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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crunchies

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"Frankly why they’d willingly submit themselves to any of those horrors when they could simulate the entire experience from home simply by wiring a thousand dollars to Steve Wynn, dropping a tab of acid and then heading to Best Buy with a hooker." - That made cold beer come out of my nose. As douchey as TC editors are, I have to give them serious bonus points for their acerbic sense of humor.

This is Paul Carr. He's in a class entirely different from the TC editors :)

Definitely agreed. TC editors by and large are terrible writers, but Paul Carr is a real journalist. I love his stuff.

FYI: NSFW is the title of this regular column, not a commentary on whether or not the content is safe for work.

Yep -- the URL has "NSFW" in it, so wanted to make it clear.

That's just linkbait. He - probably correctly - reasoned that people will click that in a heartbeat hoping for something other than what they get on the other side of the click.

Smart guy.

It's the name of the regular column Paul Carr writes for TC. I find its misuse of the NSFW tag more annoying than cute.

more annoying than cute

It's TechCrunch.

If I remember correctly, "NSFW" is the title of Paul Carr's 'column' on TC. So the NSFW in the title doesn't refer to the post, but to the whole series of posts by that author.

Edit: According to his entry in Crunchbase, he also wrote a column for the Guardian called "Not Safe For Work" before being 'kicked out' and going to TC.

Can you change the title to accurately reflect the content please? Stripping NSFW from the original makes sense but the complete rewrite does not.

Trying to capture both themes without being too complex; it's an interesting post that's hard to summarize in 85 characters.

The original headline wasn't too bad, except for the confusing name of Paul Carr's TC column series ("NSFW"). I'd suggest...

Paul Carr: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crunchies

...because a key point is that it's Carr's irreverent op-ed, and not TC/MA speaking.

Very good point. Will do next time, thanks. I was hoping to loop in the CES tangent a bit because it's at least funny -- it's not only about the Crunchies.

Fine. But the original title did not mention the Crunchies at all; that was my main issue. I see it's been fixed.

Thanks for the tip, happy to change it to hit it a little more squarely.

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I'ma let you finish, but....

haha, -3 for my lame Kanye joke, really?

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