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-- Anonymous, November 23, 2001
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Time Bomb 2000 — This on-line forum is composed primarily of self described "doomers" who thought Year 2000 would bring "the end of the world as we know it" (referred to as TEOTWAWKI). Even though they were completely and totally wrong, and squabbles among it's own moderators caused fragmentation of the group as it moved around like a band of gypsies from one web site to another, it still exists. Much of the membership consists of religious fanatics who are gullible beyond belief and look for conspiracies and plots in every nook and cranny. They believe in such bunk as "Chemtrails", Colloidal Silver, UFO's, and in the "Illuminati" who they think rules the world, as well as a multitude of other nonsense. Meanwhile, they wait anxiously for the second coming of Christ ("The End is Near" is a favorite topic) who they think will spirit them all away to heaven and punish the wicked (which is everyone else).
Even so, without exception every member believes in our absolute individual right to keep and bear arms, holds our U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the highest regard, has a deep suspicion of big government, and seemed to be decent, honest, and hard working (albeit very misguided) folks. Because I share those same values and believe it's always good to be prepared, I visited the discussion forum for almost a year, but learned early on there was no point in trying to bring any sense of reality to the group, so I just avoided the most ridiculous of the discussion threads and ignored the truly bizzare posts. That was sometimes difficult to do, because sooner or later religious proselytization and scripture were injected into almost every discussion.
It wasn't until a real crisis happened (the terrorist attack on the NYC Twin Trade Towers on 9/11/01) that I learned the true nature of these people. Take a look at the two bilious threads below dripping with vitriol, profanity, intolerance, and religious bigotry that I've preserved for posterity, and make your own evaluation. I didn't discover the first thread until after it had already been locked and closed to further discussion. I then posted the second thread myself under the ID "RKBA."
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The last straw for me was the vile thread below that resembles something Adolph Hitler might have said during the height of Nazi fanaticism. It's chilling. The thread is titled:
[INTL] Afghan Taliban Warns US - Any Strikes Will Result In More Suicide Attacks
-- Anonymous, November 23, 2001
Perhaps you are thinking of W.C. Field's saying, "Never give a sucker an even break." Most people attribute the quote "There's a sucker born every minute" to P.T. Barnum.However, that attribution is shaky. Captain Alexander Williams, a New York City police inspectorat the time, attributed "There's a sucker born every minute, butnone of them ever die" to Joseph Bessimer, a notorious confidencetrickster of the early 1880s known to the police as "Paper Collar Joe".
-- Anonymous, November 23, 2001
Hi Maul,Mil here.
I can still get into TB2K and they're trying to ban LadyLogic. Is that you? If you want, you can visit a special place.
Bye bye.
Your friend.
-- Anonymous, November 23, 2001
Good old cpr, predictable as usual. Lumping all Y2K worriers (of which I was one, and very happily wrong) together. As if most of us have anything in common with Dennis Olson, whose mania it is obvious is light-years distant from even Paul Milne. To even think of wiping out all Muslims, that's just beyond words.This garbage that you quoted described Unk's as a cesspool. I have no connection with that forum, tho I've posted there a number of times, but that's totally ridiculous. It's a free for all, with all sorts of people posting, including a small minority with cesspool minds, but mostly consisting of good people. You throw around what you think are magic phrases like chemtrails. I don't know of a single regular poster at Unk's who believes in that crap.
A lot of what you think, about all Y2K worriers being basically alike, is just a product of your imagination.
-- Anonymous, November 23, 2001
I am telling.
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
Asshole of the year, THE EVER-ERRING-BOY:I didn't write one word of anything above.
Have you re-considered finally getting your much needed Brain Transplant by 2002?
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
Smell the coffee. Look around. Lower Manhattan is in ruins and makes Beruit look like a walk in the park. Trillions lost in the stock market. We're under attack by Anthrax. Layoffs. Economy wrecked.Infomagik was right.
Pigs are your best protection.
Visit the special place for a good time and articles that make you think.
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
CPR: Are you saying you're not Maul Pilne?Maul Pilne posted that material, one can safely say, with approval. What makes it crap is not the discussion of Timebomb 2000, but rather the claim that Unk's is just more of the same.
I recall that you think Unk's is terrible, although I don't know if you've gone so far as to call it a cesspool. Well, if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. We sure as hell don't miss you.
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
CPR, I might add that if an unavoidable whiff of the cesspool drifts over Unk's from time to time, it may be being caused by your little pal Louis.
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
ERRING-SCUM_shitHead, the material posted comes under the URL posted by a former TB2ker Dotson.ESAD and go Fuck yourself while you are at it.
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
NOTHING Milne writes ever comes true. He,just like Gary North, harp about all the bad things they can find and rant and rave about "what will happen soon, real soon........any day now" with their Disaster of the Day Club. ITS ALL BULL SHIT.Go read Milne's predictions starting with his postings Sept. 11th. NOTHING HAS COME TRUE. NORTH is dog meat. Both belong as examples of disasters on GICC another hot bed of LUNATICS.
STOCK MARKET ABOVE LEVELS OF SEPT 11.
Holiday shoppers fill Malls
Taliban near total defeat in less than 3 months.
Osama Bin Loonie now a world fugative and doomed.
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
CPR: Dotson may have posted it but you pass it on. And speaking of shitheads, why in the hell do you think Poole's forum is dying?
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
This forum is dieing because everyone is visiting the special place.You're all welcome to join the club.
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
cpr said, "Go read Milne's predictions starting with his postings Sept. 11th. NOTHING HAS COME TRUE. NORTH is dog meat. Both belong as examples of disasters on GICC another hot bed of LUNATICS."and
"STOCK MARKET ABOVE LEVELS OF SEPT 11."
Oh. I thought we were concerned about events SINCE Y2K. Why start with "since Sept 11"? Afraid?
Wake up and come to the special place.
-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001
How the Morons reacted to this thread.
As always, merely posting their own words for anyone to read is enough to de-bunk them. You would think that after 2 years some of them would conclude that they are hanging out with verifiable FruitLoops. But the "comedy" goes on. Free entertainment better than the current crop of new TV programs.
Just like Ever-ERRING-Bird jumping to conclusions. It is interesting that over on GrosslyFat Dennis J.'s "Stu" and "Sysman" attack Dotson for writing "just like the reporter who covered "Stu"'s arrest. They claim Dotson and the reporter both base their opinions on only a "few threads" from GrosslyFat's forum or the original TB2k.
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0078UG
-- Anonymous, November 25, 2001
And now, GrosslyFat's "observations" about "Unk's", the "pretenders to the TB2k Throne" (a used toilet seat given the quality of content at both comedy centrals of the weird):".........I can't help but view that place with pity (in addition to the rank contempt I feel). They really are a worthless bunch of cyberscum.
Too funny..."
When I followed the proffered link above to Unk's Troll House, one thought struck me. Even on Thanksgiving, the Trolls continue their spew. I have never seen a lower form of life in any area of cyber-space I've ever seen there. All the absolute dregs of humanity seem to have gathered there. (It's too bad the FEW decent folks who stay there can't or won't see their surroundings.)
And note the HUGE posting volume over there. No wonder that all they have to talk about is us. They have absolutely NOTHING ELSE to discuss. Oh, there's an occasional "real" thread, but it's one in a hundred. The rest of them spew their little fist-shaking spittle-fests in our direction, continually raging at their own impotence and inability to get a rise or response from us.
The "fake TB2K'ers" that post crap over there while claiming to be members here are also funny. They desperately hope to incite yet another board war, so they can have something else to talk about.
Oh, and over there, I sell babies, according to the trolls.
BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!
Did you notice (if you followed the link above) that whomever posted the thread (copied directly from a page here) tried very cleverly to edit out all the dates? That was to try to hide the fact that the thread came from 9/13. You see, the poster evidently wanted the riff-raff over there to believe that it was a current topic here, rather than one over TWO MONTHS OLD. Too bad they messed up, and a couple of the posts still had the dates on them.
I can't help but view that place with pity (in addition to the rank contempt I feel). They really are a worthless bunch of cyberscum.
Too funny....
-- Anonymous, November 25, 2001
CPR:We both agree that Grossly Fat is an idiot for the ages. His description of Unk's wanting to be pretenders to the Timebomb 2000 throne is delusional. His description of Unk's doing little but talking about wonderful them is something he just made up. Anyone who just glances at Unk's, even for whatever time period he is talking about, can see that's nonsense.
Unk's is not like his bunch. That's why in his opinion Unk's is a seething mass of trolls - we're heretics in his opinion.
-- Anonymous, November 25, 2001