My God, it's full of THREAD BOMBS!

[archeryguy1701]

Ah, gotcha. For situation I'm thinking of, it could well be worth the warning.

 

[trekkiedane]

^Heh, I don't know that particular situation, but I know exactly what you mean!

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Here's one I just made:

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[ITL]

 

[trekkiedane]

 

[Squiggy]

"An" hero?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

"An" hero?

Must be a Brit who doesn't pronounce the 'H.' Or maybe just an idiot (not referring to trekkiedane since he didn't make that; it's been floating around the net for a while).

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=51229

 

[RoJoHen]

^Aw, you remembered. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

It was an interesting thread.

 

[cultcross]

Even Brits pronounce that 'h' - that's just illiteracy, I'm afraid.

 

[Guartho]

"An" hero?

Must be a Brit who doesn't pronounce the 'H.' Or maybe just an idiot (not referring to trekkiedane since he didn't make that; it's been floating around the net for a while).

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=51229

I just assumed it was some kind of pop-culture reference or popular bushism like "The internets"

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Could be.

 

[MIB]

"An" hero?

I have to be writing a final paper that's due in about 90 minutes, so I'll keep this short.

"An Hero" was a term coined after a 13 year old, Mitchell Henderson, shot himself after a long run of being bullied and having personal items like his Ipod stolen from him. After news of his suicide hit, alot of his friends left sympathetic comments about him on his Myspace page. But, as typical with kids in their tweens these days, not even a friend's death is important enough to prompt them to run comments through a spell & grammar check before posting them. This resulted in comments like, "He was such an hero...." Anonymous discovered Henderson's myspace and quickly adopted "An Hero" as a meme. Anonymous has been using the phrase ever since to refer to people who have commited suicide.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Well, that puts kind of a dark spin on that thread bomb.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Ah, thanks for the explanation.

 

[MIB]

Well, that puts kind of a dark spin on that thread bomb.

Well, he did ask...

 

[Squiggy]

If that's the case, then we should get the joke in 2013.

 

[Gertch]

Well, that puts kind of a dark spin on that thread bomb.

Like the backwards gun didn't? <-- sorry, that snuck out.

 

[RoJoHen]

I just figured it was because heroes usually end up being the ones who get killed saving other people.

 

[trekkiedane]

"An" hero?

I have to be writing a final paper that's due in about 90 minutes, so I'll keep this short.

"An Hero" was a term coined after a 13 year old, Mitchell Henderson, shot himself after a long run of being bullied and having personal items like his Ipod stolen from him. After news of his suicide hit, alot of his friends left sympathetic comments about him on his Myspace page. But, as typical with kids in their tweens these days, not even a friend's death is important enough to prompt them to run comments through a spell & grammar check before posting them. This resulted in comments like, "He was such an hero...." Anonymous discovered Henderson's myspace and quickly adopted "An Hero" as a meme. Anonymous has been using the phrase ever since to refer to people who have commited suicide.

Yeah, thanks for posting that.

But of course, those that asked could have done a simple Google -the term can even be found on Urban Dictionary:

an hero

1) Committing suicide over something really stupid.

2) Failing to commit suicide over something really stupid.

3) Doing something stupid, which results in accidentally killing yourself.

4) Also sometimes used on the work safe boards for someone who deliberately posts porn, which is considered both "suicidal" (due to the ban that usually follows), but truly heroic.

Term originates from a grammatically incorrect poem posted at a myspace memorial for a boy (Mitchell) who killed himself when he couldn't find his ipod.

 

[ITL]

For those oh-so-repetative-flogging-a-dead-horse moments: