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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #60 on: December 14, 2024, 09:20:15 AM »
i can't think of a single banned user who actually contributed meaningfully to this site. and don't say VK420 he fucking sucked way before his bunt and deserved to get banned for that debacle alone

I can only think of Sneaky as an example of someone who, after years of inoffensive commentary, took an interest in controversial topics and decided to share them for discussion.
It wasn’t until this election did he start talking about his resentments.


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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #61 on: December 14, 2024, 09:28:59 AM »
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i can't think of a single banned user who actually contributed meaningfully to this site. and don't say VK420 he fucking sucked way before his bunt and deserved to get banned for that debacle alone
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The bunt was most exciting moment in recent slap with the go fund me. Tracer was a jerk but he drove engagement. no one is basically the king of canceling and he's neuroatypical, why'd he even get banned? Mods don't understand but you need the bad guy so you can say look at him, he's not like us. Sneaky had an interesting mind and started some crazy topics. I'm not sure what cheetahsheets did but he was funny too.
the bunt was awful because anyone with common sense knew from day one nothing was gonna come of it, cheetahsheets would post 10 massive diatribes about himself in a row and make every thread go off topic with how fucking self obsessed he was, something about sneaky always felt a little off to me, and i think no one deserved to get banned for the same reason cheetahsheets did but i'll say the no one paranoia around this place is a little much at this point

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #62 on: December 14, 2024, 01:19:26 PM »
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Credit to @JM for bringing this up in the admin/mod questions

What happened to @SneakySecrets ?
Last I saw he made some kind of celebratory post about Trump winning but that's gone now.

Also I don't understand what the banned profile pic is for yet he's being "watched".
I think I've seen "moderated" as the next level of warning.

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Id like to hear from sneaky too. He brought a diverse perspective and thinking man's threads. I believe he was banned for dunking on liberals when Trump was declared victorious.
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No, despite that being particularly obnoxious, it was for using the “R” word.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #63 on: December 14, 2024, 01:42:34 PM »
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i can't think of a single banned user who actually contributed meaningfully to this site. and don't say VK420 he fucking sucked way before his bunt and deserved to get banned for that debacle alone
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I can only think of Sneaky as an example of someone who, after years of inoffensive commentary, took an interest in controversial topics and decided to share them for discussion.
It wasn’t until this election did he start talking about his resentments.

Poor dude lost his marbles.

There are certain people here I just can’t dig into, because they wear their demons on their sleeve. Sneaky seemed to kind of mentally wilt in real time, and I just find it depressing.

Smart guy, great poster, just seems like he fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole and the damage is done.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #64 on: December 14, 2024, 05:29:58 PM »
You use to be able to become a pal if you wrote slap on your balls and posted it, does anyone remember mongoloids hairy butthole? That shit was gross

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #65 on: December 14, 2024, 05:55:13 PM »
You use to be able to become a pal if you wrote slap on your balls and posted it, does anyone remember mongoloids hairy butthole? That shit was gross

🤣 I hope it lives on in everyone’s nightmares.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #66 on: December 14, 2024, 06:39:02 PM »
Ya know ya’ll can start on page one and relive your “glory” days, right? Not all of the pictures will load, but the threads are still there.

The queer skaters talking about queer shit thread began just four years ago this week. Two homophobic posters since summer, that I’m aware of, wandered in and started “asking questions” and making insulting remarks, so the progress around here is plenty slow. Slap isn’t a hive mind; it’s like any other corner of human existence - like finds like.

Anyway, on topic:
I don’t think I miss any recently banned people and plenty come back under other aliases. Remember that VersaceKid (he never deserved the sacredness of that number!) has another account through which he outed himself. Haha! But I tend to float in and out of threads vs trynna start constant fires or death matches or whatever.

I more miss the people that walked away one day and clearly never came back.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #67 on: December 16, 2024, 05:12:29 AM »
just a reminder that the mods should really be consistent and change all 'R' words to 'person' like they have been doing. theres posts where they seemingly ignored it's usage, or playing favorites since those people didnt get watched or banned

i linked a video to a south park clip of mrs.garrison saying the r word. should they have just dropped the hammer on me too? either way stoked on my lil badge.

also mentioned in this thread is that i get watched for not even saying the R word but linking a video that was obviously satirical. but the straight up N word can be a username?

this place is a joke and so is the mod reading this. btw getting your 5 or 6 boys to dunk on me isnt gonna do anything. yall are funny kids

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #68 on: December 16, 2024, 06:29:06 AM »
but the straight up N word can be a username?

this place is a joke and so is the mod reading this. btw getting your 5 or 6 boys to dunk on me isnt gonna do anything. yall are funny kids


Im pretty sure Lame_N-word is, but that doesn't bother me because black people own the word (just watch any black comedian special)...also found this post

May be a bit of a sensitive topic. Growing up in a smaller sized midwestern city (80k population) I was one of 3 black kids who skated. The other two stopped around 16, and now I'm the only one. We have 3 abysmal parks, I go to the couple popular spots but it's all white kids.

On a personal level as an older black dude what really annoys the shit out of me is when people throw the word around
when referring to white people or someone who isn't black.  Gary did this on Skateline when he went to some contest in europe and kept calling white kids the n-word...and I hate that shit because the kids might think its okay for them to refer to themselves as such or that its okay for them to say the word

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #69 on: December 16, 2024, 07:06:14 AM »
^I hate when TakashiSIxNine, kid mero, fat joe, etc say it too

it really comes down to:
if you don't possess a personal history of experiencing hearing (that word) to personally insult YOU/YOUR FAMILY/YOUR HISTORY (which comes with an intended immediate connotation of indifference/hatred/celebration of a certain people's hardship)...using (that word) is doing so at your own peril/risk.

I feel this rationale DEADS the whole "WeLL tHeY uSe iT wHy cAnT i?" argument
which really = "i'm willfully ignorant and most likely a default racist"



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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #70 on: December 16, 2024, 07:14:06 AM »
I'm white but the inner voice in my head says the n word sometimes

It's usually "these n* trippin"

Or "thisss n*"

How do you guys feel about this

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #71 on: December 16, 2024, 07:21:00 AM »
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Credit to @JM for bringing this up in the admin/mod questions

What happened to @SneakySecrets ?
Last I saw he made some kind of celebratory post about Trump winning but that's gone now.

Also I don't understand what the banned profile pic is for yet he's being "watched".
I think I've seen "moderated" as the next level of warning.

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Id like to hear from sneaky too. He brought a diverse perspective and thinking man's threads. I believe he was banned for dunking on liberals when Trump was declared victorious.
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No, despite that being particularly obnoxious, it was for using the “R” word.
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Rigger?

I had to google it

Generally, you really have to be a huge asshole to be banned on here.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #72 on: December 16, 2024, 08:00:19 AM »
^I hate when TakashiSIxNine, kid mero, fat joe, etc say it too

it really comes down to:
if you don't possess a personal history of experiencing hearing (that word) to personally insult YOU/YOUR FAMILY/YOUR HISTORY (which comes with an intended immediate connotation of indifference/hatred/celebration of a certain people's hardship)...using (that word) is doing so at your own peril/risk.

I feel this rationale DEADS the whole "WeLL tHeY uSe iT wHy cAnT i?" argument
which really = "i'm willfully ignorant and most likely a default racist"


For the longest time it was just a slang term for dude like bitch= woman. It's black vernacular that people who respected, emulated. Casper was saying it on kids. Some places where white and black are cool with each other, it's just slang. Fat joey crack is Puerto Rican, they're considered black due to some having black ancestry. But really it's more a class thing, if your neighborhood talks like that, you talk like that. If you're rich or you look down on rap culture you can't or wouldn't use it. Nowadays people get offended by anything so it's a mess

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #73 on: December 16, 2024, 09:20:52 AM »
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^I hate when TakashiSIxNine, kid mero, fat joe, etc say it too

it really comes down to:
if you don't possess a personal history of experiencing hearing (that word) to personally insult YOU/YOUR FAMILY/YOUR HISTORY (which comes with an intended immediate connotation of indifference/hatred/celebration of a certain people's hardship)...using (that word) is doing so at your own peril/risk.

I feel this rationale DEADS the whole "WeLL tHeY uSe iT wHy cAnT i?" argument
which really = "i'm willfully ignorant and most likely a default racist"


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For the longest time it was just a slang term for dude like bitch= woman. It's black vernacular that people who respected, emulated. Casper was saying it on kids. Some places where white and black are cool with each other, it's just slang. Fat joey crack is Puerto Rican, they're considered black due to some having black ancestry. But really it's more a class thing, if your neighborhood talks like that, you talk like that. If you're rich or you look down on rap culture you can't or wouldn't use it. Nowadays people get offended by anything so it's a mess

The Nword is not a class thing...dumbest shit I ever heard, I have family members who grew up in the projects that don't use that word...I know white/ Mexican/ Asian kids who grew up in the hood that do and dont use that word, the ones that don't have some self respect. Don't try to act like they say it on some being poor community hip hop shit, its honestly some ignorant bullshit way of trying to be cool...you know the word commonly as poser in skating.  Im not got gonna flat out attack a poser but you get the vibe when someones faking the funk or perpetrating

I think its crazy how you assume what is "black"  and that black vernacular is an actual thing. 
I never heard of poor Caucasian vernacular or poor Asian vernacular, to me its a fucked up how some people assume that a handfull entertainers control the verbiage of what is considered black speech communication. 

Also imitating what one assumes is black is highly problematic IMO, I never speak about black people like were some monolith, we have some common struggles, but there isn't anything you can point to and say that's what defines a black person or anyone of color for that matter.   The Fat Joe discussion has been ongoing, but a lot of people in hip hop don't fuck with him or Cypress Hill for those reasons.

I'm white but the inner voice in my head says the n word sometimes

It's usually "these n* trippin"

Or "thisss n*"

How do you guys feel about this

I feel you're trolling ... and that you also probably have some deep seeded insecurities if you have to use that as part of your inner monologue
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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #74 on: December 16, 2024, 09:54:14 AM »
I look down on rap culture so far be it from me to use the term but I see my younger neighbors doing it. You can be poor and have class like you can be rich and lack it but I do see it more in poorer areas. If ebt says it to himself it probably has more to do with raps ubiquity than insecurities. Nowadays there's a push to make it offensive but when me and fat Joe came up it was just slang. And nobody was pissed at cypress hill in the 90s for that. Cube had his own reasons.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #75 on: December 16, 2024, 10:12:05 AM »


this place is a joke and so is the mod reading this. btw getting your 5 or 6 boys to dunk on me isnt gonna do anything. yall are funny kids

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #76 on: December 16, 2024, 11:06:17 AM »
Nothing confuses me more than viral videos of white people fighting other white people, and they’re both using the N-word.

It goes without saying that it’s a word that shouldn’t be uttered under any circumstance, but that always leaves me puzzled. You’re kinda fucked if that’s the word popping into your lizard brain during some kind of violent outburst. 

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #77 on: December 17, 2024, 12:03:45 PM »
Why did ebt card get banned? I think he used to be bawtawd and that guy was funny chaotic

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #78 on: December 20, 2024, 09:33:52 AM »
RIP Sammy Brinkis.

I wanna play you in a game of SKATE for the right to continue talking shit on me… You think you got me?

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #79 on: December 22, 2024, 01:04:25 PM »
Okay, op, I’ll put in Tyroneshoelaces. Dude was around for ages with the opposite take in a lot of threads. I rarely agreed with him and shame he went out kookin it after such a long stay, but I was entertained by his takes.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #80 on: December 22, 2024, 05:42:04 PM »
Okay, op, I’ll put in Tyroneshoelaces. Dude was around for ages with the opposite take in a lot of threads. I rarely agreed with him and shame he went out kookin it after such a long stay, but I was entertained by his takes.
there used to be poster on ughh with almost the same name and i always wondered if they were the same person.
had to be really

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #81 on: December 24, 2024, 07:23:38 AM »
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i'm here as a neurotypical, mostly able bodied motherfucker to shut down conversation and language disparaging people with intellectual or developmental differences
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for all you smooth brained bozos
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“who police the police?”

you did EBT card. you did.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #82 on: December 24, 2024, 08:51:45 AM »
Ah, EBT card, how we miss you so.

I shed a tear knowing he will no longer be around after all the joy he brought us, all the novel thoughts and mindblowing insights he shared with us over the month of December 2024. It was like a treasure trove of gifts leading up to the holidays that only we here at the MassageBoards were so lucky to experience during this brief moment in time.

First, there was the...well...erm...okay, but he did give us all the...you know...hmmm...actually, forget it, nevermind.
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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #83 on: December 24, 2024, 11:16:08 AM »
Okay, op, I’ll put in Tyroneshoelaces. Dude was around for ages with the opposite take in a lot of threads. I rarely agreed with him and shame he went out kookin it after such a long stay, but I was entertained by his takes.

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Ah, EBT card, how we miss you so.

I shed a tear knowing he will no longer be around after all the joy he brought us, all the novel thoughts and mindblowing insights he shared with us over the month of December 2024. It was like a treasure trove of gifts leading up to the holidays that only we here at the MassageBoards were so lucky to experience during this brief moment in time.

First, there was the...well...erm...okay, but he did give us all the...you know...hmmm...actually, forget it, nevermind.
ya know, I made the thread with the best intentions but this cracked me up and spitting on graves is well within the scope of the thread.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #84 on: December 24, 2024, 12:26:30 PM »
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i'm here as a neurotypical, mostly able bodied motherfucker to shut down conversation and language disparaging people with intellectual or developmental differences
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for all you smooth brained bozos
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“who police the police?”

you did EBT card. you did.

RIP

Well, i can say that until now, when i searched, i was unaware that “smooth brain” is an actual brain malformation . Thanx for keeping me honest. Won’t be going there again.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #85 on: December 24, 2024, 02:36:37 PM »
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i'm here as a neurotypical, mostly able bodied motherfucker to shut down conversation and language disparaging people with intellectual or developmental differences
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for all you smooth brained bozos
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“who police the police?”

you did EBT card. you did.

RIP
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Well, i can say that until now, when i searched, i was unaware that “smooth brain” is an actual brain malformation . Thanx for keeping me honest. Won’t be going there again.

i had to look it up also.
“Oh boy lemme post a link to an IG story that only exists for 24 hours that will likely be deleted 47 seconds after it was posted!”

SCREENSHOTS PEOPLE HOLY FUCK.

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« Reply #86 on: December 24, 2024, 06:15:42 PM »
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i'm here as a neurotypical, mostly able bodied motherfucker to shut down conversation and language disparaging people with intellectual or developmental differences
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for all you smooth brained bozos
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“who police the police?”

you did EBT card. you did.

RIP
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Well, i can say that until now, when i searched, i was unaware that “smooth brain” is an actual brain malformation . Thanx for keeping me honest. Won’t be going there again.
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i had to look it up also.

Oh dang! I actually knew about this a decade ago because a friend of a friend is now a famous LA pastor and his daughter has this, lissencephaly, yeah? “Smooth brain” isn’t an insult I’ve seen online for too long. Kinda messed up that culturally we’re still pulling from peoples actual developmental disabilities to dunk on each other. Though I shouldn’t be surprised.

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #87 on: December 24, 2024, 07:20:12 PM »
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i'm here as a neurotypical, mostly able bodied motherfucker to shut down conversation and language disparaging people with intellectual or developmental differences
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for all you smooth brained bozos
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“who police the police?”

you did EBT card. you did.

RIP
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Well, i can say that until now, when i searched, i was unaware that “smooth brain” is an actual brain malformation . Thanx for keeping me honest. Won’t be going there again.
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i had to look it up also.
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Oh dang! I actually knew about this a decade ago because a friend of a friend is now a famous LA pastor and his daughter has this, lissencephaly, yeah? “Smooth brain” isn’t an insult I’ve seen online for too long. Kinda messed up that culturally we’re still pulling from peoples actual developmental disabilities to dunk on each other. Though I shouldn’t be surprised.

It all started with “dumb” being wrenched from the non-verbal

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #88 on: March 01, 2025, 01:05:59 PM »
Sick_McCranck_,

you were a gentleman and a kook. your opinions were not always internally consistent, but you were fearless about sharing them. i personally enjoyed your humor. r.i.p.
“Oh boy lemme post a link to an IG story that only exists for 24 hours that will likely be deleted 47 seconds after it was posted!”

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Re: Obituaries for the recently Ban-Hammered
« Reply #89 on: March 01, 2025, 03:40:58 PM »
Sick_McCranck_,

you were a gentleman and a kook. your opinions were not always internally consistent, but you were fearless about sharing them. i personally enjoyed your humor. r.i.p.

I remember his banana avatar. I remember that his rep was terrible. I remember that I didn't have him on ignore. But, I don't remember much else. I had no strong positive or negative feelings.

Bummer he blew it and did something stupid.

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