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dethkon posted:If it's fake, it's sad and pathetic. If it's real, a triumph of human will and determination. You decide which is more likely.  
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Literally none of that makes sense. Not a single sentence is rooted in any kind of realistic reality.
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Aug 25, 2013 21:04
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"I was on the bus" probably happened. After that it's off to fantasy land.
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Aug 25, 2013 21:07
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CJacobs posted:"I was on the bus" probably happened. After that it's off to fantasy land. "it was a bendy bus" didn't, or at least not this year - they've all been replaced because they were poo poo and caught on fire a lot
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Aug 25, 2013 21:12
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Now I want to know the sun tan lotion from zante story.
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Aug 25, 2013 21:21
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Pineapple Salad posted:Actually, I think it's because they don't want kids to huff paint, just like how cough medicine is illegal to sell to minors. It's probably both.
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Aug 25, 2013 21:24
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dethkon posted:If it's fake, it's sad and pathetic. If it's real, a triumph of human will and determination. You decide which is more likely. Eh, I can believe biking through the city to Jersey City (not that hard), and that he whined enough to get the store to sell paint to him. I just think it's really sad.
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Aug 25, 2013 21:29
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Christopher Robin posted:
If this even happened at all, most likely the store just isn't that strict about enforcing policy. Most places I've worked have been pretty loose about age limits on things unless it was something major like alcohol or tobacco. Hell, I used to work at a store that sold ammunition (which has age limits) and unless it was really obvious they were under 18 I didn't have to check IDs and nobody seemed to give a poo poo about it.
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Aug 25, 2013 23:01
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Why don't you just get some ID, you whiny manchild?
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Aug 25, 2013 23:58
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 The dad is kind of a creep.
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Aug 26, 2013 01:59
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GreenMetalSun posted:
If this had happened at all (it didn't), the stepmom is pretty loving creepy too.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:If this had happened at all (it didn't), the stepmom is pretty loving creepy too.
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Aug 26, 2013 02:31
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GreenMetalSun posted:
"hunny" eeeeuuurgh.
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Aug 26, 2013 04:00
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GreenMetalSun posted:
What a cool hip new age dad who can talk to his wife and daughter like they're one of the bros.
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Aug 26, 2013 07:13
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GreenMetalSun posted:
It's a paraphrase, albeit even creepier, of Mickey Rourke's pussy monolog in "Spun"
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Aug 26, 2013 07:26
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White-knighting, gets the girl and bendy-buses - it's as good as Ulysses. Can we have the sun lotion story please. Ratjaculation has a new favorite as of 13:10 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Aug 26, 2013 08:06
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Ratjaculation posted:White-knighting, gets the girl and bendy-buses - it's as good as Ulysses. With that kind of buildup, it had better star Albert Einstein marrying the Coppertone dog.
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Aug 26, 2013 08:11
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Pretty Lady Blob posted:"I support gay rights wholeheartedly" is going to be the new "now I'm not racist, but" isn't it. Eh, the standard equivalent is: "I don't care what those homos do, so long as they do it behind closed doors and I don't have to see it", followed by some diatribe about the decline of morals and ARE CHILDREN
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Aug 26, 2013 14:50
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Are 'bendy busses' different than articulating busses? Because if not, this guy is in for a shock if he ever goes anywhere other than London.
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Aug 26, 2013 15:33
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Actually in the Uk they're called Bender Buses and only gays ride them so it's pretty obvious why the guy would need to chill out for a bit and wonder what the gently caress he was doing getting so stressed out about a girl
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swampland posted:Actually in the Uk they're called Bender Buses and only gays ride them so it's pretty obvious why the guy would need to chill out for a bit and wonder what the gently caress he was doing getting so stressed out about a girl That explains a lot about my last trip to Liverpool.
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I like how he actively sabotages the believability of his own story. Nag bro, it wasn't the one thing that could make my made up story more possible, he went to cool off on a bendy bus.
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I really want to know how he thinks the bendy part makes it more plausible. Like, does he think the bendy bus is always in an L-shape so the guy went around the corner to cool off?
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Aug 27, 2013 03:57
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...Bendy buses are a real thing? edit: I just looked it up and somehow articulated buses are a real thing that actually exist. Learn something new every day I guess.
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CJacobs posted:...Bendy buses are a real thing? They're pretty cool. Despite having the shittiest bus system ever, Pittsburgh has them. I always love sitting in the seats inside the connector. If you zone out, every once in a while the "hallway" you're in bends around you, and it's kinda like being in Inception or something.
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We have them in Baltimore as well, and I don't care for them. I get motion sickness unless I'm facing forward, and the seats don't do that until after the bendy part. It's pretty terrible trying to navigate that while hungover and in high heels at eight in the morning
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Troper Tales are such a goldmine of shitthatdidnthappen. A while ago I was looking at the archived Troper Tales on Encyclopedia Dramatica when I found this one in Beautiful All Along.quote:This troper knows two such girls. He knew both since elementary school, and both had been very geeky girls; glasses, braces, bad hair, skinny, etc. Now the first is one of the prettiest girls in drama club and sings opera, and the other has the best curves in his class, a great rear end, and lost her braces while also cutting her hair short and dying it dark red. This troper himself is, in fact, one such person. He used to be the "weird kid", always with the same few friends, occasionally making an awkward attempt to make new ones. Now, in his junior year of high school, he's a well-known member of drama club and ballroom dance club (To the point where people's he's never met like him and know him by name), is a very skilled dancer and singer, and is even making friends with the cheerleaders, sluts, and airheads who would have normally avoided him like the plague. Take heart, teenaged goons. If you join ballroom dance club you will literally become a celebrity and all the cheerleader slut airheads who spurned you will want your dick.  The best part is that it turned out I was friends with this guy, and this was kind of the catalyst of realizing what a jackass he was.
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Aug 27, 2013 04:37
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I don't think people who go "THIS TROPER IS X" realize that tropes explicitly apply to general media and don't translate to real life too well because surprise surprise, real life is not like movies and television.
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Aug 27, 2013 05:12
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Are there high schools where "popular in drama club" is anything other than a badge of shame?
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Aug 27, 2013 07:03
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I don't know of anywhere but art schools where you'd be popular because of your drama cred, but you can be popular and be a big ol' drama geek, I definitely was.
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CJacobs posted:I don't think people who go "THIS TROPER IS X" realize that tropes explicitly apply to general media and don't translate to real life too well because surprise surprise, real life is not like movies and television. This is true, but tropers are just like that. Even now, many tropes have a section for Real Life Examples -- they just discourage stories about yourself because of how terribly that turned out with the whole Troper Tales thing. Content: quote:This troper doesn't see it, but for some reason is frequently described as the most beautiful girl in the world by nearly everyone she meets and every guy she befriends inevitably falls in love with her(she always ends up feeling bad when she has to turn them down, especially because she DoesNotLikeMen Does Not Like Men). A TallDarkandBishoujo Tall Dark And Bishoujo [[Template:Tsundere Type B Tsundere]] as well as a PerkyGoth is bound to get all that attention, especially alongside her CloudCuckoolander Cloud Cuckoolander PerkyGoth Perky Goth who possesses a MostCommonSuperpower Most Common Superpower best friend, who also happens to attract the attention of everyone she meets. Unfortunately, the two are often swarmed with fangirls and fanboys alike, both almost always branded as quite [[Template:Moe moe]], even by total strangers. I think when you start calling yourself ~tsundere~ it is time to stop and take a long, hard look at your life.
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What exactly are tropers? It seems like I'm blessed for not knowing... Samfucius posted:you can be popular and be a big ol' drama geek, I definitely was. Stdh.Txt
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CJacobs posted:I don't think people who go "THIS TROPER IS X" realize that tropes explicitly apply to general media and don't translate to real life too well because surprise surprise, real life is not like movies and television. I think the show Seinfeld is a great example of how this is true. Seinfeld is pretty much as close to real life as you can get, just with stereotypes and coincidences and whatever coming into play. The show was pretty much exactly playing out those situations where you're like "wouldn't it be funny/strange/whatever if X happened?". Of course those things never happen, but tropers, rather than telling their friends "what if", they post on the internet that it did happen. Probably because they don't have friends to talk to about it, who would help ground them in reality.
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Non Serviam posted:What exactly are tropers? It seems like I'm blessed for not knowing... Tropers are people from the TV Tropes community, in the same way goons are from SA. Tropers are completely insane people defined by their obsessive need to categorize all things in terms of "nerd culture" and are just generally terrible.
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I do feel like TVTropes can be a helpful website if you're a writer looking to either reinvent certain literary cliches or avoid them like the plague. It's just, the people behind the site's organization and regular browsing are a little bit weird (a lot of bit weird).
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Phthisis posted:I think the show Seinfeld is a great example of how this is true. Seinfeld is pretty much as close to real life as you can get, just with stereotypes and coincidences and whatever coming into play. The show was pretty much exactly playing out those situations where you're like "wouldn't it be funny/strange/whatever if X happened?". Of course those things never happen, but tropers, rather than telling their friends "what if", they post on the internet that it did happen. Probably because they don't have friends to talk to about it, who would help ground them in reality. Fun fact, some of the stuff on Seinfeld DID actually happen. A lot of the insane things that George did (telling his boss to gently caress off, quitting, realizing what an awful idea that just was, and going to work the next day pretending it didn't happen, for example) are things that Larry David actually did. Jason Alexander allegedly refused to shoot one episode because he thought the scenario was "too ridiculous for any sane person to do" until David took Jason aside and told him that it was, in fact, something that he really did.
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CJacobs posted:I do feel like TVTropes can be a helpful website if you're a writer looking to either reinvent certain literary cliches or avoid them like the plague. It's just, the people behind the site's organization and regular browsing are a little bit weird (a lot of bit weird). It always seemed to me that TV Tropes is inhabited by all the people who left Wikipedia after they purged the "In Anime" section that had got itself onto just about every article. At one point the Wikipedia article on crucifixion had 20 times more space devoted to every appearance of anyone nailed to any kind of object in anime than it did to actual real-world crucifixions, including that of Jesus.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It always seemed to me that TV Tropes is inhabited by all the people who left Wikipedia after they purged the "In Anime" section. In the old thread I think we found a total of one article that looked at how (I think it was Paradise Lost) influenced literary works and therefore created actual tropes vs everything else that just catalouged every instance of hell mentioned.
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They also had a huge infestation of pedophiles, probably because of the site's focus on anime giving them an excuse to catalogue every instance of naked little girls in anime for completely academic reasons we swear. A fifteen-year-old girl was sexually harassed constantly on their forums; when she complained, the mods banned her because accusing other users of sexual harassment broke their "no saying bad things about other posters" hugbox rule. Eventually they realized there was a problem after Google threatened to pull ads from them for not being family-friendly, so they set up a council of five users to judge whether various pages on the site were and were not family-friendly. Of the five, three started agreeing to save stuff about japanese porn games while deleting the page for Nabokov's Lolita, and the other two joined SA and were banned by the admin for being "SA traitors". Of course, despite the pedo-pandering administration, most of the users seem to just be harmless idiots. Survival Mantra posted:To cross into MadnessMantra, I have KILLFRENZYKILLFRENZYKILLFRENZYKILLFRENZY! Mostly as a way to freak the hell out of people, my other one is chanting "Heresey!" and "The Emperor Protects!" Most of my chants are of Warhammer40,000 origin. Minor ones are, "Hail the Emperor" "I shall die for Kay-Oss!" and the ever unforgettable "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!" Mostly said while charging in airsoft. I have made my friend piss himself by sneaking up on him and yelling it. And because I can sound quite inhuman, I am walking HighOctaneNightmareFuel for any airsoft opponents.
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WebDog posted:I understand it was a site that originated to catalouge all of the pop-references found in Buffy and it grew into this list monster.
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