is this comment notable for it’s misspelling, lack of punctuation, or lack reasoning ability? is it a child? is it someone’s attempt to translate their own language into English for the rest of us? is it spam?
@ Sharpy – It’s notable for all of those things you mentioned as well as questionable grammar. The evidence leads me to think that the writer is probably an adult who’s gotten hooked on the language of texting and is using it in an attempt to seem all sorts of cool, not realizing that this site is populated by a myriad of intellectual and learned types.
p.s. Hope you had high barn boots on for that!! 80
“I used to think CO was a safe place for my Precious offspring to be but with the nashty ,language in your heading which will damage their fragile minds I am OFF !! ” (flounce)
Oh heavens – Commentroversy at it’s finest. I vaguely remember those days – I was always late to the party, but I had fun reading about it. I still wonder why people think that threatening to leave a site is going to change anything. Doesn’t seem to matter if it’s a blog, a webserial, a webcomic, etc., people insist on thinking that their one opinion is going to be so valuable to the author that said author will change everything just for them. Egotists!
I just clicked on the “reported” hyperlink and found this comment about Cute Overload:
What a wonderful, caring community this is! The moderators and commenters really care about the integrity of the site and maintaining it as a friendly, happy place to visit. There is a camaraderie among the people who frequent the site that is lacking in many other places. There is genuine concern when a “regular” hasn’t been heard from in a while, compassion when when an animal or human family member is ailing and an outpouring of support when an animal or human passes on. These are the kind of people that we all want as neighbors and this is the kind of website that I would like all others to be like!
I understand the title but I thought this was a family-friendly site. I can’t let my young daughter visit this site if you contine to do this (and wouldn’t buy your products anymore).
Oh dear. I think you’re not a very regular visitor to this site. I do hope you haven’t been passing this link onto your under-10 kiddies…if you read previous posts you would know very well that this is a fun site for adults only (that sounds bad)
It’s more a defense of the site. For years, people show up accusing the site of no longer being family friendly (it never claimed to be), or otherwise ranting and raving over what most of us find to be harmless. Some of these folks intentionally aim to spark a flame war, which is no fun for the community, so they’re cut off quickly.
it’s not the disagreement ( to me anyway) it’s the bullying from the Mommy Martyr Club- “change your site or else i won’t buy stuff from you!” it’s all over, and I’m sick of it. I can’t even bring a peanut butter sandwich to work, because someone could get some on them and their kid will have an imaginary reaction ( no doubt brought on by his parents hysterics and not the peanut butter) to a mostly imaginary condition made up by his parents so they can whine to the world that they are the long suffering parents of a child with a *gasp* condition.
/rant over (no offense to people with actual allergies)
I agree with you about the Mommy Martyr Club…but if you think food allergies are imaginary, you’re mistaken. I knew a kid who had to go to the emergency room a number of times, and was at serious risk of losing his life, because he was allergic to pretty much everything. He couldn’t leave the house without his Benedryl and his Epi-Pen. So let’s not make light of kids who have very real “conditions.”
right. that’s why i wrote “mostly”. and as far as anecdotes go, I know about 20 people who have self diagnosed their kids very dangerous food allergies so they can ban specific foods from places even though they don’t carry Epipens because they have never seen a doctor.
i’m not making light of food allergies. I am pointing out that kowtowing to the screaming maternal majority makes everyone suffer. I don’t have kids, i don’t go to my companies daycare area ever, and yet PB is banned? it’s ridiculous. and NOT ONE of these kids carries emergency medicine- I’ve talked to the day care lady.
some people are just not happy unless they can be offended and self righteous 17 times a day over the stupidest things. those people need to shut the hell up.
you guys are so insensitive to the hardships that parents face these days. Like the mean man that asked my darling Jr to stop kicking his seat on the airplane. can’t he see the poor child is bored? if they would have just offered a Disney movie on the plane like i requested it would have been fine. and like i have to go to Chucky Cheese, because diners at La Franswah were complaining about DS throwing his penne and screaming. it’s not my fault they don’t have dinosaur shaped processed chicken pieces for him! and don’t think i don’t notice Sally from cubicle 10 giving me those dirty looks when i ask her to finish my project because i have to leave early again for my precious angels ballet recital/lacrosse match/pageant gown fitting/school play/fingerpainting class/mandarin lessons!
now dirty words on the internet? is nowhere safe for our sweet darlings?
Oh Scarletgunn… how I wish there were more parents out there like you!! Wouldn’t the world be a better place with even more spoiled little children who will be running our country in 30 years??
scarlett, thank you so much for all your posts. hitting nail on haid, rather hit overly entitled parents and helplessly indoctrinated kids on the haid. i hope the kids run away to the wilderness en masse and all get poison ivy and stuff. life is too short to claim entitlement to ever’ damned thang…
And this is why my toddler behaves when we go out. We’ve taken him everywhere from fast food to Italian/mexican/chinese/thai/whatever restaurant and he is NOT the kid running around screaming or throwing food.
If I can make my boy behave, don’t know why no one else seems able to?
panda is not real. panda is a picture. words are made up by a person who thought it was funny. that person created this website. so a lot of people think she’s funny. therefore, it is funny.
I dunno, I’ve only ever heard women say this phrase to each other. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like the girl-version of ‘sup my homies. Or maybe this means different things to different ethno-socio-economic linguistic classes?
I was attempting to subtly refer to my gay guy friends who use that phrase. My point is that the use of the term in this context has nothing to do with misogyny. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
Ahh I just read the whole comment smackdown from 2006. That was freakin awesome. And this is still awesome. Favorite quote from the 2006 affair? You got it:
“Considering how many children frequent this site, and as a teacher, I don’t think the vulgar language is extreme enough.”
I think this post rocks! People just like to instigate instead of seeing a word they don’t like, sighing, and clicking to a different website. Ain’t no thang.
“as a biologist, i find the inaccuracy in nomenclature offensive. female pandas are called sows. i feel i can no longer refer my scientist friends to this site.”
After doing some research, this seems to be accurate: males are boars and females are sows. Like pigs. Why they use pig words but are called “bears” I don’t know; same reason seals use “cow” and “bull,” I guess.
Addendum: actually, non-panda bears use the same nomenclature, sow for female and boar for male. Whoda thunk it?
And, just to leave you on a cheerful note: Pandas are solitary creatures and do not normally band together, but when they do, a group of pandas is known as a cupboard of pandas.
i just checked MY cupboards, and there was nothing in them but dishes — not even very many of those, because most of ‘em are dirty and waiting patiently to be washed (keep waiting, my little earthenware friends…keeeeep on waiting).
life is SO unfair. cupboards of pandas and none for me…. and now I’m mad at CO for teaching me just how unfair it all is. won’t somebody think of the children immature grownups?
I personally LOLed when I read this headline. It’s so perfect with the picture and the hovertext is even funnier now than in 2006. Cute animals and hilarious captions…that’s what this site is all about.
at nearly 70 yo, i am probably one of the oldest members here. i love breakdancing/popping/in all forms. i love hiphop/i love the music: it’s a language, means a lot, needs to be listened to. it’s future history. we should be paying attention, yall. although i am on the downward side of history, i still want to know what is coming up. used to be innocent, then got very ‘dirty’ and challenging, now more religious and examines moral questions.
granted the word ‘bitch’ was terrible in my youth and we never said it, but now it’s just another integral part of a language and a culture.
pay attenshuns!
cool ole lady.
wearing a huge rolling stones tee, the one with the leeeps on it…ankle length jeans skirt, hair naturally looks like dreads, green glittery nail polish, (prosh expensive kind) purple wheelchair. and it all goes together, don’t look demented at all… don’t tell ME i ain’t kool…
Wannadance, if you’re ever in Toronto, please come dancing with me. I, too, love hip-hop and love dancing, despite my middle-agedness. And I just discovered a place where the crowd is diverse enough and fun enough that everyone and no one fits in, and they play good bad music.
I personally am shocked… by the fact that I’ve been visiting this site for that long! OMGPONIESWTFBBQ!!! Egads, I’m old. Old school. I’m old school. Yeah, that’s it.
I call Eddy “Bitches” on occasion. What makes it really funny is that a) he’s male and b) there’s only one of him.
Needless to say, this makes him even more confused than usual.
Dude! Who knew you were into pole dancin’?
OMG Meg, you are *SO* gangsta!!!!!
— Kinda like this guy:
http://us.cdn3.123rf.com/168nwm/courtyardpix/courtyardpix1011/courtyardpix101100060/8349149-man-in-shirt-making-a-call-me-gesture–isolated-on-white.jpg
best. headline. ever.
Chillin’ like a villain.
Gellin’ like a felon.
later he’ll be ghostin’.
Nice!
Tigress, did you see me?!?! I was all like HI-YA! I kung fu-ed their asses!! But, uhhh, how’d I get in this tree?
Hey does any 1 no why after i post a comment it says “Your comment is awaiting moderation”??
okay peeps, i need a hand from you all:
is this comment notable for it’s misspelling, lack of punctuation, or lack reasoning ability? is it a child? is it someone’s attempt to translate their own language into English for the rest of us? is it spam?
please, help me help you.
@ Sharpy – It’s notable for all of those things you mentioned as well as questionable grammar. The evidence leads me to think that the writer is probably an adult who’s gotten hooked on the language of texting and is using it in an attempt to seem all sorts of cool, not realizing that this site is populated by a myriad of intellectual and learned types.
p.s. Hope you had high barn boots on for that!! 80
Haha! This post spawned the first commentroversy that I was aware of on CO.
Ah, those were the days!
Color me perplexed, how could a panda up a tree possibly ignite a commentroversy
“I used to think CO was a safe place for my Precious offspring to be but with the nashty ,language in your heading which will damage their fragile minds I am OFF !! ” (flounce)
It was like that, Gigi
YAW HAW!
Like they were tewtally clutching their pearls over it, when all they had to do was NOT LOOK AT THE SITE if it was too darned smutty for them.
It was the sheesh heard round the world.
If I remember correctly, the uproar was over the bitchy word. Ooops, I said it.
ironically!
Aaaah, good ol’ search-n-found. Original commentroversy: http://cuteoverload.com/2006/01/20/sup_my_bitches/
Oh heavens – Commentroversy at it’s finest. I vaguely remember those days – I was always late to the party, but I had fun reading about it. I still wonder why people think that threatening to leave a site is going to change anything. Doesn’t seem to matter if it’s a blog, a webserial, a webcomic, etc., people insist on thinking that their one opinion is going to be so valuable to the author that said author will change everything just for them. Egotists!
Oh my yes Auntie…lots of outrage, rightous indignation, and hacking of hairballs. With much flinging of puddin’ too. Good times.
p.s. – i love this pic. the panda ‘tude is awsome.
*sigh* I miss the puddin’ flingin’. It was fun.
*SPLOCK!*
VANILLA PUDDINGKS FOR EVARWHAR.
“splock” = nice sound FX there, Th
*rolls out the puddinkwerferschnorglekanonen*
Everyone’s favorite siege engine.
CuteOverload.com! The family friendly site for all ages, bitches!
“The family friendly site for all ages”
what?! where did you see that? perhaps we should be reported.
I just clicked on the “reported” hyperlink and found this comment about Cute Overload:
What a wonderful, caring community this is! The moderators and commenters really care about the integrity of the site and maintaining it as a friendly, happy place to visit. There is a camaraderie among the people who frequent the site that is lacking in many other places. There is genuine concern when a “regular” hasn’t been heard from in a while, compassion when when an animal or human family member is ailing and an outpouring of support when an animal or human passes on. These are the kind of people that we all want as neighbors and this is the kind of website that I would like all others to be like!
awww. Well said, Maggie, well said!
@vicky oops, i just realized you were joking.
and i’ll bet maggie’s post was P.S.*
*pre-Sharpy (aka “the baddest moderator in the whole damn town”**)
**After Theo, of course.
[eyes slideways]
That was funny, Vicky!
NOW THAT’S FUNNY OUT LOUD.
Haha! If you can read panda body language, as Meg clearly can, that is EXACTLY what he is saying!
I understand the title but I thought this was a family-friendly site. I can’t let my young daughter visit this site if you contine to do this (and wouldn’t buy your products anymore).
what? where did you see “family-friendly?” would you feel better if you reported us?
Ooh, a threat!
Ha–it’s 2006 all over again!
Wait, does this mean if we have enough commentroversies, I’ll stop aging??
HAR!
I think I like the way you think.
oh stop stirring up trouble, theo.
Double
Double
Toil
and Trouble…
Oh come on Sharpy, we smell Nobel Prize!!
Buy what products?
What by-products?
the ones by cuteoverload.
the ones over there.
Just checking — was this comment a joke? I mean, did you go to the original site and are imitating the style of the original nuffers?
Oh dear. I think you’re not a very regular visitor to this site. I do hope you haven’t been passing this link onto your under-10 kiddies…if you read previous posts you would know very well that this is a fun site for adults only (that sounds bad)
Oh yeah, last message was directed @ AM, who confused Cuteoverload as…a product-selling website? baroo?
Ohh the language on that little “Leather” Bear.
Where is the ivory soap, grandmother will get this little potty mouth cleaned up right away.
In the inimitable words of Snoog Dogg from “Gin and Juice” – “Laid Back (got my mind on my money and my money on my mind)…”
I was reading britches. not bitches….my proofing sux!
actually, that makes it even more hilarious….
OMG. The title of this post. that’s a keeper.
Sup my #@*&%s what why #@*&%s???????????????????????????????
hey, our eyes are not garbage cans!
Mine are.
snerk
snerk snerk
omg Sharpy…that made me LAUGH!
Yeah, you email your mother with a keyboard like that?
^ This.
yes but i always tell people who read my writing to keep their eyes closed.
I have such fond memories of that commentroversy that I say this to my two dogs every day when I get home.
LOL it was a great commentroversy wasn’t it.
LOL
I say it to my two cats every day, too. As of today, that is. If I remember.
what IS shocking, is the nastiness of all of you ‘cute lovers’ responding to someone who is just expressing their opinion to a title.
I guess civility isn’t cute enough for you?
It’s more a defense of the site. For years, people show up accusing the site of no longer being family friendly (it never claimed to be), or otherwise ranting and raving over what most of us find to be harmless. Some of these folks intentionally aim to spark a flame war, which is no fun for the community, so they’re cut off quickly.
it’s not the disagreement ( to me anyway) it’s the bullying from the Mommy Martyr Club- “change your site or else i won’t buy stuff from you!” it’s all over, and I’m sick of it. I can’t even bring a peanut butter sandwich to work, because someone could get some on them and their kid will have an imaginary reaction ( no doubt brought on by his parents hysterics and not the peanut butter) to a mostly imaginary condition made up by his parents so they can whine to the world that they are the long suffering parents of a child with a *gasp* condition.
/rant over (no offense to people with actual allergies)
THANK you.
I agree with you about the Mommy Martyr Club…but if you think food allergies are imaginary, you’re mistaken. I knew a kid who had to go to the emergency room a number of times, and was at serious risk of losing his life, because he was allergic to pretty much everything. He couldn’t leave the house without his Benedryl and his Epi-Pen. So let’s not make light of kids who have very real “conditions.”
right. that’s why i wrote “mostly”. and as far as anecdotes go, I know about 20 people who have self diagnosed their kids very dangerous food allergies so they can ban specific foods from places even though they don’t carry Epipens because they have never seen a doctor.
in addition, and them i’m done:
i’m not making light of food allergies. I am pointing out that kowtowing to the screaming maternal majority makes everyone suffer. I don’t have kids, i don’t go to my companies daycare area ever, and yet PB is banned? it’s ridiculous. and NOT ONE of these kids carries emergency medicine- I’ve talked to the day care lady.
some people are just not happy unless they can be offended and self righteous 17 times a day over the stupidest things. those people need to shut the hell up.
IMO.
Yeah, I wouldn’t exactly call CO family-friendly…
(thinks of all the other inappropriate cute posts)
you guys are so insensitive to the hardships that parents face these days. Like the mean man that asked my darling Jr to stop kicking his seat on the airplane. can’t he see the poor child is bored? if they would have just offered a Disney movie on the plane like i requested it would have been fine. and like i have to go to Chucky Cheese, because diners at La Franswah were complaining about DS throwing his penne and screaming. it’s not my fault they don’t have dinosaur shaped processed chicken pieces for him! and don’t think i don’t notice Sally from cubicle 10 giving me those dirty looks when i ask her to finish my project because i have to leave early again for my precious angels ballet recital/lacrosse match/pageant gown fitting/school play/fingerpainting class/mandarin lessons!
now dirty words on the internet? is nowhere safe for our sweet darlings?
Careful you toungue is about to burst through your cheek.. ROFLMAO!
FTW!
Oh Scarletgunn… how I wish there were more parents out there like you!! Wouldn’t the world be a better place with even more spoiled little children who will be running our country in 30 years??
scarlett, thank you so much for all your posts. hitting nail on haid, rather hit overly entitled parents and helplessly indoctrinated kids on the haid. i hope the kids run away to the wilderness en masse and all get poison ivy and stuff. life is too short to claim entitlement to ever’ damned thang…
woooooo, go scarlett!
uh oh. in mod lounge. pass that bottle…
erm…. Glenlivet? Effen? (can I say that here???) some Absinthe?!!???
Thorry, that was supposed to be a reply to wannadance’s request while in the mod lounge.
Oooh, if there’s any Oban . . . I love single malt Scotch!
SNORGLETINIS.
*CLINK*
I’m in…
Ain’ much, that’s better,
than this bit of elegance from Spike Jones et co.
*waves giant “you go gurl!” flag”
hahahaha!
And this is why my toddler behaves when we go out. We’ve taken him everywhere from fast food to Italian/mexican/chinese/thai/whatever restaurant and he is NOT the kid running around screaming or throwing food.
If I can make my boy behave, don’t know why no one else seems able to?
Awesome scarletgunn!
and may i just say, from someone who really, really appreciates well-behaved children, thank you?
You are welcome Sharpy. I figure if I can’t stand little monsters like that, I’m going to teach mine better and not allow him to add to the problem.
now we just have to figure out how to deal with the grown-up versions.
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/47290
The only thing I see controversial about this is that the panda is apparently only talking to female dogs while ignoring the rest of us. Rude!!
indeed!!
Rude ba**ard!
Rhubarb? NOW I’m offended!
RHUBARB! RHUBARB!
Yeah? Well, I’ll see your “rhubarb,” and raise you a PA-SICKIE!!!
At a carefully calibrated temperature, rhubarb pie makes a pleasing alternative to pudding.
but… but… why is coot panda so misogy… miss agon… so mean to girls? no funny
(
panda is not real. panda is a picture. words are made up by a person who thought it was funny. that person created this website. so a lot of people think she’s funny. therefore, it is funny.
panda likes girls.
you right Sharpy. is funny. should call ALL girls bitches… hee hee!
that’s ezackly what i think when i hear some of my guy friends call each other that!
(words hurt only if you let them.)
I dunno, I’ve only ever heard women say this phrase to each other. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like the girl-version of ‘sup my homies. Or maybe this means different things to different ethno-socio-economic linguistic classes?
I was attempting to subtly refer to my gay guy friends who use that phrase. My point is that the use of the term in this context has nothing to do with misogyny. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
if i panda could speak, i don’t think it would use that word
yup, that’s why meg used it.
“Panda: Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
love that so much. wish i had the book. fave form of humor…
Same author has a second book: Talk To the Hand. Also wonderful!!
Its in the attitude of the pic.
Cute.
to me, he looks like he ate too much. kinda overly trptophaned.
Ahh I just read the whole comment smackdown from 2006. That was freakin awesome. And this is still awesome. Favorite quote from the 2006 affair? You got it:
“Considering how many children frequent this site, and as a teacher, I don’t think the vulgar language is extreme enough.”
I think this post rocks! People just like to instigate instead of seeing a word they don’t like, sighing, and clicking to a different website. Ain’t no thang.
My favorite was this one:
“as a biologist, i find the inaccuracy in nomenclature offensive. female pandas are called sows. i feel i can no longer refer my scientist friends to this site.”
Curse you, Meg! *shakes fist*
lol!!
I second hilz’ “lol!!” and raise a “ROFL”
‘sows ‘ sounds worse to me…somehow…
he/she must be kidding…
After doing some research, this seems to be accurate: males are boars and females are sows. Like pigs. Why they use pig words but are called “bears” I don’t know; same reason seals use “cow” and “bull,” I guess.
Addendum: actually, non-panda bears use the same nomenclature, sow for female and boar for male. Whoda thunk it?
And, just to leave you on a cheerful note: Pandas are solitary creatures and do not normally band together, but when they do, a group of pandas is known as a cupboard of pandas.
(That may have been a joke. I’m not sure.)
a cupboard of pandas?!
i just checked MY cupboards, and there was nothing in them but dishes — not even very many of those, because most of ‘em are dirty and waiting patiently to be washed (keep waiting, my little earthenware friends…keeeeep on waiting).
life is SO unfair. cupboards of pandas and none for me…. and now I’m mad at CO for teaching me just how unfair it all is. won’t somebody think of the children immature grownups?
GAH! HTML fail. Imagine “children” is… strikethroughed? Stricken through? Struck through? Crossed out.
and thus the phrase, “the cupboard was bear.”
LOLZ!
I personally LOLed when I read this headline. It’s so perfect with the picture and the hovertext is even funnier now than in 2006. Cute animals and hilarious captions…that’s what this site is all about.
I’ll bet anything most kids, even very young ones, have heard this word or worse in their lives. Just sayin’.
i almost prefer “bitches’ over the “just sayin’ . Almost
at nearly 70 yo, i am probably one of the oldest members here. i love breakdancing/popping/in all forms. i love hiphop/i love the music: it’s a language, means a lot, needs to be listened to. it’s future history. we should be paying attention, yall. although i am on the downward side of history, i still want to know what is coming up. used to be innocent, then got very ‘dirty’ and challenging, now more religious and examines moral questions.
granted the word ‘bitch’ was terrible in my youth and we never said it, but now it’s just another integral part of a language and a culture.
pay attenshuns!
cool ole lady.
wearing a huge rolling stones tee, the one with the leeeps on it…ankle length jeans skirt, hair naturally looks like dreads, green glittery nail polish, (prosh expensive kind) purple wheelchair. and it all goes together, don’t look demented at all… don’t tell ME i ain’t kool…
You’re the best, Wanna-d!!! I bet you totally rock that entire look. I plan to have your attitude when I’m 70.
Try and stop me bitches!
You are Awesome!
so you’re saying you like to blend in?
thanks for the great image, btw! now i wanna dance! (“don’t call it a come back, i been here for years!”)
awesome wanna-d! i always imagine you dancing
Wannadance, if you’re ever in Toronto, please come dancing with me. I, too, love hip-hop and love dancing, despite my middle-agedness. And I just discovered a place where the crowd is diverse enough and fun enough that everyone and no one fits in, and they play good bad music.
I would like to fling some puddin. That sounds bitchen.
I think the three meerkats pine cone has just been added to the menu
*shocked* I’m boycotting this site right after I testify to Congress how lolcats are ruining the English language.
dude that is such a ghetto site…
hahahaha! Love the headline!
tough panda.
Its always the bad boys we find so attractive…sigh.
I personally am shocked… by the fact that I’ve been visiting this site for that long! OMGPONIESWTFBBQ!!! Egads, I’m old. Old school. I’m old school. Yeah, that’s it.
*snerk*
I call Eddy “Bitches” on occasion. What makes it really funny is that a) he’s male and b) there’s only one of him.
Needless to say, this makes him even more confused than usual.
privacy trunk
Arrrrgh! Smiley-face FAIL! I wanted one of those big-eyed things. Maybe this?