Sometimes cell phone cameras and portable digital video cameras can turn innocent bystanders into a police investigator's best friend. But in the case of a dorm room fire at a party at NYU, the partygoers' documentation helped as much as it hindered the investigation. After sifting through 40,000 images and videos of young women making out, posing with goofy sexy faces, and people drawing penis pictures on a passed out student's face, police finally determined that the fire was caused by a dropped, lit cigarette. (Seriously, enough with the goofy sexy faces!)
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OMG. Tres, you get it, right? I'm one to see humor in anything, but... you don't have a humor tag. The Onion is SATIRE.
As far as satire goes, that's pretty awesome.
I love the onion.
1OK, you added a humor tag, but if you were going for satire in your writing, you still need a little bit of work, sweetie.
2OMG, this is genius! I laughed so hard watching this.
3golden
4we all know the Onion is FAKE right?
5ridiculous
6Tres: How old are you?
7Gkitty, my guess is 21 or 22, frankly. And someone's niece.
8Ouch, chaton.
Writing aside ....
9This hodge-podge of different topics (plus all the cat posts) needs some reformatting and I'm not sure who to send suggestions to. Teamsugar?
Lil harsh...
Cordata- I agree to an extent. I'm not quite sure what this new section *is* yet. Didn't there used to be a separate humour site?
10I love it how there was swearing,funny texts, dildos, and girls making out but the man and the woman didn't bat an eye or realize the situation was funny in any way!
11It's funny! Well, I enjoyed this post. I like the Onion. I mean, I can see how it relates to culture, but I miss GiggleSugar! All these joke topics really don't do well mixed among the super serious topics of feminism, gay rights, abortion, the Catholic church, oh my!
12I think Tres is developing a voice here, but it's still the humor/cat posts that feel out of place and contrived (some of them).
13honestly i have been paying about 85% less attention to this site than i used to since the demise of Giggle and Dear as they used to be
this is absolutely ridiculous how bad this site has gotten
14This may be a case of "if you don't like it, go somewhere else".
15They obviously got rid of Dear,Citizen and Giggle for a reason. We don't know that reason, but there it is. After a while you either learn to deal or bail.
Buhahah that was so funny!
But seriously, I miss Citizen and Dear.. and sorta hate cat posts. I feel like I have to sift through a lot of BS to reach the stories I'm interested in on Tres.
16Haha! I love The Onion! Thanks for posting, Tres!
17I get that it's a joke, but I think you mean hurt as much as it helped or possibly hindered as much as it helped.
18I really wish it was back to Dear, Giggle, and Citizen Sugar as well. Or at least Dear/Giggle and a separate Citizen-like site as well. Based on the headline I thought it was real, until I realized that it was the Onion. Don't mix the crap in with the serious news please!
19You know the only thing wrong with Tres? The people that complain all the time
20Ouch - let's not attack Tres. I am on this site way less than before for the same reasons but honestly the patronizing posts about her age and voice need to stop. Don't read it or message her privately.
21Yeah, why are we digging into Tres' personal stuff? Thats just really really rude.
22Thank you simplyfat87 and smack83
23I actually appreciated seeing this on here. Sometimes I see Onion articles on Digg or on The Onion itself, but on those places I always know it's satire before I see it. When I first saw this, I didn't notice it was the Onion, and it was even funnier when I realized it was just humor.
24I agree, Chouette!
25LMAO!
26I want Dear back!!!! NOW!!!
27I liked it better when the three were separate because you found more posts about what category you were interested in, but I think Tres is doing the best she can. She does have three major groups she needs to cover for crying out loud.
28Yeah, I agree, this tres sugar thing - not so good.
29haah--I thought this was hilarious! like chouette I read/watched the whole thing "thinking" it was real, and being totally confused because 1. i didn't hear about a dorm fire 2. who the heck takes 40,000 pics like that!?!?! it was hilarious during, and slowly as I realized it was "fake". I don't read carefully and did not notice it was from the Onion until after.
as to the rude comments about Tres--GET A LIFE! She is doing her job, and d/n personally attack you. again, as to the first comment--I think it was supposed to be written "seriously" as to trick people--that made it much more funny to me. if you have a problem with the other three sites being gone thats not tres' fault! i cant stand rude ppl!
30Ahahahahaha, that was a good laugh. On a personal note, I think Tres is doing a great job but I really do miss DearSugar..
31ok, what the f%&k is The Onion?!
I'm an Aussie, not in the US, but seriously I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
32Go to theonion.com
33I dont get it. So they just spend all day making up fake news stories?
34Yes. They actually have a print publication that is sold alongside "real" newspapers. It's a satire site. If you read and watch the stuff it's really funny. I'm not sure how much of it might be lost on a non-American (or non-USAer for you PC people).
35Wow. Thats full on. I have enough trouble keeping up with all the stories in our real newspaper's. I cant imagine buying one full of made up stuff. Which is a pretty stupid statement coming from someone who spends all her time reading gossip sites and mags...
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