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Dirt posted:Funny thing about Upper Michigan: It's a solid red voting block, just about everyone is a Republican, with one Rep for the whole area(and he is insufferable). But guess who the biggest employer in the whole area is: My dad hates the government, identifies as a libertarian, and encouraged all his children to get a government job. (He worked for the public school system after he got laid off from private industry, and my mom has always been either a school or a public librarian) So yeah, conservatives are massive hypocrites, what else is new.
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ReindeerF posted:It's basically Milton from Office Space. That's who is running the CIA. Suddenly a whole lot of Cold War bullshit is making sense.
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Jul 15, 2014 05:47
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My favorite was the libertarian I used to play wow with. He worked at the IRS.
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Jul 15, 2014 06:00
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Suddenly a whole lot of Cold War bullshit is making sense. Yeah, that and their comments fit perfectly with their own email version of 'the Hunt for Red October'. I'd definitely watch the movie if I felt there was even a small chance it'd be full of insane office drama, but I know it's just another boring war movie 
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Jul 15, 2014 06:01
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I thought The Hunt for Red October was pretty good. Not much of an office drama though
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Jul 15, 2014 06:07
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i was trying to take a picture of my cat but my phone's camera crashed. ever since the camera app updated it has been poo poo. and i am running stock android!!!!!!!!!!
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Jul 15, 2014 07:36
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Swan Oat posted:i was trying to take a picture of my cat but my phone's camera crashed. ever since the camera app updated it has been poo poo. and i am running stock android!!!!!!!!!! My YouTube app is broken. I had to get a third party one that only works half the time.
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Jul 15, 2014 07:44
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ReindeerF posted:They're hilarious in how anal they all are. The one Joe posted about the grapes is great. "I do not condone putting salad bar items into the Jazz Salad..." Think about the kind of people who manage to get past the background checks. It's all hyper-anal type a Mormons. Dirt posted:Funny thing about Upper Michigan: It's a solid red voting block, just about everyone is a Republican, with one Rep for the whole area(and he is insufferable). But guess who the biggest employer in the whole area is: That's the case with pretty much every rural area, government services are the largest employer by far. e: Anyone seen these popping up lately? I guess it's the new hotness in publicly announcing you have tiny genitalia: 
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Jul 15, 2014 07:46
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ReindeerF posted:They're hilarious in how anal they all are. The one Joe posted about the grapes is great. "I do not condone putting salad bar items into the Jazz Salad..." we tend to think of spies as being like james bond but really, when you think about, what sort of person is going to actually be good at the intelligence analysis work? that personality type has much more in common with a neckbeard than with a shaved gorilla in a suit e beaten
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Jul 15, 2014 08:00
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Suddenly a whole lot of Cold War bullshit is making sense. a lot of cold war bullshit makes more sense if you assume cobra commander is behind it. hypersonic ramjet nuclear delivery vehicle that flies at treetop elevation so it not only barfs radiation everywhere but also flattens the countryside? yessss thissss will DESSSTROY GIJOE!
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Jul 15, 2014 08:05
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Dirt posted:Funny thing about Upper Michigan: It's a solid red voting block, just about everyone is a Republican, with one Rep for the whole area(and he is insufferable). But guess who the biggest employer in the whole area is: I actually have an uncle who lives in the Upper Peninsula. A couple months ago he posted a picture of some Michigan State Police interoffice correspondence about him on Facebook. It literally describes him as "a long haired radical, who is active in demonstrations and political functions". Frankly, I'm kind of jealous.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:07
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zoux posted:Upper MI is pretty militia-ey Once you get north of about Alma (my lovely hometown) things get pretty weird, apart from the occasional oasis like Mt. Pleasant or Marquette. When I was a teenager in the 90s I remember a lot of the older guys I knew talking about going up to Clare for their super secret and important militia training weekends, which I assume consisted of drinking and trying to decipher secret UN signals on the back of road signs.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:25
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Joementum posted:I'm reminded of when National Review decided that The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again, The Beatles' Revolution, and The Clash's Rock the Casbah (and 47 other songs) were conservative anthems.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:27
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I only listen to the Mortal Kombat OST and the sound of leaves hitting the ground at double reverse speed.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:31
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illrepute posted:we tend to think of spies as being like james bond but really, when you think about, what sort of person is going to actually be good at the intelligence analysis work? that personality type has much more in common with a neckbeard than with a shaved gorilla in a suit
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Jul 15, 2014 09:54
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ReindeerF posted:anal words. one of those tag cloud things in the shape of goatse?
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Jul 15, 2014 10:03
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I remember reading at one point that accounting was a really good degree if you wanted to work for the fbi.
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Jul 15, 2014 10:40
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razorrozar posted:one of those tag cloud things in the shape of goatse? Pope Guilty posted:I remember reading at one point that accounting was a really good degree if you wanted to work for the fbi.
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Jul 15, 2014 10:58
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That has just got to be begging for massive C&D orders from the companies involved due to improper use of trademarked elements.
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Jul 15, 2014 12:06
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Nerds who base their identity exclusively on what they buy are terrible. Ponies and guns aren't all that different really.
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Jul 15, 2014 12:11
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edit: I've seen a "God Exists" sticker but that's it.Dirt posted:Total derail here: So they are doing construction on my street, a big project, putting in a new city sewer system(I am on the edge of the city, and have a septic tank at the moment). It's a huge project, and will go on all summer long. But today they got to my house, and the end of my yard by the street currently has a giant hole and a big rear end bulldozer sitting in it. I bet this never happened to you when Bush was president 
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Warcabbit posted:That has just got to be begging for massive C&D orders from the companies involved due to improper use of trademarked elements. Cease and desist, "the internet."
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Cercadelmar posted:Nerds who base their identity exclusively on what they buy are terrible. Ponies and guns aren't all that different really. Hmmm wonder if someone has tried loving a gun and what were the results?
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Jul 15, 2014 13:58
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Cercadelmar posted:Nerds who base their identity exclusively on what they buy are terrible. Ponies and guns aren't all that different really. It's hard out there for a conservative brony.  (Only once in my lifetime I want "Pony" + "[stupid poo poo]" to not turn up a multiple digit amount of google results.  )
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Jul 15, 2014 14:27
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Everytime I hear some politician or public official use the term "disconnect" as a noun as in "there's a disconnect between thing a and thing b" I literally gnash my teeth.
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Jul 15, 2014 14:45
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I had a realization the other day about ponies. Ever since they became popular, I've seen massive amounts less Homestuck about. And given that the troll typing makes my eyes burn, for this, I thank them.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:06
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DemeaninDemon posted:Do you live in like some libertarian hellhole? *the crowd starts hooting and hollering*
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zoux posted:Everytime I hear some politician or public official use the term "disconnect" as a noun as in "there's a disconnect between thing a and thing b" I literally gnash my teeth. It does grate on the ears, but what would you use instead?
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Jul 15, 2014 16:24
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"Gap" or "disparity". Or you know the noun form of the verb disconnect, which is disconnection. Or "these two things/concepts do not connect".
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Warcabbit posted:I had a realization the other day about ponies. Ever since they became popular, I've seen massive amounts less Homestuck about. And given that the troll typing makes my eyes burn, for this, I thank them. Well Homestuck hasn't updated in like a year so that has a lot more to do with it.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:32
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Nintendo Kid posted:Well Homestuck hasn't updated in like a year so that has a lot more to do with it. Trap sprung
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did i miss 90's music chat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByQjNpXsx68
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Speaking as a guy who's had like four Homestuck avatars I don't think there's a whole lot of overlap between Homestuck fans (largely Tumblr snowflakes) and bronies (largely Reddit neckbeards). It's a coincidence, in other words.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:18
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Is it like a comic or what? I looked it up one time and it was some sort of adventure game?
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zoux posted:Is it like a comic or what? I looked it up one time and it was some sort of adventure game? LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK  no but seriously it's a webcomic with a weird mixed-media format based largely on old adventure games that ran on reader submissions for a while, then it got really text-heavy with a zillion new characters based on Internet nerd archetypes, at which point Tumblr went batshit crazy for it and it grew beyond all control. That's most of what there is to say about it. e: The fandom is terrifyingly insane and the creator had to move at least twice because of them, but that should probably have been implied by the word "Tumblr"
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Jul 15, 2014 17:23
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I swear this, that I will never read Homestuck.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:25
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Aren't there like millions of homestuck words?
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Jul 15, 2014 17:26
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Pope Guilty posted:Aren't there like millions of homestuck words? It was always kinda text heavy, and it is very long now, so yeah probably.
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Pope Guilty posted:Aren't there like millions of homestuck words? The "search" page on the site is literally just a dump of all the text in the comic with links to the pages it's from, so you can CTRL+F through it to find what you're looking for. It had to be split up into multiple pages because it kept crashing people's browsers with the sheer quantity of text.
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loquacius posted:The "search" page on the site is literally just a dump of all the text in the comic with links to the pages it's from, so you can CTRL+F through it to find what you're looking for. It had to be split up into multiple pages because it kept crashing people's browsers with the sheer quantity of text. That is hilariously lazy.
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