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yronic heroism posted:
Why does he need to specify that they're "serial monogamists"? Is it that uncommon these days to only date one person at a time?
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# ? Jun 10, 2013 17:41 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 17:54 |
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Democratic Pirate posted:The thing I don't get is why the men were able to follow her (him? going with her) once they got out of the car. Unless she couldn't make the bike move any faster than a walking pace, it's not that hard to outpace a couple of guys on foot when you're on a bike. Just pedal faster for ~10 seconds and if they manage to keep pace, they'll be too winded to yell anything. Look at this thin privilege right here, thinking its *easy* to pedal faster.
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# ? Jun 10, 2013 18:23 |
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Dahlia posted:Why does he need to specify that they're "serial monogamists"? Is it that uncommon these days to only date one person at a time?
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# ? Jun 10, 2013 21:59 |
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I like the concept of "trigger warnings", there are people that throw that term around as if they will literally explode into meaty chunks if you mention the word 'diet' or 'transvestite' around them. Tumblr is jam-packed with people like that. If you have to say "Just so you know, I will go off on you if you say THESE THINGS in conversation", that's not a trigger warning, that's you being way too sensitive about human interaction. It's one thing to be upset by someone saying something you don't like, but it's a whole separate deal if you go out of your way to tell people that those things will upset you before you even talk to them.
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# ? Jun 10, 2013 22:14 |
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CJacobs posted:I like the concept of "trigger warnings", there are people that throw that term around as if they will literally explode into meaty chunks if you mention the word 'diet' or 'transvestite' around them. Tumblr is jam-packed with people like that. Triggering is a legitimate concept used in certain types of therapy to help a patient become more aware of certain situations that set off their anxiety/PTSD/depression/whatever (e.g. in PTSD patients it would probably be something that reminds them of their trauma) in order to learn to cope with these triggers in a healthy manner, rather than responding in an inappropriate and unhealthy way that may be harmful to themselves or others or make it difficult if not impossible to function in society. Tumblr has taken a legitimate therapeutic tool that helps a lot of people who really need it and turned it into this milquetoast "please do not talk about giraffes/fat people/going outside because it makes me uncomfortable" whine.
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# ? Jun 10, 2013 23:18 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Tumblr has taken a legitimate therapeutic tool that helps a lot of people who really need it and turned it into this milquetoast "please do not talk about giraffes/fat people/going outside because it makes me uncomfortable" whine. They've also taken the prefix trans* and turned it into basically anything they want. I've seen people say they are "trans-fat" because they were trying to gain weight. They were fond of calling cis people "cissies" to the tune of "die cis scum" It's rather terrifying how off-the-rails the entire Tumblr social-justice culture has gone
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 00:29 |
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GWBBQ posted:I think he means going straight from one long term relationship to another rather than dating around a bit before settling down with someone. I've also heard it used to refer to people who are in a monogamous relationship, then there's a break-up and they go gently caress other people, and then they get back together with each other in a monogamous relationship. It's a cycle that happens over and over for them - they want to screw other people but they want to be able to say they're in a monogamous relationship.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 01:00 |
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Dahlia posted:Why does he need to specify that they're "serial monogamists"? Is it that uncommon these days to only date one person at a time? I think that means, instead of (as a single person) going on dates (as opposed to dating) with multiple people and then really hitting it off with one and dating that person exlusively, you only go on dates with one person, and if and when they don't work out, going on dates with another person.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 01:04 |
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I'm pretty sure the dude's just taking a snipe at those whores
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 01:12 |
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"Serial monogamy" isn't some new coinage. People have been saying it for decades. Examples: Pop psychology magazine article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-the-name-love/200810/is-serial-monogamy-worth-pursuing Academic journal article: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12110-009-9060-x Another academic journal article: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/267/1449/1259 Dictionary citations: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/serial-monogamy
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 01:52 |
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tacodaemon posted:"Serial monogamy" isn't some new coinage. People have been saying it for decades. Examples: Seriously, anthropology and sociology at least have been using the term for decades (though to mean multiple marriages rather than dating exclusivity).
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 02:08 |
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My wife showed me this thread on r/gaming where it appears that the most important outrage for reddit is girls thinking that the hero of the Legend of Zelda series is a girl.an r/gaming user posted:Ive seen a lot of them on girls who weren't even gamers. I had a waitress last week with a triforce tattoo on her arm and I asked if she liked Zelda games and she said how awesome they were and how great it is to see a woman in a powerful role. She then proceeded to tell me was and I quote "A huge gamer girl" I asked her who the hero of the games is and she said "Zelda. The games are named after her and all" and rolled her eyes like I was a retard. "Feh, hah. Silly females getting a permanent tattoo on their bodies just to get my precious and coveted attention. I bet you think Link is a girl, too. " The whole "Girls think Link is Zelda" idea is apparently a common refrain among r/gaming when they circlejerk over how women can't possibly like LoZ as much as they do. source Speedboat Jones has a new favorite as of 03:16 on Jun 11, 2013 |
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Speedboat Jones posted:My wife showed me this thread on r/gaming where it appears that the most important outrage for reddit is girls thinking that the hero of the Legend of Zelda series is a girl. If the web series Video Game Reunion is to be believed, Zelda just had a better agent than Link. To be honest, I was confused over the star being Link and not Zelda when I played the first one decades ago.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 04:16 |
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Yeah, thinking Link is Zelda and thinking Samus' name is Metroid are some of those universal 'everyone had that problem as a kid' things. Unless you read the manual or the back of the box that is, but who does that?
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 04:22 |
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(via tumblr) No, no a Disney Parks employee did not spontaneously initiate a conversation with a guest about their self-harm scars. This is eldar-futhark runes levels of sad.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 04:46 |
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Grabbing a random person's arm and waving it around seems like a completely normal, non-psychotic way to entertain amusement park guests.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 05:00 |
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hyperhazard posted:Grabbing a random person's arm and waving it around seems like a completely normal, non-psychotic way to entertain amusement park guests. That picture had 8,708 notes, so people totally bought it. But how?? The face characters go through tons of training on how to interact with the guests, and I am 100% sure that really personal topics like scars, disease (chemo baldness), physical disability, etc. are expressly forbidden to be mentioned. Why would anyone bring that up to a stranger, let alone when you're on the job?
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 05:12 |
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quote:(I work at a DJ in a club. Although I do take requests, I play them where they will fit into the set so that it isn’t weird and everything flows together. On this particular night, it is kind of slow. I start a new set with some slower rap songs; there is a dance floor with 20 to 30 people on it.) Both this guy AND some random person gets a sweet bon mot on this girl who really wants AC/DC RIGHT NOW GOD DAMAGHHHH
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 05:48 |
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quote:Secondly, God doesn’t make money, so therefore a child finding a penny on the street makes more money than God.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 05:56 |
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quote:I am f****** rich, so I don’t need your handouts!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ&t=34s
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 05:59 |
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I keep rereading that part, and I'm completely mesmerized by it. It's just got it all. The writer's palpable smugness in his bizarre attempt at wit. The stiffness of dialogue crafted in the mind of a person who has seemingly never heard humans speak. The counting (all the way to "fourthly"). The autism. Truly this is the poo poo that didn't happen.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 06:37 |
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I guess the bouncers were just holding her there so everyone could continually bon mot her one after another.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 06:54 |
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"I get paid by the number of people on the dancefloor, so naturally I completely turn down the music anytime someone has an argument."
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 07:13 |
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Retter posted:They've also taken the prefix trans* and turned it into basically anything they want. I've seen people say they are "trans-fat" because they were trying to gain weight. Going to the Tumblr poo poo, they've also developed (I say "they" because I'm assuming one of them made it) their own gender neutral pronouns. Xe like xeir pronouns. And god forbid you refer to them as male or female.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 08:42 |
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If this were said in a different context, you could read it where the customer was an atheist getting iceburn'd.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 09:06 |
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Roro posted:Going to the Tumblr poo poo, they've also developed (I say "they" because I'm assuming one of them made it) their own gender neutral pronouns. Xe like xeir pronouns. And god forbid you refer to them as male or female. I'm just gonna call everyone Ugly from now on. Man, woman, child, and all permutations within and without. Flights From Hell posted:This spring I found myself in the departure queue at the San Jose airport in Costa Rica waiting to board a flight back to Canada via the states. Glancing around I noticed that I was to share the flight with a group of American college students. You’d think that being enrolled in a school of higher learning that some of them would have caught on by now. I’m writing about “Common Sense”. It’s cannot be taught at school and for some it must learnt the hard way. Now I’ve noticed over the years that students and the “establishment” quite often don’t mix. This is one such story. These kids, old enough to know better, were fed up having to wait in line – What is taking so long? Dump my water before boarding? Not, I’m not going to empty my backpack again. And so on and so on. 1. This person is really smart, so they say- but not too smart to know what "wizened" means. 2. The antagonists just decide to start screaming at a security checkpoint for fun? What probably happened: American college students were being loud and annoyed this guy. and the bra thing is creepy as gently caress
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 09:23 |
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http://www.reddit.com/r/DAE/comments/1g0938/dae_want_to_start_a_sex_cult/
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 11:10 |
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quote:Initiation of new members will involve a public ceremony during which the initiates will have to perform some kind of symbolic sexual act on an existing member of the sex cult. For women, this could be oral sex and/or baptism by semen; for men, I'm not sure, maybe the same on women? It's a pyramid scheme of blowjobs & lick outs.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 11:29 |
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bringmyfishback posted:o It's not like college students are usually just wild or anything. It's that they're AMERICAAAAANS!
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 12:00 |
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Das Boo posted:It's not like college students are usually just wild or anything. It's that they're AMERICAAAAANS! According to the Europeans I know, Americans actually are a lot louder than they think they are. That may be skewed by the fact that tourists in general are pretty goddamn obnoxious, though.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 12:48 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:According to the Europeans I know, Americans actually are a lot louder than they think they are. That may be skewed by the fact that tourists in general are pretty goddamn obnoxious, though. Anecdotal story: Canadians are known to wear Canadian flags on themselves when abroad, so as to not be mistaken for Americans. High chance of STDH, but it must have happened at some point I guess?
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 13:04 |
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Djeser posted:Both this guy AND some random person gets a sweet bon mot on this girl who really wants AC/DC RIGHT NOW GOD DAMAGHHHH I'd have think they'd have gone for a Bon Scott.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 13:59 |
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Das Boo posted:It's not like college students are usually just wild or anything. It's that they're AMERICAAAAANS! That and they have should known to be quiet/courteous because they go to a "school of higher learning" (because I guess just saying college sounds too lowbrow). Most students are fine, but college is definitely not the kind of place that's going to make you quiet and polite if you weren't already. And yes, that bra detail was completely unnecessary and creeped me the gently caress out.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 14:00 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:According to the Europeans I know, Americans actually are a lot louder than they think they are. That may be skewed by the fact that tourists in general are pretty goddamn obnoxious, thoug In SE Asia, they say the same about the German tourists. I've just always figured that for every obnoxious tourist from (x) country, there's a dozen of his countrymen who are acting appropriately. You just don't know where they're from until they loudly confirm it.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 14:28 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:According to the Europeans I know, Americans actually are a lot louder than they think they are. That may be skewed by the fact that tourists in general are pretty goddamn obnoxious, though. As a European, I've actually only found this to be true for Californians....
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 15:00 |
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What the serious gently caress ?! I really hope this is ~ironic, lol~. I'm not even sure how someone can come up with the concept of "Baptism by semen" For what it's worth I once read that they'd done polls and poo poo and that French tourists were apparently the most hates since they just keep on complaining. Being more or less French, I can totally believe that.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 15:29 |
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I've always heard that Russian tourists are the worst, on the grounds that if you live in Russia and are rich enough to be a tourist, you will have the social grace of a medieval aristocrat. vv
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 15:33 |
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I have anecdotal stories about terrible American, Russian, British, Australian, and German tourists. But it's not like there's some kind of lovely Tourist Index that we can use to make apples-to-apples comparisons between our various anecdotes, so let's get back to STDH.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 15:38 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:According to the Europeans I know, Americans actually are a lot louder than they think they are. That may be skewed by the fact that tourists in general are pretty goddamn obnoxious, though. People over here in Britain tend to talk with their head voice; it's softer and doesn't carry as far. Americans, especially those from California and Florida, seem to talk from their chest. The sound's a little more... Booming. NB. This is based on anecdote and some understanding of voice quality from singing lessons.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 15:50 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 17:54 |
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Are you guys serious? "In my opinion, all Americans are loud because of science" is a loving step to the left of "in my opinion all French people smell bad because science" or "all British people have bad teeth because science." They're all stupid xenophobic stereotypes.
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 16:17 |