Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194875 times)

Brentai · « **Reply #1780 on:** July 25, 2011, 08:41:29 AM »

I don't want to know where the lemon entered into period.

sei · « **Reply #1781 on:** July 25, 2011, 10:49:08 AM »

I'll bet it wasn't Toyota of Orange.

Friday · « **Reply #1782 on:** July 25, 2011, 11:26:40 AM »

You got beat up by a girl? What are you, the protagonist of a harem ani --

Oh. Right. Carry on.

R^2 · « **Reply #1783 on:** July 25, 2011, 06:32:19 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on July 25, 2011, 08:41:29 AM

I don't want to know where the lemon entered into period.

Lottel · « **Reply #1784 on:** July 25, 2011, 06:58:39 PM »

She was trying to blind me by squeezing lemon juice in my eye while I was in a headlock.
Apparently.

Büge · « **Reply #1785 on:** July 25, 2011, 07:22:37 PM »

Oh please. Pepper works so much better and it's widely available in packets.

Saturn · « **Reply #1786 on:** July 25, 2011, 08:49:06 PM »

That there is a mobile phone mode for this site ( animated GIFs make my phone puke

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1787 on:** July 25, 2011, 08:53:49 PM »

How do you get the mobile phone version working?

R^2 · « **Reply #1788 on:** July 25, 2011, 09:21:39 PM »

My old phone went ahead and admitted it couldn't handle it and went straight to a plaintext mode, five posts per page. My new phone tries its damnedest to render it like a desktop browser would, and... well, God bless 'im, he's trying.

Quote from: Büge on July 25, 2011, 07:22:37 PM

Oh please. Pepper works so much better and it's widely available in packets.

Alcohol was reportedly a factor.

Brentai · « **Reply #1789 on:** July 25, 2011, 10:00:05 PM »

Some browsers seem to force you into rendered mode, and some will sensibly default to the WAP page. If yours doesn't, consider a third-party mobile browser.

François · « **Reply #1790 on:** July 26, 2011, 10:33:20 AM »

Okay, so, the shooting. I kind of allowed the incident to slip off my mind, it seemed like a textbook case of somebody else's problem, but coming home through the front door today, I had the following train of thought:

1- Aw man, some asshole got mud on my door.
2- Oh wait, that's dried blood. (Duh.)
3- I don't think the decorative framing on the window has always been broken.
4- Why does the door have several dents and cavities below knee height?
5- Holy shit the nutbug was trying to kick down my own actual fucking door.

So maybe I owe the gunman a beer?

Or a medal?

Unless the victim was trying to run away from him and decided breaking my door down was a safer bet than running down the street?

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1791 on:** July 26, 2011, 11:19:32 AM »

From my experience, the best way to deal with local violent crimes is not to put more thought into it than "wasn't me".

François · « **Reply #1792 on:** July 27, 2011, 02:45:26 PM »

Maybe so, but I am
Far Too Canadian
for that.

Actually I sent an e-mail to the local police station with pictures and a request for information. I did get property damage after all, so in a small way, in the smallest way, it was me.

Defenestration · « **Reply #1793 on:** July 28, 2011, 04:42:55 PM »

I learned that H.P. Lovecraft was a horrible racist.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Creation_of_Niggers

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1794 on:** July 28, 2011, 04:56:31 PM »

Apparently never read Herbert West.

JDigital · « **Reply #1795 on:** July 28, 2011, 05:22:34 PM »

There are 2mm scale wargaming miniatures.

For comparison, normal D&D miniatures are 26mm scale. 2mm scale gives you an entire Roman century on a 40mm by 20mm stand.

MarsDragon · « **Reply #1796 on:** July 28, 2011, 06:39:58 PM »

Quote from: Constantmean on July 28, 2011, 04:56:31 PM

Apparently never read ANYTHING BY LOVECRAFT EVER.

Fixed.

I am continually amazed when people act like Lovecraft being insanely racist is a surprise. Almost every story he wrote has evil black or brown people in it (and every single time they're described as barely being human), and he constantly goes on about how degenerate non-WASPs are. He also hated anyone that wasn't at least middle class, which I see brought up less often. Weird, since it's almost as noticeable as the racism.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1797 on:** July 28, 2011, 07:02:28 PM »

Yeah, Lovecraft was a pretty obvious racist/WASP/eugenicist (he also had a big hate on for white trash, calling them degenerate subhumans too). In general he was a big believer in fashionable pre-WWII theories on breeding/eugenics, etc.

Büge · « **Reply #1798 on:** July 28, 2011, 08:00:35 PM »

Robert Howard, too. Although, he was more about Anglo-Saxon fighting stock than middle class.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1799 on:** July 28, 2011, 08:22:49 PM »

Man, if we start counting up all the great writers of the past who were horrible [insert whatever here] we're not going to have much left, that's for sure.

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