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What are some good examples of thread backfires?

siddx

Magnificent Eager Mighty Brilliantly Erect Registereduser
Wasn't much of a backfire but years ago I drunkenly posted a list of "amazing facts!" that were about 30% pure horseshit. Once I sobered up and realized I had included shit I already knew was fake (ducks quack and all that) I felt like a complete dumbass.


Go Ly Down is king of backfires though.
 
Let me tell you the story of how I scam people on ebay and pretend to be the victim.

Fun read. He wanted to keep the money without giving the product, and actually thought gaf would side with him.

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Rapstah

Member
I read the entire bible translation thread. It's the most complete dismantling of a person's work and then the person I've ever seen on GAF. That shit doesn't happen often enough.
 
I read the entire bible translation thread. It's the most complete dismantling of a person's work and then the person I've ever seen on GAF. That shit doesn't happen often enough.
I think by the last few pages (before he tripped on the stupidly offensive post about transexeuals), you could see that he realized he fucked up big tim with the slurs and bigotry in his text. "Ok more context got it". It looked like he wanted to slowly back out..."gracefully". But of course he did himself in just as he was executing his exit strategy.

Good riddance.
 
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Jpop

Unconfirmed Member

What got me in this thread was this.


No. half-sister. It barely even counts.

My dad had an affair with another woman. Practically had another family in secret. Well, one kid anyway.

Parents broke up, he left, moved to a different country. Few years later he gets back in contact inviting me to his wedding 'cause he wanted to make it official with this skank.

I go meet his 'family' and his daughter, who's 5 years younger than me. Basically talked to her all night 'cause my family disowned him and I didn't know anyone else.

Stayed at his house, got drunk had sex. The end. I could barely keep it up because my head was spinning. Literally a few dozen thrusts. Didn't talk about it again and I never mentioned it to my dad. They live in England now so I barely see them

Dude fucked his little sister, da fuck.
 
I think the thread that got me posting on here in the first place was the one where a guy kept on having his Xbox 360s crap out during the early "red rings of death" problems, railing against Microsoft, only for someone to point out that he had his consoles on top of the subwoofer, which he tried to cover his ass about by claiming it was a wine chiller.
 

Forkball

Member
The Layton twitter fiasco.

To sum it up, a user named WiiWillRockU posted a topic or two about a supposed viral marketing twitter account for the new Prof. Layton game. It gained some attention, but the threads didn't garner a whole lot of replies. Eventually, the Layton twitter reveals that it was ceasing and that the twitter account was run by some random person. grandjedi6, with the appropriate tag "Master of the Google Search", discovers that the person running the fake Layton twitter was actually WiiWillRockU. Que about a dozen pages of GAF dogpiling and begging not to get banned.
 

Tambini

Member
Does anyone remember a thread where someone was supposed to give away a copy of xenoblade for wii but then they were lying about it or something like that?
 

FLAguy954

Junior Member
There was another one where this dude was trying to justify paying for sex (via an expensive necklace) with a broke chick who used religion as a crutch against him.

I wonder if anyone can find the link for me?
 
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