The Cracked Thread

Caring about the comments are not something I would recommend doing.

Occasionally there are some gems in there.

ninjaclown: Well, they were basically all in agreement that Cheese is a worthless hack that rehashes the same articles over and over again. I dunno, they were freaked out over something. And they weren't tactful about it, either.

Sounds very tactless indeed, but then again it is a comments section on the internet. You can never be to sure how representative of their readership the commentators are, it's not like everyone who reads Cracked also reads/writes comments.

I don't know I mean in Cheese articles like where he proposed is the only time ive ever seen most of the comments be positive.

... This thread is so... prophetic.

I recently meant to look up the thread and post something, but then decided against it, but said that if it comes up again on the New Posts list on its own, I'll post it anyway.

And the thing I wanted to post is that the article where Cheese proposed to his now-fiancee is legitimately one of the sweetest things I've ever seen.

I think this was a good read.

I just sort the comments by votes. Generally the most voted comments tend to be cool jokes. Or silly puns, but I love silly puns.

I do the same thing, but I also read the most negative ones.

I can tell you why I hate John Cheese. Everything comes back to his, "I am poor - AND SO CAN YOU!!" outlook. He straight-up tells his readers that they're doomed to work shitty jobs and live from check to check forever..

I can assure you I'd be extremely depressed if I took more than 1/10th of what is written on Cracked semi-seriously.

How do you even sort in reverse order?

Ooh, when you said sort I thought you meant you just scrolled through and stopped at all the positive ones. I didn't know you could sort comments.

And yet his articles are some of the most uplifting hopeful things there. Its saying that yes some people will end up in bad situations, but you can still make the most of them? Do you even read his articles or just the Title and then bitch?

Just go around the fora. Numerous posters my age and younger who disprove everything John Cheese (a middle aged man ranting about today's spoiled youth) says about life.

Nobody else on Cracked wrap up their generalizations as advice.

I am getting quite tired of this deification of Theodore Roosevelt. It's becoming its Chuck Norris.

The world needs to know about him.

Eh I don't mid Cheese's. Sure not everybody goes through what he has or will, but his articles are uplifting and hopeful while still managing to be somewhat funny.

That's fair. I just say take JC's word with a grain of salt.

And John Cheese isn't entirely credible either. (*rim shot*)

Hmm, what JC could he mean...?

Ah right.

Look, there's no need to have a go at John Cleese like that. He's a perfectly respectable comedian who just happens to have 3 or 4 divorces to pay for.

Yeah, you could tone it down a bit.

Something on Cracked that's been peeving me lately: number 3 from here.

I don't really think the best way to respond to an out of context gag as sophomoric as Astro Boy's oil change as to claim that "Tezuka was a pedo". Also, this does kind of stretch the definition of "sex scene"... And take it to a bad place.

I understand why people might have problems with John Cheese, but I consistently find his stuff insightful and interesting. The one I have a problem with is Gladstone; that guy's a full-on hack. Cheese, Seanbaby, Christina, they're all fully developed writers who've found their own voice, but Gladstone writes meaningless bloggy shit that I could read anywhere. He's not smart, he's not funny, he's incredibly boring. Friends who read the site tell me his stuff used to be a lot sharper.

I've never liked one of Gladstone's articles.

For a long time, I wondered what the deal was with Soren Bowie. Then I saw a picture of him, and was all, "What's the deal with this OH MY GOD."

Cheese articles are mostly poorly thought out, and exemplifies the "it happened to me therefore its true". If his article isn't about (his) life, it's mostly poorly researched (e.g. that "Nintendo is losing their mind" article).

Oh yeah, that article was great.

I totally made a mistake in my last post. I was thinking of that Dan guy, 'not Gladstone. Sorry, Gladstone.

My absolute favorite article on Cracked is the one about history's strangest extreme diets by Christina H. It's outrageous. Especially the one about the guy whose diet left him so fat at the end of his life, his funeral was... not pretty.