HuffPost Bingo

From FluffPo (the blog of bad Huffington Post behavior), here's the HuffPo bingo board.

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It’s time to make a bingo card for Boing Boing.
- UrbanUndead
  
  Heh. It’s fun to say, too. Boing Boing Bingo. I’m reminded of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbL9vr4Q2LU
- http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Mari Lwyd
  
  Center square:
  Look at this
  X
  JUST LOOK AT IT
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  “SteamPunk5…SteamPunk5…Unicorn10…ImpracticalFurniture7….”
UrbanUndead

They forgot my peeviest pet peeve that ever peeved: title of article coyly phrased as a question. HATE.
- Billy Green
  
  They also left out the overuse of superlatives in headlines (e.g., “Is this the worst [X] EVER?” or “PHOTOS: The 24 best [X] ever!”)
http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

There a Boing Boing bingo here, but it’s like 5 years old and lacks our most recent offenses, shortcomings and irritating obsessions: http://boingboingbingo.net/

There was also a “Boing Boing D&D alignment chart” on Reddit or Encylopedia Dramatica, that I cannot now find. I think I was Chaotic Neutral.
- http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11
  
  Definitely old – no obsessive fawning over anything Apple. :)
  
  But yeah, amanicdroid has it right, fo sho.
- http://maggiekb.com/ Maggie Koerth-Baker
  
  Was this before or after I came along? Because I kind of want an alignment assignment.
  - http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza
    
    I’m afraid it was before! Some reader here needs to do am update
http://twitter.com/agraham999 agraham999

As the creator of said blog and bingo game…I can tell you I will likely not run out of material any time soon. Please read on as you’ll find bits on Text Neck, Busted Penis, surprisingly attractive lesbians, Sex Tape, Slutty Katie, and more…so much more it’s just depressing.

Here’s where I sing a sad song of a long lost love…or not.
- Guest
  
  That they got their watch obsession to pay the bills is some serious blog-fu.
rattypilgrim

How about “censorship by the mods of comments that in no way go against HuffPo’s guidelines” or “over-run by right wing trolls especially since the hook up with AOL”?
- http://twitter.com/agraham999 agraham999
  
  You do realize that HuffPo is the biggest troll of the site? Almost everything they write these days is trollish. Except the adorable animal videos of course. Those are soooo cute! MORE SLIDESHOWS!
  - rattypilgrim
    
    Yep. I gave up on HuffPo long ago for that reason. At least it used to have some interesting regular commentors (sp?) whose insights I really miss.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  How about “censorship by the mods of comments that in no way go against HuffPo’s guidelines” or “over-run by right wing trolls especially since the hook up with AOL”?
  
  I had comments removed from HuffPo that were literally just about the weather or geographical information. I strongly suspect software.
- http://www.ecoevolution.org/ Ian G
  
  Yeah, used to like HuffPo comments but they turned pro-Troll and you couldn’t get anything in that was not a one sentence affirmation or slur of someone. I pulled the chute on that place a long time ago….
http://thebird-feeder.com/ Ben Carlsen

What? No “scientists baffled”?
- http://twitter.com/agraham999 agraham999
  
  I’m definitely going to have to expand this into a drinking game.
Guest

I’m hoping Zigzagatha will take a shot at creating a BoingBoing Bingo board.

My sides still hurt from laughing at this:

http://boingboing.net/2011/07/06/boring-magazine-cont.html
gws

“Someone is SLAMMED by Someone Else”
Stonewalker

HuffPo Fox News
________ = ________

Pro-skub = Anti-Skub

http://pbfcomics.com/20/
Brian Donohue

“GAME CHANGER”
Stonewalker

The board is missing “comment section made up of 90%+ smug ‘evolved’ urbanite worldview”
- http://twitter.com/agraham999 agraham999
  
  That’s too easy…considering most comment sections on sites are full of smug world views. Generally I’m disappointed that my smugness is too late for the conversation.
Lobster

What would you mark if there was a story about how the gays are doomed because Palin and Bachmann are having a cat fight? And the article is written by Snookie, whose author photo is photoshopped poorly (you can tell by the pixels) into a picture of Boehner crying?
- http://twitter.com/agraham999 agraham999
  
  I think in this case it’s time to make a decision on whether or not it’s too early in the day to start drinking.
http://maggiekb.com/ Maggie Koerth-Baker

No HuffPo bingo board will ever be complete without a square for “Everything Your Evil ‘Western’ Doctor Told You Is Wrong!!!111!!!”

Preferably authored by somebody who is trying to sell you their latest collection of expensive natural remedies.
MadMolecule

I’ve only read Huffington once or twice, so this didn’t really ring any bells for me. But I had to point out that you can’t play bingo with only one board design. Everyone has to have a different board.
niktemadur

OK, somebody’s gotta say it: “Crying Boner photo” is the current Paul Lynde of HuffPo!

Seriously, it’s because of crap like this that I removed HuffPo from my bookmarks a couple of years ago, I cannot look at another picture of Palin, Bachmann, Cantor, Boner, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al, without tensing up.

Doesn’t the current pop culture state that bad publicity is better than no publicity, because it keeps the public talking about you? These people have the huge microphones of the Murdoch Propaganda Channel and Clear Channel, but then HuffPo, and even Olbermann and Maddow, are part of the echo machine which I have realized does NOT keep me informed as much as keep me in daily hysterics.

So I gave up on these media outlets, and if a deeply offensive face like Bachmann’s is in an article I come across and want to read, there’s always the “Remove Object” Firefox extension.
Thad Boyd

How the hell is “Headline contains the word ‘slams’” not on there?
- http://twitter.com/agraham999 agraham999
  
  You can always make more cards…not like there’s any shortage of sensationalistic crap to put in the boxes.
Jonathan Badger

Also missing square for quantum-mystic newage holistic healing espoused by Chopra or similar type.
yragentman

Huffington Post still exists? I removed it from my favorites and have not been there since AOsmelL took it over.

BoingBoing, Crooks&Liars, DailyKOS, RawStory; rinse and repeat.
- Doug Black
  
  I would add TPM, Daily Kos and Paul Krugman’s blog to that list.
Brian Danielson

these ones are easy. “john stuart explains…” “ed schultz is angry over…” “Rachael maddow takes on…” Like i need talking heads telling me how fucked up things are and then other trolls censoring my comments on a quasi corporate website.
http://twitter.com/Dree10K1 Dree

Let’s see…
-Article about science that begins with inane statement of fact/question: “Dinosaur bones are big. But just how big are they?”
-Unecessary shiny dohickey costing $50+
-bananas
-garish painting of big-eyed homunculi
-coffee/beverages
-olde tymey crappe
-steampunk
-langauge cribbed from reddit/4chan: “TSA fail”
-TSA
-copyright
-Doctorow plugs
-woo-ridden health advice
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V7JPD6HBS53QOM7RYHFPZ2OQUY Sloan
  
  You left off
  -Occupy …
Ann Fisher

There needs to be a pseudoscience square.
Robert Goodin

A freebie square is what happened on Jon Stewart last night. I don’t think you can go to the front page without that being there.
Billy Green

I stopped reading HuffPo several months ago. These are many of the reasons why.
Stahlbrand

What, did they forget “Woo-filled Article on Health” and “Something by or about Depack Chopra”?
http://twitter.com/agraham999 agraham999

It’s generally conversational variations on how much money she has daaaahling.