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So many of these trooper tales are pathetic because they don't understand the idea that stories grow in the telling. My dad likes to tell people about the time he stared down a guerrilla fighter in Nigeria, and my mother swears up and down that she became friends with a girl named Female when she traveled Appalachia. Over time things go from "I grabbed my bag while evacuating a small fire at work" to "I lunged past the firefighter to save the papers from the fire started by IRA terrorists." It's not a Crowning Moment Of Awesome (or whatever), it's just Dad's Story He Tells After A Couple Of Glasses Of Wine At Parties.
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hyperhazard posted:So many of these trooper tales are pathetic because they don't understand the idea that stories grow in the telling. My dad likes to tell people about the time he stared down a guerrilla fighter in Nigeria, and my mother swears up and down that she became friends with a girl named Female when she traveled Appalachia. Over time things go from "I grabbed my bag while evacuating a small fire at work" to "I lunged past the firefighter to save the papers from the fire started by IRA terrorists." It's not a Crowning Moment Of Awesome (or whatever), it's just Dad's Story He Tells After A Couple Of Glasses Of Wine At Parties. Dad Left and I Only See Mom When She Comes In to Take My Laundry You have a good point though. I'd extend it further to just encompass "Tropers don't understand the concept of 'stories' on a meta level."
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Feb 9, 2016 03:12
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I would give anything to hear more dramatic readings of these troper tales
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Feb 9, 2016 16:09
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hyperhazard posted:Dad's Story He Tells After A Couple Of Glasses Of Wine At Parties. That's the best kinda story though. Don't lump These Troopers in with Dad stories.
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ElGroucho posted:I would give anything to hear more dramatic readings of these troper tales I read the thread from time to time, so just keep posting them. Once something particularly outrageous comes up, I'll do another one. Or just PM me if you want a reading of a particular stdh. \/\/\/ Hey, thanks. I loved your reading of the wrestling promoter goon's story, by the way. Paladinus has a new favorite as of 16:27 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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ElGroucho posted:I would give anything to hear more dramatic readings of these troper tales Pick a favorite and I'll whip one up real quick for ya, lil nigga e:f,b Well, it probably won't be as good as Paladinus's last masterpiece (because goddamn) but they're fun to do GOTTA STAY FAI has a new favorite as of 16:26 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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ElGroucho posted:I would give anything to hear more dramatic readings of these troper tales I'd like to see them acted out drunk history style.
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Feb 9, 2016 18:08
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hyperhazard posted:So many of these trooper tales are pathetic because they don't understand the idea that stories grow in the telling. My dad likes to tell people about the time he stared down a guerrilla fighter in Nigeria, and my mother swears up and down that she became friends with a girl named Female when she traveled Appalachia. Over time things go from "I grabbed my bag while evacuating a small fire at work" to "I lunged past the firefighter to save the papers from the fire started by IRA terrorists." It's not a Crowning Moment Of Awesome (or whatever), it's just Dad's Story He Tells After A Couple Of Glasses Of Wine At Parties. Honestly, it's kind of sad being a person who realizes just how (often unintentionally) full of poo poo people are all of the time. I feel like it would be nice to be the sort of person that just earnestly believes all the crazy stories people tell them. My dad has a bunch of stdh anecdotes like the ones you're talking about (a lot involve his experiences working at a hospital, for example "black people have the craziest names" stories), and the most political way I can figure out how to respond is to just nod my head. Occasionally I'll be in a bad mood and will say "yo that's totally an urban myth" and he'll vehemently deny it, even if I show him snopes or something. Like, he'll get into a defensive panic at the prospect that these things might not be true, since I guess he considers a lot of these stories to be an important part of his identity. I feel an uncomfortable mix of condescension and envy towards people who seem to perceive life as a giant movie.
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Feb 9, 2016 19:50
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NESguerilla posted:I'd like to see them acted out drunk history style. Please somebody make this happen.
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Ask and ye shall receive. Coat quote:Being somewhat a god of coats, I have a full length black leather duster I once used to hit someone in the face (We were actually fighting for real, I won) a knee length brown leather duster, basically Revolver Ocelot's jacket, a knee length Royal Air Force jacket actually from the 1950s (it's thick enough to abosrob shock damage when things hit me), A knee length black leather jacket (Max Payne coat) and a knee length heavy cotton jacket (Angel in his Buffy phase). When I got the first one in high school, it had the intended effect, and since I now live Oop north, I have constant dramatic wind. I can't even walk around normally without having the things flying around in dramatic lighting. Glasses quote:This troper has a rather fetching trench coat, black, with mandarin (mid-neck-length) collar. It has the special power of making goth girls aroused and making me look like an anime character when sunglasses are added to it. Tie quote:This troper's friend got an elaborate black leather trenchcoat in high school. The first time he wore it to school, he also wore a black shirt and tie with black slacks and dress shoes. Twas badass. Beowulf quote:This troper has claims to badassness via genetics anyway, but it helps that his father, a genuine Badass Normal in every sense of the word, had for the longest time an oversized duster that he customized to fit him specificly. The troper himself would also like to draw attention to his beloved Oilskin Duster, that fits in perfectly with the oilskinned hat he found two years later. That coat made the last year of High School that much easier for him, as it was the item needed to draw the right attention to him, even gaining him the lead role in the school's performance of Beowulf that year, drawing the largest crowd of students the play had ever drawn. Three years later, the coat is as badass as ever, still drawing compliments wherever it billows. Badass quote:This troper has a badass blood red leather longcoat. It looks badass. I need to get a Nice Hat to go with it.
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Feb 10, 2016 02:53
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I skimmed your post and when I got to Beowulf, I was hoping that you were going to retell the actual story of in the form of a trooper tale. I mean, what info was pretty good too so I'm not complaining.
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Feb 10, 2016 03:17
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I searched NAR for "theater" and my brain broke.quote:Coming To A Theater Near You: Gangsta Ushers
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Feb 10, 2016 03:35
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I'm guessing that's talking about bags [of popcorn]? As in, crappy paper bags that a theatre would buy in packs of thousands? I'd love to see them do the stocktake on that.
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MonoAus posted:I'm guessing that's talking about bags [of popcorn]? As in, crappy paper bags that a theatre would buy in packs of thousands? I'd love to see them do the stocktake on that. Selling the paper bags and cups is also the only way they apparently make a profit 
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Feb 10, 2016 04:54
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I'm glad that Nice Hat has its Own Page.
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Feb 10, 2016 05:07
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kimbo305 posted:I'm glad that Nice Hat has its Own Page. Just be glad they've quarantined it over in TV Tropes, otherwise they'd be forced to remake the "In Popular Fiction" and "Trivia" sections of the Wikipedia entry for "Hat".
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hyperhazard posted:I searched NAR for "theater" and my brain broke. Yes, this is good customer service. Throw a paying customer out because you refused to give him a 10 cent paper bag. Also leather trench coats look like poo poo. WaltherFeng has a new favorite as of 05:47 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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Feb 10, 2016 05:42
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Khazar-khum posted:Ask and ye shall receive. Honest question: has anyone ever looked good in a duster? I flipped through a few pages of google images and even the models look bad. Now, well-tailored clothes and a nice overcoat? Attractive. Dusters? Not in the least. And where do these people live that the things actually "billow in the wind?" Especially leather. It's a heavy material. And yesI know, I know, the answer is "they live in their own delusional worlds."
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MonoAus posted:I'm guessing that's talking about bags [of popcorn]? As in, crappy paper bags that a theatre would buy in packs of thousands? I'd love to see them do the stocktake on that. Every night. You can't count popcorn, so how the heck do you think they monitor for employee theft? And yes, theatres don't make money on admissions, just on concessions. Still didn't happen though.
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Feb 10, 2016 05:47
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There is a 100+ episode TY series called This Troper that's just people reading troper tales.
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WaltherFeng posted:Yes, this is good customer service. Throw a paying customer out because you refused to give him a 10 cent paper bag. Hey, I'll put on a heavy animal skin that doesn't breathe. *farts* *trench coat funnels fart smell up to the collar, as farts rise, exposing wearer to concentrated fart stench*
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Avenging_Mikon posted:You can't count popcorn, so how the heck do you think they monitor for employee theft? You could measure bags sold against amount of corn popped or how much is left by weight or volume. If unpopped corn comes in set weight containers you could weigh any open containers. Having never worked at a cinema snack shop so maybe I don't really know how it works but I've worked with plenty of other kinds of businesses to organise their stocktakes. Counting the bags would seem to me to be the least accurate and most tedious way to measure wastage/theft. Anyway, I'm giving it too much thought.
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MonoAus posted:You could measure bags sold against amount of corn popped or how much is left by weight or volume. If unpopped corn comes in set weight containers you could weigh any open containers. Bags come packaged by the hundred, with 10 packages of bags to the box, maybe, open one package, split between two popcorn stations. Replenish bags as needed. At end of night, count number of boxes, then number of packages in open box, and number of empties by the stations. If number of bags that are missing from stations is equal to number of popcorns sold, per register report, within a margin of error for waste, you're good. Example: Start day with 10 boxes, 8 packages, 35 single bags at stations. End day with 10 boxes, 7 packages, 30 single bags. Register report says 104 popcorns sold. We wasted a bag, or someone miscounted. Good enough. The count takes like 2 minutes, no crazy volume calculations, no weighing popcorn, etc. Anil Dikshit has a new favorite as of 06:59 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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TheMadMilkman posted:Honest question: has anyone ever looked good in a duster? They're not supposed to look good. They're for keeping the dust off your regular clothes while you're riding your horse across the American West.
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Yes, I understand how counting the bags would work but this seems to be a stupid way to do it. I'll try not to continue this derail any longer but what if bags are misplaced? What if each station was delivered different amounts of bags at the start of the shift? Then it would require a start and end count. What if different staff members fill bags to different levels? What if bags get damaged and are thrown away? What if popcorn is spilt on the floor but not marked as waste? What if packs don't come in 10's or easy to count numbers? If multiple staff had to count up to 100 bags twice a day do you think it's likely they may miscount a little? To me there are too many issues with this way of stocktaking. What you're interested in knowing is how much popcorn you've lost compared to how much you've sold. Popped and unsold popcorn is waste, so really you just want to know how much corn you've used. Its much easier to see you've used half a bag (or whatever) of corn than it is to make sure you've counted 1452 paper bags. If staff really wanted to steal popcorn obviously the way to do it would be to bring in your own bag because nobody is actually checking amount sold to what is left. But if you guys are saying that's the common practice then whatever, you know better than me. I'm quite surprised this is the STH part of the STDH story though.
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What the hell does "a team of gangsta ushers" even mean? Is the writer calling them that instead of black? Would seem to be on par with the causal racism they put into these stories.
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Byzantine posted:They're not supposed to look good. They're for keeping the dust off your regular clothes while you're riding your horse across the American West. And also to keep you from getting completely impaled on cactus when your horse inevitably throws you when it thinks it sees a snake. Definitely the least classy, most utilitarian piece of clothing these people have.
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MonoAus posted:Yes, I understand how counting the bags would work but this seems to be a stupid way to do it. Each full bag of popcorn costs the theater almost nothing. They really don't give a poo poo about whether the popcorn or the bags get wasted. They ARE employing teenagers, though, and teenagers can be super-careless. If they think the popcorn is worthless, they'll give it away to their friends, who almost definitely are repeat customers. If the snack bar kid gives each of his 8 friends a free 5$ bag of popcorn when they come each week, that's $2080 the theater doesn't realize. If the theater pretends they give a poo poo and counts the bags each night, which takes 2 goddamn minutes at 8.00 an hour, and this causes the snack bar kid to not give away 416 bags of popcorn, then the theater has spent pennies to make 2080 dollars.
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moosecow333 posted:What the hell does "a team of gangsta ushers" even mean? Is the writer calling them that instead of black? Would seem to be on par with the causal racism they put into these stories. I think they just wanted to note that the ushers were cool and not afraid.
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MonoAus posted:Yes, I understand how counting the bags would work but this seems to be a stupid way to do it. Do you know what popcorn costs? Basically nothing. At work we have a popcorn machine and a $2 bag of kernels lasts 20+ people several weeks. And that's buying the smallest bag, I can only imagine how little theatres pay for popcorn. The legit waste (popped but not sold, spilled, eaten by staff, etc) can't add up to more than a few bucks per year, if that. They don't give a poo poo about the popcorn itself, which is why most theatres will give free popcorn refills if you bring the bag back. The bags also cost nothing. They're disposable, lovely paper, bought in bulk. They don't actually give a poo poo about either one, but it's easier to count bags than it is to count popcorn (especially since, as you said, there are so many variables). And the reason they do it at all is because they know the staff are minimum wage teenagers who give even less of a poo poo than they do, and counting bags and making staff responsible for the count prevents them from just giving out tons of bags to their friends when they come in. The cost of the lost bags/popcorn is negligible, but when the markup is like 10 000%, the cost of the lost sales is enormous. As for bringing in your own bag, that would be super obvious given that the paper bags are all identical. They count cups for the same reason. e:f,b, although: kizudarake posted:If the theater pretends they give a poo poo and counts the bags each night, which takes 2 goddamn minutes at 8.00 an hour, and this causes the snack bar kid to not give away 416 bags of popcorn, then the theater has spent pennies to make 2080 dollars. Just to be pedantic, the kids probably won't actually buy as much as they would eat for free. Even if it's 1/2 or 1/4 as much, though, it adds up to a pile of money when multiplied across dozens of employees. EKDS5k has a new favorite as of 07:42 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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Khazar-khum posted:Ask and ye shall receive. This troper wore a leather duster coat for about a year when he was 17 and the Matrix had just come out. It looked stupid and most people would stare at him like he was weird. He then wised up and threw it away. I guarantee every instance of "I looked cool and everybody thought so" is the writer compensating for what actually happened, which is "people thought I looked stupid and weren't shy about saying so."
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TheMadMilkman posted:Honest question: has anyone ever looked good in a duster? I flipped through a few pages of google images and even the models look bad.    and no  Also, insert Mac(Always Sunny)into whichever category you see fit content: quote:Needs A Price And Attitude Adjustment
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This story was poo poo and at least twice as long as it should have been uuuuugh
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That doesn't sound untrue but I have no idea why they decided to type it out. Retail workers really like to loving whine on the internet. Service industry too. Every time one of them gets stuck in some mildly undesirable situation it's like they just got black lung from working in the coal mines or some poo poo and have to write an expose about it.
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Let's see what's in this category... Creep quote:Pretty much the entire attitude of this troper's high school. Whenever a guy tries to be nice, the first assumption is that he's trying to get in the girl's pants through flattery. Which is unfortunate, as this troper, unlike most of his male schoolmates (who are either party boys, freaks, or nerds who think that making a bunch of sarcastic pop culture references makes them automatically funny), demonstrates much courtesy to girls and once said "Chivalry is not dead, merely mortally wounded." His tendency to refer to girls as "dear" or "darling" without any intended romantic connotations, merely either to show his respect and fondness for her or as a sarcastic zing, doesn't help either, when every girl assumes that he's a creep and pervert when he treats them like actual people instead of sex objects. It's fairly ironic, actually, that the guys who ARE complete perverts and are usually found at parties drunkenly making out are the ones who make friends with all the chicks, while this troper, never once showing any sort of sexual attraction, is the one called a creep. Manga quote:This (straight male) troper shared a lunchtable in his first year of high school with a group of people who were all completely unashamed perverts, and were loud and talkative about it. Every. Day. I stuck with it for most of the year, largely due to one of the guys being a previously known friend of mine, but their attitudes made me enjoy their company less and less and put me off all forms of fanservice for quite a while. When I tried to protest to them that their perviness was making me uncomfortable, they actually said that no straight guy our age wasn't a pervert, no matter how I claimed to be one such exception. Then I finally cut out a number of fanservice pics from a manga I read and brought it to the table, as a show of defiance. Apparently, since All Men Are Perverts. Fire quote:This Troper. I've been attracted enough to ask two girls to the dance. Both of them used the "I can't go" excuse (which is as bad as a no. And I never told them what day it was on, it was a band only dance, and neither of them were in band, so I know it was just an excuse) and wound up dating other people soon. One of them wound up dating a really tall, nice guy... who just happens to light his room on fire for fun and have a seriously messed up family. Judging from the conversations I hear from the other one, the boy she is dating (who I sort of knew) believes that females are inferior to males and is generally an rear end, but for some reason the girl doesn't know she still likes him. I still hope the second girl follows through on her promise that she would dump him if he keeps being an rear end, but I doubt it. Movie quote:This troper inevitably falls, and falls hard for just about every girl I meet. I am also 19 going on twenty and have never had a single girlfriend or even a date. This has little to do with how shy and reserved I am, but due to the fact that every single girl I meet already has a boyfriend, with three exceptions. The first was a friend, who after I worked up the courage to ask her out, told me she didn't think it would work, thought I was weird, and got a boyfriend six days later, which was just a coincidence, they would have gotten together then even if they didn't know me. The second was a friend, who after I worked up the courage to ask her out, told me she didn't think it would work, thought I was weird, and got a boyfriend six days later, which was just a coincidence, they would have gotten together then even if they didn't know me. The third was a close friend who I acknowledged was an incredible person without having feelings for her. Of course, this eventually changed and I fell madly in love with her after a 'romantic incident' at her birthday and decided to ask her out on my birthday a few weeks later. I did and she told me that she had gotten a boyfriend only the day before but that she had feelings for me too and we shared a kiss (it was only my second). After sorting it out and going back to be friends things became weird. And after a while I realised that it was because I was still in love with her. I decided to tell her what she really means to me again, but then she left to go overseas to Canada for six months. More on this story as it continues. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest and I will be making this into a movie shortly. Japan quote:This troper has had unending amounts of bad luck when it comes to relationships. I'm almost 20, and I've never had a date in my life. The first girl that I liked, I developed a crush on in the 9th or 10th grade, and pined after until graduation. Somehow, during that time, the entire school found out that I liked her, even though I never even told anyone. I finally worked up the courage to try to ask her out... and she's refused to speak to me ever since. Then, this year things got even worse. Once I arrived at college, I developed a bit of a crush on a girl who lived in the room next to mine. I discovered that she had a boyfriend already, and gave up hope, until one day, I saw her sobbing into her phone. Apparently her boyfriend had just broke up with her out of no-where. I thought I might have a chance if I waited a few months... but then one day, not a week later, her roomie came storming into my room and, in essence told me to stop talking to her roomie because she didn't really like me that much, but didn't want to hurt my feelings. I guess her roomie had no such qualms. 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quote:At the moment, I've developed a bit of a soft spot for a student here from Japan, but I doubt that it'll go anywhere.I will update this as things progress. I know troper tales are the epitome of unwarranted self importance but holy poo poo 1) who could possibly care and 2)aren't they anonymous anyways
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Khazar-khum posted:Let's see what's in this category... I don't understand this one.
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I don't know if I find it more annoying when they don't go to a lot of effort to make these things look authentic, or when they do. 
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Blurred posted:I don't know if I find it more annoying when they don't go to a lot of effort to make these things look authentic, or when they do. This actually happened to me post.
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