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.

Farmland Park posted:

I don't understand this one.

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.

Khazar-khum posted:

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.

davidspackage posted:

I guarantee every instance of "I looked cool and everybody thought so" is the writer compensating for what actually happened, which is "it was high school and everyone looks like an utter toolbag while convinced they're the cat's rear end"

nerd plus rage posted:

I don't know if this is any good, but I recorded it so I figured I'd upload it.
http://tindeck.com/listen/meagi

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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

Khazar-khum posted:

This troper has a badass blood red leather longcoat. It looks badass. I need to get a Nice Hat to go with it.

Khazar-khum posted:

Here's a Real Life Troper Tales example, passed on to me by my old college room-mate, from his father. His father was in the navy, and one day his ship was doing a port visit in Greece. One of his shipmates liked to live up to the old cliche of sailors who get drunk on shore leave and try to pick fights with locals for the pure fun of it. This idiot also fancied himself a bit of a martial artist. So he got himself good and buzzed, went up to a small group of tough-looking local Greek citizens, and proceeded to do a bunch of amateurish karate poses, while calling out insults to their mothers in a mixture of extremely bad Greek, English, and whatever other languages he'd picked up a few choice profanities from in a hundred dockside bars. Too bad his Greek wasn't better, or he might have noticed the huge "Pan-Hellenic Kung-Fu Tournament" banner hanging on the building behind the locals he had decided to pick a fight with. Yes, he managed to find THREE random citizens who could kick a sailor's rear end. During the three weeks it took him to recover from his injuries in sickbay, his shipmates kept coming up to him and saying, "So...I hear you know a few moves of Karate, huh?"

BuddyChrist posted:

I love the way this one capitalized Nice Hat. Like it's a proper name for it.

axolotl farmer posted:

m'lady

axolotl farmer posted:

m'lady

Khazar-khum posted:

Ask and ye shall receive.

Coat


Glasses


Tie


Beowulf


Badass

Verisimilidude posted:

Verisimilidude posted:

Tunicate posted:

"Filled with creamy justice"

NESguerilla posted:

Yeah I def thought the donut was gonna have jizz in it.

goose fleet posted:

I'm pretty sure jizz wouldn't taste very good when left to fester in a donut for hours

rchandra posted:

I think our doughnut shops use a wax paper of some sort rather than tongs, that would not be enough separation for the hypothetical bigot.

cash crab posted:

The wax paper is also white.

Farmland Park posted:

I don't understand this one.

nerd plus rage posted:

I don't know if this is any good, but I recorded it so I figured I'd upload it.
http://tindeck.com/listen/meagi

Pulsedragon posted:

Recording of beowulf

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0WHt5uSVEmG

I feel like I could have probably made a better choice for the story, but I'm pretty happy with it.

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This troper works a mere six hours a week at a Mc Donald's as a janitor who cleans the lobby. And yet he can name all the United States Presidents in chronological order, and is working on a personal project where he lists all the famous people ever, by going to websites like Snopes or this very wiki, and looking for important people. What's the deal?

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While in high school, this troper's mother's fiance took her love of animated series to be a sign of mental instability, and tried to ban her from watching them. When that didn't take, he attempted to have her committed to a mental institution, going so far to claim that she was a cultist based on this and some other benign eccentricities. One of the many, many reasons this troper wishes her mother were more of a Mama Bear and less of a Love Martyr.

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his troper has given up trying to correct people about anime to the point when people ask about it, she blatantly rants "there are one of two things people assume when they hear about anime; it's either kiddy cartoon shows, or animated porn." People typically become a little jarred by her bluntness.

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This troper used to watch Digimon, Pokemon, and other obviously kiddy (and now that I'm older, horribly mangled) anime when I was younger. My dad did not mind at all. Cut to present day, and I'm watching shows like FLCL, Ghost In The Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Death Note, and my dad thinks that they're all the same stupid kids' show. Interestingly, when he actually sat down to watch some episodes of Samurai Champloo, he liked it, and even asked about some plot points when I was watching it again later. A Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming?
Is it possible to add a justifying edit to a Troper Tales example? Let's find out! Ahem. "To be fair," the first season of Digimon was probably the first thing that made this troper realize that there can be more to animation than cheap laughs, when he first saw it as a young whippersnapper, culminating in a total obsession with anime that will persist until he dies. His entire family appears to subvert it, to the point that his mother once downloaded a hentai movie (Kite, of all things) to see what it's like.

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Doctor Who. Original series. Seven months. Actually mostly read the scripts on many a Lost Episode. First Doctor was a bad rear end. Series self-aware of the screaming girlie trope as early as the first five seasons. Pertwee is kind of annoying. Dammit Jo, you're as dumb as a sack of bricks. Fourth Doctor best, hands down, from scene one. Hammy? Eh, not that much, not even later. Sarah Jane is supposed to be more than a screaming girlie?! Did anyone actually watch this?! Fifth Doctor is whiny. Sixth Doctor actually a refreshing breath of air, except for Eighties Hair. Last two seasons = refuge in artsy-fartsism. Series mercy-killed. Electric Pantomime Horse of Doom rules OK.
This troper thought the Fifth Doctor was the best of all Ten Doctors.
Why hasn't anyone made an Abridged Series? There is so much material it's ridiculous!
Actually got some nice funny notes down, but the video editing bit is way above my head (plus I can only do like 3 voices). Yeah, needs an abridged series like fish need water.
Seven months??? This troper managed a full binge of all Doctor Who videos available back in 1998 (there's relatively only been a few more releases since then), in TWO months. He was spouting Who-related quotes and repeatedly tried to travel through time in a postbox all through college, due to mild brain scramblage.

Khazar-khum posted:

Janitor

Khazar-khum posted:

Seven months??? This troper managed a full binge of all Doctor Who videos available back in 1998 (there's relatively only been a few more releases since then), in TWO months. He was spouting Who-related quotes and repeatedly tried to travel through time in a postbox all through college, due to mild brain scramblage.

nerd plus rage posted:

I don't know if this is any good, but I recorded it so I figured I'd upload it.
http://tindeck.com/listen/meagi

Fathis Munk posted:

I want to punch this guy *so* hard.

NESguerilla posted:

If this troper doesn't know "what the deal" is he has some really lovely parents and no health insurance.