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		<title>Yahoo!Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Religion:1 [where I waste the vast majority of my time] has been having some problems with spillover from Islam:2 lately.  
Normally, this wouldn't be a problem.  Okay, well, it would.  I should know -- I was a part of the last spillover problem, and that shit still gets bitched about.  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, Religion:1 [where I waste the vast majority of my time] has been having some problems with spillover from Islam:2 lately.  </p>
<p>Normally, this wouldn't be a problem.  Okay, well, it would.  I should know -- I was a part of the last spillover problem, and that shit <i>still</i> gets bitched about.  But...this was a very special, weird e-domestic-dispute containing spillover.  </p>
<p>And it turned into a strange revenge-botting.  By which I mean 'some idiot fills the room with similarly named sockpuppets to prevent others from getting into the room, in order to 'shut it down''.</p>
<p>Somehow, it had something to do with Islam:2 being full of bots, and...possibly someone from Islam:2 having looked at the chat list and noticing Religion:1 once.  I honestly don't know -- there was zero sense being made.</p>
<p>I decided to go beyond zero sense, and into negative sense.  I reported the user to Yahoo.</p>
<blockquote><p>Subject: Auto Confirmation - Your Yahoo! Abuse support request was received<br />
From: Yahoo! Customer Care [reportabuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com]<br />
Date: 02-Mar-10 11:59</p>
<p>Hello, </p>
<p>This is an automated message regarding your recent request for Yahoo!<br />
Abuse Customer Care support. We have received your message and will<br />
respond within the next 48 hours with an answer. </p>
<p>Thank you for reaching out to us. We look forward to helping you!</p>
<p>Sincerely, </p>
<p>Yahoo! Customer Care</p>
<p>**Please do not respond to this message as no one will receive it.</p></blockquote>
<p>That'd be their response.  Also, there's more:</p>
<blockquote><p>Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)<br />
From: Yahoo! Customer Care [reportabuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com]<br />
Date: 02-Mar-10 19:42</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Customer Care.</p>
<p>We appreciate your report of abuse in Yahoo! Chat. I understand that you<br />
would like to report abuse in Yahoo! Chat. However, I need some more<br />
information from you first before I can further investigate your issue.</p>
<p>Please provide the following if you haven't already:</p>
<p>- Exact Yahoo! ID that you are reporting</p>
<p>- Your Yahoo! ID</p>
<p>- Name of the Chat room involved</p>
<p>If possible (and if you haven't already), please provide us a copy of<br />
the harassment. You can do this by sending us a copy of the chat log<br />
file. To do this you must turn on Chat Archiving in your Messenger<br />
software.</p>
<p>While in Messenger:</p>
<p>1. Click on "Messenger" at the top of the client.</p>
<p>2. Click on "Preferences."</p>
<p>3. Click on "Archive."</p>
<p>4. Select "Yes, save all of my messages."</p>
<p>5. Click the "Apply" button.</p>
<p>6. Click the "OK" button.</p>
<p>If the abuse occurs again, please copy and paste the contents of the<br />
archive with that particular user into your email to us.</p>
<p>To view your archived chat:</p>
<p>While in Messenger:</p>
<p>1. Click on "Messenger" at the top of the client.</p>
<p>2. Click on "Preferences."</p>
<p>3. Click on "Archive."</p>
<p>4. Click on the "View Archive" button.</p>
<p>5. Select the user you are reporting from the list in the left window.</p>
<p>6. Copy and Paste the offending text into an email to us.</p>
<p>Once we have received the necessary information, we can continue to<br />
investigate this issue.</p>
<p>Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.</p>
<p>Regards, </p>
<p>Jay Tyler</p>
<p>Yahoo! Chat Abuse</p>
<p>69004043</p>
<p>http://www.yahoo.com/</p>
<p>Original Message Excluded:<br />
--------------------------</p></blockquote>
<p>Okay.  I can do that.  I reply, keeping everything intact -- including the reference number in the subject line [which I've excluded here].  I find it a bit odd that I'm supposed to reply to this one, but not the other one, because they're the same email addresses.  I figure it has something to do with the reference number...in the subject line.</p>
<p>But, whatever.  It's Yahoo.  There's probably some sort of method by which emails are sorted, right? </p>
<blockquote><p>Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)<br />
Date: 03-Mar-10 11:13</p>
<p>Exact Yahoo ID: leprinced_de_deutschland<br />
My Yahoo ID: Hunter.the_CrazyChick<br />
Name of Chatroom Involved: Religion:1 [and possibly Islam:2]</p>
<p>The bots leprinced_de_deutschland used followed a naming pattern.  s##s_gizmo_# [where # represents a numerical digit].  'gizmo' was sometimes 'gizmodo' or 'gizmosaurus'.   I think there were also instances of broken_gizmo.  I can't be sure, as they don't show up in my logs.<br />
Portions of the archive:</p>
<p>leprinced_de_deutschland: [15] we not play<br />
dancingwithmisty: GO BACK TO IT, IF IT'S SO WONDERFUL<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [16] LOCK<br />
dancingwithmisty: R1 will NEVER be Islam2<br />
demonrald: Mic ain't workin'<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [17] unrstand?<br />
demonrald: Audiho is lying.<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [18] r1 b close<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [19] LOK<br />
audiho: dem, fuck you.<br />
demonrald: She studies aberrant psychology.<br />
audiho: :-?<br />
demonrald: Especially guys who have bunny fixations.<br />
dancingwithmisty: Get OUT<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [20] thank lava<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [21] ur name get lok now<br />
demonrald: damn it<br />
dancingwithmisty: Lava isn't even in here. GET OUT<br />
audiho: oh, julio. :(<br />
audiho: dem, your mic sucks, your life sucks, just kill yourself<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [22] end of talk</p>
<p>leprinced_de_deutschland: [60] thank 2 lava<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [61] n u r homo<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [62] all ur name lok</p>
<p>leprinced_de_deutschland: [64] tel lave revove bot in islam chat and this bots leave</p>
<p>leprinced_de_deutschland: [84] when wickd pull bot from 2 I pill bot here<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [85] this is deal no exce3ption</p>
<p>leprinced_de_deutschland: [89] gump name get loked now</p>
<p>leprinced_de_deutschland: [90] rel 1 closing down 2day<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [91] find new rom<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [92] hunter no talk<br />
leprinced_de_deutschland: [93] name lok</p>
<p>Rough translation: he intended to shut down Religion:1 by filling it with bots.  He also repeatedly threatened to lock other user names.  He wasn't able to, but this doesn't change the threats or his intention to do so.</p>
<p>Apparently, he was back during the night, while I was asleep.  It's likely that he'll also return today, but I probably won't have any record of that as I've ignored him.<br />
Thank you for not sending me an auto-response asking me to ignore the individual. </p></blockquote>
<p>So, there you have it -- my reply.  Everything they asked for, right?</p>
<blockquote><p>Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)<br />
From: reportabuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com<br />
Date: 03-Mar-10 19:35</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Customer Care.</p>
<p>The Yahoo! Customer Care team that supports Chat issues is primarily<br />
English-speaking.</p>
<p>Please forward a translation of the information and we will review the<br />
situation further and take appropriate action.</p>
<p>We apologize for the inconvenience.</p>
<p>Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.</p>
<p>Regards, </p>
<p>Yahoo! Chat Abuse</p>
<p>69004043</p>
<p>http://www.yahoo.com/</p></blockquote>
<p>Did you catch that?  </p>
<p>If you're beating your head on your desk right now, or executing the world's largest and most emphatic facepalm, you're reacting exactly how I reacted.  Except...I don't have a desk, so I couldn't really 'headdesk'.  And I honestly couldn't decide which was more...warranted.  I think both.  Or at least some image of something else doing it -- a cute kitten with its face buried in its paws on the floor, or Puppet Angel, or, y'know, something less used than Picard.  Maybe Jon Stewart.  </p>
<p>Anyway, I replied:</p>
<blockquote><p>Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)<br />
Date: 03-Mar-10 21:12</p>
<p>What I sent you *was* in English. </p></blockquote>
<p>Which should've been the end of it.  </p>
<blockquote><p>Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)<br />
From: Yahoo! Chat chat-advocacy@cc.yahoo-inc.com<br />
Date: 04-Mar-10 16:27</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Chat.</p>
<p>We appreciate your report of abuse in Yahoo! Chat. I understand that you<br />
would like to report abuse in Yahoo! Chat. However, I need some more<br />
information from you first before I can further investigate your issue.</p>
<p>Please provide the following if you haven't already:</p>
<p>- Exact Yahoo! ID that you are reporting</p>
<p>- Your Yahoo! ID</p>
<p>- Name of the Chat room involved</p>
<p>If possible (and if you haven't already), please provide us a copy of<br />
the harassment. You can do this by sending us a copy of the chat log<br />
file. To do this you must turn on Chat Archiving in your Messenger<br />
software.</p>
<p>While in Messenger:</p>
<p>1. Click on "Messenger" at the top of the client.</p>
<p>2. Click on "Preferences."</p>
<p>3. Click on "Archive."</p>
<p>4. Select "Yes, save all of my messages."</p>
<p>5. Click the "Apply" button.</p>
<p>6. Click the "OK" button.</p>
<p>If the abuse occurs again, please copy and paste the contents of the<br />
archive with that particular user into your email to us.</p>
<p>To view your archived chat:</p>
<p>While in Messenger:</p>
<p>1. Click on "Messenger" at the top of the client.</p>
<p>2. Click on "Preferences."</p>
<p>3. Click on "Archive."</p>
<p>4. Click on the "View Archive" button.</p>
<p>5. Select the user you are reporting from the list in the left window.</p>
<p>6. Copy and Paste the offending text into an email to us.</p>
<p>Once we have received the necessary information, we can continue to<br />
investigate this issue.</p>
<p>Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Chat.</p>
<p>Regards, </p>
<p>Jay Tyler</p>
<p>Yahoo! Chat Abuse</p>
<p>69004043</p>
<p>http://www.yahoo.com/</p>
<p>Original Message Excluded:<br />
--------------------------
</p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah.  That feeling you have?  You have read this before.  It's pretty much the same, except for, y'know, the chat part.</p>
<p>So I sent them the same email as before, but with this line on the end:</p>
<blockquote><p>That's all in English.  I can't do much of anything to translate it into anything else, because 'can't type' isn't another language.  This is pretty much what I've already sent to you before. </p></blockquote>
<p>Their response?  Scroll up to the last email they sent me.  That was their response.</p>
<p>All I've learned from this is that the system that sorts their emails involves a beach pail of <a href="http://www.thediceplace.com/acatalog/d100_ball.jpg">d100s</a> on an uneven table and the Lemarchand Configuration.  </p>
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		<title>You&#039;re doing it wrong.</title>
		<link>http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2009/10/youre-doing-it-wrong</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I'm jumping on a bandwagon here -- hopefully early enough to get a good seat.  
See that image over there?  It's a Ralph Lauren ad -- obviously.  One that...kinda got a bit of attention, because...well, look at it.  It's 'shopped.  
People noticed.  And posted about it.  
How [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://coffeechick.com/images/ps/lauren.jpg" class="alignleft"> I'm jumping on a bandwagon here -- hopefully early enough to get a good seat.  </p>
<p>See that image over there?  It's a Ralph Lauren ad -- obviously.  One that...kinda got a bit of attention, because...well, look at it.  It's 'shopped.  </p>
<p>People noticed.  And posted about it.  </p>
<p>How did the company respond?  By sending out DMCA takedown notices, because fair use doesn't exist.  </p>
<p>It's going to work about as well as it worked for Scientology.  </p>
<p>Now, I know I'm just an insignificant blogger tucked away in an unnoticed corner of the internet, but, if their legal types happen to find this place, I hope they pause to read this before firing off another pointless takedown notice.  I've got a good idea that could save them a lot of humiliation.</p>
<p>The next time something like this happens -- and it's probably going to -- instead of throwing a litigious tantrum, <i>fire the photoshopper responsible</i>.  Your company will look much better if you say, "Oops.  Yeah, that's our bad.  We fired the guy.  And, while we're not willing to stop enhancing our models through computer manipulation, we are going to make sure that our artists have a basic grasp of human anatomy."</p>
<p>Yes.  That's how you should respond.  Not with takedown notices over fair use.  Fix the problem.  Attempting to cover it up with legal threats only gets people to notice, and repost.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/06/the-criticism-that-r.html">Source.</a>  I'd post the <i>original</i> source, but <a href="http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/10/ralph-lauren-how-to-turn-photoshop.html">Photoshop Disaster's ISP caved</a>.</p>
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		<title>Wow.  Just...wow.</title>
		<link>http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2009/08/wow-just-wow</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rowan just shared this with me, apparently from chat last night.  Now, I share it here....
julio_n_ikko: buxiu you want to know a trick? of your girlfriend has small tits give her viagra and her tits will swell up huge
julio_n_ikko: well the viagra first searches out for dick to swell and finding no dick it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rowan just shared this with me, apparently from chat last night.  Now, I share it here....</p>
<p><span class="ia">julio_n_ikko</span>: buxiu you want to know a trick? of your girlfriend has small tits give her viagra and her tits will swell up huge<br />
<span class="ia">julio_n_ikko</span>: well the viagra first searches out for dick to swell and finding no dick it will search out the next thing that is pronounced, in a female's body that would be the tits </p>
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		<title>Stupid, self-important mommybloggers....</title>
		<link>http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2009/07/stupid-self-important-mommybloggers</link>
		<comments>http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2009/07/stupid-self-important-mommybloggers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic Inane Bloggery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, there's a thing going on for the internet 'in crowd' -- a group I'm very proudly not a part of.  I do not want to know these people.  Ever.
No.  I'm not being a bitter outsider.  I just really, seriously don't want to have a faux e-friendship with anyone who pimps [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently, there's a thing going on for the internet 'in crowd' -- a group I'm <i>very proudly</i> not a part of.  I do not want to know these people.  Ever.</p>
<p>No.  I'm not being a bitter outsider.  I just really, <i>seriously</i> don't want to have a faux e-friendship with anyone who pimps their baby to the fucking internet for cash donations, ads, and potential freebies from various companies.  </p>
<p>And I really, really don't want to be known by anyone who has the balls to complain that they were turned away from an evening, invite-only <i>cocktail party</i> for having a baby with them.  </p>
<p>What sort of fucking idiot takes a baby to a cocktail party anyway?</p>
<p>And, yeah, this really happened.  And people are really saying that Nikon -- the people who sponsored this slightly-unaffiliated event -- should be boycotted for having fucking rules about invites, attendance, and the proximity of babies to fucking alcohol and expensive camera equipment.  </p>
<p>Did these people think that, maybe, just maybe, if you can't leave the fucking maggot with someone else for a couple of hours, then you don't fucking need to attend this event?  No.  Of course not.  You're obviously entitled to having it your way, because you're not just a mommy, you're a <i>mommyblogger</i>.  You're The Most Important Person In The World, Ever.  You <i>Invented The Internet</i> and <i>Cured Polio</i> while breastfeeding.  You're the direct fucking descendant of Jesus.  In fact, Jesus returned <i>and had sex with his own father</i> to create you.  You're <i>that fucking awesome</i>.  </p>
<p>Thanks for giving me a new insult.  I doubt that'll go over well with the self-described 'mommybloggers' who were smart enough to think that maybe, just maybe, squalling shit-factories not named on the invitation <i>might not be allowed in</i> to this alcohol-serving event, but I don't really give a fuck.  Conventions of any sort will never be my scene, whether they be HolyShitFuckingAwesomeHorrorFestDesignedEspeciallyForHunter or BlogHer.  </p>
<p>I gotta say, though, even though I don't own a Nikon, I totally support them for this.  And I'd totally go buy one right now, if I could.  Because anyone who hates babies is fine by me.  And, according to some bullshit twitter thing, Nikon <i>hates</i> babies.  And I'm <i>totally</i> swayed by self-important baby pimps.</p>
<p>...just, not in the way that they and their PR contacts want me to be.  </p>
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		<title>Book burning!  Wait, what...?</title>
		<link>http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2009/06/wut</link>
		<comments>http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2009/06/wut#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic Inane Bloggery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milwaukee-area citizen Robert C. Braun of the Christian Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) distributed at the meeting copies of a claim for damages he and three other plaintiffs filed April 28 with the city; the complainants seek the right to publicly burn or destroy by another means the library’s copy of Baby Be-Bop. The claim also [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Milwaukee-area citizen Robert C. Braun of the Christian Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) distributed at the meeting copies of a claim for damages he and three other plaintiffs filed April 28 with the city; the complainants seek the right to publicly burn or destroy by another means the library’s copy of Baby Be-Bop. The claim also demands $120,000 in compensatory damages ($30,000 per plaintiff) for being exposed to the book in a library display, and the resignation of West Bend Mayor Kristine Deiss for “allow[ing] this book to be viewed by the public.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That's from <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2009/june2009/westbendbabybebop060309.cfm">here</a>.</p>
<p>Also, here's some video.</p>
<p><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wBrrW6IFOD0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wBrrW6IFOD0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center></p>
<p>The guy might be hard to follow.  I think what he's advocating may be...people who are suffering from a terminal illness, and likely to die soon...should go into the library, steal books they find offensive, and destroy them.  </p>
<p>...and they're suing for the right to burn a book.  A book from the library.  </p>
<p>I hate people.  </p>
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		<title>No legitimate reason for adults to play Animal Crossing.</title>
		<link>http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2009/03/no-legitimate-reason-for-adults-to-play-animal-crossing</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least, not according to 'Andy Anderson', of the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force.  
I'm not kidding.  It's all in this article.
If your kids play interactive video games, like the Nintendo Wii, be on the lookout.  The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force is warning of predators using games like, "Animal Crossing- City [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At least, not according to 'Andy Anderson', of the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force.  </p>
<p>I'm not kidding.  It's all in <a href="http://www.kmiz.com/news/story.php?id=13725">this article</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>If your kids play interactive video games, like the Nintendo Wii, be on the lookout.  The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force is warning of predators using games like, "Animal Crossing- City Folk," to target kids.</p></blockquote>
<p><I>Really?</i>  How come the only link between Animal Crossing and pedophiles I can find on the internet is people talking about this article?  Must be those devious pedophiles again.  </p>
<p>Of course, I didn't really look very hard.  </p>
<blockquote><p>Using the game you create a character and create your own town and house.  When hooked up to the internet you can talk to anyone across the country. Kids playing the game have no control over what other players might be saying.  For example, the character we ran across could be the man in California police are warning about.</p></blockquote>
<p>I don't believe you.  </p>
<p>No.  Really.  I don't believe you.  I don't believe that you actually got a Wii, and a copy of this game, and sat down to play it.  </p>
<p>If you had, you'd know that you don't so much 'create' your own town as 'name it' and answer a few questions which affect the somewhat random layout.  You don't go in and say 'Museum goes here, store goes here, and my house goes here.'  </p>
<p>And you don't create your own house.  You pick one of four houses already built.  You can <i>furnish</i> your own house, but that's something entirely else.  </p>
<p>But that's just me being picky.  Not so picky?  And the reason I don't believe you?  The fact that I doubt you found <i>anyone</i> willing to trade friend codes with you.  You probably don't even know what a fucking 'friend code' is.  You probably think <a href="http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Agent_S">Agent S</a>, <a href="http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Frobert">Frobert</a>, <a href="http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Pekoe">Pekoe</a>, and <a href="http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Static">Static</a> are all actually <i>people</i> who just <i>happen</i> to be online and playing every time you turn the machine on.  They're not.  And <a href="http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Kid_Cat">Kid Cat</a> is not the man they identified in California.</p>
<blockquote><p>"There is no reason an adult should have this game," says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force. </p>
<p>Anderson says adults playing "animal crossing" and similar games are likely doing it for the wrong reasons. </p></blockquote>
<p>'Fun' is the wrong reason.  Of course.  </p>
<blockquote><p>You probably have told your kids never to talk to strangers, but when playing, the heart of the game is building relationships with the animals in your town as well as other players.  To really reach the next level, the game urges you to exchange letters, gifts, and favors.</p></blockquote>
<p>The 'heart' of the game is actually completing your catalogue.  Technically.  And you're not actually expected to exchange letters with 'strangers' -- you really can't, because of the friend code system.  You're supposed to build relationships with the townsfolk.  That's what the <I>favours</i> are all about.  You get in good with them, send them letters and presents [and maybe get some foreign fruit back from them], do things for them -- find them a fish they ask for, or give them a piece of furniture that falls into the category they express an interest in.  Eventually, they'll give you a picture of themselves.  Or, they did, in Animal Crossing: Wild World.  I haven't really been playing City Folk as much as I should.  </p>
<blockquote><p>Anderson says it is going to take parents paying attention to keep this problem from exploding.</p></blockquote>
<p>Something's exploded.  And it's because people were paying attention....</p>
<blockquote><p>"The equipment is real expensive and we cannot afford to buy all of the systems and do not have the resources either to examine all of the possibilities," Anderson explains.</p></blockquote>
<p>...and this is why you're so painfully wrong.  Please do not speak about things when you haven't researched them even a little bit.</p>
<blockquote><p>Right now, we only know of the three Missouri children who have been contacted.  Anderson says this is not something to be paranoid about, but to be aware.</p>
<p>This warning includes any web-based game that allows instant messaging or voice-over IP.</p></blockquote>
<p>And, again, I don't believe this.  I don't think the kids were playing Animal Crossing.  I think this might be as much bullshit as the 'Scary Pedophiles on your DS' thing.  I think this is more about getting attention than warning parents.  </p>
<p>Why?  Because, out of the three current systems, the Wii is the most parental-control friendly.  Now, I could be dead fucking wrong, since I don't, in fact, own a PS3, but, compared to the Xbox 360's online system [which, again, I have little understanding of], the Wii is locked down pretty tight.  </p>
<p>In order to invite someone over to your town [or go over to their town], you both have to have exchanged friend codes.  And, in Animal Crossing on the Wii, there's a voice chat option, which uses the Wii Speak -- a room-wide microphone that, I assume, plays the voice of the other person over the speakers of your entertainment system.  Which makes it kinda obvious if your kiddies are talking to adults -- unless you're a completely fucking oblivious parent.  </p>
<p>...and even an oblivious parent would be able to figure out the Wii Messageboard, where the times spent playing games is posted in a fairly obvious way.  </p>
<p>And, speaking of oblivious, have we just not noticed the rating?  E.  For <i>everyone</i>.  Not 'ec', for 'early childhood'.  We're not talking about The Koala Brothers: Outback Adventure, or Bob the Builder Can-Do Zoo, or even Freddi Fish ABCs Under the Sea here.  Or is Viva Pinata off-limits to adults, too?  And the Katamari series?  And the Lego Star Wars/Indy/Batman type games?  When Lego Harry Potter comes out, are we going to have to create a new rating?  K-Tw, Kids to Tweens Only?  </p>
<p>Is this some sort of ploy to create a Berlin Wall of Games Ratings?  Kids on one side, People Who Qualify to Play M Rated Games on the other?  </p>
<p>Okay, that came out all wrong.  I'm not calling this a conspiracy or anything, but I gotta wonder if maybe that's what some non-gaming adults are thinking.  "Well, videogames are for kids.  But we've got these M rated ones that obviously aren't.  So maybe we need to make a distinction, and keep adults from playing the ones for kids.  Because videogames are for kids."</p>
<p>Here's some news for you: You're wrong.  Videogames are not 'just for kids'.  They haven't been in a very long time -- pretty much since I was a kid.  Perhaps you'd know this, if you bothered to spend more time with your own kids.  My mom made time to play games with me -- I'm sure you can do the same.   I recommend Lego Star Wars, because you'll at least be playing co-op when your kid pwns you.</p>
<p>Oh, and, in case you need me to spell it out for you? Playing Animal Crossing is not a sign of undesirable, undiscovered proclivities if you happen to be over the age of majority.  Not even if you're male.  </p>
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		<title>Common-Law Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2008/11/common-law-marriage</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know how everyone has that one little thing that bugs them -- an issue or a topic or something that they know a bit more about than the average person?  Common law Marriage is one of mine.  
I suppose it makes sense, in some weird way, that it'd be one of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know how everyone has that one little thing that bugs them -- an issue or a topic or something that they know a bit more about than the average person?  Common law Marriage is one of mine.  </p>
<p>I suppose it makes sense, in some weird way, that it'd be one of the few things that still annoys me.  The average person knows more about Dwarf Blue Sheep than they do about common law Marriage.  If they'd just have the fucking sense to not talk about it the way they don't talk about the Dwarf Blue Sheep, though....</p>
<p>I guess that's my real issue -- that people talk about shit they barely know.  The fact that you know the phrase 'common law Marriage' does not make you an expert.  And I doubt that you know someone it happened to any more than you know someone who was related to someone who went to the hospital with roach-infested tonsils after eating at Taco Bell.  Because that shit didn't happen.  You don't accidentally get married anywhere -- except, maybe, Las Vegas.  And getting so drunk you don't know what you're doing, and waking up married to someone  you don't know is not 'common law'.  Because Nevada isn't on the list.  </p>
<p>What list?  Why, the list of states that allow common law marriages.  And, hey, here it is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Alabama</li>
<li>Colorado</li>
<li>District of Columbia</li>
<li>Iowa</li>
<li>Kansas</li>
<li>Montana</li>
<li>Rhode Island</li>
<li>South Carolina</li>
<li>Texas</li>
<li>Utah</li>
</ul>
<p>Now, before you try to claim that the list is incomplete -- it's not.  It's just a list of states that currently [as far as I know] allow for the formation of common law marriages.  In Georgia, it's only valid if it was formed prior to January 1st, 1997; Idaho, 1996; Ohio prior to October 10th; Pennsylvania before 2005.  Oklahoma's got some legal conflicts that make it unclear as to whether or not a common law marriage can be legally formed after November 1st, 1998, and New Hampshire allows them, but only for inheritance purposes.  </p>
<p>So that's...what, ten states?  Out of fifty.  Sure, ten states that people have been known to live in -- and with other people, even, but that doesn't mean you've got anything to worry about.  Or that I've got anything to worry about.  </p>
<p>You might be wondering why this bugs me so much.  Since you're actually putting up with this, I guess I owe you an explanation.  Okay....</p>
<p>Surprising as it may be, this actually has very little to do with the-ex-that-tried-to-sue-for-divorce, except that she's part of the problem -- the problem being the ignorant fucking masses.  It's surprising how many people think that living together for six months makes you married.  Or, hell, seven years.  Because seven, it's a powerfully magical number, innit?  Where the fuck did that idea come from?  </p>
<p>I should've posted about this a year ago, or whenever it was when I figured out that I'd been living with Gremlin for seven years, because that's what started all this again.  A bunch of people who did more talking than reading assuring me that seven years means married.  No, it doesn't.  Not seven years, not six or a dozen or two decades, either.  It doesn't work that way.  There is no magic number defined by any of those states [that I'm currently aware of] that instantly turns two people into husband and wife.  </p>
<p>That's not to say there aren't requirements, because there are.  The short version is that the couple have to represent themselves as husband and wife, and have a reputation in the community as husband and wife.  It also helps if they agree to it, and intend to be legally married at some point in the future.  There's also occasionally mention of 'cohabitation' and 'consummation', which, I suppose, makes sense.  Living together and having sex are something that married people sometimes do.  And, hey, maybe I can see where some people might think that gaining a reputation as 'married' might be easy, if a bunch of people see you living together, assume you're having sex, and jump directly to 'married' because they can't allow themselves to think otherwise.  But...it's still not that easy.  It's not that...accidental.  </p>
<p>Because people don't <i>accidentally</i> file joint tax returns, or tell their employers, their insurance companies, and everyone else that they've got this spouse when they don't.  Except, I suppose, they sometimes do.  And they probably get caught.  Because, in some states, that's less 'common law' and more 'fraud'.  So, just don't do it.  </p>
<p>I'd like to say more on the subject, but it seems that I have stuff to do.  I'll try to get a little less opinioney and a little more referencey later....</p>
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		<title>Still more selections from the rejected PMs.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2:56:08 AM  sam_smarty1507126:  &#60;private&#62; To hunter.the_crazychick hi baby my pens is very strsgiht and blown whats up there 
3:21:25 AM  hansomehunk23: &#60;private&#62; To hunter.the_crazychick is ur boobs size 38c matches to ur hunder image ?
3:23:27 AM  hansomehunk23: ur asl plz
3:23:33 AM  hansomehunk23: m/24 NEPAL
3:23:35 AM  hansomehunk23: ur ASL plz
3:35:34 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2:56:08 AM  <span class="ia">sam_smarty1507126: </span> &lt;private&gt; To hunter.the_crazychick hi baby my pens is very strsgiht and blown whats up there </p>
<p>3:21:25 AM  <span class="ia"><span class="ia">hansomehunk23:</span></span> &lt;private&gt; To hunter.the_crazychick is ur boobs size 38c matches to ur hunder image ?<br />
3:23:27 AM  <span class="ia">hansomehunk23:</span> ur asl plz<br />
3:23:33 AM  <span class="ia">hansomehunk23:</span> m/24 NEPAL<br />
3:23:35 AM  <span class="ia">hansomehunk23:</span> ur ASL plz<br />
3:35:34 AM  <span class="ia">hansomehunk23:</span> yesssss lick my clitorisssssss, ohhhhhhhhhh, yessssssssssss, I open her cunt lips and put my tongue and sucking her cunt she pressed my head on her cunt and cummed I drink her cunt juice and her cunt is full wet and her cunt lips and clitoris is bright with her wet juice ohhhh what black beauty<br />
3:35:35 AM  <span class="ia">hansomehunk23:</span> &lt;ding&gt;</p>
<p>7:23:34 AM  <span class="ia"><span class="ia">myhatredseeps:</span></span> &lt;private&gt; To hunter.the_crazychick Still around in this room?<br />
7:23:46 AM  <span class="ia">myhatredseeps:</span> &lt;private&gt; To hunter.the_crazychick Learned anything worth writing about?<br />
7:52:06 AM  <span class="ia">myhatredseeps:</span> &lt;private&gt; To hunter.the_crazychick I knew you wouldn't respond</p>
<p>I still don't know who that last one is.  They seem to be a very devoted fan, though -- dropping in regularly to make sure I'm not active in the room, and then PMing me.  Not quite devoted enough to figure out any of my other screennames and bother me there, though. </p>
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		<title>rikky_royston</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone decided that I was the perfect text market for their...I don't know, poorly executed choose-your-own-adventure romance?  I'm really not sure.  I just happened to catch this happening in my Rejects bin, and decided to respond to it.  
Unfortunately, I wasn't at my best.  I'm sure I could've done much better [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone decided that I was the perfect text market for their...I don't know, poorly executed choose-your-own-adventure romance?  I'm really not sure.  I just happened to catch this happening in my Rejects bin, and decided to respond to it.  </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I wasn't at my best.  I'm sure I could've done much better if I'd just been slightly more awake and able to see.</p>
<p>...and not bewildered by the incredible stupidity.</p>
<p>06:30:25 (non friend) <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> Just imagine a situation, yu are all alone at your house, n i steal into your house get the power fuse off it turns dark n i slowly get closer n closer to you, you are wondering wot happend n as you try to get your eyes settled to the sudden darkness yu find your self pushed against the wall with strong hands finding yourself self to the wall you wonder what is happening then you find your wrists held tight n pressed to the wall above your head n you feel a waram strong body pressed to your body n a hot breath on your face lowering to your mouth as you try to scream before you coult get your voice out..The hunter gets hunted<br />
06:31:53 (non friend) <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> I seal your mouth with my lips covering your tasty lips sucking your lips n my hand moves slowly down to your neck going slowly lower n lower mmmm your breath goes high thinking where my hand is going now n you cant do anything coz i have pinned you to the bed you are helpless but you feel physically turned on now with mylips kissing sucking your lips n my hand slowly but surely moving towards breast .<br />
06:34:25 (non friend) <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> as you try to stop me though physically you are willing, i slowly cup your breasts gently caressing both yor lovely breasts my tongue penetrates into your mouth mmm you can feel my hot tongue tip touching your tongue tip your breath races feeling a strong mans grip on you n his aggression on yur faminity n helplessly you got to feel the most sensitive feeling forcefully but you have no choice you can feel your tits getting hard n erect with my touch as i press your breasts play with your tits still sucking kissing your sensitive lips n gently pulling your erect tits your breasts move up n down with your breathing becoming heavier<br />
06:36:40 (non friend) <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> now i release your lips now you have almost slowly feeling the heat below you close your eyes n i start kissing your neck slowly unhooking your top trying to rip opne your top you move helplessly but cant stop me n you can see n feel yur top open n yor bra exposed to me as i start kissing n holding your breasts in my mouth heat rushes into yur body feeling my soft warm lips around your tits on your bra n the head when i hold them you start to breathe hot air now tell me can you feel me??<br />
06:43:29 (non friend) <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> hey your pussy is wet now?<br />
6:45:47 AM  <span class="me">Hunter.the_CrazyChick:</span>  Wow.  You're a fucking idiot.<br />
06:46:03 (non friend) <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> how are you feeling? want me to continue?<br />
6:46:40 AM  <span class="me">Hunter.the_CrazyChick:</span> How do you think an e-rape victim would feel?  Why would anyone want you to continue?<br />
6:46:44 AM  <span class="me">Hunter.the_CrazyChick:</span> You're obviously inept.<br />
6:47:40 AM  <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> coz i know somewhere deep down in that fear your pussy is moist<br />
6:48:07 AM  <span class="me">Hunter.the_CrazyChick:</span> What fear?  Why would I be afraid of a pathetic, illiterate twit?<br />
6:48:33 AM  <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> mmmmmm illiterate lol<br />
6:48:42 AM  <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> just see<br />
6:48:48 AM  <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> whats gonna happen to you lol<br />
6:49:23 AM  <span class="me">Hunter.the_CrazyChick:</span> What's going to happen to me?  Are you going to use single letters and badly spelled words to demonstrate your lack of knowledge of female response?<br />
6:49:37 AM  <span class="ia">rikky_royston:</span> as you try to concentrate on something else coz what i am doing to you is getting you hornier n horier n you feel you may loose your batle with me you try to think somthing else but at tha time i snap your bra hook off n both your breasts jump as they are freed, n with that erect nipple you feel ashamed half naked in front of me before you culd even think something i roll my wet warm tongue round n round your tits gently sucking it n biting you feel your pussy slowly now getting wet with juice flowing drop by drop<br />
6:50:43 AM  <span class="me">Hunter.the_CrazyChick:</span> Unfortunately for you, you never got past the first post, because, in this e-reality, you were killed.<br />
6:54:11 AM  <span class="me">Hunter.the_CrazyChick:</span> Gosh, didn't like that, did you?  Get ready, because now I'm going to stick my penis up your butt.</p>
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		<title>This might be the most useless thing I&#039;ve ever seen.</title>
		<link>http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2008/08/this-might-be-the-most-useless-thing-ive-ever-seen</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
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Laser Scissors You can cut a straight line! Just aim the pin-point laser and follow the line. No marking, no crooked cuts. Metal, 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 1".
Who came up with this thing?  Are they still alive?  Did they stop to think about how the laser only guarantees that you might [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>Laser Scissors You can cut a straight line! Just aim the pin-point laser and follow the line. No marking, no crooked cuts. Metal, 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 1".</p></blockquote>
<p>Who came up with this thing?  Are they still alive?  Did they stop to think about how the laser only guarantees that you might cut it along that line, and not that it'll be from the point you want to the point you want? </p>
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