April 22, 2008
A Reminder: Shanghaiist's Comment Policy
We rarely enforce this, since we are too busy to moderate our comments section and generally believe in a thing called free speech, but lately things have gotten a bit unharmonious in certain portions of our site. We apologize to anyone who has been offended (which basically means we apologize to all humankind).
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Only 125 days until the Olympics are over! Yay!
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china we have the freedom and the power now. fuck fuck this shit you big nose! you never able to shut up the china again never! lick cnn hair balls!
Dan , please tell this dog to stop barking !
Pot-Kettle-Black
right on cue eh? ;)
@alcoac and tommylee2
Will you two please just make out and get it over with?
@Dan Washburn
"Only 125 days until the Olympics are over! Yay!"
Guess what Dan, I dont respect you and you dont have the dignity to ask us to calm down.
If you are so happy about putting an end on the Olympics, I would say you are just a big piece of turd that makes a record on Ginnus. Please learn something about Olympic spirits and understand the hardworking players, and read the stories about those who got hurt or life-disabled in the game... your ignorance and indifference are shocking...
Well, what about put an end on shanghaiist.com? since the CPC has such a good skill to shutup whoever they dont like, how about I report this web to the CPC?
Shanghiist has many articles that could piss off the authority, you must know that. So my suggestion is be modest and try to hide your ugly soul inside.
winterfalling: YOU are the piece of turd.
By the way, winterfalling. It was your fellow Chinese person who started this movement of counting down till the end of the Olympics:
http://blog.5d.cn/vip/laojiang/200708/436143.html
Maybe it's this guy you need to report to the police first!
vladivostok:
You read in context.
the link you put on is not vicious to the Olympics in the lines but this one of Dan i condemn is different.
and it is not a movement... and i am an indivadual...and you break Dan's record in Ginnus as the biggest turd EVER
and here, suck my balls.
Couldn't find your balls babe. You sure they're there?
Wow. People like Winterfalling really exist? Is this just some huge joke? Does anyone else feel like this is so surreal? I just watched Cloverfield and if a giant monster stomped by my building I don't think I'd feel any stranger.
Oh, and please o mighty and life giving Winterfall, spare us your terrible acne-pocked and fuzz-mustached wrath! Do no denounce us from the holy sanctum of your desk underneath your third roommates bunk-bed. Gasp, whatever shall we do? The horror!
Tool.
hey dudes....watch out Vladivostok
better hide your balls when you speak here, there is some fucken ball licking fucker's around the room.
hell knows what other fithy shiet he is interested at...so...better cover your ass too !
hey Alec...fucking big time wannabe
i can't find the post they you spoke about forigner being able to travel and work abroad is a big time success for an individual and is a fucken important individual any corporate, and should look up onto such guys.
tell me where is it, so fucking funny, i wanna dig it out and humilate you again, LOL
hey Alec...fucking big time wannabe
i can't find the post that you spoke about forigner being able to travel and work abroad is a big time success for an individual and is a fucken important individual for any corporate, and people should look up onto such guy.
tell me where is it, so fucking funny, i wanna dig it out and humilate you again, LOL
Hey guys, it's supposed to be about comments' policy... I think we've hit rock bottom.
So please behave like adults or go get laid because apparently you are all frustrated!
Very surreal Alec. Never seen anything like it in my life. They talk like angry 5 year olds who just got their favorite toy taken away.....really freakin angry, yet still lacking in basic reasoning and communication skills so all they do is kick and scream.
@Alec
Oh Cloverfield，i watch that too. The biting monster with a big mouth is just like you and i am sure it smells bad...
and @littleme
Come on boy, you were going to pick up fight with Crespo the day before, now you laugh at other being childish... and you talk about communication? where is your logic afterall? in Alec's ass?
winterfalling
NO..no..no no..littleme is not a boy, is a she..consider a female spiece, though quite below the average looking...*giggle*
Err, what's a spiece?