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  • "It's not pr0n, it's the internet."

    I work in a library. With 80 computers with internet. With 70 of those computers occupied by the homeless or people who spend all 12 hours we are open on the internet.

    On the third floor we have computers for research. Us librarians tried to uphold that, but people would lie and say, "I'm doing research" and spend all the time looking on Youtube (without taking notes) or be hard asses and ask "what is research?"

    Soon, the management buckled and asked us not to say anything about research.

    So the third floor smells like Lollapoloza. Though we only have 13 computers.

    Now you can't look at porn at the library, so yah! Before, when there was a policy of freespeech, you can't imagine the number on peni my poor eyes were assulted with.

    Anywho. Another rule was you can't have open beverages by the computers. I see a guy with an open beverage at he computer he is at. I start going toward him and the closer I get the more disturbing the images are. I finally get close enough to tell a woman is sucqing c0cq. I also see that his time is about to expire. I go to call security and tell them he is looking at porn. I ask a cw to go with me just to witness that it is pr0n. She rolls her eyes, but she goes with me. We see foot-suckinng. His time runs out, and no security yet, so I tell him he can't look at pr0n. He says, "I'm not looking at pr0n, it's the internet."

    me:

    Anywho, the security came finally and led him away, though of course the idiot had to walk by my desk, even though he could walked the other way to get to the elevator or stairs. And the library had a cop on duty, so the cop gave him a warning.

    My cw regaled other cws about the guy with the tattoo of a spiderweb on his neck saying "It's not pr0n, it's on the internet."
    Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

    Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

    I wish porn had subtitles.

  • #2
    Quoth depechemodefan View Post
    "It's not pr0n, it's on the internet."
    But...that's what the internet is for!!


    Isn't it?
    I don't go in for ancient wisdom
    I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
    It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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    • #3
      It just scares me that people would be so brazen as to look at porn on a public library computer.
      "If we refund your money, give you a free replacement and shoot the manager, then will you be happy?" - sign seen in a restaurant

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      • #4
        Quoth BookstoreEscapee View Post
        But...that's what the internet is for!!


        Isn't it?
        *sings*

        The Internet is for Porn, The Internet is for Porn, why you think the net was born? PORN, PORN, PORN!

        (It's called Avenue Q, check it out.)
        http://www.customerssuck.com/?p=7499
        Now appearing in comic form!

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        • #5
          Quoth CrazedClerkthe2nd View Post
          It just scares me that people would be so brazen as to look at porn on a public library computer.

          Yeah it's quite interesting that they think they can get away with it when the computers are so out in public but it's always fun to scare the shit out of them(I do security at a library) they never know i'm behind them and I usually try and embarrass them by announcing loudly so everyone can hear that they can't look at porn

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          • #6
            Quoth CrazedClerkthe2nd View Post
            It just scares me that people would be so brazen as to look at porn on a public library computer.
            Like this guy?
            Sometimes life is altered.
            Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
            Uneasy with confrontation.
            Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right

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            • #7
              12 hours on the comptuer at the library? Our libraries here have a 30-min-per-day limit unless you are a school or college student doing research and have a student card to back that up. Then the limit is 2 hours.
              The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.

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              • #8
                Quoth neecy View Post
                12 hours on the comptuer at the library? Our libraries here have a 30-min-per-day limit unless you are a school or college student doing research and have a student card to back that up. Then the limit is 2 hours.

                You have to have a library card or a computer-use-only card to get on a computer. Since diff. stations (say, check-out, laptop area, 1st floor/2nd floor /3rd floor reference, etc) can give out the cards, then people go to the diff. stations to ask for a card.

                With a library card, it's easy to find out if you have one already, but the computer-use-only card, you can have mulitple cards but we don't track them.

                So these people have multiple cards and get on as soon as they get off of one computer.
                Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

                Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

                I wish porn had subtitles.

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                • #9
                  Quoth depechemodefan View Post
                  My cw regaled other cws about the guy with the tattoo of a spiderweb on his neck saying "It's not pr0n, it's on the internet."
                  Watch out for dudes like that.

                  A lot of people have spiderweb tattoos now, and many of them have no idea what it means, but the traditional meaning is that the bearer has killed a minority, and the number of rings around the web indicates how many years they've served in prison.

                  It's actually worse than walking around with a visible swastika tattoo.
                  Aliterate : A person who is capable of reading but unwilling to do so.

                  "A man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot" - Mark Twain

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                  • #10
                    It's just really creepy how many people you get looking at porn in your library. Even worse that management doesn't seem to care.
                    "If anyone wants this old box containing the broken bits of my former faith in humanity, I'll take your best offer now. You may be able to salvage a few of em' for parts..... " - Quote by Argabarga

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                    • #11
                      Quoth GroceryWench View Post
                      *sings*

                      The Internet is for Porn, The Internet is for Porn, why you think the net was born? PORN, PORN, PORN!

                      (It's called Avenue Q, check it out.)
                      I found Avenue Q when I was on vacation....it is in Galveston. They have A B C D E F and G also.

                      Tamezin

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                      • #12
                        Quoth GroceryWench View Post
                        *sings*

                        The Internet is for Porn, The Internet is for Porn, why you think the net was born? PORN, PORN, PORN!

                        (It's called Avenue Q, check it out.)
                        The internet is really really great (for porn)
                        I've got a fast connection so I don't have to wait (for porn)
                        There's always some new site (for porn)
                        I browse all day and night (for porn)
                        It's like I'm surfing at the speed of light (fooor pooorn)
                        couldn't resist, that's my favourite part of the song
                        It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
                        -Helen Keller

                        I got this av from Court Records, made by Croik!

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                        • #13
                          I gotta admit, I was thinking of the song "The Girls of Porn" by Mr. Bungle myself.

                          976 and I can whack it on the phooooonnnneeeee....
                          Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                          "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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                          • #14
                            Quoth LillFilly View Post
                            It's just really creepy how many people you get looking at porn in your library. Even worse that management doesn't seem to care.

                            What management doesn't care about is things like people using the internet for things not for research. They are concerned about pron because there's a concrete rule about no porn.

                            Also, management doesn't care about the librarians comfort. If a librarian thinks a patron smells we can't do anything (like tell the person to go and come back after taking a shower) unless a patron complains also.

                            Also, management doesn't want the main library to be closed. When we had the library under renovations, they moved us into the old library, into two rooms. One room got rank right away from the smell of the unwashed masses. But no way was the library going to be closed. Also, one Sun. the a/c was turned on late. Did they keep t he library closed until the building got cool? Nooooo, and of course the patrons bitched. Hey, the librarians are stuck in the building, you can go home to your a/c in the Heights. If another library a/c wasn't working, that library was closed until it did work.

                            oh, I didn't know about the spiderweb thing. Though I've heard about the tear drops.
                            Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

                            Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

                            I wish porn had subtitles.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth GroceryWench View Post
                              *sings*

                              The Internet is for Porn, The Internet is for Porn, why you think the net was born? PORN, PORN, PORN!

                              (It's called Avenue Q, check it out.)

                              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA5...eature=related
                              Had to look it up.
                              I don't go in for ancient wisdom
                              I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
                              It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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