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Discussion Boards => Real Life => Topic started by: Beat Bandit on November 13, 2010, 12:21:46 PM
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Saw a group that looked like they had never bathed or worked their bodies leaving Bath & Body Works.
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You should have seen the people they were Christmas shopping for. /shudder
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License plate with pink ribbon.
Driver's arm hanging out the window, holding a cigarette.
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Heh, that reminds me of the time I saw a bumper sticker with "Keep Tahoe Blue" on it (it's a large lake in the area, I see the sticker quite commonly) and shortly thereafter the guy (or girl, never saw) threw a Burger King bag out the window.
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Are you sure it wasn't referring to Democrats?
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Unsure if you're joking or not with that question, but yeah. I'm sure. "Keep Tahoe Blue" is an environmental movement to stop the pollution of the lake.
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Are you sure it wasn't the "Drink Tahoe Brew" pardoy/ad? I think I've seen that one more often than the original.
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I am 100% sure it's not Lupus
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I live in Texas.
I saw an Alaska plate that said "TXBEST".
Not sure what to make of it.
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texas-born alaskan coming home
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The championships for LoL are taking place in Cologne.
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Wait, how is that-
:oic:
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Two out of the three people I know with the name Walker have limps.
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User's signature:
5 lines of whitespace
Oversized graphic of the words "Thank You" written in a fancy font against an ornate background
Name
Title
Boss's name and title
Row of dots
Name of office
Street Address
City, State, Zip
Voice line
Fax
Vapid inspirational quote
"Please consider the environment before printing this message."
7 lines of a little ASCII angel
Another line of whitespace
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How many font colours did they use?
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The "Thank You" graphic is in a blue pretty similar to the color Outlook makes the rest of the signatures. The "Consider the environment" message was, of course, green.
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And let me guess, it had a little wingding green tree on it, right?
My favorite part is when they put that on an email and the additional line of 'please think of the environment' is exactly enough to push it onto page 2.
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So in this article (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-25-sony-patents-method-to-interrupt-your-gaming-with-an-ad) about why Sony's game-interrupting ads are horrible the slideshow of Sony's diagrams is... interrupted with an ad.
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Monday: Sorry, we can't afford to keep you on.
Wednesday: Hey, do you think you can get these out priority overnight for all the new employees we just hired?
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It's not ironic, but I was reminded of this.. It's been a while since I saw this, but there was a truck in front of me with the word SECEDE in giant letters (covering the entire back window) and a Texas flag. But they had an Oklahoma license plate. So, is the guy saying that he loves Texas so much that we should secede and be awesome by ourselves? Or does he hate Texas so much that he wants it to secede and leave the USA.
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It's like that hybrid I used to walk past that had an "Annoy a Liberal" bumper sticker. I wouldn't say I was so much annoyed as bemused.
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It's not ironic, but I was reminded of this.. It's been a while since I saw this, but there was a truck in front of me with the word SECEDE in giant letters (covering the entire back window) and a Texas flag. But they had an Oklahoma license plate. So, is the guy saying that he loves Texas so much that we should secede and be awesome by ourselves? Or does he hate Texas so much that he wants it to secede and leave the USA.
Maybe he just lives in the panhandle and has an average texan/okie's level of JOGRAFEE. :whoops:
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Community college students bitching about socialism. If we could harness irony as a power source we'd be energy independent just from the number of times I've overheard that this month. If we could use all the times someone incorrectly corrects someone on the definition of irony we could finally destroy the horrible, horrible sun.
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That would be a black fly in our chardonnay.
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Only if you're marrying the weatherman, and he picked the Chardonnay.
I think I told that wrong.
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How ironic! :wakka:
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The verse about the guy who finally overcomes his irrational fear of flying only to die in a plane crash IS a great example of irony, though.
And "a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break" is pretty much the very definition of irony.
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And all the parts that don't satisfy whatever definition of irony you happen to be fixated on at the moment are at the very least meta-ironic!
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Yep! It's win-win!
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The last holdout Blockbuster shell near where I live finally finished conversion by the new land owner. Just how obsolete did digital media make movie rental?
It was replaced by a library.
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There you have it. Paper beats Block...buster.
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Went to an adoption orientation tonight.
About an hour in, they got around to telling us they won't accept families with pit bulls.
Of all the organizations to prejudge my adopted family member based on her background...
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Yep. Welcome to pit bull ownership. Everyone in the world either hates your dog or wants to breed your dog, and you generally don't want much to do with either group.
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Went to an adoption orientation tonight.
wait what
You're adopting?
A child?
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I say compromise and dress your dog like a child.
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Went to an adoption orientation tonight.
wait what
You're adopting?
A child?
... and? If I wasn't living with and taking care of my sister and mother, despite being a single male I'd have already adopted or fostered kids. Kids are great and there are tons out there that need good homes.
Aside from that moral reason for adoption I also refuse to subject any child of mine to my family's shitty shitty genetic problems, from kidney failure to diabetes and heart disease we have basically a perfect storm of dying in your fifties going on in my family.
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I think he was more implying he was unaware that Thad was planning on adopting a child than he was passing judgement there, Joxy.
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Also kids are shit but otherwise I don't disagree with your stance regarding adoption.
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I think he was more implying he was unaware that Thad was planning on adopting a child than he was passing judgement there, Joxy.
Yeah, this. I'm all for adoption, but it's a major process, and revealing that you had plans and hopes for it and were shot down before you even had a chance in a benign thread like "Everyday Ironies" seems like you're really underselling how shitty that was.
I'm sorry to hear that happened, Thad.
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a perfect storm of dying in your fifties going on in my family
But you and your children will leave such pretty corpses! Net plus, right?
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Well, we're not planning on adopting, like, tomorrow. It could be years. We just want to get the ball rolling.
I'm annoyed -- mostly by the fact that the nice lady (and she DID seem like a very nice lady, don't get me wrong) waited until she was an hour into her presentation before bringing up the pit bull thing -- but nah, I'm not devastated. There are other agencies. I wouldn't even rule out convincing someone at this agency to work with us.
We knew the risks going in when we got a pit. We expected it would make it more difficult to adopt a human. We'll keep trying, and, more, this is an opportunity to do some advocacy and try and change some minds. We're already planning on trying to get her trained and certified as a Good Citizen (http://www.akc.org/events/cgc/program.cfm). And we've got photographic evidence of her playing with our two-year-old nephew and him seeming pretty happy and still in possession of all four limbs.
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Oh, okay. Well, I'm happy for you.
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For adopting a sweetie of a dog.
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And then a few days later we have our two-year-old nephew over and he decides to jam his thumb into the dog's eye. She just sits there; not a peep or a movement.
I wish one of the people from that agency could have seen it. I think I can safely say I am unconcerned that my dog is ever going to bite a child.
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Did that vicious human blind your poor baby!?