and my local Walmart doesn't have fresh seafood.

Every Walmart I've been to has fish for sale...in the Pets section...
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