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(Gizmodo)   Not news: Man goes on Maury to confirm his girlfriend is a cheating with another man. Ultra Fark: He think's it's her MySpace friend Tom   (gizmodo.com) divider line 85
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2011-11-24 04:52:25 AM
OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.
 
2011-11-24 06:18:24 AM
I've always suspected that Maury's `who the daddy' is staged, this pretty much confirms it for me.
 
2011-11-24 06:42:56 AM
colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

Tom was the guy who created Myspace, so he's automatically in everyone's friend list. Nobody could delete him, he showed up in everybody's friend list.
 
2011-11-24 06:57:54 AM
And he's getting all these women pregnant? That's just not right. Someone should do something.
 
2011-11-24 07:02:55 AM
colinspooky: And he's getting all these women pregnant? That's just not right. Someone should do something.

I guess we could get tickets for the show and go 'boo' him. It will make him ashamed of himself and he'll stop making future welfare recipients/criminals.
 
2011-11-24 07:04:03 AM
colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

I'm in my early twenties and I had no idea who MySpace Tom was until I looked him up on the Googles. Watching Maury always gives me a strange feeling, similar to what I imagine sniffing glue would be like: a temporary high based on a distorted view of reality followed by a dizzying low caused by shame and loss of brain cells.
 
2011-11-24 07:04:43 AM
SmackLT: Nobody could delete him, he showed up in everybody's friend list.

It's been a LONG time since I've been anywhere near that cesspool, but IIRC he was automatically a friend but you could, in fact, delete him.
 
2011-11-24 07:07:29 AM
nekom: SmackLT: Nobody could delete him, he showed up in everybody's friend list.

It's been a LONG time since I've been anywhere near that cesspool, but IIRC he was automatically a friend but you could, in fact, delete him.


Yeah, he was deletable. He came preloaded as friend #1 when you created the account, though, so you still couldn't deny he was your first. He was everyones' first...
 
2011-11-24 07:55:07 AM
If it's MySpace why are so many other people using it? Get off my lawn!
 
2011-11-24 09:10:54 AM
BurnShrike: If it's MySpace why are so many other people using it? Get off my lawn!

This guy knows his stuff!
 
2011-11-24 09:12:54 AM
The guy does have a point: MySpace was always about trolling for ass in a way that Facebook never has been.
 
2011-11-24 09:14:36 AM
i.imgur.com
 
2011-11-24 09:23:16 AM
i492.photobucket.com
 
2011-11-24 09:23:39 AM
Tom is my only friend
 
2011-11-24 09:24:39 AM
I thought Tom was gay, which might explain the bf's butthurt.
 
2011-11-24 09:25:19 AM
gfoley2334: [i492.photobucket.com image 293x184]

1.bp.blogspot.com
 
2011-11-24 09:25:29 AM
Oh how America loves to celebrate stupidity.

/it's got electrolytes
 
2011-11-24 09:29:33 AM
colinspooky: why is this an ultra?

Because the not news meme hasn't died its deserving death yet.
 
2011-11-24 09:30:07 AM
In other news, stupid people who watch Maury still use MySpace to hook up.
 
2011-11-24 09:30:45 AM
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! sounds a lot like Maury! Maury! Maury!

I have to say, staged or not, that was hilarious. Are people really that stupid?
 
2011-11-24 09:31:26 AM
Never was much interested in those sites...
My Face, Space Book..Who really does that crap?

GTF off my lawn, ya whippersnappers!
 
2011-11-24 09:33:13 AM
SmackLT: colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

Tom was the guy who created Myspace, so he's automatically in everyone's friend list. Nobody could delete him, he showed up in everybody's friend list.


Thank you for explaining that. For that large majority of the population who don't give two rat's asses about myspace, I assumed that perhaps the jilted lover might be reasonable for assuming his gf's myspace friend was really the baby's father.

/Most things aren't obscure on Fark
//MySpace is, apparently.
 
2011-11-24 09:33:24 AM
DNRTFA.

Maury? Is this Maury Povich?

We have threads about what happens on Maury Povich?

/reconsidering the whole fark thing
 
2011-11-24 09:33:54 AM
You know Myspace is finished when even black dudes don't sign up there anymore.
 
2011-11-24 09:34:06 AM
miss diminutive: colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

I'm in my early twenties and I had no idea who MySpace Tom was until I looked him up on the Googles. Watching Maury always gives me a strange feeling, similar to what I imagine sniffing glue would be like: a temporary high based on a distorted view of reality followed by a dizzying low caused by shame and loss of brain cells.


lol
 
2011-11-24 09:34:59 AM
I was with her right up until the end, when she shouts, "MONEY MONEY"
Seriously, I love the "HA HA" she got out and that should have continued. Maybe a little, "I TOLE YOU" or some serious swearing or general insults.

/secretly wants to watch her sue him for child support and have this video as the means for establishing paternity.
 
2011-11-24 09:38:20 AM
You know, any time I feel down on myself for whatever reason, I just go on YouTube and watch a paternity test episode of Maury, and tell myself "Hey, at least you're not these people". Then I feel good again.
 
2011-11-24 09:41:12 AM
ADubs86: these people"

cdn.screenrant.com

/Obligatory
 
2011-11-24 09:42:16 AM
Gunderson: ADubs86: these people"

[cdn.screenrant.com image 450x373]

/Obligatory


It's cool, I'm a black guy. I have privileges.
 
2011-11-24 09:44:04 AM
MySpace?
 
2011-11-24 09:46:32 AM
LOL EPIC
 
2011-11-24 09:49:31 AM
nekom: I've always suspected that Maury's `who the daddy' is staged, this pretty much confirms it for me.

I always assumed that it was staged as well. However, there really are people that are almost unbelievably stupid, so it's tough to state categorically that the shows are always staged.
 
2011-11-24 09:50:18 AM
I find this show very offensive. I'm going to call Compuserve right now and complain until they take him off the Internets.
 
2011-11-24 09:54:35 AM
colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

Colored Peoples. FaceBorg is so successful because of white flight.

Cheerio...
 
2011-11-24 09:56:23 AM
One time Shawn Fanning touched my wife inappropriately.
 
2011-11-24 10:01:12 AM
SmackLT: colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

Tom was the guy who created Myspace, so he's automatically in everyone's friend list. Nobody could delete him, he showed up in everybody's friend list.


I think I remember myspace trying this thing like facebook's "also friends with" feature, only it told you if you where "connected" or not to somebody, and since everybody on the site is connected through Tom, it was basically useless.
 
2011-11-24 10:01:25 AM
28.media.tumblr.com
 
2011-11-24 10:01:35 AM
JackieRabbit: Colored Peoples. FaceBorg is so successful because of white flight.

Cheerio...


img.anongallery.org
 
2011-11-24 10:02:16 AM
JackieRabbit: colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

Colored Peoples. FaceBorg is so successful because of white flight.

Cheerio...


I always figured it was because Myspace became the internet's "mall drop-off". No self-respecting adult wants to be associated with anything middle and high schoolers are a part of.
 
2011-11-24 10:05:19 AM
At least the mother handled it all in a cool and classy fashion.
 
2011-11-24 10:05:27 AM
I turned on an episode of Maury that had a woman on for the sixth time to establish paternity. She got it wrong again. The guys in her neighborhood must run in the direction now when they see her on the street.
 
2011-11-24 10:06:53 AM
Whenever the local paper reports someone arrested for something idiotic, I like to go look them up to put a face with the name. Rarely are these dolts ever on Facebook, but almost every time they are active on Myspace.
 
2011-11-24 10:07:40 AM
miss diminutive: colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

I'm in my early twenties and I had no idea who MySpace Tom was until I looked him up on the Googles. Watching Maury always gives me a strange feeling, similar to what I imagine sniffing glue would be like: a temporary high based on a distorted view of reality followed by a dizzying low caused by shame and loss of brain cells.


Oh farking great. I feel old. THANKS! >=(
 
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2011-11-24 10:14:00 AM
You mean... TOM FINALLY FOUND LOVE!!!
 
2011-11-24 10:22:29 AM
kid_icarus: JackieRabbit: colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

Colored Peoples. FaceBorg is so successful because of white flight.

Cheerio...

I always figured it was because Myspace became the internet's "mall drop-off". No self-respecting adult wants to be associated with anything middle and high schoolers are a part of.


They were all started for the kiddies. Then the adults forgot they were adults and here we are.
 
2011-11-24 10:31:59 AM
kid_icarus: JackieRabbit: colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

Colored Peoples. FaceBorg is so successful because of white flight.

Cheerio...

I always figured it was because Myspace became the internet's "mall drop-off". No self-respecting adult wants to be associated with anything middle and high schoolers are a part of.


Disagrees...
cdn.inquisitr.com
 
2011-11-24 10:33:09 AM
miss diminutive: colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

I'm in my early twenties and I had no idea who MySpace Tom was until I looked him up on the Googles. Watching Maury always gives me a strange feeling, similar to what I imagine sniffing glue would be like: a temporary high based on a distorted view of reality followed by a dizzying low caused by shame and loss of brain cells.


I'm sure you can friend him.

On Facebook.
 
2011-11-24 10:39:14 AM
I guess I should be embarrassed that I didn' know who Tom was AND it didn't occur to me what Maury was until I read the article. From the headline, I thought it was some internet research site I hadn't heard of.

And I haven't even started drinking yet today.
 
2011-11-24 10:43:05 AM
JackieRabbit: kid_icarus: JackieRabbit: colinspooky: OK, this could be one of those 'you know you're old when' things, but why is this an ultra? Is Tom some generic term on MySpace. And who the heck is still on MySpace. So, educate middle aged Brit here. please.

Colored Peoples. FaceBorg is so successful because of white flight.

Cheerio...

I always figured it was because Myspace became the internet's "mall drop-off". No self-respecting adult wants to be associated with anything middle and high schoolers are a part of.

They were all started for the kiddies. Then the adults forgot they were adults and here we are.


Facebook was originally just for college kids...Friendster and Myspace were both originally based around music/bands, I think, then expanded from there into more traditional social media sites. Twitter...I don't know. It's the bastard child of OCD and narcissim.
 
2011-11-24 10:48:11 AM
No Tom isn't the father, he is the uncle.
 
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