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(Cracked) Ironic "Five things I learned by quitting the internet," and then wrote about on the internet   (cracked.com) divider line 32
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2011-11-09 12:45:33 AM
I took a month off from the internet once. It was amazing how productive I was.
 
2011-11-09 02:29:00 AM
That was a shiat article by Cracked standards.

Take that for what it is and click only if you DARE!
 
2011-11-09 02:52:20 AM
I expect Cracked articles to be dumb and/or stupid, but they are usually somewhat entertaining.

This time they went full retard. I want the 30 seconds I wasted back.
 
2011-11-09 02:53:35 AM
I thought about taking time off. Then I realized that web communication was essential to my job and that several of my games that really shouldn't, require an internet connection to run.
 
2011-11-09 02:59:02 AM
Mentat: I took a month off from the internet once. It was amazing how productive I was.

Same here. I didn't get anything done since everything I do for work is done online.

potierrh: I expect Cracked articles to be dumb and/or stupid, but they are usually somewhat entertaining.

This time they went full retard. I want the 30 seconds I wasted back.


It's certainly...something... to watch the twisted flailing of an idiot attempting snark. Cracked articles attempting to be funny generally fail miserably.
 
2011-11-09 04:02:30 AM
nothing he wrote about was special or unusual, it was just the bleeding obvious that he apparently forgot about with his head up the internet's ass for so long.
 
2011-11-09 04:03:20 AM
Does cracked pay drew to greenlight this stuff?

/I deserve compensation for having to skim that garbage.
 
2011-11-09 04:27:32 AM
You can live without a car, too. Just walk everywhere. Sure, it'll take you all day just to walk the twenty miles to your office, but it can be done!

You kids today are just lazy. lazy. lazy.
 
2011-11-09 05:06:25 AM
here's the trick...scan, read a few...walk away.
should only take you 15 minutes
 
2011-11-09 07:03:25 AM
fluffy2097: Does cracked pay drew to greenlight this stuff?

/I deserve compensation for having to skim that garbage.


subby here...i didnt actually read the article...so, there is that.
 
2011-11-09 07:42:32 AM
Ric Romero apparently works for Cracked now.
 
2011-11-09 07:57:05 AM
I went without internet humor for a week and I learned that their are things called comedies that you can watch and they have actual jokes that are funny and are about funny things.
 
2011-11-09 07:59:47 AM
potierrh: I expect Cracked articles to be dumb and/or stupid, but they are usually somewhat entertaining.

This time they went full retard. I want the 30 seconds I wasted back.


Worst Cracked article ever
 
2011-11-09 08:34:05 AM
potierrh: I expect Cracked articles to be dumb and/or stupid, but they are usually somewhat entertaining.

This time they went full retard. I want the 30 seconds I wasted back.


30 seconds? That's means you didn't get to the part where he killed his neighbor with a rock. Now *that's* classic outernet humor, right there.

/actually glad I read TFA. Otherwise I might have mistakenly bought the author's book.
 
2011-11-09 08:41:48 AM
Actually, I've started taking "vacations" from my internet amusements, where I'll either only do work, or stay off the net entirely for a few days at a time. Besides the obvious benefits, I enjoy my playtime more than I used to.
 
2011-11-09 08:50:31 AM
I don't normally criticize the cracked lists but this one is just plain awful.
 
2011-11-09 08:50:36 AM
Ok, I usually enjoy the Cracked articles everyone biatches about, but this one just sucked balls.
 
2011-11-09 08:50:37 AM
potierrh: I expect Cracked articles to be dumb and/or stupid, but they are usually somewhat entertaining.

This time they went full retard. I want the 30 seconds I wasted back.


Gladstone is their worst author; I have trouble reading him too.
 
2011-11-09 09:04:16 AM
doglover: That was a shiat article by Cracked standards.

Take that for what it is and click only if you DARE!


I have to ask. Whats a non shiat article by cracked standards?
 
2011-11-09 09:12:11 AM
Revek: doglover: That was a shiat article by Cracked standards.

Take that for what it is and click only if you DARE!

I have to ask. Whats a non shiat article by cracked standards?


6 or 7 semi-researched "facts" layered with memes, hyperbole, and "gotcha"-style humor, all interspersed with loosely-connected images or infographics that generally have extremely relevant tag-lines/subtitles.
 
2011-11-09 09:20:45 AM
5. Porn? Yes, yes you can. But why would you want to?
4. News? Yes, yes you can. Although 'news' via any cable or television station is going to be middling at best overall, and require a trip to a library to get one's hands on halfway decent publications.
3. Weather? Yes, yes you can. I'd rather not listen through a half hour of talk radio to get the 5 second weather blurb.
2. Banking? Yes, yes you can. If you feel inclined to spend an extra hour a week at the bank.
1. Social Media? Don't care for it in the first place, being 'social' is more fun.
 
2011-11-09 10:09:22 AM
Revek: doglover: That was a shiat article by Cracked standards.

Take that for what it is and click only if you DARE!

I have to ask. Whats a non shiat article by cracked standards?


A lot better than that.

Still shiat, but not that bad.
 
2011-11-09 10:14:24 AM
What it was, in reality, was a list of ways the internet has made our lives better. Easier access to porn, easier access to news, weather, banking, and communications. To suppose that's bad and want to take a step back from something that simplifies everything makes no sense to me.
 
2011-11-09 10:14:30 AM

There's only one funny thing in this article, and it's the final paragraph.

And that's when I realized how to fill my void. I ran out of the garage. My family raised their arms to greet me. I felt their fingertips grasp at my bathrobe as I ran into the center of town, screaming, "Look at me, look at me" and publicly masturbating. It wasn't quite Facebook, but it got me through that last dark day.
 
2011-11-09 10:38:06 AM
Cheron: potierrh: I expect Cracked articles to be dumb and/or stupid, but they are usually somewhat entertaining.

This time they went full retard. I want the 30 seconds I wasted back.

Worst Cracked article ever


If Cheese or Seanbaby didn't write it, it's usually crap.
 
2011-11-09 11:01:02 AM
I like this article better:

Things I Learned in Prison (Rape-Related and Otherwise)

"In a desperate effort to stave off boredom, I have developed several new hobbies to pass the time: Counting the bricks in my cell, for instance, or endlessly questioning my cellmate G-Murder about his lady friend on the outside. "Oh, come on," I'll chide. "You honestly think she's not sleeping with someone else yet? Now who's the loudmouthed cracker about to get stabbed?" It's all just ribbing in good fun, and I'm confident G-Murder takes my jibes with the gentle innocence with which they're intended."
 
2011-11-09 11:39:28 AM
"Learning how to write" should have been on his list of things to do.
 
2011-11-09 12:41:08 PM
Normally I really enjoy Cracked, but what in the flying farkdicks was that?
 
2011-11-09 04:59:10 PM
I must admit when i spend a lot of time on FARK (or any other site for that matter) I've noticed I become kind of a dickhead in real life. It's all the farking negativity on the internet. Seriously, the web is the biggest collection of pesimists ever. Luckily I'm online for maybe 1 hour a day tops.
 
2011-11-10 03:58:12 AM
zunkus: I must admit when i spend a lot of time on FARK (or any other site for that matter) I've noticed I become kind of a dickhead in real life. It's all the farking negativity on the internet. Seriously, the web is the biggest collection of pesimists ever. Luckily I'm online for maybe 1 hour a day tops.

That's not a very optimistic view to take. Apple's not falling far from the tree, here.
 
2011-11-10 04:56:07 AM
some_beer_drinker: fluffy2097: Does cracked pay drew to greenlight this stuff?

/I deserve compensation for having to skim that garbage.

subby here...i didnt actually read the article...so, there is that.


Not sure if serious.

And if serious, dude, poor form. Why would you submit a link you haven't even read? I see two reasons.

You get paid to do it.

You're some kind of misfit that judges value and merit on how many Fark links you get greenlit.

I sound like I'm attacking you. I guess I am a bit, but I'm also genuinely curious: why the fark would you sub an article you haven't read?
 
2011-11-10 03:50:03 PM
starsrift: zunkus: I must admit when i spend a lot of time on FARK (or any other site for that matter) I've noticed I become kind of a dickhead in real life. It's all the farking negativity on the internet. Seriously, the web is the biggest collection of pesimists ever. Luckily I'm online for maybe 1 hour a day tops.

That's not a very optimistic view to take. Apple's not falling far from the tree, here.


See I told you! It happens that quick.
 
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