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-75 comment votes; +125 article points - you are a genius. As to your company, I'd never even heard of it before. There is no such thing as bad publicity.
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I didn't downvote, but I didn't upvote either, for the simple fact that it wasn't funny . To paraphrase the pythons, humor is not the automatic gainsaying of the common sentiment.
I didn't downvote, I didn't upvote, I didn't vote sideways, and I didn't vote for the down-up-vote, etc. because I just don't care. You're thinking: what a jerk! Well, I care as much about this poor soul as I do about any of the other thousands of people who died today. I am a compassionate person, but I have some gripes, so please hear me out. I live in the UK, and for the past several weeks we've had to suffer the…
I never apologized for my personality; to do so would have been disingenuous. As some have noted, I never said my opinion on the matter had changed. It just so happens that numerous other people have put that opinion far more eloquently throughout this thread. For that I am thankful.
Well done, the 100+ upvotes you've got on this post have totally counteracted the negative votes you got on the other post, and you end the day with a net profit. Goes to show.. when it comes to social networking, any publicity is good publicity!
I think there's more to his apology than that.
I voted up your original comment. I thought it was smart and witty. I think people who voted you down probably regularly vote up witty remarks about the Bush administration or the war in Iraq, and are guilty of extreme hypocrisy. Human beings make fun of everything, including death, pets being run over, wars of occupation, rape, incest, ignorance, stupidy, disease, racism, the holocaust... Perhaps the same crowd woul…
Wars are awful, but I doubt that many of them could have been prevented by taking the people proposing them more seriously, and the same goes for most other things.
As I said, it's entirely possible I take this view too far, but I figured I'd explain my reason, since it doesn't seem like anyone else has brought up that particular point.
If there's anything I hate more than petty semi-scandalous incidents on the internets it's the meta discussions about such incidents...
And the comments commenting on the comments regarding the meta discussions on the petty semi-scandalous incidents on the internets.