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Dr_Amazing posted:Trigger warnings are fine. 99% of the time they were on blogs for rape survivors or people who might appreciate advance warning of some types of content. Then other people saw them and said "I've never felt bad after reading about something!! What a dumb idea!" Started off with a genuine desire to not give people panic attacks  Now we're here. The cutest trigger warning I've ever seen on tumblr was people putting them on food because it was Ramadan at the time. 
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Less cute was the backlash of that where people said it was offensive to tag food for Ramadan as it implied that Muslims didn't have the restraint to not eat food if they saw photos of it. Tumblr! 
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Feb 7, 2016 02:54
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Thin Privilege posted:Yeah in the right context they're good. But these days for every 1 situation where it's warranted there's like 5,000 posts where it's like TW: phone! "I texted Max today!" TW: eating disorder "I ate food today!" Is this really a thing people do? I'm not a tumblr person, but I think I've only ever come across like 4 trigger warnings in my life and they were all in places that made sense.
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Feb 7, 2016 07:06
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I appreciate it when people warn me about true stories wherein a pet gets abused or killed. I wouldn't say it's a trigger,, but it's the sort of thing that I'll randomly think about days, weeks or months later and upset myself over.  When I was in middle school, I was telling some kid how good my sister was at gymnastics before her back surgery. Another girl informed me that couldn't possibly be true since gymnasts are very tall and my sister was only 5'1". I would have chalked it up to an honest mistake if she hadn't interjected herself into the conversation to call me a liar.
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Feb 7, 2016 07:10
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Roro posted:There are definitely some people on there that take it way too far. I'm sure I've seen a tw for glitter.
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Feb 7, 2016 07:56
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I heard a teen at Sonic say this: "If it wasn't for Green Day, we wouldn't have Avenged Sevenfold"
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Feb 7, 2016 07:59
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Dr_Amazing posted:Is this really a thing people do? I'm not a tumblr person, but I think I've only ever come across like 4 trigger warnings in my life and they were all in places that made sense. I'm pretty sure people mostly see them when they go looking for them in order to get mad about them. Or they see them reposted in other places by people who did just that, and see it enough to think it's more than kids and shut ins on a few random blogs.
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Feb 7, 2016 08:11
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"I wear a size 13 shoe, but only a size 9.5 boot"
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Feb 7, 2016 08:36
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why did the pomegranate picture get posted in three threads at once? it's not a new find.
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Feb 7, 2016 08:48
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:why did the pomegranate picture get posted in three threads at once? it's not a new find. PYF
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Feb 7, 2016 10:26
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Alaois posted:PYFP
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Feb 7, 2016 11:57
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Das Boo posted:I appreciate it when people warn me about true stories wherein a pet gets abused or killed. I wouldn't say it's a trigger,, but it's the sort of thing that I'll randomly think about days, weeks or months later and upset myself over. I had some random girl on campus tell me I was lying about having been to France because it doesn't touch the Mediterranean. American education system at work right there.
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Feb 7, 2016 14:13
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Len posted:I had some random girl on campus tell me I was lying about having been to France because it doesn't touch the Mediterranean. American education system at work right there. Heh, I had something similar happen when I spoke of being on the beach in Tel Aviv. He said that the no Middle Eastern countries are in Europe, so they can't touch the Mediterranean Sea 
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Feb 7, 2016 17:57
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One time I was in line on a busy day at an icecream place. There were some teens behind me chatting, and one girl pipes up with "Man, if I were a boy, I'd have no reason to use toilet paper ever again..." I'm just standing with my back to her all 
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Feb 7, 2016 19:17
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Choco1980 posted:One time I was in line on a busy day at an icecream place. There were some teens behind me chatting, and one girl pipes up with "Man, if I were a boy, I'd have no reason to use toilet paper ever again..." Makes you wonder how long it's been.
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Feb 7, 2016 19:43
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Who needs a bidet when you have a built in hose?
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Feb 7, 2016 20:40
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Sentient Data posted:Who needs a bidet when you have a built in hose? this isn't the lifehacks thread
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Feb 7, 2016 21:01
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Choco1980 posted:One time I was in line on a busy day at an icecream place. There were some teens behind me chatting, and one girl pipes up with "Man, if I were a boy, I'd have no reason to use toilet paper ever again..." Maybe she just has great bowel control and only does it before showering? Oh who am I kidding, it's a swamp down there. 
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Feb 7, 2016 21:05
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Dr_Amazing posted:Is this really a thing people do? I'm not a tumblr person, but I think I've only ever come across like 4 trigger warnings in my life and they were all in places that made sense. I think I've heard 50 people bitch about trigger warnings for every trigger warning I've actually seen. But then I don't hang out in PTSD/rape/whatever survivor forums or tumblr.
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Feb 7, 2016 23:56
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Intoluene posted:Maybe she just has great bowel control and only does it before showering? Oh who am I kidding, it's a swamp down there. imagine placing a Baby Ruth candy bar in your pocket prior to a couple mile hike. In August. In Alabama. Now imagine reaching into said pocket.
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Feb 8, 2016 00:00
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AbysmalPeptoBismol posted:imagine placing a Baby Ruth candy bar in your pocket prior to a couple mile hike. In August. In Alabama. Goddamn
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Feb 8, 2016 00:04
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A thing on Tumblr is an addon called Tumblr Savior where you can blacklist posts that contain a certain word, for example "homestuck", so if you ask someone to please tag your ____ posts it doesn't necessarily mean "this traumatizes me" but more like "I want to not see this thing so please tag it because I think it's dumb or it pisses me off or you post about it fifty times a day" instead.
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Feb 8, 2016 02:08
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Mouse Dresser posted:Heh, I had something similar happen when I spoke of being on the beach in Tel Aviv. He said that the no Middle Eastern countries are in Europe, so they can't touch the Mediterranean Sea With this and the other post, I don't understand. Why is it important to touch the Mediterranean Sea? What is the point? 
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Feb 8, 2016 02:20
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AbysmalPeptoBismol posted:imagine placing a Baby Ruth candy bar in your pocket prior to a couple mile hike. In August. In Alabama. Somehow, the fact that I don't know what a Babe Ruth is isn't necessary for this mental image.
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Feb 8, 2016 02:29
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:With this and the other post, I don't understand. Why is it important to touch the Mediterranean Sea? What is the point? Most Americans are incredibly dense when it comes to geography, and fail to realize large bodies of water tend to have multiple sides to them. I'm sure most believe that the Mediterranean is bordered by Italy, Greece, and nothing.
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Feb 8, 2016 02:35
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Travis343 posted:A thing on Tumblr is an addon called Tumblr Savior where you can blacklist posts that contain a certain word, for example "homestuck", so if you ask someone to please tag your ____ posts it doesn't necessarily mean "this traumatizes me" but more like "I want to not see this thing so please tag it because I think it's dumb or it pisses me off or you post about it fifty times a day" instead. tbf homestuck triggers all right-thinking people.
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Feb 8, 2016 02:58
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Intoluene posted:Somehow, the fact that I don't know what a Babe Ruth is isn't necessary for this mental image. It's an O'Henry style chocolate bar, except named after a baseball player. Looks like a turd.
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Feb 8, 2016 03:15
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Arcsquad12 posted:It's an O'Henry style chocolate bar, except named after a baseball player. Looks like a turd. Baby ruth's supposedly not named for babe ruth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Ruth
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Feb 8, 2016 04:58
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It's such a bullshit story to save face from litigation.
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Feb 8, 2016 06:00
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Benny the Snake posted:I wanted to answer this question more in-depth here.
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, was the simple fact that he compared himself to Superman. How he kept wearing Superman shirts and also how his home field played the John Williams theme. This became nerd rage, and I wanted to see Batman beat Superman. Russel Wilson wasn't Batman and going into this game I was hoping Peyton would be. It turned out Von Miller was the Dark Knight, as he was sacking and pressuring Cam was glorious. This little internal narrative of mine was helped by the constant ad presence for Batman V Superman. 
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Feb 8, 2016 06:39
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Alaois posted:I was gonna yell at you for not putting that in the Quotes thread but lo and behold! It qualifies for both threads, I think.
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Feb 8, 2016 06:51
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"Oh yeah, I'm part Native American too." "Really, what tribe?" "Ojibway. Largely Canadian, but my great-grandmother was born on a reservation in the south." "...but you said Native American." The woman is really nice but kind of dumb, and the rest of us at the table spent ten minutes gently explaining to her that "Native American" referred to all of the Americas, not just U.S.
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Feb 8, 2016 17:35
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Maggie Fletcher posted:"Oh yeah, I'm part Native American too." To be fair doesn't Canada refer to them as the First Nations? I've heard Native Canadians thrown around in the past too. Of course that woman probably wouldn't have known that either
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Feb 8, 2016 17:46
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Aesop Poprock posted:To be fair doesn't Canada refer to them as the First Nations? I've heard Native Canadians thrown around in the past too. No, she wouldn't have. And being that I'm not Canadian myself, it would have been weird to refer to myself as Native Canadian or First Nations (oh god, doing so would have led to a loooong explanation and a blank stare). In her defense, she waited around for me to get done with something so we could have dinner and was really hungry, and drinking while she waited to eat. It was just weird that she was the only person at the table to not understand the reference.
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Feb 8, 2016 17:51
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Arcsquad12 posted:It's an O'Henry style chocolate bar, except named after a baseball player. Looks like a turd. Isn't that an 'Oh, Henry' bar?
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Feb 8, 2016 21:05
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Thought of another one (though there's a fair chance this was just a really stupid, unfunny joke): "How's your week so far?" "Good. I just started training in krav maga." "What's that?" "Israeli street fighting." "So you're Jewish now?"
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Feb 9, 2016 01:23
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Aesop Poprock posted:To be fair doesn't Canada refer to them as the First Nations? I've heard Native Canadians thrown around in the past too. "First Nations" should replace "Native American" altogether, it's much less awkward. And I can't wait until "Indian" is never used for anything except the country of 1.1 billion in southern Asia.
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Feb 9, 2016 23:40
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Said by a college-aged student at a school where I used to teach: "Oh, I never pay to do my laundry. I just wear my clothes in the shower!" I'd like to think that she was joking, but it's been seven years and I still remember the smell.
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Woolie Wool posted:"First Nations" should replace "Native American" altogether, it's much less awkward. Dont quite a few native americans refer to themselves as indian and not really give a poo poo?
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