🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

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Jon, nobody in the US drives a Yugo. You've probably mistaken the Fiat 500 and the Smart fortwo for Yugos.
 
trombonista said:
Jon, nobody in the US drives a Yugo. You've probably mistaken the Fiat 500 and the Smart fortwo for Yugos.
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I think anyone here just says "Yugo" as a term for a shitty car, like "Gremlin" or "Pinto," but Sweets seems to think it's still a relevant car. I would not want to be stuck with 1996 low-end Yugoslavian cars.
 
Jon Sweet standing at a window watching people order pizza is pretty much his life in a nutshell: Watching other people live life but not being included.

I'd say it's sad, but he's such an asshole that it's actually hilarious.
 
Shadow Fox said:
Let's be real, when he refers to "home" he's not talking about the dump he and his mom just had to vacate. He still thinks he's going to move back into the A-State dorms and return to college life, like a normal 45-year-old.

I really like that his rebuttal to someone saying his idol would criticize his art is just "Nuh-uh!"
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I like to imagine he did ask John K. for feedback and either got savaged and in denial about it or ignored because he wasn't a supple peach in the summer sun.
 
flossman said:
I have the most disturbing image in my head of him staring in and licking the window. Please get this image out of my head.
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Picture him writing that fateful article that triggered the chain of events that led to his expulsion. 21 years later, we know the ultimate outcome, but when he sat down to write it, he had no idea it would lead to his ruin. No one told him what plagiarism was. He thought he was being sooooooo clever, and the only result was that he ended up living in a decaying hovel drawing SSDI, and being a source of endless schadenfreude for us. So, while he stared out the window at people having more fun than him, the seeds for his downfall were being sown.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
A school cafeteria meal was a sumptuous buffet with quail meat, ASU was like Paris, and dorm life was like some kind of palace harem (what with the chinaphone and TV).
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The thing is, to him, it WAS paradise. He's revealed he came from very limited means so the computers, the TV, the food, to him, would be amazing, and it's small wonder he wanted to go back. What he can't grasp is that his experience, while not completely unique, was not the norm. Most people in college come from middle to upper class backgrounds, so college isn't some sort of lavish wonderland to the majority of students.
 
Good God, he's graying.
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This perfectly encapulates my reaction to the latest idiocy from the Kiwi Fartknockers following my last blog, in which I mentioned how much business the kids at A-State used to give the local Papa John's (though I wonder if that'll change following the John Schnatter dust-up, and if the snowflakes will be throwing their business to a more ideologically-friendly eatery in future)? It was just so ridiculous I had to laugh at the absurd battery of mental gymnastics these dinguses have to put themselves through to attack me. You just mised your shot at the Olympics by six months, fellas. Good luck in 2020.


Okay, first, I wasn't jealous that the other guys on the floor were having pizza; I was, if anything, a bit puzzled. I mean, the grub in the Woodlands was pretty good, I found. I was partial to their pasta bar (which, I admit, would go well with a pizza-- but as I said, I prefer Little Ceasar's), and have lauded their heavenly taco pie many a time. But I realize that not everyone digs cafeteria food; I can respect that. Hey, more for me, right? On that note, quail was strictly a dish for special occasions at ASU. I only tried it once, and despite what these morons think, I know the difference between it and chicken. Quail is a smaller bird and the flesh has a more piquant flavor.

Secondly, no, I never licked the glass of the window in my room. I don't know what dank, dark orifice you dug that piece of stupidity from, but, please put it back. It stinks. Thirdly, The Herald was a part-time job, you shit-wits. And even if those Scrooges had paid me any sort of regular salary, I wouldn't have needed to spend it on food. All I'd have to do is mention Papa John's in my next newspaper article, and my readers would give me all the pizza I could eat. That is the beauty of the journalism lifestyle, boys. Writin' columns, gettin' goodies.
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As for the Yugo... well, hey, you progressive dick-licks loved it once. You wanted it before. Like most of the ideas your three active brain cells manage to wheeze out about once a decade, you woke up, had an existential crisis of conscience or whatever, hastily turned your back on it, and ran like hell, and now try to deny you ever embraced such a peurile notion. It was a thing. Admit it. Own it... with pride, bitches. "A liberal guy and a liberal gal/ Buy a Yugo..."
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HaggisMcCrablice said:
The Herald was a part-time job, you shit-wits. And even if those Scrooges had paid me any sort of regular salary, I wouldn't have needed to spend it on food. All I'd have to do is mention Papa John's in my next newspaper article, and my readers would give me all the pizza I could eat. That is the beauty of the journalism lifestyle, boys. Writin' columns, gettin' goodies.
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He thinks that people reading a college paper would buy him pizza because he mentioned a national chain? Amazing.
HaggisMcCrablice said:
As for the Yugo... well, hey, you progressive dick-licks loved it once. You wanted it before. Like most of the ideas your three active brain cells manage to wheeze out about once a decade, you woke up, had an existential crisis of conscience or whatever, hastily turned your back on it, and ran like hell, and now try to deny you ever embraced such a puerile (sic) notion. It was a thing. Admit it. Own it... with pride, bitches. "A liberal guy and a liberal gal/ Buy a Yugo..."
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Yes, Yugos were a thing, but you missed the part where no one drives them anymore.
 
"Okay, first, I wasn't jealous that the other guys on the floor were having pizza; I was, if anything, a bit puzzled."

This I believe. Jon has no understanding of other people's actions. A bunch of guys hanging out and ordering a pizza is completely foreign to him. They were having fun with friends, he was alone in his room jerking off on the phone with an underage girl. No one wanted Jon around.

"The Herald was a part-time job, you shit-wits. And even if those Scrooges had paid me any sort of regular salary, I wouldn't have needed to spend it on food. All I'd have to do is mention Papa John's in my next newspaper article, and my readers would give me all the pizza I could eat. That is the beauty of the journalism lifestyle, boys. Writin' columns, gettin' goodies."

But they didn't pay you a regular salary. They would never have paid you a regular salary. You could have stayed at the Herald for a decade shitting out terrible columns and they still would have never paid you a regular salary. It's amazing how he thinks of newspaper stories as some sort of magical spells, though. All he has to do is mention something in a column and Woosh! it just appears for him.

"As for the Yugo... well, hey, you progressive dick-licks loved it once. You wanted it before."

That Yugo thing makes you think. I mean, Jon Sweet has never owned a car, never driven a car, and I have real trouble believing anyone ever gave him rides at ASU, and certainly not after, except family members. He has no knowledge of cars at all, as far as I can tell. Maybe his faculty tard-wrangler owned a Yugo and gave him a ride a few times. And since he's severely autistic, one guy owns a Yugo, ergo lots of people owned Yugos.

As for everyone actually wanting one, well... :story: Most people I've ever known, especially college students, want hot sports cars, not commie-bloc economy cars.

In short, NOWAY (No One Wanted A Yugo) and NOWJS (No One Wants Jon Sweet).:heart-empty:
 
No, Sweets, "writing columns, getting goodies" is most emphatically not what journalism is about.
 
AnOminous said:
It says a lot about how often this dude goes outside that he even thinks Yugos are still a thing, or that they were ever "sensible." If they are remembered at all, it is as an absolute piece of shit, maybe the worst car of all time ever sold in the West.
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Actually, I had to double-take because I saw one at the gas station this week, but couldn't get a shot of it with my phone before it left.... so it's possible, but I doubt he even saw one or even KNOWS what one looks like.

Spergy time - Yugos back in the day actually sold fairly well for what they were (a license-copy of the Fiat 125) and were done in not by product quality, but, by gross Elon Musk level mismanagment at the company HQ, where Malcom Bricklin was in charge and he ran the operation into the ground with bad deals, overexpansion, and other assorted mistakes.

In actual surveys, consumers who bought them were pleased with them because they wanted a no-frills economy car, something no major car maker in the US was offering at the time, as with today, price creep and being overloaded with features you couldn't delete was driving up the cost to the point a lot of people couldn't afford even "economy" makes.

What really did them in was Asian "economy" marques like Hyundai entering the US at the same time and offering a "better" cheap car, and Ford finally perfecting the FWD midsize car with the Taurus.



Not that I think Sweet is cognizant of any of that , though.....
 
TowinKarz said:
Actually, I had to double-take because I saw one at the gas station this week, but couldn't get a shot of it with my phone before it left.... so it's possible, but I doubt he even saw one or even KNOWS what one looks like.

Spergy time - Yugos back in the day actually sold fairly well for what they were (a license-copy of the Fiat 125) and were done in not by product quality, but, by gross Elon Musk level mismanagment at the company HQ, where Malcom Bricklin was in charge and he ran the operation into the ground with bad deals, overexpansion, and other assorted mistakes.

In actual surveys, consumers who bought them were pleased with them because they wanted a no-frills economy car, something no major car maker in the US was offering at the time, as with today, price creep and being overloaded with features you couldn't delete was driving up the cost to the point a lot of people couldn't afford even "economy" makes.

What really did them in was Asian "economy" marques like Hyundai entering the US at the same time and offering a "better" cheap car, and Ford finally perfecting the FWD midsize car with the Taurus.



Not that I think Sweet is cognizant of any of that , though.....
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Didn’t we also bomb the Yugo factory by accident or something?
 
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