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The internet is full of mental. Ever been threatened with violence? Did it spill over into real life? Tell us your story. Or maybe you wish to buck the trend and tell us about the how you've met lots of quite nice, sane people.

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(, Thu 22 Nov 2012, 11:54)
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Everyone I've ever met off here has had something wrong with them.

(, Sun 25 Nov 2012, 14:06, 8 replies)
Wasnt The Goat such a person?
He was before my time but I hear people talk of him every now and then.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2012, 10:45, Reply)
I met a fellow b3tan.
We met at a pub relatively close to us.

We drank some nice beers and then discovered that we both liked malt whiskey (funny that!).
From there we tried the *moderately* extensive selection of malts on offer, with some excellent beer chasers.
We had a nice nibble of seafood platter, we met some quite interesting strangers - some more extroverted and gregarious than others.
We discussed many things including; mortgages, boating, fishing, children and teh ladeez, amongst lots of other things.

We did not become instant life-long friends who will marry each other's sister. Nor did we fight over the political divide between using purified waste water as drinking water.
We did agree I think (memory is hazy) however that AB is a skinny git.

The only down-side of the night happened at the very end when I suggested we end our evening of sampling drinks with some "Makers Mark Bourbon" EDIT: This was because it was a whiskey/bourbon neither of us had tried before & it was 2nd shelf.
It's fucking awful and I personally feel that Satan probably pisses something nicer.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2012, 5:54, 21 replies)
I've had 3 long term relationships.
2 were with people I met online, 1 wasn't. The one that wasn't from the internet was nuttier than squirrel poo yet I ended up marrying (and subsequently divorcing) her. Go figure lol.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2012, 0:23, Reply)
Seems appropriate...
I've just moved in with the only person I've ever met from the internet after a seven year long long-distance relationship.

Last night he woke me up three times by farting really loudly and then proceeded to greet me in the morning by asking (hopefully theoretically) if I'd rather have an Ipod or a Galaxy SIII shoved up my bum.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 17:46, 4 replies)
I think you'd have to say that a man who suspects his penis may be a root vegetable might be a bit odd...
HUGE image in replies..
(, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 16:34, 16 replies)
I regularly invite random people from the internet to stay in my house
I'm a member of couchsurfing.org which is a website that facilitates random strangers staying with each other all over the globe. There's a feedback system which weeds out the undesirables and people spend a while building up their profiles so you know what you're letting yourself in for. As I live in an awesome little village on the North coast of Cornwall, which happens to be full of party people and very close to lots of excellent live music, I have quite a lot of couch surfers asking to stay. I've never once regretted saying yes to any of them. I've had Polish, German, Chinese, French, American and English people to stay. I've been cooked for, furnished with huge volumes of alcohol, been played amazing music and made friends for life through it.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 15:53, 6 replies)
internet dating is a Good Thing, sometimes
Due to being an idiot (I got better(a bit)) I settled down with kids and marriage and stuff way too young. Stepfather by 19, married by 21, 3 kids by 24. 18 years later my marriage finally came to an end (hurrah!) and I realised I just didn't have a clue how to flirt any more. Plus my wife running off with an ugly bloke with big hair and a reputation for being a total dickhead hadn't done my self confidence any good I guess...

So I joined this 'ere plenty of fish thing and started chatting to ladies online. It was great fun! For a start, and rather unexpectedly, loads of very attractive looking ladies messaged me!
I've met a few women through pof now, made some very good friends and had a couple of relationships that didn't work although I'm glad they happened. It's really helped me to know what I'm doing and it's built my confidence in that area hugely. So you know, it's not all nutters and scary people with fake photos.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 15:42, 2 replies)
Some charming emails I received recently from another site. Author's handle not altered to protect the guilty
From: Chosen by Grace
Subject: woo woo? learn what ad hominems are idiot
Message: WOO WOO = noodle monsters and magic bombs that oh, just need a few billion years to magically turn into men. SHUT THE **** UP STUPID MORON. GOD YOU'RE DUMB. DELUDED.

What a smug dumb **** cultist retard: dur swamp gas, dur uh its photoshopped, dur uh everyone i dont believe is woo woo, uhhh my feelings make me right, uhhhh my word is true cuz it just is, i dont need site no sources. WOW GOD COMPLEX MUCH YOU HEART FEELY ******? HOLY **** SHUT THE **** UP ******. ****** think ur smart and wise and clever cuz u ****** repeat someone's little phrase "woo woo"? Wow ur a smart scientist now. WRONG. ME: MASTER OF LOGIC, THEOLOGY, ANTI SOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDERS: SICK OF ****** MORONS LIKE YOU WHO THINK REPEATING "WOO WOO" AND READING NARCISSIST SKEPTIC **** AND READING MAINSTREAM SCIENTOLOGY HEADLINES THAT SAY, "WE SEE STARS BEING FORMED" AND WATCHING NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AND DINOSAUR CARTOONS MAKES YOU WISE AND RIGHT AND ISN'T "WOO ******* WOO" YOU ****** MORON. NO MAGGOT BRAIN: BACTERIA DON'T TURN INTO FISH LET ALONE MONKEYS OR MEN YOU DELUDED RETARD WHO THINKS "BILLIONS AND BILLIONS" OF YEARS IS SO SMALL THAT HE JUST SAW IT ALL HAPPEN AND IT'S SO OBVIOUS. ******: HOW ABOUT YOU BELIEVE THE LAST 6,500 YEARS OF KNOWN ARCHEOLOGY MR. "OH CREATIONISM IS UNREASONABLE! YOU THIKNK U NO WHAT HAPPENED IN 6,500 YEAR! HOW ABSURD" NO WOO WOO ****** THAT'S YOU IDIOT BACKWARDS BRAIN. WHAT A TURD IDIOT. GULLIBLE, NAIVE, BLIND SELF RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITE, POINTLESS AIMLESS HYPOCRITE. GET A LIFE!

From: Chosen by Grace
Subject: woo woo? learn what ad hominems are idiot
Message: ", religious and woo-woo bullshit." AND I MORONS WHO USE DUMB NONSENSE NERD "WOO WOO" CLICHES AS THEIR EXPLANATIONS TO EVERYTHING AND BABBLE CRAP WITH NO EVIDENCE GET IGNORED. AND MORONS WHO THINK IT'S REASONABLE TO BELIEVE BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS BEYOND THE COMPLEXITY OF AN EXPLOSION AND WHO BELIEVE IN MAGICAL BOMBS THAT MAKE UNIVERSES AND LIVING THINGS THAT DO ALL THE THINGS AND ARE COMPOSED OF ALL THE THINGS HERE THAT MORONS LIKE YOU REFUSE TO THINK ABOUT IN YOUR ARROGANCE YOU ********: ETERNIAN.WORDPRESS.COM/EVIDENCE HTT[P://66QUESTIONS.TK GET IGNORED ********.

THE "WOO WOO" ****** NERD IDIOT TARDS ARE YOU ******. PAY ATTENTION ****** AND STOP BEING AN OBVLIOUS STUCK UP ******. YOU'RE A ******* NOBODY YOU IDIOT ATHEIST, GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD ALREADY ****** LOSER: YOU ARE NOT GOD ******, YOU DO NOT MAKE LAWS FOR ANYONE ****** YOU DO NOT DECIDE WHAT IS RIGHT FOR WRONG ******, WHO THEN ****** DOES ****** AND WHY DOES TRUTH MATTER ******? DUUUUR? PSYCHOPATH MUCH? GET MORALS ******: STOP LYING, STOP STEALING, STOP MURDERING, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, REMEMBER THAT GOD MADE THE UNIVERSE AND RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY, DON'T COVET ******, DON'T OPPRESS THE POOR NEEDY ORPHANS STRANGERS OR WIDOWS ******. MOSES CAME UP WITH ALL THAT IN ONE BOOK ****** AND YOU CANT TAKE A HINT YET NOT EVEN AFTER 5000 YEARS AND 1000 YEARS OF HUMANS WIPED OUT FROM AN OBVIOUS WORLD WIDE FLOOD MR. "ME NO SEE NO SEA FOSSILS ON DRY LANDS ANYWHERE OR ON MOUNTAIN TOPS DUR"? NOW THAT'S WOO WOO


From: Chosen by Grace
Subject: DUUUUR
Message: "There are no moderators" IF THAT WERE TRUE IDIOT THAN THE FLAGS WOULD ALL HAVE THE SAME EFFECT YOU ******* IMBECILE. BLOCKED YOU ******* IDIOT.

AND FUCKTARDIO: YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVEN'T BEEN HERE LONG SINCE THE MODERATORS USED TO HAVE A FORUM FOR DISPUTES AND SHOWED PICS OF THEMSELVES IN ONE OF THEIR DUMB "LOOK AT US" ARTICLES HERE YOU ******* IDIOT. CLUE ********: STOP BABBLING YOUR ******* **** WITHOUT EVIDENCE ASSHOLE. ******* USELESS MAGGOT.

From: Chosen by Grace
Subject: DUUUUR
Message: "There are no moderators" IF THAT WERE TRUE IDIOT THAN THE FLAGS WOULD ALL HAVE THE SAME EFFECT YOU ******* IMBECILE. BLOCKED YOU ******* IDIOT.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 5:57, 22 replies)
Craig Colclough

(, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 0:52, 5 replies)
I met octowof off of /talk in the Southwark Tavern
He made me do mucky stuff. I didn't like it. He's like a squashed Will Mellor and his winkie smells like tar.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 0:42, Reply)
I have this quack-pot theory
about /qotw.
The amount of overall pages related to the time when the bad puns begin is directly attributable to how shit the question is.

And I'm on the internet too!
(, Sat 24 Nov 2012, 0:42, 12 replies)
There was this guy at work
He had a habit of trapping mental patients in a trap in the woods and I had to help them off of it. So there you have it, that's how I met crazy people off the Intern's net. Sorry.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 21:55, Reply)
Mike Corley?
He's crazy and he's off the Internet. But crazier than me?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 21:31, Reply)
I agree!
Crazy people off the internet now!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 20:38, 2 replies)
not crazy off internet but little crazy doing it..
one of my mates won a trip around the world, so me and other mate happily tagged along, lots of great places, (hong kong, bali, bangkok.. austrila, new zeland and america) all about.. 17 years ago now.
so while in aus, in sydeny we stayed at the luxious YHA, which was a cockroach invested shite hole.. after a day my friend pipes up and says he's sorted a room for the next couple of nights, turns out a MUD we used to play had a couple of aussies who played as well, and happy to let us sleep on the floor, when think back it could of been anything, but it was some of the best days in aus we had...
(, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 20:13, 4 replies)
HUNT ME DOWN!

(, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 16:53, 125 replies)
my internet saviour
many years ago, when i first got cable, it came with a large keyboard/remote control and access to chat sites. i'd sit up late most nights, chatting to interesting people i'd never meet in real life.
then, i started talking to tim*. tim was a nice bloke, always had a kind word for everyone and seemed quite genuine. we talked every day for ovr a month before i'd tell him the area i lived in, though; i'm not completely stupid! as it turned out, tim lived about 10 miles away from me and suggested that we meet for lunch one day. he said he knew a nice place close to me where we could eat. i knew it well. it was a christian cafe, but it attracted people of every religion(including atheists like me) due to the gorgeous and huge jacket potatoes sold there.
i agreed to meet him the following week.
the day came and i took myself off to meet tim. i wasn't nervous, as we were meeting in a very public place and, as i said, he seemed perfectly nice.
he was already there, waiting at a nice table by the window. we sat down and ordered our food, making smalltalk whilst we waited.
as soon as the food arrived, tim explained his real reasons for wanting to meet me: he was concerned for my eternal soul. i had agreed to meet him without a chaperone, which clearly marked me as a woman of loose morals. he'd seen me use bad language on chat, so that was another black mark. i'd admitted to having relationships with men i HADN'T MARRIED(gasp!) which, to him, was a cardinal sin. he'd chosen that particular eatery because he was a born-again christian who had dedicated his life to saving fallen women he met in chatrooms. i tried to explain that i didn't share his religious beliefs and would appreciate it if he didn't force the issue. it didn't work, he just saw that as my sinful side coming out. when he started to talk about getting me baptised, i left. the fact that he yelled "jezebel!" at me as i walked out of the door cheered me up enormously.
strangely, i never saw him in that chatroom again.


*name changed to protect the religiously challenged
(, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 15:05, 13 replies)
Conspiracy nutter
A friend of a friend's friend once contacted me out of the blue because he had somehow found out I spent some time working for a pharmaceutical company. His first email appeared relatively sane and I had no idea of the madness to come. His second email was slightly more worrying. He dismissed pretty much all my first hand observations, quoting the deranged and paranoid theories of his circle of conspiracy minded internet chums. As a postscript to his email he also hinted at several other demented notions he subscribed to.

What I should have done is leave it right there and not respond, but I hadn't yet appreciated the depth of his commitment to the crazy ideas he had put forward, and I was tempted into refuting them with self-evident facts and well established scientific truths. What a mistake... I didn't realise that his irrationality and paranoia rivalled David Icke.

I had never come across someone who had bought so completely into every possible wacky internet theory. He had moved from his home in the USA to Mexico because he believed that the American government was attempting mind control by dosing all food and water with psychoactive drugs. He was prepared to believe, based on the most unreliable evidence that government, banks, military and big business are co-operating and conspiring to perpetrate all manner of secret complex and unlikely programmes against the general population.

Here are just a few his notions, roughly in the order they came up;

Powdered silver cures cancer.
Fluoridation is for mind control not dental health.
All cancers are caused by fungal spores.
HIV doesn't cause AIDS
The Pentagon orchestrated 9/11 attacks
Television was created by the military for mind control. (Mind control is a bit of theme of his).
Artificial sweeteners cause birth defects.
MMR causes autism.
Wearing a magnetic wrist-band can cure heart disease.
All wars are started by weapons manufacturers.
The moon landings were faked.
Just about anything you can buy at your local supermarket will give you cancer.
The US government records and transcribes ALL phone conversations.
American pharmaceutical companies conspire with the CIA to secretly drug the population.

And finally... masturbation will make you more intelligent.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 12:34, 15 replies)
Advertising for housemates on Gumtree sort of counts, right?
We had one bloke who came around, looked about the flat, and then asked if he could try the shower. I thought 'fair enough, it's an important part of your morning routine'. I stood by while he spent a full five minutes stood by the bath with the shower head in hand, messing with the temperature, trying the different settings, etc., with a look of real concentration on his face.

He emailed back the next day and said he might be interested, but he wasn't sure. Could he come back and have another look at the shower?

We also had a guy we had to ask to move out after a month because the shy PhD student who had the small room upstairs noticed her knickers had suddenly started disappearing from her laundry basket and then reappearing there later on since he'd moved in. When she brought it up with him, he said he was only borrowing them because he loved her.

We also had a bloke who seemed pretty nice when we interviewed him, but turned out to be having a massive crisis of some sort. He revealed to us he was moving out of his old place because his wife had left him, went on a massive bender for about a week (which got him sacked), then suddenly decided alcohol was evil and I returned one evening to find he'd poured my gin down the sink and wanted to talk to me about the evils of my ways. He later joined the army.

Short version - if you decide to live with people you meet over the Internet, don't assume they'll be normal
(, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 11:20, 5 replies)
I'm an AirBnB hipster
I took a month off work to drive across the USA in 2005. Before I left I set up a website with a map which people could mark with their location and an offer to trade a bed for beer.

The end result was I stayed with random people from the Internet every night for a month, except four, including two nights where I was just so drunk I passed out in the back seat of the car.

Some of them I had e-known for years but many were just random SomethingAwful goons, or friends of friends of people I'd met earlier in the trip. I was plastered every night (except the weekend with the Mormons), went to a random bachelor party and a homecoming dance (not on the same night, sadly) and met an incredible number of fantastic people. I suppose this sort of thing is a lot less scary for a 6 foot guy than for a lone girl but even so it was striking how welcoming and easygoing everybody was. The trip made a huge impact on my attitude to strangers in general.

The best part was carting around a giant spiral bound art pad and telling (almost) everyone I met to draw me a Top Trump card for themself. Have a nose around here if you like. It's not exhaustive (I was slapdash with it at best) but you get the idea.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 10:35, Reply)
I made money from a nutcase
I made a lot of money from an internet kook. I shan't name this man but I shall relate as much as I can.

This man would post open-ended, vague prophecies to a certain internet forum (well actually lots of forums, but one I happened to be on too). A typical prophecy might be to warn of a "hurricane of death" that would kill "many" without saying when or where or how many. Then he'd wait for a hurricane to kill enough people and dig out this mouldy prophecy and proclaim his own greatness. He had whole shopping lists of similar prophecies.

This man was a narcissist. Like most narcissists they fly into a rage if they don't receive the adulation they believe they are entitled to. All his ghoulish delight in death and disaster just earned him mockery not adulation. So he'd wig out and it was fun to watch. But sometimes he went so far as griefing his detractors in real life, accusing them of being paedophiles to work colleagues, bosses etc. He was a nasty prick in other words.

So any way the guy gets arrested. In the US background checks in one state will reveal if someone is wanted in another state. He was. He had an outstanding warrant for skipping state while on trial for running someone down. He had been convicted in absentia. So he stewed in jail for months awaiting extradition proceedings to happen and after that he enjoyed serving his original sentence plus extra time on top.

Wouldn't you know that another of his hobbies was registering domain names? Most of them were junk but one in particular caught my eye. So as soon as I heard he was arrested I reserved the domain from the hosting company that he used. The company would hold the domain should it ever expire and give me the option of buying. And since he was in jail it did expire, I took ownership and I've owned it ever since.

I bought some hosting for the domain, put some useful content on it to make it attractive and search engine friendly and threw some banner ads in here and there. I reckon must have earned about £15k during the time I've owned it. Not a fortune but a small buffer on top of my regular income.

So I'd like to thank this horrible excuse of a human being. This pathetic smear of dogshit on the sole of humanity. If not for his obnoxious narcissism and felonious past I would not have owned this site and I wouldn't have enjoyed the money from doing so.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2012, 23:22, 2 replies)
Squashing a turd means everyone gets shitty.
Up till spring I helped run a little .org which did charitable work for people down on their luck. We also had a talkboard where you could grizzle about the job, swap tips and tell lies.
There was a guy who ran a similar board, rather laxer on the racism and UKIP/BNP/EDL bollocks, and who HATED us for a) being slightly busier and b) having a trustee who'd shown him up for being a liar.
Two years ago he decided to shut us down by writing to our commercial sponsors (and the Trustee's employer) and telling them we'd been cooking the books. He announced that he was doing this after Christmas, so that he could enjoy our fear and trembling over the turkey.
I fired off a Letter Before Action, got no joy and went down the County Court and applied for an injunction. We announced this on the board and two interesting things happened: our regulars piled in with support and the page count went through the roof.
Then I get a phone call, apparently from Plod inquiring about criminal defamation (no such offence). After 30 seconds I told not-Plod to either fuck off or come round with a mate. 40 minutes later I get a phone call from the bloke's landline, apparently from his solicitor. He's doing me for libel, false accounting, threatening behaviour. He impersonated a copper to get my attention. The solicitor is funding his case (yeah, right). He gives me a REAL legal practice name, but a false solicitor name, which I find out in real time from the Law Society while he's talking.
Ring the practice, tell 'em the tale, we have a bloody good laugh.
Get him into court, don't get the injunction but he admits impersonating Plod, the solicitor and botting the board to make the libel more widely published. Get him outside and tell him that he really should have spotted the microphones.
"In two weeks, the transcript will be with your advertisers. Have a nice Christmas".

Short version: cunt threatens mates, gets fucked by someone who doesn't like bullies.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2012, 22:08, 12 replies)
I might be a bit naive
but when I did internet dating for a (short) time, and started messaging a normal seeming, bright, professional woman, I thought I was being internet-savvy by mentioning early on that I really wanted to meet, not just to send emails and have phone chats. I knew that there were people out there who just wanted the attention but were in fact married, or using photos of their prettier sister, or agarophobic, or trapped down a well, so wanted to sift out those time-wasters. Politely but firmly.

I was delighted that my new interest agreed with me. She went on to say that she'd previously got in to a rather deep relationship online before meeting the bloke in person (200 miles away), and realising she'd made a mistake. In fact, before meeting they had booked a holiday together.

Wow. Every safety rule for single women broken in one go? Impressive.

Postscript: Turns out I was naive. I carried on talking to her, thinking she might have, you know, got that one out of her system. She kicked me into touch before we actually met.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2012, 22:08, 5 replies)
I don't even have access to the internet and never have done.

(, Thu 22 Nov 2012, 22:02, 2 replies)
This guy off b3ta.com threatened to beat loads of people up with his baseball bat.
Just as soon as he'd finished playing D&D with his mate the ultra-talented dungeon master.

Thankfully he has me on 2.0 so he can't see this. OTHERWISE I'D BE IN BIG TROUBLE, YEAH?
(, Thu 22 Nov 2012, 21:55, 11 replies)
I'm still waiting for P*rrott (former b3ta user) to make a blog about stalking me and killing me with a hammer.
That said, I doubt he could find his own arse with both hands, let alone find someone he'd never met who isn't in the phone book or the edited electoral register.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2012, 21:49, 4 replies)
I used to know someone who thought that sickipedia was funny.

(, Thu 22 Nov 2012, 21:42, 8 replies)
bono
Oh blimey, I have my fair share of weirdos contacting me due to my absolute hatred of that cunt bongo.
Some friends and I set up a group on that awful, yes you hate it site, facebook.
It's quiet these days but a few years ago when you could actually talk to people on there and have some fun we had some real scary anger projected towards us.
Mike Brown was just one example.
He LOVED bono and U2, and very much took umbridge to the fact that we hated bono and his fucking face.
He posted over and over again calling us for everything and entering into the kind of arguments that you just can't (don't want) to win and are utterly pointless and we did take great pleasure in discussing his issues with him. Thing was, if someone loved the little Irish cunt then that's fine, each to their own, but he was utterly obsessed with changing our minds. When it didn't go his way he would be apoplectic with rage.
We banned him and blocked him but he kept coming back back with fake profiles spitting feathers and getting more and more insane as time went on.
Turned out his dad was a top lawyer in America and was going to sue us, he reminded us of this at least 3 times a day.
After someone posted a picture of him in his back garden topless showing off his U2 hubcaps, (yes, hubcaps) he went completely MENTAL.
The females got horrible rape fantasy messages, really scary threats, from not only him but his plethora of 'friends'.
We never heard from his dad though, funnily enough.
He was just the tip of the iceberg. There was the guy who had a liking for U2 but also very young Thai girls and the lady who brought her entire family into the mix because she was just SO ANGRY. It's amazing how not liking someone and stating it, online, can cause such outrage from those that disagree with you, online.
On the other hand, I did make some proper real life friends from that group. Many who I have visited and have stayed with me and who I count as valuable people in my life, even years on.
There has even been 2 weddings between fellow bongo haters and they are all impossibly happy.
I guess I have to thank that cunt bongo for something.
FUCK.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2012, 21:37, 9 replies)

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