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dogcrash truther
I did kind of eat a lunch I guess. It was some shredded cheddar melted on top of triscuits with hot pepper flakes

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dogcrash truther
i should have taken a picture. it was a sad office lunch

treasure bear

Piso Mojado

dogcrash truther posted:

or how your day was, what you had for lunch. etc. byob, I didn't have lunch today. I completely skipped it. I was also supposed to interview someone for a hire today and they stood me up, no call or anything. So thanks for flying the red flag early, I guess, but I could've gone to lunch instead.

I skipped lunch too, and felt like crap because of it. I did have a fair amount of sour patch kids, tho. they were goood!

dogcrash truther
the inside of your mouth is gonna get tore up with those sour patch kids

deep dish peat moss

dogcrash truther posted:

i should have taken a picture. it was a sad office lunch

My office lunch today was herb encrusted steak with home made buttered noodles with fresh romano and stuffed peppers. It sucks, that your office lunch isn't that good.

deep dish peat moss

The steak was smothered with a fantasy of shallots. I don't know what shallots are but I know they're more expensive than what I can afford.

deep dish peat moss

I eat really fancy food off of plastic plates and then throw the plate like a frisbee out of my penthouse office window after writing "It sucks that you're poor" on it in a marker that writes in liquefied gold.

POWERBALL

by zen death robot
I'm really thinking about canceling my economist subscription because I haven't read a single one in like 2 months but it makes me feel like an illiterate idiot. I mean, if I keep the subscription and don't read them I'm still an illiterate idiot who's also poorer, but there's always a chance I'll read it...

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Bwee
a fantasy of olives

pig slut lisa

irl is good


i buy the economist every time i have a long flight. it is my airport routine.

deep dish peat moss

Fantasy O'Volivez

Qwerinty

by zen death robot

i love you, cumt

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GEExCEE

the economist is dumb

dogcrash truther
The name is dumb, for sure. The Economist. Ok. Read my magazine about medicine. It's called The Doctor.

alnilam

POWERBALL posted:

I'm really thinking about canceling my economist subscription because I haven't read a single one in like 2 months but it makes me feel like an illiterate idiot. I mean, if I keep the subscription and don't read them I'm still an illiterate idiot who's also poorer, but there's always a chance I'll read it...

Make a habit of stopping by the library when you finish work and don't have any plans and aren't hungry yet, and read their copy for free. Best of both worlds - occasionally reading it, and not paying.

Bwee

dogcrash truther posted:

The name is dumb, for sure. The Economist. Ok. Read my magazine about medicine. It's called The Doctor.

ron color

POWERBALL posted:

I'm really thinking about canceling my economist subscription because I haven't read a single one in like 2 months but it makes me feel like an illiterate idiot. I mean, if I keep the subscription and don't read them I'm still an illiterate idiot who's also poorer, but there's always a chance I'll read it...

there are two versions of the economist and this is a test....the one you buy is full of fake advice. (if you have a real one and some one wants to borrow it you have to let them)

Pedantra

by Lowtax

dogcrash truther posted:

i should have taken a picture. it was a sad office lunch

still sounds better than lean cuisine

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a fantasy of olives

Bwee posted:

a fantasy of olives

Luvcow

One day nearer spring

:love: my little mortimer!

dogcrash truther
ok well if i wake up tomorrow and gunky junket hasn't posted in this thread i'm gonna unsticky and then if she posts in it again we'll go from there.

Pot Smoke Phoenix



Smoke 'em if you gottem!

alnilam posted:

Make a habit of stopping by the library when you finish work and don't have any plans and aren't hungry yet, and read their copy for free. Best of both worlds - occasionally reading it, and not paying.

I read this as "Make a habit of stomping by the library" and imagined a troupe of librarians whispering "shush!" at you as you stomped by...

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Al Borland

by XyloJW

dogdisaster posted:

i finally found it, it was part of al's posting rehabilitation in gbs. he posted these around with his email


I got one email it was the school asking me not to put up flyers on their billboards without permission.

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fema crisis actor

bweee-ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo

Hick Magnet posted:

I eat really fancy food off of plastic plates and then throw the plate like a frisbee out of my penthouse office window after writing "It sucks that you're poor" on it in a marker that writes in liquefied gold.

thanku for the plates i lick for nourishment


ty bacalou!

FluffieDuckie

Al Borland posted:

I got one email it was the school asking me not to put up flyers on their billboards without permission.

Wait you really put those out in the real world?


Thank you for the beautiful sig Machai!

ron color
i would too

GEExCEE

if you have a great dick, a good way to post is by: post your dick

Al Borland

by XyloJW

FluffieDuckie posted:

Wait you really put those out in the real world?

lol why not?

It didn't have my main email on it it was just a sub email with no identification.

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Ralp

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I forgot about that and it is still really funny. I am glad you cooperated Al Borland. Do you have any advice on how to persuade gunky junket to post more in this thread?

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cat_herder

BE GAY
DO CRIME


I think my biggest advice would be to try to be less combative with other people. No one's out to get you. The trolling is meant to be banter or in jest. If people were really angry at you, you would know it. When you become combative with other people, it puts them on the defensive and they get upset and angry and then it gets ugly, and then the mods step in, and then everything goes to hell (or the leper's colony, anyway).

So, in conclusion, try to be a little more chill :byob1:

Luvcow

One day nearer spring
Has anyone said "brevity" yet?

Bo-Pepper

Want some rye?
Course ya do!

meteloides posted:

I think my biggest advice would be to try to be less combative with other people. No one's out to get you. The trolling is meant to be banter or in jest.

inri called me an old retard yesterday he might mean it though but probably not maybe though?

FluffieDuckie

Bo-Pepper posted:

inri called me an old retard yesterday he might mean it though but probably not maybe though?

he might have meant it. but you were chill about it so it went away instead of turning into a thing.

if gunky junket is reading this, if someone says something to you on the internet you get to choose whether that becomes a huge drama or if it is a non event and everyone moves on with their day. big dramas can result in probings or bannings, so it's in your best interest to ignore and move on


Thank you for the beautiful sig Machai!

dogcrash truther
somegood advice in here, anyway, if gunky junket wants to post here she can, but i'm unstickying until she comes back

Ralp

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

dogcrash truther posted:

The qualities of the posts that seem objectionable to me are:

1) They're long
2) They include lots of pictures
3) They include uncomfortably intimate appeals to particular posters (I understand that GJ was probably just joking about being infatuated with Franco, but it was still weird)
4) They don't "play along" with the tone or content of the thread they're in
5) They are objectionable in bulk. One long post here or there isn't weird, but when you chain a bunch of them together it gives the uncomfortable impression that you're out of control

i don't know whether this is right, but there it is
I think it's right. #4 is definitely true but developing that into something GJ can identify and work on seems difficult. #3 I want to emphasize because I have a visceral revulsion to this quality of her posts. Not even so much the inappropriate and creepy sexual comments (though, yeah, wtf) but just the intense false familiarity. She might drop into the middle of an ongoing discussion, quote (let's say) FluffieDuckie and reply like "LOL Fluffers I can't believe youd say something like that!" (followed by 1000 more disjointed sentences). It's not only an inappropriate tone but is somehow horrific to me.

Anyway in PM she has asked me for specific feedback on some of her posts, which I think is an encouraging response that she's willing to identify things to change (or is just a way to get attention for her posts, but benefit of the doubt). I don't have the time or effort or willpower to do this though, it's hard enough to understand one PM, and besides that's what I was hoping she could use this BYOB thread for. Some of these had notes next to them to explain context but I'm removing them because I'm reposting this without her permission and besides if your post needs a note explaining it, you already know it was a bad post. She noted that these are not a "best of" compilation, I think it's meant to just be an eclectic sampling, which is exactly appropriate.

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Thread: GBS gossip and news
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=437791307#post437791307

Thread: why dont giants have bigger sperms/eggs
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=441861411#post441861411

Thread: Goon Love Is The Best Love 2015: Love is all around
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=441101665#post4411016654

Thread: I haven't ejaculated in a month
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=439520284#post439520284

Thread: What happened to the Weekend Web?
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=439213674#post439213674

Thread: what kind of pills did bill cosby use to rape those women?
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3685742&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post438500301%A0%A0  

Thread: A thread for QCSes that don't deserve their own thread 
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=443060474#post443060474

Thread: The Ralp call in Thread
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=441833896#post441833896

Thread: I can't wait (For the weekend to begin)♪
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3687633&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post438898318

Thread: GREAT IDEA: a ban on fantasy, science fiction, and YA poo poo in The Book Barn
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=439573716#post439573716

Thread: GBS I killed my cat today
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=439474005#post439474005

Thread: Mea culpa
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=439213674#post439213674

Thread: Comedy and Nonsense
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=441864736#post441864736

Thread: The Opposite of Autism
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=439483273#post439483273

Thread: I hung out with a literal retard by accident
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=439577132#post439577132

Thread: What time do you sleep GBS?
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=441804021#post441804021

Well BYOB, if anyone wants to critique even just one or two of these maybe it would help?? Even if it's just to say "This post is fine, it's nice and short" or "This post would fit in in BYOB but it's not right for a gray forum because ____"

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gunky junket posted:


RideTheSpiral posted:

look how bad your post is

Let's have a look at you instead, eh.

RideTheSpiral, clearly you are the.. ahhh.. the sort of guy whose first thought, when faced with a post like "I just ate a bunch of Rowan Atkinson's cum", would be much like...


No doubt your mind relished in the thought, perhaps your mouth even watered. That's fine.. each to their own.

It's just that you need to understand that there are people who, unlike yourself, aren't so keen on the thought of having a mouthful of Rowan Atkinson's cum. That doesn't mean anybody is wrong, just that people are different to you, is all.

Now those people may well make a word association, of something peculiar in the post (like a mouthful of Rowan Atkinson's cum isn't already odd enough), to perhaps make the thought more, shall we say, more palatable to stomach. I am one of those people different to you, RideTheSpiral.

Besides that, how often do you say/hear "a bunch of sperm"? And how often do you say/hear "a bunch of grapes"? It's not too much of a stretch to liken it to a bunch of grapes.. lol 'coz that's what a fkn bunch is!

Anyway, I'm terribly sorry to have ruined your thoughts of your mouth being filled with a bunch of Rowan Atkinson's cum with my inconsiderate thoughts of a bunch of sweet juicy grapes. My sincerest apologies, RideTheSpiral.. hopefully your imagination can re-group and you can once again salivate as you savour your homoerotic daydreams about eating cum.

So I think there's kind of a weird focus on ejaculate here. The original crass joke that started it was a bit up, where someone said they weren't 'full of beans' implying they were tired, and someone else offhanded replied 'I'm full of beans, but that's because I ate Rowan Atkinson's cum.' which is a reference to Mr. Bean.

Taking it and just going on this long tirade didn't seem to really ingratiate GJ to anybody in the thread, and it lacked even the tiny bit of humor the original comment had (reminding everybody that yes, Rowan Atkinson did play a character named Mr. Bean.) Repeating somebody else's joke over and over didn't make it funnier and it also didn't really insult the posters... I mean, I don't think it's particularly damning criticism. It's not like they were even huge Rowan Atkinson fans or something.

Maybe the issue is getting too defensive. But even so it was still a weird direction to take things in. Also it's kind of just a long and drawn out 'your gay' post, which is you know, obviously kind of homophobic and weird.

joke_explainer fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Jun 26, 2015

treasure bear

i dont this kind of gross humor

pig slut lisa

irl is good


Cumt posted:

i dont this kind of gross humor

this is the kind of missing verb a boy can dream on :allears:

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fuck. marry. t-rex

Gross stuff can be funny but it's tuff to get right- it has to be REALLY shocking and absurd, and you gotta get the pacing on long posts right

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