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Crow Jane posted:The fact I paid to have it on my body implies I at least kinda know what it is. lmao, guess you don't know many people with tattoos
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People who walk slow, which is most people. Stop being so relaxed and oblivious, WALK! vv I've never been grabbed before so it sounds so bizarre to me. Maybe it's because I always look angry, so perhaps practice having a constant angry face.
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cash crab posted:I've had tattoos for about ten years or so now, and they're definitely mundane to me now so people who grab me and ask, "WHAT DO THESE MEAN" really get my goat (ps: My favourite answer is, "I cannot work at Starbucks and no one will let me hold their baby"). I have a pretty large sleeve on one arm, and before it was completely filled in I had a lot of people grab me and ask what the text said. For reference, it says schadenfreude. Surprisingly, few people know what that translates into, so now I just tell people it's German for "personal space". How often do people grab at you like that? I've been planning my first tattoo (a half-sleeve) but the thought of being accosted by strangers a whole lot is giving me pause. This is exactly why I never got pregnant!
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artsy fartsy posted:How often do people grab at you like that? I've been planning my first tattoo (a half-sleeve) but the thought of being accosted by strangers a whole lot is giving me pause. I'm not exactly a large person, and I have been described as "cute" more than anything, so even with the mods I am the kind of person people like to stop for directions. When I was working retail, I'd say I got about three to four comments daily, about one grab a week on average, and once, a group of Japanese tourists who wanted to take a picture of me because I have a Totoro tattoo. The last one was cute, the rest are pretty annoying. On topic: "If you didn't want people touching/asking about your tattoos, you shouldn't have gotten them.  "
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artsy fartsy posted:How often do people grab at you like that? I've been planning my first tattoo (a half-sleeve) but the thought of being accosted by strangers a whole lot is giving me pause. It could have something to do with where they live. In NYC I have people come up to me all the time to tell me they love my tattoos but nobody's ever tried to touch me. Touching strangers in NYC is a good way to get maced.
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Jastiger posted:I did miss that part, but I still am bias. My cat does the same thing, will always try to get outside and then as soon as he does, he flips out because there are animals and stuff in the neighboring yards. So instead of running back inside, he runs away and gets under the deck or some poo poo. If my wife wouldn't kill me, I'd just leave him out there to die because gently caress an animal that tries to run away after i take care of him forever. Animals and humans both do dumb things. This is universal. I love my cats anyway because they are kind to me and we spend time together. Pod is back and has no desire to go outside, so I'm calling it good. Also, it may be my avoidant personality disorder, but - why do people think it's okay to grab and touch others?
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:It could have something to do with where they live. In NYC I have people come up to me all the time to tell me they love my tattoos but nobody's ever tried to touch me. Touching strangers in NYC is a good way to get maced. HOLY FUCK has a new favorite as of 00:08 on Jan 22, 2023 |
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I don't get my arms grabbed but I have a weirdly specific tattoo related pet peeve. I get asked about my arm tattoos a lot, especially by cashiers for some reason, so I've got kind of a quick explanation I give by rote when I just want to finish buying my poo poo and get the hell out of the Speedway. But my pet peeve is when people ask about the tattoos, I tell them the brief answer, then they say "OK, sorry" and sound kind of put off, like I swear I'm not saying it mean or anything unless they think its rude to not launch into a long story about them and why I got them and what they mean to me and everything when I'm just trying to buy my stuff and get out of there. If I had it to do over again I wouldn't have gotten them on my forearms. The questions combined with never getting to rock a short-sleeved shirt on casual Friday kinda makes it not worth it.
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HOLY gently caress posted:Nobody ever touches me either, they just ask to see them. I live in Sacramento though, so maybe I just look creepy Can you just write your name in yourself? Or go directly to a teller and explain when you deposit it? Also, Jastiger, you are biased, not bias incarnate, you sack of turds.
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lidnsya posted:Can you just write your name in yourself? Or go directly to a teller and explain when you deposit it? Yeah, I'm doing that tomorrow. Not holding my breath though, my bank kind of sucks.
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lidnsya posted:Can you just write your name in yourself? Or go directly to a teller and explain when you deposit it? Did you not read the rest of my implied sentence? I have a bias is what I said. Jut imagine I wrote it in the correct syntax, OK 
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Something I noticed a while ago is that women will walk into craft stores- the big fuckoff chain craft stores in the US like Michaels or something- take a cart, put their purse in the kids seat of the cart, and then go into the bead section. Keep in mind that beads are small. You can buy hundreds, maybe thousands, of beads without filling a shopping cart. I have seen this multiple times. The most recent time I actually came close to asking the woman why she had the cart to begin with. Not in a rude way, I'm genuinely curious. But she didn't look like she was in a very good mood, and it's pretty likely that the reason is so they have something to lean on while shopping because they are L-A-Z-Y. When someone finds out I am on Obamacare and starts asking me about it, only to be disappointed when I don't say it's horrible and impossible to afford. This has happened twice and they could at least pretend to be happy that things worked out well for me. Instead they just get kind of quiet. If it happens again I don't know what I'll do. I'm not expecting to have it happen a third time but then I wasn't expecting to have it happen at all. Maybe I'll just be real happy instead of slightly apologetic . . . And of course when my internet connection keeps going out. gently caress YOU INTERNET
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trickybiscuits posted:Something I noticed a while ago is that women will walk into craft stores- the big fuckoff chain craft stores in the US like Michaels or something- take a cart, put their purse in the kids seat of the cart, and then go into the bead section. Keep in mind that beads are small. You can buy hundreds, maybe thousands, of beads without filling a shopping cart. I have seen this multiple times. The most recent time I actually came close to asking the woman why she had the cart to begin with. Not in a rude way, I'm genuinely curious. But she didn't look like she was in a very good mood, and it's pretty likely that the reason is so they have something to lean on while shopping because they are L-A-Z-Y. I have health insurance through my employer now, but back when I was on the exchange I got great delight telling people I was alive thanks to Obama. It was a bit melodramatic--I'm susceptible to skin cancer and was finally able to get regular screenings through my insurance secured through the exchange, and my screens were negative--but I loved saying "THANKS OBAMA for my skin cancer screen!"
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I have two relatively new coworkers who have slightly different variations of the same problem, and they are both driving me up the loving wall. Neither of them can hold a loving conversation without making it all about themselves and what ~*~interesting, quirky~*~ people they are. One is a middle-aged mom who just spews story after story about her quirky-rear end self, though it's generous to even refer to them as stories. It's literally just "I saw a video of someone doing *wacky thing*, and I was like, I would totally do that wacky thing!! And my husband/kid was like, 'nuh-uh, you wouldn't do that wacky thing!' but I TOTALLY would!!! I'm just that stupid/crazy, I'd do the wacky thing." OVER AND OVER AND OVER, to the point where I'm 99% certain she is physically incapable of opening her mouth without telling some slight variation on that theme. Every single one is pointless, boring and loving obnoxious to listen to. The other rear end in a top hat at least takes notice of what you're saying, sometimes, but only long enough to say that he totally is/has/does exactly what you just said. A woman is telling us that her poor husband is home recovering from knee surgery? Here this jackass is to say, "I'm gonna need that soon too!" FUCKER YOU AREN'T EVEN TWENTY, you don't need loving knee surgery, and even if you do, don't interrupt this woman talking about her husband who just got out of surgery to talk about your own stupid loving self! Jesus! He does this CONSTANTLY. Whatever you're talking about, he either just did it or he's about to. When he doesn't have a conversation to interrupt, he resorts to randomly singing showtunes/Disney songs, or throw out random inane statements about himself/his life that nobody gives a poo poo about. Even when people are clearly, intentionally ignoring him, he can't take the loving hint. So, basically: people who are so vain/self-absorbed that every conversation has to involve them and showcase their unique character.
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Nettles Coterie posted:I have two relatively new coworkers who have slightly different variations of the same problem, and they are both driving me up the loving wall. Neither of them can hold a loving conversation without making it all about themselves and what ~*~interesting, quirky~*~ people they are. One is a middle-aged mom who just spews story after story about her quirky-rear end self, though it's generous to even refer to them as stories. It's literally just "I saw a video of someone doing *wacky thing*, and I was like, I would totally do that wacky thing!! And my husband/kid was like, 'nuh-uh, you wouldn't do that wacky thing!' but I TOTALLY would!!! I'm just that stupid/crazy, I'd do the wacky thing." OVER AND OVER AND OVER, to the point where I'm 99% certain she is physically incapable of opening her mouth without telling some slight variation on that theme. Every single one is pointless, boring and loving obnoxious to listen to. I know a girl who is exactly like this. It's maddening. There's no way to communicate meaningfully with someone like that. Your only option is to go, "Yuh-huh." I think it's people who were insufferably "LOOK AT WHAT A QUIRKY NERD I AM" growing up and got married really young, and realised that they are not actually special, and that especially, their relationship with their significant other is actually pretty garden variety. And along those lines, people who go out of their way to be identified as geeks. I don't mean, "people who are geeky". I mean people who say things like, "Only a geek would understand," or they're obsessed with like, prescriptive nerd culture. They all like precisely the same mass culture icons, regardless of relation to one another. Say, "the cake is a lie" and they start shrieking with laughter. People like that.
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I wish there were a list of lovely pet owners who are barred from owning pets because they kill off, give up and neglect then get more pets until they have demonstrated proof of learning to handle and care for a pet of their choice. Also, the neighbor's pit bull finally broke the fence down, and killed at least one billy goat down the way. I suspect that dog will be put down if it wasn't shot for being hostile on someone else's property. It's been fairly dog bark-free this morning, so who knows. I mostly feel sorry for the billy goat and its owner. And man, the people who do the above in conversations. Doubly so if they hijack a current conversation to do it. Edit: And in case you're wondering, the wooden fence that was up has been up and unmaintained for over 10 years which is why it was in poor condition and the dog was able to tilt parts of it over. Aerofallosov has a new favorite as of 21:40 on Oct 4, 2015 |
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HOLY gently caress posted:My boyfriend's dad wrote me a check for my birthday which I really appreciate but he just wrote "Liz", a nickname of my first name and no last name at all on the Pay to line so now I have to awkwardly ask him to rewrite it with my full name so I don't get hammered with a Returned Item fee. Maybe I shouldn't cash it at all? I kind of need the $50 though As a bank teller, it is also a peeve of mine when people do this because it sucks telling someone they can't have their money when it's obviously them (even if we know you, processing would probably send it back with a 'Why did you do this?' note). Or when someone brings in a check with absolutely no name on the Pay-To line, and then when we tell them they have to have the person write it in they ask "Oh, can't I just write it in myself?"  No. Why on earth would you think we would be fine with that. But the absolute most baffling thing to me is that multiple times someone has come in alone with a check written out to both them and their spouse, with only their signature on the back and tried to cash it. In this case we can't do anything without the other party present-- even depositing it in the joint account would require both signatures. And when informed that we need the spouse's signature also, they asked "Can I just sign his name then?" NO WHAT THE HELL WHO TAUGHT YOU THAT WAS OKAY
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New Saints Row looking good! New Saw movie looking good! New Jackass looking good! Assassins Creed 6 looking good! Speed Racer reboot looking good! Every thread with pictures has one of these per page.
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Aerofallosov posted:I wish there were a list of lovely pet owners who are barred from owning pets because they kill off, give up and neglect then get more pets until they have demonstrated proof of learning to handle and care for a pet of their choice. I'm really sorry to hear about the goat, but where do you live that there are goats sitting around? I'm not being facetious, I've just lived in the city for so long that this sort of thing is kind of wild for me.
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When I was a kid we lived in a barely-even-rural area where people kept chickens, goats etc., and there were always idiots who would let their dogs run wild and cause havoc. Our neighbor had several big dogs who would routinely escape and chase me & my siblings if we were out and about. There was a bridge on the main road to the highway, and one year a series of passive-aggressive signs went up on it, starting with "TO THE rear end in a top hat WHO SHOT MY DOG..." and the response "TO THE MOTHERFUCKER WHOSE DOG ATE MY SHEEP...". I don't know if the two ever managed to talk in person, but the signs kept going up for months.cash crab posted:I think it's people who were insufferably "LOOK AT WHAT A QUIRKY NERD I AM" growing up Haha, that's exactly the kind of person she is, and that is another pet peeve of mine. I mean, I tend to have really nerdy interests but I don't bring them up often specifically because I don't want those folks deciding I'm their new best friend. Also, people who find out you share one interest and think that automatically means you're into EVERYTHING beloved by "nerd culture". No I don't want to listen to you spew a bunch of loving memes and quote poo poo I don't know and don't care about.
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A semi-related extension of the nerd culture thing: I've been learning Japanese since primary school because it was the only language offered, then continued to through high school until they decided they didn't like languages and didn't continue the course through to graduation. I've been to the country twice for the sake of the language and what their culture actually is. As a result, gently caress anime fans, gently caress anime/video game conventions, gently caress Gwen Stefani's horribly mispronounced "Harajuku girl" obsession and gently caress the casual racism in every single ad for a reality TV show with an Asian contestant (I live in Australia so this is every TV show). I know, I know,  Something else I realised while typing this on a phone: SwiftKey's predictive text adds a space after each word, but if you type a comma or full stop it inserts it before the space. Good. Cool, even. However, it doesn't bother for apostrophes or colons. When the hell would they not be directly after the last word?
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cash crab posted:I'm really sorry to hear about the goat, but where do you live that there are goats sitting around? I'm not being facetious, I've just lived in the city for so long that this sort of thing is kind of wild for me. I live in a city in America and chickens just roam the streets. Sometimes they roam my yard and I'm okay with this because baby chickens are cute and one day I am sure I'll be able to pet one. My cat watches them from behind the door and I laugh at him because a chicken would gently caress him up, I have seen hens chase off stray cats that were actually capable of catching something other than crickets. Occasionally people here will buy a goat and raise it for a few months so they can eat it though. Roasting goat has a very distinct smell. Oh poo poo pet peeve. I just saw The Martian today and someone brought their kid with them and it was obvious that the kid has zero interest in the movie because he spent the whole film making noise, playing with the empty seats next to him and shaking the ice in his empty cup. So I really don't like people who bring kids to movies that won't just entertain them.
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Nuebot posted:Oh poo poo pet peeve. I just saw The Martian today and someone brought their kid with them and it was obvious that the kid has zero interest in the movie because he spent the whole film making noise, playing with the empty seats next to him and shaking the ice in his empty cup. So I really don't like people who bring kids to movies that won't just entertain them. When I got dragged to the first resident evil movie there was a man with 3-4 little kids. Probably under the age of 10 little. After the first scene where the woman jumps off the roof and dies the movie goes quiet as it transitions to the title screen. In that short break everyone in the theatre heard of the kids start crying and say "Dad I don't like this anymore" and the father hushing him loudly. Every so often you could hear the five year old whimper and the kids trying to get their dad to leave. Parents like that should be dragged out of the theatre and beaten out back while their kids get to eat candy in the lobby.
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Rolo posted:New Saints Row looking good! "[somebody well-known] has really let him/herself go over the years" is another one whenever a picture of somebody who looks vaguely like that person gets posted. I hate those canned ~Funny Posts~ so much.
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cash crab posted:I'm really sorry to hear about the goat, but where do you live that there are goats sitting around? I'm not being facetious, I've just lived in the city for so long that this sort of thing is kind of wild for me. On the outskirts of a medium sized Texas town. We're in the sticks enough that people out here have horses, cows and such. I am just kind of saddened by this whole thing. The dog deserved better (even if I am really, truly not a fan of pit bulls), and so did the goat.
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I wonder if I have anxiety because people who talk unnecessarily send me over the edge My roommate had a friend over while I was watching one of the last episodes of Breaking Bad. Dude kept asking me to explain stuff that had happened three seasons ago. I told him to shut the gently caress up and that lasted a whole five minutes. I finally turned the tv off and finished it off on my Kindle. I was so irritated I couldn't even pay attention.
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I had a similar irritation when I got the box set of One foot in the Grave and started watching it at home (I still lived with my parents at the time). My mom came in during the initial episode and when the character got into a funny situation she immediately ruined it by yelling "I don't believe it!" and it's just like, that's not an established catchphrase until at least season 2, and the first episode is actually quite somber compared to the rest of the series.
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cash crab posted:And along those lines, people who go out of their way to be identified as geeks. I don't mean, "people who are geeky". I mean people who say things like, "Only a geek would understand," or they're obsessed with like, prescriptive nerd culture. They all like precisely the same mass culture icons, regardless of relation to one another. Say, "the cake is a lie" and they start shrieking with laughter. People like that. I am super peeved by geek culture like this. Hello, you're still not unique. You're just obsessively consuming media that's not sports, reality TV, music or fashion. (Although sometimes they obsess about this poo poo too!) I don't even think the poo poo they watch is necessarily that much more intellectually demanding than some stupid ice-trucking show. What really peeves me is geeky teachers who bring that poo poo into their classrooms. Way to alienate the kids who had the supposition that you and your subject was already super nerdy. On a different topic, when people with loud bass drive by my place, I reflexively fantasize different ways of busting their eardrums. There's so much I hate about people driving around blasting their bass besides that it's loud, annoying and painful. Like, most of the time they have lovely, buzzing speakers, so it's not even good sound quality. The music is almost guaranteed to be objectively lovely, that is if you can even discern what it is. Go kill yourself if you happen to be stuck in traffic near one of these assholes. And then whatever the psychology might be that would cause one to be so compelled to share their music with the world makes me think they must be an awful person. Sometimes I just want to know why. Why does one need to do this? I mean, there's a time and a place where I'm down for loud music or bass, like when I go to a concert or go out dancing, but who the hell wants that constantly?
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Also, in my experience the catchphrase, in-joke or signature scene is never the actual best part of the medium in question, they are only the easiest to run into the ground with no context. In musicals it is rarely the "Signature" song that I find my favourite, eg in Evita I find the "Waltz between Eva and Che" and "Goodnight and Thank you" to be far more memorable than "Don't Cry for me Argentina", but pop-culture doesn't ruin them because they only work in context. Also there are other jokes in the Portal series that are much funnier than the Cake, Lemons and Space trifecta, and I don't even find the lemon scene that funny, due to context. The Lemon Scene is Cave Johnson having a severe mental breakdown after being faced with his own mortality via space rocks coating his lungs, resulting in an inevitable and painful death, that panics him so badly he orders his employees to force his assistant's mind into a computer and force her to run the company when he dies.
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People who leave trash bags outside their apartment door if it's nighttime or raining. You fuckers can make the round trip to the dumpster without dying, trust me. Or just wait till morning. Don't stink up the shared porch.
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Bast Relief posted:On a different topic, when people with loud bass drive by my place, I reflexively fantasize different ways of busting their eardrums. There's so much I hate about people driving around blasting their bass besides that it's loud, annoying and painful. Like, most of the time they have lovely, buzzing speakers, so it's not even good sound quality. The music is almost guaranteed to be objectively lovely, that is if you can even discern what it is. Go kill yourself if you happen to be stuck in traffic near one of these assholes. And then whatever the psychology might be that would cause one to be so compelled to share their music with the world makes me think they must be an awful person. Sometimes I just want to know why. Why does one need to do this? I mean, there's a time and a place where I'm down for loud music or bass, like when I go to a concert or go out dancing, but who the hell wants that constantly? I live in an apartment in the center of a small town, and people will drive by with loud music at like 1 or 2 AM, along with revving their engine or just speeding. It's always terrible music and lovely cars too. These days I am just waiting for one of them to crash or something while doing this. Also, people just parking on the sidewalk when there's no free parking spaces available, and actually blocking people this way too. Sadly parking enforcement is rather sparse and they only tend to tag people who have been parked in a spot for too long during weekdays(You're limited to only being allowed to park for a maximum of two hours during weekdays between 9 AM and 6 PM)
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Smoke posted:Also, people just parking on the sidewalk when there's no free parking spaces available, and actually blocking people this way too. Sadly parking enforcement is rather sparse and they only tend to tag people who have been parked in a spot for too long during weekdays(You're limited to only being allowed to park for a maximum of two hours during weekdays between 9 AM and 6 PM) Here's a fun one. Dumbasses on mopeds driving on the highway. I genuinely hope something bad happens to every one of these idiots I see. Thankfully the cops have been cracking down more on them lately. It's even better because they never wear helmets, or even proper shoes or anything so if something goes wrong they're completely hosed.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:When I got dragged to the first resident evil movie there was a man with 3-4 little kids. Probably under the age of 10 little. After the first scene where the woman jumps off the roof and dies the movie goes quiet as it transitions to the title screen. In that short break everyone in the theatre heard of the kids start crying and say "Dad I don't like this anymore" and the father hushing him loudly. Every so often you could hear the five year old whimper and the kids trying to get their dad to leave. Wasn't there a baby in that Colorado Dark Knight shooting? Like a two or three month old. The grocery store by my house used to be 24/7. Now they cut back to close at midnight, and are closed even for overnight stocking. Because come 6am the store is packed with people trying to unload pallets. It's loving bizarre. Are you really saving any money when people come in to get donuts and find they can't get to the back of the store because of a loving pallet jack blocking the bakery aisle?
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Weird fuckers with no boundaries. Dude comes up to me to ask for change because he supposedly lost his subway pass, I tell him I don't have change because I use a pass myself, and he proceeds to corner me for the next 20 minutes talking rapid-fire at me about his boring fuckin' job and how his boss yelled at him because he talks too much and how he wants to go for a ride in my car and hang out with me. Just because I'm waiting for the same thing you are and I make polite small talk doesn't mean I'm your new best friend. Holy poo poo, motherfucker, you're like 45 years old and hounding a stranger in his 20s for every fuckin' minute detail of my life and trying to invite yourself to my fuckin' home holy poo poo fuckin' go away. The only reason I didn't tell him exactly that is that he had at least 20 lbs on me and seemed more than a little unhinged, and I didn't feel like spending Sunday in the hospital if he decided my jaw was a good place to put his fist. venus de lmao has a new favorite as of 15:43 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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AlphaKretin posted:A semi-related extension of the nerd culture thing: I've been learning Japanese since primary school because it was the only language offered, then continued to through high school until they decided they didn't like languages and didn't continue the course through to graduation. I've been to the country twice for the sake of the language and what their culture actually is. As a result, gently caress anime fans, gently caress anime/video game conventions, gently caress Gwen Stefani's horribly mispronounced "Harajuku girl" obsession and gently caress the casual racism in every single ad for a reality TV show with an Asian contestant (I live in Australia so this is every TV show). When I was in college, I started studying Japanese because I wanted to learn a language with a non-Latin alphabet as a challenge (I had studied Spanish in elementary, middle & high school). During our first Japanese class, we went around the room and talked about why we were studying Japanese. At least two people in the class had seen Battle Royale more than a hundred times, and there were more than a few (edit for accuracy)people who flat-out said "I want to be able to watch [insert anime here] without subs." When my turn was up, the exchange went like this: Me: Hi, my name is YTM and I want to study Japanese because I want to learn a language with a non-Latin alphabet. Entire class:  Some otaku girl: So you don't care about the culture at ALL? 
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BioEnchanted posted:I had a similar irritation when I got the box set of One foot in the Grave and started watching it at home (I still lived with my parents at the time). My mom came in during the initial episode and when the character got into a funny situation she immediately ruined it by yelling "I don't believe it!" and it's just like, that's not an established catchphrase until at least season 2, and the first episode is actually quite somber compared to the rest of the series. 
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YeahTubaMike posted:When I was in college, I started studying Japanese because I wanted to learn a language with a non-Latin alphabet as a challenge (I had studied Spanish in elementary, middle & high school). During our first Japanese class, we went around the room and talked about why we were studying Japanese. At least two people in the class had seen Battle Royale more than a hundred times, and there were more than a few (edit for accuracy)people who flat-out said "I want to be able to watch [insert anime here] without subs." When my turn was up, the exchange went like this: My loving mother claims she thinks it's awesome that I'm learning Mandarin, but frequently makes ridiculously loving racist comments about Asians and "Asian languages". poo poo like "your eyes are going to turn slanted" or (when I told her I was interviewed at some cultural fair thing) "what did you say, [idiotic 'ching-chong' racist white person imitation of Chinese]?" Holy loving poo poo, mom, how in the ever-living gently caress did you get the idea that I would be okay with that?
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Bertrand Hustle posted:[idiotic 'ching-chong' racist white person imitation of Chinese]?" What's the flip-side of this? I had a Tiwanese roommate who I asked this to and his response was to peel his eyes all wide and repeat "E-I-E-I-O-A-E-I-O-A-E-I-O" Then him and his friend started speaking mandarin (in between laughing) with extremely overly-pronounced vowels all flailing their hands like New Yorkers. I taught them the song "Old MacDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O" and they lost their poo poo. One day, on the way back from the gas station convenience store, we saw some redneck climb into his beaten-to-poo poo truck through the open window, rev up the engine, peel out and speed off. His reaction was to sing the old MacDonald song and ever since then, that's been his version of "ching chang chong." Last time I skyped with him, he was back in Tiwan. He had a bunch of friends over and told them "This is Old MacDonald man" as he pointed at the computer screen. They pretty much died laughing. It was awesome. Sorta wondering if it's caught on, since then. "Old MacDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O" "With some NASCAR here, college football there. E-I-E-I-O" liquorlanche has a new favorite as of 22:04 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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liquorlanche posted:What's the flip-side of this? I had a Tiwanese roommate who I asked this to and his response was to peel his eyes all wide and repeat "E-I-E-I-O-A-E-I-O-A-E-I-O" Then him and his friend started speaking mandarin (in between laughing) with extremely overly-pronounced vowels all flailing their hands like New Yorkers. I love this
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