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Godhumor

(6,437 posts)
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 01:10 AM Apr 2016

My confession as a paid poster

But it is not by my choice.

You see, Big Math outsources their posting needs to the data mine in Bogdanovich, Siberia where they can receive high quality analytical posts for only a fraction of a cost.

Thankfully, I don't work in the mine, itself. I have my own cube. I get two square meals a day that I'm allowed to eat at an actual table. One of the meals is even required to have root vegetables. My friends, they tell me, "Nikolai, be more positive. Your bad attitude is dividing everyone in the office. Do you want to go work in the mine with mean overseers? Where the chief mode of transportation is crawling through tiny tunnels? You've seen the people who work out there. They're so beaten down, they're only a remainder of their true selves."

And until today I've kept quiet about working in an industry that is multiplying so rapidly, growing exponentially every time someone asks questions about Clinton's polling numbers versus Sanders. But for too long I've kept quiet! I stopped being silent after watching an overseer's car strike a child miner on the median of the road into our plant. I'll never forget the indifference for which the ambulance personnel carried that one off to the hospital.

Not to get off on a tangent, but there is an acute lack of awareness about the deplorable conditions that child data miners are forced to work in. Incredibly, there have been no negative stories in the international news.

Anyway, from that day on, I started speaking out about our lives here in Bogdanovich. The supervisor, he say to me, "Nikolai, your work is regressing. You're foiling our efforts to make our quotas by doing less than your share of the work. Don't become a problem for me."

But I say never! My worth is greater than the count of my math posts! I will not stand by and observe the repeating nature of these injustices! They may say, "Nikolai, your problems are imaginary. You're being irrational", but I know better.

So remember! All else being equal, when you see a post covering statical significance in polling or an analysis of historical trends, it was probably created by those of us in Bogdanovich!

If I suddenly stop posting, don't try and find me. The powers driving this business will stop at nothing to cancel out opposition voices that are steadily increasing in volume. But I will not be minimized any longer!

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My confession as a paid poster (Original Post) Godhumor Apr 2016 OP
I pay to post Skink Apr 2016 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author cherokeeprogressive Apr 2016 #6
You must pay for one of those invisible stars... cherokeeprogressive Apr 2016 #7
Take two aspirin snd you'll feel better in the morning Armstead Apr 2016 #2
Sorry, this is my masterpiece Godhumor Apr 2016 #3
Okay it's a masterpiece Armstead Apr 2016 #4
I giggled every time I dropped another math term into the op Godhumor Apr 2016 #5
Okay, I'll admit its clever Armstead Apr 2016 #9
I chuckled too! NurseJackie Apr 2016 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author cherokeeprogressive Apr 2016 #8
Sure. Of course, I've been here longer than you, but hey. No star! N/t Godhumor Apr 2016 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author cherokeeprogressive Apr 2016 #11
Why no star? cherokeeprogressive Apr 2016 #12
Honestly? Just never got around to doing it Godhumor Apr 2016 #13
Seriously? dreamnightwind Apr 2016 #21
Love that dog! nt kstewart33 Apr 2016 #23
It's for Loonix dreamnightwind Apr 2016 #25
Damn straight I'm bumping this Godhumor Apr 2016 #14
Lol. Perfect. nt sufrommich Apr 2016 #15
+1 Tarc Apr 2016 #16
....eat at an actual table. yardwork Apr 2016 #17
Ha! Glad someone noticed that one Godhumor Apr 2016 #24
A little proofreading would have helped bvf Apr 2016 #18
I'll bet you're a blast at parties. yardwork Apr 2016 #29
I've spent enough time dealing with soi-disant humorists bvf Apr 2016 #34
I like. I rec GusBob Apr 2016 #19
I chortled nt Quayblue Apr 2016 #22
Lol, sign me up! MoonRiver Apr 2016 #26
Love it! Thank you for confessing. livetohike Apr 2016 #27
Very nice! salinsky Apr 2016 #28
OMG. Aerows Apr 2016 #32
you know those mandatory root vegetables night not be all that great for mine workers kydo Apr 2016 #30
Hillary threw me down a flight of stairs KingFlorez Apr 2016 #31
Please, give everyone mercy. Aerows Apr 2016 #33

Response to Skink (Reply #1)

Response to Godhumor (Original post)

Response to Godhumor (Reply #10)

dreamnightwind

(4,775 posts)
21. Seriously?
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 09:06 AM
Apr 2016

For some reason, nearly everyone on my ignore list has a star. We must be on different ideological planes.

dreamnightwind

(4,775 posts)
25. It's for Loonix
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 11:07 AM
Apr 2016

You probably know, but for anyone who doesn't, she's no longer welcome here, the admins decided she crossed the TOS line. She always had this annoying little fly or bug that moved around. Then came the centrist fly-swatter grave dancers. The cute silly bug-chasing dog is them, flailing away at squashing a populist/left ideology they have no chance to extinguish.

Godhumor

(6,437 posts)
14. Damn straight I'm bumping this
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 08:23 AM
Apr 2016

One of my all time favorite examples of what happens when I get truly exhausted and decide to post.

Godhumor

(6,437 posts)
24. Ha! Glad someone noticed that one
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 11:00 AM
Apr 2016

I do wonder if someone can actually done every math term in the OP, though. I wrote it in something of a tired crazy state of mind.

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
34. I've spent enough time dealing with soi-disant humorists
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 09:23 PM
Apr 2016

to know which parties to avoid.

The OP would be at serious risk in an introductory creative writing class.

kydo

(2,679 posts)
30. you know those mandatory root vegetables night not be all that great for mine workers
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 02:59 PM
Apr 2016

they tend to make one fart and in in a mine, well damn there goes the canary plus all that gas in mines ... boom .. collapse ... trapped Godhumor in Bogdanovich. Not cool.

You need a union.

KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)
31. Hillary threw me down a flight of stairs
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 03:01 PM
Apr 2016

And told me it would happen again if I didn't post favorable post for her. I don't get paid, but my life was spared in exchange for posts.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
33. Please, give everyone mercy.
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 03:09 PM
Apr 2016

Don't let anybody post the Borat in ... whatever in the hell he is wearing at the beach ... pic again.

The pain.

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