The ever lovable Rob, has a dark secret. Well, i say secret, but if he's within 10 yards of a computer you'll see it soon enough. That's right, he's an ateaseweb member.
I recently decided i needed to get to know my co-host better, and, as i was bored, i thought there was no way better than to delve into the depths of the most argumentative, pretentious and critical music message board around.
For those of you who have never heard about this shady place, atease is originally an radiohead message board, but has grown since its conception into a music and even general message board. I personally ended up spending most of my time browsing the food threads, but i found my enemies even in this seemingly benign topic.
I think atease can be summed up by encylopedia dramatica's article in:
"There are three types of people on Atease: those who post strictly in the main forum and worship Radiohead members' various body parts, those who post strictly in the other music forum and compulsively create lists to prove their musical nerdiness, and those who stay mostly in general chat and are obsessed with pwning one another"
My first horrific encounter with this obsessive and frankly angry side was when i was posted a thread asking if there are any foods which Americans like and British people don't; such as root beer. One ateaser came up with the sensible suggestion of grapefruit. This was followed up with "gRAPEFRUIT - brilliant cut in half, sprinkled with sugar then shoved up a girls c*!t." Highly inappropriate and ungentleman like behaviour I'm sure you'll agree. Unfortunately these sorts of replies are far too common. However, even more annoying are the pointless polls such as "is ice a real food?"
Damn these people are bored.
After my short spell on ateaseweb, i have concluded that this world isn't for me. I can't cut it with these people, there constant need for oneupmanship, pretentiousness and inappropriate conduct have got to me. How this website has been going for 10 years is beyond me. Actually, its because of the obsessive and ever so slightly neurotic fans. I believe I've gained a quintessential view into Rob's psyche, and can happily conclude he isn't one of these sorts of fans, but is simply part of the small minority of ateasers that are actually normal.
resources, if you dare - ateaseweb
Dasal
I recently decided i needed to get to know my co-host better, and, as i was bored, i thought there was no way better than to delve into the depths of the most argumentative, pretentious and critical music message board around.
For those of you who have never heard about this shady place, atease is originally an radiohead message board, but has grown since its conception into a music and even general message board. I personally ended up spending most of my time browsing the food threads, but i found my enemies even in this seemingly benign topic.
I think atease can be summed up by encylopedia dramatica's article in:
"There are three types of people on Atease: those who post strictly in the main forum and worship Radiohead members' various body parts, those who post strictly in the other music forum and compulsively create lists to prove their musical nerdiness, and those who stay mostly in general chat and are obsessed with pwning one another"
My first horrific encounter with this obsessive and frankly angry side was when i was posted a thread asking if there are any foods which Americans like and British people don't; such as root beer. One ateaser came up with the sensible suggestion of grapefruit. This was followed up with "gRAPEFRUIT - brilliant cut in half, sprinkled with sugar then shoved up a girls c*!t." Highly inappropriate and ungentleman like behaviour I'm sure you'll agree. Unfortunately these sorts of replies are far too common. However, even more annoying are the pointless polls such as "is ice a real food?"
Damn these people are bored.
After my short spell on ateaseweb, i have concluded that this world isn't for me. I can't cut it with these people, there constant need for oneupmanship, pretentiousness and inappropriate conduct have got to me. How this website has been going for 10 years is beyond me. Actually, its because of the obsessive and ever so slightly neurotic fans. I believe I've gained a quintessential view into Rob's psyche, and can happily conclude he isn't one of these sorts of fans, but is simply part of the small minority of ateasers that are actually normal.
resources, if you dare - ateaseweb
Dasal
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