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Discussion Boards => Real Life => Topic started by: Kazz on July 21, 2008, 07:16:48 AM
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I hate the word "overly." It sounds fucking childish. There are so many words you can use in the place of "overly" that do not sound like you cobbled together a new adverb midsentence. "Too" always works in its place, the fuck is wrong with it.
Same with "simplistic." It's an adjective, meaning "simple," which is also an adjective. Fuck.
I'll murder the next person who uses "overly simplistic."
(Not counting the people who will now do it for the irony.)
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I'll murder the next person who uses "overly simplistic."
Holding you to this.
Will have birthday hats and streamers upon said murdering.
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Completely non-grammar related pet-peeve.
People who play miniatures games but don't want to assemble the models to play. I'm not even talking about painting the bloody things, just put them TOGETHER. WITH GLUE.
I am tired of fighting armies of torsos and feet.
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People who call all mp3 players "iPods". Generally most brand name things like that annoy me a tad (kleenex), but only iPod will set me off on a tirade.
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People who don't know the name of the movie they are going to see.
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A while back, a customer at work wanted to see a movie about, quote "Those gay kids coming out"
(It was Chronicles of Narnia)
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Recursive acronyms.
People who get upset when you use the word "alright," despite it being a part of English for at least a hundred and fifty years along with the more conventional contractions of "all together," "all mighty," "all one." So basically, English majors.
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People who don't know the name of the movie they are going to see.
Oooh, oooh! People who ask questions all throughout a movie, especially questions that are obviously not yet meant to be answered.
For most people, I'd shrug this off with low grumbles, but one of my friends (The Voice of The Kid), who is not an idiot and usually displays above average intelligence DOES THIS ALL THE FUCKING TIME OH MY FUCKING GOD HE MUST BE DEAF OR SOMETHING.
:( I expect a little bit better from my peers.
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People who think their pet peeves matter so much.
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Recursive pet peeves.
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People who correct my word choice, derailing the thought behind the conversation.
Example: Yesterday some kid with an mp3 player entered the room and tripped and fell on his face. The next day, during the course of conversation, I may mention his "iPod." In the middle of my sentence, "So this kid with an iPod walks in the room yesterday-" someone corrects me, saying, "Actually it was some off-brand product mp3 player," at which point I walk away and strike up a conversation with a cute girl.
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People who come up with something clever to say, and then say it really fast, and then go "--ANYWAY..." like they were trying to slip something funny between two other thoughts, but then after saying "ANYWAY" they just stay silent for a few seconds and probably giggle a little about the joke they made. The joke can even be funny, but the failed segway ruins everything.
I'm guilty of doing this. Even if you manage to segue smoothly, you can blow the joke.
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I hate the word "overly." It sounds fucking childish. There are so many words you can use in the place of "overly" that do not sound like you cobbled together a new adverb midsentence. "Too" always works in its place, the fuck is wrong with it.
I could argue, but I tend to have the same problem with my grandparents frequently using the maddeningly neutral "is/are/am able" in place of the more direct "can".
Same with "simplistic." It's an adjective, meaning "simple," which is also an adjective. Fuck.
Now, on this one, you are wrong. "Simplistic" isn't any more a synonym for "simple" than "simplified" is. It clearly DERIVES from "simple", and has a similar meaning, but both its literal and its connotative meaning are different from "simple".
If Guild were to say "Capitalism is good" and I were to respond, "Well, that's a little simple," that wouldn't make any sense. If, however, I said "simplistic", that would be the correct word.
People who correct my word choice, derailing the thought behind the conversation.
Maverick is your word, not mine. I said rebel.
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What an overly simplistic thread.
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Anyway...
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If Guild were to say "Capitalism is good" and I were to respond, "Well, that's a little simple," that wouldn't make any sense. If, however, I said "simplistic", that would be the correct word.
Nothing can make me like the word, but I'll revise my earlier complaint. Simplistic often gets used improperly and it pisses me off.
Also, I'm pretty sure "simplistic" has a negative connotation while "simple" does not. IE, "this energy plan is simple" vs "this energy plan is simplistic." That's fine, but there are still better words. Like "assault." That's an awesome word.
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Irregardless is the greatest word ever, isn't that right, Moctobot? Huh huh huh? Isn't it just tits?
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Neat. I missed YKWIH?
English grammar provides poorly for ending sentences that are not questions with quotes/titles that involve questions. Relatedly, I dislike (and this may just be MLA bullshit) how punctuation is supposed to go inside quotation marks, even if the terminal punctuation mark isn't native to the quoted passage.
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I fucking hate when people are late and don't show any sense of urgency in anything they do, but this may have something to do with my entire family and group of friends always putzing around when they say they're going to do something.
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I'll murder the next person who uses "overly simplistic."
(Not counting the people who will now do it for the irony.)
What an overly simplistic thread.
Making the obvious joke well after it was nipped in the bud.
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People who call all mp3 players "iPods". Generally most brand name things like that annoy me a tad (kleenex), but only iPod will set me off on a tirade.
I get that a lot at work. I also get people who call mp3 players 'mp3s'.
Also, customers who come in looking for movies on dvd that aren't even out in theaters yet, who call and want me to give them the prices and specs of every single computer we carry, who get pissed off at me when I tell them they can't return the dvd player they've had for 3 years or the phone that 'just quit working!' when it was obviously dropped or otherwise abused, management that oks said returns when the customers whine to them, customers who think it's my fault when they get denied for a credit check, customers who expect me to do tech support for them over the phone, customers who seem to think that bathing is an annual event... customers.
Oh, and people who try to talk to you and talk to someone else on the phone at the same time. That's just fucking rude.
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Of all the "substitue generic with name brand" instances, the Ipod one might be least offensive because it saves a lot of breath over saying "MP3 Player" and 90% of the time it IS an Ipod.
However, I understand that there's a region in America (http://popvssoda.com:2998/) that calls all soda "Coke", and that pisses my shit right off.
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Well fuck you, too, det.
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Oh, and people who try to talk to you and talk to someone else on the phone at the same time. That's just fucking rude.
At an old job I simply stopped ringing up customers until they got off the phone. If their conversation is so important they can't put it aside for 30 seconds I wouldn't want to bother them, now would I?
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Neat. I missed YKWIH?
English grammar provides poorly for ending sentences that are not questions with quotes/titles that involve questions. Relatedly, I dislike (and this may just be MLA bullshit) how punctuation is supposed to go inside quotation marks, even if the terminal punctuation mark isn't native to the quoted passage.
I think back on Pyoko Thad and someone (me, maybe? I know the conversation answered the question for me, at least) talked about this and apparently S&W lets you while MLA doesn't, on the punctuation-not-fitting-quotation thing.
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Of all the "substitue generic with name brand" instances, the Ipod one might be least offensive because it saves a lot of breath over saying "MP3 Player" and 90% of the time it IS an Ipod.
However, I understand that there's a region in America (http://popvssoda.com:2998/) that calls all soda "Coke", and that pisses my shit right off.
...except 90% of the time it IS Coke down there.
Of course, calling it "Coke" is in itself a pretty bad habit that I'm guilty of. Probably only worrying if you live in a place like downtown LA, but still.
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I hate hearing people quote shows all the time. It's not funny, and it just irks the crap outta me.
I also hate when kids say they like things/have opinions about things they've never seen/played.
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However, I understand that there's a region in America (http://popvssoda.com:2998/) that calls all soda "Coke", and that pisses my shit right off.
We call it 'pop' here.
Something else that drives me nuts is going out to shop with damn near anyone. Going shopping is going someplace, buying what you came for and leaving. Not walking around the mall for three hours then maybe getting something on the fourth. Jesus, you could be doing a million other things with all that time! :ohshi~:
I hate hearing people quote shows all the time. It's not funny, and it just irks the crap outta me.
I also hate when kids say they like things/have opinions about things they've never seen/played.
So...normal kids? I hate them too.
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I hate how it feels when I take off my glasses. It feels like I suddenly get Reality Widescreen, which is great for about a second until I realize that it's only because my frames suck.
You might think that's because I'm not used to new glasses, but I've had them for like three years.
Fuck you, fashion, for giving the boot to big wide square frames and entirely replacing them with that Slit-O-Vision bullshit.
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Thad, are you perhaps pointing out that I'm a hypocrite? This is public knowledge. Maybe I should make a wiki entry about me that you can link to rather than constantly burning the search-engine up.
Example: I hate catching people pick their noses but I do it whenever I feel like doing it, regardless of who's watching.
Rosen has a picture of another pet peeve of mine he took on his cell. While driving today he spotted it and pointed it out to me. Hopefully he'll post the image here.
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I hate people that don't know what "literally" means.
"There were literally like, a million of them."
No there weren't, exaggerate if you're going to, or be literal, but try to combine them and you sound like a retard that uses words they don't know the definition of. Which you are.
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Fuck you, fashion, for giving the boot to big wide square frames and entirely replacing them with that Slit-O-Vision bullshit.
Are we still in the "whatever isn't in right now is in right now" bubble? If so I'd go check up on your vision plan.
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Rosen has a picture of another pet peeve of mine he took on his cell. While driving today he spotted it and pointed it out to me. Hopefully he'll post the image here.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/aett/quacks.jpg)
Unfortunately, you can't really read the sign. But this is what it said:
"IF IT QUACKS
LIKE A DUCK
SADDAM HUSSEIN
BARRACK H. OBAMA
OSAMA BIN LADEN"
This was outside a chiropractor's office.
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I <3 Placerville.
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"IF IT QUACKS
LIKE A DUCK
SADDAM HUSSEIN
BARRACK H. OBAMA
OSAMA BIN LADEN"
Things that don't make any sense at all.
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"IF IT QUACKS
LIKE A DUCK
SADDAM HUSSEIN
BARRACK H. OBAMA
OSAMA BIN LADEN"
BURMA SHAVE
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People who use the term "ironic" in the exact opposite way that it is intended.
Which itself is a form of irony, but I don't think they realize that.
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Also, customers who come in looking for movies on dvd that aren't even out in theaters yet, who call and want me to give them the prices and specs of every single computer we carry, who get pissed off at me when I tell them they can't return the dvd player they've had for 3 years or the phone that 'just quit working!' when it was obviously dropped or otherwise abused, management that oks said returns when the customers whine to them, customers who think it's my fault when they get denied for a credit check, customers who expect me to do tech support for them over the phone, customers who seem to think that bathing is an annual event... customers.
people who strike out 90% of their paragraph
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I hate people that don't know what "literally" means.
"There were literally like, a million of them."
No there weren't, exaggerate if you're going to, or be literal, but try to combine them and you sound like a retard that uses words they don't know the definition of. Which you are.
Which one of you guys did I have this argument with in SD? I think it was Burrito.
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I think back on Pyoko Thad and someone (me, maybe? I know the conversation answered the question for me, at least) talked about this and apparently S&W lets you while MLA doesn't, on the punctuation-not-fitting-quotation thing.
In case anyone is wondering and does not know (as I did not know) S&W refers to Strunk and White (see: Elements of Style).
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According to this thread, we would all be better off if nobody else existed.
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(http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/calvinmirror.jpg)
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When the guy behind you in the cinema has seen the film before, and mumbles out the punchlines in advance.
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I just plain fucking hate theaters. I hate being around a hundred strangers watching a brand new movie that I can not pause or rewind. Even if each of them is just a tiny bit rude, that's a tiny bit times one hundred and I swear I didn't hear half of the dialogue in The Dark Knight.
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"Hand blown glass"
"More better"
And here's a recent one that's been sticking in my craw, the use the the phrase "you know" as a FUCKING COMMA OR SOME SHIT. I swear to god I have heard that fucking phrase upwards of FIVE GOD DAMN TIMES in the same sentence. Makes me want to ice pick someone in the fucking dick.
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I just plain fucking hate theaters. I hate being around a hundred strangers watching a brand new movie that I can not pause or rewind. Even if each of them is just a tiny bit rude, that's a tiny bit times one hundred and I swear I didn't hear half of the dialogue in The Dark Knight.
I think we could fill a thread with just theater-related pet peeves.
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I just plain fucking hate theaters. I hate being around a hundred strangers watching a brand new movie that I can not pause or rewind. Even if each of them is just a tiny bit rude, that's a tiny bit times one hundred and I swear I didn't hear half of the dialogue in The Dark Knight.
I pretty much do all of my movie watching around noon on Mondays these days unless it's a show at our theater or something I basically can't wait to see. It's made my average theater going experience that much better.
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Was going whine about how Brentai uses sub-7 tiny text, but I've been using so much FTFY lately that I'm no longer on the moral high ground.
:nyoro-n:
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I hate "ya reckon" or just "reckon." That kills me a little more every time I hear it.
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Would Lady Duke love Lotta Hart's dialog in the Phoenix Wright games?
Reckgiven (http://faqs.ign.com/articles/875/875089p1.html)!
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Yeah, if she was a real person, I'd throttle her.
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I hate it any time I see a review by "the99th" on Play This Thing! (http://playthisthing.com/).
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Calling a hypothesis a theory. A theory is a phenomenon that has proven to be repeatable. A hypothesis is something you propose as an explanation for a phenomenon.
Seeing "milk ingredients" in just about anything I want to eat. There's no point to using dairy products in bread, so stop doing it.
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(THAD EDIT: WARNING: the quoted post is in Dark Knight Spoiler Thread. However, it does not itself contain spoilers.)
there was also an ish
An ish? What in the fuck is that? The word issue too time consuming to type out anymore, or just not irritatingly stupid sounding enough? And you of all people. Let it be known that I'm displeased.
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Oh man you are totally poking the wrong bear there.
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::(:
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BASTARD FROM A BASKET
BASTARD FROM A BASKET
BASTARD FROM A BASKET
BASTARD FROM A BASKET
BASTARD FROM A BASKET
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I hate spotting a floaty in my water.
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An ish? [...] The word issue too time consuming to type out anymore, or just not irritatingly stupid sounding enough? And you of all people.
At least I don't think I'm too good for verbs.
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I'm peeved that this thread was stickied.
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I hate people that don't know what "literally" means.
"There were literally like, a million of them."
No there weren't, exaggerate if you're going to, or be literal, but try to combine them and you sound like a retard that uses words they don't know the definition of. Which you are.
Which one of you guys did I have this argument with in SD? I think it was Burrito.
That was me, again. I checked on that, last time I remembered it, and it's apparently within the definition of the word to use it for hyperbole.
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1 : in a literal sense or manner : actually <took the remark literally> <was literally insane> 2 : in effect : virtually <will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — Norman Cousins>
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hooray for words that mean both one thing and that thing's exact opposite
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"Virtual" can be the definition of "Literal"? One second.
:endit:
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That's literally bullshit.
It is shit.
From a bull.
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This seems like literally an overtly simplistic interpretation.
Anyway...
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I'm gonna kick you're ass.
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From here to Tienanmen Square?
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GENTLEMEN YOU CAN'T FIGHT IN HERE THIS IS THE GWAR ROOM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rtiTZ2WS3Fg
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A theory is a phenomenon that has proven to be repeatable.
Never heard that technical definition before. It's a good thing I don't get pissed at people for using imprecise definitions (anymore).
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... seriously?
:facepalm:
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(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/snapshot20080723230614.jpg)
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hooray for words that mean both one thing and that thing's exact opposite
I know one. Cleave.
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Oooh oooh! I thought up some more.
I've never seen a character in film or television tilt their patient's chin up when giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. I actually yell at the screen over this.
When I'm serving a customer who is getting something for their child and they tell me their child's gender. I don't care if you gave birth to a mayonnaise monster, lady. I'm writing on your cake with red icing.
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...Bears noting, given the thread, that you just used "they" as a singular, three times.
Yeah, that's another one of those things given general mainstream acceptance, but apparently so is "literally" used to mean the opposite of "literally".
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:confused: Oh! So I did. That's a paddlin'.
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I support the use of 'they' as a gender neutral singular pronoun. :LISTENU:
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I support the use of "he" as a gender neutral singular pronoun and females who complain should shut the fuck up because it would mean they have their OWN PRONOUN, ALL FOR THEMSELVES.
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I acknowledge endemic sexism in the language, but I'm not going to go around saying "theirstory" instead of "history".
I try to alternate male-female singular pronouns when speaking of hypothetical people. I'm sure I'm not always successful at it, but using "they" as a singular just creates awkward, confusing sentence structure.
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I try to alternate male-female singular pronouns when speaking of hypothetical people.
Me too. For instance, if I'm referring to a war hero, I'll use "he," while if I'm referring to an awful driver, I'll use "she."
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I use they just because I'm used to it, and I like the impersonality of it (implying that an unknown person is really just a mindless collection of entities sort of helps stave off some assumptions about them). Sometimes, though, when I'm writing about games or such, I'll make a point of using "he" when referring to people like players - because I want to enforce the assumption that the player is a thinking human. Obviously I'm not trying to say that the player can't be female, but it's either that or he/she, which tips an already too-formal rant into the region of full-on essays.
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Some people advocate the use of "hir" or "sie". These people should be shot.
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Actually those pronouns were invented to refer to hermaphrodites.
Obviously people who honestly use them spend too damn much time talking about hermaphrodites, and yes, should be shot. Unless of course they (he/she/sie) are (is a) hermaphrodite(s) themselves (him/her/hirself), in which case they (sie) probably don't (doesn't).
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Unrelated pet peeve: when people stretch the picture to fit their widescreen TV.
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Apparently I can't complete a defrag because of a 50 meg file spread across over 1000 pieces.
i have 40 gigs out 150 left, who is fucking your problem is what I'm asking ASSHOLE DICK
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:deepbreath:
That is not actually a genuine issue but I am hell of OCD about fragmentation for some reason.
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Crocs.
Fucking Crocs.
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Crocs.
Fucking Crocs.
"Snakes... why'd it have to be snakes?"
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Apparently I can't complete a defrag because of a 50 meg file spread across over 1000 pieces.
i have 40 gigs out 150 left, who is fucking your problem is what I'm asking ASSHOLE DICK
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:deepbreath:
That is not actually a genuine issue but I am hell of OCD about fragmentation for some reason.
(Compressionless) RAR the fucker into a new file and delete the original.
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That is a good idea that I wish I had thought of. Though I did find Auslogics Disk Defrag (http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag) in the interval, and it fixed everything. It is basically magic. This pet peeve has become a pet joy!
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I had an interpersonal communications teacher who advocated an all-inclusive pronoun. It was a combination of he she and it: Shit.
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I think the best way to go with this whole pronoun gender thing is to declare all the current masculine pronouns to be gender-neutral and make up a new set of masculine pronouns. People alive today would be confused for a while, but it'll be natural to the next generation of kids learning English and every one thereafter. Also, it'll make all uses of he, his, and him in writing more politically correct.
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Dude's got a point. I am intrigued by dude's ideas and wish to subscribe to dude's newsletter.
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Speech impediments bug the hell out of me. It is insensitive of me. I acknowledge this about myself.
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"Snakes... why'd it have to be snakes?"
Hee hee. Just like Koipond's deck.
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....okay, that hurt.
Why is my internet still working?
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I just changed my video card and added a gig of ram. I'm pumped about it, but my fingers are hell of sore from all the pushing on sharp corners and narrow fragile edges and tiny power plugs. There should be rubber or plastic caps on there, such as little pads mounted on the corners, just to get some surface area to work with. I would pay up to a dollar for it to be standard issue on computer hardware I buy.
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If anybody could do it, then installation nerds would slowly run out of ways to charge friends-of-family to make a quick buck on weekends. :(
Also they would cost more as a result.
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I just changed my video card and added a gig of ram. I'm pumped about it, but my fingers are hell of sore from all the pushing on sharp corners and narrow fragile edges and tiny power plugs. There should be rubber or plastic caps on there, such as little pads mounted on the corners, just to get some surface area to work with. I would pay up to a dollar for it to be standard issue on computer hardware I buy.
I just did this exact same thing. For a marginal improvement. Oh, my creaky computer.
luckily i do not think fry's employees will suspect anyone of buying marginal but quick and easy upgrades to their computer just so they can game better at quake con, then return them about a week later to use the returned funds toward a much better upgrade. FIENDISH.
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Upgrade report!
Oblivion: max settings woo! -> :8D:
Bioshock: smooth enough to make ladies swoon and gentlemen weep -> :8D:
Dwarf Fortress: lag diminished by an order of magnitude -> :8D:
Audiosurf: invariably dies and forces reboot within seconds -> :enraged: :painful: :tears:
EDIT: As suggested in the official forums, I turned the sound effects off. That fixed it. So, yeah, more ram + video upgrade = sound issues. Man do I love computers.
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I just changed my video card and added a gig of ram. I'm pumped about it, but my fingers are hell of sore from all the pushing on sharp corners and narrow fragile edges and tiny power plugs. There should be rubber or plastic caps on there, such as little pads mounted on the corners, just to get some surface area to work with. I would pay up to a dollar for it to be standard issue on computer hardware I buy.
I just did this exact same thing. For a marginal improvement. Oh, my creaky computer.
luckily i do not think fry's employees will suspect anyone of buying marginal but quick and easy upgrades to their computer just so they can game better at quake con, then return them about a week later to use the returned funds toward a much better upgrade. FIENDISH.
Hey, you're the reason Best Buy has a fee on refunds, thanks.
Also Zed are you using Motherboard sound or a sound card?
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Motherboard sound. "C-Media Rear Panel Audio". I've never had to complain about it before. Well, other than how the maximum microphone record volume used to be inaudibly low, but a driver update fixed that.
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So, yeah, more ram + video upgrade = sound issues. Man do I love computers.
You did not perhaps to install the Vista at the time you are at the specific thing, no?
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Hey, you're the reason Best Buy has a fee on refunds, thanks.
It doesn't on video cards!
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As someone who has spent too much time answering phones for money, my pet peeve is strangers who ask "How are you?" on the phone when you know perfectly well they don't care and don't know how I was to begin with, and then pause awkwardly waiting for me to ask them the same question, knowing perfectly well that I don't care.
I started dealing with this by answering with "FinewhatcanIdoforyoutoday?" and then some schmucks started getting offended by my lack of following the protocol. Next time I should answer it with every little thing that's wrong in my personal life.
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The "How are you" bit of customer service or fake hospitality gets on my nerves, but mostly because it seems to prevent people from just saying "Hello" and having a normal greeting. It's also a great opportunity for people to just ignore you and give canned responses. There have been so many occasions where I've greeted someone with a regular "Hello" or "Hi" and they responded "Oh I'm fine, how are you?"
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It's just a polite greeting; I don't really see the problem. Granted, when I was working the phones it was for a small company, so I was dealing less with strangers and more with the same pool of customers on a regular basis, but it's a protocol I tend to follow as a customer. I see it as simple politeness that acknowledges the person at the other end of the phone as a human being instead of an information machine.
Then again, I never expect them to ask me how I'M doing.
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Yeah, one of my co-workers expressed a problem when he worked a customer service line, and I think someone around the club here posted a similar experience somewhere.
Answer phone
Begin canned greeting
Add 'My name is [name], how can I help you?'
Customer starts pushing phone buttons because you must be a robot.
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"How are you?" was too hard of a pet peeve to sustain, as it'd have left me perpetually annoyed. When I actually want to see how a friend is doing, I'll usually ask "What have you been up to?", which is a bit longer, but more likely to get a more genuine answer. I like "Status?" more, but it's
not idiot-friendlya little vocabulary dependent and threatens to sound pretentious or geeky.
I'd prefer "What's new?" and "What do you know?", as they leave room for potentially less personal responses that ring a fucklot truer than "fine, thanks." (E.g., "nothing much" for the first, "nothing new/significant" for the second.)
I see it as simple politeness that acknowledges the person at the other end of the phone as a human being instead of an information machine.
Meanwhile, it's a protocol that causes communication problems upon fail to ACK the SYN.
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The world is a database.
SELECT A.CURRENT_STATUS, A.FEELINGS FROM FRIENDS A WHERE A.FEELINGS != 'EMO' AND IS_IDIOT = 'N' ORDER BY SECRET_RANK_I_ASSIGN_FRIENDS ASC
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perhaps where A.IS_IDIOT = 'N'
Hooray for abstraction layers, though. I still don't know SQL.
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And here i tumble in a column of fire from my mighty database admin chair.
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There have been so many occasions where I've greeted someone with a regular "Hello" or "Hi" and they responded "Oh I'm fine, how are you?"
Uhh, full disclosure -- i've done this on accident a lot. Phone work's a bit numbing, you start to lose track of how conversational flow should work because you're too busy wanting to die.
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Mix things up by answering in an Indian accent and making someone else want to die.
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I kept getting complimented on my American accent, actually. A couple people were like, "wow, i'd never guess you were indian!"
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I have a habit of actually responding truthfully.
:gay4: How are you?
::(: Lost in a torrent of sadism.
:gay4: ...
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i hate steam not updating properly all i want to do is play tf2 goddamnit
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I remember hearing about the origin of the doctor greeting, "what are we doing today?" being created to avoid this sticky wicket.
Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.
I've got this nasty eye twitch, doc.
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STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM
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Stand back!
said stand back!
What are those dogs doing sniffing at my feet?
Theyre on to something, picking up
Picking up this heat, this heat
{chorus 1:}
Give me steam
And how you feel can make it real
Real as anything youve seen
Get a life with the dreamers dream
You know your culture from your trash
You know your plastic from your cash
When I lose sight of the track
You know the way back
But I know you
You know your stripper from your paint
You know your sinner from your saint
Whenever heavens doors are shut
You kick them open, but
I know you
{chorus 2:}
Give me steam
And how you feel can make it real
Real as any place youve been
Get a life with the dreamers dream
Stand back!
said stand back!
Cant you see Ive lost control? Im getting indiscreet
Youre moving in so close til Im picking up
Picking up this heat, this heat
[chorus 1]
You know your green from your red
You know the quick from the dead
So much better than the rest
You think youve been blessed
But I know you
You know your leather from your snake
You know the throttle from the brake
You know your straight line from a curve
Youve got a lot of nerve
But I know you
[chorus 2]
Everybody nosedive
Hold your breath, count to five
Backslap, boobytrap
Cover it up in bubblewrap
Room shake, earthquake
Find a way to stay awake
Its gonna blow, its gonna break
This is more than I can take
Oh yeah, I need steam
Feel the steam around me
Ah youre turning up the heat
When I start to dream aloud
til youre movin hands and feet
Wont you step into this cloud of steam
This steam
[chorus 1]
Help me yeah
Ready to steam out the log jam
Stir crazy from the freezer to the boil
Waters bubbling, its b..b..b..bubbling
Bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling
Life is coming to the boil
Gimme steam, lady
Gimme the steam around me now
On a high, coming alive
said gimme some steam!
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....what just happened?
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My parents have this ability to only call me on the phone at the worst possible times.
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My parents also have this ability, but that's only because they're usually the source of such times.
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Mine usually just watch the public webcam feed until they catch me masturbating and then tell me to put the leaf blower back in the garage.
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My parents also have this ability, but that's only because they're usually the source of such times.
I'm seconding this. Usually any phone calls I get come right as I'm falling asleep or right as I'm waking up, so when I answer and am obviously annoyed by having to do so, I get that 'WELL SORRY FOR CALLING ALEX GEEZ'.
Failure to answer the phone only results in more calls to boot. ::(:
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When I was living overseas, my parents could NEVER figure out when they should call me. I kept getting calls an hour after I had finally fallen asleep or an hour before I had to wake up.
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I think I'll just say that I recognize the importance of the telephone, but man, I hate the fucking thing.
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My brother (in Hawaii) called me at midnight with a computer question once.
In his defense, he knew what time it was; he just figured I'd be up at midnight on a Friday night. And he would have been right, except I was feeling under the weather and went to bed early.
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Yes. Calling in Fri Day at half of night time is not injustice.
Calling at night of Fri Day with a question of computers is great injustice !!
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And if the question pertains to a PartyBot, what then, smart guy?
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Haha.
I only wish the calls from my folks were :MENDOZAAAAA: simply because of the time of day.
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Instead of the gambling debts?
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I call my folks from time to time. One of the nice perks of free long-distance calls with digital phone. But my grandmother on my mothers side... Something isn't right there. Still talks like I'm 13, and can't escape the call until I've spent an hour and a half talking about things I did as a kid a decade or two ago, and I recount the last year of my life to her even if it has only been a month since the last call. LET ME GET OFF THE PHONE. I HAVE THINGS TO DO. And I know if I disconnect in some rude way I will have bad karma with my mom forever...
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That sounds like my grandmother on my father's side.
...and my mother.
...and my sister.
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Instead of the gambling debts?
Among many other things...
Let's just say that my folks have found a manifold number of ways to be stupid.
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...It may not even bear mentioning due to its utter obviousness, but of course you generally answer "How are you?" differently depending on how well you know the person asking.
Today, for example, when a friend called and greeted me with that, I responded, "Bitter and hungover."
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I hate when I forget to think while drinking water and it goes into my lungs. The smaller the amount, the more annoying and choke-inducing. And I hate the burning trickling sensation still in my throat for hours afterward.
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Carpeted bathrooms. Ugh.
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...that person must be told he/she's an idiot every time someone new visits their house.
(Yes, I just murdered pronouns forever.)
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I understand the point -- that tile floors can get effing cold -- but that's what rugs are for.
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They're also there to capture mold in an easily throw-it-the-fuck-outable form.
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Well, yes, that is where the contrast between them and carpet lies. I thought that was implicit.
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Apparently not to some people.
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God help you if you make that person's toilet overflow.
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And here I was thinking wallpaper in the bathroom was a stupid idea.
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"definat[e]ly"
"ect"
Writer's block is a cunt too, but that's less a peeve and more a "YKWIH."
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I hate the word "overly." It sounds fucking childish. There are so many words you can use in the place of "overly" that do not sound like you cobbled together a new adverb midsentence. "Too" always works in its place, the fuck is wrong with it.
Found one! (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=939.msg22733#msg22733) "Let none ever question your dedication to overly elaborate, very silly jokes."
"Too" would not have worked as well there, and would have required a hyphen.
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Maybe "way too elaborate".
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Is "excessively" mature enough?
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Ah, but "excessively" is, well, excessive. It's stronger than "overly".
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Kind of appropriate in this case, though.
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Eh. It's not THAT elaborate.
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Okay, I'll concede that, on rare occasion, "overly" functions grammatically better than other options.
But I still hate it.
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Alex, you are overly angry lately.
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(http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8343/hulkxo8.png)
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Alex, you are overly angry lately.
You're hurting my feelings! I...I think I hate you! :sadpanda:
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<JDigital> There are two problems with getafreelancer type sites. One, people think an Ebay clone takes a week and costs minimum wage. Two, there are coders in Romania and India who agree.
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People who don't know how long their truck is and park with it sticking three feet into the parking lot.
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People with trucks so long that they still stick 3 feet out into the parking lot, even if they park well.
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So, it's payday when I get a call from my shut-in brother...
:happy: : Alright! Paycheck time-- wait, $574? Oh right, they took out 68 bucks for all the insurance stuff... Ah well, still awesom--
:derp: : Hey, can I bum a ride across the county for my violin lesson?
:humpf: : Uh... sure, I guess. Can't be helped this weekend.
:derp: : And can you pay for it this time? Mom can't take care of it this week.
:humpf: : ...wait, what? Serious?
:derp: : ...
:humpf: : ...okay, how much?
Turns out it's 100 dollars to a session or something. And most of the time I hear sound coming from his sealed room, it sounds like Phantasy Star Online. Yeah, just a little miffed.
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Oh awesome, he can play Phantasy Star music with a violin!
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In fairness, they did do a string version of every main theme. And the "mission complete" song.
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No no no no, I meant I either hear his violin or PSO. I guess he could probably play something from it, but I mostly just hear a steady WHUM WHUM WHUM from him attacking with a weapon over and over and over and over and NYAARRRRG! :MENDOZAAAAA:
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Have you even heard a violin before? Seriously. Mine sounds just like Team Fortress 2, I shit you not.
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Mine sounds like me sucking a dick.
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Kazz gives great concert.
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Fuck you, God. You fucking prick. There are many, many things I could have done with my fucking life, but you had to go and invent videogames and my fucking penis. The only thing keeping me from becoming a useless pile of skin is that the two things haven't been combined in any form I'm willing to utilize fucking yet.
Fuck you, Kevin Lovelace. Fuck you, Ernesto Valenzuela. Fuck you, Scott and Hobbes, and double-fuck you Jessica Mayer, you fuck.
Fuck you, Sega and Team Sonic. Fuck you MY TEETH for having a cavity. Fuck you substance abuse. Fuck everyone in the WFE with salsa and a chisel.
:facepalm: ::(: :MENDOZAAAAA: :;-(: :fukit: :fuckoff: :enraged:
:endit: :painful: :omg: :gameover: :toxic: :nuke: :dead: :sharkey:
Fuck.
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Fuck everyone in the WFE with salsa and a chisel.
:proceed: :suave:
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Fuck you MY TEETH for having a cavity.
In contrast, today my dentist appointment went along so swimmingly that the doctor gave me twenty boxes of Colgate and a smack on the ass to 'spread the good word'.
:glee:
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Fuck. My hand.
The base knuckle of my middle finger's been hurting, as I've been taking a lot of notes. Not really sure how to deal with it. Tried other ways of holding the mechanical pencil and even considered learning to write with my off hand, neither of which worked well. Presently considering buying softer lead, so less pressure will be needed for dark lines, but I doubt that'll help. Thoughts?
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Learn shorthand, or at least take terser notes. Carry around a typewriter. Dictate into a recorder. Try more different ways of holding the pencil.
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These're physics and math notes, so it's not all that much I can shave off without information loss. I already use fun symbols to replace "for all," "such that," etc. and assign lots of variables so that I don't repeat much unnecessarily. I've got a laptop with no battery, meaning that there's a ~5 minute setup/pack time, and it's not that hot for taking mathy notes (maybe due to lack of OneNote or LaTeX familiarity. (I do use the laptop in comp. sci. classes.)
Recorder doesn't work that well for board equations either, so it's got to be pencil. Recording (even video) doesn't save me from writing lots of shit during labs or homework, though I can take breaks during the latter.
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Form a study group. Get notes off your colleagues. If it becomes a medical issue, I'm sure the school has some kind of note-taking-for-the-disabled program.
In other news: People who pronounce it EYE-talian.
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Get a soft grip for your pencil. They're cheap, and cushion your hand while writing.
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Is a laptop an option? I know some teachers don't like that, but if you explain about the knuckle it might be allowable.
To reiterate my earlier post:
Fuck finals week.
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And my car died. ::(: This is just as I was tightening up my belt to go back to school in January.
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A pen might work better because you dont have to push as hard.
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My laptop just died, 3 days before warranty expires. Phew.
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And it undied. Um...
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And it undied. Um...
SEND IT IN YOU FOOL!!!
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And it undied. Um...
SEND IT IN YOU FOOL!!!
YES. FUCK. GOD. Hopefully they'll extend your warranty after fixing it, too.
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My pet peeve of the day: When everyone in the community changes their names until I have no idea who the fuck is saying what.
+10 points to Romo for Flash Man, however.
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...that's Sei.
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::D:
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FUCK YOU PASSING OUT AFTER FLU SHOTS
::(:
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my pet peeve is still not being able to sleep on my own bed or play warhammer or play with my puppy without him breaking my heart when I leave the powerless apartment again
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my pet peeve is still not being able to sleep on my own bed
:?:
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He lives in the desolate wasteland called Houston. Also, it was pretty dinged up in the hurricane.
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And thus our options are grandparent's house which at least has lights and a/c and water, or our apartment which is basically a horrible hell of stuffiness and heat and darkness
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you know those opportunities we sometimes get, to stop and smell the roses?
Niku uses those opportunities to hate roses
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ROSES ARE RED
RED LIKE RAGE
I'LL THROW YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES
INTO A CAGE
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Okay, just about ready to turn this goddamned cell phone off. I never seem to get any good news from it.
"Hey, just thought I'd let you know your baby finches died."
"What's going on with your 17-year-old dog? The animal shelter says they found him on the streets and are threatening to put him to sleep."
"Did you turn off my alarm this morning? I think you turned off my alarm this morning. Why did you turn off my alarm this morning?"
"Can you drive me all over God's green acre because I'm a 22-year-old bum who refuses to drive?"
::(:
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I have a cell phone.
Guess when it's on?
When I'm calling someone.
When I'm done calling someone, I turn it off again.
My friends, family, and random people on the fucking street (because this is California, where everyone has a cell phone and is programmed to spread the infection) bug me incessantly about this.
They want to be able to reach me. There might be an emergency. Someone could die. I am being a bad person by keeping my cell phone off. The entire free world could need my help.
I laugh at them, and continue on my merry, uninterrupted way.
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I make more monies if I keep mine on.
(Usually.)
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The entire free world could need my help.
Friday!! I've been trying to call you for hours now!
Haven't you heard the Internet's on fire again?!
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We had a babycue with boggle and super mario bros and everything but you never picked up.
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Haven't you heard the Internet's on fire again?!
::D:
We had a babycue with boggle and super mario bros and everything but you never picked up.
:sadpanda:
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See, I hate phones, but there are only a few people who ever call me so it balances out.
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They make it a lot easier for people to bug you, especially when it's inappropriate.
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HEY THAD
I'M HAVING TROUBLE WITH MY COMPUTER
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Behold the glory of bittorrent, gentlemen! In this exciting day and age this innovative new product can fetch me a 6mb file in under an hour hopefully! A golden age for the internet, one that will be recounted in history books until the end of time.
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I leave my cell phone at home.
:slow:
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So apparently I can get streaming video of every movie in the world EXCEPT Predator.
And the DVD player's dead.
And I need screencaps for an art class.
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...So "my face is bleeding" doesn't really qualify so much as a pet peeve, and maybe one of these days we WILL get around to separating out pet peeves from "you know what I HATE" type stuff, but in the meantime...
I have a mole right under the right side of my mouth. I like it; it's not big or disgusting and it's part of the personality of my face (like the faint scar above my right eye). What I don't like is that it's a giant fucking blood-filled target for my razor.
...That's probably part of why I used to just grow a damn beard.
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Let the hair around the mole grow and tell people it's a misaligned soul patch.
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You don't have the beard anymore? Aha...
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:thad:
No beard, just a sweet handlebar mustache.
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People who nag me for drinking diet soda, saying it is bad for me and that I should switch to water, who then drink regular soda.
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People is worried about false sugars man. They don't care about gettin' fat, they care about reports that maybe fake sugar causes brain cancer.
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I always ask why they think diet soda is worse than regular soda. They always reply, "Because of chemicals." I proceed to bring up things like my family's history of diabetes and the 12 cavities I earned growing up. Then they're like "Just drink water then." Then they fuck a sugar cane and wave their bloody splinterdicks in my face.
BTW if I get brain cancer, I'm suing the FDA for a billion dollars and living like a king for those, like, what, couple months.
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I drink pure sugar and shit cakes.
Then I eat the cakes.
I also piss chocolate milk, and drink it.
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I kind of wish they would change the names of diet sodas to, well, anything but diet. Even though I understand it is all a massive marketing ploy and nobody uses them to actually diet but
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They complain that you're drinking aspartame, then go off and drink HFCS. Welp
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Coke products are slowly converting "Diet Blank" to "Blank Zero."
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HFCS isn't a chemical*. It's just a dangerous concentration of processed fructose.
* Not a synthetic one. Shut up.
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Wait... HFCS is now considered dangerous for your health (above and beyond the ridiculous empty calorie intake)???
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Wait... HFCS is now considered dangerous for your health (above and beyond the ridiculous empty calorie intake)???
This is a popular rumor, but I haven't seen any evidence to back it up (I did read a study on it recently) that says it is any different than plain ol' sugar (besides the matter of taste).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE5aSUcU3YA
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OH GOD
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP MYSTERIOUSLY TURNS INTO SARAH PALIN
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It's more dangerous than we thought...
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I haven't seen any evidence to back it up (I did read a study on it recently) that says it is any different than plain ol' sugar (besides the matter of taste).
It's no more dangerous than a whole shitload of sugar, no.
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But then again, sucrose is 50% what?
What = Fructose/Glucose.
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As I understand it, the problem is that sucrose, being 50% Fructose and 50% Glucose, is what our bodies are used to processing. HFCS is something like 60% Fructose and 40% Glucose, which when processed leaves extra Fructose floating around in our systems, which causes problems that a shitload of sugar, in and of itself, would not.
Something like that, anyway.
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That's what the un-source says!
Water retention? Flatulence? Loose stools? And maybe cancer, but what DOESN'T cause cancer? Am I right? Oh, and why don't they make the whole plane out of the stuff they make the black box from? Am I right? And what's the deal w-
:endit:
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I believe it's actually that sucrose is chemically bonded fructose + glucose, which has to be processed by your body and broken down, and part of that process tells your body how much sugar you are eating and when to adjust certain hormone levels. Wheras HFCS is unbound glucose + unbound fructose in similar proportions. It's the concept in general behind why less-processed things are healthier for you, as far as I understand.
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...is it really that complicated? The problem with HCFS is that you never get it in doses less than a tablespoon or more, and can be up to twice as concentrated as regular grain sugar.
Try eating two tablespoons of grain sugar straight, and tell me how good you feel afterwards.
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Would it be cool if we made simple syrup out of it instead for this experiment and drank it?
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Sure, heat it to melting point and then eat it. Tell me how the fuck that feels.
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You understand that part of the super-saturating process is letting it get back down to human temperatures, right?
I'm only keen to inflict diabetes to myself.
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...you do realize that the point of this exercise is not to form a solution of it, right?
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YOUGUYSIJUSTDRANKTEAWITHNINESCOOPSOFSUGARINITTHISWASABADIDEA
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Ah, good point. I had forgotten (somehow) that hydrolysis would probably take place in the process of making the syrup basically giving us 50% fructose cane syrup and trying to argue that x mols of unbound fructose is or isn't as bad for you as x mols of unbound fructose.
:facepalm: Duh. Oh fuck me, it's bedtime.
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It would be simpler to just only drink water. I do this! It helps that I can't stand carbonation.
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That's a habit I picked up in the Navy. Wake up, chug water, drink water all day. It also promotes good health and clarity of thought.
that's right
this is me thinking clearly
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You know what? Concentrated sugar is great for you. Go have some more.
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HOORAY FOR DESTROYING OUR OWN BODIES!
CONCENTRATED SUGARS! ALCOHOL! CAFFEINE! HEMLOCK!
I'm actually going to search for papers about the differences in decomposition between 55% HFCS, 50% SS, and sucrose crystals sometime next week now. Discovery time! :imagination:
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I cannot put my photos on my iPhone for reasons not clearly stated and for which there is no reliable fix and which Apple doesn't seem too interested in correcting. They're the best ever.
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Currently using the internet with sunglasses on, due to getting my eyes fucked up at the doctor.
CANT FOCUS VISION PROPERLY.
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My boss has made a habit of constantly derailing my thought train. I get confronted with some difficult problem, and just as I'm about to lick it I hear HEY THIS THING IS BROKEN, TOO. LET'S FIX IT RIGHT NOW. Repeat about six times a day.
:humpf:
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A couple days ago I was at Best Buy, I saw Sam & Max Season 1 on sale for twenty dollars and bought it on a whim.
Before I continue, I want to make sure that if you've ever said that "PC Gaming isn't difficult or expensive", that you pay attention.
When I attempt to load up the game, I get an error message when it tries to autorun. Ditto the extras CD. When I try to get the setup running manually, nothing happens.
It turns out that the CDs are incompatible with my (new) computer's disc drive. Yeah.
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That's... actually really strange. You might try going to Telltale's website and see if you can register your CD keys and get a downloader/installer.
Not ideal at all, but might help.
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Couldn't you have told that delightful story without the part about computers are mean because sometimes they don't work you luddite.
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I felt it was important. And funny.
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Yeah well I'm contrary!
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The Aricept commercial, designed to frighten the shit out of old people. That's just wrong.
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It turns out that the CDs are incompatible with my (new) computer's disc drive. Yeah.
Explain.
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Explained. (http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=88991&postcount=2)
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Why do people always insist on talking politics with me while I'm eating? I could have a chocolate-dipped angel's food cake with maraschinos in front of me, and by the time I'm done listening to your fucking opinions on health care I can guarantee you that I will be physically incapable of enjoying it. There ought to be a law that politics and anything remotely capable of causing pleasure ought to be kept at least 500 feet apart from each other. Ladies, if you think someone's about to take advantage of you, don't shout "rape". Shout "Barack Obama".
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Ladies, if you think someone's about to take advantage of you, don't shout "rape". Shout "Barack Obama".
It'll work, but mostly because Obama will actually parachute in and rescue you.
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3146/2730121288_2756e9b1bf.jpg?v=0)
Never fear, middle class tax cuts are here!
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Ladies, if you think someone's about to take advantage of you, don't shout "rape". Shout "Barack Obama".
It'll work, but mostly because Obama will actually parachute in and rescue you.
No, stop right there. I haven't heard a "Chuck Norris Fact" in close to four months now and I won't have you rekindling that meme.
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That's just because Bruce Lee decided that his insipid shit had gone on for too long, fought his way back out through the land of the dead, and kicked Chuck's name from off of the internet.
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Chuck Norris punched his bum.
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That's just because Vladimir Putin decided that his insipid shit had gone on for too long, fought his way back out through the land of the dead, and kicked Chuck's name from off of the internet.
Get with the times, bro.
EDIT: This is what I get for not reading Classic's posts. Whatever, Russia is kind of like a land of the dead.
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fred your avatar is completely hilarious
edit: thread-derailment nazis
edit 2: people who derail threads
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Milk that goes bad a week before the date it's supposed to. Yeah, I know it's approximate. It's still fucking annoying to pour sour milk on your cereal.
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Milk that goes bad a week before the date it's supposed to. Yeah, I know it's approximate. It's still fucking annoying to pour sour milk on your cereal.
I dunno, I think it's more annoying to realize your milk is sour BEFORE you pour it on the cereal. You have a bowl of perfectly good cereal and nothing to soften it, so either you can eat it dry and slash up the inside of your mouth or try to pour the shit back in the box. At least if you'd poured on the sour milk, you could just dump it all in the garbage without guilt.
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Actually that sounds much worse. Putting in back in the box might be annoying, but at least it retains the cereal. Having to dump it out is incredibly wasteful.
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I always just check the milk before I pour the cereal.
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Cannon had that advice, but then removed it for some unknown reason. Cannon! Bring your post back.
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I have a habit of accidentally drinking sour milk or pouring it on my cereal, and it is gross. I have, in fact, drank about a half a glass of sour milk and I thought it might be off so I demanded Kazz try it. And he did. And yelled at me for making him drink sour milk. So then I threw it out. And I think pouring sour milk onto cereal is much more annoying than having to pour it back into the box.
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Twice in my life I have bought pints of chocolate milk from a gas station, only for them to be incredibly sour. One was actually like 2 weeks past the expiration date (I was young, this event taught me to always check the date), and I don't know what the other one's problem was.
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Twice in my life I have bought pints of chocolate milk from a gas station, only for them to be incredibly sour. One was actually like 2 weeks past the expiration date (I was young, this event taught me to always check the date), and I don't know what the other one's problem was.
I bought some sour yoohoo once.
Yoohoo, a drink that can be stored at room temperature for long periods of time.
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I always just check the milk before I pour the cereal.
Well, I thought I did by checking the date before I did any pouring whatsoever.
Apparently this is not good enough. You have to pour a bit out and drink it. :/
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I always just check the milk before I pour the cereal.
You have to pour a bit out and drink it. :/
Use your nose. Trust me.
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Milk doesn't go bad in my house. Milk is always yummy and consumed within 5 days of purchase.
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I actually poured a bowl of cereal this morning before checking and realizing they didn't even have milk.
Also, isn't the date on milk only valid if the milk is unopened? Pretty sure the damned stuff starts going the moment a whiff of oxygen touches it. It's why I have a tendency to throw myself ravenously at any perishables I see, to try and dispose of it before it explodes. This tends to annoy a lot of people who have not picked up on why I mainly buy canned and frozen foods, and just think I'm dangerously lazy.
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Twice in my life I have bought pints of chocolate milk from a gas station, only for them to be incredibly sour. One was actually like 2 weeks past the expiration date (I was young, this event taught me to always check the date), and I don't know what the other one's problem was.
"Homer, you are asleep at your post! Now go change the expiration dates on the dairy products!"
I always just check the milk before I pour the cereal.
You have to pour a bit out and drink it. :/
Use your nose. Trust me.
Yes. Clotted milk is a lot less offensive [to you] while outside your mouth.
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In other news, the coffee pot I bought from the minister of a local Lutheran church didn't work. :facepalm:
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I have a habit of accidentally drinking sour milk or pouring it on my cereal, and it is gross. I have, in fact, drank about a half a glass of sour milk and I thought it might be off so I demanded Kazz try it. And he did. And yelled at me for making him drink sour milk. So then I threw it out.
Actually, you came to me with the milk, and you said it might be sour. So I said, "then throw it out." But you demanded that I try it. I said no, just throw it out, but you insisted. So I gave in and took a sip. It was repulsive. It wasn't a, oh, maybe this is starting to go bad, it was giving off big cartoony stink-lines.
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Moral: Listen to your man.
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Where's the fun in that?
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Protip: Equip the Ghoul or Flesh Golem soul.
Though really, I don't know why you guys don't know that.
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Milk is always yummy and consumed within 5 days of purchase.
Word.
Bread on the other hand...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QadhPRU0Dn8
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people who don't like the ends of the bread and leave the first slice till the end
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fuck you the ends are terrible
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When I buy a loaf of pre-sliced bread from a store, it is gonna be for sandwiches or something. The ends are ill-suited for my purposes, and are better used to keep the slices on the end from drying out.
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Bread ends are best used as trenchers.
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The ends are fucking awesome. Think of the white part of the bread as Nazi Germany, and imagine the bread's flavor symbolizes the Jews. The crust and ends are the concentration camps.
Have I won the prize for worst analogy ever yet?
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Bread ends are awesome... in anything more advanced than store-bought, pre-sliced white trash bread.
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store-bought, pre-sliced white trash bread.
That stuff is like insulation for low-income housing. Peanut butter is insulted by its very presence.
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You can tell we're elitist because we have the money to know wonderbread really sucks.
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Hey, yeah, enjoy spending $3 for a loaf of bread. Me, I'll take what I can get for 50 cents.
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And I just slam my bologna between two ramen bricks!
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And I just slam my bologna between two ramen bricks!
Is that a euphemism? ::D:
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That's a horrible way to talk about Lady Duke, Kazz.
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And I just slam my bologna between two ramen bricks!
Is that a euphemism? ::D:
If it is, it doesn't really sound like it be ... not uncomfortable. Unless you cooked the bricks first but just didn't stir or something. And then your bologna would just end up smelling/tasting like chicken.... wait, is that a bad thing or not.....
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That really depends whether you put the flavoring in first.
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You guys are grody.
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You guys are grody.
That's a good word. I don't hear it too often.
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And I just slam my bologna between two ramen bricks!
Is that a euphemism? ::D:
If it is, it doesn't really sound like it be ... not uncomfortable. Unless you cooked the bricks first but just didn't stir or something. And then your bologna would just end up smelling/tasting like chicken.... wait, is that a bad thing or not.....
I don't have time to get the bricks wet! When I need a sandwich, I need it immediately!
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That's a really horrible way to talk about Lady Duke, Kazz.
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Ew.
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:goggles: Got new glasses, and jesus fuck i forgot how annoying it is while your eyes adjust.
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That is a terrible, floor swirling thing to go through.
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Relatives with absolutely zero sense of financial responsibility, and the sickening realization that the moment you manage to pull yourself out of your own, circumstances-related pit, you're going to be paying for their stupid fucking decisions.
Grrrrrr.
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I had some trouble with my current glasses at first. They're frameless, which means they've got big ol' screws attaching the bridge straight onto the lenses. It took me a long time to tune out the huge shadows they'd make in the center of my vision.
On the bright side, these things have lasted like five times longer than my previous pairs.
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My next door neighboor just helped his 19 year old daughter trade in her Corolla for a Hummer H3.
The reasoning? She needed a "big secure car" to drive "to, from, and on campus with" that could carry a lot of her sorority mates. Said campus is less than 5 miles away.
::(:
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She needed a military vehicle?
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She needed a wannabe military vehicle?
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But gas IS cheaper now!
:whoops: So it's almost somewhat less than completely irresponsible!
I saw a price that was under $3!!! If that's not a silver lining to this whole debacle, I don't know what is!
:pimp:
::(: Oh wait. Nothing. That's the silver lining.
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Well, to be fair Classic, the H3 is still twice as efficient as the H1 and 2. Which means it gets 18 mpg instead of ~10. :derp:
But even ignoring that, I'm not sure how many 16 inch vertical steps she'll need to scale on the surface streets to CCSN.
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Distinction Classic did not even notice
:derp: Yes... Yes I see you don't need my incredible background knowledge and commentary here. :derp: :derp:
Keep it up, I salute you!
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Corolla for a Hummer
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/murphybizarro.jpg)
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Relatives with absolutely zero sense of financial responsibility, and the sickening realization that the moment you manage to pull yourself out of your own, circumstances-related pit, you're going to be paying for their stupid fucking decisions.
Grrrrrr.
Oh, so my whole life.
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People who stand in front of the soda fountain for ten minutes.
This would be OK since you could be a bit pushy/rude and just do your shit around them but you can't because 700 lbs.
How the fuck long does it take you to fill up a soda, step to the side, and grab a lid and straw? And even if you insist on putting on the lid and inserting the straw while you're still standing there blocking me, seriously, it should not take you the entire fucking length of the known universe to do it.
In fact, in general, I hate people being unreasonably slow. I'm prepared to go the metaphorical speed limit, but if you're doing 15 in a 35, you're in the way and a leopard is going to eat you if this was africa jesus christ
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Girls who manage to do this exact same thing in front of the fountain, not because they're particularly slow, but because they're inconsiderate.
I mean, I'm OK with people being reasonably wrapped up in themselves, but if this was africa you wouldn't notice the leopard in time and he would eat you
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More fast-food restaurants need hurry-up leopards.
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:goggles: Got new glasses, and jesus fuck i forgot how annoying it is while your eyes adjust.
turns out THAT THEY FUCKED UP SOMEHOW.
only a small section of each lens is actually in focus, on the left it's straight ahead, on the right....it's WAY THE FUCK TO THE RIGHT.
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People who stand in front of the soda fountain for ten minutes.
This would be OK since you could be a bit pushy/rude and just do your shit around them but you can't because 700 lbs.
How the fuck long does it take you to fill up a soda, step to the side, and grab a lid and straw? And even if you insist on putting on the lid and inserting the straw while you're still standing there blocking me, seriously, it should not take you the entire fucking length of the known universe to do it.
In fact, in general, I hate people being unreasonably slow. I'm prepared to go the metaphorical speed limit, but if you're doing 15 in a 35, you're in the way and a leopard is going to eat you if this was africa jesus christ
Girls who manage to do this exact same thing in front of the fountain, not because they're particularly slow, but because they're inconsiderate.
I mean, I'm OK with people being reasonably wrapped up in themselves, but if this was africa you wouldn't notice the leopard in time and he would eat you
I have to put up with this shit every day at the gas station I work at. They do it at the coffee pots and latte machines too.
I know there's like 12 or so flavors to pick from, but it shouldn't take a press conference for you to decide!
I HATE CHILDREN GODDAMN Also, people who bring their kids into the station with them and they run amok.
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While we're talking about kids: Bionicle toys. Legos - imagination = stupid fucking toy that of course is doing well enough to warrant nine million expanded universe sets with the only discernible difference between them apparently being the shape of the mask or how many identicle leg/arm balljoint pieces attach to their thoraxes. Thoraxi? Thoraxuses.
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While Bionicle isn't my thing as a collector, I can understand the appeal. A minimalist, highly articulated toy... and if you don't like the way it looks or is set up, you can fix it yourself without a dremel!
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You know, I've always considered myself a pretty creative chap, even as a little kid. That's why I say this: fuck legos. If I wanted a unique toy, I'd mutilate an action figure with scissors.
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I thought legos were pretty cool. They made fun game boards until parents started letting me have enough money to buy real boardgames.
How I always forget the goddamned topic and realize it only after I post.
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Bionicle toys. Legos - imagination = stupid fucking toy
Bionicle isn't my thing
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Toa-Ju/BIO-rhythm/NicleLady-Bunny/bunny01_front.jpg)
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Toa-Ju/BIO-rhythm/Onyx-Huntress/onyx01_02.jpg)
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Toa-Ju/BIO-rhythm/Hac-Kai/hac_kai_01.jpg)
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Toa-Ju/BIO-rhythm/NicleLady-Bunny/bunny18_sitdown.jpg)
fuck legos.
:suave:
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where the fuck did you find those?
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I really wanted to look at making those bionicle bunnies, but apparently they've got all sorts of unique parts from the entire run of bionicle and it would cost hundreds of dollars to buy the parts or sets now.
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Those are the coolest bionicle thingies ever. The bunny robot girl is the best one :D
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Hwelp, I know what I'm having nightmares about tonight.
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One man's nightmare is another man's wet dream
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images
Damn, that's actually really cool!
it would cost hundreds of dollars
:MENDOZAAAAA:
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when delicious organic bread goes moldy in THREE FUCKING DAYS :MENDOZAAAAA:
all I wanted was some toast :sadpanda:
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Dear Sharkey,
Ben from Flashbang said to tell you "hi."
He then proceeded to write the word "POOP" on my bathroom mirror in toothpaste, throw the half-empty tube in the garbage (with no cap on it, so it got hair stuck INSIDE THE TUBE), and then leave the party, locking the door behind him so I couldn't get back into my bathroom.
So he's kind of on my shit list right now.
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:disapprove: Want we do the violence on 'im?
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...also, I pulled back my shower curtain to discover that my bathtub is full of toilet bowl cleanser.
That motherfucker is not allowed in my bathroom anymore. If Brad invites him over again, he can piss in the fucking backyard for all I care.
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your house got trolled
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...I guess the silver lining is that I cleaned up my bathroom EXCEPT the shower and mirror today, in preparation for company. I'd probably be even MORE pissed if I'd cleaned them and THEN he'd fucked them up.
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Man, whatever happened to great responsibility?
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When people complain about the food. I can tell you right now: I've had worse. I really, really have.
It was at a restaurant called "Amiga's Chinese Buffet". That should tell you all you need to know right there.
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It was at a restaurant called "Amiga's Chinese Buffet". That should tell you all you need to know right there.
That it was out of date, had problems starting up and was only popular with europeans?
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Actually, yeah.
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I bit the side of my tongue this morning and all day I've had trouble speaking.
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STOP SAYING (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=1215.msg34649#msg34649) "TENANT" (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=1436.msg35719#msg35719) WHEN YOU MEAN "TENET" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tenet)
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STOP SAYING (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=1215.msg34649#msg34649) "TENANT" (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=1436.msg35719#msg35719) WHEN YOU MEAN "TENET" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tenet)
I lost a spelling bee in grade school because the moderator said the word "trenchant" when the word was supposed to be "transient".
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STOP SAYING "POURING" (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=1436.msg35751#msg35751) WHEN YOU MEAN "PORING" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poring)
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(http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/poring.jpg)
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ragnarok online huh more like boring amirite
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per say
:angry:
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per se (sometimes misspelled "per say" or "persay")
:nyoro~n: x :over9000: / :happy: = :painful:
Latin , damno is totus.
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People claiming that the Confederate Battle Flag has NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH RACISM AT ALL, NOT HERE IN THE SOUTH ANYWAY.
On the other side of the coin, feminists who consider passing mention without derision of Palin's gender to be sexist.
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Shill alert. Skip this post if me saying something that can be construed as defending an insanely rich corporation offends you.
People blaming all the retarded WoW patch 3.0.2 instability on "the patch not being ready" or (even worse) "Activision". The issues are incredibly frustrating but are also nearly all related to simple server load and there was barely anything that could've been done to test it.
The reason all this wasn't caught on the public test realms is there are one or two public test realms, and it was tested on those with a few thousand people (maybe less) to make sure everything was fine. Then it was pushed to HUNDREDS OF LIVE SERVERS WHICH ALL EXPERIENCED ADDITIONAL INFLUXES OF MORE PEOPLE SIGNING ON due to the new content. Then halloween hit and every single player started running Scarlet Monastary due to the new achievements and putting never-before-seen strain on the instance servers. Literally, the biggest problem with the patch has been that it is too popular. Stop me if you need me to re-explain why this isn't something that would've been found with another month on the PTR.
Gripe if you want. It sucks. I hate it. I want the servers to be back up too. But I can tell you personally, after spending 12 hours a day until nearly midnight working on this for weeks, that sitting back and waving your hand and saying "Oh, good job, they should've tested it better, it's clear Activision is calling the shots and they don't wait until things are ready yet" is astoundingly ignorant and personally offensive.
In summary: Stop acting like you know what the hell you're talking about.
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...this your first major release or something?
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I freaking worked at NIS America before this, man.
so yes.
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Myeh. So what I'm saying is that - and you damn well know this - the players will bitch about anything and everything and similarly blame it on anything and everything. They knew as well as you did that the release was going to suck for stability, and in their impotent whining they blame Activision because, let's face it, they're the third most evil corporation in the industry. And you're on their direct payroll.
SUCKA
HOW DO THOSE HEALTHCARE AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS TASTE NOW, MR. REAL-JOB?
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If nothing else, just be glad there isn't a flagshipped-like site with people persistent enough to follow you here and quote your innocuous rant on an anti-Blizzard web site, interfering with your work life, etc.
(They whine and stuff, but at least they're not at that stage of doing whatever they can to grief any and every one working for the company.)
Come to think of it, such a site might exist, but well, whatever. I haven't heard of it.
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You might as well say Activision is on Blizzard's payroll.
Seriously, I think of it as more of a buddy-cop thing; everyone seems to forget that Vivendi is still in the backround looming over everything.
(also thanks for the pep talk, if it gets any more positive in here the thread is going to derail, though)
PET PEEVE: the fact that I keep reading user commentary on games I work on and I don't know well enough to stop.
If nothing else, just be glad there isn't a flagshipped-like site with people persistent enough to follow you here and quote your innocuous rant on an anti-Blizzard web site, interfering with your work life, etc.
(They whine and stuff, but at least they're not at that stage of doing whatever they can to grief any and every one working for the company.)
Come to think of it, such a site might exist, but well, whatever. I haven't heard of it.
WAY TO FEED MY NIGHTMARES I'm not posting anything else outside of #finalfight, that did it
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Man, I wish people ratted out what I said here to my employers. It would validate my paranoia.
Of course, my current boss knows every single thing I say here. :>_>:
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I like how at my current job I can be rightfully afraid of my work-related knowledge getting me in trouble, and at my old job no matter how cool I thought I was I could've walked into a crowd and offered aloud to share every secret piece of information I knew and nobody would care.
also even if anyone did care and wanted me to spill the beans, my bosses would have never known or cared.
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WAY TO FEED MY NIGHTMARES I'm not posting anything else outside of #finalfight, that did it
No fantasy here, by the way.
An employee's complaining on IRC wound up getting pasted by some dick on flagshipped's forum, and it then went from forum post to news article, and then from that article it was copied to a couple scrounging gaming news sites.
The guy who posted the transcript edited his post a bunch and sort of backed down after a bunch of people on something awful chewed him out for being a douchebag. This is the initial thread on flagshipped's forum. (http://www.flagshipped.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=174&p=2677)
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On the other side of the coin, feminists who consider passing mention without derision of Palin's gender to be sexist.
What? I don't understand what you're trying to say here.
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On the other side of the coin, feminists who consider passing mention without derision of Palin's gender to be sexist.
What? I don't understand what you're trying to say here.
This (http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=offensivepalinid3.jpg), for example.
Is it derogatory of women? No. Is the fact that Palin's female a subject of mockery? No. Is it suggesting that Palin's gender is a fault? No. Her gender is mentioned in passing, as a way to construct a joke calling her stupid. But because it dares to use that magic hot-button word "vagina", I've seen feminists scream that it must be sexist, because it's making fun of her for being a woman and a mother.
They admit that if it were rephrased as "What's the difference between your children and your ideas", it'd suddenly stop being sexist, despite being the exact same joke.
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...you had a valid point before you used the worst example possible. :facepalm:
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you guys keep changing your names and i cant keep track of them.
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I was going to change mine back, but then Constantine stroked my ego for beating him to the punch at something.
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...you had a valid point before you used the worst example possible. :facepalm:
In the sense that he used a comic that was funny because it's offensive?
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you guys keep changing your names and i cant keep track of them.
(http://brontoforum.us/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=749;type=avatar)
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He's right, though. It's offensive, but the offensiveness has nothing to do with the inequality between men and women.
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Yeah, it was actually more ableism than anything.
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thats the most retarded -ism I ever heard of
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Yeah, it was actually more ableism than anything.
thats the most retarded -ism I ever heard of
It's called meritocracy.
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That doesn't make sense. That's not an "ism".
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And that's not quite the word either. Let's not even begin discussing how far the US is from a meritocracy.
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Sounds like denialism!
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And that's not quite the word either. Let's not even begin discussing how far the US is from a meritocracy.
"""Discrimination""" against the unqualified by instead rewarding the more qualified?
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:despair:
I AM BEATEN!
IS THAT DEFEATISM?!
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Youbetyourassitism.
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the inability to fall asleep
cavities
cat spit
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the inability to fall asleep
cavities
cat spit
Pffft, that's nothing. Didn't get much sleep last night because the cats spent all night barfing on us.
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They admit that if it were rephrased as "What's the difference between your children and your ideas", it'd suddenly stop being sexist, despite being the exact same joke.
It's the same punchline, but not the same joke. A woman's mouth and vagina are both orifices, have teeth, and have the ability to please a man's penis, so the comparison is less nonsensical than asking the difference between an owl and a bungee cord.
Whether this makes it sexist or not is up to you.
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Fuck MoveOn. They never sent me an Obama button after I requested one, then the link they gave me to replace mine if I didn't show up just says they're out of buttons and I'm SOL. Fuck them, I wanted my Obama button.
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the inability to fall asleep
cavities
cat spit
Pffft, that's nothing. Didn't get much sleep last night because the cats spent all night barfing on us.
That sucks, but if a cat barfed on me I'm pretty sure I'd die. Cat spit is like lit thermite to my system: Even a hint of it in my eye causes it to swell up and turn blood red. It makes my skin swell, too. Sucks because I happen to love animals, even cats. And I have a cat who obsessively cleans herself. Like, all day long. She's a longhair, and her fur is literally dusty with her spit, so after I pet her I have to wash my hands. Sometimes she'll massage her pads on my leg and I'll feel my leg swelling like a wet tampon.
Dogs are better than cats, QED.
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Long-haired breeds (species doesn't matter) will almost always be worse allergy wise than a short-haired breed.
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I still cannot decipher what the linux kernel is doing to initialize page tables. This may have something to do with me reading source for three or four different platforms, but it probably has more to do with how I'm retarded. Fuck my stupid, stupid brain.
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...So a few months back, at the local Kinko's, I saw a very silly product: a USB coffee mug warmer. I pointed it out to my roommate and we had a good laugh.
So then he bought me one for my birthday. (He has a long history of purchasing me gag gifts, especially items we have mocked in a store -- a few years back it was a horizontal stand for my PS2.)
The first problem, as you might expect, is that it doesn't really work very well. It gets hot enough to burn your hand, but not hot enough to keep your coffee warm. (It also seems slightly undersized for my mug.)
Also, the USB cable is very short, so the only ports I can plug it into if I actually want it to be within reach are the ones on the front of my computer. And my computer is on the left side of my desk.
That's right...my coffee warmer is left-handed.
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It's a sign Thad. It seems you can't ignore your sinister destiny.
:proceed:
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To be fair, it will be very useful when you meet the man in black.
Also my mother bought that for my father one year. My father has a long history of thoroughly hating everything my mother buys him.
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Thinkgeek sent me one of those things by accident. I still haven't tried it.
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ezbake.shtml I thought for years that this was a real product. You cannot imagine my sorrow when I finally decided to purchase it and clicked "Add to Cart".
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That's funny. Back in high school Brad suggested the advent of a 5.25" toast drive.
I forget if he just intended it to make toast or actually went so far as to suggest attempting to read and write data on it.
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Not sure this is a pet peeve, but fuck it looks like there are roaches in my apartment. It is definitely my fault because I am incorrigible slob.
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Hey, if you play your cards right you could turn your pet peeves into actual pets.
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I'm not sure, but I think the one I've captured is a small or pre-adult oriental roach. Hell, it's less than an inch long and has no obvious wings, it might not be a roach at all.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk97Oil2qnc
it's not so bad really
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And now the only thing restraining my compulsion to sterilize the whole apartment is a lack of time and being about to breach the 24 hours of wakefulness with no real progress on anything relevant to my existence marker.
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People who hold a door open for you like this:
(http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/dooropen.png)
Thanks, extremely helpful individual. Now, instead of simply opening the door and walking through, I have to decide between ducking beneath your arm, or walking around you and squeezing between your ass and the doorframe.
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We're waiting for you to put your arm out to take the door from us, you douche. What kind of a retard do you take us for?
EDIT: Just in case you weren't sure. :rage:
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You're still entirely in the way.
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When you take the door, we will move our arm out of the way and walk past you. Even if you are 6 feet wide, our healthy and polite bodies can squeeze by in the minuscule space not taken up by your ridiculous girth. Fatty.
EDIT: Just in case you weren't sure: :angry:
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Not sure this is a pet peeve, but fuck it looks like there are roaches in my apartment.
Any cardboard boxes around? Lil' asswipes love them.
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Not too many, but some.
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Well, congratulations on coming up with a way of holding a door that involves getting in the way and then making me handle the door anyway. Next time just let it fucking shut.
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Why don't you be fucking grateful that I didn't make your paradoxically and comically thin, weak arms struggle with that door I just opened for you, cockbite. You must understand how to take advantage of inertia, 'cuz if you didn't you'd crash into motherfucking walls every goddamned day, you ridiculously massive shithead! Why not be grateful we're not calling in the city inspector on you for being a doggamned fire hazard!?
HONESTLY!
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Now, instead of simply opening the door and walking through, I have to decide between ducking beneath your arm, or walking around you and squeezing between your ass and the doorframe.
Which one do you usually do? Because both look very silly.
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Generally if I'm ahead of someone I'll just throw the door more open as I pass through. If the person behind me can't catch it before it comes back and hits them then it's not my fault I'm being followed by morons.
Now, instead of simply opening the door and walking through, I have to decide between ducking beneath your arm, or walking around you and squeezing between your ass and the doorframe.
Which one do you usually do? Because both look very silly.
I grab the door myself and stare down the person in the way until they get out of it.
For some reason most people consider me kind of rude.
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Now, instead of simply opening the door and walking through, I have to decide between ducking beneath your arm, or walking around you and squeezing between your ass and the doorframe.
Which one do you usually do? Because both look very silly.
I usually tear their arms off with my fucking teeth.
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Now, instead of simply opening the door and walking through, I have to decide between ducking beneath your arm, or walking around you and squeezing between your ass and the doorframe.
Which one do you usually do? Because both look very silly.
I usually take the door from the proper end and insist that they advance, thus winning the polite-off. Sometimes, if I really want to shame them and I'm near enough, I will hold open the door BEHIND me as well, so they look really lame by comparison.
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When I hold a door open, I stand near the end of the door, out of everybody's way. It's easier to do this because I don't usually stretch my arms out to push the door; I just let it hit me, then push it open with my shoulder or elbow.
Otherwise, if there are people coming behind me, I just push it open as I go past. That does involve my arm, briefly, but it doesn't involve me stopping in their path.
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I hate it when my friends act like celebrities.
"Hey, I'm having a party tonight. Come on by."
"Yeah, I might put in an appearance."
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"Yeah, I might put in an appearance."
Wait. Doesn't that phrase mean, "I really want to go, but I have no idea how I'm going to get all of this shit done, omigodomigod!"
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Which one do you usually do? Because both look very silly.
LIMBO
i'm hermes, i'm hermeeee
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I have burned my tongue 3 times in as many days.
I am really fucking stupid.
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the difference between delicious soup and agony unending is five minutes.
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the difference between delicious soup and agony unending is five minutes.
The same can be applied to Coffee and Tea. Which reminds me, WHY DOES EVERY PLACE THAT SERVES COFFEE AND TEA GIVE IT TO YOU AT A TEMPERATURE THAT NO LIVING HUMAN CELL CAN WITHSTAND?!!?!
I've actually been handed a cup of tea that was still fucking BOILING before. Not only does that ruin the tea, but I can't fucking drink it for 10 goddamn minutes.
Does anyone actually like coffee that hot? If so, FUCK YOU FOR MAKING ALL RESTAURANT BREWED DRINKS AWFUL. Yes, I'm also blaming you for fucking up beer made in microbrewery/restaurants which I don't even know is true or not as I don't drink alcohol.
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And finally pastries.
That is in reverse order exactly everything I systematically destroyed my mouth with.
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The same can be applied to Coffee and Tea. Which reminds me, WHY DOES EVERY PLACE THAT SERVES COFFEE AND TEA GIVE IT TO YOU AT A TEMPERATURE THAT NO LIVING HUMAN CELL CAN WITHSTAND?!!?!
I think the idea is that the hotter it starts, the longer it's going to stay hot. If I put a cup of coffee in the microwave for a minute and a half, it comes out too hot to drink, but often it's unpleasantly tepid before I finish it.
But yes, most places tend to go a little overboard.
Does anyone actually like coffee that hot? If so, FUCK YOU FOR MAKING ALL RESTAURANT BREWED DRINKS AWFUL. Yes, I'm also blaming you for fucking up beer made in microbrewery/restaurants which I don't even know is true or not as I don't drink alcohol.
Well then it may interest you to know that beer is not traditionally served hot.
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Canker sores.
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No toilet paper in the bathroom stall.
There are TWO roll holders in there. LARGE ones. I can not imagine that all of that was used today, in the short time that everybody has gotten back to the dorm. Some lazy janitor figured we wouldn't need to poop and neglected to replace an empty roll, I guess.
Least of our worries, really. We lost power for six hours on two occasions last week. And the internet connection is a steaming pile of shit.
I'm going to school in Iraq.
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(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg) You are new to this "dorm life" thing!
Buy pies for your janitors or they'll just stop cleaning stepping onto your floor.
EDIT:
I seriously had to do this with my floor once to get the Janitors to come back after someone shat in the hallway and broke the ceiling tiles.
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Oh god, no toilet paper ;-;
We went to the movies this weekend, and the bathroom stall I happened to go into had no toilet paper. But I didn't know that til after I'd already peed ;-;
But the stalls in Kazz's dorm (at least in the lonely 1 girls bathroom on the boys floor) always has toilet paper.
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Canker sores.
(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
Over the last two weeks, I've gotten three, two of which are gone now, but that third one is :MENDOZAAAAA:
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this abysmal cold which has kept me bedridden for three days solid
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that scratchy toilet paper that ALL government/school buildings use.
it's like wiping with steel wool.
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Not here. The TP they use up at the university is like gauze. It's not even one-ply.
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Not here. The TP they use up at the university is like gauze. It's not even one-ply.
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that scratchy toilet paper that ALL government/school buildings use.
it's like wiping with steel wool.
:;_;:
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And they called me mad to spend extra for that toilet paper with the cartoon bears.
WIPING MY ASS WITH A CLOUD
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CARE BEARS, STOP STARING :ohshi~:
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It's probably my worst pet peeve when people misrepresent something. I'm all for deceit, lying, whatever, but I hate when someone misinterprets something you say or do and pass judgment based on it. Or if someone gets / doesn't get credit for something for the wrong reason.
This came up most recently today when someone started a conversation that somehow switched to his sex life. He talked about being a virgin and basically came off as retarded and super homophobic. I was definitely trying to dash all his beliefs, but was pretty simply saying "look, I know vagina is super awesome, and in all likeliness you'll love it to death. Until you've experienced that, penis, or both though, you wont really know if you're 100% straight." To which he replied "God, what's with you fags always trying to convert straight guys?" and stormed off. Now, I wasn't offended because he called me gay, nor because he decided he didn't like me or my beliefs, I didn't really care. I hated the idea though that he was completely missing my point and basing his decision to end the conversation on it.
It ended with me yelling up a stairway packed with 50+ people "you get back here and hate me for the right reasons!"
It wasn't a high point.
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It ended with me yelling up a stairway packed with 50+ people "you get back here and hate me for the right reasons!"
It wasn't a high point.
Don't worry, you're in good company.
Not sure I'd count it for a pet peeve tho'.
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I'll redirect you to the first line.
The rest was just a story.
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Ryg, being pissed that someone misrepresents you isn't exactly a pet peeve. I think everyone gets unusually irritated by that.
Like, right now, I want to strangle you. That's not a pet peeve, because everyone I know wants to strangle you. See?
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I hate when people in class keep tapping their pencils/pens or clicking them in class when I'm trying to listen to a lecture or movie. It's worse still when it's during a test.
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I hate when other people in class try to interrupt my desk drumming.
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I hate how people go to classes, don't do the work, get bad grades, and are paying to go to school.
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Doesn't bother me one bit.
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Well it makes me annoyed that they want to waste their money on school so they can party or whatever it is that they do instead. Why don't they just go burn their money in a fire instead?
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Yeah, there was a guy in my summer semester class who was listening to his iPod the entire time, and got mad when he got a low grade on the midterm. What the fuck do you expect? (Note: I am a "C" average student who only does what is necessary to pass the course and get transfer credit for it.)
Edit: I forgot to mention that the teacher of this particular class would tell us what to write in our notes, and then let us USE these notes during our exams. The iPod moron was literally ignoring the answers to the exams.
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What a :derp:
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that's unfair. bidoof is a studious pokemon.
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i hate listening to people eat.
i hate that my roommate is currently jamming fistfuls of potato chips into his mouth and then munching them all very loudly with his lips open like a fish. it makes me want to hang myself from the ceiling and pin a note to my chest reading "you did this to me, frito-lay inc."
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i hate listening to people eat.
i hate that my roommate is currently jamming fistfuls of potato chips into his mouth and then munching them all very loudly with his lips open like a fish. it makes me want to hang myself from the ceiling and pin a note to my chest reading "you did this to me, frito-lay inc."
This is why I need my own room.
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i'm sorry, they're actually fried pork skins
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I got lucky in one respect with my old dorm; I only had a roommate for a month, and he was a pretty nice guy.
The fucking heater in that dorm though.... There was a heater that was connected to every other heater on that floor, and if one person had it on, everyone had it on, and when it broke--which it did alot, due to some idiot or another with a vacuum cleaner or just a really bad, drunken idea--it defaulted to on full blast. So it was on 90% of the time when I would of preferred it on 0% of the time. This was made more irritating by the fact that I can't think when I'm too warm, or sleep, or breathe as comfortably as I would like. So I wound up having my window open every night when it was below freezing outside.
Then I got sick of the awful, lumpy, cardboard and springs like bed, and slowly shifted back to home and became a commuter student.
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I once lived in a dorm where the A/C was not only freezing, but it was so loud that I couldn't even hear my alarm clock going off in the morning. (And it's not like this was at a school where I'm paying to attend classes - this was on an Air Force base where I have to go to work on time, or else.) When I complained, I was given a "too bad."
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heaters
Oh my god, my apartment complex has the same issue. Of course, the radiator is only linked for each floor, and there's only two apartments per floor, yet the people across from me consistently have it on full blast pretty much whenever they're home, including when they're sleeping. This makes it warm, which is annoying, but also makes the pipes constantly shift around due to temperature changes. The irregular thunking sound drove me completely insane last year when I was trying to sleep in the bedroom. Now I'm in the main room where the sound isn't as loud, and I can drown it out with either a noise machine or a fan.
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The heater in my apartment my last year of college would occasionally leak nasty black stuff.
And that was the nicest, newest dorm on campus.
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I used a space heater in college. Best $20 ever spent. Also, I managed to get out without ever sharing a room. Boo ya.
("Course, my housemates freshman year did coke like candy, but I lived somehow)
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I'm living in a nice residence just off campus with a bunch of relatively sane floormates, tolerable food, sufficient heat, and plenty of space. Also I'm paying a fraction of what Americans pay for university.
I like Canada. ::D:
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(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/IMAGE_FU/angry_baby_head-1.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/IMAGE_FU/groin-kick.jpg)
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OH and I forgot to mention: I'm in the cheapest residence, too. ::D:
Did I mention that my school has been in the top twenty-five universities worldwide for at least the last three years?
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Not here. The TP they use up at the university is like gauze. It's not even one-ply.
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that scratchy toilet paper that ALL government/school buildings use.
it's like wiping with steel wool.
:;_;:
Oh my god. These things (http://productcatalog.gp.com/Product.aspx?Pid=7986&Cat=0&View=1)! I think I'm bleeding.
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Fredward, and then do all the ladies give you blowjobs and plenty of sex to go with your boasting? :3
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Actually, he sent me pictures... I've never seen so many nubile women trying to suck one cock before, and I subscribe to some pretty nasty websites.
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Ear buds. These are the worst headphones I've ever had, and I'm counting the ones where I had to tilt my head to side just to get sound to come out of the right speaker.
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I really like the in-ear buds. They always seem to give superior sound quality! Some people apparently find them uncomfortable, though.
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I wish I could find a pair like my old one. The ones I've got were really high-quality Sony ones from the mid ninties. Very comfortable and extremely good sound... but they're getting old and some of the glue is really dry, leading to separated membranes. They usually work fine but I'd love to get a replacement. Unfortunately I haevn't seen any earbuds for sale (so far) with the same shape (kind of this ear-ergonomic teardrop shape, so comfortable).
::(:
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I have been using the same set of ten-dollar blue Sony earbuds for the past four years. Well, not the same pair. Provided I don't lose them first, they have a tendency to break after a year or so or being crammed into pockets and such - the sound goes out in the right bud and that's how I know it's time to retire the set. But they just keep makin' em, and I just keep buyin 'em.
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The thing about earbuds is that, with a few exclusions (anything made by V-moda), you really do get what you pay for. The best pair I've ever used was a pair of Etymotic Research 6i buds that run around $80. They sound great, fit snugly and comfortably, and never broke. In fact, that one pair lasted me close to two years, which is pretty impressive when you consider that I generally go through three or four pairs each year.
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The cat chewed through the cord on the last pair of earbuds I owned. That was pretty much the only thing that could destroy them, considering how tough the little buggers were. I had to switch to these ugly painful sports-phones that came with my walkman. Then the left phone cut out a couple of months ago. It only works if you twist up the wire now, so if I tried to use it, I'd end up swinging my elbow into things.
So two days ago, I bought some expensive new earbuds and now I'm happy. But not ecstatic.
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English spelling demands that you capitalize the names of days as proper nouns. For some reason, this bothers me.
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I mean sure, they WERE named after gods, maybe I'd capitalize it if it were still Tyr's Day, but it's not.
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Having to say, "two thousand and eight."
In 2011 I will be bringing back, "aught-one."
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I don't know anybody who says the "and". Well, fully anyway. In fact I think this year is officially named in honor of an obscure fellow named Two Thousand Nate.
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If I had to guess, I'd say Two Thousand Nate is eight this year.
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Having to say, "two thousand and eight."
In 2011 I will be bringing back, "aught-one."
I thought "aught-one" referred to '01. So, technically, we'd be in "twenty aught-eight" right now, were you so inclined.
Anyway: our Left Item Log is a cheap three-ring binder full of paper along with twelve dividers (one per month). Since it's each cashier's responsibility to record any items left by one of their customers, a huge number of people wind up using this binder. What winds up happening is that one of these cashiers opens the binder up, finds the current date, writes down the items, and then closes the binder again--not stopping to move the pages back to their original position, meaning that now every page and divider to the left of the current date is bending and warping from being trapped between the metal rings and the front cover of the binder. This happens every time someone uses the binder. EVERY DAMN TIME. It's been going on since March. I know, I know--there are these hard plastic spacers you can buy which will automatically push the pages into position, but... no. Fuck that, and fuck them for being too oblivious to realize that their perfunctory binder-closing procedures are the reason half the pages in there have their holes ripped out. I shouldn't have to spend my own money or try to convince my manager to approve use of store funds over this.
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I wonder if we'll be able to convince everyone that the proper prefix for 201X is decity-X, after the root for ten, deca.
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Are you saying that, in 2017, you'd rather say "twenty decity-seven" than "twenty seventeen"?
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If only so people don't call that decade the "teens", yes.
I'm a man with simple needs.
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Are you saying that, in 2017, you'd rather say "twenty decity-seven" than "twenty seventeen"?
I'd totally rather say it that way right now.
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Having to say, "two thousand and eight."
In 2011 I will be bringing back, "aught-one."
I thought "aught-one" referred to '01. So, technically, we'd be in "twenty aught-eight" right now, were you so inclined.
Sh-shutup!
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Diggety-four.
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I trust Steve Jobs. And if he won't allow Adobe Flash on the iPhone, then I believe he has a good reason for it. All of you people who are upset by this, I suggest you buy something else.
Someone explain to me why I still read comments.
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I AM A GOOD CORPORATE SLAVE.
Someone explain to me why I still read comments.
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The good reason Steve Jobs has for not having Flash on the iPhone is that you are his bitch and a good little bitch does not own anything.
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Or maybe just Adobe demanded an unbelievable shitload of money for the rights and technology to put Flash on the iPhone, just like they demand an unbelievable shitload for everything else.
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I feel kinda ridiculous complaining about this, and it may be more indicative of my priorities than anything else, but why is it that the week the new Animal Crossing comes out I finally meet a girl who's really perfect for me? I just rolled Hoon last night, got a couple hours in, and then realized I have made plans with this girl for tonight, tomorrow night, Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning.
I'm very, very happy about the new relationship--don't get me wrong--but if I don't hit these rocks with a shovel, who will?
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It's okay, I have a similar complaint. I've been playing the DS version of the game lately, and so is my girlfriend - so I don't feel weird pulling out the DS when she's at my place or when I'm at hers or whatever. (And since she lives with her technologically-impared grandparents, I really, really need something to keep myself busy.) But now that City Folk is out, I can't play it when I'm not at my house and even when I am, I basically have to interrupt whatever else we might be watching on TV or whatever if I want to play.
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It's okay, I have a similar complaint. I've been playing the DS version of the game lately, and so is my girlfriend - so I don't feel weird pulling out the DS when she's at my place or when I'm at hers or whatever. (And since she lives with her technologically-impared grandparents, I really, really need something to keep myself busy.) But now that City Folk is out, I can't play it when I'm not at my house and even when I am, I basically have to interrupt whatever else we might be watching on TV or whatever if I want to play.
This is exactly why I'm not even remotely tempted to jump back on the horse. Animal Crossing only really makes sense to me as a portable game. But then, I've only played the DS one too, so.
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Or maybe just Adobe demanded an unbelievable shitload of money for the rights and technology to put Flash on the iPhone, just like they demand an unbelievable shitload for everything else.
I read somewhere that Adobe software has an astronomical piracy rate, due to the fact that they demand big sacks of money for ONE of their programs. And you need like, twelve to complete the whole suite.
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Yeah. Adobe is pretty much the living example of the 'stupid' way to go.
In fairness though, I've never seen what the sales projection would be for Photoshop at price points of $50, $25, or $5.
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I dunno, Adobe's business model seems to be pretty damn slick. It doesn't matter if individual users pirate the shit out of Photoshop. With everybody doing that, it's practically the industry standard, so companies pay the exorbitant costs because it's what everybody uses and what everybody expects to see used.
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I'm pretty sure you've got it backwards. everybody pirates it because it is for some reason the industry standard.
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It is the industry standard because Adobe either buys its competitors or runs them out of business.
When Adobe bought Macromedia, we all immediately laughed about how everything in the suite was going to go up $100. I won't say "joked", because we knew it was true.
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I'm pretty sure you've got it backwards. everybody pirates it because it is for some reason the industry standard.
Chicken and egg, really.
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I feel kinda ridiculous complaining about this ...
I think that once Zaratustra reads this post, he is likely to your house and murder you.
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I'm pretty sure you've got it backwards. everybody pirates it because it is for some reason the industry standard.
Speaking as a frequent user, I can say that the product is still of very high quality. Stuff like Gimp may have a neat trick or two, but are generally far inferior programs.
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See, I try not to be one of those guys who only objects to monopolies who put out shitty products.
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I find Photoshop to be pretty overrated, really. And Adobe's version of Flash is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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I spent all morning crashing Flash CS3!
Really it was my fault, not Flash's.
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See, I try not to be one of those guys who only objects to monopolies who put out shitty products.
Oh I object to the monopoly. The product may at least be of good quality, but as can be seen there is no competition to speak of. And if they ever become too complacent, we'll be pretty fucked.
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I feel kinda ridiculous complaining about this ...
I think that once Zaratustra reads this post, he is likely to your house and murder you.
What do you mean? Let me take a look at --
:enraged:
SHOW ME YOUR RAGE
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every time I find a guy he sucks at pvp
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The Legitimate Businessmen are right here. :wat:
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:disapprove: Why is it that whenever liquid spills on my shirt it lands right on my nipple?
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hawt
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:disapprove: Why is it that whenever liquid spills on my shirt it lands right on my nipple?
Clearly your nipples are the source.
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having an excuse is no excuse
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Andy Rooney.
My mom watches 60 minutes, so I occasionally catch this man's monologues. He is a shining example of the stereotypical old man, each rant grasping on to some poorly understood section habit of society and going on at length like Abe Simpson. The last rant of his I heard was about how women are always carrying bags with things in them! Bags! Everywhere!
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I can't wait until I get to do that with impunity.
I mean I already tell rambing monologues that go nowhere and peter off now, but being only just shy of 30, people are rather less indulgent of this.
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Wikiquote-groaning get:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andy_Rooney
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andy_Bogard
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I hate when you guys link to TV Tropes. I had every intention of going to bed by 3 AM last night.... that is, until I happened upon a TV tropes link. I forget what thread it was in, but that's not the point; the point is fuck off with that interesting, addictive bullshit.
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Andy Rooney.
My mom watches 60 minutes, so I occasionally catch this man's monologues. He is a shining example of the stereotypical old man, each rant grasping on to some poorly understood section habit of society and going on at length like Abe Simpson. The last rant of his I heard was about how women are always carrying bags with things in them! Bags! Everywhere!
That was his schtick in, like, the late-70s. I can't even imagine what the hell he's like today. Probably exactly the same, only with a bit more sincerity. Everybody used to love Andy Rooney because he was only pretending to be doddering, now it's hard to hell.
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I can't stand people who have that weird nutritional karma mindset. Like, they eat a candy bar, and say "it's alright, I'll have an apple later, it'll cancel out".
:THATWAY: YOU'RE JUST STACKING AN APPLE ON TOP OF A CANDY BAR. CALORIES FROM JUNK FOOD AND FRUIT DO NOT GO TO WAR AND ANNIHILATE EACH OTHER.
Additional pet peeve: when these same people repeatedly complain of being fat.
Extra bonus pet peeve: when these same people say the only reason I've been able to lose 60 pounds is luck.
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Most people know that, they're just lampshading the fact that they're being obviously irresponsible.
Of course, they're stick jackasses for complaining about it afterwards.
gj on the diet
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I'll have a triple cheeseburger with onions and special sauce and two large fries and an order of chicken fingers in fact make that a double
and a diet coke
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It's going straight to your butt, too.
Wait. Your butt is your whole body, right? :dead:
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hey
onions are not unhealthy
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shutup fatty
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FINE
ONLY THE TERRIFYING WHITE-EYED DEMON CHEF ON THE LOCAL PLACE'S PIZZA BOX UNDERSTANDS MY PAIN
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But if I may be srs for a moment, as someone who works out at least twice a week to keep myself fit, I know how hard it is sometimes as a skinny person to muster up the motivation/energy to do that, so I have the utmost respect for fat people who manage it.
I don't even have to worry about getting fat if I stop. It's just that I don't like being completely out of breath if I run for more than three steps.
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I'll let Brentai field that one.
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hey
onions are not unhealthy
You're not trying hard enough. (http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/1567/onionoil5dd5.jpg)
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I hate quicksaving seconds before an inevitable, painful death. :MENDOZAAAAA:
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onions are not unhealthy
:vampire: I'll find your weakness yet, rhampir.
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I don't even have to worry about getting fat if I stop. It's just that I don't like being completely out of breath if I run for more than three steps.
I'll let Brentai field that one.
Whahuh? I'm on? Oh, um...
HAY FRIDAY I HEARD EXERCISE IS REALLY UNHEALTHY FOR YOU I THINK YOU OUGHT TO STOP DOING IT PUTS ON HIS TRACK SHOES
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For comparison, the English spoken at the turn of the last millennium looked like this:
1000 AD: Wé cildra biddaþ þé, éalá láréow, þæt þú taéce ús sprecan rihte, forþám ungelaérede wé sindon, and gewæmmodlíce we sprecaþ...
2000 AD: We children beg you, teacher, that you should teach us to speak correctly, because we are ignorant and we speak corruptly...
Spoken English doesn't 'look' like anything. You're comparing written english. Otherwise the article (http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html) is pretty good and not LOL OUR CHILDREN WILL BE SPEAKING TXTSPK AND LOLSPEAK at all.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWi7p9xj83I
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Argh. This video is another peeve - 16:9 video stretched to 4:3. Print-screen the window, paste into MS Paint and stretch to 75% vertical. You'll see how ridiculously skewed the video is.
I have to assume this comes from DVD rips, where the ripping software--I'm guessing some DivX encoder, from the watermark--fails to detect anamorphic widescreen stored as 4:3.
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i dont even know why this bugs me but.
how chinese when written out in roman characters has NO RELATION AT ALL WITH HOW IT IS ACTUALLY SAID.
why does transliterated japanese not suffer from this problem?
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Because Chinese consonants have a tendency to sound not at all like English ones, and not everybody's adopted the Pinyin standard for writing it out yet.
For a fun exercise, try to measure the distance between the cities of Beijing and Peking.
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They look so gosh darn like the same person.
They are twins! That is why!
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Are we talking in li here?
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The automatic toilet I'm currently on has flushed twice while I've been working on my business. Unacceptable!
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You posted while pooping?
That's awesome. :whoops:
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The stock market just fell like 700 points today or some shit because someone on the news said the recession has officially been occuring for an entire year
thank you panicked investors! I'm new at this whole stock thing and it's kind of surprising to see like $350 dollars evaporate into the internet or whatever like that.
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Wait until they hear it's a depression.
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You posted while pooping?
That's awesome. :whoops:
I can do poop liveblogs if you're interested. Especially if Arc sets up some way for me to post pictures from my iPhone.
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Heady, with a strong aroma, and a rich chestnutty flavor. Bold, yet smooth, best served at slightly below room temperature. Contrasts well with lemon juice and white spritzers.
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You posted while pooping?
That's awesome. :whoops:
I read that while pooping. At work.
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Classic wonders if we ever had a thread for shooting the shit like this?
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Actually, Spram kept a poop blog on Pyoko a long time ago.
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Classic wonders if we ever had a thread for shooting the shit like this?
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/shoottheshit.jpg)
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So I was out buying school material for a 8-year-old girl (turns out letters for Santa from poor neighborhoods can be acquired at the post office and answered) and what do I see in the juvenile books section
A NOVELIZATION OF KUNG FU PANDA
And its copies covered like HALF the shelf
jesus christ I know this happened with disney before but at least you could say they were classic stories
(I bought her a book of Andersen fables so she'll grow up to be a fantasy nerd)
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A NOVELIZATION OF KUNG FU PANDA
Oh, neat. <3 novelizations. They cover deleted scenes, and explain character backgrounds nine times out of nine.
Could the mysterious circumstances in which Po came to be adopted by Oogway lay within? I must know.
And its copies covered like HALF the shelf
Oh, lame.
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I have a theory that bookstores can order those for much cheaper than legitimate titles, because their display pretty much counts as advertisement for the film.
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A NOVELIZATION OF KUNG FU PANDA
And its copies covered like HALF the shelf
jesus christ I know this happened with disney before but at least you could say they were classic stories
All the MORE reason they shouldn't be fucking novelized. Because the stories, you know, ALREADY EXIST.
...My all-time favorite is Bram Stoker's Dracula, by Fred Saberhagen and James V. Hart (http://www.amazon.com/Bram-Stokers-Dracula-Francis-Coppola/dp/0451175751/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228245372&sr=1-12).
...Before Lord of the Rings was released, one of the early pieces of news that led me to think "Oh hey, these guys know what they're doing" was when Jackson refused to authorize a novelization, because there's already a fucking novel.
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And yet I still seem to have a set of the books with Elijah, Orlando and Viggo mugging all over the covers.
I have at least three sets of those books though. I've shoved the movie-version ones into a corner.
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Yeah, my copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has Johnny Depp on the cover.
But you know, books and covers and all that.
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So, in the good news column, I pretty well finished a project that basically wasted my entire year (well, since february) as well as a good amount of time in the preceding two years. I mean there's some editing left, but that's dependant on other people's proofing.
Now, apart from having wasted so much precious time on something (I'm not going into the details other than to say I foolishly let myself get roped into a game fan-work that got way Way WAY out of hand). I am going to resume my own work after not drawing a single thing since February.
Part of the grand watershed was to finally confront the yawning horror: Log back into DeviantArt (ugh!) and check all the work by folks I follow that had gone up since I last logged in.
2355 images to check, file and possibly save. :painful:
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People that think twitter is livejournal, making it somewhat akin to Angst Radio, All Angst All The Time.
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I wasn't really pissed, because I don't really give a damn about spoilers, but it was so stupid I felt compelled to share: The DVD version of The Great Escape has spoilers playing in the background of the DVD menu.
"HAY THAT GUY DIES!"
GENIUS!
:wakka:
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You know, I think the same thing happens with The Usual Suspects.
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Yeah but, you know, It Was His Sled.
Less so with The Great Escape, since even though it's an older film, the most people generally know of it is that that one guy in MGS3 named himself after one of the tunnels.
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This really doesn't belong here, but there isn't a thread titled "Things that make you want to murder the person who is doing them," so, here goes:
People who approach you at parties, ask the usual bullshit questions, then make snide/snooty comments about your job and/or your school.
That's right, Mr. Rich Fuckwit. I have a shitty job, and I went to a shitty school. It's because I'm fucking poor. Like so goddamn poor that if you were as poor as I am for five seconds you would commit suicide in despair at the shock of it.
Guess what, though? All that money can't make you as smart or as polite as me. The proof is that I didn't kill you (polite) so I wouldn't go to jail. (smart)
Jesus Christ. I cannot believe people do this shit. It's like they've never seen a movie and are as such unaware that everyone fucking hates their character. Or worse, they're aware of it, but they don't care.
EDIT: also, this is my favorite thing ever:
"I AM A SELF MADE MAN AND I HAVE NO PITY FOR THOSE WHO ARE POOR BECAUSE IF I WAS ABLE TO GET RICH BY BEING A COMPLETE DICKHEAD EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD ALSO BE ABLE TO GET RICH BY BEING A COMPLETE DICKHEAD"
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What would you know? You're posting on a really crappy forum.
But yeah, dudes like that are a shithead. What was an obvious paragon of high society doing at a party where poor people like yourself might mingle anyway? Slumming it? Hoping to get a servant boy?
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I'll have you know I graduated from the GameFAQs message boards, class of Fighter/Mage.
But yeah, dudes like that are a shithead. What was an obvious paragon of high society doing at a party where poor people like yourself might mingle anyway? Slumming it? Hoping to get a servant boy?
I allowed myself to be roped into it by my mother, who enjoys that kind of thing. Most of the people there were merely rich and not complete shitheads, which I don't mind so much. I still dislike their little pity looks they give me when I tell them what I do and such, but it's better than the alternative.
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And yes, before you ask. I'm pretty sure the reason she wanted to bring me was to put me on display for the rich boys.
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There are two words that when said will let the person behind the meat/fish counter know you are a craven idiot.
"Center cut" and "Sushi grade".
Also, if you're uncle in New Yowk has a meat shop, and this isn't how he cuts his meat, your uncle is doing it wrong fuck you very much.
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:loser: Pine tree sapping my hands.
People who approach you at parties, ask the usual bullshit questions, then make snide/snooty comments about your job and/or your school.
Held the fortune of attending two schools simultaneously, one of the worst & one of the best in the district. The questioner would immediately backup, preparing for a shank to the gut as I mentioned the former, and then reel back into the Comfort Zone once the latter was mentioned. A professor of the latter brought on a student from the former (without my knowledge) due to my reputation, only to personally lament to me what a mistake it had been.
:imagination: I'm a beautiful and unique snowflake among the unwashed.
What would you know? You're posting on a really crappy forum.
:fuckyou:
I'm pretty sure the reason she wanted to bring me was to put me on display for the rich boys.
:pimp: Pimpin' ain't a thang.
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class of Fighter/Mage.
OBJECTION!
How could you be a pally then!?
PS. Also I do not think you are roleplaying lawful good very well. Be careful or the GM will make you fall.
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When people say "here are two words" but there are really four words.
:nyoro~n:
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Oo, can I play?
People who don't know the difference between your and you're.
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People who get pissed off at small stuff going wrong in their day, and are still angry about it a week later. :facepalm:
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When people say "here are two words" but there are really four words.
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
Related: I haven't heard anyone say it in years, but "pairs of two" was a tautology I heard frequently in high school. Mostly from theatre people; I don't know why.
At my first job out of hiigh school, there were at least two people who would say "for your FYI".
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People who approach you at parties, ask the usual bullshit questions, then make snide/snooty comments about your job and/or your school.
Friday if I say to a girl I am a computer programmer I am automatically discarded as a TREMENDOUS NERD THAT IS NOT OF BREEDING STOCK
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You could be chosen as a "modest provider" by a woman who will be unfaithful and go through outlandish lengths to make sure that your seed does not take advantage of her fertility and instead bear the young of someone else.
:perfect: That's what I'm shooting for.
EDIT:
For that happening to me, not dating Zara for his immense wealths.
EDIT EDIT:
The joke is that I'm incapable of giving and receiving love and have been broken to the point where I'm so desperate for any facsimile of human contact that I'll willingly enter into exploitative situations just to cease the status quo a horrendous misogynist.
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hiigh
:gasp: Your not Thad!
willbe
'Sup Classic.
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...blaming that one on KDE.
...No, really. When CPU usage gets high, it starts misreading my keystrokes. I frequently get dupes and even characters appearing in a different order than I typed them.
And ktorrent eats a lot of CPU for some reason.
I mean, a LOT of CPU. I'm working with fucking quad Xeons here.
I guess what I'm saying is, why does every Linux BT client suck?
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Because Linux sucks. :whoops:
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:gasp: Your not Thad!
What about my not Thad!?
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:nyah: :dead: :nosir:
:lol:
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:nyah: :dead: :nosir:
:lol:
Incidentally, this bullshit right here is an example of one my pet peeves. I am a hack and a bad man.
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What about my not Thad!?
Shhhhhhhhhhh, a Niku is approaching. Help me with the net.
(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/Fishing_For_Stars_by_gilad.jpg)
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class of Fighter/Mage.
OBJECTION!
How could you be a pally then!?
PS. Also I do not think you are roleplaying lawful good very well. Be careful or the GM will make you fall.
Human multiclassing. She only plays a blood elf on TV.
People who approach you at parties, ask the usual bullshit questions, then make snide/snooty comments about your job and/or your school.
Friday if I say to a girl I am a computer programmer I am automatically discarded as a TREMENDOUS NERD THAT IS NOT OF BREEDING STOCK
Rephrase it as something like "I engineer worlds [for people to play in]," or "I better people's lives by making calculating robots do the work too tedious for anyone to put up with," or "
Who takes the constructor,
Sprinkles it with new?
Wraps it in a try and catch,
Prevents a debacle or two?
The Zaraman
The Zaraman can
The Zaraman can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good
(etc.)"
Don't come come across as a doormat code weenie, as you're not one. Show her your nuts by showing her you're nuts, but don't show her you're nuts by showing her your nuts. (Catloaf, angrybeaver, et al are advised against following this advice.)
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People who approach you at parties, ask the usual bullshit questions, then make snide/snooty comments about your job and/or your school.
Friday if I say to a girl I am a computer programmer I am automatically discarded as a TREMENDOUS NERD THAT IS NOT OF BREEDING STOCK
:america: Around here, we use the term SOFTWARE ENGINEER.
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Except when software engineers are (also?) the people who make the documentation and never get the pleasure of hacking again.
FUCK YES AMBIGUOUS TERMS THANKS INDUSTRY I FEEL MORE RESPECTED NOW THAT YOU MASK WHAT I'M DOING :D :D :D
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Human multiclassing. She only plays a blood elf on TV.
And yet, people constantly ask me in real life how to mana tap. I usually silence them with an arcane torrent.
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Oo, can I play?
People who don't know the difference between your and you're.
for all intensive purposes, their the same thing
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:wat: irregardless, their isometrical.
:sadpanda:
Guys, "irregardless" is a word in the google spellchecker.
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I don't think it means what you think it does.
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It does have a meaning. Just never the one it's used for.
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::(:
I'm certain I'm not that far gone. C'mon guys.
I know what it means (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/it).
...
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Teehee! You got dictrolled. :whoops:
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::(:
I'm certain I'm not that far gone. C'mon guys.
I know what it means (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/it).
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Teehee! You got dictrolled. :whoops:
You are a bad person. :serious:
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I'm seeing a banner on Amazon that says "It's never too early to shop with your Amazon Prime FREE Two-Day Shipping".
What the fuck sense does THAT make?
Given that it's advertising fast, free shipping, shouldn't it say "It's never too LATE" instead of "early"?
(I mean, okay, that would be bullshit too since of course it's "too late" as of the 23rd if you're expecting it by Christmas. But it'd make more sense than "it's never too early". I mean, unless this was goddamn October.)
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Apparently there are people who think you're supposed to put off Christmas shopping until the 22nd or later.
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You aren't?
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I do all of my christmas shopping on the 26th! :perfect:
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I hate dealing with people who are actually honestly as smart as I am. It's incredibly rare, and I never know exactly how to handle it.
Note that I'm completely comfortable around all of you guys.
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That's okay, I feel the same way.
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Oh I don't know.
Most days I would be happy to be the stupidest man in the room. I'd feel a lot better about the world, that's for certain.
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Note that I'm completely comfortable around all of you guys.
:wuv:
Wait...
:fuckyou:
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Note that I'm completely comfortable around all of you guys.
:wuv:
Wait...
:fuckyou:
Nah, you're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to do it like this:
(http://neosoft.se/dev/advicedog/advicedog.php?line1=FUCK+YOU&line2=BRENTAI)
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:goggles:
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(http://neosoft.se/dev/advicedog/advicedog.php?line1=FUCK+YOU&line2=BRENTAI)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/advicedogphp1.png)
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(http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t322/DetonatorNova/AdvicedogOriginal.jpg)
I wouldn't say such mean things! Woof!
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Run this meme any further and we might as well just use Advice Dog for :fuckyou:
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Run this meme any further
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I hate dealing with people who are actually honestly as smart as I am. It's incredibly rare, and I never know exactly how to handle it.
There's a "joke" here about how everyone is uncomfortable around handicapped-trainable people, but I don't want to make light of Brentai's accomplishments in living on his own.
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OK Guys, Xenu is not, I repeat not, anyone's closet deity. He's an alien overlord, Scientologists don't worship him or want you to follow his agenda. Honestly guys, there are so many real avenues to make fun of scientologists through, we don't need quippy
strawmen :strawman: s.
Cthulhu on the other hand...
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Today I emailed a fairly high-powered lawyer who works in the area of law I am interested in. In the email, I requested to speak with them about what it is like working in the field, etc.
This is the response I got, in its entirety:
"You have a great background and wish you the best!!"
What the fuck does that even mean?
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It means "BEGONE, LESSER"
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OK Guys, Xenu is not, I repeat not, anyone's closet deity. He's an alien overlord, Scientologists don't worship him or want you to follow his agenda. Honestly guys, there are so many real avenues to make fun of scientologists through, we don't need quippy strawmen :strawman: s.
Christians also don't worship Satan, but I'm pretty sure there's an overlap between the people who jokingly say "Praise Xenu!" and the ones who jokingly say "Hail Satan!"
...Tangentially, I went to Coldstone tonight and a girl I was with asked the guy behind the counter (a Mormon) if he would make her a cake that said "Heil Hitler". He said he would. Then she asked if he'd make one that said "Fuck" and he said he would not. She actually got pretty pissed off that he would consider the former more acceptable than the latter.
In hindsight, I think she should have pushed the hypotheticals farther and seen if he'd be willing to frost, say, pro-abortion or -gay slogans.
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CONGRATULATIONS
YOU'RE NOT PREGNANT ANYMORE
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:thad:
It's an ill kept secret that I've been on a "jump to conclusions" streak lately, but context made it clear that's not what they were going for. I'd link for context, but I don't want to confess that (THAD EDIT: bullshit spoiler tag removed.) I get my schadenfreude fix reading Fundies Say the Darndest Things, and the comments associated with the "better" ones.
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Fundies Say the Darndest Things
FSTDT just makes me angry and sometimes quite depressed. I don't go there anymore.
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I fucking love when people assume that because you get good grades, A) you don't need to work for them, B) you certainly don't need help studying, C) you don't need to study, or all of the above.
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Fucking Lucerne shit. I don't buy the food here so I'm usually stuck eating their awful goddam dairy products. I don't know what the hell it is but there is something very specifically wrong with everything they make, like they skipped a pasteurization step somewhere in order to ratchet the price down a dollar. It's only partly the fact that it tastes like crap that bothers me - it's more the fact that everything they make tastes like crap in the exact same way, and I don't know why.
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I hate that I'm overqualified/too intelligent for most shit jobs, thus getting turned down for most.
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I hate it when I can't fall asleep, even though I only got about four hours of sleep last night and I have to be awake in four hours.
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It's weird, but the delirium I get from 1-4 hours sleep actually makes me feel better than being well rested. Though I'm certain there's a decline in quality.
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Working off 3 to 4 hours of sleep is healthy & functional if another 3 to 4 hours of sleep can be achieved beginning around nine hours later.
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This does match up with what I had assumed to be bad-for-me habits that I was just imagining made me work better.
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It's weird, but the delirium I get from 1-4 hours sleep actually makes me feel better than being well rested. Though I'm certain there's a decline in quality.
I know what you mean. I averaged about 5-6 hours of sleep a night when I was in the military, and it felt better to get LESS sleep than six or more hours... but I would pay for it later that afternoon.
Anyway, I ended up sleeping in by about two hours this morning and feeling like shit. Sore throat, achy muscles, mild headache, runny nose... ugh. I really need a full night's rest.
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It's weird, but the delirium I get from 1-4 hours sleep actually makes me feel better than being well rested. Though I'm certain there's a decline in quality.
I know what you mean. I averaged about 5-6 hours of sleep a night when I was in the military, and it felt better to get LESS sleep than six or more hours... but I would pay for it later that afternoon.
Anyway, I ended up sleeping in by about two hours this morning and feeling like shit. Sore throat, achy muscles, mild headache, runny nose... ugh. I really need a full night's rest.
My wacky work schedules have forced me into a state of being unable to sleep for more than six hours a day (due to frequent closing then opening shifts) so now I can't stand sleeping more than that. It's seriously irritating to get a fit of insomnia and be up for like a day and a half then sleeping for six to wake up feeling even worse. ::(:
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On a totally different note, I seriously loathe when you're sleeping and suddenly your body decides to tell you that it didn't like what you ate the previous night. So not only do you puke your guts out, you're too awake afterwards to get back to sleep.
::(: Why do you turn against me, stomach? I bring you offerings three times a day.
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If your workplace lets you pick your hours or set your schedule at all, take alternate days off.
This is mostly a retail thing, of course, but retail is also one of those lines of work where nobody sees a problem with "Work until 1:30 AM Tuesday" and "Open at 5:45 AM Wednesday." This cute girl working the service desk was "joking" with us about how she would be allowed to sleep on the couch in the break room. :wat:
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In my experience, the most stressful jobs pay the worst. And usually the bosses are the dumbest and meanest.
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This holds true even up to the very office of the presidency.
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I AM SICK
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK
FUK
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Having to let people ride my gravy train.
FUCK I HATE THAT. :scanners:
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Having wants and needs before Christmas.
You know what I mean. In that critical shopping period before The Day, you may think to yourself, "Boy, I should go get myself (a bookshelf, new headphones*, a personal coffee maker, a coin bank, revised car insurance, eyeglass cleaner*, a pen holder, new boxer-briefs*, desktop ornaments, a new jacket, a subscription to Gamefly, a bigger hard drive, more camera cards, a gym membership renewal), except I can't because:
A) I have no idea if that sort of thing's going to pop up in one of these mysterious boxes and I'll look like an ass for having bought it myself, and
B) I'll be an ass for spending money on myself in the first place."
You know what I also hate? People who make a long, increasingly petty list of consumerist trash they're bitching about not having, while ignoring basic things like "a place to live." Fuck those guys.
* Things I already know are taken care of, so I'm forced to go without until tomorrow, or later in some cases.
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I've been crushed to death by subtexts.
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In my experience, the most stressful jobs pay the worst. And usually the bosses are the dumbest and meanest.
I've been slumping through retail for nearly six years now.
I've developed a pretty fool-proof poker face that lets me deal with any customer without getting in trouble or having to care.
On the other hand, everyone at my work place thinks I am incurably depressed at all times.
I actually explained it to one of them and a light went on in his head. "Oh, that's why you're always so angry for the first three hours of every shift."
The poker face isn't anger, it's just a completely neutral :| look of perpetual or inevitable disappointment. Alternatively, every customer thinks I don't know what sleep is.
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Having wants and needs before Christmas.
You know what I mean. In that critical shopping period before The Day, you may think to yourself, "Boy, I should go get myself (a bookshelf, new headphones*, a personal coffee maker, a coin bank, revised car insurance, eyeglass cleaner*, a pen holder, new boxer-briefs*, desktop ornaments, a new jacket, a subscription to Gamefly, a bigger hard drive, more camera cards, a gym membership renewal), except I can't because:
A) I have no idea if that sort of thing's going to pop up in one of these mysterious boxes and I'll look like an ass for having bought it myself, and
B) I'll be an ass for spending money on myself in the first place."
You know what I also hate? People who make a long, increasingly petty list of consumerist trash they're bitching about not having, while ignoring basic things like "a place to live." Fuck those guys.
* Things I already know are taken care of, so I'm forced to go without until tomorrow, or later in some cases.
I'm pretty sure you won't have to worry about getting underwear from your Santa. At least, I certainly hope not.
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I simply bought more presents than I had people to buy for, then kept the extras.
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I actually love getting underwear. I lose that shit all the time.
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It's true. I got him like...4 pairs last year for xmas.
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I love getting underwear etc. because it means I can spend my money on cool shit instead of boring necessities like underwear. Plus it's a gift that's guaranteed to be useful.
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...One of the first experiences to make me feel old was ASKING for socks for Christmas my first or second year of college.
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just when I finally thought I would never wear thermal underwear when not travelling California decided to FREEZE OVERNIGHT
do you guys think gray or black would be better
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depends on if you have pets. if so, gray.
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... what?
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Pet hair shows up on black clothes very easily. It doesn't take very much to make you look like you have spent all day rolling in dog.
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This is actually the warmest day it's been in California for weeks.
Pet hair shows up on black clothes very easily. It doesn't take very much to make you look like you have spent all day rolling in dog.
Errrrr... I'm guessing your pet does not have black fur.
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I'm guessing you guys rough house with your pets in your underwear.
Perverts.
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Why don't you try rotating the earpiece 180 degrees
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I think they assume that if you use Linux, you're smart enough to not use Myspace.
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Myspace have a habit of sending you a message and then filtering it out as spam.
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Or you could just... delete your MySpace account. :perfect:
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But then how would he meet teenage girls? Use your head, man.
Dunno what I'd do without it!
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When you type my name in to Google, there is no trace of me, even though my name is fairly unusual and I am an odd character fond of causing trouble.
I enjoy this immensely.
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Did you try it with SafeSearch off?
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I always have SafeSearch off.
The internet is more entertaining that way.
There ARE two people online with my name... an Arizona cop guilty of some minor heroics, and an some kid with a Facebook account who is trying to set new records for photographic incompetence. But nothing about me!
:nyah:
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World's Oldest Man Found Googling Own Name
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:justasplanned:
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I HATE people reading over my shoulder. Actually, I hate having people behind me at all. It makes me very uncomfortable when I can't keep track of everyone in the room.
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Hey Ted, turn around.
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I hate when I am kickbanned for no reason I can see
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Hey Ted, turn around.
BUT THEN I CAN'T SEE THE PEOPLE IN FRONT OF ME
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Don't worry! I'll watch this side!
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Semi related, people who start fussing around in your personal space when you cook. Every time you cook. I know you know people like this. It's a major reason why I refuse to cook for some people, but at this point I'm seriously considering just letting them get hit with a knife or ladle full of boiling water just to get the point across that I AM WORKING WITH HOT AND SHARP OBJECTS GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY.
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Semi related, people who start fussing around in your personal space when you cook. Every time you cook. I know you know people like this. It's a major reason why I refuse to cook for some people, but at this point I'm seriously considering just letting them get hit with a knife or ladle full of boiling water just to get the point across that I AM WORKING WITH HOT AND SHARP OBJECTS GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY.
I always looked at people fussing in my personal space while cooking as a reason to stab or burn them. :ohmy:
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WHY ARE YOU DOING THE DISHES RIGHT NOW
WE ARE GOING TO SCREW UP A BAZILLION PLATES FOR DINNER
ARE YOU RETARDED
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OH GOOD YES LEAN IN CLOSER TO SEE WHAT I AM DOING
PUT YOUR FACE RIGHT BETWEEN THE KNIFE AND THE THING THAT I AM CUTTING
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DID YOU JUST TAKE MY KNIFE
I WAS USING THAT KNIFE
YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED THAT WHEN I NEARLY CUT YOUR NOSE OFF WITH IT
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I SEE THAT YOU HAVE STOPPED DOING THE DISHES IN THE MIDDLE
YET YOU ARE STILL MOVING RANDOMLY AROUND THE KITCHEN
EATING THINGS
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Now, now. Play Nice. (http://renmadness.ytmnd.com/)
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The dishes were left half-finished all night.
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I went to make myself some breakfast. She immediately rushed out to do the other half.
I think she may have found this board.
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BRENT SMELLS YOUR PANTIES
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he's just checking for vampires
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you'd think I'd stop falling for that line
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That's not neck blood, dude.
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Motherfucking Numa Numa.
In the past two days I have heard it three times from the (otherwise inoffensive) radio stations my coworkers listen to -- the original twice, and a fucking hiphop song with a samples once.
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Memes from 2006 coming back, huh? If this ends up with lolcats I'm gonna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAbhJk4YJns
OH FUCK IT'S STARTING AAAAAH
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Reviewers of Ys I who claim that the combat consists of running head-on into enemies and either hit or get hit at random. That's not how you do it! You're supposed to approach them slightly off-center for a guaranteed hit! But that makes it easier for them to flank and hit you! It's really very good!
Of course the fact that there's a reason that Ys I gets re-reviewed every two years or so kind of irks me too.
(Oh, and the other games mostly avoid this style of combat, either by making you use magic most of the time or by giving you a standard attack button. Honestly, it's too bad. I like the positioning-based swordfights.)
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Events are conspiring to make me move back to L.A.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
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Since I'm thinking about it now, I hate when people tell me to watch things that I've already expressed no interest or even disinterest in seeing. I don't tell you what to watch and don't force you to watch anything I like, so it really makes me crazy when people sit and try to convince me to watch something. It just makes me less and less interested in ever caring to see it.
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Shut. The fuck. Up.
Before you say another fucking word, let's review how you talk to people.
I've never seen Avatar and will never watch it because not only do I have no interest, but any time anybody mentions that I should watch it, it just pisses me off more about being determined not to watch it.
HINT: If you say "I've never watched it and hate it based entirely on the fact that other people like it," you're inviting people to point out that, you know, you should fucking try something before you ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH or whatever.
I don't have any desire to watch it. I've seen a handful of episodes, didn't like it at all, and don't have any interest in watching.
Fucking okay then. Say that in the first place, and you won't need to have to post a rant in two different topics because somebody was helpfully trying to get you over what you've falsely stated to be a preconceived notion.
I've been where you are, God and Thad above know that, and I'm telling you right now that people aren't going to stop telling you that, you know, Good Popular Thing is Good. Not even a decade later. You have only a few options:
1) Calm the fuck down, shut the fuck up, and deal the fuck with it.
2) Have a constantly recurring series of arguments that escalate to a point that's seriously embarrassing for everyone.
3) Swallow your pride, watch the thing, hate it, but be content that you know what everybody is talking about and also what you're talking about when you say you don't like it.
You're heading down track #2 right now. I know you don't give a fuck what my suggestions happen to be, so I'll leave it up to you to decide if that is something you would enjoy or not.
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I didn't say I hated it. See that's the part where everybody always pounces on me. I'm not insulting the show, I'm not insulting anyone's interest in the show, I just don't want to watch it. I shouldn't even have to have seen any episodes to say I don't want to watch it. I'm pretty sure people see previews or commercials of a show and go "That's nothing I'm interested in" and then they never watch it.
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Fair enough, but I sincerely doubt anybody's "pouncing" on you for "insulting their show". At least, not until you make a crusade out of it. If that really is the reaction you get unprovoked then you are legally allowed in most states to break those people's noses.
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I didn't say I hated it. See that's the part where everybody always pounces on me. I'm not insulting the show, I'm not insulting anyone's interest in the show, I just don't want to watch it. I shouldn't even have to have seen any episodes to say I don't want to watch it. I'm pretty sure people see previews or commercials of a show and go "That's nothing I'm interested in" and then they never watch it.
You admitted that the only reason you don't want to watch the show is because you might have to swallow your pride and admit it's good. When you resist something for so long, you have no choice but to avoid it forever, or give in and possibly admit you were wrong.
As for the show being nothing you're interested in...
(http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t322/DetonatorNova/pokeavatar.jpg)
I know this post won't help, but your fierce resistance makes it so very fun to try. I hope you never break.
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I see I missed the meat of this discussion.
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Dude, I told you I didn't even like any episodes I saw. Why would I continue to watch? And I said the fact that I have a totally pissy bitch friend who bitches at me for not watching DOES strengthen my feelings to never watch it because she just makes me so fucking angry for even bitching about the fact that I haven't seen a show.
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...are you trying to say you hate Avatar?
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Well, what happened in the episodes you watched? If it was, like, the Painted Lady episode or the one with the swamp? Those are sucky episodes and you should watch the series anyway.
But if the episode had a big drill thrusting into a massive, quivering wall, or any episode focusing on Toph, and you still didn't like it -- then fine. It's safe to say that you actually don't enjoy Avatar.
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I didn't say I hated it.
Dude, I told you I didn't even like any episodes I saw.
I'm sorry I confused "didn't like" with "hate". I should read more carefully in the future.
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For me, the toughest part in getting someone to like Avatar is the first few episodes. I'm not really sure where I would consider the point where a person is usually hooked, because I've seen it so many times and much of the "wow" factor in season one is gone. I tried to get Cat into the show a while back (because she likes just about every other TV show I like), but she showed no interest in the first three episodes and kept talking over the show about unrelated topics. Not everyone likes everything. Oh well!
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Hate is a lot stronger than didn't like. Kind of like abhor is a lot stronger than didn't like. I'd say you know me prolly well enough to know that I'd say I outright hate or abhor something if I didn't like it. I have plenty of hates, enough that I definitely throw around the term when I mean it. Like the simpsons. I hate it and watched a lot of it when I was younger. And I hate Pani Poni Dash and I hate ummmmm....Castle in the Sky. I also hated the Aristocrats and I hate porn movies and I abhor Annie Hall and I don't like the Royal Tenenbaums.
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The first few episodes are pretty dull, it's true. The earliest major attraction is the first proper fight scene, in episode 3 or so, and even that is very short and involves two characters who don't get especially interesting until much later in the season, dueling for a reason that is not especially gripping. Not to mention they don't introduce half of the good characters until season 2. If the first half of the first season had any real stinkers, instead of just being bland and conservative, then introducing the series would be a problem.
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It's okay, LD. I wasn't a fan of Avatar either, though admittedly I only watched an episode called Snake Pass or Serpent Pass or something. And I also admit to feeling like it's kind of a cash in on the 'those kids sure love their animu!' as with Teen Titans.
Same deal with Gurren Lagaan really. Four episode and I was pretty much 'Meh' while the rest of the people I know are going WWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE IT OH MY GOD CHECK HIM FOR A PULSE.
I'm okay with people wanting to share their joy, but for fuck's sake, take no for an answer or just don't be shocked if the reception is cold. It can't be THAT hard to show some moderation.
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Hate is a lot stronger than didn't like. Kind of like abhor is a lot stronger than didn't like. I'd say you know me prolly well enough to know that I'd say I outright hate or abhor something if I didn't like it. I have plenty of hates, enough that I definitely throw around the term when I mean it. Like the simpsons. I hate it and watched a lot of it when I was younger. And I hate Pani Poni Dash and I hate ummmmm....Castle in the Sky. I also hated the Aristocrats and I hate porn movies and I abhor Annie Hall and I don't like the Royal Tenenbaums.
Simpsons is meh. Aristocats was awesome, but I think you meant the documentary about the joke, which was also awesome, so correct me if I struck out twice on that one, and finally Royal Tenenbaums was amusing. I haven't seen the rest.
I hate very few things. I don't think I can name a single thing I hate.
Peas. I hate peas. And popcorn. And itchyness - anywhere, anytime, it's always annoying. I hate judgemental people.
Uh... I don't really hate most of those things. I equate hate with a will to punch something/one. About the only person I want to punch is a Master Chief named Folger.
If I ever see that guy again I'm going to light him on fire.
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How can you hat itchyness? Have you tried being itchy?
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I can't say I've ever tried to be itchy, no.
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People who post in a game thread to say they won't be playing.
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...I could have sworn I made a post in here about Pet Peeve: Headaches brought on by stress, the stress generated from stupid things.
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And I also admit to feeling like it's kind of a cash in on the 'those kids sure love their animu!' as with Teen Titans.
I felt the same way about Teen Titans, so I can tell you that Avatar is less of a cash in, and more of an homage that surpasses most anime on television. This goes for about every aspect of it: story, writing, animation, voice work, pacing... (And I KNOW other people will come down on you for saying that about Teen Titans)
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i hate lots of stuff that other people like. and i like lots of stuff that other people hate. and i never try to convince anyone they should like anything. notable exception being multiplayer games because then i need other people to play with me.
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yeah, maximum irony for one of my biggest pet peeves being "People caring way too much about the personal tastes/beliefs of others", but that's a whole other (possibly explosive) thread.
Oh, fucking...tails on shrimp. Jesus. Tails should not stay on shrimp unless the shrimp are being eaten directly as finger food.
I'm baffled why shrimp is put in pasta or stir fry or ANYTHING with the fucking tails on. It's twelve kinds of stupid, forcing you into either eating a rather unappetizing part of the shrimp that should be discarded (you know, with the rest of the fucking shell), or forcing you to remove it yourself, awkwardly, with your fork because the shrimp is already covered in cream and linguini and whatever.
Presentation can take a flying leap when it interferes with edibility so thoroughly, and the whole thing's made worse by the fact I really like shrimp. It irks me more that it's common than that it just happens.
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Don't be such a baby. Eat your shrimp tails.
I can understand where LD is coming from. I don't really care to watch Avatar either. The first few episodes didn't hook me and any of the others I saw just made me feel like I was missing something very important.
Okay, there's a pet peeve of mine. An episodic series with continuity so thick you could use it to repair a retaining wall.
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At least it's only 3 seasons, unlike, say, Naruto or One Piece, which have been going on SINCE THE DAWN OF INTERNET TIME
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Since I'm thinking about it now, I hate when people tell me to watch things that I've already expressed no interest or even disinterest in seeing. I don't tell you what to watch and don't force you to watch anything I like, so it really makes me crazy when people sit and try to convince me to watch something. It just makes me less and less interested in ever caring to see it.
People have often accused me of throwing the word "troll" around at people who don't actually deserve it.
However, you have said something unpopular, repeatedly, in a combative manner. Given that, there are really only two possibilities:
1. You know perfectly well that this will start an argument, and are doing so intentionally. Viz, trolling.
2. You somehow think that this will NOT result in an argument. Which is, let's face it, dumb.
So you see, when I accuse you of trolling in this circumstance, it is actually the more complimentary of the two possibilities. Sort of a reverse Hanlon's Razor.
You know who else has never seen Avatar? Me. You notice how many threads I've crossed raving about how I will never watch it and anyone who suggests anything to me, ever, should burn in hell for being such an irredeemable asshole as to say something is good and I might enjoy it?
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i think there is merit in trying to defend an unpopular opinion
calling it trolling infers an evil motive
how about a new word... 'reaffirming one's opinion no matter how many people try to shout you down: gnorshing'
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I think it's more just if you go out of your way to say you won't take a person's recommendation then you're just a jerk.
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Trolling is a bit of strong even if the alternative does seem to be being dumb. Honestly, tl;dr, but I read all of LD's posts and from looking at them, after the initial she goes from defending her point of why she just doesn't want to watch it, (good, and not trolling or dumb) to outright saying the people telling her to watch it are bad people for doing such (choose one of Thad's options).
Now, in her defense, berating her about it after she said she's try to watch it and didn't like it was not helping any situation. This seems like a situation of a girl going to a bar, complaining when she gets hit on, then after the flirting stops running back up to the guy and saying, "no, really, I don't want to have sex, so don't bring it up again, ok? Really, don't. I'll be sitting in that corner with my friends and the absolute last thing I want is for you come and talk to me. That corner. Me. Talking."
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And then she keeps coming back and posting satellite photos of places where he used to live or work.
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I think it's more just if you go out of your way to say you won't take a person's recommendation then you're just a jerk.
I actually agree with that.
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I don't think I'm trolling. I think you're an ass for saying I'm doing so though just 'cause I don't agree with what everyone else thinks. And I put it in the pet peeves thread because it does bother me when people tell me repeatedly to watch things even after I've given them what I think is probably a fair chance.
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I have a solution. Let's tie LD down and force her to watch all of Avatar. This will both legitimize her complaints AND satisfy those of us who think Avatar is a pure, undetestible good.
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I'm not the least bit interested in watching Avatar either, oddly enough. Still willing to give the devil his due, though, and accept the possibility that yes, it may be worth watching. I just don't bring it up because people constantly bringing up stuff they don't like and getting all defensive about it when people call them out on it annoys the hell out of me (and possibly other people, too). I mean yeah, you can despise something with every iota of your being and wish everyone involved in its perpetuation or creation dead, but that doesn't mean you can't be civil about it.
Please note that my memory does not actually extend far back enough to actually remember if I've done anything like this. Nor does it extend far enough to tell if this is actually relevant to the conversation.
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HAY GUYS AM I DOING THIS RITE?!?!
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<3<3 wizards
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hey Thad
remember that time I said I didn't like the Simpsons
and you came back and yelled at me for trolling
well actually, guess what. i really don't like the simpsons. anything that was done before the arrival or after the departure of Conan O'Brien is mediocre at best. so, uh, episodes that are between 17 and 15 years old.
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I don't think I'm trolling. I think you're an ass for saying I'm doing so though just 'cause I don't agree with what everyone else thinks.
Another word I throw around a lot is "strawman".
Do you know what a strawman is?
It's that, right there. You saying I'm accusing you of trolling just because you don't agree with what everyone else thinks.
When what I actually said was -- hey, fucking get this, it's THE POST YOU WERE REPLYING TO -- here, I'll bold some text for those of you in the slow class:
People have often accused me of throwing the word "troll" around at people who don't actually deserve it.
However, you have said something unpopular, repeatedly, in a combative manner. Given that, there are really only two possibilities:
1. You know perfectly well that this will start an argument, and are doing so intentionally. Viz, trolling.
2. You somehow think that this will NOT result in an argument. Which is, let's face it, dumb.
So you see, when I accuse you of trolling in this circumstance, it is actually the more complimentary of the two possibilities. Sort of a reverse Hanlon's Razor.
You know who else has never seen Avatar? Me. You notice how many threads I've crossed raving about how I will never watch it and anyone who suggests anything to me, ever, should burn in hell for being such an irredeemable asshole as to say something is good and I might enjoy it?
The problem is not that you disagree. The problem is that you're being an asshole about it.
I have a form post I sometimes use when people pretend not to understand that distinction. Would you like to see it?
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hey Thad
remember that time I said I didn't like the Simpsons
and you came back and yelled at me for trolling
well actually, guess what. i really don't like the simpsons. anything that was done before the arrival or after the departure of Conan O'Brien is mediocre at best. so, uh, episodes that are between 17 and 15 years old.
That's fair. I'm a giant Simpsons freak, and as far as I'm concerned everything before season 3 and after season 7 (give or take) can disappear forever.
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So yesterday I discovered that one of my co-workers pronounces Aeris(th) "Ahh-Uhh-Rith". Aside from reminding me of this (http://www.zonanegativa.com/2008/3772.jpg)(warning, spoilers I guess if you're even farther behind on Batman than me), it gave me a new pet peeve: people who insist on calling video game characters by their 'proper'(japanese) names, but can't even pronounce them right.
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So yesterday I discovered that one of my co-workers pronounces Aeris(th) "Ahh-Uhh-Rith". Aside from reminding me of this (http://www.zonanegativa.com/2008/3772.jpg)(warning, spoilers I guess if you're even farther behind on Batman than me), it gave me a new pet peeve: people who insist on calling video game characters by their 'proper'(japanese) names, but can't even pronounce them right.
I think I know that dude.
He inspired this post. (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=2168.msg51584#msg51584)
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I still say Aeris, because saying Aerith makes me sound like I have a lisp.
Seriously. Scream "AERITH DIES!!!" like you were spoiling a room full of 13 year old yaoi fangirls and ask yourself if you don't sound silly.
Er, sillier.
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Aerith dieth
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So yesterday I discovered that one of my co-workers pronounces Aeris(th) "Ahh-Uhh-Rith". Aside from reminding me of this (http://www.zonanegativa.com/2008/3772.jpg)(warning, spoilers I guess if you're even farther behind on Batman than me), it gave me a new pet peeve: people who insist on calling video game characters by their 'proper'(japanese) names, but can't even pronounce them right.
Ever since I found out Bass' name in Japan was Forte, I stuck with that because for the longest time, I made the same mistake Megaman's voice actress did in the opening cutscene in MM8. ::D:
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Bass, why must we fight? We are not enemies!
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Exactly!
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So yesterday I discovered that one of my co-workers pronounces Aeris(th) "Ahh-Uhh-Rith". Aside from reminding me of this (http://www.zonanegativa.com/2008/3772.jpg)(warning, spoilers I guess if you're even farther behind on Batman than me), it gave me a new pet peeve: people who insist on calling video game characters by their 'proper'(japanese) names, but can't even pronounce them right.
Ashura used to refer to Mavericks as "Illregulars". An English word written in Japanese and then Romanized back into English -- poorly.
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Mavericks always made me think of a 1994 Mel Gibson movie.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoxmgHUIrc
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:humpf:
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Goddamn! Somehow a nasty-diarrhoea smell is wafting its way around the apartment this morning. It's not me, it's not my wife, and it's not the cats. I got no clue what it is.
DAMN this shit is nas-tay.
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It makes me really angry when my mom is home and could answer the phone (especially because it's the phone not only for home but for her hair salon) and then she fucking expects me to get the phone. I don't WANT to fucking take the calls for you, damn it.
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That reminds me:
People who are slaves to their phone.
I've seen people drop precious diamonds and babies before dive jumping over furniture, shattering the very fabric of space/time in their all consuming, hellbent, burning need, to answer the phone, right now, right now, RIGHT NOW,
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!
After all, it could be important.
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One of my in-laws has a thing against my cell phone. It always seems to be such a startling surprise and outrage when it goes off. This is exasperated by the fact that I've got a nightly alarm set to remind me to stop playing Little Big Planet and go exercise.
It's like I'm supposed to have the damn thing on my persons for all my waking hours, which isn't very convenient to do since it's big and old. Maybe I'll be able to oblige when I get a cyberbrain, but for now it's just :humpf:
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Maybe you should change your ringtone to something other than panicked_screaming.wav
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This is exasperated by the fact that I've got a nightly alarm set to remind me to stop playing Little Big Planet and go exercise.
:thad: Guess what MY pet peeve is.
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Using 5 syllable words! OF COURSE
:nyoro~n:
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Hey, it might be pretty blustered about that. You never axed it.
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Sometimes I swear to fucking lord that my mom TRIES to make me crazy. She likes to tell me I hate things that I actually love. Like foods I like that I apparently hate suddenly, and even my favorite band.
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I believe parents suffer from a delusion that they know everything about their children because that makes them a good parent but then you correct them and point out they don't know shit about you because they don't actually have any interest in what you like/dislike/are interested in and then they realize they don't know anything about you which feels bad hence they become delusional
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Keep in mind it goes both ways too, kids (especially teenagers) think they have their parents "all figured out" but they generally do not actively make up facts
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No no, Friday. I mean, sometimes she actually definitely knows that I like something and says I hate it. Just to be an ass. Not she thought maybe I really didn't like something--she says I hate things that I've never hated in my life and constantly show my love for. It'd be like if she walked up to me while playing Pokemon and said "Why are you playing pokemon? You hate that game."
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oh. well yeah, then your mom is just trolling you. :O
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She does. It doesn't take long for it to get to me either. She thinks she's so funny.
::(:
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(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/meanmontage.gif)
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I don't know if it's a pet peeve really, but it really weirds me right the hell out that one of my female friends and I have the same taste in guys. So much so that she will say she likes guys I've dated or whatever. It's just a really awkward feeling.
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She wants everything you want because she secrently wants YOU.
:want:
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I dunno, but it's obnoxious.
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Alex is probably more correct than he thinks.
SHOW HER WHAT THE CLITORIS IS LD
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:facepalm:
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I got a mysterious valentine from Texas the other day! It even came in a pink envelope. Inside was a red card with cupid on it.
Opening it up revealed it was an advertisement from AT&T, who I already fucking have service with. They've also called me at home twice to try and upsell me more bullshit and I've had to tell them (as restrainedly as I can out of respect to the person on the other line, who's just a service chump that has no say in this) to fuck off and leave me alone.
This takes them from "annoying" into "creepy stalker" territory. Any of you guys know if you can set up Skype to let you buzz people in to an apartment?
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I hate how since I don't eat beans, and 95% of the Taco Bell menu contains beans, whenever they mess up my order I'm almost guaranteed to be unable to eat what I receive. As a live-and-let-live-as-long-as-its-still-appetizing sort of person when it comes to food screw-ups, this annoys me.
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the soft taco supreme contains no beans, iirc
just get that
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See, the problem is that he might order the soft-taco surpeme, yet it will still come with beans.
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Niku can't eat beans?
How sad.
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the soft taco supreme contains no beans, iirc
just get that
more like beef and potato burrito.
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they have potatoes?
i love potatoes.
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Cheesy double beef burrito.
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Pretty positive crunchwrap supreme (best taco bell thing ever) does not have beans.
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Cheesy double beef burrito.
High-five!
Two Cheesy Double Beef burritos and a Big Taste Taco is my typical order from TB. $3 and I'm full for a day since my guts are iron.
:perfect:
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Pretty positive crunchwrap supreme (best taco bell thing ever) does not have beans.
Don't they use beans to stick the crunchy part to the soft tortilla? I know they do that on the Double Decker Taco, which is one of my secret shameful fast food weaknesses.
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I can't recall any beans in it.
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Oh nooooo, fast food places sometimes put things in your food that you don't eat?
Try not eating beef sometime, you pussy.
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but then I'd be on PETA's side
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Try not eating beef sometime, you pussy.
One time, I said to a bald guy, "Grow some hair, you hippie!"
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...did the mass rectocranialism from that Real World thread I'm not really reading just spill over into this one?
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Recently, I've nearly been in several crashes because of utter retards driving on the wrong side of the road. :THATWAY:
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...it bugs me when people refer to a wallpaper as a screensaver.
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Recently, I've nearly been in several crashes because of utter retards driving on the wrong side of the road. :THATWAY:
That seriously happens often around you?
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Rules as to when to stretch images from their original proportions:
1) NEVER
2) don't even think about it
3) :negative:
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I have six radio stations programmed into my car. I prefer three of them and essentially keep the other three as backup for ads/weird moods.
I have had them all be ads at the same time four times this week.
:humpf:
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One of my main stations was lost to Mexican radio. Again.
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One of my main stations was lost to Mexican radio. Again.
Fun fact: One of the more obscure plans for the border fence involved tall poles topped with Gris-Gris bags, intended to attract Loa which would prevent radio signals from Mexico from interfering with American broadcasts. A wall of voodoo, if you will.
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You know what I hate?
Mexicans. Seriously.
I know I should expect it by working at a truck stop, but just because I'm not sporting a skin tone that is something other than bleach white, doesn't mean I speak something other than English. And even if I did, I wouldn't be speaking it unless I went to a country whose primary language was anything other than English.
:racist: SPEAK AMERICAN, YOU CHOLO MOTHERFUCKERS! IT'S THE ONLY LANGUAGE I UNDERSTAND!
:america:
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Um, they do that to white people too.
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It seems a lot more common with me than the rest of my co-workers, that's for sure.
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...see, I'm frankly embarrassed at being monolingual. I've lived in Arizona all my life and I have a minor in linguistics, for fuck's sake; I should know more Spanish than it takes to order Mexican food.
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Some people don't have the capacity to learn more than one language, I decided after failing to learn Japanese for the fifth time.
Extreme hyperlexia probably factors into that. You know, just maybe.
(Which implies that I could probably learn written Japanese no damn sweat, and to be honest, I never really tried it.)
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Intro to linguistics textbooks say that if you acquire more than one language during the "critical period" (1-4 years? maybe 6?) you have an easier time learning new languages. I thought of it as building language slots.
I've heard tell of some freakish mutants who achieve ridiculous language finesse even past their 20s. But because I don't actually read, I've forgotten the famous author claimed to do so.
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Don't worry too much.
My wife knows about 20+ languages and can pick new ones up fairly easily, though that's mostly written. She can get by in spoken Spanish, Japanese*, and occasionally a little German or French. She did NOT learn any new languages until she was at least in junior high, if not high school. But it's never done her much good.
I speak and write one other language, French, and it's gotten me every job I ever had that wasn't in a factory. In fact, it's the only thing I ever learned in my whole life that directly improved my economic chances vs. those of my peers. In my case, I think that learning early did make a huge difference in my ability to view language more objectively (so as to make learning other languages easy), and could probably pick up a couple more if I invested some time and effort into it (Spanish and Farsi are my first choices).
So, uh, I guess what I'm trying to say is, your mileage may vary.
*She's the only white person I've EVER met who learned Japanese for non-work, non-weeaboo reasons.
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failing to learn Japanese for the fifth time.
A valuable tool in language studies is to surround yourself with native speakers.
Thus, I will be air-dropping into Canadia in zero eight hours. Within time, their nearly inaudible dialect (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=2241.msg59649#msg59649) will be deciphered once and for all.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9UEUG6u5c
And when you get home, you can impress the ladies with your cod-fishing skills and appreciation for poutine.
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Jayzeus! Evun awy counna hunnerstan thet!
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Jesus Christ, are you people from Canada or Moonside?
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I didn't catch a god damn word of that.
Poutine, though, that's an idea I can get behind.
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Actually my friends, true story:
Newfie, is the closest thing on earth to Middle English. The colony was founded in the late 1400's from stock that was already lagging behind in their linguistic changes, and the accent has been mostly stable since then. Though obviously they have plenty of new and amusing words. That's right kids, Chaucer sounded like the guys in that video.
Or, as Kate Beaton once put it... (http://beatonna.livejournal.com/2008/02/10/)
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You know what I hate about internet arguments? People far too often use terms like "strawman" and "false choice" as a replacement for actually addressing the argument. If someone's using what looks like a logical fallacy, it's just lazy to dismiss it offhand. I like to think that in most cases, they actually have a legitimate point to make- despite going about it the wrong way- and aren't just trying to win by obscuring the facts.
When people do this, the argument becomes more personal, because instead of putting in a counterpoint you're just attacking the way the other person is arguing.
Oh, also I find the definitions of those debate-related terms to be needlessly vague, which only lends itself to the problem of overuse.
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I like to think that in most cases, they actually have a legitimate point to make- despite going about it the wrong way- and aren't just trying to win by obscuring the facts.
Try arguing with Guild for a few months and then see how you feel.
You know what I hate about internet arguments? People far too often use terms like "strawman" and "false choice" as a replacement for actually addressing the argument.
[...]
When people do this, the argument becomes more personal, because instead of putting in a counterpoint you're just attacking the way the other person is arguing.
The counterpoint to a strawman or a false choice IS to say that it's a strawman or a false choice.
Why would you try to argue a strawman somebody's just set up? By definition, it is a point YOU ARE NOT TRYING TO ARGUE.
If someone's using what looks like a logical fallacy, it's just lazy to dismiss it offhand.
This is bizarro logic.
What's lazy is trying to dismiss or derail an argument using a logical fallacy.
Oh, also I find the definitions of those debate-related terms to be needlessly vague, which only lends itself to the problem of overuse.
This part I won't disagree with.
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Hey Thad, I think you have a problem.
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YOU ARE IN THIRD GRADE
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You know what I hate about internet arguments? People far too often use terms like "strawman" and "false choice" as a replacement for actually addressing the argument.
I hate this. I remember when Stephen Downes Guide to the Logical Fallacies (http://www.onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm) was like a secret resource that only a few clever people knew about. Now logical fallacies are thrown around by kids like Naruto attack names.
Strawman no jutsu!
It's completely in ignorance of the advice given on the site:
In your day-to-day life you will encounter many examples of fallacious reasoning. And it's fun - and sometimes even useful - to point to an argument and say, "A ha! That argument commits the fallacy of false dilemma."
It may be fun, but it is not very useful. Nor is it very enlightened.
The names of the fallacies are for identification purposes only. They are not supposed to be flung around like argumentative broadswords. It is not sufficient to state that an opponent has committed such-and-such a fallacy. And it is not very polite.
I've ranted before on these boards about misuse of logical fallacy. You cite and hypothetical example and someone calls "strawman", so you cite a real example and they say "false analogy". You cite an expert and they say "appeal to authority", so you call them an idiot and they say "ad hominem" and declare victory on those grounds.
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Then maybe you should stop arguing by hypotheticals, analogies, and namecalling.
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Maybe you should stop begging the question.
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"The Thad will look up and beg 'Save us!' and I'll whisper aglets."
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Then maybe you should stop arguing by hypotheticals, analogies, and namecalling.
There's a Good Man I know, some of you may have heard of him.
He's the fellow who regularly wins any and all arguments brought to him, through sound reasoning, clear thinking, and solid evidence. He's so right that people who lose argments to him can go home three states away, wake up at 3:22 in the AM, pull back their second floor window blinds and behold! The Champion of Logic is there! And before he falls off the trellis (leaving naught but a few flecks of spittle), he is heard to shout "I'm still right you ignorant motherfucking primate!"
I don't know why people never listen to him. He's one of the most intelligent men I know.
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Because video games are like underwear, duh.
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Oh, I've got a good one.
My family only tends to see each other every couple of months. Invariably there are a few questions I always get asked.
- "What year are you in?"
- "What course are you taking?"
- "What are you planning to do once you're done?"
alternatively, "What do you plan to do with a Fine Arts degree?"
It's getting so I just want to graduate to never hear those questions again.
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It's getting so I just want to graduate to never hear those questions again.
Ah. But when you get out it'd be "What did you get? How is the job? What do you do again? How much does it pay?" and all those.
My pet peeve? When players in a pen-and-paper actively tempt the GM and then bitch when the GM does something about it.
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the only solution, I've found, is to murder your entire family
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Really? Are you sure? I mean I could write up a little FAQ on a 3x5 card, or...
Yeah, you're right.
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the only solution, I've found, is to murder your entire family
It's funny 'cause it's true.
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I could murder my whole family and the stench of failure would still cling to me like an incontinent rotting fish stuck in a sump pump.
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I have heard just way too many fecal details today.
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I have heard just way too many fecal details today.
*points to board's title*
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I've been getting tons of popup ads over the past few days, and most of them are full-screen sized and they keep interrupting me when I'm typing something. On top of that, I'll occasionally hear my computer beep or sound like it's loading something when I'm not doing anything. I've run spybot and adaware twice each, and deleted a ton of spyware, but it's still happening. (Bad sign: the first time I ran adaware this week, for the first time in a month, it found eight problems. I ran it again a day or two later and it found fourteen more.)
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My speakers have been letting out a really annoying static discharge over the past month or so. Most noticeably it happens when my cell phone is next to it and I get a call, but it can happen any time, and only the left one. It's bad enough to mess with my box monitor, too. I know it probably means that my speakers are dying and need to get new ones and that sucks because I have no money.
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Hilarious
tonsillitis infectiontonsillar abscess. Can barely swallow and it runs out all the way to my ear. [Drooling on self. --Wife edit] Man, I usually don't get sick, but I've sure been on a hell of a streak lately.
I actually had this during the cold last, but it subsided and I thought I'd beaten it. Nope, it came back WITH A COLD burning hot DISH OF VENGEANCE.
Anyway, the funny part was going to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription only to have them tell me my benefits card had expired. You know, the one I just got two weeks ago for the benefits that started on Feb 2nd. The pharmacist even called the provider and was told that "the group plan has been cancelled since the 19th."
:8V:
Good thing it was only $20, so I-could-give-a-flying. Gonna rattle some cages in HR on monday though!
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I hate it when I laugh at one of my old jokes. It makes me feel self-centered.
I mean, you know, pathetically self-centered. I'm okay with the kind I am normally.
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I often forget how funny I used to be. (The answer is pretty funny.)
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...LOOKING!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAA oh wait I shouldn't laugh at that.
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Note to self: Don't pick up the phone if it's your older (in age, at least) brother. He's most likely going to babble about WoW for a half hour. This should especially be observed during work hours, which he may possibly forget you have.
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He probably does it to annoy the fuck out of you. I'll do that to my little brother even if I'm working at the same time too.
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People who wear pajamas to places other than bed.
I see it sometimes at the university, but I can understand that. Some people live on campus. But fer gosh sakes, I see it at the grocery store and the mall. I don't know if it's just around here or not, but come on. If you can be arsed to walk out your door, chances are you can put on some pants.
It's even worse when they're wearing crocs.
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People who wear pajamas to places other than bed.
I see it sometimes at the university, but I can understand that. Some people live on campus. But fer gosh sakes, I see it at the grocery store and the mall. I don't know if it's just around here or not, but come on. If you can be arsed to walk out your door, chances are you can put on some pants.
It's even worse when they're wearing crocs.
:negative:
(Meaning I agree)
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You mean full pajama get-up or just pajama pants? 'Cuz pajama pants are in. Especially during the winter.
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I know a girl who wears pajama pants everywhere, all the time.
She's also a black belt who's dating another black belt so I don't really dare to say anything.
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I wore pajama pants at MAGfest because I didn't feel like I needed to care what I wore there.
On Kazz: Yeah, I wanna punch her in the head sometimes. And being the waif that she is, I don't think her being a black belt is ever going to win her a fight.
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Besides the thread count there's not a whole lot of difference between gi pants and pajama pants.
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Except sometimes pajama pants have words, slogans, or smileys written on the backside.
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And all that does is make a magnet for eyes and either you have the hot chick yell at you for reading their ass or a horrible looking chick and you just can't keep your eyes from staring at the letters.
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My usual response is to confess I wasn't reading. :suave:
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If they earned their "black belt" in less than three years, they're not a real black belt. Trust me. There are lots and lots of Dojos that give out belts for money.
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A black belt in what, also?
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I earned mine in two and a half...
If they earned their "black belt" in less than three years, they're not a real black belt. Trust me.
:sadpanda:
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I saw this preview for some show where some dude said that he plays Cupid, the Greek god of love. It just annoys me when people confuse Roman gods, like Cupid, for their Greek counterparts, like Eros.
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No one refers to Herakles as Herakles. Even when all the other characters are using their Greek names.
I saw this preview for some show where some dude said that he plays Cupid, the Greek god of love. It just annoys me when people confuse Roman gods, like Cupid, for their Greek counterparts, like Eros.
Huh. The reading for this week was about the ancient Greeks and their sexual mores. Apparently Eros had his fair share of intercrural relations with eromenoi.
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I earned mine in two and a half...
If they earned their "black belt" in less than three years, they're not a real black belt. Trust me.
:sadpanda:
Then you have two and a half years of training. Be proud of that.
I'm sorry, but after 8 years in bi-weekly Jujitsu, and going to tournaments as a teenager and seeing <10 year olds in black belts, the phrase "I have a black belt" no longer means shit to me.
Especially since I have defeated multiple black belts who came to our class to try out a different art in Sumo, one legged Sumo, straight sparring, and point-sparring.
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I thought that by traditional ranking methods, "Black Belt" denotes general competence, and mastery is indicated by different tiers of black belt. All the shit before that being just trainee stuff.
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It basically means you've put in your time and done your homework, yeah.
Not by traditional ranking methods, mind you. Just the modern ones. That's where the schism lies.
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Okay, guess it only dates back to the 20s. (http://http://www.judoinfo.com/karateranks.htm) Still, that's a pretty long time ago.
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Okay, guess it only dates back to the 20s. (http://"http://www.judoinfo.com/karateranks.htm") Still, that's a pretty long time ago.
Your Link-fu is weak.
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I want to give an opinion on this, but I realise that I have no understanding of martial arts belt systems.
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I want to give an opinion on this, but I realise that I have no understanding of martial arts belt systems.
You tie them around your waist and beat people up.
ACTUALLY...
...YOUTUBE DON'T FAIL ME NOW!
EDIT: VIC-TO-LY!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Y6231uAmo&feature=related
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I don't have a problem with Black Belts. I have a problem with people who say "I HAVE A BLACK BELT!" like it somehow grants them magical powers when in fact all it means is you went to a one-hour class once a week for two years and dropped 500 bucks.
Brentai is not such a person. This automatically makes me assume he's at the very minimum twice as skilled as said persons.
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Actually I was absolutely useless in point-sparring, all the way to the end. I squeaked by entirely on technical proficiency and ability to put my fist through ridiculously solid objects.
So, yes, my black belt is meaningless. If I wanted to intimidate people I'd say "I can probably put a hole in you."
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If they earned their "black belt" in less than three years, they're not a real black belt. Trust me. There are lots and lots of Dojos that give out belts for money.
Nah, my friend is not only a black belt, but a second degree black belt, and she's been doing Tang Soo Do for years. No doubt is she good at it, but I don't see her as actually being able to beat the shit out of anyone ever.
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In the actual theoretical in which you enact violence to a real practitioner's head, you don't need to actually fear getting the shit kicked out of you. You might get arm-locked and yelled at a lot, but you won't get hit unless you were seriously doing something.
So I guess my point is tell her her pajama pants are fucking stupid.
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I do. I sure do.
Here's a pet peeve of mine. I hate when I tell people my major is psychology and they go "Oh so you're going to be a therapist?" I don't know how many times I've wanted to just verbally assault someone for assuming that, but I really do find it super irritating. Therapy isn't the ONLY thing you can do with psychology, and if the person asking me had any fucking clue what kind of personality I had, they'd know I wouldn't want to do therapy at all.
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To be fair, I'm a guy on the street, and I haven't a fucking clue what else you could do with a major in psychology. So I wouldn't assume anyone else does either.
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Well I didn't say it isn't the obvious conclusion people make, but it's still irksome because then I have to explain that I would like to be in research, and they just give me these vacant stares. They usually start that around me going "No, I don't want to do therapy at all."
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Because to everyone who has any clue what that means, all that psychological research conjures up is Milgram and Stanford.
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I hate that the Champions Online beta is only ever up for a few short hours on Wednesdays and Fridays when I am either playing WoW or working. To this day I have not been able to check it out.
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Jack Emmert knows that you'll fuck the game over completely, Niku.
He remembers what you did to City of Heroes.
He remembers.
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I hate that the Champions Online beta is only ever up for a few short hours on Wednesdays and Fridays when I am either playing WoW or working. To this day I have not been able to check it out.
I AM TOO BUSY PLAYING GAMES TO PLAY GAMES
MY LIFE IS A SHAMBLES
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I AM GLAD THIS IS THE HORRIBLE TIMES WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE FUCKED OVER MY FATHER IN THE PAST AND ALSO MY DOG DIED THREAD
OH WAIT
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SUICIDE PACT SUICIDE PACT
:mikey:
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WHY DO YOU FUCKS KEEP TRYING TO TRAP THE ALIENS IN METAL SHIT?
THEY. BLEED. ACID.
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SUICIDE PACT SUICIDE PACT
:mikey:
Funny you should mention that... (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090227.wkajouji0227/BNStory/Front)
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I play a lot of Facebook Scrabble, or I did until none of my friends would play me anymore. Maybe they're busy, or maybe they are mad that I bingo about two or three times a game?
I tried joining public games, but so far I've found that laying down a seven letter word is the quickest way to winning via forfeit. Especially on the first turn, and guaranteed if you do it two turns in a row, regardless of how old the game is.
God damn it, I just want to play Scrabble.
tl;dr: i'm too good... for my own good
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omg hax
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I hate when people let the strings be all messy on the head of the guitar. It drives me nuts. Cut them. Just cut them. They don't need to be going all over the place.
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I commented on that to someone at the last show I went to and apparently there's a superstition about not cutting them being luckier or something.
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I just like the clanging and look of an uncut guitar string. Soothing, powerful, rebellious. And now that I know it annoys LD I'll do it all the time! Which is good, as I need to restring the acoustic.
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LD just likes everything to be snipped to standard, with no regard for the positive effects of leaving the extra bits.
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:sadpanda:
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Oh Ocksi, you're such a clever guy.
I just think it's lazy to not cut the strings. And they look dumb. I think they look dumb and I was playing somebody's guitar one time, a long time ago, and I actually scratched my fucking hand somehow because of a string being all sharp because it was cut but not really very short.
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I commented on that to someone at the last show I went to and apparently there's a superstition about not cutting them being luckier or something.
Musicians are a superstitious and cowardly lot.
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Inexplicable hard bits in my food. They're annoying enough on their own but I'm so self-conscious about my genetically up-fucked teeth that I have to obsessively check to make sure it's not actually a bit that broke off, and I can never be entirely convinced if it wasn't.
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Once my dad was eating a sandwich from Subway. He made a weird face, moved his jaw around, and slid one of his molars out of his mouth and onto his palm. "Huh," he said. He put it on the table and continued eating.
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Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
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You can't escape entropy. Everything will eventually rot away into nothingness, even the universe itself.
Well, unless the Big Bounce theory is correct- then the universe will eventually just collapse in upon itself and then explode all over again.
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And then we'll be alone in the dark, forever, with only our increasingly-deranged thoughts to keep us company.
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Somewhere, somehow, at some point, my iPod chose to crap out on me. Just randomly disconnects from my computer whenever it feels like it. Makes trying to figure out what's wrong with it kind of impossible.
I blame microsoft.
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My computer really doesn't want me to play Half-Life. Whenever I try to play it, one of the following will happen, seemingly at random:
Switching between weapon pre-selects, often when I'm in the middle of a firefight, causing me to wave my crowbar ineffectually at squads of soldiers.
Sometimes when I hit esc, and minimize out, when I bring HL back up the mouse will jitter back and forth in one spot, and I can't move it to click 'resume game'(I can still hit esc, though, so it's ok)
The game will randomly minimize itself. Once or twice the main Steam window has popped up when this happens.
The best is when all three happen at once. Oh, and every once in a while, it just goes for a good old fashioned crash.
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Get a mouse with a non-broken wheel, and remove your cat from the keyboard.
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My mouse works just fine for everything else.
Also, I HAVE NO CAT SIR :gasp:
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Also, acid reflux. THIS SHOULD NOT BE A THING AT MY AGE.
And now we both know why I've been bitching so much today.
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I've had acid reflux as far back as I can recall. Apparently it's hereditary!
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(http://brontoforum.us/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=1195;type=avatar) I've had acid reflux as far back as I can recall.
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I hate when I just want someone to explain how to do something, but then they go do it and just show the final product to me. If I wanted them to do it for me, I'd say that.
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I'm pretty bad about things like that. When I have to teach people things at work, it often takes me three or four times because I just do it and assume they're paying attention to what I'm doing.
It frustrates the shit out of me when people try to talk me through things instead of just showing me. One good example is typically enough for me to figure it out.
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My horoscopes are pretty fucking amazing. They're 100% accurate.
..for yesterday.
Still, that's amazing! I mean unless some assfuck is following my life to write horoscopes about them it's pretty uncanny. Now if only it weren't 100% useless, we'd all be set.
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Well, the entire point is to package vague advice as a prediction.
Or, more humourously: "Horoscopse usually have predictions that basically equate to 'today is a bad day to walk off cliffs' and the like".
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I really hate when people make plans with you and then they expect you to keep waiting and waiting and waiting for them, and then on top of that, they aren't prepared to go places.
Example here: We invited my cousin to come out with us to a local restaurant that has bottles of wine half off on Wednesday nights. And so she asks when we're going, then says she'll be an hour late, and then on top of that, she wants a ride to go home so she can get her ID that she should have had on her in the first fucking place since she knew we were specifically going out for drinks.
:facepalm:
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I am no longer capable of getting irritated about that sort of bs.
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It's okay, LD. I hate people who aren't punctual too.
The problem is that a lot of my friends and family have no sense of time or urgency at all.
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@LD: I have an accoustic, and I have it strung with nylon strings. When I was doing it, I asked a guy at the guitar shop about cutting the ends off, and he was like, "No, don't do that, just wind them up on the sprockets in the head all the way."
And I was like, "Oh."
So I just do that every time now. Why wouldn't everyone? Sure, it takes longer, but it takes a long time to restring a guitar anyway, what's an extra 5 minutes?
So now I have no scratchy bits, I know there's no way they're coming unwound on their own, and I think it actually looks way better to be neatly wound up all the way on the head; it looks pretty awesome.
Can anyone who knows more about guitars confirm that this is a horrible idea?
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Also, if you were going to a restaurant, and she was going to be an hour late, what the fuck?
Does it take an hour to eat anything at all, ever? The only time it has ever taken me a full hour to eat at any restaurant is when the waiter/kitchen is glacially slow. I guess you were going out for drinks, and that takes longer, but an hour late? Really?
If I was going to be an hour late doing something, I'd say something like, "No, I can't go, I have this other thing I've gotta do, and it won't be done until <an hour after the start time>, like, maybe. Could even take longer." And then, if the inviters say, "Oh, you gotta come! Just go ahead and come when you get done, we'll see you there!", THEN it's ok, and otherwise I'm just not going. Not, "I'll be there, but I'm going to be an hour late, and could you totally stay frozen until I get there? After all, I am the Royal Magistrate of the Fucking Universe and all."
And, it truly is the height of selfishness to expect a ride to go get her ID. What can you do, in this world, WITHOUT an ID, that she happened to be doing, that she wouldn't have it on her anyway? If she's old enough to drink, she's old enough to drive, and you have to have your license on you at all times when driving. Whafuck?
Tell her I said, "Come over here, so I can kill you."
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Restaurant meals can go on for a very long time in good company.
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Lately, every time I do my laundry, there is always one sock that gets caught in a shirt or something and completely avoids being dried.
Also, I bit the back of my tongue two nights ago and instead of feeling better it just feels worse because the wound scrapes against my teeth every time I eat or talk.
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Can anyone who knows more about guitars confirm that this is a horrible idea?
Um well my boyfriend who has played guitar/bass/stringed things with that general shape for I don't know, 15 years(?) told me this was a stupid thing to do and he'd never do it. He lets them go crazy but then cuts the excess off so there is about 3-5 inches hanging off the top. When I once asked him why he didn't just roll them up all the way, he mumbled some things about how it isn't important and then kinda forgot what has happening because he is scatterbrained. All his musician friends do the same thing, and his father does, and his brother does.
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Restaurant meals can go on for a very long time in good company.
Quite true. Especially at an all-you-can-eat Sushi restaurant. If the waitstaff want you to leave, they'll avoid your table.
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"Circle The Wagons" is not some kind of all-purpose catchphrase that is always relevant to the discussion through some kind of... MAGICAL TURN-OF-PHRASE SHAPESHIFTER GRAMMARIAN MAGIC.
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*When people justify poorly executed artwork by saying it's their "style."
This is often the case with people who claim they "only draw anime," which is another pet peeve.
*DISCLAIMER: This was prompted by the doodles thread, but not in response to any of the artwork posted there.
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"Circle The Wagons" is not some kind of all-purpose catchphrase that is always relevant to the discussion through some kind of... MAGICAL TURN-OF-PHRASE SHAPESHIFTER GRAMMARIAN MAGIC.
Well, you know, when in Rome.
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I only draw anime because I can't hack anything better.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/tick_draw_howto879.jpg)
Now you have no excuse.
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On the Escapist I saw a thread title on that forum feed thing they have on the right:
"Agnosticism: the only logical choice?"
FUCK, man. FUCK. Is it your first day on the internet? Do you realize that we have already had every permutation of every possible religious debate?
Guess what: you believe what you do, other people believe what they do, and neither of you are willing to be convinced otherwise. What the hell compels you to bring this shit up? You're not going to magically fall into a fantasy world where people go "Huh, never thought of it like that, you're totally right and I've always been wrong."
Furthermore, the Escapist is a gaming site. Why do you care about the opinions of people on a gaming site, or any other non-philosophical community? Are you some sort of new fantastic life-form which subsists solely on the opinions of the ignorant? That's the only explanation I can think of for dredging up that fucking garbage.
The internet has convinced me to not have any religious beliefs whatsoever. I'm not an atheist, a theist, or an agnostic. I just don't give a shit. If the Powers That Be want to descend and let me know what's going on, great. Otherwise, I've got a perfectly good reality to ignore.
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I'm not an atheist, a theist, or an agnostic. I just don't give a shit.
...then you're an agnostic.
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The only logical choice.
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Well, if logic is what dictates your religious faith, then yeah.
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That's not the same at all! Agnostic doesn't mean indifferent! I can probably find you thousands of agnostics online who will debate at fucking length about how we aren't meant to know thus-and-such and how believing in X, Y, or Z makes you stupid and here's a million reasons why. Fuck them, I don't want anything to do with them and I won't be labelled the same way.
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That's not the same at all! Agnostic doesn't mean indifferent! I can probably find you thousands of agnostics online who will debate at fucking length about how we aren't meant to know thus-and-such and how believing in X, Y, or Z makes you stupid and here's a million reasons why. Fuck them, I don't want anything to do with them and I won't be labelled the same way.
I think you're wrong.
Debate me.
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Kazz believes only in Kazz!
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Kazz believes only in Kazz!
Kazziest. Not giving a fuck. :perfect:
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as soon as I die, the entire universe will disappear.
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I avoid Escapist's forums because they have this severe elitist complex going on. Like, it outclasses even this forums. I can't think of another forum that thinks of themselves as the 'High Society' of the internet, able to discuss any flamebait or hot button topic with only MATURE PEOPLES SUCH AS MYSELF.
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http://www.gamespite.net/talkingtime/ (http://www.gamespite.net/talkingtime/)
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Itunes
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So, I still read Play This Thing! (http://playthisthing.com/allposts) now and again. I've mentioned before how much disregard I hold for "the99th (http://playthisthing.com/blog/the99th)", who occasionally posts stuff there. I keep forgetting (or blocking out) the fact that that guy actually considers Chris Crawford a brilliant game designer (http://playthisthing.com/balance-power-21st-century), and whenever I rediscover this fact I must repeat the cycle of "dismay, disappointment, devoted attention to other things". Hell, I may have even posted something to this effect here already.
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I just noticed that when I'm very happy, only the right corner of my mouth rises into a smile by itself. It takes some extra bonus happy to get the left corner to follow suit. I can get both corners to lift at the same time if I will them to, but that's just not the same. Hrmph. I wonder what's the deal with that. And how I can now keep from getting annoyed by my own smile for the rest of my life.
Oh crap, I just checked, and yes, apparently most of my drawings of smiling people have that half-smile thing too. what the fuck is my fucking problem fuck holy shit my current avatar aaaaaaaaaaugh
:∫
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(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/14751/474911-bruce_timm._two_face._001_super.jpg)
You don't say?
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that's real comforting thanks
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oh come on halfsmile.com is squatted
fuck you internet
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(http://www.politicalfriendster.com/images/2892.jpg)
Hones'ly I t'ink you worr' abou' dis 'ole t'ing too much.
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(http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/religionthread.png)
:mikey:
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The news media has just enough interesting stuff to make me unable to ignore it entirely, and that is why I keep getting pissed off by this Teleprompter stuff.
I propose one of two things occur:
1. We find some way to hasten the complete demise of traditional news media that everyone's been talking about
2. We take everyone in the country that insists on devoting huge amounts of time to complaining about incredibly minor shit, and feed them to bears.
2 is looking nicer and nicer as it would also take care of stuff like the radio broadcast I had inflicted on me the other day where someone complained for 10 minutes straight about Crisco's non-trans-fat version not making pie crust bake properly anymore, as if it was some kind of moral outrage. It could also be extended to feed various exotic and endangered species.
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:shrug: I get my news from aggregators and Daily Show. I get to pick and choose what's important, and Jon Stewart lets me know if I missed anything.
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Will someone please think of the pies! :HUGE: BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY ROMO IS NOT! :fuckyou:
My news is from the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. My hour of news. :perfect:
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:shrug: I get my news from aggregators and Daily Show. I get to pick and choose what's important, and Jon Stewart lets me know if I missed anything.
The problem is my aggregators are reminding me of all the babbling nonsense that the mainstream is currently going on about. This means I just need to get different aggregators I guess.
My proposal still stands, however.
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A life insurance commercial just told me that life is too precious not to protect.
Growing up American, I've learned to question the claims of anyone trying to sell me anything.
This one has left me in an existential quandary.
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I avoid Escapist's forums because they have this severe elitist complex going on. Like, it outclasses even this forums. I can't think of another forum that thinks of themselves as the 'High Society' of the internet, able to discuss any flamebait or hot button topic with only MATURE PEOPLES SUCH AS MYSELF.
Perhaps I was being a tad glib in my first response. I've found a better example. I used to go to the Stardestroyer.net forums out of mild interest in some topics, but I found the community there to be so reactionarily logical that I was terrified to post anything out of fear of fallacy.
Here's a sample from today's topics on their Science, Logic, and Morality board:
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"Treatment for Gay"
:perfect:
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SUH-SUH-SUH-SCIENCE-SCIENCE!
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That thread was actually about mocking people who try to 'cure' homosexuality, apparently. Hooray double checking things.
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Science has failed us!
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You're cursed to gay forever, I'm afraid.
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The T9 on my phone didn't have 'Kaitlin', but did have 'Laitlin'. I am reminded of the 'Bort' plates in The Simpsons.
:MENDOZAAAAA:
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You're cursed to gay forever, I'm afraid.
In that case, Science has not failed us!
:behold: Gentlemen, look, and behold! Corn!
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I-I-I don't know. Last time...
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I do not fucking get Twix's ad campaign. "NEED A MOMENT? Chew it over with Twix!" Apparently jamming candy in your mouth gives you ample time to get out of awkward social situations. Who the fuck thought of this garbage?
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Marketing.
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I think the idea is that they realized their primary market is people with nervous eating disorders, so they're trying to say, "Hey, if you're going to sit there putting things in your mouth to feel better, why not make it something sticky and slightly phallic?"
...
...I like Twix a lot, actually.
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Yeah, me too. And I liked the two for me, none for you commercials.
I feel like I can't eat twix anymore, though, because I don't have a woman to lie to.
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I do not fucking get Twix's ad campaign. "NEED A MOMENT? Chew it over with Twix!" Apparently jamming candy in your mouth gives you ample time to get out of awkward social situations. Who the fuck thought of this garbage?
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It's still more interesting than the marketing campaign for Shreddies (http://www.diamondshreddies.ca/).
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It's still more interesting than the marketing campaign for Shreddies (http://www.diamondshreddies.ca/).
I actually thought that was hilarious.
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I liked the black guy in Katrina grabbing a snickers box more. ::D:
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Wait, is the fact that they named something you put in your mouth "Shreddies" a joke too, or is that a real thing?
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Oh, they're real. The trick is to wait for five minutes so the milk softens them up. When they're too dry, it's like eating ninja stars.
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So it's like the appeal of fugu, but now part of a balanced breakfast.
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Oh, they're real. The trick is to wait for five minutes so the milk softens them up. When they're too dry, it's like eating ninja stars.
Hell, that's nothing. Ever eat been lacerated by Captain Crunch?
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Are you people unaware of what your teeth are for, or do you just try to swallow cereal as fast as you shovel it into your mouth?
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I like to eat cereal without milk
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Ever eat been lacerated by Captain Crunch?
He's got nuthin' on The C'mander!
(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/PBF224-Commander_Crisp.jpg)
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That one's an all-time classic.
HOOOOLLLLLLDDDD!
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Look guys it's the first time we've had nice Spring weather in Maryland.
JESUS CHRIST MY THROAT IT HURTS TO SWALLOW AND MY NECK IS A FIESTA OF PAINFUL SORENESS.
At least I get to call out of work today without any guilt.
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I totally love how I tried to download an 800 MB on XBL for Burnout: Paradise so I can, you know, play online, and, at the fucking eleventh hour of the download, like, 6 MB remaining, the whole thing shits itself, and I have to start the fuck over.
This piece of garbage internet connection is really starting to chap my fucking hide.
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That if its at or below 40F outside and i do anything more strenuous than walking, my lungs feel like they are burning (LOL ASTHMA)
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I think I'm cursed to never have an actual lunch break ever again.
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Breaks are an illusion.
Lunchbreaks doubly so.
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This toilet is flushing while I'm busy shitting!
Unacceptable :rage:
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I hate that having a hideous cough while you have to work isn't annoying enough, so people have to comment on the fact that you're occasionally making kind of disgusting noises as if it wasn't apparent.
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Lozenges. Seriously. I had a huge bag of them at work just to suppress it long enough to keep people from yelling at me.
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Someone was having coughing fits into his microphone the other day on Death Tank. I told him to turn his mic off and he was like "nah I'm fine HORF HORF HORF HORF"
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This toilet is flushing while I'm busy shitting!
Unacceptable :rage:
LOL that reminds me: What fucking genius decided that it was a good idea to put the same proximity sensors they use on urinals and sinks on toilets? As soon as you get up to wipe your ass the damn thing flushes... and then when you NEED to flush you either get to hunt for the little button, or engage in odd dancing.
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But it's more hygienic, see, because you don't have to touch the toilet.
...wait.
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This toilet is flushing while I'm busy shitting!
Unacceptable :rage:
LOL that reminds me: What fucking genius decided that it was a good idea to put the same proximity sensors they use on urinals and sinks on toilets? As soon as you get up to wipe your ass the damn thing flushes... and then when you NEED to flush you either get to hunt for the little button, or engage in odd dancing.
On this note, i HATE when sinks (and now SOAP AND PAPER TOWEL DISPENSERS) have those sensors but they refuse to activate.
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I hate the sinks with the push-buttons that slowly rise after you push them and when they're all the way up again the water turns off and you have to push them like five times. It's like the opposite of the sensors in terms of how much you have to touch things.
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I wonder why they don't just have public faucets activated by foot pedals.
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They have drinking fountains like that.
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... I want a pedal operated toilet.
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Japan has toilets whose sensors are of such sophistication that they will open the lid automatically when they detect the door opening, and even they don't try to guess when you want to flush most of the time.
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Japan also has toilets that will violate your anus if you push a button.
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That's hardly a pet peeve.
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It is if you're trying to poop and hit it accidentally.
Suddenly, forced entry into exit only.
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Japan has toilets whose sensors are of such sophistication that they will open the lid automatically when they detect the door opening, and even they don't try to guess when you want to flush most of the time.
Probably because Japanese women would complain if they couldn't flush on demand.
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... I want a pedal operated toilet.
They do exist. I've seen and used ones.
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I want a gas-powered pedal-operated toilet.
You have to gun the engine a bit before it can flush.
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Toilets as designed by Nomura?
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Fifty belts to strap yourself in.
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No, just three really big ones.
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I'm pretty much at the keyboard for twelve hours a day nowadays, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I'm developing some nasty wrist pains. It'd be ignorant to say "carpal tunnel" right off the cuff, but "fucking hurts" is a fair description.
And before one of you wiseacres say something, I'm wearing a splint and typing with my left hand right now. I may actually spare you all my 200 wpm constant opinions for a while.
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(http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/top10posters.png)
Finally, a chance to catch up! All I have to do is double my post count by the time he makes the next thousand!
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I like pyos.
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Man, i really don't feel like i chime in enough to be in the top 10. I should maybe stop triple-posting.
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I was kinda happy that I wasn't part of the top 10 posters until I saw that I was in the top 5 for time spent here.
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I'm trying to be here less, but I usually browse the forums while on the toilet at school now. I spend a lot of time on the toilet.
I also keep my post count low by typing out a post, deciding I don't like it and navigating to another page. That's right, the posts I put are what I consider my good material.
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Those stats are weird though.
My "most activity" stats are, like, entirely backwards. I have not spent 32% of my time on the admin board.
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leaving it on while you sleep maybe
holy fuck i need a girlfriend
thanks kazz
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EBWOP: ideally my girlfriend would share the top ten with me :perfect:
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Those stats are weird though.
My "most activity" stats are, like, entirely backwards. I have not spent 32% of my time on the admin board.
I think that if you visit a particular board last, and then toodle off to do something else, it keeps counting your time on it until the session times out. Whereas if you look at a board then choose another one, the time for the first board stops being counted as soon as you visit the next.
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:pop: Wh-what? Why am both in the top ten but not in the top five?
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I have two stories and they are unrelated.
First story, yesterday I was waiting for LD to get out of a meeting, and next to the lobby where I was waiting was a room full of nerdy kids playing Rock Band and Smash Bros Melee on projectors. I went in to see if she was in there, and she was not, and I said "Hi" to a random kid who noticed me, and he said "HI!" and turned as though he were expecting me to ask something, so I just said "Just looking for someone" and left.
I sat in the lobby for a little while longer and the kid came out and said, shit you not, "Are you looking for the Electronic Gaming Club?" I just said "No, I'm waiting for my girlfriend," but don't you fucking think that if I were looking for an electronic gaming club, and I stumbled upon a room full of electronic games, that I would have realized that I found it?
Anyway that wasn't my pet peeve, this is my pet peeve.
In Melee there was a Fox named "RAPE" and a Captain Falcon named "AIDS." Kids are so fucking stupid. Like, whatever, if you want to have retarded names and be offensive for its own sake, but if the sort of person who's supposed to be responsible for student activities (such as this so-called "club") came by and saw RAPE and AIDS kicking each other's asses on a projector, I think that would be the end of the club, don't you?
I tend to worry about that kind of thing. Fuck, you can have just as much fun if RAPE and AIDS aren't bouncing around on the screen. You can even shout "RAPE! AIDS!" when nobody important is around. Why do people gotta push the boundaries in unnecessary ways like that? Don't they realize they're risking everybody's fun?
Anyway. That was all my first story. My second story is that KFC is selling buckets of grilled chicken now. Like, totally non-fried chicken. I'm sorry, but isn't the skin the good part? And seriously, who eats grilled chicken with their fingers? It just seems like a shitty idea. I get that they're trying to seem healthier, but honestly, it sounds repulsive. And I am a fan of grilled chicken, so, you can trust me. Like how nobody listened to people who criticized Bush's policies until a Republican was criticizing Bush's policies. That's an important concept.
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Lemme guess, no items, Final Destination?
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Are you implying that there's another way to play the game?
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Anyway. That was all my first story. My second story is that KFC is selling buckets of grilled chicken now. Like, totally non-fried chicken. I'm sorry, but isn't the skin the good part? And seriously, who eats grilled chicken with their fingers? It just seems like a shitty idea. I get that they're trying to seem healthier, but honestly, it sounds repulsive. And I am a fan of grilled chicken, so, you can trust me. Like how nobody listened to people who criticized Bush's policies until a Republican was criticizing Bush's policies. That's an important concept.
Supposedly it's still greasy as hell (http://www.theimpulsivebuy.com/wordpress/2009/04/20/review-kfc-kentucky-grilled-chicken/), so I am willing to give them a pass.
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But you don't buy KFC for the grease. It's a byproduct of the frying and skin.
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You're not from the South, are you?
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I had a coupon for a free KFC grilled drumstick so I had one last night. Yeah, still totally greasy.
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Basically, it's still awful for you, but you can no longer taste it.
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By the way, their new ad campaign for it is awful. I haven't seen any commercials (and don't feel like looking them up), but around the store were signs that said "Unthink dinner!" and "Unthink etc etc"
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Honestly the problem really was that they launched this shit two weeks after April Fool's day.
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Speaking of KFC the ones around me stopped serving anything other than original recipe after the original recipe strips came out. The original recipe strips suck, and it seems like they were just being cheap. Also, the stuff they do serve was always slimy and undercooked.
I'm not sure if they've gotten any better as I've not been in at least a month now. And there are no other fast food fried chicken joints like popeye's around here.
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There's a popeye's right up the street from me.
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I sat in the lobby for a little while longer and the kid came out and said, shit you not, "Are you looking for the Electronic Gaming Club?" I just said "No, I'm waiting for my girlfriend," but don't you fucking think that if I were looking for an electronic gaming club, and I stumbled upon a room full of electronic games, that I would have realized that I found it?
Kazz you see there are people that like being assured of things in a strange environment and that also do not consider being talked to a personal insult
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WHO SAID YOU COULD ADDRESS ME, PEASANT
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COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!
HELP, HELP, HE'S BEING REPRESSED!
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If one learns best through one's mistakes, why aren't I a goddam supergenius by now?
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you're forgetting the caveat that it only works if you don't also make the mistake of never learning from your mistakes
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Nobody learns from their mistakes. They just keep making the same ones over and over, for their entire lives.
It might be possible to learn from other people's mistakes, so it might be helpful to know enough people to replicate all your personal failings through the actions of others.
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So I usually make a point of plunking a dollar or two into whatever charity case my local supermarket is mooching for whenever I go. But lately they've been laying it on pretty thick; I got checkout people asking me if I want to donate like three or four times, under different names for the same organization. Makes me feel like they're out to bleed me, so fuck 'em, no handouts for you and your little pets. So now I get to leave the grocery store feeling pissed off, and also a little like a jerk for being a cheapass, which makes me more pissed off. Fortunately they've got angel food cake on sale for two dollars to the pound so I can douse my irritation in a heavy layer of sugary fluff.
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Those charities at the counter are going to make you fat.
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I had that happen to me once when they were pushing for mental disability donations.
"Would you like to make a donation to help people with mental disabilites?"
"How does one donate to themselves, exactly"
The akward silence was palpable.
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So, due to crazy scheduling and a poor sense of time, I watch the Daily Show on their website. Those who do the same might understand the following.
Anyway.
THIS
THIS COMMERCIAL RIGHT HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgFF6UHM03U
:endit:
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So, due to crazy scheduling and a poor sense of time, I watch the Daily Show on their website. Those who do the same might understand the following.
Anyway.
THIS
THIS COMMERCIAL RIGHT HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgFF6UHM03U
:endit:
They've been doing the same shit practically paint-by-numbers for cameras and printers for so long that didn't even register to me as anything except "unoriginal"
But yeah, pretty shameless.
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Geo worked for RIM, so I blame him.
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I really don't get it.
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I really don't get it.
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...so late this evening I remembered I was out of breakfast bars and almost out of Claritin, so I ran across the street to the Safeway to get them.
It appears they don't sell Claritin-D there at all.
I assume this is because Claritin-D now has to be kept behind the pharmacy counter and you have to give your name and address to buy a maximum of two weeks' worth at a time because you might be running a meth lab.
There is no pharmacy at the local Safeway.
I assume the reason there is no pharmacy at the local Safeway is that there used to be an Osco right nextdoor, until CVS bought it out, closed it, and moved it to a place that is not fucking across the street from my house.
There's a Walgreens down the street, but fuck it, it's too late and I have one pill left anyway and I guess I can hit Fry's on the way home from work tomorrow.
The whole thing's just completely fucking asinine. I am, as you might expect, not happy that the world has turned into a place where the default assumption when you go to buy allergy meds is that you're running a fucking meth lab.
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If you are running a meth lab, of course, you probably get your hands on it anyway.
Because otherwise, y'know. You're not running a meth lab.
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Yeah.
...you know, it just occurred to me that I know the state senator who's led the charge to dismantle the traffic cameras on our highways. I should send that guy an E-Mail.
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I do know the meth production rate in Oklahoma has dropped dramatically since we started restricting cold medicine. Still annoying though.
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I really don't get it.
The Daily Show and Colbert Report basically have three commercials they show during break. This is probably selective memory but I swear that's the commercial they show 90% of the time. It got annoying after a while.
Perhaps you guys get a more diverse selection of commercials? :shrug:
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That's actually a tendency of Comedy Central. You can always tell a Roast is coming up because they'll play the commercial three times in a row during a single break.
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He watches online, so he only gets the three or four Hulu commercials.
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I do know the meth production rate in Oklahoma has dropped dramatically since we started restricting cold medicine. Still annoying though.
In Oklahoma (or at least what used to be the Albertsons near my parents house), you cannot buy dayquil and nyquil in the same purchase. You may buy one single package of cough/cold remedy per visit to the store. My folks now simply buy one at the pharmacy in the store, then the other at the register.
Thank god Missouri doesn't have this fucking law. And I can buy hard liquor at the grocery store.
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I do know the meth production rate in Oklahoma has dropped dramatically since we started restricting cold medicine. Still annoying though.
In Oklahoma (or at least what used to be the Albertsons near my parents house), you cannot buy dayquil and nyquil in the same purchase. You may buy one single package of cough/cold remedy per visit to the store. My folks now simply buy one at the pharmacy in the store, then the other at the register.
Thank god Missouri doesn't have this fucking law. And I can buy hard liquor at the grocery store.
Illinois has that law. It's why my brother's in prison. To be fair, though, he did have a record, and was probably going to use the cold medicine to make meth. :shrug:
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Big feature requests, four hours before launch.
Are you fucking kidding me?
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I open up the campus e-mail system to find this announcement sent out to the class:
CLASS,
Now that you have had time to practice. Exam 2 will be given on Monday May 4, 2009. The practice that you had on Wednesday 4/29/2009 should have been an eye opener. Be prepared!
:facepalm:
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punch your teacher in the dick for me will you
then tell him that it was practice and the real dick punching will commence in a week
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CLASS,
Now that you have had time to practice. Exam 2 will be given on Monday May 4, 2009. The practice that you had on Wednesday 4/29/2009 should have been an eye opener. Be prepared!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6cw_MuTDE
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:nyoro~n: Brentai, did you just call Constantine thick?
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Fat fatty... fat fat.
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I'm bloated because of swine flu.
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I do know the meth production rate in Oklahoma has dropped dramatically since we started restricting cold medicine.
Which I am sure is the only thing they have done to crack down on meth labs, so the relationship MUST be causal.
Even if it were, that's fucking irrelevant. Setting up officers to do full cavity searches of every passerby on every corner would completely eliminate the transport of illegal drugs and weapons, but it would be a grossly overreaching violation of basic privacy rights and presumption of innocence punishing an entire population for the actions of a tiny minority.
...anyway. It turns out Fry's was out of the 15-packs of generic Claritin-D! 15, of course, being the most pills they are allowed to sell you at one time. So, you know, that's 5 days sooner I'm going to have to deal with this shit again.
Speaking as a guy who writes software that students have to use, the criteria set by non-technical persons are usually the reason why such software is terribad.
Namely, the one where government contracts have to go to the lowest bidder.
I open up the campus e-mail system to find this announcement sent out to the class:
CLASS,
Now that you have had time to practice. Exam 2 will be given on Monday May 4, 2009. The practice that you had on Wednesday 4/29/2009 should have been an eye opener. Be prepared!
:facepalm:
...yeah, that's complain-to-the-dean stuff right there.
It's sure as shit going to show up on his course evaluations.
True story: I once had a linguistics quiz scheduled for 9 AM the day after Halloween. Which was also, oh, closing night of Rocky Horror. The last show of which ended at 2 AM. Followed by strike. Followed by my sticking around to have beers and say goodbye to all my friends because it was my last show.
The professor handed us course evaluation forms right after the quiz. I am curious about his thought process on pretty much every level.
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I had a class once where the exam was scheduled for 11am to 1:30pm. The class had been 12:30pm to 3pm, but the school sets the exam schedule differently. The adjunct teaching it decided she was doing the exam from 12:30 to 3, though, and so didn't show up until 12:30. Those of us who had other exams starting at, say, 2? Just kinda fucked.
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That is also a dean complaint right there, TA. In the two campuses where I have some understanding of finals examinations, they are structured BY THE ADMINISTRATION in such a way so that professors can't assign conflicting schedules. Hell, the university I got my degree from even let you reschedule a test if you had 3 or more magically line up in the same day.
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Yeah, it was a dean complaint. And a department head complaint. It was a dean complaint at 11:30 when we were confused about why she wasn't there.
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My first two semesters of programming were with an airhead whose resume included Lotus Notes and that Motorola satellite that crashed.
There was a day, early in my second semester, when I really struggled to get out of bed. It was early in the morning and there was snow on the ground that I had to bike across campus in. I mustered the self-control to do it.
Then she showed up ten minutes late and said, "Oh, didn't you guys see the update I made to the website at 10 o'clock last night? Class is cancelled."
I never attended that class on a non-test day again.
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Okay. Before i aquired my fairly large collection of mp3's, I used to listen to radio a lot.
Because I always put all the music I have into a single giant playlist (I like the randomness and sometimes I am pleastly surprised by an odd chance), the collection sometimes becomes stale. it's a closed environment, so I'll never learn about any NEW music that way.
So, in the in the last month or so I started listening to radio again quite a bit. Already the endless commercials, and repetition of songs - and repetition of endless commercials - have put me off. SO MUCH FOR THAT.
It's kind of like how I never watch TV and have not had cable of any kind for over a decade now. Every now and then I wonder if anything good is on TV, and then I see TVs in a shop somewhere, or catch an episode of something at a friend's house and am GRATEFUL that I don't watch TV. Same applies to Marvel DC comics... once in a while I'll flip through an X-book at the shop, out of curiosity and put it right back on the rack, realizing I am NOT MISSING A THING.
But radio would have been nice. I guess I need another year or two to rebuild my tolerance :sadpanda:
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Do you Canadians not get Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/)?
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Last I checked, Pandora blocks anybody that they can figure out isn't from a US IP.
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Well, there's always Last.Fm which is kind of like Pandora but not really.
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Also for some reason when Pandora DID work for Canadians (yes, at first it did), it always gave me really wacky choices... not in a good way.
I don't know, maybe they've improved since then, but I've always found that anything that tries to my analyze tastes always fails miserably anyway. Not that I'm 'too good' for that kind of thing, they just... never worked.
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I've recently been hit with a severe rash of ROM DELETER'S REMORSE.
As such, I've only got a nearly complete patched FFV, only missing important things like y/n screens and enemy attacks.
I guess this shouldn't count as a pet peeve, because really it's just me bitching about being an idiotface. Then again, I only really mind when I'm the one who's an idiotface. ::(:
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You should just play the FFV Advance ROM instead.
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Or just, you know, buy it (http://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-V-Advance-Game-Boy/dp/B000HE9LEK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1241200682&sr=8-1).
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:humpf:
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Believe it or not guys, I had considered and rejected all of those options. Though I was very close to using that emoticon, Niku.
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:disapprove:
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:sadpanda:
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:pimp:
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I've recently been hit with a severe rash of ROM DELETER'S REMORSE.
As such, I've only got a nearly complete patched FFV, only missing important things like y/n screens and enemy attacks.
I guess this shouldn't count as a pet peeve, because really it's just me bitching about being an idiotface. Then again, I only really mind when I'm the one who's an idiotface. ::(:
...wait. So the problem is you've only been able to find an FF5 ROM with a pre-final version of the patch applied?
Can't you find the Japanese ROM and a current version of the patch and apply it yourself?
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That's what I wound up doing. :nyoro~n:
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what would happen to Classic if emoticons were erased from history
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I'd have an impossible love for :colons:.
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I'd have an impossible love for :colons:.
Now when you say :colons:...
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The joke is so easy to write there, but I'm just glad that doesn't alias to an actual icon.
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I'd considered begging Arc to make it alias to something, but I didn't know which way to take it. (If you know what I mean, :colons:)
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That's what I wound up doing. :nyoro~n:
Well, I mean, that's really the only way to guarantee you're getting the correct patch. If you want something done right...
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Apparently his cut-off jorts (jean shorts) repel all forms of Mountain Dew and Pizza Pocket stains.
Jorts. Not only is it a stupid word but why use it in that sentence when you are going to take the time to explain what jorts are?
There is no reason for it.
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It's a lingo he wants to spread. Booyaka.
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(http://www.hrwiki.org/images/thumb/b/be/Fall_Coach_Z.png/150px-Fall_Coach_Z.png) It's what Kazz flew in to get to Transylvornia.
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I get mad reading Fark articles and their stupid comments, but I can't not look!
If you're white and live in Orange County, you now qualify for Affirmative Action (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4387436)
South Dakota's Hispanic population has doubled since 2000. Miguel reportedly happy to finally have some company (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4388315)
Personally I can't wait for white people to become a real minority (IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN) so we darkies can form multiple groups (klans?) that seek their erradication for no reason at all other than they are creepy pink-skinned albino freaks.
Unfortunately they will be enjoying the riches that come from welfare checks and affirmative action, and mudperson-guilt people will protect their poor minority asses.
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Goddammit Koodo Mobile. The actors in poorly-fitting fitness suits weren't enough. Now you had to go and make all your ads feature people with mouths like that lady from Fright Night.
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I don't know whether this is irritating me or making me happy. The irritating thing is that the road I live on is being repaved when it didn't even need it--And some roads in this town, and even worse the next town over have some roads that are so fucked up the little remaining pavement on them makes them worse and they should've been redone several years ago. The nice thing about it is that while they only started yesterday, it looks like they're already more than halfway done. I guess it was really only the surface and not the entire road they're redoing, but still, usually in this town even that takes two weeks. So it's also making me irritated with how slow they work on other roads.
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You know what, is it so fucking hard for people to ask for help?
Someone in another department didn't do their damn job and sat on an bunch of stuff for a month and we look like idiots again. But that doesn't bug me.
What bugs me is when that person then make excuses (there are mistakes in the forms agagagaga) and then try to push the responsibility on me by pretending the it's part of my job responsibilities to correct the excuses - when it isn't, it's theirs.
In this case it's a bunch of account applications. Finance sat on them for a month and did nothing. Turns out half of them are missing information, but only NOW do they say that. Now everything's going sour because the shit's not done. They spent weeks ignoring the damn things and then tried to pretend it's my job to call up people and get the applications corrected when I'm not even involved in the process at all - it's a sales/finance thing, I just forwarded some faxes for people. Then they tried to pretend they didn't get them when they TOLD ME they did.
It's retarded and it annoys the hell out of me because it's just a few phone calls and I know Finance is overworked. I would have been more than happy to make those calls if they'd just said they were really busy and asked. But no, they have to pull this stupid shit where they play games to try and have this responsibility shoveled on me (permanently even!).
Fuck them, they're not getting one damn inch out of me.
EDIT: This seems like a 'job' post, but I'm just complaining in general about this kind of dumb spineless behaviour. JUST ASK, PEOPLE.
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It really pisses me off when people join a game and do not care about said game. So in a game about paranoia and the like, they just ignore everything and do not get into the spirit of the game. Shit like that is contagious and spreads throughout the game. Soon everyone is tainted and needs to be shot. Just like puppies.
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I hate that too.
That's why I only play with people who enjoy the games I also enjoy.
That or I run games about pooping.
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That or I run games about pooping. my ass!
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It really pisses me off when people join a game and do not care about said game. So in a game about paranoia and the like, they just ignore everything and do not get into the spirit of the game. Shit like that is contagious and spreads throughout the game. Soon everyone is tainted and needs to be shot. Just like puppies.
One of my idiot ex-friends was like that. He'd whine about how we didn't invite him to D&D games and then when we did, he would get fidgety, turn on TVs or movies or what have you and generally disrupt the game.
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Half of my players took the week off to get Team Fortress unlocks ::(:
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soon they'll be organizing raids for mobs and toons
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The way a smoke detector emits a high pitched beep every two minutes until you get up, try to determine which one in every room in the house is doing it, and rip out it's battery, hoping you remember to replace it so you don't die in a fire ok.
but seriously that beep ruins your quality of life, you can't ignore it
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The way a smoke detector emits a high pitched beep every two minutes until you get up, try to determine which one in every room in the house is doing it, and rip out it's battery, hoping you remember to replace it so you don't die in a fire ok.
but seriously that beep ruins your quality of life, you can't ignore it
don't they only do that when they need fresh batteries
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One time I forced a Sim to stand around in a room with his alarm clock for two hours. He went to work in a terrible mood and got fired.
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I've said it before, but it bears repeating: the DVD release of Thundercats is pretty much a big "fuck you" to the fans. The quality is about VHS-level, the sound is mono, the episodes are in fucking production order so that Lion-O's Anointment is all split up, Exodus is the cut-down TV version instead of the extended version that was released on VHS, and the second episode was originally released with no fucking background music. It's a quick, cynical cash-in, and I hope that it gets the Transformers treatment and rereleased by somebody who actually gives a fuck (sup Shout Factory).
Also, I don't understand the reckoning where the show's only listed as having two seasons. I mean, okay, it had 130 episodes, and 65 of those were in a single season, but...the last 60 were spread out across 3 years and clearly bookended with 5-part story arcs.
tv.com corroborates that order, and claims the show ran its complete course by 1986, but Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ThunderCats_episodes) claims (and my memory absolutely 100% supports this) that the last season ran in '89 -- though it mysteriously loses original airdate information after '85.
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...incidentally, Rapidshare links to VHS version of Exodus:
1 (http://rs510.rapidshare.com/files/53658512/TC.part1.rar) 2 (http://rs165.rapidshare.com/files/53672409/TC.part2.rar) 3 (http://rs211.rapidshare.com/files/53682514/TC.part3.rar) 4 (http://rs512.rapidshare.com/files/53709712/TC.part4.rar) 5 (http://rs213.rapidshare.com/files/53733731/TC.part5.rar), password "warez-bb.org".
Quality's about what you'd expect.
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we don't use smoke detectors here
this is because we make houses out of materials that do not burn
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And for some stupid reason, we do.
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I read somewhere that really, it makes more sense to build houses in the ground like animal burrows, where they are naturally insulated.
Like hobbit homes or something.
I'd do it.
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I would think those homes would be royally fucked by earth quakes. Course I'm no architect, but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.
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Why use things that don't burn when there's insurance premiums to collect and so many trees around to cut down?
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we don't use smoke detectors here
this is because we make houses out of materials that do not burn
Meanwhile, we in the first world have invented insulation.
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I read somewhere that really, it makes more sense to build houses in the ground like animal burrows, where they are naturally insulated.
Like hobbit homes or something.
I'd do it.
The principles at work with this idea might be different but every time I've lived in a basement apartment it was cold as shit.
Then again that was as compared to insulated houses.
DISREGARD THIS
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When people use the word "prequel" when they mean "predecessor". Prequel means "a work whose story precedes that of an earlier work", meaning it was created after the other work. When people use prequel to describe earlier titles in a series, that is wrong.
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I read somewhere that really, it makes more sense to build houses in the ground like animal burrows, where they are naturally insulated.
Like hobbit homes or something.
I'd do it.
I guess people decided that being able to let in sunlight was worth the chance of having the house burn down.
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I've always kinda wondered why this idea doesn't have more traction here in Phoenix Metro.
There IS a mostly-underground house down the road from my grandparents' a pace.
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There is totally a hobbit house around here. it's kinda circular and there is a layer of soil and grass going over the top of it.
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Is building underground more expensive, maybe?
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http://tinyurl.com/ncqq9s HOBBIT HOUSE
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Is building underground more expensive, maybe?
I'm sure it is. But around here, I think it would pay for itself in savings on the electric bill.
OTOH, I'm sure it'd make plumbing, wiring, and ventilation a lot trickier, too.
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But on the other hand, housing developers don't have to pay the electric bill and probably find that above-ground houses are easier to sell for reasons other than the price.
But on the mutant third hand, that just means it's an untapped market. Go get 'em, tiger!
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Don't look at me. I'm still trying to work out why the hell anyone here works daylight hours on jobs that don't actually require sunlight.
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But on the gripping hand,
learn2larryniven
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Don't look at me. I'm still trying to work out why the hell anyone here works daylight hours on jobs that don't actually require sunlight.
Because the human biological cycle is attuned to sunlight?
Also, 1) underground buildings are prone to humidity and water infiltration, 2) a room with no windows is depressing.
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Strip clubs are depressing?
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only the ones without windows
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Strip clubs are depressing?
how many have you been to, Kazz?
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Strip clubs are depressing?
how many have you been to, Kazz?
(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
Strip clubs are great... so long as you allow yourself to be deluded by the lowest possible rung on the 'acting' ladder. :oh:
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Because the human biological cycle is attuned to sunlight?
I'm Irish and English. My genetic history is fucking-well not attuned to the levels of sunlight found in the American Southwest.
Also, 1) underground buildings are prone to humidity and water infiltration,
Today's high is 93 and humidity is 28%. It is the coolest, wettest day we have had in weeks.
Granted, I can see a problem come monsoon time -- shit, we can't even keep our streets from flooding.
2) a room with no windows is depressing.
I've currently got my bedroom window completely covered with insulation and it's still too fucking hot to get a good night's sleep next to it.
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I loved the weather in Phoenix, but I'm a freak.
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(http://media.picfor.me/0013B45/httpsiteoboevrupictureprikol44JPG-fun-desert-skeleton-water-%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BD%D1%8F-%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82-%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0-muerte-ironia-aridez_large.jpg)
It's a dry heat.
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why an inner tube
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To play in the pool. DUH!
:rolleyes:
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why the fuck are people reacting to the "milo demo (http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/the-future-of-video-games-is-here/)" as though it were anywhere fucking close to authentic.
the kid is clearly voice-acted. that alone tells you the whole thing is from a script.
I recall a story from the Black & White dev blog where they had a story about tricking someone they were demoing the "gesture system" to. they had one of their animators create an animation of a hand waggling its fingers and waving around on the screen. then they had him put on a glove with a loose cord jammed into it that ran under the desk and mimic the animation when it was time to demo the system.
they're shysters, they're con men, they're frauds.
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It's like Seaman, except you can't boil him alive.
Unless you can boil him alive.
Then I want ten copies.
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Milo, let's see how far you can swim.
Don't stop if you get tired. Your instincts actually won't let you swim out so far that you can't make it back. It's a scientific fact.
Have fun.
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I think that since they've stuck the Xbocks logo at the end of the video, Microsoft is going to be pissed off if they're lying. That leads me to believe there isn't any lying going on. That video you linked is the first I've seen/heard of this, though.
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Notice that creepy bald headed guy? That's Peter Molyneux. Everything he ever says is a bald-faced lie.
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yeah I stopped trusting him back around black and white
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Notice that creepy bald headed guy? That's ...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/guildenstern2/Picture364.jpg)
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:victory:
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DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE OF YOUR DEVELOPERS
molyneaux
THEN GET IT ANYWAY
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SHOOT FOR THE STARS
molyneaux
LAND IN THE MUD
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Molyneux is never a liar so much as he's given to gross hyperbole. I mean, seriously, "Science fiction has never written about this"? Seriously? I'm forced to believe that he's never seen a single episode of Star Trek.
When Peter Molyneux says "You can marry any NPC in the world" then you can marry NPC in the world, but you won't necessarily care. When he says "You will be presented with moral choices" you will be presented by the least engaging moral choices possible. When he says "You can hold a piece of paper up to Milo and he'll take it and pretend to see it" then yeah that's pretty much what will happen. Basically he just delivers on every single thing he promises in the absolute blandest way possible.
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Notice that creepy bald headed guy? That's ...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/guildenstern2/Picture364.jpg)
(http://brontoforum.us/Themes/default/images/post/donkey.gif)
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:jizz:
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:MENDOZAAAAA:
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It just took me an extra 20 minutes to get to work today because the county fair just started and I work... wait for it... right next door to the fairgrounds. I had to wait in line - in my car - to get into my parking lot. And now I can hear children screaming as they ride the Tornado or whatever.
Since the line to get here was a one-way road, I have no idea how I'm going to leave tonight.
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Can we please take everyone who takes the elevator for ONE FLOOR (going down even!) and arrange for them to suffer in a fatal elevator shaft (involving far more than one floor) 'accident'?
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I do that sometimes, IM. But it's generally more of a 'Where am I and how close are the stairs in comparison to the elevator'.
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In many places it is expected of you to take the elevator almost exclusively. Social contract sort of thing.
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:wrong:
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Somehow I never realized how much I hate verbal ticks until I was listening to a podcast today, and visibly cringed every time one of the guests said "and stuff".
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Encastrable (http://www.encastrable.net/)
Bored 20-somethings (I'm guessing) arrange shit on floor of hardware store, navel-gaze hard enough to call it hard. Site is in French, and Babelfish only gives me a rudimentary understanding of what their manifesto is saying. Something along the lines of "Here is something an autistic child would do, we're calling it art!"
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...which is something an autistic child would do.
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To attack these horns of plenty called big box stores, to realize ephemeral actions through economy of means, to clandestinely inject the workshop and the art gallery... to transform the hypermarket network in a structure where art resides.
It is from the simplicity of this common desire that collaboration was born between Antoine Lejolivet and Paul Souviron. An exercice articulated around a modus operandi as minimal as it is infinitely applicable: to design sculptures based on the products offered by the store. Between the shelves and the clients, to expose smuggled arrangements, lacking nail or screw. The approval and permission of a guard or manager interrupts the process, prompting the two artists to visit another place, in hopes that the next one will be less welcoming.
These large brands, hardware stores, gardening stores, supermarkets, nestled in the periphery of towns, provide the two artists with a breathtaking reserve of raw material and it is in the cracks between law and form that they deploy their own rules and install their little enterprise of disorganization.
This site exists to witness for these ephemeral acts through photographic or video archives, a catalog for this volatile exposition.
Man, even these words are pretentious from top to bottom.
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I hate writing essays. Hate hate hate hate hate.
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It's funny how you guys are pissed at that stuff. That's child's play compared to some of the horrifying pretentious bullshit I had to put up with for the better part of a decade.
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It's funny how you guys are pissed at that stuff. That's child's play compared to some of the horrifying pretentious bullshit I had to put up with for the better part of a decade.
You haven't been with us that long, I admit.
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Hay guyz you know what sucks? successful businesses. let's fuck with them
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if one more retard asks me to tank something, invites me, asks "is that your tanking gear" and then kicks me when I say yes I'm going to blow up the earth.
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if one more retard asks me to tank something, invites me, asks "is that your tanking gear" and then kicks me when I say yes I'm going to blow up the earth.
reminds me of some lunatic that kept screaming at me in TF2 because i was using the kritzkreig.
<dumbshit> AAAGH THE KRITZKREIG IS USELESS BLBEBELBEALHHEAGE
Dumbshit gets teamswitched
a bit later i kritzed a soldier and blew up 6 people including him.
he quit almost immediately after
:perfect:
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Hay guyz you know what sucks? successful businesses. let's fuck with them
Yeah, the instinct of the modern 'art' student is based entirely on shit-disturbing basically.
Or as I like to say: "That schtick was neat when Marcel Duchamp did it - the first time. The thousands of endless copycats... not so much."
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Hey dudes, I left a urinal in front of old man Mongrel's house and set it on fire. Then he was all like "WHAT THE FUCK YOU KIDS I DON'T LIVE IN A HOUSE WARRRGLBLGLBLGL"
It was boss.
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Actually, I was pretty impressed that someone managed to set a urinal on fire.
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You know, in horror movies or games, sometimes you see a character/creature do that really creepy thing where their head just spazzes out in all directions super fast?
I realized I do that. It's a reflex I have when I'm trying to recover from sleep paralysis, as if only my neck is working and moving it is all I can do so I go at it with all the strength I can gather.
It doesn't bug me that much by itself, but if someone ever sees me do it they'll be really freaked out.
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I really hate how Facebook has the worst photo uploader on the planet. In addition to being slow and cumbersome, it also downscales my images to a ridiculous degree, turning formerly sharp images into blurry messes.
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People who don't know the difference between perfume and deodorant.
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ze fronch
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your obese, promiscuous mother
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old people
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curmudgeons
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all of you
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QUOTE PYRAMID
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QUOTE ZIGGURAT
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QUOTE ARCOLOGY
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Quote combo break.
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Quote C-C-C-C-C-C-C-COOOOOMMMMMMBOOOOOOOOOOOO BREAKAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Quo-h no, it's happening again.
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(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa34/disponi/quotepyramidhead.jpg)
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And Disposable Ninja wins the thread! :perfect:
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:perfect: :perfect: :perfect: :perfect: :perfect:
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YES
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Go to bed at 10:30 PM.
Wake up at 12 AM.
While trying to prevent self from sleeping/acting like a total scoundrel and always staying up until 4 AM and sleeping until 2 PM. I've been at this for a month and can actually enjoy some pristine 8 AMs every other day..
Sigh.
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I've had some pretty fucked up sleep cycles lately, but in the opposite direction. In the space of about a week I went from going to sleep at 4AM to waking up at 4AM. It's a bit jarring. I think the first and most jarring change was triggered by travel across more than 8 time-zones. However, I have managed to induce something that seems similar through self-medication with caffeine and alcohol. Drink coffee/tea at regular intervals throughout the day. If you can manage it, have an early dinner with alcohol (for me, wine works best for some reason). I wasn't watching for it at the time, but I think I was still good to drive by the end of my drinks. The extra stress from using the caffeine and my withdrawal from it put me hard to sleep for nearly 10 hours.
The principle seems sound, but it's been untested and I hadn't had a drink of coffee for several weeks when it happened. The cafe-con I had managed to put me a bit on edge.
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Summer bugs. I have no idea which of the microscopic fuckers got me or when, but I managed to figure out where after my one foot swelled up like a Battletoad ending a combo and I scratched the hell out of my ankle until something bled.
Biters the size of your hand? Easy to detect, easy to smack. It's the little fly-sized ones that give me grief, days after the fact.
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I have a similar sleep schedule of go to bed anywhere from 4-6 and waking at 2. On the one hand, I like being up that late, and on the other hand, it sucks if I want to get anything done during regular-people hours.
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I'm prepetually screwed, since my body wants a day that is approximately 26 hours.
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My body wishes desperately for that as well.
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I've recently discovered that I am truly annoyed by any non-facetious hypocrisy. The downside to this is that I know myself to be hypocritical about some things, leading me further into a cycle that makes me hate everything ever a little more.
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I want to meet a person who actually enjoys hypocrisy. I think that person would be my best friend, and everybody else's.
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My body wishes desperately for that as well.
...to be perpetually screwed?
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[player 1 joke goes here]
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I have a similar sleep schedule of go to bed anywhere from 4-6 and waking at 2. On the one hand, I like being up that late, and on the other hand, it sucks if I want to get anything done during regular-people hours.
The fun part is when you graduate and enter work and you have to work regular-people hours
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Okay, but I get to be WAIT THAT WOULD BE EXTREMELY TIRING.
FUCK.
I'M GONNA GO TAKE A NAP.
5 MINUTES.
NO PROMISES.
The fun part is when you graduate and enter work and you have to work regular-people hours
I thought you came up with the same workaround for that that I did.
NOW I HAVE ALL 16 15 HOURS OF WAKEFULNESS TO DO STUFF.
IMAGINE ALL I COULD DO WITH IT.
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The fun part is when you graduate and enter work and you have to work regular-people hours
I thought you came up with the same workaround for that that I did.
Keeping odd hours, and scrambling for whatever PHP work hasn't outsourced itself to India?
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Yeah, that one.
The one that's actually making me happy something I wrote broke horribly and I have to spend this whole weekend fixing it.
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I'm tired of the word "bokeh". Bokeh is the shape that out-of-focus parts of a photograph take on. The form of the blur so to speak. Unfortunately, amateur photographers pick up on the word and use it to describe any scene that has out of focus parts to so they can act like they know what the shit they're talking about. It drives me nuts.
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That's totally bokeh
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Apparently the only place in our house where we can put the cats' litter box is directly outside my fucking door. So my room regularly smells like cat shit. ::(:
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Uh... I hate to break it to you Fred, but the room you'll be staying in here has the catbox too (our living and dining room are part of a large shared space... which is the only place avilable for guests to bed down). The only place we had to put the catbox was in the far corner of the dining room, squirreled away behind a shelving unit.
However this isn't as bad as it sounds - it never seems to bug anyone who comes over. And regardless, not only do we clean it regularly, we will probably do so twice as often over that weekend in consideration of the fact that people are actually going to have to sleep here.
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Hm. A "PET SHIT PEEVE," eh?
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Those stupid big square sunglasses that girls wear when they think they're hot. they're not hot sunglasses they are ugly sunglasses.
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I think my sister wears those :D
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I don't think I've ever seen anyone wear those except for a joke.
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They're all the rage. I kind of like them, in an everyone-sorta-looks-like-Andy-Warhol kind of way.
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Very few people can pull them off.
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While we're on the topic, stunner shades.
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I'm going to have to image search that aren't I?
Are you talking about the ones with the plastic going over the lenses? I'm pulling up some images that don't seem to have those, so I'm concerned I'm not picking out the right feature.
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While we're on the topic, stunner shades.
you are wrong (for not liking them)
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Stunner shades are basically anything you see Souljaboy wear. Large, obnoxious, would look retarded on anyone you see with them in person but are apparently awesome on shitty rappers.
You're thinking of shutters. Those don't even have lenses, and might be even more stupid, but only Kanye West wears them so we knew that already.
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You're thinking of shutters.
I was too! They're amazing.
You got a problem with Kanye, dude? :/
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What are you, a gay fish?
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he is the genius voice of a generation
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I dunno about that but he is pretty ok!
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When Pigs Fly (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/505307)
Me and Zara betatested this.
:humpf:
To be fair, I do it (speaking) more often than I'd like, but it still irks me.
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When Pigs Fly (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/505307)
Me and Zara betatested this.
:humpf:
To be fair, I do it (speaking) more often than I'd like, but it still irks me.
Thanks for catching it, though. It's a bad habit, and I need to stop.
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hey no probs
I was going to post something snarky in the thread, then I thought this was a bit more appropriate. We really need karma back for this kind of thing.
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Actually, one of my pet peeves (that I fuck up on all of the time) is over applying that rule!
If it that been (because you're an idiot in love with passive voice), "That was betatested by Zara and me," it would have been correct.
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me and your mom betatested this
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Actually, one of my pet peeves (that I fuck up on all of the time) is over applying that rule!
If it that been (because you're an idiot in love with passive voice), "That was betatested by Zara and I," it would have been correct.
:derp:
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...actually, no, Buge. That would be incorrect because "That was betatested by I" would be incorrect, while "That was betatested by me" would be, while kind of ugly-sounding, perfectly cromulent. I don't know what Classic was trying to get at, though, because "I betatested that" is correct, whilst "Me betatested that" obviously is not.
:mystery:
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:tldr:
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I was trying to get at what Buge demonstrated, over-application of the "x and I" rule. Being uncreative/lazy the only example I could think of was to make the sentence into the passive voice. Which, as I commented, was ugly. So ugly it could only be used by someone with a hard-on for the passive voice.
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ARE YOU ALL THAD
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:derp:
I like :thad:
He is comfy and easy to wear.
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This would be a lot easier if nobody had betatested the software
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I want to find the guys who betatested the English language, and strangle them. It's the most unintuitive, user-unfriendly interface I've ever been forced to learn.
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I laughed. Out loud.
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So me and Kayma both laughed at that.
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I chuckled.
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I DID NOT LAUGH
I THOUGHT IT WAS DUMB
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I DID NOT LAUGH
I THOUGHT IT WAS DUMB
KAZZ IS CORRECT HERE BUT FOR ENTIRELY DIFFERENT REASONS.
By which I mean I took some French and I am vaguely familiar with its similarities to other romance languages and
what I'm trying to say is fuck gendered nouns and all that inflection forever
and also non-alphabetical character schemes.
English gets no respect.
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Yeah, gendered nouns are a bitch to learn. You pretty much have to be born in the language to make any sense of the idea. You can do some very beautiful, fancy, subtle stuff with them though, so frankly I'm glad they're there.
English gets no respect.
Haha, I remember when I first learned that all you need to do to put a verb in future tense is to stick "will" in front of it. I was all "wait, that's it?"
I think that's why it often bothers me when I see native English users fuck up their own language; it's such a simple one by comparison. I mean, I'm not perfect, but I learned it from Dragon Warrior. What's their excuse?
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I learned it from Dragon Warrior.
This is awesome... and makes me wonder why you're not thouing more.
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:mahboi: Still thine brazen tongue knave.
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:mahboi: Still thy brazen tongue, knave.
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I rearn Engrish from the Japanese too!
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Getting interrupted.
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People who interrupt each other and then instead of stopping and listening they just increase volume. Not angrily, they just continue speaking normally and get louder.
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Everyone knows that the validity of individual points is entirely irrelevant in an argument; the winner is always decided by who can output the most decibels.
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Getting interrupted.
People who interrupt each other and then instead of stopping and listening they just increase volume. Not angrily, they just continue speaking normally and get louder.
I said I was sorry :(
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By which I mean I took some French and I am vaguely familiar with its similarities to other romance languages and
what I'm trying to say is fuck gendered nouns and all that inflection forever
I'm a fan of languages where the letters always make the same sounds. And accent marks are a nice, intuitive way of saying "this is an exception to the way you would ordinarily pronounce this word."
But I agree with your complaints on the arbitrary gendering of nouns. And Zed's point that our tenses are a lot easier.
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IT'S PERFUME*
:advice:
NOT INSECT REPELLENT
*can also apply to Axe "deodorant"
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I hate it when I see an asterisk or some other footnote marker on something and look around, only to find that there's no fucking footnote*! I end up thinking "am I missing something? What extra condition or information needed to be conveyed? WHAT?!"
*Like this one! IT'S NOT HARD YOU FUCKERS.
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I hate it when I see an asterisk or some other footnote marker on something and look around, only to find that there's no fucking footnote*! I end up thinking "am I missing something? What extra condition or information needed to be conveyed? WHAT?!"
*Like this one! IT'S NOT HARD YOU FUCKERS.
I see this a lot on forums, too. I guess people lose their train of thought.
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Hospital workers who abuse the elderly.
Know what, nurse who almost killed my immunodeficient going-on-90 risk-of-falling pneumonic grandmother by leaving her alone, perched on a shower chair in a cold shower while she stormed off in a huff for no good Goddamned reason? I'm going to find out your name. I'm going to come to your house. You won't know when I've arrived.
I'm going to find someone you care about and abuse them the same way you abused her. Only difference is, I won't just be negligent/a terrible fucking nurse/deliberately not doing my job; I've got fucking crazy on my side. The papers will print stories about it years from now. People will shake their heads when they remember what I've done.
OH NO, ASSHOLES! LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST FUCKED OVER THE WRONG DEFENSELESS OLD LADY!*
*Okay, so not really. But I am shaking with rage.
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Yes, that really grinds my gears too.
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Malpractice suit?
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This is America. We have no legal method of compensation, so the only solution is frontier justice.
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I thought of a good one that really gets me.
People who can't have fun in a game unless they win. Just because you lose doesn't mean the game can't still be fun.
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The best games are the kind where everyone can share in the fun of losing.
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No one really likes losing completely...but I do think that a fun time can be had even when you don't win.
When you are completely steamrolled, then I think I am justified in ragequitting. Steamrolling isn't even fun. You can't do anything. You take one step and the two spies that have infested your base the entire time murder you, or you try to sneak around and get the flag, but your ENTIRE TEAM is on defense...ugh.
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I thought of a good one that really gets me.
People who can't have fun in a game unless they win. Just because you lose doesn't mean the game can't still be fun.
I've known fellers like that. Heck, I've been that person in particularly disastrous games of D&D. Of course, it was more along the lines of everyone-else-is-a-zany-sorcerer-or-rogue-and-I'm-the-cleric-trying-to-keep-a-TPK-at-bay-but-the-rest-of-the-party-is-making-it-really-difficult-by-antagonizing-every-NPC-we-meet situation.
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People who think you can "win" or "lose" at tabletop RPGs.
[spoiler]Joke! It's a joke godammit![/spoiler]
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Losing because you did everything right but everybody else failed you is a particularly bad feeling, especially if you weren't really given a choice in the matter of who you're working with. It's also frustratingly true to life. Hell, I think my life right now can be described as exactly that.
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Getting interrupted.
People who interrupt each other and then instead of stopping and listening they just increase volume. Not angrily, they just continue speaking normally and get louder.
I said I was sorry :(
you're a little bitch kazz
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I thought of a good one that really gets me.
People who can't have fun in a game unless they win. Just because you lose doesn't mean the game can't still be fun.
I've known fellers like that. Heck, I've been that person in particularly disastrous games of D&D. Of course, it was more along the lines of everyone-else-is-a-zany-sorcerer-or-rogue-and-I'm-the-cleric-trying-to-keep-a-TPK-at-bay-but-the-rest-of-the-party-is-making-it-really-difficult-by-antagonizing-every-NPC-we-meet situation.
Why people do this, I will never know. :MENDOZAAAAA:
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Same reason people troll on the internet. NPCs can only punch you in the pretend-face.
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dog-parenting
This.
Dog deserve your love, admiration, respect and care. However, at no time should your dog ever consider you anything but master and friend. Personally, I think raising a dog as your child or equal is the reason people create asshole dickfuck dogs.
Excepting, of course, people who raise their dogs simply to make them into asshole dickfucks.
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Hey, it's a lot like parenting, because dogs have to learn their commands like children with manners and other socializing skills. Same difference, only dogs are cuter and easier to manage.
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No, its nothing like parenting.
Dogs are animals with the ability to seriously hurt almost anybody in all but the smallest of breeds. Most were breed for working, protection, hunting and war*, and most still have those underlying wants or needs they want to fulfill.
Don't get me wrong, I love my doggies and I give them treats and hugs and kisses, but they've all been my pets and they've all been trained with a strict, 'I am right and you are going to listen' mentality.
*Of course, you're a girl so you're probably talking about toy poodles or something! :8D:
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I thought of a good one that really gets me.
People who can't have fun in a game unless they win. Just because you lose doesn't mean the game can't still be fun.
On the other side of the equation, ending up on a team full of retards who drag you down, not wanting to play because Losing is typically not fun, and then hearing a bunch of shit about how I should put on a happy face and try to make the most of the moment. Usually parroted by the team full of retards. Or you know, the guys on the other team who can't reckon why the other dudes aren't having as much fun as they are. I wonder!
Time is money, chumpette.
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That just means you're not training your retards properly.
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Team Fortress 2, champ.
Of course if I yell at people to bring up needed classes, I get classified as too mean/serious.
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Team Fortress 2, champ.
Of course if I yell at people to bring up needed classes, I get classified as too mean/serious.
Its cuz you're yelling.
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Yeah, shouting angrily only counts as 'training' if you're a drill sargeant with foot-long sideburns and your recruits were kidnapped from bars after they passed out drunk.
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why so literal
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I thought of a good one that really gets me.
People who can't have fun in a game unless they win. Just because you lose doesn't mean the game can't still be fun.
People like this is why I will never play Intrigue at all or two consecutive games of Catan without tiles being thrown when in my home town. So lame.
Unrelatedly:
I saw a Christmas commercial today. Which is November 9th. I don't watch television too much, so this might not be new, but I don't care.
Louis Black is a prophet and I am going to kill Santa Claus.
This consumerism-with-a-side-of-Christ holiday must be stopped before it passes Halloween (best holiday), which is basically anathema to Christmas except the candy part. It is our only strategic defense. I mean, what major holiday comes before that? July 4th? Santa is already flanking us there. We'll be abandoning half the calendar if we don't act soon.
So I am going to wander in the woods until I find some magic doors or maybe bribe NORAD or the Russians.
But seriously, it's really annoying.
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Dude, go to any major outlet store and you'll see the first Christmas shit broken out in September.
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I think we should let Christmas expand all the way to January, because then it's only remaining option is to loop back and be stuck in only December again.
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I like that idea, trap the Christmas so it can never hurt us again.
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No one really likes losing completely...but I do think that a fun time can be had even when you don't win.
When you are completely steamrolled, then I think I am justified in ragequitting. Steamrolling isn't even fun. You can't do anything. You take one step and the two spies that have infested your base the entire time murder you, or you try to sneak around and get the flag, but your ENTIRE TEAM is on defense...ugh.
I think there's a certain degree of truth to this (as I stopped going to arcades because I was paying money to get my shit ruined forever in Marvel vs. Capcom 2), but now I feel like it's really just part of the risk of playing in an open, public environment. There's always going to be someone out there that is much much better than you or much much dumber than you.
In non-steamroller scenarios, if you don't have fun because you're not winning, well, you have some issues to work out.
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Well, there's your problem right there. You were playing Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, which Jeremy Parish has described as a "disasterpiece". Janky, broken characters with infinite loops and shit. Fuck that noise.
AND THE KIDS ARE STILL WILLING TO PAY OVER 50 BUCKS FOR A USED PS2 COPY AT GAMESTOP. EVEN THOUGH IT'S OUT ON X-BOX LIVE ARCADE. SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK.
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Sirlin described it as a chaotic broken mess from which intricately balanced high-level play seems to have accidentally evolved.
To be fair, that's what happened to Smash Bros. Melee, too.
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Well, there's your problem right there. You were playing Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, which Jeremy Parish has described as a "disasterpiece". Janky, broken characters with infinite loops and shit. Fuck that noise.
AND THE KIDS ARE STILL WILLING TO PAY OVER 50 BUCKS FOR A USED PS2 COPY AT GAMESTOP. EVEN THOUGH IT'S OUT ON X-BOX LIVE ARCADE. SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK.
See, I just went home and rented it for the Dreamcast and played it with friends instead of waiting for the chinamen to swoop out from the corner in the arcade. Haven't looked back at fighting games in an arcade since. Fast forward to this year where I play it on XBL on the occasion with friends in between bits of every other fighter out there.
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That fucking "Violinist plays in a aubway station and nobody gives a shit" (http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/bell.asp) story. I got linked to it again today.
More specifically, I get irked by the conclusions that everybody draws from it. Are we unable to recognize beautiful mastery when it's packaged in rags and dumped unceremoniously onto a DC Metro station? No, we're unable to recognize beautiful mastery when we're unable to recognize beautiful mastery.
Hear me out here. What do you think your grandfather's opinion of Slash's guitarwork is? How many people are honestly surprised to find out, after hearing Weird Al do at least one accordion piece on every album, that he's considered a genius on the thing? If you handed your little brother a copy of Super Metroid, would he come back saying it was the greatest game of the 16-bit era?
I'm not an expert on demographics but I'm going to take a stab at most people taking the DC Metro not being the sort to pay hundreds of dollars to hear a violin concerto. Even if you told them outright that the guy standing there was considered a genius on strings, they'd sort of nod appreciatively, maybe listen for a while to try and see what the big deal is, and eventually be on their way. If you told them how much the actual violin was worth someone would probably jump him.
The idea that the package sells the product is a bit true here, because I'll lay even odds that the people who get all uppity about people in a subway station not appreciating classical music - don't appreciate classical music. They think it's a big deal because somebody told them it is. I'm sure that sold out theater in Boston was packed with people trying to look more cultured than they really are. After the show was over they went out for chicken wings.
I dunno why this irks me so much - I think because everybody experiences the same shattering, nature-of-mankind revelation upon hearing this story, and from where I'm standing it looks like everybody is fucking wrong.
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And of course there's the fact that this was in a subway station, which is to say a space of the world that exists for literally no reason but a thoroughfare for people who are in a hurry to not be there any longer. Sticking something distracting and beautiful there and having it ignored proves that, indeed, the subway station is performing its intended purpose quite admirably!
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If someone who had been to the concert was in the subway that day, I'd be surprised if the music didn't ring a Bell.
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THANK YOU. Finally someone agrees with me.
Alright. I've typed a post like three times but fuck it. I can't add anything to your post. Well done, sir. Well done.
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Also, if you hear good music in a public place chances are you expect someone to have hired them or something. Street musicians out for tips indicate that they are broke by demonstrating how their talent is insufficient for them to be professionals, thereby incurring pity; or, in the most extreme cases, their performance is an implicit threat: give me some money or I will keep playing this awful racket.
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The mastery of the violin is subtle. This is the same exact shit if they just gave out the best wine ever to everyone going through the subway, then were outraged when nobody tasted it, jumped up and down, and declared it the best wine ever. You have to be a connoisseur of fine wine to appreciate fine wine. Normal people don't give a shit. They will drink crude oil and give a thumbs up. The same holds true of art, music, videogames (haha, I listed them separately from art), the Olympic long jump, or whatever.
People just like to find and use examples of how terrible we are as a species in their conversations with their friends, so they can be outraged and hypocritical because they wouldn't have known it was the best violin music either.
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http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/honpodscast.mp3
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I'd believe Weird Al is an accordion genuis just based off I Love Rocky Road. That solo is amazing and now the actual original song sounds like it's trying to do an accordion piece when I listen to it.
also now I want to steal a bottle of the best wine ever and hand it out on the subway.
Or have a violin master play there while constantly screaming THIS IS ART, YOU PHILISTINES! at everyone passing.
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As a longtime Weird Al fan, it's always a mystery to me when people are surprised that he's considered to be one of the finest accordion players ever to pick up the instrument. The complexity and difficulty of the tracks he plays are serious enough that it has reached that point where it's normally self-evident, even to listeners with no real knowledge of the accordion.
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The same holds true of art, music, videogames (haha, I listed them separately from art), the Olympic long jump, or whatever.
:OoO: But games are not art.
I hate the word diet. Everyone uses it as a way to lose weight. Its what you eat on a day to day, to week, and year basis.
Even the dictionary betrays me!
such a selection or a limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight: No pie for me, I'm on a diet.
And it uses PIE! :enraged:
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A diet is a formal deliberative assembly. The term is derived from Medieval Latin dietas, and ultimately comes from the Latin dies, "day". The word came to be used in this sense because assemblies met on a daily basis which is reflected in the German language use of Tagung (Meeting) and -tag (day, as in Montag—i.e. Monday—or parliament, council or other law-deliberating chamber, as in Bundestag, or Reichstag)
:wat:
1 a : food and drink regularly provided or consumed b : habitual nourishment c : the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason d : a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one's weight <going on a diet>
It is as if words have different meanings and take on new ones over time.
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I was tempted to write an asinine post about linguistic prescriptivist (assholes) here, but I'm still holding on to the hope that wiseman is a staunch defender of pie.
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He's complaining about usage of a word because it does not fit the literal definition, then quotes the literal definition of the word that fits that usage.
Righto then.
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It doesn't make sense to me either, but dammit, pie needs defenders from all of those hungry, dieting fatties.
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Think he's complaining about how a colloquial misuse has been canonized by the dictionary people.
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Think he's complaining about how a colloquial misuse has been canonized by the dictionary people.
This.
Might also have to do with the shamelessness people have with "I've lost 10 pounds on this diet, now I can eat my pie all I want again" then become astonished when they gain 20 pounds. Thinking of it just makes me think of hopeless bullshit people can trick themselves with.
It is as if words have different meanings and take on new ones over time.
Apocalypse.
It doesn't make sense to me either, but dammit, pie needs defenders from all of those hungry, dieting fatties.
Pie is the best kind of treat.
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Think he's complaining about how a colloquial misuse has been canonized by the dictionary people.
The objective of dictionaries has changed over the past few decades. Dictionaries no longer try to establish an iron-clad canon of definitions, but are instead dedicated to cataloging and capturing the changes to English (it's been more-or-less proven that trying to stop the evolution of language is impossible), see the rate at which slang is now added to dictionaries.
I'm pretty sure I've babbled about this stuff before.
When "colloquial misuse" has a meaning generally agreed upon by speakers, then that becomes a valid definition. There are all sorts of ways that words are added and modified in language, but I can't be bothered to google that stuff for you now.
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I actually did not know that change about dictionaries. Gonna verify it best I can, but thank you if it is true.
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:nyoro~n: At the risk of sounding like a complete asshole. It's a general trend, and yes, I am parroting a linguistics professor.
Dictionaries by their nature establish some kind of a canon, but the professor suggested that dictionaries (lately) have been much more open to adding slang and newer definitions alongside more traditional ones. Also, "bulkier" references (like OED online) will sometimes have a great deal of information about the changes in the meaning of the word, or colloquialisms of different geographic regions.
Dictionaries still try to make it so that obscure words do not lose their meaning entirely, but there is less dedication to recording higher privilege dialects in favor of a more inclusive approach.
:tldr: I LIEK HEERING MAISELF TAIP
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For verily, there be myriad reasons for why we hence not speaketh like Chaucer.
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Well, some (http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/) people (http://www.vmi.edu/fswebs.aspx?tid=34099&id=34249) don't.
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:nosir: Nay.
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Maybe I just take things too seriously.
Around 3PM today, you tweeted this: "When do you CONGRATULATE someone for their MISTAKE. On their MARRIAGE."
You did this publicly, on one of the most well-known public microblogging networks right now. You didn't @reply to anyone, which would've hidden it from users who don't follow you & the recipient, and you didn't tweet it privately, which honestly is a pain the way Twitter is set up right now.
By itself, totally free from any context, I took what you said to mean that someone semi-close to you has recently gotten married, and that you think it was a mistake for them to do so. You could just be against marriage as a concept, or maybe you think he/she was too young. I'd bet it's because of a far more common reason, though: you think they married the wrong person.
Going with that interpretation, that means you're in kind of a hard spot. Do you tell them that you think what they did was wrong? What if they're very happy they got married? Is it worth ruining that for them? How do you even start that conversation? All tough questions with very few satisfying answers.
Since I don't know you & never heard of you before I clicked "show tweets from a 50mi. radius" in my client, I didn't want to immediately be overbearingly emotional. For purely selfish reasons, I didn't want to spew advice either, trying to solve the problem; I had zero information besides your one context-free tweet, and I didn't want to come off looking like a douche. I did want to let you know somehow that this super-public problem you'd just aired was seen by someone, though, so I adopted a sort of light tone with my response:
savedr: @SwollenThumb Hah, wow. Just keep asiding to them that your couch is always open..?
I figured, that's about all you can do, is just be there for them. It's really not your place to jump in and ruin the marriage, especially since you can't be certain that what you feel emotionally is an accurate conclusion, that they made a mistake in getting married. But their mistake doesn't mean you don't care about them; the last thing you'd want to do to a friend who, as far as you can feel, is likely to need your help with a bad situation in the future, is alienate them.
So I suggested with an honestly caring (though light-hearted) voice that you do the right thing, and be as subtle as you can so as not to ruin things; be there for your friend, be a constant help, remind them that when they need you, you're there.
Maybe you're going through something rough, I don't know. Maybe this tweet of yours wasn't meant to sound like it did, a public exclaimation of frustration at being put in an untenable situation; maybe it was meant to be a heartfelt, very emo expression of pain, laid bare to the world in a plea for honestly needed help or sympathy. I did consider that second possibility when I saw your reply back to me:
RT @savedR: WTF are you talking about?
"Huh," I immediately thought. "What, did he forget? What did I do, did I not come off the way I intended? Why the tone? For what reason could someone be trying to make me feel bad so randomly?" A bit miffed, I retweeted what you had JUST tweeted an hour earlier. Sure, it was maybe a bit snide, but hey, you were a bit of a dick to me first, and I don't respond well to opening salvos when I haven't done anything wrong."
RT @SwollenThumb: When do you CONGRATULATE someone for their MISTAKE. On their MARRIAGE.
You weren't done, though, bless your heart! You had meant to come off like an oversensitive douche; you had meant that reply to be delivered in a haughty, pissed-off-male-gorilla voice, like I had attacked you on a public forum (which you started, btw), and by golly, you ain't no punk bitch, you weren't going to just take that sort of abuse.
RT @savedR: What does that have to do with my couch? Is that some kind of insult?
Upon reading that reply, I was still a little confused, but I had absolutely stopped caring. "Is that some kind of insult?" I had to laugh. I don't know, is there any universe where what I said, where the words I strung together in combination with the public snipe you'd delivered, could possibly be construed as an insult? Had I missed something? I checked my tweets, which was super easy to do between Twitter.com and Echofon Pro, both very accomodating clients with accurate histories. No, I hadn't! What the hell were you talking about, then?
You tweeted something as publicly as you could, something that maybe I (and most people) might've had the discretion to not make so public. Then, when I reacted to you with a good-natured reply, you bowed up, put some bass in your voice and decided you'd put me in my place for my trouble! What kind of person does that, what kind of person thinks that way?
Oh, wait, I know: the kind of person who decides to be a douche at random for no good reason.
You wanted this public, as evidenced by your first tweet; well, now it's going to be even more public, because I'm posting this as a blog entry, then retweeting it, then Digging it, then Facebooking it, then posting a link on Myspace, and doing whatever else I can think of. Because when I go out of my way to discover other people online, and I get slapped in the face for making an effort to care, I don't respond to that very well; I don't know many who do. Unlike most people you've done this to in the past, though, I'm not just going to take it like a good victim and forget your idiot slight. You see, I ain't no punk bitch.
Thanks for sharing! Go be a douche to someone else!
-savedR
Sadly, nobody reads my blog, and D/FB/MS/RTing it isn't going to change that. But hey, I feel better!
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I've been thinking about entering an art contest, and in contest hunting, I remembered why I utterly detest most fine art exhibitions. The picture that wins 1st place is invariable: an oil painting of an old man looking sad, and wistful. Second place will be of a painting of wild horses stampeding across a stream, sometimes there's an eagle. Third place usually involves Indians.
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I've been thinking about entering an art contest, and in contest hunting, I remembered why I utterly detest most fine art exhibitions. The picture that wins 1st place is invariable: an oil painting of an old man looking sad, and wistful. Second place will be of a painting of wild horses stampeding across a stream, sometimes there's an eagle. Third place usually involves Indians.
Go to different galleries, DN. Also, look for juried exhibitions. You have a chance at getting your stuff in and you don't need to worry about "winning."
Alternatively, paint a picture of an old man getting trampled to death by horses with a sad indian watching.
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Collecting album art. Need Weezer's blue album because iTunes isn't very smart. Searched "weezer blue" with Google Images.
A thousand fucking copies of the same artifact-infected album art at differing resolutions. Fanfail.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2803/4157376898_84461b5925.jpg)
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wikipedia
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Weezer_-_Blue_Album.jpg)
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This is the second time I've had a prospective employer schedule an interview, immediately cancel it, and refuse to answer my calls back. And I thought I couldn't find anything more irritating than the typical silence.
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i am sorry but we have filled the position
with peanut butter :want:
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I didn't want to see The Hangover when it was in theaters, and I definitely don't want to see the extended, unrated version that is shoved down my throat before every humorous video clip I want to watch.
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It seemed not so long ago that everyone on the Internet was trying to sell you a mousepad, but not that I try to find one branded with something I like I can't find any.
I guess nobody bought 'em back then either.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzHc0tRNoQ
Sorry if that was already posted. I'm not about to read 26 pages of your fucking whining to find out.
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Sifl & Olly... Jesus Christ, that's old-hat.
...Or old-sock I guess? I don't know.
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I was pissed last night that I came home wanting to get absolutely stinking blotto drunk (this is pretty goddamned rare) and ran out of booze before I even got buzzed.
Why did my tolerance have to double on the one night I didn't really need it? I mean, I was unaware that rage boosted your alcohol tolerance.
I thought it boosted your crit meter instead. Dohohoho
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Were you drinking it fast enough? Maybe you had a lot of adrenaline and it canceled out the alcohol. That is probably unrealistic.
I was out at Walmart buying food in Christmas crowds so I felt like my head was going to explode. I had a couple of beers when I got home but it was not helpful either.
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Actually, I drank a lot faster than I usually do. :shrug:
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(http://i46.tinypic.com/2ep09au.jpg)
:kowhyee:
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Sifl & Olly... Jesus Christ, that's fucking awesome.
...Or really fucking awesome I guess? I don't know.
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(http://i46.tinypic.com/2ep09au.jpg)
:barf:
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(http://i46.tinypic.com/2ep09au.jpg)
:kowhyee:
I'll have a coke, since we apparently aren't having beer.
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Every time I took a shot of tequila my friend drank a Bud Light
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You know what's fucking stupid? Arguments about semantics or language usage or whatever the shit in a discussion that's not primarily about that shit. Especially if it somehow involves Japanese, oh god
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Fuck you man, that is exactly the kind of stupidity I like to take a minute out to indulge in every so often.
Also, although I assume the story isn't that interesting, I kind of want to know anyway.
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I fucking hate when people seem enthusiastic about hanging out or doing stuff with me but then never call or come over or anything, and are always busy when I try to make plans.
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Oh cool, an amazing wallpaper to use as my new desktop background.
Oh cool, the artist added a giant water mark and his name is retarded.
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Yeah, I love/hate those idiots with fantastic artwirk who ruin it with a giant watermark.
YOU'LL NEVER STEAL MY ARTWORK NOW, INTERNET THIEVES!
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1. Get sick.
2. Insist on buying a dinner that involves sharing a dipping sauce.
3. Insist on not cooking the dinner because you're sick.
4. Insist on eating before all food is served.
5. When dipping sauce is put down, jam the fork you've been eating with into the sauce "so you can see what it is."
6. ???
7. Roommates get sick.
8. lol
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Waking up in the middle of the night feeling like I have to vomit. Not vomiting, and staying up the rest of the night with that feeling.
::(:
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You know, while I understand that some folks have been burned before for doing things 'without proper authorization' or 'getting it in writing', I really have to say that people who can't think for themselves AT ALL, really fucking drive me nuts.
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I am told that there is a Britishism to describe such a person: "Jobsworth." As in, "It's more than my job's worth."
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Try being the guy who's been boxed into that situation.
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There's always a way to get shit done properly AND within the rules. However, that usually requires people to MAN UP and talk back to their boss without coming across as a back-talkin' peiceashit. Since this requires courage, intelligence, AND good communications skills... well...
Or you could just be like me and live an EXCITING LIFE OF DANGER AS A DOUBLE AGENT.
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It also requires being able to talk to your boss in the first place.
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Nutrition films that include closeups of people's mouths as they eat.
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One of my college instructors uses Comic Sans for her handouts.
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Nutrition films that include closeups of people's mouths as they eat.
There was a period in elementary school during which watching other kids eat at lunchtime made me feel like I was going to puke. I got over it, but I still get a tiny little bit of that feeling every once in a while.
Man I am downright bizarre.
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nah. i like to eat in solitude and i dislike being around people who are eating cause it is gross and they make awful noises.
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CAT NOISE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA-rIhvpNGQ
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I am told that there is a Britishism to describe such a person: "Jobsworth." As in, "It's more than my job's worth."
That phrase is one of my personal PET PEEVES FUCK
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"PIN NUMBER"
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Shouldn't it be PI Number? The N is just redundant.
mmmm, pi...
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That's what he's getting at, Buge.
(Yeah, what the hell happened here? Am I from some crazy-ass alternate dimension where Sypha posted there instead of Buge? The world may never know.)
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Who?
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ATM Machine.
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(Yeah, what the hell happened here? Am I from some crazy-ass alternate dimension where Sypha posted there instead of Buge? The world may never know.)
(http://www.popcultureshock.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mkdc2.jpg)
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Um... Just sayin' that I saw Sypha post that too...
I think...
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Do you... do you people not know who Sypha was?
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No.
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:mystery:
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How the hell should I know? I haven't been here that long. :humpf:
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Sypha was... a woman all along!
:pop:
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So my upstairs neighbor decided Thursday night was the perfect time to have a party, and I had to listen to shitty stoner music being played loudly through a crappy stereo for most of the night.
I responded by playing Hardware Store as loudly as I could get away with at 4 o clock this morning.
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so who is Walker
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I'm a friend of Alex, Lyrai, and Defenestration, which is how I heard about WFE in the first place.
I responded by playing Hardware Store as loudly as I could get away with at 4 o clock this morning.
:perfect:
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"PIN NUMBER"
PINN
Also places that don't accept cards of any kind. THIS IS THE FUTURE, PEOPLE.
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So my upstairs neighbor decided Thursday night was the perfect time to have a party, and I had to listen to shitty stoner music being played loudly through a crappy stereo for most of the night.
I responded by playing Hardware Store as loudly as I could get away with at 4 o clock this morning.
Why didn't you just request the pot they most certainly had in exchange for not calling the cops?
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Because a. I don't smoke pot and b. it was loud enough to keep me awake, but not loud enough for a noise complaint. Thin walls.
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so who is Walker
I'm a friend of Alex, Lyrai, and Defenestration, which is how I heard about WFE in the first place.
:trebek: Ooo, I'm sorry. The answer we were looking for was "Texas Ranger". Texas... Ranger. Tough break.
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Suck it, Trebek. Suck it long, and suck it hard. :fuckyou:
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:rogue:
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Courtesy of Yesterday:
Expecting to use the free day mad productively and waking up with a headache.
I start to feel a bit better and do some stuff anyway, eat lunch.. bam, sick as a dog.
I feel healthy around 10 PM.
fffffffffff
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I'm a friend of Alex, Lyrai, and Defenestration, which is how I heard about WFE in the first place.
what an all-star cast
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Yes, isn't it?
:rogue:
Damn it, why didn't I think of that?! :MENDOZAAAAA:
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Hell yeah, let's be "spent the-one-day-a-week-you-can-do-stuff in bed" buddies.
PRE-EMPTIVE
Hell yeah, let's be "...do-stuff in bed" buddies.
:suave:
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first thing dad did at the start of my birthday dinner was talk about that Tim Tebow anti-abortion ad. much to the annoyance of my mother he kept saying "quote, pro choice, en quote" and "these pro abortion people." they got into a fight and i finally had to shout at them to fucking shut up, which is something i seriously never do.
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I never knew you had the patience of a saint.
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From the sounds of it, I'm just glad you didn't hit him.
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I love when people take your stuff without asking, particularly when it's a personal item, like a tooth brush, razor, or face mask.
I came to work today, and it's below freezing, and one of the douches working on the shift was wearing my fucking face covery mask whatever. Like, what the god damn fuck, I can't wear his dirty germy face cover. I don't want his skank germs. So I got to be cold all night.
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you know what else was funny
he offered it to me too
he was like "you can use it if you want to"
he's such a sweetie
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I seriously want to punch him in the face.
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Good luck, it's armored.
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Pick up an old game I have fond memories of to "finally beat it."
In this case, the first Maximo for PS2.
Immediately become aware of a glaring design flaw that ruins the entire experience.
The clarity and experience of getting older gets a bit old sometimes. And I loved this game about six months ago...
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Do you remember why you took a break from it six months ago?
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Because I was tired and botched quitting a level vs saving my progress(it threw me back about two worlds.) This was one giant design flaw that I thought I could live with.
So I go back to it last night and realize that the only time I take damage fighting monsters is because of them poking me either between my animations(like, I have to jump up to a guy on a platform and he'll without fail hit me before I can hope to react or block) or utter horse-shit. I was getting hit by guys that I'd hit at maximum range and were in their death animations, I've been hit by things I was striking from behind, etc. I finally quit when one of the Pirate Skeletons in the 3rd world broke my shield from full in a single attack and killed me through a successful block.
This was after I'd begun just sprinting through levels and ignoring enemies because it was more likely I'd lose health by cheap-o dings then it'd be worth getting their treasure. Which was 100% correct for all of Worlds 1 and 2! But you have to kill x amount of goons next to the End of Level Thing, so I died fighting cheap-o pirates.
I'm a fan of the Devil May Cry school of thought.. don't make your monsters cheap, make them interesting and if you want them to be fought, make a lot of them or call them a boss and give them a real HP bar.
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I think I realized tonight that the absolute only way to get me instantly pissed off at you every time is to require me to leave my house at a moment's notice. I need at least a day's notice if I need to be going anywhere, unless it's like out to go have lunch or something. And even then, give me time to get my affairs in order. There is basically nothing I hate more than thinking I have a stretch of time to hang out and just do whatever I feel like doing in my spare time and then having it cut short.
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I understand now why you left in such a huff last night. At first I thought you were RAGE quitting, which was odd as you never rage quit.
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I think I realized tonight that the absolute only way to get me instantly pissed off at you every time is to require me to leave my house at a moment's notice. I need at least a day's notice if I need to be going anywhere, unless it's like out to go have lunch or something. And even then, give me time to get my affairs in order. There is basically nothing I hate more than thinking I have a stretch of time to hang out and just do whatever I feel like doing in my spare time and then having it cut short.
I'm usually okay with this if there's a good reason, but then again, I fucking hate when I have to get up to answer the phone more than a couple times a day.
I've also noticed that one of my pet peeves is people who are comfortable with enjoying a niche with no interest in branching out. Unfortunately, being on IRC around other nerds who play videogames, I see it often. Something about a dude going saying he's too much of a sad chump not interested branching out and finding more stuff to play beyond his safe zone is annoying for reasons I can't describe.
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People who specifically wait until they know you're driving home to call you. Like they actually think calling you at work is rude, but calling you when it's illegal to pick up is fair beans.
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My Art Appreciation teacher.
See, I am taking the class just to fill up some time and give me easy credits.
So though the work will be easy, the frustration will be hard to deal with.
AND SHE DOESN'T MAKE IT EASIER FOR ME.
Today alone she said some things that are just plain wrong. Some of them are misspeaks but a lot of them are her just being... stupid.
These are my favorite things from today
"DaVinci was the greatest artist in ancient Greece." She repeated it, word for word 4 times. FOUR. I counted.
"The ancient Egyptians were great artists and could mass produce their works in short time, but didn't have a formal counting system."
She even called a guy "The greatest American artist of his time" even though he lived in Europe and never visited America.
And she kept saying the Golden Ratio was pi. Just pi.
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... so call her out on it. Why let that shit stand? I've had teachers say things that are just factually wrong - like one dumbass who repeatedly insisted that the Middle East was part of Africa - and leaving it unanswered is a disservice to your fellow students and only serves to bolster an obviously undeserved sense of superiority.
Or possibly she's saying things so phenomenally wrong specifically waiting to see who will call her out on it.
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Yeah I wouldn't put it over an art teacher to put students to the "test" like that.
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Butbutbutbut...
I like seeing how long I can go without talking in a class!
Four more weeks and I meet my goal!
And... I'm not sure I can correct her without having that "I fucking hate you for breathing things wrong" voice.
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It's got to be intentional. You can't know what the Golden Ratio is without knowing at the very least that it's not the same as Pi. And she wouldn't be specifically repeating that Leonardo was Greek so many times unless she was expecting someone to say "He fucking was not."
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What if she's really that stupid and becomes resentful of him? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor)
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Then it's probably better to figure that out now.
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A quick check on Wikipedia shows that the Golden Ratio is represented by the Greek letter phi, which is probably where the confusion on that point comes from.
Leonardo as a Greek, though, I dunno...
:nyoro~n:
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I know about phi.
She said "Pi," and I figured I misheard.
Then she wrote down the symbol.
So it's either intentional or she's just that nuts.
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No matter what the circumstances, you will be a better human being living in a better world if you call her out.
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Whether it's intentional or not, you are totally getting Milgramed.
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My Freshman year, I had a programming teacher who kept mixing up #FFFFFF and #000000.
That's right: she literally didn't know black from white.
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Your point is made slightly more amusing by the fact that you just switched up the order there yourself.
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A quick check on Wikipedia shows that the Golden Ratio is represented by the Greek letter phi, which is probably where the confusion on that point comes from.
Yea, but phi and pi don't sound alike. At least they don't around here. Maybe the art teacher has a more classical pronunciation of phi.
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I am not suggesting the art teacher got messed up because she heard the word used.
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The Canada Post mail carriers.
Every time I get something that isn't in an envelope I get one of these door hanger notices with "No Answer" checked on it. Even when I'm home.
I picture the mail carrier sneaking up to the door, gently tapping on it twice, quietly counting to three and then making a run for it.
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Oh, I've had the US Postal Service do that to me countless times too, Buge. Fucking pricks.
Half the time, if they don't have to deliver anything, they won't actually check the mailbox when the flag's up either. Motherfucking pricks.
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USPS has just left "no answer" notices inside my mailbox. Once I watched them NOT get out of the truck to try and deliver the package.
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The Canada Post mail carriers.
Every time I get something that isn't in an envelope I get one of these door hanger notices with "No Answer" checked on it. Even when I'm home.
I picture the mail carrier sneaking up to the door, gently tapping on it twice, quietly counting to three and then making a run for it.
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/UPSPAge1.jpg)
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/UPSpage13.jpg)
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That's about fuckin' right, TED. 9_9 *siiiiiiiiigh*
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A scythe is not an axe. It is not a pick. It is an awkward-ass thing to kill a sucker with, and is in fact barely equal to the task of cutting plants.
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I'd at least like to see the middle handle used.
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IT IS SCARY BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS HUMAN HELPLESSNESS AGAINST DEATH
Also I am personally pissed off with scythes because I played DQ8 recently and forgot that it's not final fantasy, so I specced the thiefy dude for scythes so he could steal shit. Such a bad move.
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The Canada Post mail carriers.
Every time I get something that isn't in an envelope I get one of these door hanger notices with "No Answer" checked on it. Even when I'm home.
I picture the mail carrier sneaking up to the door, gently tapping on it twice, quietly counting to three and then making a run for it.
We have this problem with Royal Mail in the UK. The reason it happens here is because the postmen need specific training to deliver packages. If your house is being served by someone who isn't yet qualified to carry packages, you'll just get a slip telling you they tried to deliver and you were out. The package they "tried to deliver" was never actually in their possession.
Why they need training to carry a damn box is anyone's guess, although I can imagine that if I started a job and was expected to lug 100kgs of packages around a few blocks I'd probably want special equipment or at least to be told how to do it without ending up in a wheelchair after six months.
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Why they need training to carry a damn box is anyone's guess
There's what you said, and--well, I don't know if you have any experience with the USPS, but they aren't exactly gentle when it comes to delivering packages. In fact, it seems like putting a "fragile" sticker on one is more like an invitation to throw it around as if it were a fucking beach ball.
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I've been waiting on a package for about five weeks now and I'm hesitant to blame the merchant because it's entirely possible that our mailman's degenerate subhuman instincts compelled him to bury it in the snow. I guess we'll find out in the spring.
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Speaking of, does Niku still owe Buge a package or what?
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current pet peeve: puppies rolling around in diarrhea
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Valentines day.
Also people who post in threads to mention their awesome girlfriend/wife.
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I'm alone today.
It's actually kind of a relief.
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Speaking of, does Niku still owe Buge a package or what?
I sure hope so!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRw1fc4dcq0
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Browse the internet for Persona 3 art.
Can get art of any PC or NPC and several porn and OTP variants there-of, including the new Persona 3 PSP female main character.
Nobody has ever drawn art of the monsters, persona or bosses, Ever.
Check Deviantart.
Chubby Mitsuru being chased by Chubby Shadow in Tartarus.
(http://doom.pyoko.org/WhatsTheDeal.jpg)
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I can get you plenty of pictures of Mara if you want, they're still porn though.
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I wanted pictures of the Full Moon Bosses, mostly. I got some OK scans from the Persona 3 Manga from a half-assed wiki.
Still a general gripe about the internet.
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Rice in my shoes? Rice in my shoes with heels? This is the worst thing how did rice even get in there
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it keeps moisture out of your shoes
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Were you at a wedding?
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My Art Appreciation teacher.
Again.
Today's quote is "Leonardo DaVinci was a greatest scientist as a well as a greatest artist. The Renaissance was a time of rebelling against religion by discovering science. DaVinci himself studied anatomy and cells while his peers discovered atoms."
WORD FOR WORD. I wrote it down.
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Oh and I talked to her after class asking is she is purposely saying things wrong to see if the class is paying attention or something and she reminded me QUITE POINTEDLY that only one of us has had any REAL art education and only one of us has a degree.
I am begininning to suspect that those aren't the same person if you know what I am saying.
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You didn't stand up and call her out? Even though you knew that every word she'd said was a pantload? I mean, I'm all for class decorum and respect for the instructor, but when the person teaching you is feeding you disinformation, willfully or not, I think it's your duty as a student to stand up and
question them do your best Phoenix Wright impression.
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More fun: Take more notes, then ask a Proctor, Dean, or whoever to sit in on a class or two.
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More fun: Take more notes, then ask a Proctor, Dean, or whoever to sit in on a class or two.
That's the plan. Take enough notes then get her canned.
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Also you should get a good idea of how likely you are to get burned on that. I.e. if she only dies it really obviously once every 3 or 4 classes, then there's a good chance you'll get boned.
"But the car was making the noise yesterday! I swear it was!"
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I know, I know.
Which is why I am taking notes!
This way I have some form of documentation.
But since she says several things a class, I don't think it'd be too hard.
And she's not really trying to endear herself to me.
She actually said today that the artists brain is physically different and actually sees things differently than other people. She then goes on to say (eventually) that you can train yourself to be like this, reshaping your brain. She must be stopped.
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tape recorder
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I had a few profs that would do the same thing intentionally and toss out extra credit/passing lab grades to whoever called them on it.
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She then goes on to say (eventually) that you can train yourself to be like this, reshaping your brain. She must be stopped.
Oh man, that's AWES0ME
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She then goes on to say (eventually) that you can train yourself to be like this, reshaping your brain. She must be stopped.
Oh man, that's AWES0ME
ALL THIS AND MORE CAN BE YOURS FOR THE PRICE OF 3 EASY PAYMENTS OF $120! :america:
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I want to see a James Bond villain whose henchmen have all studied with monks to become art brained supermen.
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(http://thinkersandjokers.com/images/t6.jpg)
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Buge you are really just an unstoppable juggernaut
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So I just learned my pills may have been confiscated by customs en route to me.
::(:
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are you using inhousepharmacy.com? They will send you more free in that scenario
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Yes, but I don't think they will. You see, they don't actually ship to Canada. My friend receives them and ships them to me, so...
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Charles Darwin was in not the first atheist!
:rage:
HE WASN'T AN ATHEIST AND FURTHERMORE I AM PREEEEETTY SURE SOMEONE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN A GOD LONG BEFORE DARWIN WAS BORN ANYWAY
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cain was the first atheist because seriously you don't kill your brother if you buy for even an instant that god personally handmade your dad
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Would I be a good messiah with my low self-esteem?
If I don't believe in myself, would that be blasphemy?
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Pretty sure Cain told God to fuck off. At least, that's how I remember it.
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Not exactly, but they did have a chat. Dang I'm way overdue for going through Genesis again.
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Damn, am I ever sick of the gnilley filter.
OKAY OKAY WE GET IT.
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Mongrel's signature because I can't selectively block it while I'm at work and people can read it from across the room
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I'll change it. It's stale anyway.
EDIT: That'll do until I can find something better.
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I fucking hate it when people say "End of discussion" or "/discussion."
They throw it out like they are taking the high road by not arguing further but they are just saying "Fuck you. I don't want to want to spend the effort trying to think of rational and logical reasons to back up my statements."
All it does is make me angry and get me to FORCE them to argue with me.
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I fucking hate it when people say "End of discussion" or "/discussion."
They throw it out like they are taking the high road by not arguing further but they are just saying "Fuck you. I don't want to want to spend the effort trying to think of rational and logical reasons to back up my statements."
All it does is make me angry and get me to FORCE them to argue with me.
I'm not saying all of this because I am narcissistic or anything. She actually based a character off of her perceived image of me and he is a terrible person. So smug and conceited and people love him and he just hates them! I find this whole thing really disturbing.
:mystery:
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I am not entirely sure what you are trying to say.
Is it that you think that me wanting to finish a argument without the other person saying "End of discussion" egotistical?
It's not that I want to convince them I am right. It's more of I want to lay out my thoughts on the matter and I want to hear their thoughts. I love hearing good arguments to things I think about. It gives me another perspective and even changes my mind. My insights may be equally helpful, maybe.
Am I entirely off what you were implying?
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STOP MAKING POSTS LOOK LIKE THAT
JESUS TITTYFUCKING CHRIST
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I am not entirely sure what you are trying to say.
Is it that you think that me wanting to finish a argument without the other person saying "End of discussion" egotistical?
It's not that I want to convince them I am right. It's more of I want to lay out my thoughts on the matter and I want to hear their thoughts. I love hearing good arguments to things I think about. It gives me another perspective and even changes my mind. My insights may be equally helpful, maybe.
Am I entirely off what you were implying?
Sometimes discussions need to end for a while so that everyone can collect their thoughts and think about what they've just heard and said.
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PS
/discussion, you daft motherfucker.
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:pfff: :getbent:
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No, no, people who cut off discussion like that are smug, cowardly jackasses who want to rub it in your face.
If you want a debate to end you either:
1.) Concede that you're wrong.
2.) STOP POSTING; THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF DIFFICULT.
If the person is not reasonable after so many posts, any further posting is just to convince the audience and/or humiliating the opponent.
Other phrases:
"I have better things to do."
"Some of us have _______."
"Clearly we have no room for further debate.*"
Why are you telling me this with a post? Why? This isn't an "oh I was busy" situation as much as making sure everyone knows the other guy is wrong (for some reason) and then rage quitting the thread.
Not posting is less terrible as it isn't an "I'm right so there nyaa" post
*This happens after 3 posts when there has not been a single wall of quotes. Unless the participants are debating chessmasters who know the outcome after 3 moves, this is dumb. This happening a ways in is acceptable I guess.
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All this probably goes under my general dislike of the clever passive aggressive behavior that develops in "clean" forums.
Where this happens all the time.
Oh right, replace posts with minutes and everything still applies. Use context clues.
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All this probably goes under my general dislike of the clever passive aggressive behavior that develops in "clean" forums.
Where this happens all the time.
That's a pet peeve right there, yeah.
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Thank you. I couldn't think of a better way to say it.
All this probably goes under my general dislike of the clever passive aggressive behavior
That sums up a lot of my peeves.
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I'm sorry guys, what exactly is "clever passive-aggressive" behavior?
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Okay, I like a challenge. Um... when somebody who you're pissed off at talks to you, you talk using only quotes from Frasier.
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To wit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS41-JeZ3EE
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I have some of those pictures of atoms.
And let me tellya, are they ever fucking cool.
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2.) STOP POSTING; THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF DIFFICULT.
You are a fucking moron.
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:nyoro~n: Ohhh... Act like Niku? :whoops:
Incidentally, Niku, I really go out of my way trying not to shit on your retard parade. So when you absolutely must shit on my parade, please only do so once rather than at every available opportunity. Thanks.
Did I do it?
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Nope.
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2.) STOP POSTING; THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF DIFFICULT.
You are a fucking moron.
End of discussion.
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People who accuse me of leaving the toilet seat up.
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2.) STOP POSTING; THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF DIFFICULT.
You are a fucking moron.
I meant to stop posting in that thread. If that was your problem with that statement.
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2.) STOP POSTING; THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF DIFFICULT.
You are a fucking moron.
I meant to stop posting in that thread. If that was your problem with that statement.
My point was that it IS hard to stop posting in an argument. I could have tried to drag this out in order to prove my point, but I'm too lazy.
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Your point is made slightly more amusing by the fact that you just switched up the order there yourself.
Yeah, I know, but it sounded better the way I phrased it than if I'd awkwardly matched the two sentences. And I never said "respectively".
Not exactly, but they did have a chat. Dang I'm way overdue for going through Genesis again.
Robert Crumb's version is excellent and highly recommended. At some point I should probably gush about it in the Comics for People Who Don't Read Comics thread. Seriously, it was my favorite comic of 2009.
...followed by Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
You should read that too.
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Fucking Kongregate and their fucking elitist forum assholes that pick out a great company's long-established happen-to-be-Flash clients to beat up on because they're awesome.
I WILL FUCK YOU WITH A POST
EDIT: Jesus Christ, you're the community on a portal full of shitty Flash games. Even shitty Flash game designers have the decency to admit that Flash games as a whole are fucking bullshit. BUT NOT YOU, ELITIST FUCKING RETARDS!
"I just think they're cheating, there's no way that many real people can think their twelve-year-old fully developed, actively maintained online worlds are that cool."
Don't you have 10,000 exact fucking copies of Asteroids you could be earning Achievements on? "Achievement unlocked: Palette-Swapped Hero!"
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As someone who frequently operates a cash register, I'm begging you: don't put something in your mouth before you hand it to me.
And don't lick your fingers and then touch something you're about to give me either. Man, I hate that!
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You have tots for customers?
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It could be that thing where they lick their finger when they count out their paper money.
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People actually do that? Holy fuck!
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As someone who frequently operates a cash register, I'm begging you: don't put something in your mouth before you hand it to me.
And don't lick your fingers and then touch something you're about to give me either. Man, I hate that!
Holy crap I hate that. And I hate wet money. Or money covered in food or god knows what other stuff.
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Going back to me bitching about my Art teacher:
I have mentioned it a little BUT GOD DAMMIT THE WAY SHE TALKS PISSES ME OFF.
"Archeologicals have thought that the mounds..."
"Historiers claim that the sculptures..."
Every now and then if you get things wrong that's fine. BUT THIS IS HOW SHE TALKS ALL THE TIME. She always uses words wrong or in an odd fashion.
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www.okyorkierescue.org
What the hell is that stupid sound clip that plays when you visit ANY page? Apparently by pointing out how intrusive and frankly just dumb this is, I am not helping the rescue and I'm just rude and don't know anything about what makes a good webpage. If I was going to adopt a dog I wouldn't from our rescue because it's just TOO DUMB to visit any of the pages.
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Sounds like a fast dog pant? :wat:
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AND IT'S STUPID
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People ask "Why does that happen?" or "Why does it work that way?"
You explain.
They then disregard your entire explaination and ask "Yeah but why?"
:rage:
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So I occasionally listen to Coast to Coast AM, because it's so ridiculous that it becomes funny. The only radio station that broadcasts it from within the province was 940 Montreal, but it got shut down some weeks ago. (That station used to be English-language talk radio, then it became almost exclusively music, then it died.)
Now the only station that carries the program and that I can receive with a semblance of quality is some crazy right wing Fox News Radio-type bullshit and I've been waking up with Glenn Beck far too often than I would like. By which I mean it is a non-zero quantity. It's at least equally ridiculous but much less funny. Much, much less.
I should probably listen in through the internet, but my current setup makes that really impractical. Hmm. Maybe I should just do away with C2C altogether. It's not like it enriches my life or anything.
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whenever someone types out a word, ending in a silent 'e', to make it long and just retypes the 'e' a bunch of times.
Examples:
Niceeeee
omfg dinotopia signaturrreeee
...that occurred to me as the chief problem with the game: “lots of stuff” masquerading as “sophistication”.
Yeahh, this doesn't sound too great.
Oh well next timeeee :shrug:
...that occurred to me as the chief problem with the game: “lots of stuff” masquerading as “sophistication”.
Yeahh, this doesn't sound too great.
Oh well next timeeee :shrug:
HOW DARE YOU?!
HOW FUCKING DDRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFYOU COME IN HERE WAVING YOUR DICK IN OUR FACES LIKE WE'RE THE MOLD YOU SCRAPED OFF OF YOUR FUCKING "HIP" AND "ROCKAFILTER" AND "GAY" FAG-ASS PUMP NEONS AND EXPECT US TO JUST POOUUURRR ONNNN THE LOVEEEEE
GET FUCKED
GOD THE PAIR ON YOU
SOMEONE HOLD ME BACK
THE E IS SILENT AND THEREFORE THE LEAST STRETCHABLE LETTER IN THE WORD AND YOU KEEP MAKING IT LOOK LIKE YOU ARE SQUEALING AT THE END STOP DOING THIS YOU BOOGERS AND ESPECIALLY YOU KABBAGE I'VE GOT MY EYES ON YOU MISTER
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I always thought that those got stretched out because of the overloading of many characters. Even though the "c" in "nice" doesn't translate to a stopping sound, because "c"s can translate into stopping sounds (e.g. in "cat") it's unintuitive to extend the "c"...
Then again, I'm probably talking out of my ass, because I'm certain I've seen people write "cccccccccccat" before.
Alternatively, they could be shootin' for some middle english. Shoppeeeeeeeeeeee.
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Who actually drags out the sibilant, though? It's always niiiiiiiice.
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I've heard "niccccce" spoken and I must agree that it looks better as "niceeeee." There's no excuse for "signaturrreeee" or "timeeee," though, as there should usually be a space before the "e"s to indicate a squeal.
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There's no excuse for "signaturrreeee"
It could also be that we don't want to confuse readers.
timmmmmmmme
timeeeeeeeeee
I imagine someone might want to read the first example as "tim" or something. Of course, why you wouldn't just use "tiiiiiiiime" is a mystery.
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Yeah, nobody says "timmmme." It's always "tiiiime."
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totally agree on the not-repeating-the-right-letter shit
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Microsoft Word's grammar check insists that "[name] and I" is wrong and that "[name] and me" is correct.
:glee: ::(: :facepalm:
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When you're the object of a verb, then it is correct.
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Mongrel and me disagree!
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You and Mongrel disagree with MCE and me?
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You and Mongrel disagree with MCE and I?
:advice:
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Mongrel and me disagree!
::(:
You and Mongrel disagree with MCE and I?
:advice:
:rage:
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:whoops:
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(http://brontoforum.us/Smileys/classic/rage.gif)
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:nyoro~n:
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Please please please do not let Thad see this thread oh God.
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He hasn't had to Grammar Nazi in a long time, has he? Let him have his fun.
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I took care of it you guys, didn't you notice
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...so what's the sentence, Mongrel?
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OH GOD IT'S IPAD DAY!
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OH GOD IT'S IPAD DAY!
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OH GOD IT'S IPAD DAY!
Speaking of which, WHY THE FUCK HAS EVERY GADGET SITE, TECH BLOG, AND EVEN SOME GODDAMN NEWS SITES/PAPERS BECOME JOB'S PERSONAL WHORE?!!?
Sure, the iPhone is popular, but the amount of press the iPad is getting is not at all warranted. Goddamnit media! And fuck you apple for trying to ruin the world of programming and technology in general with your draconian censorship program that is the app store!
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...so what's the sentence, Mongrel?
Neither I nor Brainslugstantine can remember.
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Speaking of which, WHY THE FUCK HAS EVERY GADGET SITE, TECH BLOG, AND EVEN SOME GODDAMN NEWS SITES/PAPERS BECOME JOB'S PERSONAL WHORE?!!?
Sure, the iPhone is popular, but the amount of press the iPad is getting is not at all warranted. Goddamnit media! And fuck you apple for trying to ruin the world of programming and technology in general with your draconian censorship program that is the app store!
The thing is the ultimate fucking Grandma Computer. I think that's a pretty big market.
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It is literally an Apple DS.
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It is literally an ipod XL
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Speaking of which, WHY THE FUCK HAS EVERY GADGET SITE, TECH BLOG, AND EVEN SOME GODDAMN NEWS SITES/PAPERS BECOME JOBS'S PERSONAL WHORE?!!?
Sure, the iPhone is popular, but the amount of press the iPad is getting is not at all warranted.
...I don't see how any gadget site could possibly NOT consider the iPad the biggest story of the past month. Seriously. What else is there? Name another gadget that is as big a story. Hell, make it six months. A year.
As for general tech sites and even mainstream news sites, it's still news even for those less-nichey audiences. It's a new product and it's flying off the shelves. I can turn on the evening news on any given night and point to a dozen different stories that deserve less coverage than the iPad.
Goddamnit media! And fuck you apple for trying to ruin the world of programming and technology in general with your draconian censorship program that is the app store!
(http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215178115_ExTPi-L-2.jpg)
You make a good point. Maybe try toning down the histrionics so someone, somewhere might take you seriously.
Yeah, the MSM has absolutely been derelict in reporting Apple's capricious and arbitrary app guidelines. The tech press, on the other hand, has covered them at length, and is not about to stop.
For something like that to get mainstream press coverage, it has to be something that affects average users in a way the public can understand. "Sony music CD's put malware on your computer" and "Amazon can delete books off your Kindle without your permission" are things that affect ordinary consumers. Apple's app review process, on the other hand, is more of a concern to developers and power users, so it's only going to get covered in outlets that target those audiences.
There's been a lot of Kindle discussion on comic book sites recently, for reasons which I assume are obvious. I broached the topic of Apple's reputation for censorship; a poster made the good point that books are not apps and Apple will be much less likely to censor them. I see a big hue and cry coming if Apple enforces strict content guidelines on books, just as there would be if they refused R-rated movies or songs with explicit lyrics. (I remember the first time I ever browsed the iTunes Music Store, the title "Bitches Brew" was censored. That's changed since.)
(Comics, of course, are generally considered to be inferior to prose books, so League of Extraordinary Gentlemen will come under more scrutiny than Lady Chatterley's Lover. My guess, though, is that it would still get published, though probably with a content advisory stuck on it.)
(This is of course a hypothetical example, as I don't really expect Alan Moore is in a huge hurry to publish his works for the iPad.)
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I remember the first time I ever browsed the iTunes Music Store, the title "Bitches Brew" was censored. That's changed since.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/04/ibooks-censortron-do.html (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/04/ibooks-censortron-do.html)
But they probably won't actually censor the content, so that's all right.
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From the same story (http://www.boingboing.net/assets_c/2010/04/IMG_0006-31347.html). Note how it's censored in the title but not on the thumbnail.
I expect this to be a temporary problem that gets ironed out as they go. (Certainly "sperm" getting flagged, but I expect they'll throw the word filter out entirely.)
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From the NY Times: Unshaven Women: Free Spirits or Unkempt? (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/fashion/15skin.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes)
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are you peeved by shaven or unkempt women
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I'm peeved that apparently the NY Times will let 19 year old fratboys write articles for them but they won't hire me.
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I'm peeved that apparently the NY Times will let 19 year old fratboys write articles for them but they won't hire me.
Did you read the article? Or even look at the name of the author?
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:facepalm:
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:mystery:
Tanning Bed Hygiene
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Soft Treatments in Tough Times
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Awake for Breast Implants? If You Wish
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Taking on Hair Color’s Bad Guy
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Acting Early to Clear Redness
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Broadening Makeup’s Spectrum
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
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Youtube soundtrack uploads that start with a 10 second unrelated clip.
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Go to write a paper.
IMMEDIATELY GET SICK.
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I've been sick for the last week or so. I'm pretty much over it by now, though, except for the mucus.
There is so much green stuff coming out of my head right now you have no idea. When I woke up this morning I sounded like James Earl Jones I had so much gunk in my throat.
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Now I'm picturing a bleary-eyed DN putting on his bathrobe and shuffling into the bathroom, rubbing his eyes, a box of kleenex tucked under his arm. He stares at the bedraggled figure in the mirror, his nose red with irritation, and says
"This is CNN."
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oh god the guy downstairs is playing his banjo again
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Banjos!?!
:glee: :whoops: :glee:
EDIT: I am reminded of the time I drove some annoying stoners crazy by blasting Bill Monroe and Osborne Brothers' songs at maximum volume.
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You don't understand.
All this guy knows how to play is the opening notes of "Dueling Banjos" and the chorus from "Old Macdonald." I have heard them at least once a day for the past year.
:endit:
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Okay, that's pretty bad.
Scratch that, that's terrible.
You need to shoot him, not yourself. Invoke Old Yeller.
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The guy upstairs from us strummed chords on his guitar at 11pm. You can do that when you're a student but not when the folks downstairs have work in the morning.
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Products that try to hide the fact that they're pumped full of synthetic sweetener, especially sugar alcohol. I'm pretty violently allergic to that shit.
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this is not a good reason to give somebody free reign to never be amusing ever
It's "free rein".
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People that say cocky when they mean arrogant.
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you mean there's a difference? dictionary.com puts "arrogant" as the definition.
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Maybe I'm wrong and they're the same thing, but I've always learned to use arrogance more as insolence, while cockiness is just overly self-confident.
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I prefer to use them that way too.
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this is not a good reason to give somebody free reign to never be amusing ever
It's "free rein".
Either one makes perfect sense.
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this is not a good reason to give somebody free reign to never be amusing ever
It's "free rein".
Related: It's "just deserts", unless you're making a stupid ice cream pun.
dessert (dez-URT): what you eat after a meal
desert (DEZ-urt): a place where rain barely ever falls
desert (dez-URT): to leave something behind
desert (dez-URT): a suitable reward or punishment
Also, forte is supposed to be pronounced "fort" but "fort-AY" sounds neat so I say it anyway.
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I learned that the rare and powerful Star Wars CCG cards had a low destiny to counteract filling your deck with them. It makes me wonder if it actually had any impact on the metagame.
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Yeah. It did.
How is this a pet peeve? Or did you mean to post in that other thread?
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Whoops
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"Eponysterical."
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SPIDER IN MY SHOWER.
AGAIN.
:HUGE:
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Spider in my skirt. oh god oh god this is why people wear pants.
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You probably ought to keep that place clean so that you won't get cobwebs.
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That is my fetish.
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The way I frequently find myself wanting a beer while sitting around at work around 2-3pm, but no longer wanting one when I get home.
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riveting.
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I think one of my biggest pet peeves is when people go on and on about how much they hate something and list all the reasons they hate something, and then come to find out they decide they love it soon after. I have a friend who who just went on and on with her music snobbery about my favorite band and how terrible it is, and then a mutual friend tells me the other day suddenly out of the blue she now loves the band. That really just fucking pisses me right the fuck off. And she'd probably turn around and say how she never made the comments she made before either, because god forbid she be wrong.
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The way I frequently find myself wanting food/sleep while sitting around at work around 2-3pm, but no longer wanting one when I get home.
This is me.
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There is a huge dead possum on the ground right underneath my mailbox. This is a less than ideal situation.
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Are you sure it's not just pining for the fjords?
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He is quite clearly an ex-possum.
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There is a huge dead possum on the ground right underneath my mailbox. This is a less than ideal situation.
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e249/Rimms/Shovel.jpg)
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The teams behind both Xbox Media Center (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EkZVplAEykJXmYUFKb.php) and the Ellipsis skin (http://www.teamblackbolt.co.uk/) for said Media Center are ending development for the Xbox. Ellipsis has been in development on and off for years and the last version that works on the Xbox is only a beta build. :rage:
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For some reason Cox has been acting up lately. Each time it's happened, I lose access to most websites. What's bizarre is that the Brontoforums is one of the few websites I CAN access. Right now, for example, typing www.google.com (http://www.google.com) in the address bar gives me a "Resolving host" status message—and then nothing.
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Try using some third-party DNS. Does a body good. Google has some (http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/), and there's always OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com/)
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If only he could open those links.
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My parents came down to visit and brought a Rubbermaid steamer trunk full of my stuff from the garage. Which is sincerely problematic around here, since storage space is at a premium. Some stuff is okay, like the MIP He-Man with the Iron Cross harness. But it's mostly books and legos I haven't touched for 10+ years. I mean, I kept all that crap up at my parent's place for a reason.
At the very least, it'll be grist for the next Dirty Santa.
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Gimme legos i want legos gimme legos.
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I'm afraid of my old Lego collection. That was THE TOY my parents used to buy for my brother and I (we got into video games very late in childhood) and there's a ridiculous collection of stuff at my folks house. On multiple occasions, we built a town large enough to cover the floor area of a very large room, comeplete with railways, monorails, and a seaport. Shit was nuts.
I didn't think much of it until a few years ago when a friend who's obsessed with the Napoleonic era asked me ifI had any of the old Pirate legos. I said yes and he asked me if I'd sell any - he wanted to make a reproduction in lego of the entire Peninsular war (!).
Curious, I looked up the prices for some of the rarer and larger sets my brother and I had and realized that a collector would probably pay over ten grand - maybe a lot more - for what's lurking in my parent's house.
:mikey:
Anyway, we'd planned to save to for my kids, or even my brother's kids*, but the way that's going who knows what'll happen to that stuff.
*Doubly so, now that the mainstream lego sets they sell are pretty crappy - adult hobbyists who want more accurate or complete models just buy parts online and make their own.
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I never had legos as a kid. We were dirt poor. I want legos gimme legos.
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oh hey you guys talkin bout lego
Lego is great!
Lego is like ten times as fun as an adult that it is as a kid!
I like making robots (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=TheEvilGingivitis)!
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/TheEvilGingivitis/EdNewPhotos/edward03.jpg)
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/TheEvilGingivitis/Ganmen2/ganmen202.jpg)
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/TheEvilGingivitis/EVAUnit02/2007_0610lego10010.jpg)
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/TheEvilGingivitis/tin/tin1.jpg)
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/TheEvilGingivitis/MINI-Eva-Unit-00/dscf0617.jpg)
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Acceptable: removing "the" from the beginning of a title or the name of a band.
Unacceptable: adding "the" to the beginning of a title or the name of a band.
(still recovering from the "The Watchmen" epidemic last year)
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I'll die before I stop enjoying the Led Zeppelins or the The Clashes.
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Unacceptable: adding "the" to the beginning of a title or the name of a band.
I liked it as a running gag with Starfire on Teen Titans.
But of course she's an alien who doesn't understand the vagaries of English.
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I'll die before I stop enjoying the Led Zeppelins or the The Clashes at Demonhead.
So, after a day of shitty drivers, I'm curious about how true to form the term "L.I. Left" is. That being when you're stopped at a red light with no turn signals, and when you get a green the car coming at you is totally sure they can make the left turn before you reach the middle of the intersection.
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Lucerne dairy products.
:rage:
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I'm imagining a polearm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucerne_hammer) made of cheese.
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What's wrong with Lucerne?
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I'd like the term "va-jay-jay" stricken from the lexicon. It's idiotic baby-talk and shouldn't be on magazine covers.
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Especially when the correct terminology is mons pubis.
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mons pu-bay-bay
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The word itself makes some men uncomfortable.
Va-jay-jay.
Yes they don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his di-cay-cay or his ro-day-day or his... john-son-son.
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Cock.
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I'll suck your co-cock-aye for a thousand dollars
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While waiting in line to get a temporary parking pass today, a murder of women began informing everyone in earshot of how crappy it was to be waiting in line. For the next 45 minutes. I gotta thank them. Before that, the wait was just boring. Once they showed up, then it became miserable.
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Scammer called 7 times in 10 minutes trying to get my mother to give her SS# and send money because she won some drawing held by the "Gaming and Lottery of United Nation"
The woman with the thick jamacian accent identified herself as Jennifer Chambers.
Other than take out my rage for the week on them is there anything I can do with this info & phone numbers that showed up on the Caller ID?
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You can always try leaving the informaiton with the cops. Since I doubt you'd actually be calling to make a complaint or actually drag someone out to your place, they'll probably appreciate the information.
Can't hurt anyway.
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My copy of Spider-man Shattered Dimensions arrived just now. There was a loud clatter at my door then a bang. I ran to check out what happened and see the FedEx guy sprinting away from my house. The dude swung open my screen door, punched my actual door, and bolted.
And on my packaged "DID NOT ANSWER DOOR." Seriously, why is this acceptable?
I was 10 feet from my door. It would have taken maybe an extra three seconds on his part. PEOPLE, MAN. LIKE, YOU KNOW?
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If it doesn't have to be signed for its usually easier for them to just leave it. He probably didn't actually hit your door so much as just let it swing shut. Our delivery dude here just puts the stuff on our front porch (enclosed porch) and doesn't even knock anymore. I asked him why he preferred that and apparently the bane of the delivery guy is the lonely old lady that just wont say good bye or take 'I should get back to work' as an out in a conversation and makes their route late or anything that might make their route late. They're seriously on a terrible time constraint (what with overnight, next day air, and all the other shipping they have to be able to get to any location in america by a specific time) and moreover, most delivery dudes have like a quarter of a state as their delivery area. So if they don't leave it the first time it seriously fucks them, what with Fed-ex's try three times policy.
Also, you live in Central IL, I'd run from your door too. :D
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I just think it's funny because Lottel's experience is a real-life carbon copy of any number of parody comics I've seen.
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If you spell it out so logically, it makes some sense. But still! Just because it makes sense doesn't mean it's something I like.
I just think it's funny because Lottel's experience is a real-life carbon copy of any number of parody comics I've seen.
This basically describes a good chunk of my life.
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Hey, I can get behind the practice of delivery companies just leaving my $60 order on the stoop, that's cool.
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I was pretty okay with UPS leaving a $200 on my doorstep, but I'm kind of an asshole these days.
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I've had a phone stolen from me that was delivered while I was at work at my apartment. It's what's made me always get a PO Box.
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WHY THE FUCK DO ALL OF MY FAVORITE ONLINE GAMES PATCH ON TUESDAY MORNING
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Hello, person on Facebook whom I've never met. Yes, I did just come out to everyone. Yes, I'm aware that the only reason you're requesting this is because you did a keyword search for "transgender."
No, I'm not going to add you.
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People who scream and yell at animals.
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it drives me up the wall when my dad yells at the dogs for completely random reasons.
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:3c My dog politely walks out of the room for a brief period of time when I cuss in anger at the monitor.
Fuuuck you Welcome to the Jungle in SC2. Fuck you.
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There's a dog in the neighborhood that just barks all day. I have no idea why.
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I have a bunch of pet peeves, but the biggest one right now is people throwing around words like "fag" or "faggot". I realized this last night when my dad said it and I was annoyed. I think it is because I do work with so many homosexual, for lack of better descriptor, people, and it has opened my mind up since high school. Doesn't mean I want to hear about their love lives though.
I also realized I am a bit of a Grammar Nazi when I was pulling in the driveway today and saw my mom had typed "to" instead of "too" on a sign and I just wanted to get out and fix it.
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No. That is never acceptable. Don't ever feel bad about fixing those errors.
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I know, it is just kind of hard for me to be an ass like that to my mom.
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She was begging for it. Look at her, spelling that way.
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The evil part of me is wanting to go grab the signs and put an extra "o" on them just to see if she notices or how she reacts, but the side that fears for his well-being at home says "Don't you even think about it."
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Don't be such a faggot to your mother.
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At times like these, it's important to ask yourself: what would Weird Al do?
"Weird Al" Yankovic - grammar lesson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGWiTvYZR_w#ws)
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I went ahead and did it before going to my Stats Exam, now we wait on the reaction!
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The wiring in my house is horrific, and it's been evident since day one. I live in the attic-esque upstairs, which only has one breaker for every outlet up here. The same breaker goes to two of the outlets in the living room (of the eight in there). Twice in as many days my mom has blown the breaker. She has two lamps, her laptop she doesn't understand doesn't need to be plugged in 24/7 and (the deathblow both times) an iron plugged in there. Despite the fact that I literally have no alternatives when it comes to a power source and she has five others in that room and two other rooms spread out across four other breakers she can use for any ONE of those things (or she could just learn to not use them all at once) I am of course at fault every time.
tl;dr: I know the most about electronics / wiring so it must have been me whenever there's a problem.
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Who puts pickled peanuts into a strudel?!
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My most recent bitching.
And when my mom is at work my sister does it. Of course she didn't do it plugging in an iron. That would be a fucking miracle.
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I stumbled on a French-language let's play from a French dude. My first reaction was "ugh, no way I'm clicking that".
Then I had a... a thinking moment. "Why not?" And I had no immediate answer, so I looked at it.
Within like two minutes the guy used three English words with the sort of lazy, bastardized French pronunciation that refuses to acknowledge the borrowing, and for which perfectly adequate equivalents exist in actual French.
God damn that pisses me off. And in that I found the answer to my question.
On the other hand, examining myself, I like when anglophones use/borrow French words and expressions, even when they do so clumsily, because they at least make the token effort of recognizing that the pronunciation is different. But those French assholes? Noooooooooo. They just pick up the word wholesale and speak it like it's a legitimate replacement for the correct vocabulary, like the word they should be using isn't good enough. Idiots don't know what they're giving up.
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Who puts pickled peanuts into a strudel?!
Who pickles peanuts at all?
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I've seen people boil peanuts, which a person without a tongue might confuse for pickling, because there is a brine involved.
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Who puts pickled peanuts into a strudel?!
Who pickles peanuts at all?
Well, it wasn't a very strong pickling - it's not like they tasted like dill pickles, just vaguely wrong. But the overall effect was terrible.
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Let's Play Scribblenauts (with Brentai!) Ep. 2 (1/4): The Killer Bee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CrFcd8_kcY#)
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Haha, that's glorious! I did not know something could possibly make me care about Scribblenauts ever!
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I hate when people come into the store and insist that what they want to sell to us is gold, silver, platinum, real diamonds, or what-the-fuck-ever. It's really annoying to be told this when things are clearly marked or very obviously fake, and then you tell them they're mistaken, and they go on insisting and expecting tons of money. Get the fuck outta my god damn store, I will punch your face you big strung out weirdo who probably stole everything you just brought to me.
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... you work in a pawn shop now? :wat:
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Now I have a sudden desire to take actual gold/diamonds into your store and insist it's fake. GRANTED, I doubt you'd correct me, if it actually is a pawn shop.
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... you work in a pawn shop now? :wat:
(http://doom.pyoko.org/PawnTear1.jpg)
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Yeah, last I remembered, Lady Duke worked in the same gas station as Kazz. So I got this mental image of some THUG LYFE-type, coming in and trying to pay for gas for the (stolen) rusted getaway car with horribly ugly costume jewelry.
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They see me pawnin'
They hatin'
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Naw, I'm working at my dad's jewelry store. I quit from the gas station months ago :3
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"This is America. And in America, our cars go faster, longer and harder, not unlike our penises. And we also want an electric car that will plug into any socket. Again, penises.
Chevy Runs Deep (like a penis)."
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"I.E." and "E.G." are not interchangeable. Every time I see someone write something like "there are many ways to do a thing, i.e. this, that, and something else" it pisses me right off. I know this is unusually grammar nazi of me, but goddamn.
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I've probably been guilty of that one. I.E., this post.
:shifty:
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There are a number of people at the service desk at my company who seem to think "N/A" stands for "I don't know."
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Wh- What? How do you? I don't- even.
Yeah, fuck it. N/A how is that possible?
"I.E." and "E.G." are not interchangeable.
Idiot's latin lookup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases) says that
i.e.== id est == That is.
e.g. == exempli gratia == for example.
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Wh- What? How do you? I don't- even.
Yeah, fuck it. N/A how is that possible?
Well, I mean, they don't LITERALLY think it stands for "I don't know", but they use them interchangeably. Like, there's a computer coming back, and under "model" they'll put "N/A". That computer has a goddamn model, jackass; don't say it's N/A just because you couldn't figure out what it was.
It bears noting that the default image for every computer we ship out puts a list of stats on the user's wallpaper, INCLUDING THE MODEL. Granted, we'll often get computers back which won't boot, in which case the wallpaper's not going to be any help, but then there's the fallback of LOOKING AT THE LABEL. I'll grant it can be very difficult to walk a luser through finding a goddamn product label, but if you're a level-2 tech you should have that ability.
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N/A is often misinterpreted as an obscure abbreviation of "unknown".
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I used to think it was No Answer
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It... It means "Not Applicable" right? Is that what it means? I- I'm not sure anymore.
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It does mean "Not Applicable". You use it when no answer applies, as opposed to when you just don't know the answer and can't be bothered finding out.
Another thing that bothers me is misuse of "basically". It originally meant, "I'm going to make an imprecise description for the sake of brevity and simplicity." Now it's used to mean, "I disclaim all responsibility for the accuracy of my own text, on a topic which I barely understand myself," or, "I needed a way to start a sentence and didn't feel confident just telling you the facts on their own - here's a qualifier to cover my ass in case I'm wrong."
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Using "if you don't like it, don't watch/play it" and "I'd like to see you do better" as reactions to criticism.
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Have you been reading webcomics?
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Have you been reading webcomics?
No, gimmicky internet reviewers.
Actually, add "Gimmicky Internet Reviewers" to the list. I can think of maybe two exceptions I wouldn't want to trip down a manhole.
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Yeah, the majority of them just have no sense of pacing, or comedic timing, or when a joke is taking too long to tell.
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On the flip side, I hate people who just state "I like it" or "I didn't like it" and call that a review. "Why didn't you like it?" "I just didn't."
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Have you been reading webcomics?
No, gimmicky internet reviewers.
Actually, add "Gimmicky Internet Reviewers" to the list. I can think of maybe two exceptions I wouldn't want to trip down a manhole.
Yeah, the majority of them just have no sense of pacing, or comedic timing, or when a joke is taking too long to tell.
I don't know why these people cause me to react like a vampire before the cross but I think TA put his finger on it.
There's an important "Unwarranted self importance" component to it though. My golden rule currently is if someone thinks they are important and entertaining enough to speak directly into a camera for more than 5 seconds, the opposite is true.
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Very, very, very few people can do a decent review outside of the text medium. That is why Siskel and Ebert made so much bank, even if they were basically douchebags in every other sense.
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Siskel and Ebert also usually at least cut to different angles so that the entire review was not LOOK DIRECTLY INTO MY FUCKING FACE AS I SIT AT THE COMPUTER AREN'T I CUTE AND POPULAR
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or when a joke is taking too long to tell.
If I was God I would make it so when this happens like there is a cutoff point and suddenly a flock of geese attack the person speaking and then carry him/her away several miles
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or when a joke is taking too long to tell.
If I was God I would make it so when this happens like there is a cutoff point and suddenly a flock of geese attack the person speaking and then carry him/her away several miles
Tim Buckley was never seen again
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Part of it might be that style of review, where the reviewer spends a pretty lengthy period going through the entire subject - be that movie, or game, or whatever - cutting between themselves and the material itself. Less of a review and more of a teardown, really, and it works a lot better when you're mocking something anyway. It's a good format, if you can do it right. I don't know who first popularized it, but it's also got to be really hard to do right - you don't just need to have good things to say, you have to be good at saying 'em, good at editing, good at timing jokes and cuts, and you really need to know the material inside and out to put it all together. And to not have that slightly high-pitched, mildly lispy nerd voice that so so many have.
Noah Antwiler's the first I can remember seeing that format from, though I'm sure he wasn't the first to do it, and he does a damn good job of it. So does the Nostalgia Critic. And sometimes the Angry Video Game Nerd, when he doesn't get caught up in schtick. But honestly I can't think of any others who rise above "eh", and more often they are just painful to sit through.
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James Rolfe (the AVGN) and Plinkett (RedLetterMedia guy) both generally excel at reviewing films because they actually understand how films are made. Even if the films they actually make aren't always that great, they know more than enough to actually break something down in an entertaining way.
Off the top of my head, Plinkett's review of Star Wars Episode One displayed a great deal of competency in...
-Pacing: Not one bit of the review feels rushed or drawn-out, despite the fact that it's deliberately divided into ten-minute chunks (often EXACTLY ten minutes) to be compatible with Youtube's formatting policies.
-Characterization and Set Design: Plinkett's character never really talks about himself, but we have a good idea of how he acts and how he lives from the brief glimpses we see of his home (no way is the guy's living room actually that messy) and the general manner he puts on. We know very little that's quantifiable or concrete, but we know who he is fairly quickly and we never question any of his actions as being out of character.
Basic Acting Ability: Plinkett's gravelly monotone delivery doesn't come across as nearly as smug or grating as, say, Yahtzee or Spoony, which is pretty impressive considering that they use what are arguably their real voices whereas Plinkett's voice is straight-up taken from a cartoon character (http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Senor_Cardgage).
-Editing: Goes hand-in-hand with pacing, really. Worth noting, though: I'm pretty sure that not once has he ever done the tired "repeated zoom on stupid thing for effect" gag.
-Cinematography and Screenwriting: Just worth noting: given how much attention he pays to this sort of thing in the films he tears apart. He addresses a lot of plot holes, dialogue issues, characterization issues, and make heavy notes addressing things like framing a shot (remember the bit about the Imperial Star Destroyer?) and the limitations of CG in filmmaking. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he has a formal specialization in something of this sort.
The Nostalgia Critic, on the other hand, has terrible acting skills and a sense of comedic timing so bad that it makes me physically cringe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqLH9CY4dws#ws).* By the time he "reviewed" The Room despite it being the exact opposite of nostalgic (it's not old and nobody has fond memories of it), I gave up on the guy ever doing anything other than taking cheap potshots at films the audience already knows are terrible (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=78.msg161045#msg161045).
*Also, is that supposed to be a hospital, or is there a doctor and a nurse just chillin' in his hallway?
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What bothers me is that these people have legions of fans who will mindlessly parrot anything they say (or god forbid, make it an entry on TVtropes) and take it as gospel. They'll inflate the reviewer's ego until either it pops (witness what happened to Angry Joe on the Video Game Awards) or it just runs unchecked (Spoony, who is notorious for treating his fans like garbage and silencing dissent).
I like Plinkett and sfdebris because they avoid horrible sketch comedy and stale injokes. And also what teg said.
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It bugs me when people describe WINE as "a Windows emulator".
Yes, the difference between an emulator and a compatibility layer is fairly technical, they both have the same basic purpose, and "emulator" is half as many syllables.
But for fuck's sake the thing is called Wine Is Not an Emulator.
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In that case shouldn't it be WINAE?
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I like Plinkett and sfdebris because they avoid horrible sketch comedy and stale injokes. And also what teg said.
Plinkett is good because I think the guy doing the voice is not the one writing it, and it's really just gags couched around honest-to-goodness film critique. The man clearly has knowledge of the medium and is willing to acknowledge things he likes. He's also fairly consistent from review to review, judging each film on similar criteria. I like Plinkett.
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In that case shouldn't it be WINAE?
ARTICLES ARE OPTIONAL
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Psh, whatever. You're clearly just racist against "an".
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Actually I think recursive acronyms are stupid too. But the point is, the goddamn thing says right in the name that it's not an emulator and there's really no excuse for anyone saying that it is.
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Not having put any effort into it but knowing roughly what it did, I had just always assumed that WINE was WINdows Emulator or something like that. I do realize, though, that this was pretty stupid of me, given how clever people think they are for coming up with stupid shit like GNU's Not Unix.
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people that Confuse "Canon" with "Cannon"
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http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cannon (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cannon)
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Not having put any effort into it but knowing roughly what it did, I had just always assumed that WINE was WINdows Emulator or something like that.
The funny thing is that that's exactly what it used to stand for (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)).
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Yeah, but that was 13 years ago.
PINE was originally Pine Is Nolonger Elm, but became the much-less-stupid Program for Internet News and Email.
(Or not. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_%28e-mail_client%29) says it was never "Nolonger Elm".)
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Hey Vertigo.
When I finish reading a comic book, I put it in a box.
Upright, with a bunch of other comic books.
Right-side up.
In numerical order.
And because I don't have the top two inches of every single cover memorized, when I'm trying to find a specific comic I look for its issue number.
So you know what would be really fucking great?
If you PUT THE ISSUE NUMBER AT THE TOP OF THE FUCKING COVER LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE (INCLUDING YOUR PARENT COMPANY), INSTEAD OF THE BOTTOM, YOU ASSHOLES.
(still better than the old TMNT comics that put their issue numbers on the fucking BACK.)
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Oh, geez, tell me about it. That's basically my job all day, which is to order, sort, file and pull comic books out of long boxes. A whole warehouse full of them. And over the years, various companies have gotten creative with how they number their comics. Vertigo is pretty bad, with most series being numbered at the bottom, and a few, like Fables, being numbered where I have to hunt on the cover to find it.
There have been other things, such as Marvel used to only put the number inside the barcode in the bottom corner, or had a tiny font with a color that blended into the background for the issue number. I can also bitch about variant covers in general, but Marvel occasionally likes to pull "Variant cover is same as original cover but with subtle change", which makes my job harder.
And seriously fuck Richie Rich.
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Did you eventually invest in dividers to place between every 5-10 issues?
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Marvel used to only put the number inside the barcode in the bottom corner
Fortunately I sorted all my 1990's X-Men a couple of years ago and no longer have to look at or think about them (and it's not like I would actually take them out to reread them or anything). But yes, I am very much aware of this.
Original series TMNT is still the worst. Have to take the comic out of the fucking bag to find the number. Often it's quicker just to punch up ninjaturtles.com and find the cover.
Did you eventually invest in dividers to place between every 5-10 issues?
I have dividers. Someday I intend to start using them. Every 5-10 issues seems a bit much; I'd probably use them to divide by series.
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I'd probably use them to divide by series.
Sorry, I thought you were already doing that. My maybe-weak-OCD self couldn't imagine someone sorting something in a box and not at least having some sort of division between series.
It's probably the sort of thing to save for a day when you're not sure what you want to read, because the exercise basically demands going through your catalog.
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Well, I mean, they're sorted by series inasmuch as I have 30 boxes, alphabetical by series.
But the box that has Green Arrow and Green Lantern in it (and Green Lantern Corps/Sinestro Corps/Blackest Night/whatever other spinoffs) doesn't have internal series dividers.
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So where do you put "Green Lantern co-starring Green Arrow"?
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Under Green Lantern. Now if it was Green Arrow co-starring Green Lantern ..
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...you'd still put it under Green Lantern.
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(the joke is that Green Arrow sucks)
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Having to say, "two thousand and eight."
In 2011 I will be bringing back, "aught-one."
holding you to this Guild
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...but it's fucking one-one.
Aught-one-one would be acceptable, I guess.
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There are people* who tend to hover at the edges of your conversation, lying in wait for a chance to insert their opinion, make some witty** remark, or just generally derail the flow of discussion. I hate when people do that.
*who you will probably find at your LGS
**to them, I'm sure
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More and more often, I say "Owl" instead of "hour."
"Be back later, I'm heading out for a couple owls."
"I'll see you in a few owls."
"I've got a free owl coming up. Wanna have lunch?"
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Mothers who ask about your day or what you're doing or whatever but then don't actually give a shit and interrupt you to talk about their shit
Specifically mothers
It's far less annoying when a friend does it
In fact can I just put my Mom as a Pet Peeve of mine
like
"Having a mother"
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I hate being interrupted by anyone.
I mean, so does everybody, but when you grow up with someone who's deaf, talky, and never makes eye contact, it gets real old.
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SHOPLIFTERS. :rage:
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SHOPLIFTERS. :rage:
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To whom it may concern:
I am fine with working from 4:45 until 10. I am even fine with you scheduling this shift on the same day that I work from 8 am until 3 at my other job. I am even fine with the even more dickish move of making me work a 10 am shift on the night where I work until 4 am at said other job. But for fuck's sake, just schedule me from 4:45 until 10. I'm not sure it's even legal to add an entire hour to someone's work day without recording it.
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People who say "uTorrent" instead of "μTorrent".
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Say out loud, or type? Because I'll be goddamned if I'm going to type in Greek just because some programmer thought it looked cool.
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People who say 'pi' instead of 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
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That damned building where they lock the ground-level doors to the stairwell (you can still get out, so it's not a fire code violation), making me take the fucking elevator to the SECOND FLOOR.
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People who say "uTorrent" instead of "μTorrent".
This, and I'm assuming Teg means outloud as I do. Really it's not even a matter of them saying it, just that I know most of them have no idea that Mu is a thing and may honestly think that is a letter u with a giant penis.
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Huh. I always read it aloud as, "MicroTorrent"
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People who say Pi instead of 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When message boards have a 25,000 character limit, preventing you from posting pi to 1,000,000 places for a joke.
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When message boards have a 25,000 character limit, preventing you from posting pi to 1,000,000 places for a joke that somebody else already did but wasn't quite autistic enough yet.
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This arglebargle over π makes me nostalgic for my Brainiac avatar.
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I must say he'd be better than the present one. :itsatrap:
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When message boards have a 25,000 character limit, preventing you from posting pi to 1,000,000 places for a joke that somebody else already did but wasn't quite autistic enough yet.
(http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/107/texplainthejoke.jpg)
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Okay, I've officially seen this done far too many times in Ghostbusters fan art.
Look, fanartists: there are four Ghostbusters. Peter, Ray, Egon and Winston. God Damn Winston Zeddemore. Stop leaving the black guy out.
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Slimer. Stop leaving the green guy out.
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He is not a ghostbuster. He is a mascot, he is a ghost, and he is definitely afraid of very many ghosts. Way more than no ghosts.
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Actually Slimer and the Stay Puft man are included more often than Winston.
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I just want there to be a clear consensus on the facts of slimer. He is a ghost. Not a ghost buster. Dude does not feel good bustin'. He is the one who does the calling.
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I have trouble believing the guy everyone calls "Slimer" does not feel good bustin'.
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"If there's a steady paycheque in it, I'll believe in anything you want me to."
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(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/DSCF0002-1.jpg)
FUCK YOU BAMBI
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE GREEN
WHY CAN'T YOU BE BLUE
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Get rid of it. Bambi sucked anyway
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I'd put it at one end so it wouldn't break up the blue. In fact I'd alphabetize the shelf, and it'd end up at one end anyway. :perfect:
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FUCK YOU BAMBI
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE GREEN
WHY CAN'T YOU BE BLUE
Deer have been shot for less.
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It's green because diamonds are green.
Alternately, Green-Ray disc. (There is an e chopped off there, it uses advanced Friday technology.)
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What are you doing with so many BD remasters, anyway? They kinda suck.
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I'd put it at one end so it wouldn't break up the blue. In fact I'd alphabetize the shelf, and it'd end up at one end anyway. :perfect:
That's not the whole shelf.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/DSCF0005-1-1.jpg)
The red ones don't bother me as much since there's a few of them. Except Futurama. Futurama would bug the shit out of me if it weren't so stylish.What are you doing with so many BD remasters, anyway? They kinda suck.
The Disney ones? I never owned them on VHS or DVD, I really like them, and I get a massive discount.
Also I've seen some bad transfers but the Disney ones are pretty good.
Damn. Now I want to reorganize my stuff all day.
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I guess I should shut the fuck up about Disney Blu-Rays since I actually bought the Disney Blu-Ray calibration disc and three of the four Blu-Rays I actually want (Tron Legacy, The Incredibles, Fantasia 2000 and Star Trek) are by Disney. Fuck.
Also also having been deep in the guts of my TV's calibration settings I'm not so sure that those OH GOD THE REMASTERS ARE TOO BRIIIIIGHT people actually know what they're talking about. If you actually use the THX/Cinema mode on a newer HDTV you'l see that "proper" movie settings are really fucking dark (and red). Those remasters might actually be exactly the right color and only look bizarre because you're copying them to goddam Adobe RGB space.
I can't tell if I'm still rambling off topic or not.
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Why do you have Futurama on Blu-Ray?
I am under the impression that the increased effort to have a better picture quality in high definition is not put into TV shows. Which is why I bought FLCL on DVD, not Blu-Ray, because it actually came out looking worse on Blu-Ray
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New Futurama on Blu-Ray looks REALLY good.
Any traditional animation* really benefits from Blu-Ray, provided that it was either made with HD in mind (Futurama) or there's still an original film stock to copy from (Disney flicks). Being direct-to-video, FLCL was purely digital from the start and made for standard DVD resolution.
*For lack of a better term, since a lot of what I'm describing is still largely done digitally. You know what I mean. Flat.
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Cel-based. A digital cel is still a cel.
Also I find it really depends on the art style, the sharper/harder styles (like the DCAU or most Cartoon Network originals) tend to start looking like cutscenes from Out of This/Another World when you make them too fine like that. Traditional Disney movies work out because they're based on very subtle pencilwork and a lot of rich ink and paint.
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I just picked up a new movie and now my shelf is in disarraaaaay.
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So I have company visiting this weekend; old buddies from college. We used to watch Justice League in the dorms together and I figured a little McDuffie tribute was in order, and decided I'd get All-Star Superman from Netflix. So I blew through the Mighty Mouse DVD I had rented (falling behind on my Stewarts and Colberts in the process) so I could send it back and get All-Star Superman.
So today I went and double-checked my queue, and there it was at the top, but -- and I swear this wasn't there last night -- with an angry red Available 3/22/2011 next to it.
So of course I did what anyone would do in this situation: I went down to my local Tower Virgin Circuit City FYE Hollywood Video Ultimate Electronics Blockbuster Borders place where people get movies on physical media that is not Netflix and paid full price for it. Because that is totally what Warner's asinine policy of not allowing Netflix to provide movies until a month after release encourages me to do!
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Amazon.
/pizza
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He wouldn't have gotten it anywhere near this weekend.
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You can rent movies on Amazon for $4 and you get to use it for like 3-4 days.
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My delivery time for most Amazon stuff is about comparable to Netflix, and that's without Prime.
(Assuming it's actually sold by Amazon and not a partner, which if it's a recent release it probably is.)
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Housemate:
buys something
opens it and discovers it's rotten
is going to return it to the store, god damn it, and get that money back!
leaves it exposed in the fridge, turning the good food like 1HD undead
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Amazon.
Yes, all right, but I wanted to rent it, not buy it (though I realize my litany of brick-and-mortar stores-for-purchase probably made that unclear).
You can rent movies on Amazon for $4 and you get to use it for like 3-4 days.
1. I'm already paying for Netflix.
2. $4 is, like, Blockbuster rental price. Worked out really well for them.
3. What's this crap where I need a set-top box to watch it in HD? I'm sure the client's just a damn Linux binary; let me stick it on the computer I have hooked up to my TV, you dicks.
...truth is I'm not buying a whole lot of movies at this juncture (though I'm using the hell out of Netflix). Thing with DVD is, it's now the low-quality format; I'm reluctant to buy it for anything but TV shows made prior to 2007. (I DID make an exception the other day as Costco had the new Back to the Future Collection for $13. Which brings us back to the point of price.) Thing with Blu-Ray is, I don't know if it's still going to be around in five years. (Though if it is, I should at least be able to play it under Linux by then!) And the thing with digital downloads is they're DRM'ed. No format is really acceptable for purchase for most things, especially at current prices.
So for the time being, it's mostly renting and streaming. Netflix is good for those things! Maybe Amazon is too. I don't know, and I'm not going to pay $4 a damn movie to find out, no matter how much the studios artificially restrict the market.
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There's also PSN Store if giving Sony money doesn't make you gush blood from your eyes. I mean okay technically that requires a kind of set-top box too...
(My TV has most set-top apps built right in, so I'm kind of unaware as to what requires what these days.)
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snow in fucking april. There was no snow on the ground yesterday.(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/196956_592951655088_211704649_33470443_2571654_n.jpg)
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"just tried for 30 minutes to figure out why my internet wasn't working only to realize I was using the wrong cord that wasn't plugged into anything. April Fools on myself. :P"
"Happy April Fool's! LOL!"
"It's NOT April Fool's. LOL"
Motherfuckers. I taste BLOOD.
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snow in fucking april. There was no snow on the ground yesterday.(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/196956_592951655088_211704649_33470443_2571654_n.jpg)
Welcome to Canada!
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Today's forecast high is 98. I'll trade you.
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Some fucking kid has decided it's the height of hilarity to honk his dad's truck's horn with the keychain. At least, that's what I assume is happening; at any rate there's a truck that keeps honking its horn and nobody is inside it.
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When all else fails, use fire.
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Some fucking kid has decided it's the height of hilarity to set my truck on fire. At least, that's what I assume is happening; at any rate downtown has been burning for six hours now and apparently it started in a truck that looks like mine.
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When all else fails, use fire.
I've seen a police car parked in front of that house. So no.
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But I hear you get MAX bonus points if you set Sheriff Joe on fire.
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Yeah, but it was city PD, not MCSO.
And it was definitely not Sheriff Joe's car (http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/joe.jpg).
...anyway. Speaking of things bursting into flame, it was not 98 yesterday after all. It was 100 degrees. On the first of goddamn April.
Hoping the forecast holds and we're back down to 85 tomorrow. And if we really do get to 76 by Friday I'll be able to turn the AC off.
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People who drive while stoned.
In Ann Arbor, we have an event called 'hash bash', where drug paraphernalia is sold openly on the street, pot is sold under the table while the cops look the other way, and stoners of all ages (though mostly students) wonder around down town/the U of M campus reeking of pot, tobacco and junk-food. It happens to be today.
The thing is, many of these people go elsewhere via automobile... Leading to virtually every intersection anywhere near down town almost constantly gridlocked.
I saw one particularly stupid idiot get frustrated, drive around the person in the front of the line--who was doing the right thing and waiting for there to be room on the other side of the intersection--suddenly break upon seeing that there was a car a scant 2 inches from their front bumper, and ending up not even two car lengths ahead of the good driver, which happened to also be in the dead-center of the intersection. This happened just as the light changed and led to those with the green light having to wait another whole cycle (2~3 minutes) to go, which led to another fucking idiot gridlocking the intersection behind them! And the cops don't do anything about it because they're busy looking the other way from the pot-heads, even though the city could've raked in tens of thousands of dollars had they ticketed half the people who blocked an intersection.
By the way, I'm only down town today because I use my dad's office to study in when it's not in use. Yet by the time I walk one block amongst the crowds my throat is dry and my eyes are red.
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Wake up early so I can get to the courthouse and register my car.
Power is off in that section of the city.
Woman almost hits me because you plows through a stoplight without noticing it's turned into a four-way stop.
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As I was walking my dog yesterday, a woman said to me, from the window of her house, in a snotty, passive-aggressive, fake-nice voice, "You know, I really wouldn't mind if you'd walk your dog in the street instead of going through my yard."
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That ... seems like a reasonable request.
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It wasn't the request itself, it was the way she said it.
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Also, I know how people drive around here. No way am I walking my dog in the street.
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Don't you have sidewalks?
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Not in my neighborhood.
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That is an important point, yes.
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When trying to project, it is hard not to sound like a complete jerk. It takes practice. There is a small chance she was not intending to be an awful passive-aggressive.
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No, it was pretty clear that was exactly what she was doing.
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Sarcasm in a work environment.
I mean okay yeah you guys might have detected the slightest smidgen of occasional accidental sarcasm from me over the years.
But when we're doing business, and talking about stuff that matters? When I ask a straight fucking question I need a straight fucking answer, or shit will get fucked up.
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Getting my car worked on, languishing here in the waiting room of the service center.
There's a cheap Vizio here playing Hang 'em High on AMC.
That 24hz interpolation thing we were talking about before? It ruins THE FUCKING SHIT out of Westerns like this.
:rage:
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Whenever someone calls The Doctor "Dr. Who" I want to punch them in the face.
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It's useful shorthand for when you're talking to somebody who's not a fan, but yes, it's inaccurate despite the fact that he was credited that way for most of the original series.
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People who complain because e-readers are not backlit.
I mean seriously.
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... But... E-ink are difficult to read in low light settings. Like real books. I'd imagine having backlit screens would be pretty nifty.
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I have a feeling that a small "front-light" on the rim won't do the trick.
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... But... E-ink are difficult to read in low light settings. Like real books. I'd imagine having backlit screens would be pretty nifty.
But... the whole point is that they're not backlit. I'm pretty sure that you can't backlight e-ink effectively, since it's essentially layers of opaque material with an electric field directly behind it.
What I'm getting at is: somebody spent a ton of money and effort finding a way to make a display that act exactly like actual paper, and people complain because it acts exactly like actual paper. If you really need a backlight, you do not need a Kindle. There are cheap backlit readers everywhere.
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Are you telling me no-one's made a kindle-light yet? Are you telling me there's a fortune to be made?
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The cover-with-reading-light is the most basic standard acessory for the thing, so no, not really.
More to the point with e-ink though, the purpose of the material is to be able to display without a constant power source (this is why Kindles only need to be charged about once every 100 years). Once you add a backlight you've just turned the stupid thing into a monochrome iPad.
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I could see the value of some leds in the back with a slider. So you can turn on a backlight for extreme darkness situations, and retain the utility of e-ink the rest of the time.
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Lottel, TA, you understand that e-Ink has some fundamentally different properties than LCD screens. A backlight works great for LCD screens. Not so much for e-Ink.
As to me being a jerk complaining about precise word usage:
Your scheme is stupid and already been done
To my chagrin.
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(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2006/02/eatupmartha.jpg)
Hey Dolph, take a memo in your Newton: Beat up Classic.
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Eating sunchips in the middle of a movie.
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Backlit may have been the wrong word. Frontlit would be better.
I know all about e-ink and that.
Just the wrong lighting term.
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All kvetching aside, if you're all asking why the Kindle doesn't have a low-power edge light, the answer is probably because that would kill their NEVER CHARGE THIS SHIT EVER bullet point.
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Also the Kindle may not have a frontlit solution built in, but there are plenty of after-market products for it.
They're called lamps.
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Relevant: Glow in the dark plants. I'm in the market for them.
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Dear Microsoft: Fuck you guys for not building Wi-Fi into the original Xbox360. Fuck you for making the 360 wireless adapter a hundred dollars. Fuck you for making the Slim model completely and utterly incompatible with the original's accessories -- in particular its hard drive. And especially fuck you for selling only two versions of the Slim: the one with 250 GB, and the one with only four. And a side Fuck You to Best Buy for not carrying any original model accessories.
And a preemptive Fuck You to anyone who even thinks about giving me any fucking shit over this.
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Does that campaign of expletives mean you purchased a slim?
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BUT YOU CAN PLAY ONLINE. HAHAHAHahahmmmmm
:oh:
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No. I almost did, were it not for the fact that the version within my immediate financial grasp had shit for memory space.
So I went over to Walmart instead and bought a third-party adapter. Works just fine so far.
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The good news is they tightened their grip on HD standards enough that you can get some cheap addon HDs from China or whatever.
http://www.amazon.com/250G-Hard-Disk-Drive-Microsoft/dp/B004GX4864/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1304898204&sr=8-6 (http://www.amazon.com/250G-Hard-Disk-Drive-Microsoft/dp/B004GX4864/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1304898204&sr=8-6)
If you're shrewd enough you can save money by buying the damn thing in parts instead of paying $350-$400 for the whole 250gb/Kinect setup.
...are people still making Kinect games? It seems like MS came out with this amazing peripheral and the entire industry glanced over and said "eh".
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The word "sanction," while cool, has too many definitions.
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Employers who look for Computer Scientists when they really want Software Engineers, and less commonly vice versa. Comp Sci has been genericized to the point where people who should know better think it just refers to programmers with a degree, but seriously they're completely different disciplines.
I'll give you a hint: one is science, and the other is engineering.
This is not propulsion systems development people.
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Some universities still only have degrees in CS and not in programming/software engineering.
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Both of my programmer friends have Computer Science degrees. One of them has a Master's in Computer Science. They are both straight-up programmers and have never been or pretended to be anything else.
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Some universities cross list those things.
Cornell has CS, and CIS? The addition of information to computers makes it a different science!
Also I'm a software engineer with a degree in psychology. This does not usually make prospective employers enthusiastic about hiring me.
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It's kind of a bullshit distinction.
Of the shit CS students have to take:- Torturous things that a software engineer won't need and most other students don't have to take:
- 8+ math classes (2-4 calculus, 2 discrete math, statistics, linear algebra | bad high school ? remedial shit like trig/college algebra too)
- 2 chem or physics classes
- Things SW engineering and CS majors will both have to take:
- Software Engineering (practices)
- Programming (school's choice of language) 3 courses
- Programming in some bullshit language the school used to use before switching to JAVA/Python/whatever, so you can take courses with their old faculty who don't like using the new official language
- Programming in assembly, because FUCK YOU THIS IS A STACK AND YOU WILL ONLY LEARN TO APPRECIATE YOUR HIGH LEVEL FAGGOT TOOLS AFTER EXPERIENCING TRUE PAIN
- Network bullshit / Parallel computing
- "Databases" (Read: SQL + super basic relational algebra. Not a fucking thing about CAP theorem or NoSQL systems.)
- CS courses that a SW eng student has enough background to take anyway
- Compiler Theory and/or Languages theory
- Operating Systems
- Algorithms
- Things CS student theoretically has enough background to take, that SW Eng doesn't.
- A.I. (req stats)
- Machine Learning (req stats)
- Other electives involving calculus and stats, which aren't common (for undergraduates).
I left out some courses that computer engineering cocksuckers fucked the cs department into, like digital logic and computer architecture. They could be good, if they're like, "here is how the getAndSet() works and by the way you can use it for sneaky ninja bullshit in multiprocessor programming," but as it's taught here, it's "GET FUCKING BURIED IN DOCUMENTATION."
I omitted a bunch of other classes (e.g. technical writing/business comm.) because they're essentially utter bullshit.
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Aw, smashing the shit out of your own stack isn't that crushing... The first 1000 times.
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I'll give you a hint: one is science, and the other is engineering.
This is not propulsion systems development people.
The old joke goes that if your degree has "science" in the name it's not really science.
I've got a CS degree. It's a CSE degree without as many EE courses.
Cornell has CS, and CIS? The addition of information to computers makes it a different science!
Now, CIS really IS a different thing.
At my school CS was in the engineering college and CIS was business. Sometimes CS students would defect to CIS. We tended to look down our noses at them. I remember one guy -- older, probably mid-30's -- once ranting that he didn't care HOW long it took, he'd get a CS degree, not switch to CIS.
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That's how I saw it too. CIS or CIT was the inferior degree for people who got into Computer Science thinking it'd be easy because they knew Microsoft Office. Dropping down to CIT was seen as accepting a lesser degree because you couldn't handle the real thing.
At University of Ulster, Software Engineering and Computer Science were almost the same degree in terms of classes. The only difference is that some of the optional classes in CS were the only option in the SE degree.
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I live in Saint-Hyacinthe, a city that calls itself an agricultural technopolis. By and large this is a legitimate claim. We're on the cutting edge of the business and science of feeding people, with several of our public and private institutions and enterprises having international reach and recognition. We're in the middle of Montérégie, a region that largely used to be under the Sea of Champlain and whose sedimentary soil is some of the most fertile in the world; appropriately, we're surrounded by mile after mile after mile after mile of bountiful fields and pastures.
Several months out of the year, regardless of which way the wind is blowing, everything smells like manure.
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Aw, smashing the shit out of your own stack isn't that crushing... The first 1000 times.
Several months out of the year, regardless of which way the wind is blowing, everything smells like manure.
Wrong stack!
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What Zed said. Being in a climate that's perfect for growing grapes and peaches means fresh fruit, an influx of migrant workers and the smell of fertilizer.
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People who take facebook seriously.
Ex: my friend didn't invite me to her wedding and I found out from facebook--long story short, turns out it's because I wouldn't find her husband-to-be literal YEARS ago.
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I can't understand that sentence
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I wouldn't find her husband-to-be literal YEARS ago.
I'd be offended too if I was mistaken for a figure of speech. :whoops:
What I assume was meant, is that years ago, LD wouldn't friend her friend's husband on facebook. Which really is an idiotic reason to snob someone for one's wedding. Daaaang.
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s/snob/snub/
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...wow, we actually use "snob" for both purposes in French. Thanks for pointing out there's a separate term in English! :themoreyouknow:
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Oh yeah, that's right. Totally did not look at that sentence again. It was about friend request bullshit. Petty whore.
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This is the second week in a row that some chucklehead brought bagels instead of donuts. I'm going to go buy a pack of Donettes from the vending machine in protest, after I finish this bagel.
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Shmaltzy, partiotic rock. Specifically, John Mellencamp.
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Turns out the oak kitchen cabinets in my new apartment are basically infused with nicotine, on account of the old fart who lived there before they had to ship him to a home on account of his blind ass dropping lit cigarettes everywhere. I cleaned them as thoroughly as I could, but there's still that old motel room odor. I pretty much hate all smokers now. You dumdums. What the hell.
On the plus side, it's more impetus to make tons of delicious smelling food so maybe they'll overwrite the odor over time. I wonder if stashing open boxes of sodium bicarbonate in there is gonna help.
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Actual Smokers swear by huge open canisters of coffee beans. YMMV.
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The worst part about Apple zealots is that they'll hide their special brand of insanity and then try to lure you into tripping over it so they can go off on you. Even Christian nuts have the basic common decency to wear their brainwashing on their sleeve so you can just not talk to them. The only way to tell if someone's a Jobist is to think twice before trying to open a dialog with them about any sort of technology and think, "Wait, is this person ignoring all the extremely valid and numerous complaints about Apple's competitors and going right for the ones with the shakiest or no basis on reality?"
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I have an absurdly high hearing range for someone my age. Something like 28kHz. I'm usually proud of it, except for those times some fucker sets up an ultra-high voltage power supply down the hall and everybody around you is wondering why you keep looking angrily at nothing.
It's driving into my goddam brain.
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I have similar problems, though I don't think I'm quite that high.
There is a watercooler whose cooling is the most obnoxious thing.
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Yeah, when my girlfriend's family was staying with us I woke up her stepdad by brushing my teeth in the middle of the night. I felt bad about that.
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I cannot stand it when I am obviously watching something and people just come up and demand my attention.
There are moving pictures and sound correlating to those pictures. And I am staring intently at the moving pictures. I am obviously wanting to continue doing so while they continue to move.
It's not that I watch things all the time. Other than my 3am-6am Netflix binge I only watch the occasional youtube video or something. But every time I sit down to watch something, they wait five minutes before interrupting.
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Once again Lottel admits that he has people breaking in at night demanding sex.
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To be fair, that's actually happened
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".50 cents."
Every time I see it I am sorely tempted to throw down a penny and ask for two.
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People who are annoyed by children in ANY way and for ANY reason.
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People who are annoyed by children in ANY way and for ANY reason.
Why? Children are annoying. I know because I used to be one.
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Children are only as fucked up as the grownups around them make them. OR ARE YOU SOME KIND OF HARDLINE CHRISTIAN?! :itsatrap:
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And not getting annoyed with them is going to magically convey to them proper actions and responsibility?
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I'm with Guild. People who can't perfectly control what does and doesn't annoy them is a pet peeve of mine.
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Turns out I live next door to a home for the mentally challenged. I had noticed some unusually dull-looking people coming in and out a couple times, but what clued me in was when last night at about 2AM four of them went to stand in the middle of the street and yelled HURR DURR (literally) at each other at the top of their lungs for 10 minutes straight.
It was the barbershop quartet from hell.
So it's a good thing sound can't wake me up or prevent me from falling asleep!
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at about 2AM four of them went to stand in the middle of the street and yelled HURR DURR (literally) at each other at the top of their lungs for 10 minutes straight.
It was the barbershop quartet from hell.
Is it wrong that I think that's kind of awesome?
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Well, err, no, I suppose not.
I'll put in a good word for you next time I hear they have a vacancy though. :itsmagic:
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Considering how often both Starr and I actually go HURRRR!, DURRRRR! and DERP! out loud at each other already, that'll be an appropriate place for us to wind up.
So long as the current lodgers don't object on the grounds that we'd lower the general intellectual climate that is.
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You know what you must do.
hint: it involves dressing up like a Tusken Raider
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Turns out I live next door to a home for the mentally challenged. I had noticed some unusually dull-looking people coming in and out a couple times, but what clued me in was when last night at about 2AM four of them went to stand in the middle of the street and yelled HURR DURR (literally) at each other at the top of their lungs for 10 minutes straight.
It was the barbershop quartet from hell.
So it's a good thing sound can't wake me up or prevent me from falling asleep!
Are you sure it's not a frat house
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Maybe he just moved closer to Ottawa than we previously thought.
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HEYOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Now that I'm back in school I find myself falling into the same patterns that fucked me over the last time, i.e. subconsciously hamstringing my own ability to work until the absolute last moment so I can experience the thrill of pulling a perfect paper right the fuck out of my ass with my incredible smartiness, again and again and again until I have to already be late before I start.
I am addicted to being awesome. Somebody please deflate my ego.
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You never looked good with a mullet.
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You are a terrible liar but I appreciate the sentiment.
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Brentai, you realize that it's idiots like you who are dragging standards down, right? The only reason you're experiencing any success with your strategy is that there have been a continuous stream of idiots making grad students cry and lower the bar while you were busy trying to have money to eat.
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That didn't help? Do I have to pull out the fucking big guns here?
Get to study!
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You will never know how loudly I scream at my computer because of things like this
(http://i.imgur.com/G1evN.png)
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Back on Slashdot I discovered that the sure-fire way to maximum karma was to make a quick nerd joke related to the story as one of the earliest comments.
The first time I tried this, I got the maximum 5 karma instantly. Then someone made a reply, explaining the joke, and HE got 5 karma too.
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Online recipes that are like:
1-Buy sauce at the store
2-Slather meat in said sauce
3-Add a vegetable (optional)
4-Cook until done
5-Salt and pepper to taste
Whoa there, chef Boyardee, slow down! We can't all work at the French Laundry!
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I briefly mentioned this elsewhere, but I figured I should elaborate:
I understand the purpose of it, but I really hate that EB Games does that thing where the box is opened, the disc has been kept in a paper sleeve for years and is unsurprisingly scuffed, and the case is both covered in difficult-to-remove stickers* and bashed up a little from being kept on a shelf and manhandled by the public, but I am nonetheless told that I am buying a new game.
*Goo Gone is the best thing anyone has invented ever.
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It is, in fact, the stupidest thing. Double points when they don't even tell you before making you wait for finding the disc in the back that it's the shelf copy.
Fun fact: they can actually mark it as "damaged" and charge less, but wont unless they like you.
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I hate it. The only times I buy a game from GameStop is when I can guarantee I can get it still plastic wrapped.
It got worse after I found out that employees can take games and play them.
That's right. You can get a "new" game and it might already have save files on it. UNACCEPTABLE.
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The Internet. Sponsored by:
MICHELLE BACHMANN FOR PRESIDENT
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My dog ran off(again) today. I went after her, but lost track of her, and since I live alone, I figured it would be better to go back home just in case she came back, rather than wander around looking for her. About an hour later, I heard dogs barking a couple of houses down, so I went to check it out, and sure enough, there she was! So I tried to call her back, but she ignored me. I couldn't go after her, because she's still basically a puppy, and if I run after her, she'll think I'm trying to chase her, and run off again.
Just then, a car pulled up, and two girls got out. She ran to one of them(my dog loves people). The girl looked right at me with the leash in my hand, trying to lure my dog back to me, and rather than make any attempt to help me catch her, yelled at her and chased her away.
:rage:
Fortunately, she didn't go far. She just circled around a couple of houses and came back, but if she had gotten hit by a car or something, I would probably be in jail right now.
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Why do you let your dog out leashless if she doesn't stay with you?
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When your laptop arrives back from warranty repair with worse problem than when you sent it off. Twenty minutes before you go on a two week trip.
When fatigue gets you a speeding ticket 10 minutes outside of where you were going to rest
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When after reading over the ticket you have no idea how much you owe, won't be home for two weeks and the courthouse for it is a 4
:hour drive
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3 hours if you rush it!
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My little brother (20) cannot sit down in a car or on a couch and not fall asleep unless he is eating. What makes it worse is he has the TV or radio cranked up and when it's turned off, he refuses to believe he was asleep. To the point he becomes almost violently angry.
I'd be having a conversation and get a text or phone call and when I turn to continue he's snoring. So I leave him be. Half an hour later he's yelling at me for not continuing the conversation.
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Get him medical attention?
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It's not like a sleeping disease. He just is a very sleepy guy. Because he's always partying.
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Video evidence is the only option.
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I never really used to pay attention to restaurant flyers, but since I've moved and started handling all incoming mail I suppose I've glanced at a couple, just out of curiosity.
...
12 bucks, before tax, for the place's cheapest 7" sub? What the hell, people? Twelve dollars buy me like five meals! Who pays 12 fucking Canadian dollars for a fucking sub? This isn't even some high-brow place, it's a bullshit faux-Italian chain where idiots take their girlfriends when they want to look fancy! Jesus Christ! :fail:
Times are tough? You think times are tough? Take that 12 dollar sandwich out of your pie-hole, motherfucker, then tell me again that times are tough.
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Who eats a sub when trying to look fancy?
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Notably anyone who eats a twelve dollar sub has never had "tough times".
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I never really used to pay attention to restaurant flyers, but since I've moved and started handling all incoming mail I suppose I've glanced at a couple, just out of curiosity.
...
12 bucks, before tax, for the place's cheapest 7" sub? What the hell, people? Twelve dollars buy me like five meals! Who pays 12 fucking Canadian dollars for a fucking sub? This isn't even some high-brow place, it's a bullshit faux-Italian chain where idiots take their girlfriends when they want to look fancy! Jesus Christ! :fail:
Times are tough? You think times are tough? Take that 12 dollar sandwich out of your pie-hole, motherfucker, then tell me again that times are tough.
Times will never be tough at Subway®, where you can get any regular footlong sub for just five dollars! That's right, the $5 footlong is still here! Your choice of B.L.T., Black Forest Ham, Cold Cut Combo, Italian B.M.T.®, Meatball Marinara, Spicy Italian or Veggie Delite®, all only for $5! So hurry in to your local Subway® for a footlong for only $5!
Subway®: Eat Fresh!™
taxes may apply
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Oh god how I hate Subway.
Everything there really does taste like its been sprayed down with Mysterious Substances, then stored in plastic bags for weeks.
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Who eats a sub when trying to look fancy?
Idiots trying to impress their idiot girlfriends.
They actually got like a decent pasta selection and "European" pizza and that sort of thing. But the subs struck me because they were literally their cheapest entrée... except for their small pepperoni pizza, which is 11$. I'll make three twelve inchers for that price and you can bet your ass it's gonna be a lot better than theirs.
And this ain't like a retarded faux mom-and-pop place that'll close down in a week, this is a popular chain.
I don't even know why this is pissing me off so much. It's like I've suddenly looked out my window and saw a million robbers making off with a million purses.
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Why does every social networking thingy want me to follow/friend Felicia Day?
I'm sure she's a nice lady and all but dang.
Dang.
Daaaaaaaang.
Lay off, man!
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sfdebris, I like your reviews, but come on. Just because you're friends with Confused Matthew and Linkara doesn't make their shows worth recommending.
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Pet Peeve: People who tell you to "Just get a job/get another job". Yeah, no, fuck you.
Jobby Job (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVfyNOn2qls#)
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How the non-word "shambolic" has suddenly become really Hip and Trendy for newspaper writers to either overuse horribly or use where it makes no sense at all.
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So you could say... shambolic uses of the word.
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This is the first time I've ever seen that word.
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Same. I don't even know what it means. I'm guessing it's the quality of being highly absorbent and preferred by TF2's Scout.
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It's a portmanteau of the two component words that seems to be used as you would imagine. It's hard to tell because writers have become so enamoured of it that they randomly stick it in articles.
Might just be a Canadian press thing, but I've seen it in both national papers and two local ones so far.
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shameless and symbolic? sham and hyberbolic? shambling and alcoholic?
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Sham and symbolic.
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Shamble. Apparently on the model of symbolic.
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Sounds like a perfectly cromulent word.
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See, the go-to source (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shambolic) for stuff like this says it is a real word, with a different definition.
So are you sure you're not just crazy?
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Well, in my defense, usage only seems to correspond with that definition about 1/3rd of the time.
I dunno, all of a sudden it just seemed to become REALLY POPULAR to randomly ram into various articles.
I guess you could say the usage is... Shambolic.
:deal:
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So you could say... shambolic uses of the word.
(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9fvwdwg4U1qzozwoo1_400.gif)
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"Mitch has a habit of getting locked out of places."
"I'd carry my keys if peo-"
"He really needs to carry his keys with him."
"People keep stealing my keys! If they wouldn't take m-"
"Mitch, why do you always argue?"
"B-Wh-I-"
"Stop arguing!"
This may or not be related to my shit days post.
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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh unless you are being routinely pickpocketed I don't see how people can steal your keys while you are carrying them. Unless you mean they are like, stealing your keys out of your locker at work?
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can't you just buy one of those little accessory chains to tie your key to your pants, just a friendly suggestion.
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My family constantly take my keys from their spot. So I started to keep my keys in my room. This causes my parents complain and think I'm being paranoid and a jerk so it starts a bitchfest.
It doesn't help that I have two keychains because I switch between driving two vehicles.
And for some god damn reason people take my house key of my car keys and move it about.
My problem with my keys is my family taking them then bitching at me that I don't have my keys.
My problem with my family is they do things and then get mad at me "for arguing."
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make some extra keys?
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Your problem with your family is that you didn't let them know who's boss from the outset. Now you are forever a chump.
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You know, I had that problem once. Then I kept all of my keys on my person every waking hour (save showering) and within 3 meters of me at all other times.
It also helps that I get really passive-aggressive whenever someone asks a favor of me and doesn't "please/thanks".
I don't think this is going to fly in your situation, because apparently they think an authoritarian parenting style is the ideal.
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make some extra keys?
Then they'll take the keys, LOSE the keys, and blame Lottel.
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That's actually what happened to my last set.
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This is where all my batteries go
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I have the same problem with keys. My mother has had to come to my work to pick up keys to get into the house because she tends to lose hers for days randomly.
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I ain't gonna say getting my own apartment has solved all my problems... but if I made a list of the problems I used to have, arranged them in descending order of magnitude, and cut off the bottom two thirds, it'd probably be pretty accurate.
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Not a day goes by that I don't have the "I need to get my own apartment" conversation with family or friends. Whether I'm a willing participant or not.
But I'm unemployed and spent my cushion money on my student loans after a silly misfile on their end ended up costing me $6,000 with a $1000 tacked on every six months. But since I'm moving in January to a campus, getting an apartment now will just be silly. My plan is (once I get more than the $2.15 I have) to buy a key and keep it in my god damn wallet.
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I keep my keys in my front pocket. Pretty much all the time.
And a spare set in my backpack. Which is handy, because last week I locked my keys in my car. (I pretty obsessively check my pockets every time I close a door, but about once a year I slip up. In this case they appeared to have fallen out of my pocket, because they were on the floor in the backseat.)
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Relevant! (http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=031411)
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That very last panel :lol:
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I routinely cannot find my glasses because they are on my face.
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Donate blood? No thank you, I'm probably going to have to drive really fast and skip lunch to have my refrigerator delivered today, so I don't need any debilitating...
Oh. Look at those colors.
Those are migraine colors.
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Is it entitled to complain that there was Diet Coke on tap where it was labeled regular Coke if you're actually really allergic to Diet Coke?
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Just fake anaphylatic shock in front of some customer service schmuck and explain it when they can't figure it out on their own.
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(I'm selling warhammer stuff on craigslist.)
:derp: :Will you take $75 for (portion of them. It's a fair price to be perfectly honest)
:facepalm: Will you go up to $85? One of those things you want is no longer produced. Kind of rare.
:derp: $75 is all I can afford
:facepalm: $75 is fine then. What time would you want to meet to pick these up?
:derp: Nevermind I thought about it and now I can't afford it
:scanners:
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I despise haggling in general. Hell, the people in the MTG thread are talking about why they quit playing: a major reason for me was I was sick of the stupid fucking haggle dance you had to perform each and every time you traded with anyone. Haggling is the entire reason I will not play Raccetear.
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I've replaced haggling with haggaring. That's when I crush your head beneath my steely glutes if I don't like the price you give me.
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I despise haggling in general. Hell, the people in the MTG thread are talking about why they quit playing: a major reason for me was I was sick of the stupid fucking haggle dance you had to perform each and every time you traded with anyone. Haggling is the entire reason I will not play Raccetear.
When selling something, 102%. When buying something from a customer, 95%.
Halve that if it's decreased, 1.5x if it's red. Works on 99.9% of the customers.
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I despise haggling in general. Hell, the people in the MTG thread are talking about why they quit playing: a major reason for me was I was sick of the stupid fucking haggle dance you had to perform each and every time you traded with anyone.
That only lasts until someone whips out an iPhone and consults starcitygames's prices, at which point you can kiss what you thought was an equitable trade goodbye.
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I've actually come really far down on my price. I'm selling my Warhammer shit for near 30-40% of retail, and like I said, the Venerable Dread I'm trying to sell is the high quality metal - not like the plastic garbage they have now. The fact he backed out after I came back to his price is what irritates me.
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I despise haggling in general. Hell, the people in the MTG thread are talking about why they quit playing: a major reason for me was I was sick of the stupid fucking haggle dance you had to perform each and every time you traded with anyone.
That only lasts until someone whips out an iPhone and consults starcitygames's prices, at which point you can kiss what you thought was an equitable trade goodbye.
Almost any value scheme can be sort of fair. SCG is terrifyingly overpriced, but they're more or less up-to-date. So as long as both participants are using the same reference, it's not horrible.
The real problem is when they want to value their cards by SCG prices and your cards by ebay prices. When someone tries that shit with me, I just punch them in the nose.
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There's really no "other people being dumb" thread, and I didn't feel like starting one.
Last night, my roommate came into the living room and asked me, "Have you seen this dancing baby video?" I figured she meant the one with the baby dancing to Single Ladies, and I was like, yeah, it's pretty cute. She replied, "No, it's like, a cartoon baby, and he's dancing to that ooga chaka song."
:slow:
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Dancing Baby is the Classic First Enemy of the Internet, like a goomba or slime.
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Level two is shitting dick nipples. Help her along.
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A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
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(http://zedpower.dreamhosters.com/images/misc/amish.jpg)
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Dancing Baby is the Classic First Enemy of the Internet, like a goomba or slime.
What's All Your Base?
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Belong to us.
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Ba dum tssshhh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI#)
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all that stuff from the last page (damned page breaks)
Fifteen Minutes of Internets in Fifteen Seconds.gif
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My mother routinely calls me over to her laptop to show me internet from ten years ago.
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My mother just got facebook and insists facebook invented "Chatting" or as she calls it "instant e-mail talking"
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That's ridiculous. Hasn't she ever heard of The Buddy Line?
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Parents who bring small children to an R-Rated film.
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My mother routinely calls me over to her laptop to show me internet from ten years ago.
Trickle-down memes.
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God dammit Al Gore.
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("The Buddy Line" is what my grandma calls AIM.)
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Thanks for clearing that up. I had no idea what you were talking about and just chalked it up to you being crazy.
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When a pickle tub at a bbq bar that has always had dill pickles inexplicably has sweet bread pickles instead without warning or notice
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I've received three calls AND emails from three different people from the SAME RECRUITING COMPANY in the last two days during business hours. You'd think someone would put a little note on the file that says "This guy has a job he likes, leave him alone."
The kicker is that the first guy I talked to mentioned that it was with [amazing company] for [amazing pay] so I basically said, you know what, that's *just* enough to get me to consider jumping ship, just send me the info so I don't have to DISCUSS ANOTHER JOB OFFER WHILE I'm IN THE OFFICE and I'll look over it and PASS IT ALONG TO MY OTHER, MORE AVAILABLE AND INTERESTED FRIENDS. Which he never did.
So my current theory is that the unemployment rate is so high because nobody even knows how the fuck to hire a person.
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I read an article where companies are in a tizzy because they can't find enough people to hire.
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Just because there's a lot of people out of work doesn't mean that enough of them are qualified for the positions that are open, the more technical of which can be extremely rarefied. But it seems businesses have lost a lot of their willingness or ability to train new hires. Witness R^2's earlier comment about how weird it was that they were actually telling him his responsibilities.
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I bet I got hired based solely on the fact that I had a difficult-to-obtain certification from my old job, which was about to lapse, but was able to be renewed when I got hired on. No expense to my new company to get the certification.
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I bet I got hired based solely on the fact that I had a difficult-to-obtain certification from my old job, which was about to lapse, but was able to be renewed when I got hired on. No expense to my new company to get the certification.
Out of curiosity, what was the cert? Something to do with aircraft maintenance?
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TODAY I DISCOVERED THAT MY PET PEEVE IS 12 HOUR WORKDAYS.
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oh christ beat is here
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He's that crazy motherfucking mechanical bird, right?
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<TedBelmont> What the
<TedBelmont> My roommate is...
<TedBelmont> Howling at her dog.
<TedBelmont> Or maybe whining?
<TedBelmont> I'm not sure
<TedBelmont> I think she's making fun of him
<TedBelmont> Either way, it's incredibly obnoxious and it makes me want to punch her in the goddamn face
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Maybe she was just doing this
Husky Dog Talking - " I love you " (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXo3NFqkaRM#)
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Considering that she routinely calls him a "dickturd"(whatever the hell that is), and prefers to lock him in her room and ignore him rather than train or discipline him, and when he whines and scratches at the door, she yells at him, I'd say no.
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Beat her up, take the dog, fight crime.
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Imma say you should go with Lottel's answer then.
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Cover her in strips of raw venison.
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Brentai, leave your fetishes out of this.
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Hey, a man's gotta eat.
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Maybe she was just doing this
Husky Dog Talking - " I love you " (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXo3NFqkaRM#)
My dachshund did the same thing. ;_;
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"Meatless Wings", eh? You mean "Chicken strips" - right, assholes?
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Err, if someone's selling you meatless wings, isn't nomenclature the least of your problems?
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Naw, nobody was selling me those. It's a sign I keep seeing on restaurants 'round here "WE NOW HAVE
MEATLESS (sorry) BONELESS WINGS!".
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Not Boneless?
Because I'm picturing bones with fried skins covered in sauce.
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i'm just imagining a pile of discarded bones from someone else's wings
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Oh man, what a typo. :lol:
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Well, some people don't count chicken as "meat".
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Idiots?
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There are lots of cultures who make the distinction between fowl, fish, and terrestrial meats, as evidenced by the way we'll use fowl or fish to refer to meats from those animals when we want to be more precise. It's not strictly the fault of idiots that meat is the only single word we have for "flesh of an animal" that doesn't mean something more specific other than "flesh".
Of course, meatless wings is something I'd never order at a restaurant.
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What I learned today: If I fuck up and leave a soda on my desk overnight, I will wake up to a goddam hippie commune of ants crawling all over my shit.
I kind of knew that already but it's still irritating, but at least now I know that they can be dealt with pretty easily with some 409 and a paper towel. There's not a lot of places on a big flat sheet of glass for them to hide.
Still though, I'm going to be overreacting to minor tingles ALL DAY.
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One time, I was sitting at my computer when I began to hear a noise. It sounded a bit like a trickle of water... maybe some rice krispies in milk, or the sound a plastic bag makes once you've just crinkled it up.
Upon investigation, I found an errant shrimp tail on my floor... being devoured by a murder of ants. Loudly.
Grossest thing ever.
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But for some reason all this makes me want to do is play SimAnt, which in retrospect was not very good.
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ADVENTURES IN TERRIBLE ROOMMATES, PART THE WHATEVER:
Last Tuesday, I went grocery shopping! I bought, among other things, two small pizzas, a pound or so of frozen raviolis, some onions, a dozen eggs, and some macaroni and cheese.
Cut to Saturday evening: I got home from work, and thought to myself, a pizza sounds pretty great right now! I went to the freezer, to discover that both of my pizzas are gone. I did a quick mental tally of my remaining foodstuffs, and realized that in THREE DAYS, she had eaten both pizzas, half of my ravioli, all of my macaroni & cheese, half of my dozen eggs, one of my onions, an entire half of a loaf of bread, and most of the gallon of milk I had bought the week before.
Now, normally I wouldn't mind, except she didn't even ask if she could eat any of it, she left me hardly anything to eat, and I can't go shopping again until I get paid tomorrow. I've managed to get by on what was left, plus the food I have that she won't eat, but my anger at this is compounded by the fact that she is perfectly capable of buying her own goddamn food. She gets food stamps, and there is literally a grocery store right across the street. She's just too lazy to walk, and so entitled and inconsiderate that she thinks it's perfectly okay to eat all of my food when hers runs out.
Then, on Sunday, she tried to pick a fight with me on facebook when I said I was deleting my facebook account due to privacy concerns. When I slapped down her arguments, she tried to claim that I was attacking her for stating an opinion, when she never stated an opinion, she just came out of nowhere and attacked my very real concerns about facebook's repeated misuse of private information. Then she pulled the Internet Argument Tactic of going, "Whatever, I've got better things to do", and leaving...except she didn't leave, she stuck around and tried to argue more with me AND my friends who were agreeing with me.
Since that evening, she hasn't said a word to me, which leads to TODAY, when she left without saying where she was going or for how long, and leaving her dog locked in a tiny cage in her room, with no food and very little water. She had some sort of overnight bag when she left, so I'm assuming she'll be gone until at least tomorrow.
So I did what I think anyone would do: I went into her room, let her dog out, and took him for a walk. He's now playing with my dog in the living room, and they both seem very happy to see each other(she usually keeps him in her room except when she takes him outside to go to the bathroom, so they very rarely get to see each other).
I still haven't decided if I'm going to lock him back up when I leave for work, or just let him roam free. She's done an incredibly shitty job of housebreaking him, because like I said before, she's extremely lazy, so I'm worried about letting him free in the house. I might just put him back in her room, but leave him loose; it already reeks of piss anyway.
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Sounds a lot like my old roommate.
I wouldn't recommend leaving her dog to make a mess in her room. I did all kinds of passive-aggressive things like that to take out my anger on her, and while it felt good at the time, I really regret it in retrospect.
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My best recently started an open relationship with his wife, so she could explore relationships with women. The problem is, this seems to have turned him into Creepy Womanizer. After a certain level of drunkenness at bars and parties, he simply ignores conversations or interactions with friends and focuses exclusively on hitting on every single woman he can find. There's a certain level of misogyny to it, especially when he makes comments about other women's bodies, and lately it's been creeping out my girlfriend something fierce, to the point where she doesn't feel comfortable around him.
When confronted, he of course acted like she was the crazy one.
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she tried to claim that I was attacking her for stating an opinion
Oh boy, she said the magic words!
Thad Libs
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Yeah, I was pleased to see this bit in Ars's troll-crackdown post (http://arstechnica.com/staff/palatine/2011/09/announcing-increased-moderation-of-trolls-in-discussion-threads.ars) t'other week:
Anti-trolling efforts aren't about silencing discord or competing points of view, although the unimaginative troll will always claim that it is.
Would be even better if they could keep their subjects and verbs straight, but still and all, I have been quoting it at "You're just mad because I have a different opinion!" trolls at every opportunity.
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she tried to claim that I was attacking her for stating an opinion
Oh boy, she said the magic words!
Thad Libs
____[Person]____,
I will explain this one final time.
I could give a fuck that you have a different opinion from mine. The problem is that, by your own admission (http://Insert a hyperlink here!), you do not wish to have a conversation, you simply wish to state opinions which are unsupported by facts and then cry when anyone disagrees with you. Furthermore, when ____an action that [Person] does____, you change the subject and start ____another action that [Person] does____.
]A quote by [person] goes here]
See that? Precisely what in the hemorrhaging FUCK does that have to do with __subject__, the stated subject matter for the ___place___ board?
You want to write a thread all about ___person, place, or thing___? Fucking great. It's been (http://hyperlink relating to the person, place, or thing) done (http://another person, place, or thing), but if you want to do it again, knock yourself out.
If, on the other hand, you want to keep posting in __another place__, you're going to have to start using facts and logic and quit whining every time someone points out that you are citing as facts things that are completely fucking wrong. (Or, you know, you could stop citing as facts things that are completely fucking wrong. But I'm willing to settle for baby steps.)
I have been over all this ___insert person, place, or time___. I'm not going to explain it again. The next time you whine about how ___new person___ persecuting you for having a difference of opinion, I will simply quote this post -- or one of the many, many others which say the same thing in different words --, possibly with some bolded text.
In summation: That's stupid. You're stupid.
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Oh snap, I forgot all about that thing. What a time-saver!
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In grocery stores here (even the regular ones) there's a lot of frozen asian dumplings/pork buns/dim sums available in many shapes, sizes and types. I'll get these sometimes for lazy lunches.
So I got a couple of cheap packs of sui mei yesterday (I don't usually get these as the cost-to-quantity ratio is much lower for dim sums etc.). They were in a ice-cube like tray, wrapped in transparent plastic with a label over the middle. The tray appears to be 5 x 2 cups (implying 10 pieces). When I opened the package, the middle two cups (conveniently obscured by the label) were empty. This was not a packaging mistake - all the packages I got were like this.
HAHA YOU GUYYYS. YOU SURE GOT ME.
FUCKFACES!
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Let it be known that as King of the Internet I will sentence to death by guillotine every man who mentions a World of Warcraft encounter in any discussion of video game boss battles.
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That's just like that time you fought that boss in Pit of Sauron
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Is there anyway to keep Aintaer from liking any posts on Facebook short of blocking him?
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Uh?
Did I miss Aintaer becoming Chinese Hitler or what?
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The "Like" button is brain poison. My opinions on karma systems in general are pretty well documented.
I suppose the thumbs-up/thumbs-down system on ComicsAlliance has its benefits. Namely, that when some troll decides he's going to thumbs-down every single one of my posts in a 2200-post thread, that's an hour or so he's spending not posting anything.
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The "Like" button is brain poison. My opinions on karma systems in general are pretty well documented.
(http://prutledge.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/facebook_like_button1.png)
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We had discussed in final fight a while ago how Aint has become a bot on Facebook. He made this. (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/113710)
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The "Like" button is brain poison. My opinions on karma systems in general are pretty well documented.
Yeah but on the other hand... Talking Time doesn't have a karma system, so whenever somebody writes a really great post they'll get something like 50 replies of just their post in a quote box and nothing else.
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Yes, I will grant that 50 posts that just SAY "LIKE" is worse than 50 Likes.
I still think it's a moderation/QC issue.
Also, re Aintaer's script: Oh wow, that's kind of amazing.
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Is there anyway to keep Aintaer from liking any posts on Facebook short of blocking him?
There is no way to stop me from liking things. I like all the things because all things are likable. I think I am likable. Do you like me?
Also, re Aintaer's script: Oh wow, that's kind of amazing.
I updated it to work with Chrome too!
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There is no way to stop me from licking things. I lick all the things because all things are lickable. I think I am lickable. Do you lick me?
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I like licking things. You are a lickable thing! I like to lick you. Licking is frumple. We are happy campers!
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Ted does it without a script!
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Hey, talking about Talking Time again: since I'm pretty sure this would get me banned from there or at least ostracized, I'm going to reply to it here.
Especially considering this is all some guy just doodling. It's not like these are going to be used for anything outside of his blog posts.
I hope you choke to death on cancer you smug fucking tool.
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Eh, I'm pretty sure wolfgang is a giant troll. Correct me if I'm wrong, kayin, but isn't he on the verge of being banned from #talkingtime at least?
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Yeah ignore Wolfgang. He's gotten better in irc, but he is still a huge douche about a whole lot of things.
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Yeah I'm starting to gather that.
I guess I understand what you're trying to get at here? But in the end, it still doesn't make your outrage understandable. So, women are capable of being sexualized. That's pretty obvious. Why are you mad about it?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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Warned you 'bout those talkies bro
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At first all I got was gangbang being kind of a pompous, smug prick, without any kind of greater context, and I felt your anger was unjustified.
EDIT:
I don't know if I just fixed a typo or added one. F-ffuuuuck.
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Aw, everybody knows DNi's skin is tissue paper. I don't see Wolfgang saying anything mean. He's making the point that the art isn't going to be used for much else. DNi could retort by saying that the practice is what's important, or that it WILL be used, or he could just not respond since he's an amazing artist and very funny and who cares what Wolfgang thinks. Frankly it's funny to me what Wolfgang said, but I know that isn't the point (or even fair).
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Trolls gunna troll, can't stop em unless you are a mod, and sometimes even bans don't work. Best thing to do is ignore them until they realize how retarded they're being. I use to be quite the retarded troll myself, some might say I still am, but I like to think I've at least improved. Anyway, just wait for this wolfgang fellow to get banned then make jokes about him. It's the internet way. :itsmagic:
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Do you think you're some kind of ninja? Because I noticed what you did when Thad said he banned you and you immediately posted in one of your own game project topics.
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Hold on a sec- We waited until Sora got banned before making jokes about him?
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Do you think you're some kind of ninja? Because I noticed what you did when Thad said he banned you and you immediately posted in one of your own game project topics.
Whoa. calm down there buddy. I know damn good and well everyone knows who I am. I'm not trying to say something like "I've outsmarted all of you with my cunning tricks" I'm just not making a big huge post that says "this is who I am" cause I don't need the attention here. That is to say the attention of a bunch of people in a thread, or quoting a post going "Why aren't you banned", "You are banned", "ban him!" This would be my own fault for my previous actions, and not the fault of the community however, and I know this. I want to become a part of this community still, and to do it the right way, of learning how to not be a troll, and lurking before I post, and not posting stupid things. I wasn't trying to offend anyone with my post, but it seems I have, and for that I apologize. All I meant was that there's no use taking what a troll says to heart, and you should ignore him if you don't have the power to remove him. The troll I am referring to is wolfgang so there's no confusion.
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Do you think you're some kind of ninja? Because I noticed what you did when Thad said he banned you and you immediately posted in one of your own game project topics.
I didn't actually ban him. I just pointed out who he was and then he changed his name. Again.
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Wait, this isn't a new guy?
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So anyway, I fucking hate it when my internet connection starts randomly disconnecting, and being total shit. That's my pet peeve.
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Wait, this isn't a new guy?
It's SoraCross, someone you can ignore and not lose anything of value.
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You know, he's actually been acting better. He's not even whining when people say he's a horrible person every time he posts.
New leaves and all that maybe?
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You know, he's actually been acting better. He's not even whining when people say he's a horrible person every time he posts.
New leaves and all that maybe?
This is like the third time someone has said this and it has turned out that no, he's as shitty as ever.
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But don't you like being proven right?
EDIT:
I always want to give people (who haven't directly wronged me) additional chances.
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As a similarly natured person burdened with far too much good will for everyone Classic, I assure you that it is a character flaw. I've been burned way too many times.
And I'm similarly certain I'll eat these words, but what's the WORST that could happen? He goes off and does something stupid and annoying and is banned again, only to return a few months later. If he's behaving well this go round, let's throw him a bone and see if it sticks.
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Programmers who intentionally obfuscate their shit for job security, when 80% of the people they work with can hardly even speak English. Unfortunately for both them and me, my reputation for being able to unravel and eventually fix that shit has become kind of legendary. I'm basically doomed to spend the rest of my career terminating others', and then cleaning up the bloody mess they leave behind.
(Did you notice a sign in front of my house that says "Dead Nerd Storage"?)
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...well. THAT was edifying.
And there are still enough posts left to sustain a multipage thread about phones, splitmerge into the Apple thread, and a definite plurality of posts where we discuss the vagararies of language.
But not right now. (Though I AM going to splitmerge off the few posts about Netflix. I was wondering where they went.)
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This makes me see red. I'm not sure if I mentioned it before so I'm going to again.
A while back, I was listening to an lper play a Zelda map for Minecraft. He wasn't very good or interesting, but I need shit to listen to. Well, he came across a Rupee at the end of a video and called it a "Ruby." Now. Easy mistake and all that. He even said in the next video "Hey. I grew up calling them rubies and I'll probably keep calling them that, but I'll try to say Rupee if I remember." THEN he made a video saying "No. You know what? I can pronounce a word however I want. It's my god given right to say things however I want to say them and you're wrong for saying I'm wrong."
Now someone posted a thing about Ra's al Ghul's name. And a girl comes up and says a very similar thing. Only this time she adds that he's a fictional character. Yes. He's fictional, but the language or the letters aren't fictional. Words have rules. I don't care if you are wrong, that happens. I don't care if you know you are wrong but keep saying it the way you are comfortable with. But you can't just say that you aren't wrong because languages are dumb and you can say things however you want and not be wrong.
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Which is why you're speaking the exact same English as from 500 years ago.
Or even 100 years ago.
Or even 50 years ago.
Or even 10 years ago.
Or in fact, the language has never changed in any way in the last 5 years.
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In a similar vein, I can't stand it when people come across a new or unusual word, and say "I'm not even gonna try to pronounce that".
WHY THE HELL NOT?
It ain't made out of ideograms, you lazy fucks. The instructions to pronounce it are right there! And even if it's pronounced differently than it's written, at least you gave it a shot. Best case, you luckily stumble on the correct way to say it; worst case, you admit your ignorance, which you already do if you give up before you start anyway. You have nothing to lose!
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Which is why you're speaking the exact same English as from 500 years ago.
Or even 100 years ago.
Or even 50 years ago.
Or even 10 years ago.
Or in fact, the language has never changed in any way in the last 5 years.
I didn't read that as Lottel being pissed about language changing, more being pissed at the attitude of knowing a rule and breaking it anyway, out of laziness, ego, or both. Sort of "I'm going to make my own private language and fuck all y'all weeble warble sclup!"
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Which is why you're speaking the exact same English as from 500 years ago.
Or even 100 years ago.
Or even 50 years ago.
Or even 10 years ago.
Or in fact, the language has never changed in any way in the last 5 years.
(http://i.imgur.com/GyNj0.jpg)
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I think what Lottel's mad about is more that people are deliberately mispronouncing things with proper names, just to be bull-headed, when they know they're wrong. Which really has nothing to do with the language evolving, because they are Proper Names.
Although I'm still pronouncing it 'Dark-SEED' rather than 'Dark-SIDE', so I guess that makes me Lottel's enemy too. :nyoro~n:
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I'm still pronouncing it 'Dark-SEDE' rather than 'Dark-SIDE', so I guess that makes me Lottel's enemy too. :nyoro~n:
>__>
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You mean it's not pronounced Darksayd?
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We can chalk "Ruby" up to the fact that that's how it was written in the manual for the original game.
We can chalk "Darkseed"/"Darksayd" up to the fact that Jack Kirby had a junior high education and in actual fact there are not very many words in English where "ei" makes an "ai" sound.
And yes, of course language fucking evolves, but there's a pretty big goddamn difference between acknowledging language evolves and saying you're not wrong for deciding words are spelled/pronounced/defined however the fuck you want them to be and you're not wrong if your spelling/pronunciation/definition is different from 100% of all other speakers.
There needs to be, at minimum, some fucking general consensus on how words and symbols are used; otherwise kreaea etdsapo cml;awe e093asodzc q==$@!nnm.
You can make all the bullshit "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean" arguments you want, but at the end of the day the letter P still doesn't make a "buh" sound.
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(http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/calvin-on-scientific-law.gif)
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also
(http://i.imgur.com/994De.jpg)
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I guess I can be yelled at for saying "day-muhn" instead of "dee-muhn" when referring specifically to terminal-less background processes but that's a common enough practice that I can feel justified about it.
Anyone who doesn't say poh-tay-toh is objectively wrong and needs to go back to commieland though.
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Wait. If it's "dee-muhn" why the "ae" spelling?
Oh goddammit.
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also
(http://i.imgur.com/994De.jpg)
Aha. I've been looking for that strip. People were asking what the lyrics to the Harvey Birdman theme were, and I'm pretty confident that "Harvey Attorney" is followed by "Marvy Attorney".
I guess I can be yelled at for saying "day-muhn" instead of "dee-muhn" when referring specifically to terminal-less background processes but that's a common enough practice that I can feel justified about it.
Well, and the mispronunciation is less irritating than defending it by claiming there is no such thing as a mispronunciation. Again, "ruby" and "Darkseed" are both understandable errors; so is "daymon" -- it's from an acronym that matches an archaic Latin spelling using a letter combination that has been deprecated in modern Romance languages (otherwise I'd be Thaddaeus).
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Aha. I've been looking for that strip. People were asking what the lyrics to the Harvey Birdman theme were, and I'm pretty confident that "Harvey Attorney" is followed by "Marvy Attorney".
Yeah, I just did a google image search for "calvin hobbes language marvy".
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We can chalk "Ruby" up to the fact that that's how it was written in the manual for the original game.
We can chalk "Darkseed"/"Darksayd" up to the fact that Jack Kirby had a junior high education and in actual fact there are not very many words in English where "ei" makes an "ai" sound.
And yes, of course language fucking evolves, but there's a pretty big goddamn difference between acknowledging language evolves and saying you're not wrong for deciding words are spelled/pronounced/defined however the fuck you want them to be and you're not wrong if your spelling/pronunciation/definition is different from 100% of all other speakers.
There needs to be, at minimum, some fucking general consensus on how words and symbols are used; otherwise kreaea etdsapo cml;awe e093asodzc q==$@!nnm.
You can make all the bullshit "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean" arguments you want, but at the end of the day the letter P still doesn't make a "buh" sound.
And you're still the guy who had a thread long argument with Sei over the word "Damned".
I of course know that there are rules, but I also know that the difference between "rupee" and "ruby" is miniscule. But I refer more to the Ra's Al Ghul problem, wherein a unique, written, fictitious word has an open pronunciation. As far as I know, the writers never put down how to pronounce it, like Rowling did with Her My Oh Nee.
The problem is complexed further by Batman: TAS and Batman Begins.
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Oh yeah, the actual reason I came to this thread.
I hate smokers. Now, on a personal level, I don't care if a person smokes. In their own home, or outdoors where the wind catches everything. But people who bitch about their civil liberties when cities enact smoking bans really grate on me, because these people have little regard for the health and liberties of others.
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And you're still the guy who had a thread long argument with Sei over the word "Damned".
Yes. Because the sound the letter "p" makes is equivalent to whether or not "damn" has been used as an adjective for the past four hundred years.
I just devoted an entire post to explaining the difference between acknowledging language evolves and claiming that there are absolutely no rules or consistency IN language and every usage is always correct.
It's the post you just fucking quoted in full and then responded to.
...well, the one you quoted in full and then wrote text underneath, anyway.
Seriously, guys, where'd you get that browser extension? I'd at least like to see it.
I of course know that there are rules, but I also know that the difference between "rupee" and "ruby" is miniscule.
So's the difference between "minuscule" and "miniscule", but only one of them is the correct spelling.
The biggest difference between those two examples is that a three-year-old knows what sound a P makes.
But I refer more to the Ra's Al Ghul problem, wherein a unique, written, fictitious word has an open pronunciation.
...uh?
Arabic is a real language, dude.
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Thank you Thad for saying things better than I did.
I'm glad someone gets it.
It's the attitude. The arrogance.
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also
(http://i.imgur.com/994De.jpg)
Aha. I've been looking for that strip. People were asking what the lyrics to the Harvey Birdman theme were, and I'm pretty confident that "Harvey Attorney" is followed by "Marvy Attorney".
I guess I can be yelled at for saying "day-muhn" instead of "dee-muhn" when referring specifically to terminal-less background processes but that's a common enough practice that I can feel justified about it.
Well, and the mispronunciation is less irritating than defending it by claiming there is no such thing as a mispronunciation. Again, "ruby" and "Darkseed" are both understandable errors; so is "daymon" -- it's from an acronym that matches an archaic Latin spelling using a letter combination that has been deprecated in modern Romance languages (otherwise I'd be Thaddaeus).
... why the fuck aren't you "Thaddaeus"?
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Cute.
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Pet Peeve:
Battlefield 3 was release today. I kind of want to play it yet I have no interest in supporting anything about it.
Tragedy.
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i keep seeing this sentiment around. i don't wanna start in on this sheeple shit but seriously, i know we're all good little brainwashed consumers but how hard is it not to throw your money at something you don't support?
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"damn" has been used as an adjective for the past four hundred years.
Got curious when you threw out a specific time frame. (I mean, it was probably hyperbole, but it made me wonder.)
Damn and its derivatives generally were avoided in print from 18c. to c.1930s (the famous line in the film version of "Gone with the Wind" was a breakthrough and required much effort by the studio). The noun is recorded from 1610s; to be not worth a damn is from 1817. The adjective is 1775, short for damned; Damn Yankee, characteristic Southern U.S. term for "Northerner," is attested from 1812.
236 is close enough to 400, I guess.
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It's closer to 400 than it is to zero.
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Damned could have come into English closer to 1600.
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What about people who know the meaning of words but decide that they're still going to use them in the wrong way? I know a dude who knows (we've told him many times) that 'nada' is 'nothing' but uses it as a replacement for the word no every chance he gets.
Hey, are we still on for 7 tonight?
Nada.
Infuriates me every time.
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*molests Miss Cat Ears*
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what the
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Since you don't hang out on IRC enough:
The "Brentai molests <x>" thing is just some sort of sick running gag/tradition/THING that's been going on for nigh a decade now. It's always implied that it refers so some sort of light sexual harrassment.
That's not what molest actually means.
Someone out there probably thinks I have been randomly punching (mostly) women for the last decade which probably isn't any worse.
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Uhhh
HE'S REALLY POPULAR, ULTUROSU!
LA LA LA LA, ULTUROSU!
*sneaks away*
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It's ORUTOROSU.
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Since you don't hang out on IRC enough:
The "Brentai molests <x>" thing is just some sort of sick running gag/tradition/THING that's been going on for nigh a decade now. It's always implied that it refers so some sort of light sexual harrassment.
That's not what molest actually means.
Someone out there probably thinks I have been randomly punching (mostly) women for the last decade which probably isn't any worse.
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Uhhh
HE'S REALLY POPULAR, ULTUROSU!
LA LA LA LA, ULTUROSU!
*sneaks away*
I thought we shared something special, Brentai-kun. ;_;
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I have an extremely creepy response to that one but I'm already in self-awareness mode sooooo...
He really loves to tease us, Orthorusu!
Isn't he a greek dog? Orthorusu!
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Anime-inspired Western-drawn interpretations of actual people, living or dead.
It's just so... stupid.
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So I just wanna say: fuck Steam Support.
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My new Western Digital Green drive is SO green that it doesn't come with a fucking SATA cable for me to attach it to my computer with.
If I'd bought an OEM drive, I would have expected this and bought one separately. But this is not an OEM drive; it came in a damn box.
Fuck's sake, WD, give me a damn cable. Charge me an extra fifty cents if you like. Hell, make it a buck. Or if it's that important to you to keep those three nines at the end of your price, at least put "SATA cable sold separately" somewhere on the fucking box.
(Also irritating: that WD was granted a trademark on "Green".)
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So when Facebook changed over to the new newsfeed type back in September or so, I started getting people I'm not friends with on my stream. I checked and this isn't a new feature, it's a bug. I went through the long hassle of tracking down an e-mail and actually e-mailing Facebook a picture. And sent them 4 more over the course of the next few days.
Now?
(http://i.imgur.com/KjCJT.png)
THEY AREN'T EVEN IN ENGLISH ANY MORE.
I mean, I've gotten people that were making racist comments, people making hateful religious comments, and all sorts of dating world bitching. I can't block these people, I can't hide them. They just pop up and are there until the stream moves along.
And of course, the only advice I get from people are "Stop using facebook lol"
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If facebook gave me lamebook quality posts along side my dumb friends I might have stayed.
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And of course, the only advice I get from people are "Stop using facebook lol"
Pretty sound advice, really.
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The term "USAians", and people who use it. Because fuck you.
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Well, the be fair "Americans" ain't the smartest term either. USAians is pretty dumb though.
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Do you call the Chinese "PRCans"?
The USA is kind of an awkward duckling because its full name really is "The United States of America" and it's not just following the traditonal <government> of <name> appellation. I think in some circles it's actually known as "The Republic of The United States of America", which is just getting silly, but not quite as silly as "fifty seperate countries acting as one country, called America, in North America."
The Founding Fathers were not as good at this whole government thing as people like to believe.
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And we can't be THE UNITED, because United Airlines is camping out on that one.
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How about just "Statesmen?"
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I call us "Best-ians" with Eurofriends.
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I prefer this appellation:
You big dummy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMTrthePKU0#)
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I showed a Jacket to someone online that I had an interest in buying a month or two ago. They said they'd buy it for me as a Christmas present. I argued, because I like buying my own shit, but I lost in the end. I kept nagging about "Hey, should I buy that jacket myself?" and they'd respond insulted with "No!"
Recently, they asked me for the website again because I guess they're finally ready to buy it. I went to look for it to link it, and the jacket I wanted is gone from their site completely. Not even an out-of-stock. It's just gone. I also checked ebay with no luck, and it's kind of a specialty so it wouldn't be on Amazon or anything.
:rage: For fucks sake.
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Never show anyone anything you like after August.
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I wish giving cash wasn't so pointlessly taboo in my family. They feel there's something important about giving physical presents and having something to do on Christmas morning.
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Half the time now when I go to google.com, the cursor defaults to the address bar instead of the google search bar. Ffffffffffffffff
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So basically you should be using chrome
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Yes. Because dismissing someone's complaints about compatibility with "just use the browser made by the same company as the site" has worked out so well for the computer industry in the past.
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Hey thad remember when instead of making a joke about browsers I made a serious statement about the morality of using google chrome that you responded to, cleverly destroying my flawed argument and convincing me about the error of my ways?
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I've noticed some other things like this lately... such as hotmail not working properly for some users of Firefox.
I'm glad we can look forward to a bright new era of corporate browser guerrilla warfare.
Anyway, the google thing wouldn't be so damned annoying if it was all the time instead of just SOME times.
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It's probably a thing you did to your browser, since it works perfectly for me and always has.
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Hey thad remember when instead of making a joke about browsers I made a serious statement about the morality of using google chrome that you responded to, cleverly destroying my flawed argument and convincing me about the error of my ways?
No, but I remember that time you responded to sarcasm with a barely-literate strawman.
You know, that one time.
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It's probably a thing you did to your browser, since it works perfectly for me and always has.
Well, I've made zero changes in a month or so and am on the latest iteration of FF, sooooooooo...
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Works fine for me.
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Maybe you have a new extension or an incompatible extension, might want to check that out.
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I haven't installed any new extensions in forever. And if NoScript, Adblock, or the Canadian dictionary (my only extensions) are causing it, well, I'm not gonna uninstall those (obviously the Canadian dictionary is responsible because, you know).
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I'd blame noscript myself, check to see what it's doing.
But maybe the canadian dictionary doesn't want you to use google to find the meaning of canadian words.
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I haven't installed any new extensions in forever. And if NoScript, Adblock, or the Canadian dictionary (my only extensions) are causing it, well, I'm not gonna uninstall those (obviously the Canadian dictionary is responsible because, you know).
I assume you paid close attention to the hosts needed for Hotmail to work properly, and that this isn't you missing something silly like a new domain or introduction of a new CDN or static assets server.
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Wait, what does Hotmail have to do with the cursor's default location on Google in Firefox? :wat: Oh wait... do you mean Hotmail not working in FF? That was on Starr's computer, not mine.
Anyway, the cursor thing didn't seem to happen today. Maybe it's been fixed?
Though funny you should bring up Hotmail. I had a pet peeve for them too. Last two weeks, it won't let me open an email (or do ANYTHING), until the messenger sidebar (the one trying to ape gmail's functionality) fully loads. Which seems to take minutes and/or several refreshes before it actually happens. I looked in settings to see if I could tell it to not bother loading messenger but no luck there.
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Girl I'm friend of a friends with is pregnant apparently. And is very vocal about it. And believes she's channeling her unborn baby's likes and dislikes through her. And calls it "Li'l Beanie."
So the majority of her statuses and comments are "Li'l Beanie HATES that show," "Li'l Beanie can't stand when people cut you off," "Li'l Beanie loves yoga <3"
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Yuck! I hate beans
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Geez, I feel sorry for that kid when he gets old enough to have his own likes and dislikes.
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... It's going to be so sad if there is a miscarriage.
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Li'l Beanie was just cramped.
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Also Li'l Beanie does not know what is good for itself, always champing for some hooch.
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Geez, I feel sorry for that kid when he gets old enough to have his own likes and dislikes.
You assume this child will ever be able to think for itself.
It makes me sort of angry in the sense of how stupid and ridiculous that person is being when they think they're being cute and nobody will call them out on their bullshit because they're pregnant.
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Pregnant Women are Smug by Garfunkel and Oates (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJRzBpFjJS8#)
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I've unironically heard the phrase "I'm so boho right now" four times in the last two hours.
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Is that code for something, like "drunk" or "angry" or "full of semen"?
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Full of something alright...
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Boho is douche for Bohemian. Only the worst kind of people say they look so boho.
ESPECIALLY if it's just wearing teal and brown together.
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Is that code for something, like "drunk" or "angry" or "full of semen"?
It's an acronym standing for Boozed, Outraged, Holes Occupied.
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Let's just go with BOring HO
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Straws. I realize it's a stupid thing to hate, but I can't stand them. Even at a fast food place I take the lid off of the cup and drink it normally.
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Lids are pretty damn useful when you're in a moving vehicle, but yeah other than that I prefer to drink straight from the cup.
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My teeth are, and have been for as long as I can remember, too sensitive to drink basically anything at temperatures below 40*F comfortably. Unless I have a straw, I generally need to take my drink without ice or sip it like the world's hottest coffee.
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Hey you. You, the lady with all the cutesy stickers and motivational phrases stuck to her laptop. Yeah.
You think maybe you could, I dunno, peel all that shit off your laptop before you send it back to the shop for redeployment?
No? You'd rather I cleaned up after you?
Huh.
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I hate it when people leave the remote next to the TV.
The ENTIRE PURPOSE of the device is to save me the trouble of having to get up and walk over to the damn TV.
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What, you mean you don't lie on your back on the floor and use your toes to operate the buttons on the TV like a sane person?
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Careful thad, you're getting dangerously close to drinking ovaltine and complaining about kids on your lawn.
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Some people can't keep track of the remote when they're not watching anything, so making a point of leaving it next to the TV may be a lesser evil compared to spending five minutes looking for it everytime something's on. Of course it's not the ideal option of always leaving it in the same place on/near the couch...
For the record I don't have that problem; my living room is too small to justify the use of a remote.
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I solved this problem years ago by not watching TV.
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Thad, I'm sorry.
Everyone has exhausted, verbatim, every snarky thing I wanted to say to disparage your annoyance at this. I have failed you.
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I solved this problem years ago by not watching TV.
Ha, I don't have cable or an antenna, so I couldn't even if I wanted to. I got a couple consoles hooked up though.
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Careful thad, you're getting dangerously close to drinking ovaltine and complaining about kids on your lawn.
Yes, because old people are perpetually complaining about how nowadays you have to get up and walk across the room to operate your TV and back in THEIR day you used to flip channels while sitting on your couch, and you unlazy kids don't know how bad you've got it.
When I was your age I used to walk TWELVE FEET to school every day in beautiful 75-degree weather! DOWNHILL BOTH WAYS!
I solved this problem years ago by not watching TV.
Also I find it irritating when people announce that they don't watch TV, like I should be impressed or something.
What do you want, a goddamn cookie?
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What do you want, a goddamn cookie?
Yes.
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Heh, it's still a big deal to some people. When I go to my mom's place, she always tries to get me to watch some; it's almost like she's worried that I'm starving myself of something.
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guys get with the times these days it's not about not watching tv it's about CUTTING THE CABLE and getting your tv through various video services online
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So it's about feeling smug about video piracy
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Thad's so old-man-y sometimes I expect him to announce he's running for the GOP.
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Huh, I had figured intellectual honesty was grounds for immediate ejection from the GOP.
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Also I find it irritating when people announce that they don't watch TV, like I should be impressed or something.
What do you want, a goddamn cookie?
It's kind of a point of pride to not be exposed to most of the trash that tumbles out of the boob tube despite intense peer pressure, and it's kind of a "and you shouldn't either" kind of thing.
Of course I only don't watch TV because around here it costs $70/mo to even start and shoots way the fuck up if you want anything worth watching.
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guys get with the times these days it's not about not watching tv it's about CUTTING THE CABLE and getting your tv through various video services online
In what way is this mutex with owning a TV set and operating it with a remote control?
It's kind of a point of pride to not be exposed to most of the trash that tumbles out of the boob tube despite intense peer pressure, and it's kind of a "and you shouldn't either" kind of thing.
Well yes, that's what I'm getting at, the smug superiority. If you don't watch TV, that's swell, but don't act like it makes you a better person.
I take it as a personal point of pride that I've never sat through an episode of American Idol. And if somebody starts going around acting like what happens on it is actually important in some way, I am liable to roll my eyes. But I stop somewhere pretty well short of refusing to watch ALL TV and acting like it makes me better than them.
Of course I only don't watch TV because around here it costs $70/mo to even start and shoots way the fuck up if you want anything worth watching.
Again, operating a television set from your couch and paying for a cable TV subscription are not actually the same thing.
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guys get with the times these days it's not about not watching tv it's about CUTTING THE CABLE and getting your tv through various video services online
In what way is this mutex with owning a TV set and operating it with a remote control?
sorry this was directed entirely at the current way to be smugly superior to the masses of sheeple
i actually agree with you on remotes
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Nah, I'm not smug about it. There's lots of shows people watch that do seem like they might be good, but following even a two hour movie now feels long to me. Keeping up with a TV show literally feels like WORK to me now.
Anyway, it was sorta supposed to be a wisecrack in the sense of "Oh yeah, well I don't have to worry about heating bills because I'm HOMELESS!", but uh, obviously that didn't come across. I didn't exactly put a whole lot of thought into it.
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:done:
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OK, basically, I was at work and trying to post off of a phone when I posted my last reply so it wasn't really what I wanted to say, just what I could say with a fucking touch screen keyboard that is tiny, on a web browser that expects me to use a phone number pad to navigate, despite my phone being touch screen with no numpad.
Fuck you, Blackberry.
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Stross had a fascinating post yesterday titled Why I don't use the iPad for serious writing (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/12/why-i-dont-use-the-ipad-for-se.html). He argued that devices like the iPad are the future of computing but that Apple's my-way-or-the-highway approach to the most basic input elements is holding them back from replacing laptops.
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People who don't understand that the US presidential election is a two-party system. It may not be ideal, but it is the case, and pretending that it's not in the face of the Constitution is just ... fffffffffff.
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IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
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in the face of the Constitution
I have no idea what you mean by this.
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Twelfth Amendment. Short version: a third-party candidate can't take Presidential office. Their party would have to completely supplant one of the existing parties in both the popular consciousness and in the House, at which point they're not third-party anymore. Voting third-party accomplishes nothing but make it more likely that the major candidate farther from your views takes office. It's tactically insane, actively self-destructive, and an action based entirely in ignorance, apathy, or both.
And nobody who doesn't already understand this ever seems to fucking realize it.
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my pet peeve: people who think voting for a shitbag republican or a shitbag democrat is better because anything else is throwing away your vote. It's not my fault! I voted for kodos!
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Funny thing about the Twelfth Amendment, TA: it means my state's electoral votes are going to the Republican no matter who the fuck I vote for.
Now please feel free to explain why it's tactically superior for me to vote for an ineffective, hectoring sellout over someone I might actually like.
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The argument could be made that if everyone who voted third party or chose not to vote because of republican dominance instead went out and voted democrat, then the democrats might actually take the state seriously as a battleground and try to get control.
Of course, the argument could also be made that if we put a cute enough puppy through the primaries we would win the election on the cuteness vote alone, so.
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What i'm saying is that it doesn't matter where he stands on the issuse because when he stands on the issues it's so god damn cute
:kowhyee:
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Are you actively trying to piss people off now?
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What the fuck are you even talking about?
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Sorry, thought you were referring to TA instead of a hypothetical puppy. Carry on citizen.
*holsters P38*
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The argument could be made that if everyone who voted third party or chose not to vote because of republican dominance instead went out and voted democrat, then the democrats might actually take the state seriously as a battleground and try to get control.
Or the argument could be made that if the Democrats stopped telling their base to go fuck itself, the base would be more inclined to vote for them instead of voting third-party or staying home.
But realistically, given that I live in a county that keeps reelecting Joe Arpaio, yeah, I think that's about as moot as the puppy analogy.
EDIT: I'll just link the last time I defended my 2000 Nader vote (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=20.msg180#msg180) so I don't have to repeat myself.
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More like suggesting that one moot point is as good as another.
But realistically, given that I live in a county that keeps reelecting Joe Arpaio, yeah, I think that's about as moot as the puppy analogy.
...okay, so I don't have to repeat myself MORE.
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I get annoyed when I realize I'm a goddamned broken record.
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Jeez, Classic, we know already. Dang.
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I heard some Elton John yesterday morning. It's one in the morning.
All I can here is LAAAAAAAAAAA LAH LAH LAH LAH LAH
And I just want. It. To. End.
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Whenever I find the bar of soap sitting in a puddle of water.
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Half the time now when I go to google.com, the cursor defaults to the address bar instead of the google search bar. Ffffffffffffffff
Hey remember this? It still happens but I noticed when it does and doesn't happen
DOES happen: When I hit the new tab button or Ctrl+T
DOES NOT happen: When I open FF or middle click (opens a new tab) on the Home button (Google is my homeboypage).
Wish I knew why though.
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supposed to go to the address bar when you open a new tab, yes?
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Unless the webpage has Javascript or something that snags the cursor to a form field.
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Well, for the past X years (however long we've had tabbed browsing), a new tab going to Google always had the cursor in the search field.
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Dear parents:
Being attracted to tiny (read: short) girls already makes me feel border-line pedophile enough all the time. Don't let your fifteen-year-olds go outside with push-up bras and only mesh tops covering.
It was also thirty degrees today, you are bad people for more than one reason.
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Dear parents:
Please do something about your sexy, sexy children.
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Hey, let's not cast undue aspersion.
Dear parents:
Please do something so your sexy, sexy children do not succumb to hypotherima.
To be fair, lots of "on-the-cusp" young-'uns can be pretty attractive until they open their goddamned mouths and say something stupid.
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YOU ASSHOLES I HAVE FIFTEEN GAMES OPEN
SOMEONE MAKE A GODDAMN HERO ACADEMY MOVE
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The other night in a facebook group I made a joke and from that, created a few words.
Then some guy started saying it was his joke and started plastering it everywhere and changed his Facebook "middle name" to one of the made-up words.
It's a petty thing to be upset about I know, but jesus.
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No no man. You've gotta protect that shit with everything you've got.
It's not like you've got any other traits that make you an interesting harem manga protagonist.
Yes. Yes I am making fun of you for being miserly with awesome things. Can you deal with that?
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The other night in a facebook group I made a joke and from that, created a few words.
Then some guy started saying it was his joke and started plastering it everywhere and changed his Facebook "middle name" to one of the made-up words.
It's a petty thing to be upset about I know, but jesus.
Similar thing. Buddy of mine got a girlfriend thanks to her love of puns. Of course, he's miserable at them. The only way he could get her is by pilfering my puns. I'm happy for the dude. And I'm hope they're happy.
But dannnnnng.
Daaaaaangggggg.
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Did you hide in the bushes and feed him lines?
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He checks my twitter and then tumblrs them to her.
I DID however sit next to him and tell him exactly what to say when asking her out. But I was unaware at that time how much I had already helped him out.
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Say something succinct to the effect of "You're killing me with this pun-stealing biz" and then see if he keeps doing it.
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Oh good, it's "Why isn't there a White History Month?" Month on Twitter.
:hurr:
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(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh126/100thlurker/Forum%20Macros/Incoherent.jpg)
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I do have a small problem with "RACE-HISTORY" months (excepting the above example), in that it continues the outdated concept of race and the fucking racist categorization of people into races.
Both are nothings relative to the bigger problem of institutionalized racism, but every discussion of race and the applicability thereof reminds me that we had some stupid privileged crackers trying to claim that President Obama was somehow "not really black" four years ago.
Maybe one of these days, I'll not really be a spic, or I'll not really be a stupid privileged cracker.
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Race still has a big part to play in your culture and experience. I've got no problem with encouraging people to celebrate their own culture's history or learn about other cultures' history.
And EVERY fucking month is White History Month.
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Mostly I'm pissed at the exploitation of race inclusion or exclusion as a talking point. Like, still pissed over the bullshit from the last presidential election.
That last line was not a hopeful, "maybe someday we'll move past race" closer.
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I don't think that stuff happens because we have Black History Month, though. Granted, Obama's not descended from American slaves, but I really think people claiming he's "not black enough" are an overblown minority.
All that aside, we could do with more education on EVERYBODY'S history. I know quite a bit about Anglo-American and African-American history, a moderate amount about Jewish-American history, and a little about Irish-American, Chinese-American, Mexican-American, woman-American, and so on. I could always stand to learn more, and so could a lot of people.
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Those are some definite facts up there, but...
Honestly, it just reminded me of something else that pissed me off (albeit something that pissed me off less). A segue pet peeve, if you will.
That said, there's no Chinese-American history month, but there is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Pacific_American_Heritage_Month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Pacific_American_Heritage_Month)
I couldn't find a Mexican-American or Latino history month in wiki, though I didn't search very hard.
Dunno what that means exactly.
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Anybody vaguely Latin only gets Cinco de Mayo as a holiday.
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What day is that again?
(One of my high school classmates actually DID ask when Cinco de Mayo was. In Spanish class.)
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Maybe they thought it was one of those holidays that got shoved to a neighboring weekend?
Or maybe they thought it would be hilarious.
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Heard some idiot on talk radio the other night whining about whoever decided to put Christmas on a sunday in 2011. As an atheist he can deal with sundays, and he can deal with Christmas, but he can't deal with Christmas on a sunday.
In retrospect he was probably a fundie plant.
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(http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/wheniswhitehistorymonth/16881782964/1/tumblr_lyqialJ5sJ1rodz2r)
Merry Christmas (http://wheniswhitehistorymonth.tumblr.com/)
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Preeeeeetty sure Asians still have us beat.
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Look. Caucasian people.
"White" is not a culture.
And "Black" is just a clumsy shortening for "African-American" which I have no problem using because "African-American" is a mouthful and sounds too much like "Special-Learning" or some other shitty euphemism.
Once you get used to that idea, you'll find, much to your surprise and delight, that it's pretty goddam not-racist and actually a really great idea to ask for a British History month, German History month, Italian History month, Swedish History month, etc. etc. etc.
I mean, unless you think all those people look the same to you. Racist.
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Well- and concisely put. Knew there was a reason I keep you around, you drunken Irish bastard.
(Though Africa isn't a country. Racist.)
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Neither is African-America.
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But African-American history is pretty much just a record of how badly they were treated by all the other Americans. Why don't Native Americans get a month for that?
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That's November.
But everyone ignores it.
:shrug:
Also I don't like the characterization of B-History as nothing but the culture's study of its own victimization but whatever ymmv.
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Also also it's probably best not to limit the concept of displaced people of African descent to the United States, even though officially U.S. Black History Month does exactly that. Wikipedia seems to have taken to calling the worldwide collective "The African Diaspora" which sounds PC enough although it also evokes the image of something I'd put in my mouth after contracting gambooya.
I think I'm rapidly losing my cred here.
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I have a pet peeve how "safe for work" has stretched to mean "absolutely anything as long as there's no tits".
Much like most American rating systems.
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oh yeah that reminds me of one of my biggest pet peeves
American rating systems.
oh no a nipple was exposed during halftime and now our nation is
you know what
I'm just going to link to the fucking onion article (http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-children-still-traumatized-one-year-after-seein,1285/)
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That's why Breyer's dissent in Brown v EMA was at least logically consistent -- he's right, it IS fucking absurd that there's a legal penalty for selling a Playboy to a 16-year-old but not a copy of San Andreas.
Course, he and I differ on precisely what would be the appropriate measure to mitigate this inconsistency.
But sorry, we were talking about how NBC destroyed America by blurring the picture 2 seconds after there was a middle finger on TV?
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Restaurants that use instant ramen in anything.
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People who feel the need to actually touch my screen when they are pointing to things on it.
It's not a touchscreen, asshole. What can you possibly achieve by putting your damn fingertip on it that you wouldn't by holding it an inch away? You gonna clean that up?
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Why yes, random straight dude on the internet, the fact that you've experienced hostility from gay men TOTALLY means that homophobia doesn't exist. Problem solved, everyone; we can all rest easy now.
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Companies that use an arrow-shaped mouse cursor in their logo when clearly it should be a finger-shaped cursor since it is clicking a link.
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And they double-click it.
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What better way to celebrate this fine weather we're having than have the neighbors tie up that goddamn yappy dog in their backyard.
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Sit down with perfectly cooled beverage and/or good meal.
All of my common news feeds and internet forum threads have no updates.
Sip drink sadly. Somewhere, a crow farts.
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Dear Internet,
I'm glad that you've really internalized the written word. That we have this problem shows we've raised the bar from "struggling literacy".
That said, words that are homophones can't be replaced with one another willy-nilly.
In short, you stupid fuckers, grisly and grizzly are not the same adjective. Quit being retarded.
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Grizzly murder
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hey, he was just practicing his right to bear arms
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Man, why the fuck doesn't gmail have one-click sign-out?
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gisly
I approve of this message, but note that in compliance with Internet Irony Law you have made a typo in your complaints about other people's English.
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Well don't that just beat all.
Somehow less annoying quasi-phonetic substitution for grisly? Gristly.
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Cop followed me all the way home from work. Even used my neighbor's driveway to turn around in and go back to the main road after I'd pulled into my drive way. I don't really mind this but it has got to be illegal to follow someone so fucking close that had I needed to stop fast he'd have rammed his cruiser directly up my fucking tailpipe.
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Any suspicion as to why?
I mean, my immediate guess would be that he profiled you as "not being able to afford a car like that", then ran the plate and left when he saw that you were driving to the actual address on your registration and was all "Oh. Huh.".
I'm assuming you were driving the Mustang (or Charger, or whatever it is).
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Challenger. It probably was just the car. Probably just expected me to be speeding.
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Fair enough... still seems odd he would all but follow you right up your driveway.
Oh well, :dunno:
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Cops in the states get bored easy.
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Cops in the middle of nowhere get bored easy.
:nyoro~n:
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When I am President of Space, youtube intros over 10 seconds in length will be punishable by explosive decompression followed by reconstitution followed by explosive decompression
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Those don't enrage me half so much as youtube ads (blocked at home of course, but I'm stuck seeing them at work). At least I can just advance past long-winded intros.
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Well, yeah. I guess I just sort of don't count ads because they are a product of the society we live in and not the fault of the person making the videos. Intros are literally just a waste of my fucking time. I don't mind a quick logo or whatever, like I said, if it's under 10 seconds. But then they go into these hideous fucking songs with stupid video clips or whatever. It pisses me off the same way MySpace pagemusic pisses me off.
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B-but
PlayStation (1995) startup (PAL) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF1Ino17y-s#)
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Ah, the days when you turned on the game before going to make a snack.
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Now you can't do that because you have to interactively navigate all the menus.
PROGRESS.
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Well, you're the one that turned off autoplay. Not saying I didn't do the same, just sayin'.
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Well I mean more the
WARNING: Don't triple-kill your babies and dogs with the motion controls.
WARNING: 3D glasses will make your eyeballs explode.
WARNING: This game contains blood and boobies.
WARNING: Take a break every 30 minutes of play.
WARNING: I've got a ton more of this shit, I even wrote it all down in a book and jammed it into your CD case. Go read it, I'll be waiting.
WARNING: Rated M for grannies.
POWERED BY A 12 DC CONVERTER YOU PLUGGED INTO A WALL.
fwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwOOSH nVidia.
bzzt brrp brrp oh wait a funny little robot nVidida again!
MPEG shit!
Havok Physics!
A bunch of logos of shit you don't even know what the hell this even is.
fwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwOOSH SAAAAAAAAY-GAAAAAAAAAH *random musical notes*
Oh and the actual developer's logo too.
This character is a trademark of OmniCorp.
This other character is also a trademark of OmniCorp.
All these minor characters who don't get their own screen? Yeah, all of 'em trademarks of OmniCorp.
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING INTRO
OKAY LOADED THE INTRO NOW PRESS X TO SKIP IT
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING TITLE SCREEN
OKAY YES it's the title screen do you want New Game or Load Game or Options or
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING OPTIONS MENU
fwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwOOSH Scorpion just punched your FACE OFF okay options
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING VIDEO OPTIONS
okay so this shit goes on for a while
OKAY YES it's the title screen do you want New Game or Load Game or Options or
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING SAVE GAME MENU
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING SAVE GAMES
okay you want that one
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING LOADING SCREEN
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING CUTSCENE
Kratos, look at my boo...
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING LEVEL
Okay you're in the game now! Yay! Let's check our loadout...
PLEASE WAIT, LOADING CHARACTER MENU...
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There's a hypothesis that computers get slower as they become more advanced, because we try to make them do more things. It's like when people get a raise and end up poorer because they find a way to spend the extra money and more.
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(Also, note to HP and the rest: the ready availability of high-speed Internet is no goddamn excuse for 150MB fucking driver files. Fuck you.)
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I found out an organization I'm affiliated with was paying a large fee any time they wanted to add a new page to their website. They use a CMS system for in-house regular updates but return to the original site-designer for the new pages. So I volunteer to take a look at their set-up and do it for them, because it doesn't happen that often and honestly, that shit takes roughly 5 seconds.
So I get the hosting login information, download the site, open up a couple sample pages and find that instead of using any server-side includes, the navigation menu is hard-coded into each individual page. I thought that shit went out around 2000, 2001.
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I'm looking for a tall lamp to put in my living room. I ain't too picky, but I am on a budget. After looking at the three tiny furniture boutiques downtown, I'm beginning to feel like Peter H. Cropes looking for a good honest lamp for a man. The last place I went to must have been the most pretentious single location I've ever been in. The store was literally called "OBjet", which I'm fairly sure I don't need to translate for you. Iesus, I don't know if that's better or worse than (poultry;). Their cheapest lamp was four hundred dollars.
The second store had an okay model I wouldn't have been ashamed to buy, but it was 130 dollars, which is about 55 more than I would have paid for it. The first store was a second-hand furniture store with one single lamp in it, a gaudy yellow glass/green glass/wood abomination.
I think I'm gonna have to break down and get a 20$ Ikea POS. It's not like I didn't try, local businesses. It's not like I didn't effing try.
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Make one of your highly-flammable paper lamps!
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At the size I'd like, Teg's design would probably be extra unsafe. :whoops:
besides i'd like something you can clonk a zombie over the head with
if, you know, if the need arises
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Whenever people confuse originality with creativity.
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I suppose this is getting a little pedantic, but the difference between "m" and "M" is a factor of ONE BILLION*.
No, I do NOT want to pay $55 a month for 15mb Internet service. That would fucking suck.
(Frankly, spending $55 a month for 15Mb ALREADY sucks.)
* Actually, since my example is bits, in this case it's 1024^3. Well, assuming millibits were actually a thing, anyway.
Sorry, IEC, I am not going to say "mebi".
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I don't think there can be less than one bit. I guess over time there could be, but in that case I'd still prefer saying "bits per mega-second".
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I don't think there can be less than one bit. I guess over time there could be, but in that case I'd still prefer saying "bits per mega-second".
Binary algebra doesn't permit unit fractions. Bits by definition can't be fractional. Which is why it's an industry standard to write bit or byte values in an initial lowercase. Thad. THAD!
However, you could, in theory be provided with 15milliByte per month for a service that provided you with about 1B of transfer per thousand years.
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...another pet peeve: people taking two posts to explain a thing that I just pointed out in a single sentence.
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The problem is that the concept of a "bit" has two definitions, and they're close enough that people generally see them as one definition, causing a lot of consternation. A bit is both:
1. A digit in a binary numbering system.
2. A measurement unit of digital information, equal to one discrete value.
This means a couple of things:
1. A fractional number of bits is impossible using the first definition, because numbers do not generally have a fractional number of digits.
2. A fractional number of bits is possible by the second definition, although physically it would not be possible*. It is only a useful figure when describing bits in relation to other measurements, such as in Thad's example.
3. Bits by the second definition are not necessarily binary or digital themselves.
* EDIT: Well, there's encryption and radio signals and stuff, so I guess it's actually pretty physically possible to receive a fraction of a bit. But let's pretend it's not.
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Not really much of a pet peeve since I'm honestly just laughing about it, but a routine call to my bank to fix my online account turned into a daisy chain of personal bankers trying to sell me stuff they couldn't. "Hey, would you like an equity loan?" "Maybe, what's the rate?" "Well I'll have to transfer you to THIS GUY" "Hello yes how much equity have you got? What? That's not enough equity for a loan! But hey, maybe we can lower your mortgage rate, let me transfer you to THIS GUY" "Hello yes your mortgage rate is already fucking rock bottom and I don't know why I'm talking to you, goodbye."
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Okay, look.
I understand that this fucking case box is, well, kind of goddam gigantic. I think it may have more mass than I do.
And I understand that you had to carry it up a flight of stairs, because, well, I live up a flight of stairs.
And I get that, yes, there was some light sprinkling going on all day.
But uh... leaving it specifically in the small strip of my patio that isn't covered and protected from said rain? Yeah, that passive aggressiveness isn't making me feel too damned sorry for you, Mr. UPS Man or Mrs. Lady I don't know. Just... just do your damned job and stop taking it out on my equipment, okay?
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I was very surprised one day when UPS delivered a package to me while it was raining, and they put a plastic bag around the package for me. So yeah, whoever delivered your package is a super dick.
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People who use video or audio for entirely text content and don't provide a transcription.
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I suddenly feel that I'd buy more audiobooks if the book also came with it.
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You know Google, I already told you two dozen times I'm not going to give you my damned phone number... maybe you should stop fucking asking me? Or at least make the "Skip this page" button bigger than a fucking couple of pixels.
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On a related topic, what the fuck paypal? I have never ever wanted to use your shitty layaway system to pay for stuff in installments. Stop fucking asking me to every time I buy something with paypal. Can't you see I have enough money in my account to pay for a 10 dollar donation or whatever the hell?
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Dang but I could do without my mother calling me in the middle of the night to tell me how her latest booty call went.
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Dang but I could do without my mother calling me in the middle of the night to tell me how her latest booty call went.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5wWqxDx3wO0/TymxrrmuFaI/AAAAAAAAArw/JMFy6cAt8zw/s1600/Nathan-Fillion-reaction-gif.gif)
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Okay Google, the fact that you put a working Moog Synthesizer on the homepage today is really cool and all, but damned if it isn't making your page load slower than stink.
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You actually... go to Google to do a Google search?
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It's actually my homepage. I like that it's (normally) nice and clean while serving a utilitarian purpose.
I don't normally use the search bar - I tend to go nuts with lots of tabs instead.
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This isn't really surprising coming from Mongrel.
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Okay Google, the fact that you put a working Moog Synthesizer on the homepage today is really cool and all, but damned if it isn't making your page load slower than stink.
In general, anything like Google where someone or something achieves fame and fortune by providing a simple and sleek whatever, and then once they're on top of the pile starts forgetting why people liked them in the first place by piling a bunch of high-budget nonsense on it. Which is natural because they've grown and expanded and they have a million more projects to throw workers at now.
The Lucas Effect.
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This isn't really surprising coming from Mongrel.
I am actually really curious about your logic here. Like how does that follow at all (I am not saying you're wrong... just, uh "Show your math").
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This is getting surreal. For two weeks now I've been trying to get my landlord to pick up his rent, but he keeps forgetting. He was supposed to come this morning (one day after this month's rent is due) but he's a no-show again. His phone goes to an answering machine. Man, you'd think, if a guy had two and a half grand's worth of checks for you, you'd just come running right quick.
I'd mail 'em to him but every time I ask him his address he changes the subject. (He technically isn't the owner, his mother is, I write the checks to her and I've got her contact information, but from what I gather she's in no condition to be any help due to her advanced age.) This is so absurd that I'm starting to get mildly suspicious about the whole situation.
EDIT: Whew, finally got hold of him, he should be here in half an hour. So, nearly four hours later than was originally decided. Iesus. I usually ain't a stickler for other people's timeliness, I'm an exceptionally patient guy, but dang I got shit to do today.
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Wait... $2500? You live in the middle of nowhere (well, not really, but it's not like you're in downtown Vancouver). How much is your monthly rent?
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Oh, I've decided I was giving him six months in advance, at least in part because it's been such a hassle to get the money to him, but also because otherwise he's been pretty swift the couple times stuff broke down in here. It used to be 400 per month but it got raised to 404 this year; a 1% increase seems fairly reasonable, I think. So, 2424$. (In dated checks of course, there's no way I could just afford all that money up front.)
Well hey, he dropped by while I was typing this, another half hour after he was supposed to be here. Fineffingally.
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And suddenly a reminder of how fucktarded rent is around here.
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Be sure you tell your bank you've postdated a bunch of checks.
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Sinister gods below, do I ever wish my rent was $404. :/
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BUT THEN
HOW WOULD YOUR LANDLORD
EVER FIND IT!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!!
Jake Laugh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOgvlfWKw-I#)
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Be sure you tell your bank you've postdated a bunch of checks.
I've been doing three and four month increments in the past year; that's common practice around here for rent, or at least it is if you're on good terms with the landlord. Plus, given that I'm such a model tenant that I'm actually the one making sure he gets his money on time, I'm fairly confident he has absolutely nothing to gain from screwing me over in any way.
Of course those are famous last words, so I suppose it can't hurt to make sure.
Sinister gods below, do I ever wish my rent was $404. :/
Oh I'm fully aware that I've basically won the lottery with this apartment, even in this area, and despite the lack of power outlet in the bathroom, the cigarette burns on the linoleum, the crooked floors, and other assorted gunshot victims.
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When the entire world gets so bat-buggeringly ineffable that you can no longer tell whether there is something wrong with you or something wrong with the universe.
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That's what I call waking up in the morning.
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Battery powered any type of power tool. Honestly, they fucking suck.
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The celebrations for Québec's equivalent of the 4th of July are going on a block away right now.
God this town is weaksauce. This sauce contains dangerously high levels of weakness. I'm not even going to try to attempt to describe what I'm hearing right now.
oh wow it just got worse
it's not just that the authorities are throwing a token "party" in a dang parking lot, but the very people are so boring
like the emcee chick went all "are you ready to have some fun tonight" and then silence
and then she went "i can't hear you, say it louder!"
crickets
poor girl
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Isn't that not until tomorrow? Or are they doing St. Jean Baptiste all weekend?
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Yeah they're doing a weekend thing.
(For whatever reason.)
At least they had actual fireworks this year. Last year they were cancelled, then rescheduled a few days later, then cancelled again.
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It's more entertaining (sad?) if you think of it as just a lone DJ who setup in a parking lot so she could rehearse her energetic live DJ act. Just out there, all alone, asking an empty crowd if they're "ready to have fun yet?" Going over that line 50 times, making sure she has the right note of enthusiasm.
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Battery powered any type of power tool. Honestly, they fucking suck.
Battery powered tools can be pretty awesome if you need to be cord free or are doing something where you just don't have the room for a plug. I have an electric screwdriver that's so goddamn useful because it's cord free that I can forgive it the short battery life.
Having said that, I wish battery powered tools would have at least the option of plugging them in, because it takes three full charges to dismantle my fucking waterbed.
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Why not get the kind that comes with their own battery?
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Those batteries are so fucking easy to short out, you have no idea. And then once you short them out you might as well pay for a new drill because the replacements are so damn expensive. :rage:
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.mp4 and .mkv files. I understand that everyone wants crisp and shiny HD files, but goddamnit, .avis are the only thing that works reliably streaming to my PS3 and encode faster you shitheads I am entitled as hell.
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PS3 Media Server does an excellent job of converting almost anything into a format that the PS3 will play. Kind of tricky to set up sometimes but when you get it right you'll be almost disappointed that there is NOTHING LEFT TO IMPROVE.
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PS3 should play .mp4 just fine.
.mkv is compatible with nothing, though.
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Annotations that say "Thumbs up for __________"
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I don't think I've ever seen that. Can you give an example, Friday?
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Well, the video I was watching at the time which made me realize that it was a pet peeve of mine is
Lord of the Rings Medley- Lindsey Stirling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQiNVk_u0po#ws)
It's at 1:14.
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I don't know Friday, I hate the 30 second long plug at the end beginning with "HEY EVERYONE THANKS FOR WATCHING" that was rather jarring after the mood I got from the music. Isn't that what like, credits are for? Put your subscribe button over text, not yourself babbling about nothing for too long.
I always thought that dresses must be super annoying to wear, but that must be double worse. What the hell is that long trailing thing in the back even for except getting dirty? What happens when you need to walk backwards?
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have you tried rotating the planet 180 degrees
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what
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what
OUR STORY BEGINS HERE
*fade in*
HERE, IN A THREAD LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO OR SOMETHING WHERE THAD COMPLAINED ABOUT THERE NOT BEING LEFT HANDED COFFEE MUGS AND SOMEONE POSTED THE SNARKY "HAVE YOU TRIED ROTATING THE MUG 180 DEGREES?".
THEN I, AND OTHERS, LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO POST AS SUCH WHEN THE SITUATION WARRANTS
YOUR "What happens when you need to walk backwards?" QUESTION PROMPTED ME TO THINK OF A SNARKY REPLY AND THIS IS WHAT CAME TO MIND
*fade out*
TUNE IN NEXT TIME ON "IN JOKES SO OLD THEY BORDER ON BEING CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN PUT THERE BY SATAN" WHEN FRIDAY EXPLAINS WHAT KILLBOT, THUNDERCATS, CASSIUS, MAGUS, NOT VOTING, DEMOGORGON, AND ELOH ALL HAVE IN COMMON
hint: Thad
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dresses is so soft and pretty things can look prettierest u gotta lot to learn my freind
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I actually prefer keeping my mug on my left now; it keeps my mousin' hand free for mousin'.
But back then I had a desk with a little shelf that I would put my beverages on, and it was on the right.
Also when I am driving the lid has to be set to right-handed mode.
And then I get to work and adjust the lid and my hand gets coffee on it because this lid leaks like a sonofabitch. (Least, when I put cold coffee in it, which I do when it is 108 degrees out. It actually seals pretty well when there's hot coffee in it.)
I think it's still the same damn mug I've had since that thread. I need a new one.
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I always thought that dresses must be super annoying to wear, but that must be double worse. What the hell is that long trailing thing in the back even for except getting dirty? What happens when you need to walk backwards?
I always understood it to be a sort of "look how much dress I can afford" and "I'm so important that I need an assistant to carry parts of my dress for me" type of thing passed down from older times.
In general, dresses are not annoying to wear and are more like being lazy and just throwing on a long shirt and not having to wear pants at all.
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I think it's still the same damn mug I've had since that thread. I need a new one.
No Thad! Fight the tyranny of right-handed coffee mugs!
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I always thought that dresses must be super annoying to wear, but that must be double worse. What the hell is that long trailing thing in the back even for except getting dirty? What happens when you need to walk backwards?
I always understood it to be a sort of "look how much dress I can afford" and "I'm so important that I need an assistant to carry parts of my dress for me" type of thing passed down from older times.
In general, dresses are not annoying to wear and are more like being lazy and just throwing on a long shirt and not having to wear pants at all.
I fully support the god-given right to not wear pants. DRESSES FOR EVERYONE!
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An open letter to the Fucking Guy Who Pisses on the Floor Where I Work
I know that this building is falling apart and the bathrooms all already kind of smell. And I know that we employ a group of migrant workers to clean the bathrooms twice a day and pick up all of our trash. I know you probably hate your job, and you probably hate going to work everyday. While I don't immediately assume it, I can probably guess that you resent or at the least don't particularly like your co-workers.
I also know you're a grown ass goddamn adult who has worked in a professional environment for a couple of years because we don't have any 18 year old fresh from ITT kids running around here.
So why, in fucking god's name, do you *insist* on pissing all over the fucking floor? and on the toilet seat? on the handle of the toilet? On the wall? Why is there puddles of piss behind and in front of the toilet? Why did you draw a circle of pisstection around the throne? Were you afraid piss ghosts would get you, and you needed to ward them off?
Look: I've been where you are. Piss all over everything, do endurance and range tests on your piss, go for timing shots, play swords. But I was fucking six, you fuck. You're an adult. You're probably in your thirties. What's going on in your fucking head where you think it's OK to make a huge mess of your urine for somebody else to clean up? For your coworkers to have to fucking wade through every tmie they need to use the toilet? Why do you think it's OK that someone should have to sit on a toilet seat you deliberately pissed on? Is that your fetish? Is your fetish strange men sitting on your piss? If that's your fetish, could you go do it in a fucking public bathroom on your lunchbreak? Maybe then you can sit in the next stall over and furiously beat off, while also simultaneously not making everyone you work with want to fucking murder you.
And one more thing, Fucking Guy Who Pisses on the Floor at Work: I'd better not find out you're also Guy Who Shits on the Toilet Seat at Work - because if I do, I will fucking kill you. It's bad enough that we have automatic only flushers that don't work half the time and I have to see a dude's stew at least once a week, but I should never walk into a stall and see a fucking shit streak down the rim of the seat like your puckered shitshooter was perched on the goddamn rim of the seat. I know you don't fucking sit like that, asshole, because nobody does, and even if you did somehow have explosive enough shit to lightly dot the edge of the seat, it wouldn't have smeared like that unless you were trying. You're a fucking asshole, whoever you are, whether it's malicious or accidental, because the truth is - you know what you fucking did, and you don't care. You might have done it on accident, but you sure as FUCK didn't clean i up and just because it's somebody else's job doesn't give you liscense to make somebody else clean up your shit. They're supposed to mop the floor, not handle your feces.
Get fucked.
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For some reason, today I am being really irritated by conspiracy (http://gawker.com/5928451/here-are-the-most-insane-aurora-shooting-conspiracy-theories) theories (http://issuesoncall.blogspot.com/2012/07/james-holmes-manchurian-candidate.html) about the Aurora shooting. I think it's a combination of this stuff is just borderline crazy with people on my Facebook who I normally think intelligent are talking about Manchurian candidates with a straight face. I know the easiest way to avoid this is to just block their feeds, but man, it's just getting my goat today.
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That said, it is crazy insane how much this quesadilla I'm eating is improving my mood. Is there fluoride in it? I don't know!
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flouride
:oic:
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That said, it is crazy insane how much this quesadilla I'm eating is improving my mood. Is there fluoride in it? I don't know!
I knew it! Taco Bell is involved in the conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.
Dr. Strangelove - Precious Bodily Fluids (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY#)
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That said, it is crazy insane how much this quesadilla I'm eating is improving my mood. Is there fluoride in it? I don't know!
Maybe you just had a calorie crash?
In my own its the ignorant people who expect you to do all the heavy work of learning for them. You know that crazy person who thinks that vaccinations cause autism and when told the facts refuses to budge unless you cite them, and then when you do cite them they want the cited paper, and then when you give them the paper, they want you to read it...
It goes on and on endlessly...
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CHEMTRAILS
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In my own its the ignorant people who expect you to do all the heavy work of learning for them. You know that crazy person who thinks that vaccinations cause autism and when told the facts refuses to budge unless you cite them, and then when you do cite them they want the cited paper, and then when you give them the paper, they want you to read it...
It goes on and on endlessly...
You should tell Brickroad how you feel.
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In my own its the ignorant people who expect you to do all the heavy work of learning for them.
While I guess this is true to an extent, in my experience it's more that people are just unable to admit they could be/are wrong.
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It's also a classic troll maneuver.
The other week when someone on BC was insisting that the fake Marvel press release on Marvel TV News was REAL, MAN, I responded with "[citation needed]" and he gave me the ol' "Well you can find it if you use Google."
I responded that it is not my first day on the Internet and I am not going to fall for the old "Here, go see if you can find some evidence to support my argument for me" trick and you can whitewash your OWN fucking fence.
...hey, anybody hear out of Guild lately?
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45-second advertisements before 30-second videos.
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I'm not sure what they're attracted to, but the fucking ants just will not leave a particular area of my kitchen alone. It all started when I got rid of some spiders in my garage that were getting unexpectedly huge. GUESS I KNOW WHAT THAT WAS ALL ABOUT NOW ::(:
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Wow, yeah, barring maybe pets or the odd bird, spiders can be basically apex predators in an urban ecosystem, and that's the sort of consequences one can be looking at. I have a few spiders in my staircase lobby, and my balcony/façade is covered with an entire civilization of the suckers. Every time I think about taking drastic action so I could maybe put a chair outside and get some reading done in the sunlight, I remind myself of how many more critters I don't have to kill because they're around. It's... not exactly ideal, but at least they don't get into my food or try to drink my blood.
In fact, now that I think about it, I didn't have that many spiders last year, but there was a fruit fly issue that is all but gone this year.
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The problem with spiders is that if you let them have run of the place for too long they get overbold and soon you keep running into their goddam webs and huaghlblaghalgablaghl.
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Ooooh, I didn't quite think of our respective climates there. I mean, up here their empires are all but destroyed once a year when winter comes, and they spend the warmer months retaking lost ground; population control would be less of an issue for me, yeah.
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The problem with spiders is that if you let them have run of the place for too long they get overbold and soon you keep running into their goddam webs and huaghlblaghalgablaghl.
When my dad's second wife left, they'd arranged it so dad would be at my brother's Basic training graduation ceremony when she moved out. So she's leaving friday night, and we leave friday morning. We come back on tuesday or wednesday the next week and the door had been open since Friday night, with every light in the house on. About a week later dad fell off the wagon and hit drugs and booze hard, and had to go into rehab for about 3 weeks. He gets out of rehab, I move out of my mom's to move in with him, and the entire house is basically Spider Heaven. They'd nested everywhere. There was probably fifty spiders in every room of the house at all times. They'd crawl on us while we were watching TV, they'd land in our food, they'd build webs in the fucking hallway like the walls were tree branches and they didn't give a fuck that people lived there. It was maddening. I think we had to set up bug bombs because we couldn't fucking get rid of them.
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Yeah, the ideal situation is to keep them contained but not get rid of them entirely.
And even if they DO go away in the winter, you'll still want to clean up their webs.
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Huaghlblaghalgablaghl
Jesus Christ one of the little fuckers actually spun a massive web between the entrance to my staircase and a nearby tree. Then it must have decided it liked me because it clung to my arm like fuck, going as far as to climb back up by a thread when I finally shook it off. I have no idea where it went and feel like I'm going to bonk into something going through a regular doorway in my house now.
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I think we all know where this is going. (http://i.imgur.com/1EqMe.jpg)(Absolutely NSFW)
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Youtube has a 200 video limit on playlists outside of favorites.
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Screws. Fuckers are always way too cheap and always strip. Last time it was on my 3DS. This time it was on a case fan.
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The way no one at work seems capable of giving me an entire/correct path and filename. They'll like tell me the drive it's on and part of the filename, and just assume I'll figure it out from there.
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I'll admit to having made the comparison at first, but now that I've seen the movie I'm tired of the 'Hunger Games is ripping off Battle Royale' line of reasoning. It's as if people have never heard of "Lord of the Flies"
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Beelzebub?
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They say his name is Beelze, bub.
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They say his name is Beelze, bub.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5KspDlQ-rlY/SYTBQ-mQV0I/AAAAAAAAAQo/aA4kwqb06oA/s1600/mok61.jpg)
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Websites that say things are going on sale at a certain day and time, but don't say where/what time zone.
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So I've been listening to Active Time Babble while I do otherwise mindless RPG grinding (it seems like an appropriate compliment to the task) and I just listened to this part in episode 2 where Shane gets high and mighty about knowing what "THAC0" is but he mispronounces the acronym. Fuuuck. I want to reach back in time and shame that guy.
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Is there a proper pronunciation? I've always just rhymed it with "wacko".
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It does. That's how it's pronounced. Because the "A" is part of the word "Armor". He pronounced it "THAY" "KO". WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!? It's obviously wrong!!!!
0 is pronounced "OH" though, because it's a zero.
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I thought it was Thay-Coh. That's how I've always heard it said.
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How does that even make sense!? You're dead to me Lottel. DEAD TO ME!!! FUUUUCK.
EDIT:
Lottel is not really dead to me.
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I always pronounced it "Taco".
Because reading is hard.
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I was telling my mother about my anti-semitic encounter the other day. Her response? "Well maybe if you didn't have a beard that guy wouldn't have yelled at you. You provoked him."
Huh. So that's how that feels.
Wonder what would her advice have been if I had actually been a Jew.
Later in the conversation she mentioned how she went to a dance, and when she was leaving a guy followed her into the parking lot and got all gropy. "Now tell me, do I look like a slut? Am I dressed like a whore?"
Christ.
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Websites that redirect on error, rather than embedding it into the page you're on. Because my first reaction upon seeing an error is to refresh. This doesn't work if I'm on www.thissiteorwhatever.com/error?YouGoAnError=true&whatever=butts%are%rad%my%friend&LockUserOnErrorScreen=Yes%Most%Definitely (http://www.thissiteorwhatever.com/error?YouGoAnError=true&whatever=butts%are%rad%my%friend&LockUserOnErrorScreen=Yes%Most%Definitely)
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When I got my checking account at Caisse Desjardins last year, I requested a Visa Desjardins credit card to replace the one I've had with the Royal Bank of Canada, because the latter are in a really inconvenient location and I'd rather deal with only one bank. My request was denied, because they figured I was a credit risk. Somehow. I have no debts, I have never defaulted on anything ever, and I've paid any interest at all like twice in my entire life.
I just received an offer from Visa RBC to increase my credit card limit from 2500$ to 4000$. Called them up, no waiting, girl congratulated me on my credit history, and upped me to 4k with no questions asked. (I never rack up more than about 400 per month for living expenses and literally pay my balance in advance; most of the time Visa owes me money. I'm not even tempted to use all that credit. I just like having it on record that I'm hella responsible and shit.)
Still can't get a Visa Desjardins to replace it.
Long story short, I'd like to pour a bucket of microscopic perverts on banks so they can get fucked in every god damned pore.
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Maybe something to do with the fact that they're a caisse populaire (i.e. a credit union for the non-French speakers) rather than an actual bank?
Of course Desjardins is big enough that it effectively functions just like any other big, obnoxious Canadian bank, so WHO KNOWS. :shrug:
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I don't see how that'd make much of a difference. In fact, since I technically own a tiny fraction of the Caisse, shouldn't it be easier for me to get credit there than from a private company named after the British Crown? Heck, the Caisse was founded in 1900 by Alphonse Desjardins because French-Canadians couldn't get any loan of substance from English-Canadian banks. This situation is absurd.
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Yeah, that's pretty fucked. My experience is the exact opposite with credit unions. Basically giving people money to start accounts and offering 25%+bjaypr (blow jobs per annual percentage rate) on loans for anything you want.
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When I got my checking account at Caisse Desjardins last year, I requested a Visa Desjardins credit card to replace the one I've had with the Royal Bank of Canada, because the latter are in a really inconvenient location and I'd rather deal with only one bank. My request was denied, because they figured I was a credit risk. Somehow. I have no debts, I have never defaulted on anything ever, and I've paid any interest at all like twice in my entire life.
I just received an offer from Visa RBC to increase my credit card limit from 2500$ to 4000$. Called them up, no waiting, girl congratulated me on my credit history, and upped me to 4k with no questions asked. (I never rack up more than about 400 per month for living expenses and literally pay my balance in advance; most of the time Visa owes me money. I'm not even tempted to use all that credit. I just like having it on record that I'm hella responsible and shit.)
Still can't get a Visa Desjardins to replace it.
Long story short, I'd like to pour a bucket of microscopic perverts on banks so they can get fucked in every god damned pore.
It's probably because your credit history isn't robust enough. No credit is worse than bad credit to a point, no lender right now is lending to people with 0 credit except in certain (extreme) circumstances.
Get a low-limit credit card and make payments on it for six months. Pay some bills off, pay the minimum payment for two months, and then pay the rest off in one shot. And just do that for a while. You don't want to pay it completely off every month or they'll complain about revolving debt. But you have to be able to show that you're capable of making payments on time.
I would maybe find a smaller credit union, TBH.
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I really don't have "zero credit". I've paid off my student loans (which I figure is kind of a big deal considering they didn't actually land me a job), I put a couple thousand's worth of moving expenses and furniture purchases last year entirely on credit (I did have the money but I wound up paying like 20$ interest that month because of a dumb miscalculation on my part), and I bought a 2000$ guitar amp on behalf of my brother one time (which was of course also repaid; he didn't have a card at the time), and God knows how much money I spent on my car back when I had it, several hundred at a time. So it's not like I haven't proven I can handle spikes in my borrowing habits.
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Yeah, your earlier post makes it clear that not only do you already have a credit card, you've actually been using it. So you should have fully established credit.
DUNNO.
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I really don't have "zero credit". I've paid off my student loans (which I figure is kind of a big deal considering they didn't actually land me a job), I put a couple thousand's worth of moving expenses and furniture purchases last year entirely on credit (I did have the money but I wound up paying like 20$ interest that month because of a dumb miscalculation on my part), and I bought a 2000$ guitar amp on behalf of my brother one time (which was of course also repaid; he didn't have a card at the time), and God knows how much money I spent on my car back when I had it, several hundred at a time. So it's not like I haven't proven I can handle spikes in my borrowing habits.
Have you seen your credit report lately? You might have an outstanding item - like a missed medical bill or something - and a lot of lenders, esp. banks are reluctant to loan to people with negative remarks on their history right now. It might not even be something that is legitimately your debt, or might be something you paid but had already ended up in collections. I don't know how it works in Canada, but I know in the US you can dispute negative marks on your credit report if they're erroneous or the debts have been paid.
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When I got my checking account opened at Desjardins last year they ran a credit check and it was so pure white the girl had to excuse herself for a couple minutes while her vision slowly returned. And I did just get a 60% increase of my limit at RBC because of my flawless financial history. If there's an outstanding issue with my credit these guys ain't finding it either.
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I don't know how it works in Canada, but in the US there are three different credit reporting agencies, and they frequently have conflicting information. Most financial institutions will only check with one of them, so one could get the report that has erroneous info while another doesn't.
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There are two agencies in Canada - Transunion (http://www.transunion.ca/) and Equifax (http://www.consumer.equifax.ca/home/en_ca). You can get your history report from them for free. The only time there's a charge is if you want your actual credit score. Transunion seems to be better at providing clear information to companies who run checks on your credit, but Equifax seems better at removing anything that shouldn't be on there if you dispute it.
It's a good idea to get a copy of your credit history once in a while anyway. They say "credit checks lower your score", which is true, but only by like 1 or two points (out of a theoretical maximum score of I think 900, with 800 being functionally spotless and only scores below 700-750 or so being problematic in any way). Requesting your credit HISTORY directly from the bureaus should ding nothing unless you do it repeatedly. They say once a year is recommended, but honestly you could probably do it two or three times per year with no effect whatsoever.
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I think what The Punisher has been trying to say is that the "bad credit" excuse from that one institution is complete and utter bupkiss.
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Yeah, that's basically the case. Outside of my one credit card, I've borrowed money twice in my life, and both were instances of government-sponsored student loans, which I have repaid entirely and have paperwork from both the bank and the government to prove it. And with the credit card, well, if I had anything outstanding on that it'd be on a statement somewhere, and I'd have been charged interest.
So, hmm, maybe there's fraud or something. I mean, I know it's not medical bills for sure because we've got sovietized medicine and I couldn't even get near a private care provider if I wanted to. These guys have basically the droid detector at the entrance of the cantina in Star Wars, but it reacts to poor people instead.
In any case thanks for the info Mongrel. I just tried the phone service for Transunion and they don't seem to recognize me, so I guess I'll have to... mail... some forms... that I'll have to print out...
Well. There's another pet peeve I guess. I hope Canada Post has the technology to deliver to companies who haven't left the 20th century.
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Castle Anthrax (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtcSYPjJbgg#)
Sir Galahad = Me
Sir Lancelot = AVG Antivirus
Castle Anthrax = My usual browsing habits
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Websites that have case sensitive user IDs. If you're going to buck a convention, that shouldn't be the fucking one!
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Most websites run on Unix-based servers. In Unixland, usernames are and always have been case-sensitive.
Saying that case-sensitive usernames are "bucking convention" is like saying URLs buck convention because they use forward-slashes like Unix instead of backslashes like Windows.
Now, E-Mail addresses are case-insensitive. So if a site asks for your E-Mail as your username, then yeah, that should be case-insensitive. Short of that, though, I gotta go with the devs on this one.
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Case-sensitive usernames are standard on unix, but not on websites. User expectation is different.
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Yeah, I don't really think backing up a website design decision with "Well UNIX does it" is a compelling argument.
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So I caught a link to the Escher Girls blog (http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/), and I realized something:
This website is really fucking obnoxious. Like, I understand what they're getting at, and their points are valid, and I don't disagree with them. I got that. It's just that this blog's actual, individual contributers are each uniquely abhorrent.
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Case-sensitive usernames are standard on unix, but not on websites. User expectation is different.
Users expect all kinds of stupid bullshit. I don't think expecting them to type their username the same way every time is out of line. Especially given that it's adjacent to a field that damn-well SHOULD be case-sensitive.
Yeah, I don't really think backing up a website design decision with "Well UNIX does it" is a compelling argument.
:strawman:
I believe the word I used was "convention".
But please, tell me more about this "website design" you speak of.
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The one Shinra referred to in his initial post? Like, I get that the architecture may be UNIX based, but whatever the website is actually made in probably has the ability to not be case-sensitive.
Speaking of website design, I recently ordered glasses online, and the site gave me the option of doing a guest checkout if I didn't want to sign up for an account. Which I didn't, because I was just ordering glasses off this one glasses website. So once I get to the end of the checkout process, surprise, there's a field for signing up for an account that can't be ignored right before the final submit.
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That's actually a pretty slick way to get you to sign up.
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No it's not. It's the exact same as having never offered me the guest checkout option in the first place.
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I said it was a way to coerce you into signing up, not that it wasn't a dick move.
EDIT:
I mean, did you sign up? Or did you give up on your glasses?
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It seems at a glance to be a slick way of getting someone to sign up, but in reality it is a slick way of getting people to vow never to do business with your deceptive company again.
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Faculty that enforce their own syntactic idiosyncrasies. If it's a style choice, then it's entirely subjective, and you can back your red pen the fuck off. If it's not a style choice, then it's a matter of substance, of superior usage, with an objectively correct answer, and do you really want to go down that road with me? Protip: sometimes Strunk and White have their heads up their asses.
Also every asshole who demands APA formatting of citations.
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My mouse wheel broke. This has drastically affected how I play on my computer.
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If order delivery, know your god damn address.
At least once a day, I arrive to were the address they gave me takes me only to find out there's no house there. Then when I call and get another address, that's wrong too.
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I was going out to get my mail just now, and I caught the fucker who gets his dog to crap underneath my front balcony, or at least one such fucker. I gave him a stern warning with all the physical presence my 6'3" 230 pound frame has to muster. That said, he looks like he's about 80 years old and I don't have it in me to assault the elderly, plus that seems like excessive escalation. Maybe I should keep like a bucket of water handy and drench him if I catch him again. Or just the dog. It's a yappy little thing, it's not like it'd get anywhere attacking me. Can an old guy die of getting drenched in water? Probably shouldn't try it until next summer. Or at all. Man, I dunno.
Maybe I scared him off already.
Thinkin' about putting a cheap webcam pointed there. Knowing my neighborhood, someone would throw a rock at it.
(I don't know if it seems I'm making too big a deal of this but I basically don't have a yard and all the poop ends up directly underneath my front door and almost directly underneath my living room window so there is the matter of odor.)
EDIT: I just realized I'm sitting here being all "goddamn old people! get off my lawn!"
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"One after the next."
How can it be AFTER the NEXT?
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By being two away?
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Yeah, I fail to see the problem as well. BEFORE the next would be impossible.
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BEFORE the next would be impossible.
Er, how?
EVERYTHING happens before the next thing. Except the final thing.
"One after the next" -- what the fuck does that mean? Next relative to what? Relative to "one", right? Because THERE IS NO OTHER FUCKING NOUN IN THE SENTENCE. There are two things in the sentence: "one" and "next".
If "next" is "the next, relative to one", then it by definition cannot fucking occur BEFORE the one. You know what "next" means, right? It implies a thing that is AFTER a different thing.
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It's a linguistic form of Mathematical Induction.
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But i does not occur after i+1.
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Is this going to be the next left handed coffee mug?
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In that it's a non sequitur people throw out periodically because it was mildly amusing six years prior? Motherfuckin' snakes on a motherfuckin' plane, apply directly to the forehead! Attack its weak point for massive damage! I wish I could quit you!
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BEFORE the next would be impossible.
Er, how?
Only impossible if we're talking about things of the same category, but that's what I assumed without any context.
If you're talking about houses on a street, there can be no house before the next house, because that would be the current one. But there can be any number of them after the next house. If you're talking about something else, like a fire hydrant, then sure, it can be before the next house.
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No, I'm referring to the phrase "One after the next", a corruption of "One after the other", implying a constant stream of things. As in "They just keep coming, one after the next."
The correct phrase is "One after the other" (or "One after another"). "One after the next" doesn't make a lick of damn sense.
Tron used it in an episode I watched this morning and it bugged me.
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But i does not occur after i+1.
i+1 occurs after i though, even when the current i+1 is considered i. That's the point of both the phrase and the proof. It implies an endless progression, because when the next thing becomes the current, there is one thing after it. You could imply the same with one thing after the current, but the subtext of that phrase invokes more of "just one more thing and I'm done" mentality, rather than looking ahead and not seeing any actual endpoint.
Now explain "One thing after the other", because I have no idea what the logic behind it is. I think it's a corruption of "One thing after another", which is the same exact thing as "One thing after the next".
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i+1 occurs after i though, even when the current i+1 is considered i.
Yes, but "the next" is always after "the current", whether i=0, 1, 100, n, or infinity. Infinite progression still doesn't mean you suddenly reverse direction.
That's the point of both the phrase and the proof. It implies an endless progression, because when the next thing becomes the current, there is one thing after it.
Yes, there is A THING after IT. IT is not after A THING.
You could imply the same with one thing after the current, but the subtext of that phrase invokes more of "just one more thing and I'm done" mentality, rather than looking ahead and not seeing any actual endpoint.
I'll buy that as a reason not to say "one thing after the current", not a reason to say "one thing after the next".
Now explain "One thing after the other", because I have no idea what the logic behind it is. I think it's a corruption of "One thing after another", which is the same exact thing as "One thing after the next".
No, "one thing after another" is NOT the same thing as "one thing after the next". A thing occurring after something that is after itself is logically impossible; a thing occurring after something is not. The word "another" does not imply a chronological order; the words "after" and "next" do.
"The other" -- well, I suppose the definite article throws a wrench in the works of a visual implying an endless stream of things, but unlike "the next" it still makes logical sense in an inductive proof. "Another" or "the other" implies that i follows some n; "the next" implies that i follows i+1, which it logically cannot.
"One after the current" (i+1 follows i) or "one after the previous" (i follows i-1) would be more precise than "one after another" or "one after the other" (i follows some n), but they sound awkward. "One after the next" (i follows i+1) rolls off the tongue but is nonsensical.
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No, I'm referring to the phrase "One after the next", a corruption of "One after the other", implying a constant stream of things. As in "They just keep coming, one after the next."
The correct phrase is "One after the other" (or "One after another"). "One after the next" doesn't make a lick of damn sense.
Tron used it in an episode I watched this morning and it bugged me.
Well now that you've explained the context, I can say I've never heard this turn of phrase, and never hope to.
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In that it's a non sequitur people throw out periodically because it was mildly amusing six years prior? Motherfuckin' snakes on a motherfuckin' plane, apply directly to the forehead! Attack its weak point for massive damage! I wish I knew how to quit you! (http://youtu.be/jwlYo8EYTWI)
If I understand your argument properly, you're saying that
a = "one thing"
b = "after the next"
one thing after the next is akin to a pattern like:
a b a ... etc
Because the "one thing after the next" implies that "the next" is after "one thing"
whereas one thing after another would be the standard
a b c ... etc
Is that what you mean? Because if that is the case, I would have to disagree with that view.
I think that when people say that phrase, what they mean is that there is "one thing" that happens "after the next", but the thing "after the next" in their context doesn't apply to the "one thing". There is an implied pile of things on their plate, which, "after the next" thing has occurred, there is "one thing" piled on top of that heap as well. In list form:
x y z b a...etc
At least that's how I've understood that phrase to mean.
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Oy vey.
If I do this quote by quote, I'll end up in an endurance race.
If I cut all the fat out and just show you where you seem confused, you'll chastise me for quoting you out of context.
And if I go nuts and ban you because I'm the King, a lot of people who normally scream ADMIN ABUSE BOO HOO will congratulate me on my rational decision making.
...
I hate you all.
So, bear with me here:
i+1 occurs after i though, even when the current i+1 is considered i.
Yes, but "the next" is always after "the current",
Right...
whether i=0, 1, 100, n, or infinity.
Right...
Infinite progression still doesn't mean you suddenly reverse direction.
And... lost you. Linguistically or mathematically we're not talking about that.
Problem numero uno is, you keep using i, when the ill-advised math analogy uses k pretty specifically to mean "any number that is a positive integer". Not a constant. This is important, and the nomenclature you threw out that I naively ran with means I have no idea if we're talking about the same thing or not.
The idea is not that i comes after i+1, but that k and k+1 describe an iteration, and in the next iteration, what WAS k+1 is now k, and what is now k+1 was - pause for readability - k+1+1.
Not k.
Which is the idea you seem to have latched onto somehow with...
Yes, there is A THING after IT. IT is not after A THING.
and
No, "one thing after another" is NOT the same thing as "one thing after the next". A thing occurring after something that is after itself is logically impossible; a thing occurring after something is not.
So what we have here is:
k+1+1: One thing after the next, or one thing after another.
k+1: The next, or another.
k: Not specified in either case. It is certainly NOT referred to as "one thing" and I don't know why you're obsessed with that idea.
I'll grant that "another" is somewhat more specific in the case that "one thing" occurs after something besides "this thing", but "the next" is linguistically accepted as meaning, specifically, "the next after the current". Next time, next customer, next door.
"Next Tuesday", of course, is an inconstant that everybody hates. Don't use that.
The word "another" does not imply a chronological order; the words "after" and "next" do.
So "one thing after the next" would be better, right? Because it specifically implies a chronological progression, where "one thing after another" could simply refer to something occurring after something else, at some point. "This is just one thing after another" starts to become something Yogi Berra would say. Yogi Berra probably did say it.
"The other" -- well, I suppose the definite article throws a wrench in the works of a visual implying an endless stream of things, but unlike "the next" it still makes logical sense in an inductive proof.
What are you defining as "the other"? It sounds more like x and y, not k and k+1.
"the next" implies that i follows i+1
Why do you think this?
"One after the next" (i follows i+1) rolls off the tongue but is nonsensical.
Oh that's why.
If you're conflating this with something like "Tuesday after the next", I can see where you get into the TIME PARADOX argument. But it's invalid. "One" or "one thing" is just that, a thing, not defined. k, not i. "After the next thing after this thing, is another thing." Not "After the next thing after this thing, is this thing." Otherwise it would be "This after the next," which isn't at all impossible and describes an actual cycle, but sounds kind of dumb.
I think that when people say that phrase, what they mean is that there is "one thing" that happens "after the next", but the thing "after the next" in their context doesn't apply to the "one thing". There is an implied pile of things on their plate, which, "after the next" thing has occurred, there is "one thing" piled on top of that heap as well. In list form:
x y z b a...etc
At least that's how I've understood that phrase to mean.
Ugh fuck if I knew I'd have to have an argument about my humor analogy I'd have gone with stack (EDIT: queue) in the first place.
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While we're on the subject of being confused by the word "one":
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8A707720121108?irpc=932 (http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8A707720121108?irpc=932)
"Taliban suicide attack on base in Pakistan's biggest city kills one". There's no clarification in the article whether that means "just the suicide bomber", or someone else. Of course they probably meant the latter, but that's both incorrect AND irreverent.
Hmph.
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A lot of English idioms, or I guess in this case idiom drift, don't make sense. It used to bug me but all of the sudden I could care less.
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But there is nothing in the phrase "one after the next" to refer to more than one iteration. Again, there are two things in the sentence: "one" and "next". Implying an additional iteration somewhere in the middle of the sentence, sans any actual reference to it, is...well, I can see where you're coming from that it's clear that's what people who use the phrase MEAN to do, but it's still paradoxical on its face.
"One after the last" would be good but then you hit up on the ambiguity that last can mean "final", not just "previous".
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"I've got autism or something pretty bad. I mean, I'm really good at remembering lyrics."
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Also while we're yelling at them, people who one time got some stuff in order because they're "totally OCD".
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I get legitimately agitated when small things are not as they should be, and I'm never honestly sure if I've got some level of OCD or if I'm just a picky asshole.
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Will your mother die if those minute things aren't correct? If not, you're just a picky asshole.
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Well, OCD is one of those things that normal people do, just amped up to crazy.
So, in one sense, you've got OCD. But in a more useful sense, you don't, because if that drive isn't amped up to crazy then you're not OCD. Get it?
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In order for an action to be OCD it must be done obsessively and compulsively enough to be a disorder. That's why they call it that.
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It, most notably, has to interfere with your daily life as well and it has to be practically autonomous.. Such as people who just cannot stop washing their hands, or must continually flip and re-flip a light switch.
What Niku describes is just annoying perfectionism. It would cross into the realm of OCD if he could not proceed until those little details were exact.
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And that would just make him a tester.
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Also I don't think most people know what OCD is as a rule. I have kids at work that think I'm 'OCD' because I wash my hands pretty much every time I walk past a sink, when in reality, I do that because projector oil is one of the most vile smelling and tasting liquids on the fucking planet. But they think that because it causes dry skin on my hands that can crack into wounds its must mean I'm OCD. No, that's not the case, the fact that I hate lotion is the reason my hands crack when they dry, not because I'm 'OCD'. Stupid kids.
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OCD is often used as a descriptor and not as an actual medical diagnosis, like retard or psycho.
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Or motherfucker.
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OCD is often used as a descriptor and not as an actual medical diagnosis, like retard or psycho.
One of my roommates was a nursing student and she casually threw around the term "retarded". You'd think they'd have sensitivity classes on that sort of thing.
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I typed this rant up in response to a sort of dumb internet discussion I saw elsewhere and figured at least someone might get a kick out of my bitching here, so here you go: my pet peeve of people not understanding and overreacting about "human cloning".
The problem with cloning is that nobody actually fucking knows or cares to think about what it involves.
There is SCIFI BULLSHIT CLONING and ACTUAL CLONING
SCIFI BULLSHIT CLONING is creating an exact copy of an adult person with all their memories and experiences and personality and all that. This creates all kind of crazy ethical and existential issues about identity and shit! How do we know we are original! Is there a soul!
ACTUAL CLONING is literally just creating an embryo genetically identical to another organism. That's it. You may be familiar with this as "identical twins". You may also notice nobody says stupid navelgazing bullshit about twins, like, DO TWINS HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS THE ORIGINAL? SHOULD WE HARVEST TWINS FOR ORGANS? CAN TWINS BE USED FOR IMMORTALITY?
"Cloning" itself isn't a big deal at all because it's actually pretty fucking useless. If you hadn't noticed, animals take a while to grow up and all that shit. About the only use for cloning we have is in breeding livestock where we've already been cloning plants for a shitlong time and mucking with genetics since before we had the goddamn word "genetics".
Sorry but this is a pet peeve of mine. The ability to do all the shit we talk about when we talk about cloning? Transferring or copying memories, or instantaneously growing adult bodies within a very short period of time? THOSE are technologies that would have huge potential applications and a shitload of ethical problems.
Making a test tube embryo twin really isn't.
And the mitosis keeps fucking up in mammals anyway just in case the whole shitstorm over nothing wasn't already laughably overblown.
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But we just shouldn't play God!
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But we just shouldn't play God!
I can't hear you over this suspension bridge I'm building
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You shouldn't build God!
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Additional pet peeve:
When things that are incredibly obvious jokes are overheard by stupid people and begin to be used as actual arguments.
like "The five second rule", and "If eating animals is bad why are they so tasty"
and then we have to disprove that shit to lowered-bar idiots.
If I see another article about people bothering to "debunk" the five second rule I am going to absolutely lose my shit. It's like people having serious discussions over whether he who smelt it reliably dealt it.
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People just like numbers, makes it easier because we only use 10% of our brains to think about sex every 7 seconds.
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like "The five second rule", and "If eating animals is bad why are they so tasty"
Or "I DO help with the problem of bovine flatulence -- I eat the cows!"
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I'm annoyed whenever I see an ad for a bank that tries to recast, say Chase, as an institution that cares about "main street" in any real capacity.
... Am I being unfair here?
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No.
Chase does not care about anything.
Love is just an abstract concept. It can't knock down stuff.
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But but but love kicked all the changelings out of ponyville
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Mandatory Bosses' Day donations. (We are celebrating this belatedly this year.) The bosses make an awful lot more money than I do, and while I'm all for signing a Hallmark card thanking them for another year with barely any floggings, a mandatory $15 contribution to gifts (in addition to bringing food to share for breakfast) really irks me. Especially considering all the admins got for Admin's Day was a tiny flower bouquet and a free lunch, and we make the least amount of money in the company.
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Peasants should be grateful for the divine gift of their job! Their gratitude is expressed in a yearly tithe to your poor, over-worked lords.
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I didn't know that this was really a thing people did.
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Neither did I.
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I don't really know if this is a genuine pet peeve or not but I am simultaneously amused and annoyed that "Tryhard" has become an actual insult.
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When people try to insert themselves into cultures of which they are not a part, for direct exploitation. Like, for instance, someone who does not play video games making a bunch of game-related products, with jokes they don't get and memes they don't understand, of games they've never played and will never play, to sell in the merch room at a gaming convention.
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I get the feeling that you've got a particular individual or group in mind, TA.
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It's those fucking brontos always posting about video games and comics like they know what's up. Assholes.
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When people try to insert themselves into cultures of which they are not a part, for direct exploitation. Like, for instance, someone who does not play video games making a bunch of game-related products, with jokes they don't get and memes they don't understand, of games they've never played and will never play
Dude, chill, they laid me off and went out of business four years ago.
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I assumed he was talking about Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-women-in-video-games).
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I assumed he was talking about Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-women-in-video-games).
I'm not, no.
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Damn your "th" sound. Who the hell thought that one was a good idea?
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thzszszszszhhhhhfffzzszffffuckitiofficiallygiveupforever
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... what?
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Try reading it in an OUTRAGEOUS FRENCH ACCENT.
Like, "Who zee hell sot ZAT one was a good idea?"
...actually, now I think about it it IS kind of an interesting question; I don't remember ever covering the origins of the English "th" sound in linguistics class. English is a Germanic language but I sure don't associate the "th" sound with Ze Germans.
...probably predates the Anglo-Saxons and goes back to the Celts. I know Welsh "dd" resembles the voiced "th". ("Brythonic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brythonic_languages)" has a "th" right in it, but given that "Brython" became "Britain", I'm guessing it was pronounced closer to a regular "t" sound.)
(Also: while fucking around on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_language_%28Celtic%29) looking for information on this, I learned that "Prydain" is also an ancient form of "Britain". Well-played, Lloyd Alexander.)
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Well, English may have a Germanic origin, but it's pretty thoroughly mongrelized (:whoops:) and has been for at least a millennium, if not longer. I would say its probably got at as much Latin-derived material in it as it does German now.
As for the origins, it's pretty funny. The th-sound was in fact of early Germanic origin. Only German-speaking peoples dropped it over time where the English kept it. Ha!
[Let's pretend I added the well-worn quote that equates the English language with a mugger here.]
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If you lay down with English like this, you will surely catch "th's", no?
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It's really the last English sound that still gives me problems. Your "r" is kind of a douche too (AMEDICA! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjcV1ISCIRk#)) but I basically got it by now. I can pronounce a "th" if I focus on a single word, but the moment I try to place it in a sentence, all bets are off. Sometimes it even migrates to a nearby t. I don't know what's going on there. I mean, that one's basically my own brain problem, but still. It always ends up sounding like I have a pronunciation defect.
...which I suppose is another way to mean "accent." Oh well!
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If it's any consolation, your English is a lot better than my French.
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Well, English may have a Germanic origin, but it's pretty thoroughly mongrelized (:whoops:) and has been for at least a millennium, if not longer. I would say its probably got at as much Latin-derived material in it as it does German now.
Well sure, but I don't associate the "th" sound with Latinate languages either.
As for the origins, it's pretty funny. The th-sound was in fact of early Germanic origin. Only German-speaking peoples dropped it over time where the English kept it. Ha!
Makes sense. Seemed like I remembered a lot of th's in Chaucer.
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Oh, english is your second language. Man, don't give no shit about that, foreign accents are sexy as fuck!
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Yeah, I know by now it's not so bad to other people, but internally it's like I'm not measuring up to my own standards.
Which I suppose is why I have recently resorted to being annoyed with English instead of with myself. :glee:
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The thing is though, man. Your accent is AWESOME. Don't lose it!
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Heh, I've come to terms with that by now. It's just... Let's say I'd be well and truly chuffed if I never said "tree" instead of "three" again. To say things differently is one thing, to say them wrong is another.
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My shoe size is 10.5 wide, but I'm wide across the entire length of the foot when most people aren't, and as a result I can either have comfortable shoes or cheap shoes or nice shoes, but only one of the above at any given point in time.
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Yowch; I feel you there -- I'm a 10.5 double or triple wide myself. (And I don't actually have particularly wide feet, but high insteps.)
Mostly I buy New Balance. My latest pair fits my left foot fine with standard criss-cross lacing but I had to gap lace (http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/gaplacing.htm) the right one to make it fit comfortably. (My right foot's bigger than the other one is, like a regular Zomby Hoof.)
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Maybe it's clubfoot.
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I recently bought new boots, which I usually buy oversized (I'm 8.5 or 9 and usually buy 9 or 9.5). I thought they'd stretch (when I tried them on new they were a bit tight but "within spec" for me... they seem to have actually gotten tighter) but they just won't so there goes $250, unless I can get a shoemaker to remove the excessive insole.
I'm mostly pissed because I waited to but from the US since I couldn't get any Red Wing boots up here (with a couple of exceptions) and was trying to buy good quality boots instead of the cheap shit I bought over the last five years.
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Place order from game store in the US. Item is about $80 total.
Item is in much worse condition than the store thought, so I decided to cancel. The store is very helpful and refunds my money right away with no problem.
Visa dings me $2 each way on the CAD to USD and USD to CAD conversions. :rage:
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I wish I knew why is the market for used electronic anything (media, hardware) in Toronto so unbelievably retarded. Back when DVDs were at their peak, most places sold used copies of movies for as much or more than new ones from the usual chain shops. Whenever I go to look for something on Craigslist/Kijiji people are invariably selling a used item for less than a new one. I mean if it was just some people or stores, I'd just say those were the slow crowd, but it's always like this, whatever I'm looking for.
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People who debate online by slicing up a post into small, context-free pieces and arguing each piece as if it was a complete thought.
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... isn't that basically every single Internet argument we've ever had on these for--oh.
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It's just a peeve in general. I know it pops up here, but this particular instance occurred when I saw someone demanding a definition for "assault weapons" I provided one along with a few examples, and the person responded by launching into a piece-by-piece rebuttal. I'd had a feeling that I'd regret it and I did.
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The letter "s" at the end of Homo sapiens does not actually indicate that it is a plural. The singular form of Homo sapiens is Homo sapiens, not Homo sapien.
Now, that's one of those trivial little things I don't expect most people to know.
However, if you are making a television show about an anal-retentive anthropologist who constantly corrects people for trivial errors, you should probably not have her and another anthropologist use the phrase Homo sapien like FIFTY TIMES over the course of an hour. Someone involved somewhere in the chain -- writer, editor, science consultant, director, actor -- should at some point fucking catch something like that.
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One homo sapiens, several homo sapienses.
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Homo Sapanini
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Which is apropos because we're basically saucy, toasted brains sandwiches.
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Whenever someone refers to ladyparts as a "vajyjay", I get nervous about eating panini.
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You mean Pa-naynay?
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I bought some fish today. Not much, just a couple phalaylay.
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Man, I love eating babaybays.
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Man, I love eating Abobo.
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Calling babies babaybays from now on.
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And I will continue to call Abobo Abobo.
Abobo.
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Blasting a hole in the kleenex when you blow your nose.
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I... I argue in favor of liberal politics on 4Chan's Politically Incorrect message board.
What's wrong with me? Why am I like this? Do I just hate myself?
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Try being a feminist on 4chan at all.
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pff whiteknight you're just trying to get laid
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When you go to get coffee in the break room and the push pot is bone dry. It's one thing to have a little bit in there and then it sputters out before you get your full cup, but bone dry? Some asshole milked that thing for all it was worth and intentionally didn't start another pot brewing.
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I'm pretty sure that's the exact reason the Keurig was invented.
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Try being a feminist on 4chan at all.
At least sometimes you can get some traction in /b/ of all places, by virtue of everyone there being argumentative bastards. Simply complain about your whore of a girlfriend and how you're too good for her, and you're going to get a 50-post thread telling you that you're a terrible person.
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People who smugly interject, "Speaking from experience?" To comments like that.
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So a rather large(I presume, from the noise they've been making) pack of coyotes has moved into the canyon by my house. My already fragmented sleep patterns(I'm a very light sleeper) have been exacerbated by this; for the past several nights I've been woken up about once an hour by my dogs going off at the coyotes outside.
Fortunately, I'm moving to a new, hopefully coyote-free house soon, but my move date has been delayed several times by the new landlady. Originally, I was supposed to move Jan 1st. Now, I'm supposed to move this weekend, but I went to look at the place last Friday, and it still looked rather unfinished. This week, she had people putting in the tile floor... but they somehow put it in the wrong way, and had to rip it all out and put it back in.
:shrug:
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I don't mean to be an asshole, but you've tried earplugs already, right?
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Not for this purpose, no; but I've used earplugs before, and I have yet to find a pair that's comfortable enough for long-term use.
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Earplugs are OK every so often (like when you're stuck in a hotel room with a heavy snorer) but they are not a long term solution for a light sleeper due to how uncomfortable they are, as Ted noted.
Blinders and sleeptracks are actually something that a lot of my friends have reported helped them a lot. Ymmv, of course, and they are not coyote proof.
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What if I just...kill all of the coyotes?
EDIT: just found out the new place is ready, and I can start moving today. Which is great, because a couple of days ago the breaker for my room at the current place blew, and I'm fairly certain the landlady isn't going to get it fixed until we're out. Which I can understand, but it's still kind of :humpf:
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What if I just...kill all of the coyotes?
EDIT: just found out the new place is ready, and I can start moving today. Which is great, because a couple of days ago the breaker for my room at the current place blew, and I'm fairly certain the landlady isn't going to get it fixed until we're out. Which I can understand, but it's still kind of :humpf:
:whoops:
So it turns out, only my roommate's part of the new place (the main house) is finished! The kitchen still isn't finished in the studio offshoot that I'll be living in. They expect it should be done on the 3rd. I have to be out of my current house by the 4th.
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I just watched yesterdays DVR'd Colbert Report
Okay, so you're trying to sell your delicious pork products
you probably shouldn't bring two adorable piglets and have them snuggle in Steven Colbert's arms
that's just... man, fuck you fat farmer.
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My credit score has been dropping like a rock lately because the system is designed to punish you severely for investing in your health or education.
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What if I just...kill all of the coyotes?
Aw. Sorry this is already resolved. If you needed a roommate I apparently could have mitigated this somewhat. The little bastards seem to have taken to following me around and/or silently waiting outside my gate for me to come out in the evening. Never fed them or anything. Though I am prone to howling at the moon on occasion. I'm not sure if they're paying homage or waiting for me to drop dead, but either way they've been a minimal pain in the ass, other than having to clean up coyote scat every few weeks. Plus, the collie gets along famously with them.
Oh... for the love of fuck. Is this one of those native american spirit animal things? Those are the worst. Well, at least they're not ravens this time. Nasty bastards. Still, I preferred the raccoons.
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I understand perfectly why you would put your computer specs in your signature on a forum that gives people help with computer problems. It is way the fuck easier than repeating them every time you have an issue.
But you know what would be fucking great would be if somebody would find a way for search engines to IGNORE THAT SHIT.
If I am searching for an issue with OpenSUSE 12, I do not want to hit a bunch of results from 2008 just because years later people changed their signatures to say "OpenSUSE 12".
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Pre-ordered the new Spin Doctors album. It released today. Amazon says mine will be at my house on the 2nd.
If I had pre-ordered a video game, it'd be here the day of, no?
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I bought a nook tablet because they were on sale and was able to sell the old HP Touchpad + Accessories I got a while back during that whole fire sale thing as a gift from a friend who regret-purchased it.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/08/microsoft-mulling-nook-media-llc-purchase-for-1-billion/ (http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/08/microsoft-mulling-nook-media-llc-purchase-for-1-billion/)
The NEXT FUCKING DAY
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Let's talk about Mali's biggest pet peeve. I hate when people say no problem when you say thank you to them. It really makes me upset with them in general. I know it's just because of how I interpret conversation. When I hear 'No problem' it immediately implies, to me, that had the thing you are thanking them for been a problem they would just not have assisted you. I also always respond the same way when I am thanked. I close my eyes, incline my head slightly in an almost bow and say, "You're welcome." or, if I really don't feel I should be thanked, "It was my pleasure." I always graciously and formally accept thanks because I don't feel it's my choice if I should be thanked but the choice of the person who is thanking me...
I also have a problem with people reading into what I say, if I say, "I don't like this." It doesn't mean that I dislike it, it means that I do not yet like it. I am neutral... And let's not even get into when I say no to someone and they act like it's a debate. I hate when a succinct answer is argued with...
Good god, I'm a GIANT bitch.
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When I hear 'No problem' it immediately implies, to me, that had the thing you are thanking them for been a problem they would just not have assisted you.
As a frequent user of the phrase 'No Problem' when being thanked, I feel the need to explain myself. When I say 'No Problem', what I'm telling the person who thanked me is that "Your problem didn't inconvenience me, so you shouldn't feel like you're a burden to other people or that you're indebted to me." I'm also keeping it casual, to reinforce the message.
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There's also the nontrivial point that in most Latinate languages the equivalent for "you're welcome" is literally "it's nothing".
Do you get mad if a Spanish speaker says "de nada"?
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Yeah, I don't want to sound unreasonable, but... that sounds unreasonable.
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When I hear 'No problem' it immediately implies, to me, that had the thing you are thanking them for been a problem they would just not have assisted you.
As a frequent user of the phrase 'No Problem' when being thanked, I feel the need to explain myself. When I say 'No Problem', what I'm telling the person who thanked me is that "Your problem didn't inconvenience me, so you shouldn't feel like you're a burden to other people or that you're indebted to me." I'm also keeping it casual, to reinforce the message.
I was going to write up exactly this but then DN wrote it instead. So, exactly this.
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Going a step further, the Chinese generic equivalent is "stop being modest" and the Japanese, in politest form possible, is "don't do that", both implying that the thanks are not only unnecessary but actually inappropriate given the thanker's (higher) station. Leave it to Asia to make it polite form to assume any other person is better than you and berate them for showing you any respect.
...you know what, I'm starting to much prefer the Germanic method too.
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As a person from an actual Spanish speaking family, yes I do dislike 'de nada'. Y'all seem to forget I'm Mexican as well as Native American. I just dislike informal or ungracious responses because I do not feel it is up to the person receiving the thanks to decide whether or not her/she deserves it.
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(http://i.imgur.com/wni58UYl.jpg)
eff you, blip.
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The arms race continues.
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I just dislike informal or ungracious responses because I do not feel it is up to the person receiving the thanks to decide whether or not her/she deserves it.
But what exactly do you think "you're welcome" means, etymologically speaking? It's yet another way of saying that no thanks are necessary.
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I know this and I even admit this being my main pet peeve is not smart but it still doesn't stop my moment of seething rage and hatred when it happens.
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Let me ask you, do you value courtesy more for form or for function?
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I know this and I even admit this being my main pet peeve is not smart but it still doesn't stop my moment of seething rage and hatred when it happens.
Nah, I mean, obviously I understand that sometimes a turn of phrase can just rub you the wrong way.
In a similar vein, and I may have mentioned this before, it bugs the fuck out of me when somebody tells me about something unfortunate and I say "I'm sorry" and they respond "It's not your fault." Well no fucking shit it's not my fault; I'm expressing SYMPATHY.
Related xkcd (http://xkcd.com/945/). And yes, I have started actually doing that.
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I prefer using "condolences" or something similar.
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"I'm sorry to hear that."
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Always struck me as odd because it sounds like you wish the other person hadn't said anything.
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*twitch*.... OH god, now I hate the phrase I'm sorry to hear that.
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(http://brentai.brontoforum.us/images/sidious.jpg)
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Well, it's probably more honest, if unintentionally so.
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You guys would hate it up here in Canada then. "I'm Sorry" is about as common as "Hello" and is applied to a pretty wide range of uses.
(http://breakfastfromparis.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/katebeatonsorry.jpg)
Anyway, getting hung up on the form of something over it's substance is a Pet Peeve of mine. This isn't directed at you in particular Mal, so I hope you won't take this personally (it's pretty clear you don't actually let any of that minor anger out, it's just an internal pissed-offedness, and we all have those moments). It's that kind of stuff that contributes towards keeping people separated into nasty, splintered, balkanized tribes. It creates arguments or bad feelings out of situations where people weren't antagonizing each other and were in fact on good terms, which seems tragic to me.
It's really a little thing in the grander scheme, but it does annoy me. If someone is genuinely thankful and the other person is magnanimous I'd rather those emotions just be shared for what they are without the recipient getting hung up on the wrapping the gift came in.
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god fucking damn it I'm getting sick again and I just GOT OVER a cold, like, a month ago.
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"Can you please cascade this information to your team?"
Ridiculous business jargon annoys me already, but that particular phrase...
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If you take photos of fireworks, you are an idiot.
If you take photos of fireworks with the flash on, you are an idiot.
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I am super fucking sick and tired of reading financial advice that is directed at some kind of platonic ideal middle class boomer.
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I am also super fucking sick of people who own houses and cars telling me money isn't important and that I should become a blogger.
Are you fucking kidding me. FUCK OFF.
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I mean, you could blog for some portion of your day.
About how dumb these other people are.
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Can you please cascade this information to your team?
whenever people say shit like that to me I just say "idk my bff jill?" and watch their face do that thing where it forgets how to face for a second
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Three times in three days has my mother called me and described in moderate detail how her bowel movements went. I jokingly call it "the daily fecal report"; she laughs, I don't.
Still a step up from Dang but I could do without my mother calling me in the middle of the night to tell me how her latest booty call went.
of course, but by the narrowest margin.
...what the
dangit
...
Welp, make that four times in three days.
I think she's having a gastroenteritis and the only way she can avoid feeling guilty about calling in sick to work is by making sure I agree with her that it is pretty bad. Which apparently I am unqualified to do unless I know the texture of her poop.
Oy.
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When you Google a question, and the first response is a sarcastic "Did you try Google?"
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p { margin: 0; }
Do you know what a fucking paragraph IS?
Because if you remove its margins, IT IS NO LONGER A FUCKING PARAGRAPH.
Need a block-level element with no margin? USE A FUCKING DIV. THAT'S WHAT A DIV IS.
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People who use a delayed text based medium (forums, texting) as if they were having a real-time conversation, not giving the information of what they mean until you go around a few circles first. Prompted by Lyrai for her posts in the Steam thread about some mysterious bundle she didn't get, but my sister is the absolute worst about this, requiring three or four texts before she will tell me why she is texting me in the first place. "Are you at home?" "Are you busy?" don't need to both be asked if you need a favor, just one text "If you're at home and not busy, I ___________".
Additionally, people who continue to do these things after you explain it to them. SISTER.
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In Lyrai's case, I just assumed she didn't name the game because she doesn't want to be seen as begging us to buy it for her.
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In Lyrai's case, I just assumed she didn't name the game because she doesn't want to be seen as begging us to buy it for her.
Correct.
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I can't tell if I would be more offended that someone thought the boards would buy them something because they missed a sale or that someone described me as having any fear of that kind of uncalled-for generosity being bestowed upon me.
I'm glad that neither of these things has happened to me to date.
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There was a thing in #ff a while back where someone spent a solid week saying how great it'd be if someone would buy them a specific game or something for their birthday. They would but they're so poor. It was the height of absolute obnoxiousness.
Anyway I figured it was just common courtesy, you know? Just grousing about missing a sale and waiting until the next sale, not passive-aggressively whinging and begging for it.
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The testers around here all studiously observe the "pee in reverence like monks" rule, but the developers tend to flagrantly disregard it. It's one of the times I'm actually glad to be on this side of the wall.
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You know what this means, right?
You're a religious leader and this is your holy war.
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We have to go to Masada.
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So... you're Jewish?
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Love your nails!
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When you Google a question, and the first response is a sarcastic "Did you try Google?"
Tangentially related:
Someone asks for help installing Flash; some asshole links to a tutorial on YouTube.
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Between YouTube's html5 trial and Safari's ClicktoFlash extension, I haven't used Flash to watch a YouTube video in years.
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...you know, coming in when somebody else complains about a piece of software not working to say that you don't need it yourself is a pretty good example of a pet peeve, too.
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Long, filthy fingernails. This is not so much a pet peeve as a thing that inspires revulsion in me.
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...you know, coming in when somebody else complains about a piece of software not working to say that you don't need it yourself is a pretty good example of a pet peeve, too.
I was just trying to provide a scenario where the tutorial linker forgets that Youtube requires Flash.
I guess I forgot to finish the thought.
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Fair enough. More likely I think he was probably thinking "Eh, they can just go to another computer," which I suppose is probably true. If you're trying to get Xubuntu working on a Chromebook, it is not likely that it is the only computer in your house. Still, I found it pretty obnoxious.
And making simple step-by-step processes into YouTube videos is a pretty obnoxious practice in and of itself, as we've already discussed.
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My family is full of people who absolutely believe they can't be wrong and if you say something they don't believe, you're an asshole and a liar.
(My mother has marked on the calendar a few days ago when my father said she was right about moldy hamburgers)
In addition with this, my family has a terrible time remembering things so when they get mad I've never broken any bones, I remind them of my nose multiple times. They say it doesn't count.
I bring up when I broke my rib back when I had bronchitis and they are calling my doctor to verify.
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Happy Third Decade, Kayin!
Argh, now you've gone and done it.
Unless Kayin just turned 20, he has not just entered his third decade.
First decade would be the first 10 years of life, yes? That would be 0-9. Second decade, then, is 10-19; third is 20-29.
Similarly, while "I am in my nth year" is typically used to mean "I am n years old", that is not what it actually means (unless you're from China or another culture that considers you to be one year old at birth).
Unless you're wishing Kayin a happy END to his third decade. In which case, carry on.
And hey Kayin, happy birthday! Regardless of which one it may be. (Though if you DID just turn twenty, then I'm pretty goddamn impressed.)
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:thad:
(also, happy birthday Kayin)
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I would say that Kayin's first three decades were pretty successful, yes.
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hey Friday welcome home you've been gone awhile haha yeah so here's what I've been up to
"oh hey that's cool but I need to detox and just chill out can we talk later"
oh sure np
*FIVE MINUTES LATER*
oh hey Friday so here's what I've been up to this past week
"Mom it's been five minutes please I just need some space right now"
oh come on Friday it's been forever anyway so at work this person did this thing and i was like omg wtf and she was like dude totally and --
"MOM I AM CLOSE TO MURDER. I AM ON THE BRINK. OF CHAOS. THE BRINK OF CHAOS, MOTHER."
and then she was all looooooooooool and i was like loooooooooooool I KNOW and then we both were all LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
"I AM GOING TO DECAPITATE MYSELF AND THEN MY BODY WILL CHASE YOU AROUND THE HOUSE WITH A KATANA. MOTHER. CHAOS."
and then BOB said LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
"DARK VISIONS OF HELL SWIM BEFORE MY VERY FUCKING EYES. IN THEM I CAN SEE US. WE ARE STANDING ABOVE A PIT FILLED WITH FIRE. THE THOUSAND ARMS OF THE DAMNED REACH FOR US."
and THEN I said LOL and can you BELIEVE THAT?! Ha ha ha ha! by the way do you have any money you owe me money
"Mother. When they find our corpses they will not be able to understand how so much blood got into the house."
oh Friday you're so dramatic you were always dramatic just like Carol at work she was like LOLOOLOL and then I was all HAHA LOL! and then we both got into the Van and Bob was all LOL and
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Your mother's workplace sounds hilarious.
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and by hilarious you mean secretly yearns to become an abattoir?
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lol
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Friday, I think we may have the same mother.
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god fucking damn it
do you guys know what Tena Pads are? They're Sanitary Pads for leaky old women
and they have a commercial imploring women to do the "Tena Twist"
every few moments it just... it just pops up in my head. I'm just thinking about something and... and I hear it: "don't make a mess-do the TEEEENA TWIST!"
god fucking damn it
just god damn it all
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They should get Tina Turner as their spokesperson.
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The locals have taken to using the area underneath my front porch as a garbage dump. Just tonight I've had to drag out an old couch* from under there, as well as literally shovel out a pile of dirty, mismatched old dishes because hell if I was gonna crawl under there and pick that shit up with my hands. I've known for a while people use the spot as a pet bathroom, but actual random trash, that's new.
Gonna have to call my landlord and talk him into sealing that place up somehow.
*: My neighborhood is home to a ridiculous number of stray/possibly-feral cats, and there are still tons of spiders at this time of year, so that was no picnic.
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Veering dangerously close to a reverse racism discussion here, but: I intensely dislike walking into a general area where people are conversing in their native language and hearing them suddenly switch over to English when they notice me. I definitely understand why that behavior is adopted and am more aggravated at the situation than the people doing it, but still, it kind of stings to know that when people see you they need to assume that you may be an Anglophonic bigot.
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That's not reverse racism, that's actual racism. I mean, not them switching languages, the fact that enough of them have been in situations that make them believe it's probably a better idea to do so than not.
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oh my god canada poooooooost
So I got another package vanished into the aether. Tracking website said it was delivered, but I was there all day, checked my mailbox multiple times, and there wasn't so much as a notice saying "you weren't there lol, go hoof it to a random store halfway across town* tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow to be sure, who knows". I go on their customer support pages, they don't let me fill out the forms since the sender is in the US. I try the phone numbers they suggest, it's all "press X to waste your precious life" bullshit, none of the ways I can think of to get a human operator work, waiting long enough on any given menu simply prompts it to say "good bye!" and cut the line.
I walk to the post office. Attendant says he can't help me since the system says the package was delivered successfully. He gives me a little photocopied piece of paper with four customer service department phone numbers. I'm pretty sure I called those already, but I go home and check: none of those numbers are on the effing webpage.
I call the new number, it seems to be the same system but this time I get the option to press 0 for operator. However, that is only if I enter the tracking number incorrectly; if I enter it correctly the option to contact an operator does not come up and 0 does nothing.
Long story short, the tracking number is in their system but my address is not associated with it (which did not prevent whatever degenerate subhuman protoplasm is in charge from marking the delivery as successful), I gotta contact the sender, who needs to contact the USPS, which then needs to get in touch with Canada Post.
aaaaaaaaagh
*: despite the actual post office being like five blocks away from where i live
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I find it more than a little infuriating that people are going apeshit about retailers being open on Thanksgiving when its traditionally the busiest day of the year to be open for my industry (movies) and we never ever close for any holidays. D:
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If your point is that people should be paying more attention to how shitty it can be to work in a theater, I'll agree.
If your point is that it's actually a good thing to have more people working on Thanksgiving, that's an opinion I don't share.
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No, I don't begrudge anyone their time off with their family. Its just that there are a lot of people who don't have that option already. Its shitty that even more people have to work so that someone like wal-mart can make a profit, but there are plenty of industries (and I'm not talking about essential industries like power, water or even gas stations and hotels) that have a 365 day work year already and people act like that shit is just supposed to be.
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oh my god canada poooooooost
Epilogue!
The seller refunded me my purchase.
He got the item back in the mail couple days ago.
CANADA POST LOST MY ADDRESS, MARKED THE DELIVERY AS SUCCESSFUL, AND SENT IT BACK TO THE US. AFTER A MONTH.
:pfff:
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There's something wrong with me that I'm irritated when people mispronounce Pokemon.
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it's "pokémon"
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I'm worried that I'm either getting a cold or that it was so dry last night that my sinuses are irritated.
I'm not dripping snot or feeling fatigued so it's probably not a cold, but the upper part of my airway still feels like it's been scrubbed by a brillo pad.
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It seriously is/was that dry.
Starr slept on the couch just so she could be close to the that big pot of water she put on slow boil and even that didn't help her.
(For the non-residents of Mongrel house: We all had colds. Starr is more harshly affected by such things due to the fact that her sinuses and breathing are already something of a disaster).
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I am always annoyed whenever anyone is talking about video games as an art form and ignores pretty much (http://ifdb.tads.org/viewcomp?id=oymvom4wrawhd4hr) the entire (http://ifdb.tads.org/poll?id=aa4qvyortjcv69db) interactive (http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page) fiction (http://eblong.com/zarf/if.html) community (http://ifcomp.org/). (Why yes that big ol' linkdump was absolutely necessary and totally needed to be formatted like that.) Yes I know the text-only style can be very off-putting and the parser is unwieldy and fickle even in the best of times, but (1) the graphics are your imagination, man, and (2) there's been plenty of good non-parser work done (http://ifdb.tads.org/search?searchfor=tag%3Acyoa+rating%3A3.5-+%23ratings%3A4-&searchgo=Search+Games), especially in recent years. At the very least you should read Emily Short's Blog (http://emshort.wordpress.com/) if you're at all interested in the artistic potential of games.
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No, I don't begrudge anyone their time off with their family. Its just that there are a lot of people who don't have that option already. Its shitty that even more people have to work so that someone like wal-mart can make a profit, but there are plenty of industries (and I'm not talking about essential industries like power, water or even gas stations and hotels) that have a 365 day work year already and people act like that shit is just supposed to be.
Nobody should have to work at Wal-Mart any more time than strictly necessary.
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the graphics are your imagination, man
I think this is actually an argument against counting them as video games.
They're certainly computer games. And I think it's certainly valid to discuss their artistic and literary merits. But can a game with no video be called a video game?
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Well. They use an electronic video display as the primary interface, so yes.
It separates them from, say, gamebooks.
What's really tricky is if you get into things like VCR Boardgames. The game and the video display are not directly interfacing.
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the graphics are your imagination, man
I think this is actually an argument against counting them as video games.
They're certainly computer games. And I think it's certainly valid to discuss their artistic and literary merits. But can a game with no video be called a video game?
HOW CAN A BOOK BE ON KINDLE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
HOW CAN A SONG NOT BE SUNG HOW CAN A PAINTING WITH NO PAINT ASDGAHREAERHVXVCXBFC :8V:
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The "is this or isn't this" slippery slope is a mug's game. Robb Sherwin's Cryptozookeeper (http://www.joltcountry.com/index.php/robbsherwin_videogame/cryptozookeeper) demonstrates IF that uses graphics, and if you need actual animation in order to qualify, then arguably Jim Munroe's Guilded Youth (http://emshort.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/if-comp-2012-guilded-youth/)—or (I can't believe I forgot about) Adam Thornton's Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country (http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=mws9p7rd0h1avuz2)—qualifies. Wherever you'd like to draw the line, you can show games on one side that meet your requirement and practically identical games on the other side which do not. It's not a useful distinction to draw.
Rather, the question of whether something's a video game should really be whether it's a player-driven or -directed experience; whether it's interactive. Although even this question is fraught with peril (http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2013/11/emergent-gameplay-vs-whatever-the-other-kind-is/#more). The terminology may not be as literally accurate as we'd like, but the inaccuracy is the best of bad alternatives.
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the graphics are your imagination, man
I think this is actually an argument against counting them as video games.
They're certainly computer games. And I think it's certainly valid to discuss their artistic and literary merits. But can a game with no video be called a video game?
You know I honestly didn't expect you would be such a pendant about this. Like, why do you call them comic books? I read a Batman comic once and it was only unintentionally funny. Etc., etc.
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If Dragon's Lair can be considered a video game despite not being a game, then interactive fiction should be considered a video game despite not having graphics.
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HOW CAN A BOOK BE ON KINDLE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Er, because the medium of transmission is irrelevant to the content?
HOW CAN A SONG NOT BE SUNG
All songs can be sung. You don't need lyrics to reproduce a series of sounds with your voicebox.
HOW CAN A PAINTING WITH NO PAINT
I...don't know?
You know I honestly didn't expect you would be such a pendant about this. Like, why do you call them comic books? I read a Batman comic once and it was only unintentionally funny. Etc., etc.
Do you really want me to list all the reasons your analogy is stupid, or would you rather I just point and laugh at you for calling me a pendant and call it a day?
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At the moment?
This thread.
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You know I honestly didn't expect you would be such a pendant about this. Like, why do you call them comic books? I read a Batman comic once and it was only unintentionally funny. Etc., etc.
Do you really want me to list all the reasons your analogy is stupid, or would you rather I just point and laugh at you for calling me a pendant and call it a day?
Actually, I fucking well would like you to list the reasons you think my analogy is stupid, because I think you're being a jackass about this subject and I would like to see your reasoning here. I've read enough Rock Paper Shotgun comments whining about how the Twine pieces they sometimes post pieces about aren't "real games" to last a fucking lifetime, so forgive me if I have a kneejerk reaction to arguments like this. The terms "video games" and "computer games" may have been used for different (but analogous) things in the past, but right now in the Year of Our Fucking Lord Two Thousand Thirteen they are virtually interchangeable synonyms, and when you exclude a certain kind of thing from one category it pretty damn well looks like you're excluding it from the other.
Look dude, I can feel for your case here. I can be a total pedant about shit too (and I know I was being a hypocrite when I called you on it)! And I understand your need to make language as exact as you can make it. I get bummed out by ambiguous turns of phrase; I get frustrated trying to parse poorly written comments on the internet. But when you dig in your heels on this subject, knowingly or not you are joining ranks with some of the worst bottom-feeders on the internet, the kind of jerks who can't even let go of their entitlement enough to recognize the existence of types of games that aren't the ones they like. By drawing this line in the sand, you are not making language any better, you are making the world a little bit worse.
(sorry mongrel)
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A digital painting requires no paint.
You do paint it though, as paint is also a verb
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Actually, I fucking well would like you to list the reasons you think my analogy is stupid
The phrase "comic books" as used to describe the medium derives from its original use as collected booklets of existing newspaper strips that, yes, were comical in nature (the first of which was in fact called Famous Funnies). Over time the medium was used to introduce original content in a bevy of genres but by then the nomenclature had already stuck.
Zero of those facts apply to the nomenclature of "video games". Games using graphics and games using text evolved in parallel. The phrase "video games" was coined, specifically, for the purpose of describing the way the medium transmitted visual information to the player.
That's not to say there's not a huge amount of overlap between the two things -- indeed, the entire point-and-click adventure genre is a direct descendant. I'll come back to that in a minute.
I've read enough Rock Paper Shotgun comments whining about how the Twine pieces they sometimes post pieces about aren't "real games" to last a fucking lifetime, so forgive me if I have a kneejerk reaction to arguments like this.
Cute quotation marks, but please do feel free to find any actual quotes where I refer to anything, ever, as not being a real game.
If you want, I CAN find you posts where someone jumped my shit for precisely the opposite reason -- being, to his mind, TOO inclusive for daring to suggest that "casual gamers" are gamers too -- but I think you'll be hard-pressed to find me dismissing things as "not a real game".
The terms "video games" and "computer games" may have been used for different (but analogous) things in the past, but right now in the Year of Our Fucking Lord Two Thousand Thirteen they are virtually interchangeable synonyms, and when you exclude a certain kind of thing from one category it pretty damn well looks like you're excluding it from the other.
That's a lot of outraged words that seem to be saying you misunderstood what I was saying and are very angry about it.
I'm not precisely sure how you could possibly think that I was excluding IF from the category of computer games by excluding it from the category of video games, given that my exact words were "They're certainly computer games."
Look dude, I can feel for your case here. I can be a total pedant about shit too (and I know I was being a hypocrite when I called you on it)! And I understand your need to make language as exact as you can make it. I get bummed out by ambiguous turns of phrase; I get frustrated trying to parse poorly written comments on the internet.
Oh, piss right off.
You're talking like I turned the "Are video games art?" question into a semantic debate.
Precisely what the FUCK do you think it IS?
It is nothing BUT a semantic debate. Take away the semantics and there's no discussion.
Which I'm perfectly all right with. I think it's a frankly stupid discussion, and will come back to that in a moment. But if you're faced with the question of whether video games are art, you've got two choices: dismiss the entire discussion as a waste of time, or acknowledge that you're having a semantic debate.
The only difference between this and the typical route these discussions take is that, while most people tend to focus on the definition of "art", I've gone for the definition of "video game". There is a reason for this.
The question of "What is art?" is an inherently elitist question. It's asked by people who wish to act as gatekeepers and declare things they don't like to be Not Art.
The question of "What is a video game?", on the other hand, is categorical. It's quantitative, not qualitative.
Put another way: you can argue all day about whether Warhol's soup cans, Pollock's splatters, Lichtenstein's swipes, or Piss Christ are art -- but you can't fucking well argue about whether they're video games. They're not. Period.
Now, obviously the distinction between IF and video games is not quite so clearly-cut -- if it were, you probably wouldn't be throwing a hissy fit because someone dared to suggest that some people might think that there is one. They came about around the same time and run on the same hardware, and, if that weren't enough, there are games that quite obviously draw from both traditions. I think any discussion of games as art would do well to use The Walking Dead as an example, and it's in fact a pretty primitive example of what video games AND IF have to offer -- and it also happens to be fucking excellent.
There are reasonable points to be made on both sides! Hell, I think I just made your argument for you a whole lot better than anyone else in the thread has. This isn't a matter of easy is-it-or-isn't-it categorization -- which is exactly my point.
But when you dig in your heels on this subject, knowingly or not you are joining ranks with some of the worst bottom-feeders on the internet, the kind of jerks who can't even let go of their entitlement enough to recognize the existence of types of games that aren't the ones they like. By drawing this line in the sand, you are not making language any better, you are making the world a little bit worse.
Here's another fun treasure hunt for you: find an example of me "digging in my heels on this subject" or "drawing a line in the sand".
Hell, for that matter find me any post where I've actually STATED that text adventures aren't video games, instead of merely raising the point that there MIGHT be a distinction.
Sounds to me like you're pissed off at a bunch of dudes from some other conversation entirely and are blaming me for "knowingly or not" reminding you of them.
Look, dude. You're the one bringing the idea that I'm making some kind of value judgement to this. I said, outright, "It's certainly valid to discuss their artistic and literary merits." Indeed, I think the sort of person who would ask "Are video games art?" would find it MUCH EASIER to recognize the artistic merits of IF than of games with graphics.
I really don't know how I could have been any plainer in framing the question as a categorical one rather than a value judgement. Saying something may not count as a video game is not at all the same thing as saying it's bad or inferior. I wouldn't call Mario Paint a video game either, but I think it's pretty neat.
tl;dr what the fuck are you even talking about, and are you actually responding to my post at all or are you venting your frustration at some other guy who isn't actually here?
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What was that recent Brentai quote about "You guys must have really great lives and agree on just about everything if this is the dumb shit we're reduced to arguing pointlessly over."
Something like that, yeah.
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An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. It isn't just contradiction.
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No it isn't.
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I could just be arguing in my spare time.
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:popcorn:
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This might look like I'm spiking the ball, but I really did mean to mention it earlier and I think it's important enough that I still should:
You know who else might consider a distinction between video games and IF, and not think that it's trivial or pedantic at all?
Blind people. (http://www.inthecompanyofgrues.com/?p=220)
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What with talks of strikes for better wages in the news lately, raising the minimum wage has come up a lot. The target that striking fast food and Wal-Mart workers are looking at is $15/h. Now, putting aside any ethical or moral reasoning for paying somebody a wage they can live on, a favorite argument among libertarians seems to be that raising the minimum wage to this level wouldn't help anybody because only 3-4% of workers make the federal minimum wage. If you can spot why that argument is so infuriating you're smarter than a libertarian, at least.
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I delivered to a lady in a law office the other day. She asked if I got paid minimum wage (I do) and if I get mileage reimbursement (I don't) and if I was going to join in the strike. She then said it's terrible that I don't get paid more and hope that changes. And then paid with exact change.
It seems a lot of people want us to go on strike as a lot are asking and there's a "JIMMY JOHNS STRIKE" sign-up sheet at work but no one wants to help.
I'm still just trying to get paid what I'm already owed and that's a battle. I can't imagine trying to fight for more than that.
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Also it seems like a strike sheet at work is also the "fire me list". By which I mean, "look for pretext under which to fire me list".
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Also it seems like a strike sheet at work is also the "fire me list". By which I mean, "look for pretext under which to fire me list".
Never underestimate the laziness of middle management. Firing people means hiring people.
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My friend keeps saying "#lottelluck" in person to me.
And he's using it wrong.
EDIT: A punch to the mouth to whoever replies to this with #lottelluck
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#luckylottel
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How is he pronouncing the number sign?
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"Hashtag"
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#thatssolottel
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You ever thought about playing the lottely?
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Are you kidding you need a lotta luck to win that.
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WAIT
SHIT
GUYS I FUCKED IT UP
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Got a whole Lottel love
do-doo do-doo
Got a whole Lottel love
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The fact that this phone's auto complete will often suggest the correct word, only to flag that same word as misspelled.
I mean I just used auto complete to type 'misspelled' in this very post (twice) and it's flagged both times.
:hurr:
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Forgetting to stay in my room when my dad's gun buddies come over.
"You're kinda boyish for a woman. You one of those tranny weirdos?"
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Dude probably left disappointed.
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Forgetting to stay in my room when my dad's gun buddies come over.
"You're kinda boyish for a woman. You one of those tranny weirdos?"
"Why, is that what you're looking for?"
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"Funny, I was thinking the same thing about you"
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The fact that this phone's auto complete will often suggest the correct word, only to flag that same word as misspelled.
And how the fuck hard is it to program the correct spacing for a semicolon?
Hint: it's EXACTLY THE FUCKING SAME as for a period, a comma, a question mark, an exclamation point, or a full colon.
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I linked my main gmail account to Yahoo, so that I could sign up to an invite-only manufacturer game playtest group. Of course this opts you in to a whole pile of nonsense spam emails. So I went to unsubscribe from all the Yahoo garbage, okay whatever.
After I had unsubscribed, I had to laugh at the message that stated "It could take up to 10 days from this to take effect". For an email unsubscription form.
:pfflol:
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If the $50 charge from UPS waiting for me at home is my Dirty Santa package, I'm going to be seriously angry.
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Yeah, PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE: If you are sending shit to Canada, use REGULAR POSTAL SERVICES, because UPS (and most couriers) creates a bunch of inflated brokerage charges and COD charges for any package that goes internationally.
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The fuck? I did not know that. And I worked for UPS.
Shoot me a Paypal and I'll cover it.
(I used UPS specifically because you people bitch about your national postal service so much.)
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Talking Time is down. You have no idea how much this upsets me.
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I'm okay with that.
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Oh phewf, it's back up. Like, just barely, but it's back up.
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Talking Time is down. You have no idea how much this upsets me.
Were you in the middle of a long rebuttal?
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Talking Time is down. You have no idea how much this upsets me.
Were you in the middle of a long rebuttal?
No, I just wanted to check up on someone. Turns out they're doing okay.