Define "Freeper"

[Random_Australian]

In the sense it's supposed to be, not the insult version.

I've a good idea of a Freepers attributes *SO NO NEED TO POST THOSE*

I was just wondering were the phrase comes from, and what it's literal meaning is...

Remember: I am a long way away! (Australia) That's why I don't know.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. Lover of the Rove .

Butt scratcher of Bush . Nuff said .

[XemaSab]

2. It's from Free Republic, which is the Yang to our Yin...

www.freerepublic.com

[Random_Australian]

3. I'll take a look...

thanks btw

[billyskank]

4. Word.

Nothing more to it than that. If you inhabit Free Republic, you're a Freeper. They even call themselves that.

[Random_Australian]

5. Is BangList what I think it is? n/t

[billyskank]

6. Never heard of it

Can't say.

[XemaSab]

8. It's the FReeper gungeon

only it's more of a garret.... :shrug:

[billyskank]

9. Sounds awful

:scared:

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I hate that word

Nature never put her most treasured possessions into a garret four stories high, and so exceeding tall men have ever empty heads.

:grr:

[XemaSab]

20. Well, they've got the "BangList"

right up at the top.... garret seemed to be the most fitting word. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. I bet they're all short (n.t)

[XemaSab]

7. I have no idea

Their site's a mess.

[Richard Steele]

15. Their site is the WWW equivalent of a prom dress...

...stapled together from carpet samples.

And their thinking skills make it clear that they
needed help using the stapler.

(props to the writers of "Futurama" for the 'prom dress' line)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Good morning, my dear billy!

And now you're up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.....

And I'm groggy with fatigue.....

I'll be off to bed soon......

See you later, sweetie!

:loveya: :hug:

[billyskank]

12. Morning Peggy

:hi:

I think bright-eyed and bushy-tailed is overstating it. In fact I was considering going back to bed...

:hug:

[XemaSab]

13. Oh, please don't!

[billyskank]

14. I'll wait till you go to bed first

:hug:

[XemaSab]

18. Before you go back to bed?

Why so eager to go back to bed? :shrug:

[billyskank]

19. 'Cause I'm cream crackered!

:)

[XemaSab]

21. Is that cockney?

All I know of cockney is "have a butcher's." :shrug:

[billyskank]

22. Yes.

It means I am very fatigued. :)

[XemaSab]

25. Let me guess:

something knackered? :shrug:

[billyskank]

26. Correctomondo

Just knackered. :)

[XemaSab]

29. Yay!

can I be an honorary cockney?

:bounce:

[billyskank]

30. So far as I have authority, I make thee an honourary cockney

Of course, I'm not one myself either. The strict definition is one who was born within earshot of the Bow bells, that is, the bells of St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside. The looser definition is any working-class inhabitant of London. In recent years people all over the south have started speaking with a faux-cockney accent, called "estuary english" by some, and "mockney" by others.

I like the latter. :)

[XemaSab]

31. Speaking the true universal language:

Irony. :patriot:

Sort of like drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon while slouched down in your orange Naugahyde lounger while watching Pulp Fiction and wearing a shirt that had a past life at a gas station.

On edit: and you're really a computer programmer making $120,000 a year after taxes.

[billyskank]

32. I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes

On edit: no computer programmer makes 120 grand. We do useful work. To make that kind of money you have to have a job which is of no use to society whatsoever, i.e. a company director.

[XemaSab]

33. Depends on where you work, I guess

:shrug:

[billyskank]

34. Nah, no programmer is worth that much

It's a skilled profession, and skilled professions don't command that much money. A programmer at the top of his/her game might get £50K here. I can't imagine even in Silicon Valley it's that much different. Especially now so many jobs are being outsourced to India.

[XemaSab]

35. Might be a time/place thing

'Cause I have a friend who was pulling in over $100,000 at age 22. :P

But that was a few years ago in the Bay Area. :shrug:

[billyskank]

36. That's incredible

I would say at his age he or she was being way overpaid. Programming isn't that hard, not as hard as, say, painting the Sistene Chapel ceiling (and that sort of job pays even worse), and there is no way he or she could have reached the top of their game, unless they are a genius. If they were 52 then that would seem fair, excessive, but fair. 22? No way. That must have during the dot-com madness. Everybody went batshit insane. I bet they were just web designing too, right?

[XemaSab]

37. He was more skilled than that

And yes, it was during the dot com madness, but he's a talented lad, so who knows? :shrug:

I'm so ignorant about it, I couldn't give you specifics. Something about programming packet routers? But that may have been at a different job. :shrug:

[billyskank]

38. Does sound like proper programming then

That is something! But 100K for 22-year-old kid is obscene by any reasonable standard. But those were obscene times. A lot of people got truly fleeced.

[XemaSab]

39. And other people did the fleecing

:shrug:

It was madness... I had a bunch of friends in the middle of it... I was about the only person in my social circle to graduate high school. Everyone else dropped out and made buckets of cash. I just don't have the aptitude for it. A near total lack of interest, frankly. I can design a basic but good looking website in HTML and that's as far as I'll go. I took a class in Java, but I never got the hang of it. :shrug:

I know you're all into it, and hey, more power to you! :toast:

[Random_Australian]

11. Actually, I don't dare look beyond Page 1

I'm on a proxy server that doesn't like hatred/ people inciting hatred

[XemaSab]

16. It's actually worth exploring, IMHO

Especially if you want to know what they're saying. It's a strange land.... sometimes they seem almost normal and rational, but then the next thread down they're spewing the craziest stuff... en masse.

[Random_Australian]

24. Not for personal fear, remember,

THE PROXY SERVER ADMIN MAY WELL GO APESHIT!

That's why I didn't....
(That was not supposed to be a harsh tone BTW... Please tell me I've given no offense)

[XemaSab]

27. No offense taken...

They're not like a Nazi site or anything, but they're not PC in a very unselfconscious way, let us say...

[billyskank]

28. Harsh tones are bread and butter around here

:hi: