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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    06:10 PM

    In reply to AOL's Editorial Process — Revealed!
    This isn't writing, or even blogging. It's aggregating.

    They're basically just asking people to restate news stories, without adding any value (such as commentary or humor) themselves. What's surprising is that Aol needs human beings for this, and can't just devise a computer program to do it.

    (Except that it's Aol, and they're terrible at devising computer programs to do anything.)
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    Image of manchops manchops
    05:40 PM

    In reply to How to Exact Online Revenge, As Taught by the Wall Street Journal
    ok, I'll admit. I only clicked on the link to see a bigger version of that cat photo. Totally worth it.

    Anyone else care to come clean?
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    03:03 PM

    In reply to AOL's Editorial Process — Revealed!
    When commenting, please use keyword rich phrases
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    03:00 PM

    In reply to AOL's Editorial Process — Revealed!
    "We're not Gawker, be boring and undeserving of an audience."
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    02:40 PM

    In reply to How to Exact Online Revenge, As Taught by the Wall Street Journal
    I can't tell whether that cat is happy, angry, or doing the wave.

    Either way, I just want to snuggle him.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    02:32 PM

    In reply to Lewis Lapham Living The Lewis Lapham Life
    Rose's column will be just like his TV show: a Rose monologue.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    02:10 PM

    In reply to Lewis Lapham Living The Lewis Lapham Life
    Lapham's an idiot. It's a trick question because your caddy hands you that 7-iron, or as it was called when Lewis graduated Yale, a "mashie-niblick."
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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    02:07 PM

    In reply to Lewis Lapham Living The Lewis Lapham Life
    That quote is why the CIA sucked through the Cold War and beyond, well that and James Jesus Angleton.
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    Image of Jamie Peck Jamie Peck
    01:38 PM

    In reply to How to Exact Online Revenge, As Taught by the Wall Street Journal
    I was hoping this article would mention Sorry Mom (I bang the worst dudes). It is online revenge action to the max and its numbers are growing...chick who runs it is even doing a panel at SXSW Interactive this year. Worst dudes beware.
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    Image of KikiCanuck KikiCanuck
    06:41 PM

    @Jamie Peck: Bless you - that site is pure vindictive internet joy. A perfect antidote to that time in your life when all your girlfriends/gayfriends are in good relationships, and you're dying for the days of anoxia-inducing laughter at the expense of incompetant lovers... but without the annoyance of having to pick anyone up in New Jersey when they wake up and can't find their pants.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    01:33 PM

    In reply to How to Exact Online Revenge, As Taught by the Wall Street Journal
    Just one quibble with the lede: I was a nasty, vengeful monster before there was an Internet.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02:35 PM

    @Smitros: Consider the interwebs your sharpening steel.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05:02 PM

    @BadUncle: If I had a heart, it would be warmed by that thought.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    12:49 PM

    In reply to How to Exact Online Revenge, As Taught by the Wall Street Journal
    Am I suffering from online disinhibition if I put a bag of flaming poop on their laptop?
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    Image of You Cannot Untoast You Cannot Untoast
    12:54 PM

    @Private Hangnail: Just put a few drops of water on their "e" key, and short it out. Harder to trace, and the damage is more frustrating.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    01:05 PM

    @You Cannot Untoast: Or install NetNanny and print out your findings for distribution to everyone on your shared Christmas card list.

    Bonanza: it will slow their system down to molasses.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    12:29 PM

    In reply to New York Times Seeks Sexy Stories of Boning Your Secret Lover
    Am I wrong for thinking that the affair I could forgive but making the damn mess in my house is beyond the pale?
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11:21 AM

    In reply to New York Times Seeks Sexy Stories of Boning Your Secret Lover
    My BFF and his boyfriend of 6 years agreed to split up. It was fairly amicable. They toughed it out while the boyfriend looked for a new apartment, taking turns sleeping on the sofa.

    I was surprised they lasted that long. The sexin' was infrequent and lousy, the boyfriend was the slob half of the Odd Couple, and they wanted different things out of life. Plus, the boyfriend cheated (and ultimately got what he deserved, as you will see.) But it seemed to work ok for a month or two.

    Until! The boyfriend returned home early one night and was surprised to find candles, a used ashtray and two empty wineglasses in the sink.

    My buddy (whom I still call "Helium Heels") was abed with a rather goodlooking Craigslist hookup, sexin' away with Hard Mechanics 2 on DVD a-playin'. Fortunately he was able to 'fess up, get the boyfriend to take a walk, and kick the craggy Craiggy to the curb without them actually seeing eachother.

    He remains defiant. And I got him a gift certificate to The Red Roof Inn for Christmas.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    11:28 AM

    @BettyCrocker: This is the kind of Christmas miracle I can believe in.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11:31 AM

    @Wrapitup: The Gift Of The Magnum?
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11:12 AM

    In reply to New York Times Seeks Sexy Stories of Boning Your Secret Lover
    Don't we have some old semi-pro Penthouse Forum writers around here somewhere? This sounds like the perfect gig for them.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11:24 AM

    @raincoaster: Who the fuck you calling "old," bitch?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10:56 AM

    In reply to New York Times Seeks Sexy Stories of Boning Your Secret Lover
    Ashley Madison is way too upscaley and fancy for me. You can tell by the two classy hooker names. I want to join a place called Moe Santiago. You schtup in the storeroom of a Dominican chino-latino restaurant on a crate of Manischevitz.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    10:58 AM

    @BookishLookish: I actually know several people who have made awesome hook ups and had great affairs through Ashley Madison.

    And, my lesbian friends love it because there are A LOT of "straight" girls in long term relationships with men who want one night stands with girls on Ashley Madison.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10:59 AM

    @drunkexpatwriter: I'm just an old-fashioned girl, honey.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11:05 AM

    @BookishLookish: Nothing wrong with that. You also have to remember I'm currently living in a culture where married women/girls in long term relationships are expected to be unfaithful once in a while. Nobody is judgmental about it.

    What I find amusing is that my partner (and several other of my female friends) have told me that if you are female and over 30 Courgared is a wonderful way to boost your ego - despite how ridiculously cheesy the site design is.

    [www.cougared.com]
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    11:08 AM

    @drunkexpatwriter: Finally, what every healthy, well-adjusted lesbian is looking for: a way to have a long-term relationship with a man.
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    Image of marcm2k7 marcm2k7
    11:08 AM

    @drunkexpatwriter: I heard Cougarlife.com was the place to go for that.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11:10 AM

    @Niko Bellic: My friend Louise just has a fetish for "straight" girls.

    She seems healthy enough to me. I think she likes the married ones because she says that a lot of out lesbians often get really clingy and in general she just wants to get laid.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    11:18 AM

    @drunkexpatwriter:

    Beware. I have heard that private investigators can use ashleymadison as a means to gather evidence or worse, "create business". I have no idea if this is true or not, but I have dealt with a handful of PI's and this is something I would not put past them.

    I vaguely remember a story in the news a few months/year ago where a woman would blackmail the men she met on a cheaters website (I believe one man was blackmailed more than once, until he had enough!).
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11:23 AM

    @resipsaloquacious: This makes me glad that neither my gf nor I use Ashley Madison.

    We misbehave the old fashioned way. I try to hook up with girls who comment on my blog and/or hit brothels and she just lets guys she likes know she's not in a monogamous relationship.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11:28 AM

    @drunkexpatwriter: So we are both old-fashioned? Well, hellooooo....
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11:31 AM

    @BookishLookish: There you go!

    And really, I'm an expat writer in Europe. I wouldn't be living up to my cliche if I wasn't in a brothel every so often.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    11:31 AM

    @drunkexpatwriter: What will you do if she decides to hit the brothels as well and encounters you ?
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11:36 AM

    @Wrapitup: Tease her about it for weeks.

    A variation of this happened about four years ago. One of my friends had just gotten dumped in a really, really bad way.

    He was in one of those "I'm never going to be with a girl again" modes of freaking out.

    So, we took him to Barcelona, got him drunk and then took him to my favorite brothel.

    While he went off to one of the back rooms with a cute blond thing, my gf and I drank beer and watched the strippers/live sex show.

    She then realized she had a mini crush on one of the working girls - but was too shy to approach her myself.

    Being a gentleman I went up and talked to the girl for her. She explained that she didn't do girls but could suggest several other girls for my girlfriend.

    I told my lady this, but she was hell bent on this girl. So, she asked if I would ask the girl I could do her while she watched - because my girlfriend really wanted to see this girl getting sexy.

    The downside (and I will regret this forever) is that I'd been drinking since 5 p.m. and it was now like 3 a.m. and I was unsure if my equipment would work.

    So, I passed - on the one and only time in my life that a girlfriend will ever offer to pay another girl to have sex with me.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    12:01 PM

    @marcm2k7: Given that at age 40 I'm far too old for what the Cougar women are going for I can't speak from experience - only from what my friends tell me.
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    Image of once once
    01:00 PM

    @drunkexpatwriter: I could be very wrong about this b/c it was explained to me by someone from the UK about the functionality of French affairs, but, they work so well b/c of discretion? i.e., the person having the affair would be mortified to learn that they had been caught out & would end the affair immediately. Family always comes before the affair and so feelings are never so badly hurt that the relationship can't recover (of course there are always exceptions). It's considered poor taste that the spouse would carry on an obvious or disruptive affair. Is this only for marrieds, just a myth, or is there any truth to it?
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    Image of TroisFilles TroisFilles
    04:00 PM

    @BookishLookish: The founder said he chose those names because they were the most popular baby names of the year and women would feel comfortable with them.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    04:46 PM

    @TroisFilles: Ah. So many of the men cheating have daughters with the same names as that of the company supplying the women with whom they cheat? That's kind of disturbing.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    06:27 PM

    @once: Yes. It all works because of discretion. But it's assumed that it's happening. But if you ever rubbed it into your lover/husband's face that would be awful and the start of a blood feud.

    Yes, family comes first and you do everything you can to not get caught.

    The rule of thumb is "do not do anything that would embarrass your spouse."

    And, yeah, the second you got caught you'd stop the affair.

    And yeah obvious and disruptive affairs would not only end a marriage but would get you ostracized by your friends.

    Affairs are supposed to be whispered about with your same gender friends and kept discreet.

    And, I think that's a good policy
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