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Cleita

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6. Eh, the name Yahoo should be a hint.

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 06:59 PM

Dec 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_(Gulliver's_Travels)

Swift describes the Yahoos as vile and savage creatures, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person".

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Gee. why is it that I call Yahoo "The Pigshit Hog Waller of the Internet"? [View all] HughBeaumont Dec 2011 OP

It is amazing...I think right-wing groups are paying posters... joeybee12 Dec 2011 #1

wow, chock full of overt racists spanone Dec 2011 #2

Yahoo comments have long been freeper territory. hobbit709 Dec 2011 #3

It's not just Yahoo, there are racists everywhere. sakabatou Dec 2011 #4

It's just that they seem to hop on and self-congratulate on riot stories way too often. HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #7

Agreed. graywarrior Dec 2011 #11

They yanked the comments section a few years ago, brought it back IDemo Dec 2011 #5

Eh, the name Yahoo should be a hint. Cleita Dec 2011 #6

Youtube comments always give Yahoo a run for their money in terms of pathetic ignorance. bullwinkle428 Dec 2011 #8

You got that right. Maccagirl Dec 2011 #10

They're different flavors of offensively ridiculous BS, though... (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2011 #14

Wish the comment section at yahoo would go away again abelenkpe Dec 2011 #9

There are definitely some (not all) malevolent and offensive comments regarding this incident. Minarchist Dec 2011 #12

You mean the riot that broke out at the mall because Lil Wayne and Drake were there? Quantess Dec 2011 #13

From practically every single poster? HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #15