goose fleet posted:

hyperhazard posted:

My superpower is winning cheap stuffed animals and novelty bouncing balls.

goose fleet posted:

I'm pretty sure that guy has to stop completely every three minutes for another reason

My Lovely Horse posted:

I read an article the other day about a guy who plays arcade games more or less professionally; a lot of them have tech stuff like ipads and consoles as top tier prices and if you're good enough at the games to reliably rake in thousands of tickets, you can hawk a whole lot of stuff on ebay. Although it was on cracked, so, y'know, might be in the right thread for that.

sweeperbravo posted:

I was really hopeful that in the underneath line it would reveal that the person gives the tickets away to kids. Cuz, you know, that's who arcades are for usually

sweeperbravo posted:

I was really hopeful that in the underneath line it would reveal that the person gives the tickets away to kids. Cuz, you know, that's who arcades are for usually

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This Troper is normally quiet and has a friendly temperament but if angry has fantasies of killing people in rather...disgusting ways. But he has 2 such moments that stick out in his mind.
During a Life Management class someone had been pestering me for almost a month and the teacher did nothing to stop said pesterer. I stopped him by taking out a pen and stabbing him in the side with it and pushing so hard he lay on the ground in pain. What pushes this into the I Am Not Making This Up moment is how I did not get in trouble for this and said pesterer never bothered me again AND how I did this in full view of the entire class. Could count as Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
Another time was when I had Ride of the Valkyries as my ringtone and my cellphone went off. Someone told me that they would take that cellphone and shove it up my rear end. I looked at him calmly and told him: "My cell phone goes up my rear end; my pencil goes into your eye.". I pulled out my pencil at this point, a mechanical pencil with an extremely sharp and narrow metal tip and flicked the tip against my skin. He shut up immediately. Of course, I had been known around my school as someone who would not hesitate to eye gouge, bite, attack the groin and all around fight dirty in a true fight.

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Teachers adore This Troper. Other students do not. In fact, she's basically non-existant for all students. Just before summer vacation, she felt a bit more bored than usual, and mostly for the hell of it, unleashed a Xanatos Gambit on both her class and the other classes (around 60 or 70 people) that made them absurdly angry at one another, everyone suspecting their friends, and some teachers to give most of the class (excluding her and a few others) a 10-page report to write on the last day of school... which their grades would depend on. To this date, nobody has the least idea she had anything to do with the whole thing.

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This troper met school buddies of the lovely, cheery little girl he was dating, who explained how she had terrified her old high school class. This little waif got picked on just a little too hard, grabbed up a desk by it's legs and beat the poo poo out the guys surrounding her personal space. This is the one I bought a pair of decorative butterfly knives for Valentine's Day, and she adored them.

Khazar-khum posted:

Gambit

flosofl posted:

What the flying gently caress is "a Xanatos Gambit"? Given the nature of most of these "Tropers", I am extremely hesitant to Google this at work.

oldpainless posted:

The person gives absolutely no details on her gambit. Seems fishy.

tumblr posted:

I almost made a grown man cry today


at work I called out his coffee order and he was like “that’s not how women usually call out my name ” so I just blinked and said “I’ll try to sound more disappointed next time then” then walked away

bringmyfishback posted:

tumblr posted:

tumblr posted:
I almost made a grown man cry today


at work I called out his coffee order and he was like “that’s not how women usually call out my name ” so I just blinked and said “I’ll try to sound more disappointed next time then” then walked away

flosofl posted:

Verisimilidude posted:

I'm not sure if these quick-form "pat me on the back for this pointless thing I did Internet strangers!" are worse than the long fake stories that go no where. I mean, I actually end up reading these, so that negatively affects me personally.

bringmyfishback posted:

hyperhazard posted:

I don't know how to feel about this. If only there were some sort of commentary like "omg this is literally the best thing ever" or "YOU. WIN. AT. LIFE." tacked on at the end.

Jay Rust posted:

i can't even

canyoneer posted:

Why are tumblr users so odd?
Because they can't even

canyoneer posted:

Why are tumblr users so odd?
Because they can't even

canyoneer posted:

Why are tumblr users so odd?
Because they can't even

canyoneer posted:

Why are tumblr users so odd?
Because they can't even

Hihohe posted:

This

Tetracube posted:

the "capitalizing your senteNCE HALFWAY THROUGH" format is appropriate here because it was mostly used for bullshit stories when it was popular

Jay Rust posted:

i can't even

ThNextGreenLantern posted:

did you just

Eponine posted:

IM SCREAMING

sweeperbravo posted:

oHMY GOd you GUYS I CAn't eveN TyPe properly i'm FREAKING OUt

Hihohe posted:

This

goose fleet posted:

oMG YOU GUYS

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I hate you all

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I hate you all

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I hate you all

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I hate you all

Tetracube posted:

Verisimilidude posted:

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I hate you all

goose fleet posted:

Seems like This Troper just had his Crowning Moment of Awesome!

Absurd Alhazred posted:

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I have a half-aversion story. I had a friend in grade 4 who was violent, but also quite chivalrous - always nice to girls, ready to fight any guy. One girl worked out that my friend would never hit a girl, so she became very abusive towards him - mostly verbal abuse, but also throwing his food in the mud. She was a teacher's daughter or something (I don't recall exactly), so she never got in trouble for any of the things she did. One day, she tore up his homework while chanting "You can't touch me, I'm a girl!" He stood up, really pissed, and after looking crazy for a second my friend said, "You're right, I won't touch you." Then he hit her with a computer monitor.

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I'm in year 9 at my school, small, I weigh roughly 6 stone, skinny with glasses, short hair etc. People are aware of the fact I'm a Deadpan Snarker but aren't really bothered. They are still unaware of the time I heard a guy (on the street he was 17 or so. I didn't know him) racially abusing a girl about my age and I basiclly jumped on him, pushed him to the ground, kicked him in the head and refused to stop standing on his back until he took the remarks back. Maybe I should tell them.
Also, don't rouse me in a debate. If we debate in school, people tend to go on my side.

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This troper had a reputation as such in High School. There's one incident that springs to mind immediately. Now, for the greater part of the semester, this one asshat had decided to see how far he could push me. I'm normally a very calm person, and for most of the semester, I simply ignored it. I still remember exactly what happened when I finally went off. It was at the end of science class, and we were just filing out of the lab. This jackass had spent the whole class needling me, until one of the guy's friends eventually tells him to lay off me. The asshat's answer? "Aww, he won't do nothing." My exact words were "I've got your nothing right here," before I placed one hand on the lab table between us (roughly four feet high, and three feet wide), vaulted over, and flew right into him, tackling him into a wall. It too three of my friends to pull me off of him. For the rest of high school, nobody tried picking on me again.