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How did "tea bagging" a character get started and why do people think it's funny?

  • IndianaGeoff
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    Knowledge wrote: »
    When people tea bag me it hurts my feelings. I am a very sensitive person and I would like it if people would stop doing this to me. It makes me feel like I am being bullied.

    Sometimes I will whisper the offender but then they just laugh at me.

    You are upset by being teabagged but not upset when you kill someone else? Priorities.
  • hmsdragonfly
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    Knowledge wrote: »
    Knowledge wrote: »
    I am well aware. But as I said, being too sensitive is a hard trait to have as the world will not cater to you. This is fact. There are indeed some good things about being sensitive, but there are some bad things as well, such as getting hurt over the smallest of things. You shouldnt just let the bad traits be, but improve them and therefor yourself. Again, you can't control how others act, but with practice, you can control how you react. By doing so, you've given yourself more control.

    Now the control freak.
    Don't you happen to know that people are happier living the way they are, instead of "controlling" themselves and pretending to be someone they're not ? Being sensitive is a quality, not a fault or a disease anyone should seek cure for. I'll repeat myself : sensitive people save the world. You should be thankful.

    Now I agree that there's a balance to be found, because not everything can always be the way we want or the way any individual wants. developing tolerance or thicker skin towards intentionally, inherently nasty behaviours isn't part of that balance.

    Well if you always get hurt by thihgs as small and petty as being teabagged, I wouldn't call that happy living. People "arent perfect just the way we are", rather we are all imperfect beings with good traits and bad. People like me suggest we embrace the good, while improve the bad. Being sensitive isn't a singular trait, its comprised of good and bad, like every other type of personality. The world will not, nor should not, cater to people claiming to be unreasonably offended.

    I'm not sure why you don't think the world caters to sensitivity. The act of tea bagging someone in real life is a crime and is punishable by jail time or a fine. The act of bullying someone online which is known as "cyber bullying" is also a crime and has punishments that vary state to state if you're in the USA.

    A lot of the world caters to sensitivity. Sensitivity is why we care if animals are being hurt or if people are being hurt. It's that feeling we get deep down when we see something that is wrong that keeps us from turning to complete evil.

    Most of the world caters to sensitivity and will continue to do so by punishing the offenders with jail or other sanctions.

    Mate, teabagging in a game is NOT sexual assault, no more than PVP killing is murder. Go ahead to your local police station and ask whether you can charge someone with sexual assault for teabagging you in ESO. Teabagging someone in REAL life is punishable because it was REAL. It actually happened. Classifying teabagging or mean words as chargable cyber bullying is Orwellian and against freedom of speech, which is protected by the Constitution of the United States of America. In other words, the constitution protects a persons right to be an a-hole. Any law that contradicts this is not constitutional

    We have anti cruelty laws for animals in the west. We cant intentionally cause animals physical harm, just like people. Fun fact, up here in Canada, you are legally allowed to kill your pet at any age for any or no reason, provided you do so with a humane way of killing them.

    Actually most of the world is more cruel than not. The west is only a fraction of the human population. In china, with 2 billion people, puts little value in individual life

    Teabagging in the game is against the rules.

    Yes, don't t-bag, but tactical crouch instead >:)>:)>:)>:)

    Tactical crouch is not against the rules B)B)
    Edited by hmsdragonfly on April 22, 2018 3:44AM
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  • FleetwoodSmack
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    Knowledge wrote: »
    When people tea bag me it hurts my feelings. I am a very sensitive person and I would like it if people would stop doing this to me. It makes me feel like I am being bullied.

    Sometimes I will whisper the offender but then they just laugh at me.

    You are upset by being teabagged but not upset when you kill someone else? Priorities.

    I only get upset when they don't let me clamslam them back. I mean it's only fair, right? It's a fine line between love and war!
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  • Knowledge
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    Knowledge wrote: »
    When people tea bag me it hurts my feelings. I am a very sensitive person and I would like it if people would stop doing this to me. It makes me feel like I am being bullied.

    Sometimes I will whisper the offender but then they just laugh at me.

    You are upset by being teabagged but not upset when you kill someone else? Priorities.

    I only get upset when they don't let me clamslam them back. I mean it's only fair, right? It's a fine line between love and war!

    I think these actions are against the rules.
  • ZirconJunkie
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    Knowledge wrote: »
    Knowledge wrote: »
    When people tea bag me it hurts my feelings. I am a very sensitive person and I would like it if people would stop doing this to me. It makes me feel like I am being bullied.

    Sometimes I will whisper the offender but then they just laugh at me.

    You are upset by being teabagged but not upset when you kill someone else? Priorities.

    I only get upset when they don't let me clamslam them back. I mean it's only fair, right? It's a fine line between love and war!

    I think these actions are against the rules.

    Citation from the current TOS?
  • Elvent
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    I never teabagged anybody but I've been teabagged before and laughed about it and moved on with my life. I never knew it was a serious issue until this thread.
  • geonsocal
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    just in case there is anyone whom hasn't seen this yet...whenever I see someone bagging I think of this guy...
    https://youtu.be/ZfTyv_Ahd9g
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  • Azuramoonstar
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    Knowledge wrote: »
    Knowledge wrote: »
    When people tea bag me it hurts my feelings. I am a very sensitive person and I would like it if people would stop doing this to me. It makes me feel like I am being bullied.

    Sometimes I will whisper the offender but then they just laugh at me.

    You are upset by being teabagged but not upset when you kill someone else? Priorities.

    I only get upset when they don't let me clamslam them back. I mean it's only fair, right? It's a fine line between love and war!

    I think these actions are against the rules.
    Knowledge wrote: »
    Knowledge wrote: »
    When people tea bag me it hurts my feelings. I am a very sensitive person and I would like it if people would stop doing this to me. It makes me feel like I am being bullied.

    Sometimes I will whisper the offender but then they just laugh at me.

    You are upset by being teabagged but not upset when you kill someone else? Priorities.

    I only get upset when they don't let me clamslam them back. I mean it's only fair, right? It's a fine line between love and war!

    I think these actions are against the rules.

    just fyi knowledge

    there is no such thing as physical harassment. Physical abuse but not harassment. No gm would use a term like physical harassment in a ticket, as the characters are digital.

    it would have been under the sexual harassment clause. the image you keep using is fake, it is a bad photoshop job.

    I saw a ton of basic errors like leaving the shadowing around the e-mail window where they copy/paste the e-mail window into the image. And the e-mail header font is not matching the rest of the font in the e-mail window. (the lower left corner)

    plus grammar errors.

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  • KochDerDamonen
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    T-bagging is incredibly old, goodness knows where it truly originates. It's named for its similarity to a sex move of similar motion where one droops their unmentionables into another person's mouth. Contrary to the... strange argument popping around that it's because of some sort of strange nonconsensual sex fantasy, people do not actually imagine the sex act itself nor do they derive any sexual pleasure from crouching.

    It's chosen because it's nearly universal, you will more commonly be playing a PvP online game WITH crouching than without. It's well known, you know that other people know you are disrespecting them if you do this. Sort of like spitting at someone's feet, that crosses most language and cultural barriers to say "I don't like/respect you".

    Of course, some games don't have crouching or have their own flavor of disrespect memes. For instance, in Dark Souls PvP it was/is popular to either "Well what is it" or "Point down" emote at people to disrespect or taunt them.

    Taunting is a part of competitive games at the casual level. Physical, board, or video game. You will find people taking actions to get under the skin of their opponents, and unless some line is crossed you will often find the crowd/observers laugh along with the taunter if the taunt-ee gets upset about being taunted.

    If you wish to taunt a player in a way other than Teabagging, go right ahead. No one's stopping you. You may just find that person's personal tick and throw them into a tizzy :p
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  • Nyladreas
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    Knowledge wrote: »
    I am well aware. But as I said, being too sensitive is a hard trait to have as the world will not cater to you. This is fact. There are indeed some good things about being sensitive, but there are some bad things as well, such as getting hurt over the smallest of things. You shouldnt just let the bad traits be, but improve them and therefor yourself. Again, you can't control how others act, but with practice, you can control how you react. By doing so, you've given yourself more control.

    Now the control freak.
    Don't you happen to know that people are happier living the way they are, instead of "controlling" themselves and pretending to be someone they're not ? Being sensitive is a quality, not a fault or a disease anyone should seek cure for. I'll repeat myself : sensitive people save the world. You should be thankful.

    Now I agree that there's a balance to be found, because not everything can always be the way we want or the way any individual wants. developing tolerance or thicker skin towards intentionally, inherently nasty behaviours isn't part of that balance.

    Well if you always get hurt by thihgs as small and petty as being teabagged, I wouldn't call that happy living. People "arent perfect just the way we are", rather we are all imperfect beings with good traits and bad. People like me suggest we embrace the good, while improve the bad. Being sensitive isn't a singular trait, its comprised of good and bad, like every other type of personality. The world will not, nor should not, cater to people claiming to be unreasonably offended.

    I'm not sure why you don't think the world caters to sensitivity. The act of tea bagging someone in real life is a crime and is punishable by jail time or a fine. The act of bullying someone online which is known as "cyber bullying" is also a crime and has punishments that vary state to state if you're in the USA.

    A lot of the world caters to sensitivity. Sensitivity is why we care if animals are being hurt or if people are being hurt. It's that feeling we get deep down when we see something that is wrong that keeps us from turning to complete evil.

    Most of the world caters to sensitivity and will continue to do so by punishing the offenders with jail or other sanctions.

    From this thread.

    wusEVm3.jpg
    UqmVF1H.jpg

    There's a difference between sensitivity and good morals. :/
  • KochDerDamonen
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    Elvent wrote: »
    I never teabagged anybody but I've been teabagged before and laughed about it and moved on with my life. I never knew it was a serious issue until this thread.

    It's a serious issue if one speaks to too many self-righteous busy-bodies who have nothing better to do in life than worry about whether you buttoned the bottom button on your vest.
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  • Ectheliontnacil
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    I'll just leave this here.

  • Knowledge
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    Nyladreas wrote: »
    Knowledge wrote: »
    I am well aware. But as I said, being too sensitive is a hard trait to have as the world will not cater to you. This is fact. There are indeed some good things about being sensitive, but there are some bad things as well, such as getting hurt over the smallest of things. You shouldnt just let the bad traits be, but improve them and therefor yourself. Again, you can't control how others act, but with practice, you can control how you react. By doing so, you've given yourself more control.

    Now the control freak.
    Don't you happen to know that people are happier living the way they are, instead of "controlling" themselves and pretending to be someone they're not ? Being sensitive is a quality, not a fault or a disease anyone should seek cure for. I'll repeat myself : sensitive people save the world. You should be thankful.

    Now I agree that there's a balance to be found, because not everything can always be the way we want or the way any individual wants. developing tolerance or thicker skin towards intentionally, inherently nasty behaviours isn't part of that balance.

    Well if you always get hurt by thihgs as small and petty as being teabagged, I wouldn't call that happy living. People "arent perfect just the way we are", rather we are all imperfect beings with good traits and bad. People like me suggest we embrace the good, while improve the bad. Being sensitive isn't a singular trait, its comprised of good and bad, like every other type of personality. The world will not, nor should not, cater to people claiming to be unreasonably offended.

    I'm not sure why you don't think the world caters to sensitivity. The act of tea bagging someone in real life is a crime and is punishable by jail time or a fine. The act of bullying someone online which is known as "cyber bullying" is also a crime and has punishments that vary state to state if you're in the USA.

    A lot of the world caters to sensitivity. Sensitivity is why we care if animals are being hurt or if people are being hurt. It's that feeling we get deep down when we see something that is wrong that keeps us from turning to complete evil.

    Most of the world caters to sensitivity and will continue to do so by punishing the offenders with jail or other sanctions.

    From this thread.

    wusEVm3.jpg
    UqmVF1H.jpg

    There's a difference between sensitivity and good morals. :/

    There's a difference between a lot of things. However, when we see someone being bullied the law provides protection as do other people. We don't weigh the severity of the bullies actions or tell the bullied person to stop being so sensitive based on our own opinions.
  • ZirconJunkie
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    Knowledge wrote: »
    There's a difference between a lot of things. However, when we see someone being bullied the law provides protection as do other people.

    We do see a lot of people in these threads defending both sides. Since legality was brought in, I'm unaware of the law that specifically criminalizes tbagging in The Elder Scrolls Online. Citation?
    Knowledge wrote: »
    We don't weigh the severity of the bullies actions or tell the bullied person to stop being so sensitive based on our own opinions.

    We actually do weigh the severity of actions involved with crimes. Hitting someone with a baseball bat is a lot more severe than poking someone with a finger. Judges in a court of law weigh the severity of actions and hand down judgements accordingly.

  • DanteYoda
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    PvP is aimed at morons.. so tea bagging isn't a surprising result..
  • Vizikul
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    Fun fact, up here in Canada, you are legally allowed to kill your pet at any age for any or no reason, provided you do so with a humane way of killing them.

    "Fun" fact...
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  • Maryal
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    It used to be funny when it first started, but now it just seems so outdated. The problem is that it is the easiest 'emote' to do when you are in a hurry. If ZOS made it so we could quick-slot actual emotes, you'd probably see a lot less t-bagging.
  • Mureel
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    Phage wrote: »
    DoctorESO wrote: »
    cyclonus11 wrote: »
    People were doing that back in the original EQ. It's old af.

    But why was it started to begin with? Why is it funny to begin with?

    If someone wants to be arrogant, why not do something else like jumping up and down on a dead body? Why does it have to be teabagging?

    Your first mistake is thinking that people who tbag are "trying to be arrogant". Most people just do it to get a rise out of the other player.

    They're aren't "trying to be arrogant". They're trying to be trolls.

    And they don't even know.....when you're a Mom and your sons and husband hold you down and fart on you - then you can feel trolled xD in game tbagging is NOTHING compared to a house full of boys xD
  • hmsdragonfly
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    Knowledge wrote: »
    Knowledge wrote: »
    Knowledge wrote: »
    When people tea bag me it hurts my feelings. I am a very sensitive person and I would like it if people would stop doing this to me. It makes me feel like I am being bullied.

    Sometimes I will whisper the offender but then they just laugh at me.

    You are upset by being teabagged but not upset when you kill someone else? Priorities.

    I only get upset when they don't let me clamslam them back. I mean it's only fair, right? It's a fine line between love and war!

    I think these actions are against the rules.
    Knowledge wrote: »
    Knowledge wrote: »
    When people tea bag me it hurts my feelings. I am a very sensitive person and I would like it if people would stop doing this to me. It makes me feel like I am being bullied.

    Sometimes I will whisper the offender but then they just laugh at me.

    You are upset by being teabagged but not upset when you kill someone else? Priorities.

    I only get upset when they don't let me clamslam them back. I mean it's only fair, right? It's a fine line between love and war!

    I think these actions are against the rules.

    just fyi knowledge

    there is no such thing as physical harassment. Physical abuse but not harassment. No gm would use a term like physical harassment in a ticket, as the characters are digital.

    it would have been under the sexual harassment clause. the image you keep using is fake, it is a bad photoshop job.

    I saw a ton of basic errors like leaving the shadowing around the e-mail window where they copy/paste the e-mail window into the image. And the e-mail header font is not matching the rest of the font in the e-mail window. (the lower left corner)

    plus grammar errors.

    There's a way to see if an image is photoshopped and for the tech savvy individuals it's very clear that, that image is not photoshopped. Since you don't know there is a technique called Error Level Analysis. There's also several functions you can use in Photo Shop to perform ELA and several providers like FotoForensics.

    The image is a true image and has not been edited after being evaluated with ELA methods. I evaluated the three year old posted image via ELA before using it as I am certain a photo editor would have known if it was shopped and I have no intentions of posting shopped photos. Therefore, you are not correct.

    Pic or never happened.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_level_analysis

    take wiki with a grain of salt.

    but it only works on some images, not all.

    No, I mean pic of him actually analyzing the photo.
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  • DoctorESO
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    Vizikul wrote: »
    Fun fact, up here in Canada, you are legally allowed to kill your pet at any age for any or no reason, provided you do so with a humane way of killing them.

    "Fun" fact...

    Yeah, tell me about it. "Fun" means something different these days, apparently.
    Edited by DoctorESO on April 22, 2018 7:11AM
  • DoctorESO
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    Mureel wrote: »
    Phage wrote: »
    DoctorESO wrote: »
    cyclonus11 wrote: »
    People were doing that back in the original EQ. It's old af.

    But why was it started to begin with? Why is it funny to begin with?

    If someone wants to be arrogant, why not do something else like jumping up and down on a dead body? Why does it have to be teabagging?

    Your first mistake is thinking that people who tbag are "trying to be arrogant". Most people just do it to get a rise out of the other player.

    They're aren't "trying to be arrogant". They're trying to be trolls.

    And they don't even know.....when you're a Mom and your sons and husband hold you down and fart on you - then you can feel trolled xD in game tbagging is NOTHING compared to a house full of boys xD

    I know mothers that would wallop their husband and kids for doing that.
  • Aesthier
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    This post made me LMMFAO!

    Thank you, OP.
  • Medakon
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    Everyone, I just found the solution:

    Zenimax implements a option in settings, "Disable Emotes" or "Disable Crouching animation"

    Problem solved.
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  • kypranb14_ESO
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    I usually use the "I'm sorry about that" emote to sit with my legs on either side of their head.

    I feel it looks more appropriate than crouching and standing repeatedly.
  • yiasemi
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    Brains are big and capable of deep thought, amazing abilities for caring, creation and for arranging amazing sexual times too, *** resemble small brains and are equally single-minded. Which do you want to be controlled by and judged by others by? Tea-baggers are labelled bankers by just about everyone but the other adolescents who need guild mates more than decent behaviour. And by adolescent I don't mean age, I mean whoever has not learned through experience what makes a real worthwhile human society. Some people remain stuck all their lives in a focus on their genitalia.
    Edited by yiasemi on April 22, 2018 1:48PM
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