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walrusman posted:Things that are obnoxious about this story: I think the Marine thing was shoehorned in to give some context to her changing her Facebook profile picture to one of her and someone other than her boyfriend. You know, because we needed to know why.
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walrusman posted:Things that are obnoxious about this story: I think the reason she mentioned that is that since she changed her picture of one with her boyfriend to one with her brothers, implying that the guy thought her and her boyfriend broke up so that's why he messaged her.
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walrusman posted:Things that are obnoxious about this story: Not to mention, they were dating for three weeks, and by her own admission had never had a conversation about exclusivity. She assumed exclusivity, which ok, it might be reasonable, but the bottom line is he had no reason to assume that. You were on a 'couple dates' in three weeks. The dude even confesses, his other plans are with another girl, he isn't hiding anything, they are not exclusive. Then she goes full psycho on him after his other date, when he asks if she's like to have another date with him. This is her own story and she comes off clingy and unhinged. She wrote it and she couldn't have put better lies in it then that? At least lie to make her look a little better and less bitter? "Once upon a time, a guy dated me. But, he also dated someone else. She was a skeeze. I win! I also boiled his rabbit in a pot."
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 16:19 |
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facebook posted:Man in his 40s leaned out of his white van window laughing with his friends (also old enough to know better) to tell me "You look really silly.. did you know that?.. What the gently caress even is that?" while he was stopped at the traffic lights. My reply was this.. "At least tomorrow I could wake up and wear normal clothes and dye my hair, you'll always be a plebeian with less braincells than teeth, a department which you also appear to be lacking in." "YEAH WELL AT LEAST-" *lights change, guy roars off laughing at the pink-haired anime girl* Cringe.
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Turtlicious posted:What? I don't even get how this is revenge, nor why this guy would tell her all this stuff. No-one I've been on a first date with ever said poo poo like that to me. The writer is smug and dumb so it's not a good revenge story, but I'm firmly willing to believe that this S did H.
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 18:12 |
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"I went on a few dates with a guy who decided he wasn't interested and later asked me out again but I was in a relationship" absolutely could have happened but is so boring I don't know why you would post it.
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 19:18 |
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I nearly had a STDH moment today when I went to buy a cookie at the mall and found a loud customer berating the cashier at length for someone apparently messing up her order at an earlier date. I, the plucky customer, stood up for the hapless cashier, put this rude person in her place and got her to leave the poor guy alone, all with my rapier wit! By which I mean I called her a jerk and told her to gently caress off when she got in my face for giving her a look. I could totally spit-shine it up into a NAR post, though. P.S. When I got back to my office I found out the cashier had slipped me an extra cookie, but I did not marry him.
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eating only apples posted:"YEAH WELL AT LEAST-" *lights change, guy roars off laughing at the pink-haired anime girl* Man in his 40s uses "what the gently caress even is that" in real dialogue
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 20:52 |
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quote:(I have reserved an audio-book at the library and have come in to get it. I am looking at other books, when another customer runs up to me and grabs my reserved books—which still have my name on it—out of my hands.) Does it ever feel like NAR is written by aliens who don't quite understand how people work? Like they get how our society is structured, but they know everything about interpersonal interactions from watching intercepted broadcasts of cartoons and Disney movies so they think 50% of humans act like snobby villainous caricatures.
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 21:26 |
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NAR posted:(I am the only female in the electronics department of a large retail store. A young male customer comes in.) I am a human female, but I am quite familiar with items included in the design specifications of televisual receivers and the utilization of Video Cassette Recorders. Furthermore, Skeleton Ape has a new favorite as of 21:57 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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Pfft, like anybody working in an electronics store in the past 3 years knows what a VCR is
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Skeleton Ape posted:I am a human female, but I am quite familiar with items included in the design specifications of televisual receivers and the utilization of Video Cassette Recorders. Furthermore, Supervisor: Nice! You just cost us a customer!
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 22:13 |
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Starring Hugh Grant as customer.
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Djeser posted:Does it ever feel like NAR is written by aliens who don't quite understand how people work? Like they get how our society is structured, but they know everything about interpersonal interactions from watching intercepted broadcasts of cartoons and Disney movies so they think 50% of humans act like snobby villainous caricatures. She asked if it had my name on it and it did have my name on it wah wah wah
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uptown posted:She asked if it had my name on it and it did have my name on it wah wah wah WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY, LIKE, YOU KNOW HOW PEOPLE SAY "IT DIDN'T HAVE YOUR NAME ON IT?" WHAT IF, HAW HAW HAW, WHAT IF SOMEONE SAID THAT BUT IT REALLY DID HAVE YOUR NAME ON IT, HAW HAW HAW, WOULDN'T THAT BE A SCREAM
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 23:19 |
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That website is fantastic.quote:
What human alive in the year 2013 genuinely thinks that children address adults as "mister" or "poop head"? Hispanic children whose parents can't speak English, no less
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Edgar Death posted:That website is fantastic. That's what they'd get for not teaching their kids proper English. Thank goodness that man was there to DEFEND AMERICA from them [religious declaration] [offensive derogatory word] [racial slur]s. Bad writing aside, I can see a less-STDH-fied version of this actually happening. I live in a country with a bit of a problem regarding immigration and racism, and read about similar stuff on a fairly regular basis.
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Edgar Death posted:That website is fantastic. Even the way the guy writes himself is weird and stilted. I mean, he says "I’m going to give you an extra gift certificate, so you can get a cartoon character doll, too." A cartoon character doll. Who has ever called anything that?
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Serperoth posted:That's what they'd get for not teaching their kids proper English. Thank goodness that man was there to DEFEND AMERICA from them [religious declaration] [offensive derogatory word] [racial slur]s. Thank God our heroic stdh writer was kind enough to censor those words for us, lest we think he was the true bigot!
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crowfeathers posted:Even the way the guy writes himself is weird and stilted. I mean, he says "I’m going to give you an extra gift certificate, so you can get a cartoon character doll, too." Plus I'm sure that his four years of high school Spanish taught him how to fluently talk about gift certificates and looking under roller coasters. And Spanish spoken by a native speaker uses exactly the same turns of phrase and idioms as English. Won't even get into the dumb wrapped with a ribbon of racism in the "mister" and "poop head" dialogue he thinks is authentic.
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edit: Changed my mind, nothing to see here.
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Skeleton Ape posted:I am a human female, but I am quite familiar with items included in the design specifications of televisual receivers and the utilization of Video Cassette Recorders. Furthermore, Why would you need a converter box to use a VCR? My old rear end vcr still works fine on my new-ish LED teevee set top box whatever the gently caress
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Odd posted:Why would you need a converter box to use a VCR? My old rear end vcr still works fine on my new-ish LED teevee set top box whatever the gently caress Because then you get to sell the dude a converter box and get more money.
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Djeser posted:Does it ever feel like NAR is written by aliens who don't quite understand how people work? Like they get how our society is structured, but they know everything about interpersonal interactions from watching intercepted broadcasts of cartoons and Disney movies so they think 50% of humans act like snobby villainous caricatures.
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Mammal Sauce posted:What actually happened: Person writing the story put her audiobook down on a table for a moment. Woman approaches, picks it up and inspects it. Our narrator mumbles "that's mine", snatches it back and hurriedly checks the book out while mentally reassuring herself that withdrawing the book in question is proof of her status as a special and gifted teenager and that the other person was a vicious irrational prole harpy for even daring to look at something she saw first. These descriptions are even worse than stdh.
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Djeser posted:Does it ever feel like NAR is written by aliens who don't quite understand how people work? Like they get how our society is structured, but they know everything about interpersonal interactions from watching intercepted broadcasts of cartoons and Disney movies so they think 50% of humans act like snobby villainous caricatures. It would be amazing to live in a world like that. Order some drinks at the bar, a villain runs by and takes them from you, Yakkety sax theme plays in the background while you run after them in a corridor with dozens of doors on each side. Then suddenly he is chasing you. You both realize your error, he says: sorry ma'am/mister. And the chase starts again! Finally you have your hard-earned drinks back, but the villain actually put a huge box inside your cocktail glass. The box says TNT! Meanwhile, the bartender takes a big bite of his carrot and says: will you marry me?
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wayfinder posted:These descriptions are even worse than stdh. Yeah holy poo poo people, nobody cares, just post poo poo that didnt happen.
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beedeebee posted:It would be amazing to live in a world like that. Order some drinks at the bar, a villain runs by and takes them from you, Yakkety sax theme plays in the background while you run after them in a corridor with dozens of doors on each side. Then suddenly he is chasing you. You both realize your error, he says: sorry ma'am/mister. And the chase starts again! Space Jam was literally about a famous basketball star playing against aliens for the fate of the world. What I'm saying is that no, it was more believable than half the things posted in here.
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Odd posted:Why would you need a converter box to use a VCR? My old rear end vcr still works fine on my new-ish LED teevee set top box whatever the gently caress I think they meant if you wanted to record TV to your VCR. Although even then I don't think you'd need it by just running the composite video through. Unless you want it in HD...then just get a goddamn DVR.
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Djeser posted:Does it ever feel like NAR is written by aliens who don't quite understand how people work? Like they get how our society is structured, but they know everything about interpersonal interactions from watching intercepted broadcasts of cartoons and Disney movies so they think 50% of humans act like snobby villainous caricatures. I like how it's an audio book but the villainous customer says that the book is "too big" for our protagonist "to read."
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Djeser posted:Does it ever feel like NAR is written by aliens who don't quite understand how people work? Like they get how our society is structured, but they know everything about interpersonal interactions from watching intercepted broadcasts of cartoons and Disney movies so they think 50% of humans act like snobby villainous caricatures. Well, they're probably not aliens but if NAR's user base is anything like the people who wrote Troper Tales, this is an otherwise 100% accurate description. quote:(I am a member of a sorority, but I don’t look like the typical “sorority sister,” so I get a lot of double-takes. Normally, the double-take is all that happens. On this day, I’m shopping while wearing one of my letter shirts. I see another girl wearing her letters and it’s the same sorority as mine. I approach her.) Apparently they now have a school themed one so now we can hear stories about how our robotic heroes defeated the snobby villains of college and teen movies.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 15:17 |
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Walking proud and tall, wearing my sorority letters a full two years after graduation like a not at all weird person would.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I think the reason she mentioned that is that since she changed her picture of one with her boyfriend to one with her brothers, implying that the guy thought her and her boyfriend broke up so that's why he messaged her. Yo guys, I hate to brag about this, but I love swallowing squirt. It's kinda my thing. Anywho, my ex was totally jealous and got owned mega hard because her new fling would just spit it back in her mouth after punching both of his cheeks together in cartoon like antics, go America, my brother is a navy seal commando NSA field agent. P.S I am now married and my new wife tells me how much I rule and how well I can hold squirt in my mouth.
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I have literally never had or have seen a conversation that ended with one person being so embarrassed/angry/flabbergasted that they just turned around and walked off, let alone ran away. What am I doing wrong in my life... Content, here's a masturbatory fantasy of a 30 year old man: (I was at work and I saw two girls from my college I knew as acquaintances, but not as much more than that. I had a crush on one of them as she was really pretty and seemed nice for the most part. I watched as she and her friend approached the register.) My Crush: “No, you’re wrong! I’m telling you, he never said that!” (I assumed they were gossiping about something until I listened a little more to the conversation.) Her Friend: “No, he did! He totally did! We watched it last night, stupid!” My Crush: “Obi-Wan never says, ‘I love you, Anakin’. The line is ‘You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you!’.” Her Friend: “No!” My Crush: *turns to me* “Oh hey [my name]! What’s up?” Me: “Not much. I’m good. And you’re right; Obi-Wan’s line was ‘You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you’.” My Crush: “Oh, my God, thank you!” *turns to her friend* “And you call yourself a Star Wars fan.” (Her friend scowled, but they paid and said goodbye. I watched as they got to the automatic doors. Her friend pretended to use ‘The Force’ on them. Suddenly, my crush jumped in front of her.) My Crush: “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” (I walked over and asked her out. We got married a month ago.)
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 20:14 |
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I dunno, I could buy it if everyone in the above story was about 500 pounds or more.
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The door open and closed really fast, almost like it was applauding me.
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Reddit posted:Gah! Memories! I saved up and took out loans to study abroad in Japan for the summer a few years ago. I got there knowing I would probably go a few days without food and I might not get anything to take home for myself so I could buy friends/family things. I don't know but I guess I got stuck with the group of rich kids. Doctor's daughter, spoiled only child, daddy's girls and mama's boys all around. Those types of kids. Anyways, I have always been dirt poor and was just thrilled to actually be in the country of my dreams since I never in a million years thought it would happen to me. Well, these kids are dragging me out and wondering why I don't eat with them or spend hundreds of dollars on a dress or whatever. One girl had a daily, DAILY budget of $100 and complained that it wasn't enough and how her parents hated her. I was working with about $5 a day. Max. I don't buy myself things if I can buy things for friends/family. I'm just that type of person I guess. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1d2sey/whats_the_kindest_thing_someone_has_ever_done_for/c9md9c9 Long story short, made up story about someone going to Japan on a small budget and spending money on souvenirs and video games, and how their mom saved up to bail them out. Criticism of how much they hate their rich classmates who at the end they enjoy being with. Also, there's a lot of implied, "I'm not like the other girls!" Special Snowflakism. The story continues in the comments about how:
There was some post about how someone's grandma sent them $8 in the mail and now everyone's claiming to have family sending them various amounts of money. DrHerpington has a new favorite as of 20:48 on Apr 25, 2013 |
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I like how apparently the biggest deal to her was being able to buy a video game that she could presumably get, you know, anywhere.
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Bold Robot posted:I like how apparently the biggest deal to her was being able to buy a video game that she could presumably get, you know, anywhere. Tourists are weird like that. They'll buy poo poo they can get anywhere, but at a jacked-up tourist price, instead of actually appreciating the local stuff they can't see anywhere else.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Tourists are weird like that. They'll buy poo poo they can get anywhere, but at a jacked-up tourist price, instead of actually appreciating the local stuff they can't see anywhere else. That's... true. When I was in Switzerland a few years back with my school, everyone hit the Swatch shop to buy a Swatch watch, despite the fact that Swatch is not particularly exclusive or rare. I saw one that I liked, and dropped 75 euros on it. Didn't pay the "tourist tax" though.
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