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Paladinus posted:'Bless you, motherfucker.'
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 01:32 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 15:54 |
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Did the snotty tissue get married
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 02:16 |
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I think the real crime here is somebody named their kid Emileigh.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 02:49 |
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 03:23 |
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Man, that's good advice. Because as humans we all know to the second when we're going to die, like the cyclopes from Krull.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 03:38 |
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Paladinus posted:
Gotta love how he allegedly lost his poo poo. She was probably just trying to start a conversation and he just goes "gently caress YOU BITCH, YOU DUMB AND I'M SMART"
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 05:35 |
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Testekill posted:Gotta love how he allegedly lost his poo poo. She was probably just trying to start a conversation and he just goes "gently caress YOU BITCH, YOU DUMB AND I'M SMART" He either already is or is thiiiiiiiiis closing to becoming an MRA.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 05:44 |
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When my grandma died, her garbage company wanted some completely unreasonable level of documentation of her death in order to cancel her service; off the top of my head, I think they wanted the original death certificate, not a copy, sent certified mail to their corporate HQ. After a long and exasperated phone call with some unhelpful customer service rep, my dad just screamed FINE, RUIN HER CREDIT and hung up the phone. He never heard from them again. Bureaucracies really can be that absurd and insensitive in those situations.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 06:33 |
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I have a guy similar to that in my office and he's a smelly dick who everyone avoids. I'd imagine that is the case here also.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 08:47 |
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walrusman posted:When my grandma died, her garbage company wanted some completely unreasonable level of documentation of her death in order to cancel her service; off the top of my head, I think they wanted the original death certificate, not a copy, sent certified mail to their corporate HQ. After a long and exasperated phone call with some unhelpful customer service rep, my dad just screamed FINE, RUIN HER CREDIT and hung up the phone. He never heard from them again. Yep. We had a hell of a time convincing the bank that dealt with our mortgage that the guy whose name was on it had died. We sent pretty much every form of paperwork you can get that says "This person is dead", and it didn't work even up to the point where they foreclosed on us (medical bills are a bitch). My SO at the time dealt with most of the phone calls (the deceased being his father), and I know he at one point offered to pay for a seance if it would satisfy them after the millionth "We can only speak with (dead dad)."
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 08:56 |
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After dealing with all of that when my grandfather died, my mother found the magic bullet when it was time to cancel the insurance policy on his vehicle. "I'm sorry, we have to speak with the policy holder." "He's dead, you can't talk with a dead person!" "I'm sorry for your loss, but we must-" "He was also deaf, before he died. He's literally never spoken with you people." "Oh... in that case, you can act as his interpreter then."
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 08:59 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I think the real crime here is somebody named their kid Emileigh. That made me wince, like when you see someone vomit.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 11:05 |
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Captain Bravo posted:"I'm sorry for your loss, but we must-" How does this even get said? How does a person manage to express condolences over a loss and then request to speak with the deceased? How can you go through life being that loving stupid?
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 13:09 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:How does this even get said? How does a person manage to express condolences over a loss and then request to speak with the deceased? How can you go through life being that loving stupid? It's not stupidity, it's a trained adherence to a customer service script.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 13:44 |
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Right, they don't say "We must talk with the deceased", they say "only the account holder can make that decision." The issue isn't that they're stupid, it's that they're peons. They have two things hammered into them constantly. "Don't let someone other than the account holder do poo poo or we'll get sued" and "Don't bother management with anything, or you'll get fired." So it becomes a catch 22. Only the account holder can get through to a manager, and only a manager can give the OK for someone other than the account holder to cancel the account. It's at it's worst when you're dealing with money, because the person on the phone doesn't want to close the account. If they can frustrate you enough to give up, they've won. The account will continue, until the unpaid bills have it sent to collections, where it officially becomes Someone Else's Problem. As long as it's Someone Else's Problem, that particular customer service representative won't get written up and/or docked pay for losing an account. It's the same poo poo that led to the infamous comcast call that was all over the news a few weeks ago.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 14:01 |
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walrusman posted:When my grandma died, her garbage company wanted some completely unreasonable level of documentation of her death in order to cancel her service; off the top of my head, I think they wanted the original death certificate, not a copy, sent certified mail to their corporate HQ. After a long and exasperated phone call with some unhelpful customer service rep, my dad just screamed FINE, RUIN HER CREDIT and hung up the phone. He never heard from them again. When people claim to be dead to get out of bills, it causes this. A copy of any official document is pretty easy to forge, hence a certified death certificate. And anytime you deal with any creditor, you should send everything certified mail. Creditors require it because it protects them from people claiming they sent it and its your fault its missing. Debtors should do it because it can be tracked and you know they received it. AngryRobotsInc posted:Yep. We had a hell of a time convincing the bank that dealt with our mortgage that the guy whose name was on it had died. We sent pretty much every form of paperwork you can get that says "This person is dead", and it didn't work even up to the point where they foreclosed on us (medical bills are a bitch). My SO at the time dealt with most of the phone calls (the deceased being his father), and I know he at one point offered to pay for a seance if it would satisfy them after the millionth "We can only speak with (dead dad)." Privacy laws require that banks can never give out information about any account except to the person who is on the account or someone the account owner has given prior written approval. If you had opened his estate and become the executor or administrator, they would be able to talk to you when you gave them the letter testamentary.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 14:08 |
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Testekill posted:Gotta love how he allegedly lost his poo poo. She was probably just trying to start a conversation and he just goes "gently caress YOU BITCH, YOU DUMB AND I'M SMART" I really REALLY want to believe that this mostly happened, but that the girl had a crush on the guy for months and noticed he was playing the same game she really loves and was trying to use that as an icebreaker. She's a an excellent cook, the only child of wealthy parents, and a sexual dynamo despite having 50's values (or whatever decade Fedora people fetishize) She would have done all the work progressing the relationship and would have been everything this guy ever thought he wanted. And he blew it.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 14:27 |
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And now, instead, she's with a guy named Chad who isn't into "nerd games" and has never tipped his hat at her and called her M'Lady not even once.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 14:30 |
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nerox posted:Privacy laws require that banks can never give out information about any account except to the person who is on the account or someone the account owner has given prior written approval. If you had opened his estate and become the executor or administrator, they would be able to talk to you when you gave them the letter testamentary. To be fair though, it costs the bank nothing to explain this to people and let them know what government entity they should seek out to obtain the documents they need. I know big national banks can have a more convoluted system that doesn't really equip its employees with knowledge like that, but smaller local banks generally have at least someone on hand who can direct people and who are paid to be nice and patient about it.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 15:29 |
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Bargearse posted:
Apparently it did, for the most part. quote:Add "Bless you" to the list of words you apparently can't say in a public classroom. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/tenn-teen-punished-bless-classroom-article-1.1911238 The kid and the teacher both sound like assholes.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 15:42 |
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bonestructure posted:The other words and expressions seen written on a white board are: "Stupid," "dumb," "boring," "stuff," "I don't know," "hang out," and "my bad." I want this to be stdh
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 16:11 |
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This article has popped up on my facebook page, about a professor at Oxford University giving an atheist lecture and a hundred students walking out. Maybe it did happen, but something definitely rings false about it. Also her writing style really irritates me, I can't put my finger on why it but it sounds like a teenager.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 16:13 |
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Are they still allowed to say 'tedious poo poo' instead of 'boring stuff' and 'get smashed' instead of 'hang out'?
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 16:32 |
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Aston posted:This article has popped up on my facebook page, about a professor at Oxford University giving an atheist lecture and a hundred students walking out. Maybe it did happen, but something definitely rings false about it. Your avatar has reminded me how much I love port. I finished off the last of my small hoard of '95 Dow LBV a few weeks ago, I need to go treasure-hunting.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 16:52 |
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Aston posted:This article has popped up on my facebook page, about a professor at Oxford University giving an atheist lecture and a hundred students walking out. Maybe it did happen, but something definitely rings false about it. You know, it's not just atheism. I loved his science, but Dawkins can just be an outright contrarian rear end all on his own.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 18:44 |
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Aston posted:This article has popped up on my facebook page, about a professor at Oxford University giving an atheist lecture and a hundred students walking out. Maybe it did happen, but something definitely rings false about it. It sounds like a teenager because she has the same loving opinions as a teenager about religion. quote:The cartoon was worse. As I have often done before, I suggested that one final trick of a desperate religion (I didn’t say quite that this time) is to forbid laughter. I warned any devout Muslims in the audience to look away as I showed one of the Danish cartoons. It’s so simple – just a bunch of terrorists arriving in heaven to be told, “Stop, stop, we ran out of virgins’. That normally gets a good laugh – along with sympathy for the cartoonists threatened with death for something so innocuous. Not this time. More walked out. "I just slandered an entire world religion and all its people and everyone got upset I don't get it!"
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 18:53 |
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Don't forget her bit of racism at the beginning. "My teenaged step-grandson is mixed race and from Paris and he loved it, so all those foreign kids from Muslim countries surely will as well!"
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 19:04 |
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*shows picture of Muslim men praying* "Look at what religion makes you do! Silly behavior! I'm the one ranting at a group of students about why religion is a lie! Wait, where is everybody going?" Religion 0, Atheists 1
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 19:37 |
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Don't you dare speak down to her! She has a PhD in Memeology from BSU! See right here, this document with a picture of a dog that says, "Wow! So Prestige!" e. Or a silly looking cat that says, "Invisible Diploma! LOL!" your choice on that. Dual Major!
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 19:42 |
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Aston posted:This article has popped up on my facebook page, about a professor at Oxford University giving an atheist lecture and a hundred students walking out. Maybe it did happen, but something definitely rings false about it. I'm surprised they all didn't leave on the fatkini part.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 23:22 |
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Yep, a girl definitely wrote that and left it there, no way you did it to seem like you have a girlfriend.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 01:15 |
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bonestructure posted:Apparently it did, for the most part. I'm maaaaaaaybe willing to believe that there's one teacher dumb enough out there to pull something like this, maybe. I'm much less willing to believe “[the teacher] said that we’re not going to have godly speaking in her class," and I simply cannot believe the school administration was on board with banning "bless you" because it's religious. Basically every news article I saw on this got most of their information from the student and her pastor. This is just some bullshit religious persecution complex wetdream. EDIT: According to this article, the school said she wasn't actually suspended and any punishment she got was for being disruptive, not religion. No more substantial details, but I'm really willing to err on the side of typical self-righteous high-schooler bullshit, especially since the original story sounds so implausible. Imaduck has a new favorite as of 01:52 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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Aston posted:This article has popped up on my facebook page, about a professor at Oxford University giving an atheist lecture and a hundred students walking out. Maybe it did happen, but something definitely rings false about it. Holy gently caress this person is amazing. quote:Who am I? quote:I am not a Buddhist. I have not signed up to any beliefs, joined any groups, or taken any formal vows. This is mainly because I fear that the memes of Buddhism can be as pernicious as those of any religion and because I dislike dogma in any form. I mention this because nothing I have written should be taken as having the authority of a Buddhist. I do, however, value the Buddha's insight, the teachings that have been handed down, and the practices I have been taught. Imaduck has a new favorite as of 01:54 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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Boofchicken posted:Yep, a girl definitely wrote that and left it there, no way you did it to seem like you have a girlfriend. According to that note, the girlfriend is named after that beer or the beer is the girlfriend.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 03:17 |
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N. Senada posted:According to that note, the girlfriend is named after that beer or the beer is the girlfriend. Haha, that's the best. "poo poo, what's my fake girlfriend's name? I know, I'll just put her initials...which are...um...K...CCO. Now to sit back and enjoy those sweet internet points."
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 03:26 |
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jodai posted:Haha, that's the best. "poo poo, what's my fake girlfriend's name? I know, I'll just put her initials...which are...um...K...CCO. Now to sit back and enjoy those sweet internet points." No I think that's the joke though, you know? I mean it's not a good joke at all but the guy is literally saying the beers are his girlfriend. You'll note the logo is also a bird, thus a crummy pun on "tit" as well
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 05:22 |
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Lap-Lem posted:Don't you dare speak down to her! She has a PhD in Memeology from BSU! See right here, this document with a picture of a dog that says, "Wow! So Prestige!" Sounds about right for Boise State.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 05:24 |
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sweeperbravo posted:No I think that's the joke though, you know? I was wondering about the titties in the face line. I do still like to imagine him panicking and writing kcco as his girlfriends name, mostly because it's funnier to me than the actual joke the guy was making. Also I feel dumb that I didn't get it right away.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 05:32 |
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KCCO also stands for Keep Calm and Chive On. The Chive is a comedy website of some sort. It's like she'd signed "stairs".
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 05:57 |
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quote:The teenager from hell was in my store last night.
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