Arguing on the Internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
If the common quote can be taken at face value, many of the nation's universities have their fair share of retarded people.
The proof? A Web site, JuicyCampus.com, which recently launched a Penn State section. The site allows users to post so-called "juicy" rumors -- completely anonymously, the site promises -- about people, groups or events on campus.
Typical post titles from the Penn State section read "Red Headed Dance Team Slut," or "NAKED GIRL!" The threads contain discussions on everything from who's anorexic to who's a slut, allege things ranging from chlamydia to necrophilia, and deal with figures such as football players and campus leaders.
Surely, you must be thinking, people can't actually take this site seriously. Surprisingly, you'd be wrong. One post, eloquently titled "this is crap," reads:
"Time to grow up, children. This is middle school mentality at its best. You're in college, boys and girls. Start acting like adults and think about what you're doing to your fellow human beings. It's called empathy. got any?"
According to an Associated Press story about JuicyCampus, the student government at Pepperdine University voted to ban the site, and a Facebook group from Loyola Marymount called "Ban Juicycampus!!!!" has garnered 850 members.
That is what makes this site an instant classic. This site has zero credibility. 90 percent of the posts are intended specifically to get a rise out of people, and they're effective more often than not.
Everyone who looks at the site has to realize this in an instant, yet the only thing keeping it going are the sometimes two-paragraph-long pleas for those vicious gossips to have mercy.
Now, these parts of the site are all pretty hilarious, but we're still torn between loving and hating this site, though.
The site was obviously designed for people to post slanderous and downright untrue material, despite its annoying assertions that everything on there is at least plausible.
For example, its terms of use, "require users to agree not to post anything that is defamatory, libelous, etc.," according the site's official blog. However, the blog goes on to read that since JuicyCampus has no way to verify whether something on their site is true or not, they won't remove anything with anything less than a court's request.
The site just doesn't do a good enough job selling itself as an honest-to-goodness rumors source. Perhaps if it at least removed the most ridiculously untrue posts -- I'm thinking necrophilia accusations -- it would give the site enough credibility that it wouldn't require the visitor to completely suspend all mental activity to believe a single word written on it.
As JuicyCampus seems to be, it's just a ridiculous cesspool of Internet users looking for a cheap laugh by getting a rise out of some dumb college students, and that can only be funny for so long.