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Some French girl on my Facebook liked this http://thechive.com/2015/07/22/the-world-gets-a-bad-rap-but-theres-so-much-good-out-there-46-photos/ and of course I figured I'd get some nice stdh out of this. And an old classic with bonus artefacting
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 20:03 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 14:05 |
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Do you need a pill box like that if you only take one pill?
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 20:28 |
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Fathis Munk posted:And an old classic with bonus artefacting What an rear end in a top hat daughter putting the lemon on Wednesday, already the most frustrating day of the week Nouvelle Vague posted:Do you need a pill box like that if you only take one pill?
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 20:29 |
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What's less reasonable is leaving your pills where your 7-year-old sister can access them and apparently telling her they "make you happy," that's a good policy. What is it with people inventing stories that make them look irresponsible?
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 20:33 |
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Clearly that kid is just so smart they know not to eat candy sized and colored objects. They are probably Albert Einstein's kids after all.
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 21:00 |
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What? Diagnosed? Who did what here?
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 22:39 |
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Paladinus posted:What? Diagnosed? Who did what here? "hey, bring me their check. Someone in their family got a cancer diagnosis."
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 22:58 |
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How weak are people's faiths in humanity if they constantly need to get restored by obviously fake stories?
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 23:29 |
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She got the scars from running into poo poo while wearing those dumb goggles.
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 23:49 |
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Ugh I already complained about this before but these scar stories piss me off. The only things my scars ever got me was either horrified or awkward looks. No one got me flowers or gave me a motivational speech or married me. Now that I got them covered up with tattoos, I DO get positive comments. Like "cool tattoo!"
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 00:07 |
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Do you think they found the picture first and then wrote the story, or found the picture after the story was written and they wanted someone with flowers that might vaguely look like she would cut herself?
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 00:12 |
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 00:17 |
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That's a Sargeant major. http://www.militaryfactory.com/ranks/marine_ranks.asp Most of these loving hurrrrrr our troops stories are written by people who only know of the armed forces via Hollywood.
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 00:25 |
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This is what's commonly referred to as a "joke".
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 00:44 |
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STDH or not, if I have a teacher who staples his loving tie to his chest on the first day, that's a teacher I wouldn't gently caress around with.
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 01:10 |
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The man isn't even wearing a tie
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 02:31 |
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Huntersoninski posted:What's less reasonable is leaving your pills where your 7-year-old sister can access them and apparently telling her they "make you happy," that's a good policy. What is it with people inventing stories that make them look irresponsible? I get a good chuckle referring to my meds as "expensive candy," but I totally agree I should stop before my future kids get the wrong idea. Alternatives: - "time to feed the meter" - "Making a deposit into my LIFE. SAVINGS." - humming the Popeye theme -"I'm only staying alive to annoy your mother"
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 02:32 |
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Wizard of Smart posted:This is what's commonly referred to as a "joke". I love this thread most of the time but sometimes I wonder if I could just get away with typing up the jokes from an old Reader's Digest. mamelon posted:I get a good chuckle referring to my meds as "expensive candy," but I totally agree I should stop before my future kids get the wrong idea. Taking out my contacts or retainers I sometimes just shorten it to "Gotta take my eyes/teeth out." This isn't really that on topic but it mildly amuses me in a way that makes me think I'm closer to 75 than 25.
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 03:36 |
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dads_work_files posted:The man isn't even wearing a tie Woulda been better if he stapled each medal down, methodically staring into the eyes of each student in the room.
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 05:42 |
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This makes no sense at all. Do they do all their work for free?quote:No Mower, Mow Problems
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 09:32 |
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Khazar-khum posted:This makes no sense at all. Do they do all their work for free? I've had repair people (car, computer, whatever) not charge me if it was a really easy diagnosis+fix where they don't have to use any new/ordered parts. I don't know how much work replacing a carb on a lawnmower is, but it's not totally out of the realm of possibility. I'm sure the evil rich guy is made up though, or at least heavily embellished - if this person was in the back area, how could they know he was driving a "very expensive car"?
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 10:19 |
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Murphy Brownback posted:I've had repair people (car, computer, whatever) not charge me if it was a really easy diagnosis+fix where they don't have to use any new/ordered parts. I don't know how much work replacing a carb on a lawnmower is, but it's not totally out of the realm of possibility. I'm sure the evil rich guy is made up though, or at least heavily embellished - if this person was in the back area, how could they know he was driving a "very expensive car"? LOL if anyone thinks a doctor is going to mow/run maintenance on his yard
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 12:54 |
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sweeperbravo posted:I love this thread most of the time but sometimes I wonder if I could just get away with typing up the jokes from an old Reader's Digest. Aren't a lot of the joke columns in Readers Digest presented as really happening? I'm specifically thinking of Humor in Uniform, where that marine story would have probably fit. I might be mistaken.
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 12:59 |
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ElGroucho posted:LOL if anyone thinks a doctor is going to mow/run maintenance on his yard Some people, even if they have a comfortable amount of money, actually enjoy yard work and prefer to do it themselves.
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 13:25 |
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jodai posted:Aren't a lot of the joke columns in Readers Digest presented as really happening? I'm specifically thinking of Humor in Uniform, where that marine story would have probably fit. I might be mistaken. The All In a Day's Work jokes, too. And yeah, they're mostly rehashed stories that were jokes to begin with. Not a bad trick pre-Google and widespread internet, though: someone could take a joke they heard, add in some details to flesh it out into a story, and send it in as crazy poo poo that (didn't) happened at work or on base or whatever. Mind you, you'd be paid for it. Nowadays people do the same thing online for the sweet upvotes, I guess.
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 13:58 |
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jodai posted:Aren't a lot of the joke columns in Readers Digest presented as really happening? I'm specifically thinking of Humor in Uniform, where that marine story would have probably fit. I might be mistaken. ibntumart posted:The All In a Day's Work jokes, too. And yeah, they're mostly rehashed stories that were jokes to begin with. Not a bad trick pre-Google and widespread internet, though: someone could take a joke they heard, add in some details to flesh it out into a story, and send it in as crazy poo poo that (didn't) happened at work or on base or whatever. You know, I never really thought of it that way. There were always some anecdotes that I could see as being real (usually the ones that were less funny and more situationally dependent, kind of like "someone probably wouldn't have gone to the trouble to come up with this on their own" type of thing*), but I took the rest all just as jokes, their placement on those pages being the equivalent of greentext letting me know not to take them too seriously. But gullible people aren't solely found on the internet and I could totally see some 70 year old lady reading those things and being like "Ohmygosh I can't BELIEVE it, what a great comeback" and clipping the scrap out to mail to a likeminded friend. *Not that people can't invent things with a lot of detail obviously, but it's much easier to do that now with things like imgur than go through the whole trouble of writing/typing up some made-up story and possibly wasting a stamp on something that isn't even guaranteed to make it into the magazine, and whose praises you will never hear sung or have any audience feedback on.
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 14:59 |
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sweeperbravo posted:*Not that people can't invent things with a lot of detail obviously, but it's much easier to do that now with things like imgur than go through the whole trouble of writing/typing up some made-up story and possibly wasting a stamp on something that isn't even guaranteed to make it into the magazine, and whose praises you will never hear sung or have any audience feedback on. "here in the astounding world of the future we not only have hardcore lesbian porn available on literally every device with a screen, we can also spread your anecdotes that are too good enough for Reader's Digest around the world at the speed of light and pay you in Internet points. Truly, this is the zenith of civilised existence."
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 17:57 |
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quote:a well-dressed man in a very expensive car drove up.) Soooooo, we're expected to believe this doctor with a "very expensive car" would put a dirty rear end lawnmower in it? Also, I don't think "very expensive cars" usually have room enough to fit lawnmowers in them...
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 18:02 |
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I think "Very expensive" in the context of the story is any car newer than a 1990 Camry
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 18:54 |
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Yelp review: 1/5 stars terrible service, unhelpful staff Dropped my lawn mower off in the morning, was told I could pick it up "after lunch" because it was "an easy fix." I came back at one thirty and was told the mower was finished, but the owner was still "out to lunch" and couldn't total up the costs for me. I explained that, as a medical resident, I only had this hour between twelve hour shifts and that I'd been told I could come back after lunch. The guy behind the counter seemed to take a huge amount of offense at this, and said I should have waited for a call. He went into the back, where the shop owner had just finished his sandwich, and they came out. Then, when totaling out the cost, he said he was adding another $50 on over the estimate because he "put a rebuilt carburetor" in it. I felt like I was being ripped off, but barely had time to pay and load the mower into the back of my '93 F150 before making it back to the hospital in time for my next shift. I will NOT be going back.
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 19:23 |
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poisonpill posted:Yelp review: 1/5 stars Sounds about right
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# ? Jul 24, 2015 19:46 |
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# ? Jul 25, 2015 22:15 |
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quote:One Act Of Immaturity Begets Another
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# ? Jul 26, 2015 08:36 |
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Did this make sense in Dutch and just lose all coherence in translation?
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# ? Jul 26, 2015 16:45 |
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no its just as dumb
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# ? Jul 26, 2015 17:32 |
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Yep that dog definitely looks like it's been crawling through a barbed wire fence. That baby certainly looks like it's been abandoned in the woods. Yes sir this certainly happened right guys?
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:56 |
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:
I could be totally wrong here, but I feel like I read this story, or one very similar, a while back on a reputable site, so fwiw, it could be true. Now that picture though? Definitely not.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:52 |
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CBS has it as a true story from Kenya: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stray-dog-rescues-abandoned-baby/ There's probably a few more cases of this really happening, too. Like you said def. not that baby and dog in the picture though.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 08:33 |
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:
CNN and CBS are not 'a mans best friend'. And why would they cover a litter of puppies?
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 09:09 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 14:05 |
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:
I realize that you are a goon and therefore probably unfamiliar with the concept, but there are these things called 'washing', 'cleaning up' and 'grooming'. Especially before photographs are taken.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 09:25 |