Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

  • istewart@awful.systems
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    The British elected a guy who wears a mop on his head. You cannot convince me that is his actual hair.

    I still have occasional intrusive visions of Johnson busting into an unattended supply closet in the Palace of Westminster to steal a fresh mop head, shouting, ā€œBLOODY LABOUR NICKED ME TOUPƉE!ā€

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      @istewart @techtakes Spoiler: itā€™s not his natural hairstyle, heā€™s been caught deliberately mussing it up before going on camera. Also, his friends and family call him ā€œAlexā€ (short for Alexander), not ā€œBorisā€. Itā€™s all an act.

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      Heā€™s really sold the bit, hasnā€™t he?

      Yet, if you cover up his hair, he easily scans as ā€œgeneric English aristocrat.ā€

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        And his actual name, Alexander de Pleffel-Johnson, also scans ā€œgeneric English aristocrat.ā€

        Hence the stage personality.