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I read the entire saga, including his account of the litigation proceedings, and as a lawyer I have to say it all sounds pretty accurate. People with no knowledge of law or procedure routinely outshine attorneys, judges dispose of cases at "preliminary hearings" without bothering to wait for a party to actually move for dismissal or judgment, "gotcha" moments happen all the time at the last minute, and cases get dismissed for "vindictiveness." Also, rules for admission of evidence don't exist.
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And where except for fantasyland does all that happen in a few weeks? That poo poo can take years, even on really simple stuff.
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Jan 27, 2015 18:30
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Man this dude tried so super hard to be super cool on the Internet 
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Jan 27, 2015 18:37
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I like to think all these menacing, low voices are like when my six year-old nephew does his Batman voice.
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Jan 27, 2015 19:36
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I know plenty of people in publishing who read tons of fanfiction, but, uh, it's not because it's really well written...
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Jan 27, 2015 19:42
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I am just at the start of the story, but it's always great when the storyteller talks about their anger. They always remain calm, but oh man their glare really terrifies people!
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Jan 27, 2015 19:46
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The story stays credible for a remarkably long time. Then he breaks out the whole "my terminator eyes part seas before them, and my lightning quick fist shattered his features" and never lets up.
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Jan 27, 2015 19:57
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This really pisses me off. No, there is no untapped market of A+writers huddled on tumblr at 3AM farting out disturbing stories about Rick from Walking Dead loving his zombie son with a rotting dog penis. These people are doing the equivalent of web-camming, only using their brains instead of their bodies. It's all masturbatory, it's all poo poo, it's all embarrassing. Whoever is giving these people false illusions of grandeur and respect should be dragged out into the street and shot.
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Jan 27, 2015 20:06
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Drunk Tomato posted:This really pisses me off. No, there is no untapped market of A+writers huddled on tumblr at 3AM farting out disturbing stories about Rick from Walking Dead loving his zombie son with a rotting dog penis. These people are doing the equivalent of web-camming, only using their brains instead of their bodies. It's all masturbatory, it's all poo poo, it's all embarrassing. Whoever is giving these people false illusions of grandeur and respect should be dragged out into the street and shot. jealousy.txt
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Jan 27, 2015 20:10
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If someone wrote a "brilliant" 100k word story about Mario sodomizing a koopa or something then just change the names and it can be the next 50 shades of grey
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Jan 27, 2015 20:19
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Drunk Tomato posted:This really pisses me off. No, there is no untapped market of A+writers huddled on tumblr at 3AM farting out disturbing stories about Rick from Walking Dead loving his zombie son with a rotting dog penis. These people are doing the equivalent of web-camming, only using their brains instead of their bodies. It's all masturbatory, it's all poo poo, it's all embarrassing. Whoever is giving these people false illusions of grandeur and respect should be dragged out into the street and shot. It pisses me off for several reasons, but one is that I'm sure there really are at least a few people out there languishing in fanfic hell who could do better, judging from how much some of the students I've helped w/ their writing improve sometimes. but that bullshit message there tells them to just keep on writing in such a way that they'll never improve their writing or benefit from it at all.
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Jan 27, 2015 20:23
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Drunk Tomato posted:Whoever is giving these people false illusions of grandeur and respect should be dragged out into the street and shot. Hey, that person READ a ton of PROFESSIONAL scripts and stuff, man! But the funny thing is that the poster couldn't even bring himself to lie all the way - it never actually says the scripts are read as the part of even an internship, it just heavily implies that the person reads said scripts in some kind of position. You know that the real kernel of truth is that it's just written by some troper in AP English 101 that downloaded terminator_vii_-_robotnik_s_revenge[treatment][010355][HAZMAT].rtf
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Jan 27, 2015 20:31
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davidspackage posted:The story stays credible for a remarkably long time. Then he breaks out the whole "my terminator eyes part seas before them, and my lightning quick fist shattered his features" and never lets up. I'm impressed with his commitment to the long con, that thread went on for months and he staggered out his posts well. A+
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Jan 27, 2015 20:35
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ADHDan posted:I read the entire saga, including his account of the litigation proceedings, and as a lawyer I have to say it all sounds pretty accurate. People with no knowledge of law or procedure routinely outshine attorneys, judges dispose of cases at "preliminary hearings" without bothering to wait for a party to actually move for dismissal or judgment, "gotcha" moments happen all the time at the last minute, and cases get dismissed for "vindictiveness." Also, rules for admission of evidence don't exist. He also does not at all confuse criminal And civil Proceedings. Not at all. And gag orders are a thing that absolutely exists when you're a victim.
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Jan 27, 2015 20:46
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davidspackage posted:The story stays credible for a remarkably long time. Fun fact 2: I have a multiple personality disorder. Personality 2 is very, VERY violent and that little love tap was enough to make him mad. Fun fact 3: I've taken martial arts for 3 years.
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Jan 27, 2015 20:52
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corn in the bible posted:Fun fact 2: I have a multiple personality disorder. Personality 2 is very, VERY violent and that little love tap was enough to make him mad. I just can't loving get over this part.  I mean how can you even think this is a thing, much less something anyone would believe.
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Jan 27, 2015 20:56
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And "martial arts" for THREE WHOLE YEARS. 
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Jan 27, 2015 20:59
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Non Serviam posted:He also does not at all confuse criminal And civil Proceedings. Not at all. I like to think the DA was cheering on the sidelines during his brilliant defense in the tort suit. The entire thing read like a three-episode series of the Office told from Michael Scott's POV.
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Jan 27, 2015 21:13
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ADHDan posted:The entire thing read like a three-episode series of the Office told from Michael Scott's POV. Yeah I think that is very accurate and does present the mindset of those people p well
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Jan 27, 2015 21:18
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His pictures of the scar are amazingly bad. His description of the fight is pretty amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqdJ9tm7IAU
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Jan 27, 2015 21:24
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I'm running a copyright workshop at....work, and this morning we were discussing photography copyrights. We got on a bit of a tangent talking about wedding photography (lots of people get confused as to why someone they hired to take pictures of them owns the copyright for the photos and they don't), and this weird dude got up and started telling this utterly insane story about how his wedding photographer "stole" the images from them and put them online without their consent and his father used his ~hacker skillz~ to disable the website and then broke into the photographer's office to get the negatives back and when the evil photographer confronted them the father threatened to beat him up for putting pictures of his son and daughter-in-law on the internet. Of course the father was an ex-Marine. Someone also asked about fanfiction last week in the workshop, which is kind of a gray area in terms of copyright, but it wasn't funny so much as just a little weird. I run into a lot of fanfictiony types at my job (library), and ugh. I used to have all kinds of warm, fuzzy, populist ideas about reading and writing ("Both are good! It doesn't matter what you read/write as long as you do it!") but those guys have singlehandedly changed my mind on that. I have yet to meet a serious fanfiction writer who had any real interest in expanding their intellectual horizons or growing as a writer or even as a reader. This isn't "you can only read literary fiction or you are beneath my notice" snobbery; I genuinely think that getting too hung up on that whole world is bad for your intellect and creativity. I've watched a handful of acquaintances from high school/college fall down that rabbit hole and they all got appreciably dumber. Scarchat: Not that that crazy Rasputin Marine Wife story wasn't STDH, but some people just don't scar a lot. I was in a car accident that severely injured most of my right side and required me to be put in a medically-induced coma and undergo three surgeries, and ten years the scars are almost invisible. Of course, since her scars ARE visible, just lame, it's pretty obvious she's full of it.
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corn in the bible posted:If someone wrote a "brilliant" 100k word story about Mario sodomizing a koopa or something then just change the names and it can be the next 50 shades of grey Its probably  but I only recently found out myself, that is actually the legit origins of 50 shades of grey; it was Twilight fanfic.How does that even happen? gently caress the internet sometimes. Now its gonna be a major motion picture  KiddieGrinder posted:And "martial arts" for THREE WHOLE YEARS. He's like sixth-dan black belt by now, dude.  EmmyOk posted:His pictures of the scar are amazingly bad. His description of the fight is pretty amazing Stupid UK-only youtube! 
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Jan 27, 2015 22:00
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Zaphod42 posted:Its probably it was already crazy popular in fanfic circles, but you obviously can't sell fanfiction for real money or you'll get sued. so she changed all the names and self-published it as an ebook on amazon, which has very low standards apart from requiring that you share the profits with them. ...except, somehow, her books sold so well on there in a digital form that it has since migrated into print and now it's a movie too. considering how well the books sold, it makes perfect sense from a business perspective 
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Okay this begins with a story that it seems did happen, but the report afterwards posted on a blog is seriously STDH. There was some kinda KKK rally, so a bunch of people showed up to protest/harass them, because gently caress the KKK. quote:Unfortunately for [VNN] the 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block came and handed them their asses by making them appear like the asses they were. Somehow these two angry mobs chanted back and forth to each other, and the KKK politely waited after each call to hear the response and react to it. Yeah loving right. Then supposedly only at the end do they arrive at 'wife power', oh, that's so clever. Except in the picture of the event, everybody was dressed as a bride. That works with the "wife power" angle, but that means they all showed up dressed that way from the beginning. Or is the KKK really saying "White Power!" and then sitting back and giving them 10 minutes to change clothes and perform some kind of stage play in response.  The part about the KKK members having a heart attack is just too much.
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Zaphod42 posted:He's like sixth-dan black belt by now, dude. My alter is a 97th dan secret belt after only two weeks in the classified government martial arts program he got into.
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Imgur bringning you 100% the truth only the truth not jokes at all no no no "I thought it was tough dealing with people as an IT guy."  
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Khazar-khum posted:TYOOL 2015. A naive first year once came into our University's Queer Room and, regarding the huge buckets labelled CONDOMS and LUBE, asked with a nervous giggle 'What's really in these?'. Some people have just never been out of the terrified-of-your-own-genitals conservative bubble. quote:Also, did the prank caller double-bluff? they called pretending to be a prank caller (pretending to be a genuine caller) but had a genuine query as to if the video store rented porn? Do people have housemates who wouldn't do this or 
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Jan 28, 2015 00:14
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Fathis Munk posted:Imgur bringning you 100% the truth only the truth not jokes at all no no no I can totally believe the first one about not answering about diseases. My friend had to deal with a guy who, despite being repeatedly asked about his surgical history, neglected to mention he had had his gallbladder removed (or whatever organ, I forget) until the staff saw the scar during an examination and asked about it. The peanut/peanut butter one also supposedly happened to a kid I was childhood friends with, except it was the daycare center giving him a PB&J sandwich. I stone-cold believe that story even now but seeing it in that post makes me think about how stiddy it probably sounds. ( also now rereading the posted story I think my friend's version is way more credible based on the fact that it only happened once, to a very young child, by someone who wasn't the primary at-home caretaker)
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Buh posted:
I dunno i go show my roommate that kind of stuff all the time but hes 46 and mostly im looking for a reaction.
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sweeperbravo posted:I can totally believe the first one about not answering about diseases. My friend had to deal with a guy who, despite being repeatedly asked about his surgical history, neglected to mention he had had his gallbladder removed (or whatever organ, I forget) until the staff saw the scar during an examination and asked about it. Sure the story itself might have happened some day, but I think the chances are low this one is the original. P sure I saw that one years ago.
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(I’m re-stocking shelves in the pet food aisle in, when a lady angrily shoves a pig’s ear (a type of dog treat) at me.) Customer: “Where is this made?” Me: “I’m not sure, but it usually says so on the packaging.” Customer: “I bet it’s not Australian-made.” Me: “Well, ma’am, if it is it usually states it on the packaging itself. Australian-made is a pretty big deal to local companies, so they like to put it on there if it is.” (I take the pig’s ear and sure enough it is made locally in the state we are in, by a local company.) Me: “Made right here in South Australia. Right there.” Customer: “I bet it has that disgusting Halal certification crap all over it too! You know your company supports terrorism by allowing this Muslim garbage all over our food. And us customers have to pay for it!” Me: “You are aware that Muslims are forbidden to eat pork, right? And that this is a pork dog treat? For animals, right?” Customer: “It doesn’t matter. Your company supports terrorism by allowing Halal on it’s products.” Me: “Be sure to inform your dog of his choice then, ma’am. Have a nice day.” (She angrily shoved the locally-made, obviously not-Halal certified, pork dog treat back on the shelf and stormed off.)
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Fathis Munk posted:Imgur bringning you 100% the truth only the truth not jokes at all no no no Some of the stories seem plausible, however that is not the biggest crime. The biggest crime is that whoever made this highlighted each punchline, in case you couldn't comprehend these god tier jokes
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sweeperbravo posted:I can totally believe the first one about not answering about diseases. My friend had to deal with a guy who, despite being repeatedly asked about his surgical history, neglected to mention he had had his gallbladder removed (or whatever organ, I forget) until the staff saw the scar during an examination and asked about it.
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EmmyOk posted:Some of the stories seem plausible, however that is not the biggest crime. The biggest crime is that whoever made this highlighted each punchline, in case you couldn't comprehend these god tier jokes They aren't even highlighting the punchlines, it's just like the random bolding you get in bad newspaper comics.
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Jan 28, 2015 01:22
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Wizard of Smart posted:I dunno i go show my roommate that kind of stuff all the time but hes 46 and mostly im looking for a reaction. I'm 47 and I would be all "Dude. Email that to me."
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corn in the bible posted:(I’m re-stocking shelves in the pet food aisle in, when some lady asks me a question.) poo poo that did happen
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Samizdata posted:I'm 47 and I would be all "Dude. Email that to me." I sometimes forget how old the internet is. I'm like 12 and jesus 46 seems like a dinosaur.
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Turtlicious posted:I sometimes forget how old the internet is. I'm like 12 and jesus 46 seems like a dinosaur. This is a terrific post.
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ADHDan posted:I read the entire saga, including his account of the litigation proceedings, and as a lawyer I have to say it all sounds pretty accurate. People with no knowledge of law or procedure routinely outshine attorneys, judges dispose of cases at "preliminary hearings" without bothering to wait for a party to actually move for dismissal or judgment, "gotcha" moments happen all the time at the last minute, and cases get dismissed for "vindictiveness." Also, rules for admission of evidence don't exist. I used to post on that forum, years ago. And you are literally not allowed to say if you think someone is lying there. As a forum about bitching about lovely customers, you can't even tell someone that the customer wasn't lovely. It's supposed to be a venting and ranting zone. It is not a place conducive to truth telling.
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Samizdata posted:I'm 47 and I would be all "Dude. Email that to me." He usually goes "oh wait what site is that?"
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