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LuckyCharms

(17,460 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 01:30 PM Sep 2019

When you go down an internet rabbit hole

because you happened to Google "Sharpie", and you just keep following links on and on, you will eventually end up at a very popular internet site that has an entire forum devoted to "Butt Sharpies" in which people post very rude, inappropriate close up pictures of said people trying to outdo each other by seeing how many Sharpies said people can stick up their ass at once.

Imagine my disgust and dismay at arriving at such a website.

Furthermore, the first thing I thought of after the shock wore off was how utterly terrible it would be for someone to use this website to somehow, someway shame some innocent poor soul who was very fond of, and in fact known for, using Sharpies. And even furthermore, if someone were to shame said Sharpie loving individual "in a viral manner" by creating a "hashtag" or something (I think that's what the kids these days call it)...Man, that would be freaking terrible.

I hope nobody out there in internet land does that somehow, in some manner. You would have to be both creative and sick/twisted to figure out how to do this in a viral manner. I hope that doesn't, in some way, happen. It would be beyond the pale if something like that were to happen and catch fire, so much so that it became seriously overwhelming for the innocent person who just happened to like using Sharpies to make a point, because there is nothing wrong with using Sharpies, unless they are used as mass gaslighting tool, but I can't imagine anyone using a Sharpie as a Gaslighting tool...that would be ridiculous because no sane person would actually do that.

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When you go down an internet rabbit hole (Original Post) LuckyCharms Sep 2019 OP
I use these pens (as well as many other different kinds)...I am not going to descend into ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #1
if you think ButtSharpies is rude and inappropriate sir pball Sep 2019 #2
LOL. I'll stop being cryptic here... LuckyCharms Sep 2019 #3
I mean, have you seen any of the the other NSFW stuff on there? sir pball Sep 2019 #4
Alas my Photoshop skills aren't up to it sir pball Sep 2019 #5

SWBTATTReg

(22,174 posts)
1. I use these pens (as well as many other different kinds)...I am not going to descend into ...
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 01:39 PM
Sep 2019

idiocy or madness or stupidity to prove a point, that rump is a stupid, ignorant, pathetic, and little human being. Don't need a sharpie to point these facts out. I am willing to bet that with any common household item, you're going to end up in a forum with a bunch of members that 'have too much time on their hands' doing stupid stuff (like rump does all of the time).

I guarantee you that most normal, rational people in the normal world wouldn't put up with this nonsense (e.g., sticking sharpies etc. into places that aren't normal for a sharpie to be at).

You and I do think alike, it's sad that we have crap like this going on, but hey, we know that the internet seems to breed crazies right and left, eh? I guess with the veil of secrecy that the internet can provide, the worst can and does come out.

Take care.

sir pball

(4,761 posts)
2. if you think ButtSharpies is rude and inappropriate
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 01:45 PM
Sep 2019

You haven't looked around Re...that popular site very much

I find BS to be more amusing in a "wtf" way than anything, but different strokes..

LuckyCharms

(17,460 posts)
3. LOL. I'll stop being cryptic here...
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 01:49 PM
Sep 2019

I find Butt Sharpies funny also, but not for the content. Rather, for the absurdity of the idea.

I mean, some person had to think that up...I don't know whether to love that person or hate him/her.

sir pball

(4,761 posts)
4. I mean, have you seen any of the the other NSFW stuff on there?
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 02:35 PM
Sep 2019

Sharpies are definitely some of the LEAST weird things people put..there!

For sheer absurdity, there's someone at 40, yes, FORTY on the top of the page at the moment

sir pball

(4,761 posts)
5. Alas my Photoshop skills aren't up to it
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 02:36 PM
Sep 2019

But there's definitely some very good, ah, source imagery of bundles of Sharpies on there, with which I see what you're suggesting be done...

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