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Eh, I'd believe it. Except the "I run a modeling agency" part. People get really loving weird about mixed-heritage people and arguing over which parts of them signifies them as one thing or the other, which is loving creepy in my opinion but it's extremely goddamn common.
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Noyemi K posted:Eh, I'd believe it. Except the "I run a modeling agency" part. It comes from people's need to categorize, which oddly enough is a trait tropers also share on a pathological level 
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Mar 17, 2016 11:45
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As bad as these all are, the thing that annoys me the most are the perspective changes.
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Mar 17, 2016 14:10
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Whilst around black people I use my jive talkin' trope so they know I'm "down with the brothers"
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Mar 17, 2016 14:18
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Nah code-switching is a thing.
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Mar 17, 2016 16:08
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'Yours in science'
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The "fake letter" thing has been done successfully. Unfortunately that spawned these unfunny copies. As for the "smart but lazy" thing: the problem is that "these tropers" aren't defining "intelligence" the right way. What they call "intelligence" is either "cleverness" or "memorizing a lot about anime". Just because you can quickly put together that someone saying something about a cat demon could be a reference to episode 48 of the second season of "Panty Dropper Demon High" doesn't mean you're smart. Being good at tests because you half-rear end absorb information or can "read" a test to deduce the answers doesn't mean you're smart. You're "clever". Like a raccoon. A common raccoon. I got the "you're so smart if only you would apply yourself" speech so many times growing up, luckily I figured out that I'm not very smart, just clever, and that being able to figure out the ending of every piece of fiction or read people enough to get everyone to like you isn't a point of pride OR useful in any significant way. If you're really lucky (or actually smart) you'll get a technical job that requires a bit of creativity at times, repairs or creation of some sort, and be useful enough to be secure in your job and life. But, at no point in time, do I think "Gee, I get jokes faster than those regular sheeple, I must be a miracle that could change the world." My mind is an amusing party trick, not an atomic bomb of pure awesomeness just waiting to be released by someone who truly recognizes it.
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Mar 17, 2016 18:49
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Ignoring the whole smart but lazy bullshit -- you do realize that there are different ways of being intelligent, right?
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Duke Igthorn posted:The "fake letter" thing has been done successfully. Unfortunately that spawned these unfunny copies. This is like that fight club "you aren't a unique snowflake" speech, except you just sound like you hate your job. There are definitely jobs and life skills that can use cleverness and the ability to read situations or whatever. The difference in the troper stories is they choose to believe that these skills make them good at everything and as such the world owes them something, it just doesn't know it yet
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Mar 17, 2016 19:01
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This is exactly how I saw this shared in my FB feed:
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Mar 17, 2016 20:16
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I like that we are supposed to take away that they stopped talking to him because they got owned so hard ,and not because he's a weird creep aggressively and condescendingly pushing his political opinions on their young daughter.
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Mar 17, 2016 20:24
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Ehud posted:This is exactly how I saw this shared in my FB feed: The awkward part is that you took a photo of your phone and not just screenshotted it.
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Mar 17, 2016 20:45
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Kontradaz posted:The awkward part is that you took a photo of your phone and not just screenshotted it. Did you not read the text he wrote preceding the image?
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Mar 17, 2016 20:51
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Kontradaz posted:The awkward part is that you took a photo of your phone and not just screenshotted it. That is a screenshot. Someone took a photo of a Facebook post on the Facebook app and reuploaded it to Facebook.
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Mar 17, 2016 20:53
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Ehud posted:This is exactly how I saw this shared in my FB feed:
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Mar 17, 2016 21:01
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I think that's a pretty excellent summation of the Republican party: Instead of actually helping the homeless man by offering him a job I am going to assume he's lazy and scapegoat him as I try to smugly win an argument with someone who is my intellectual equal. People don't enjoy talking to me. poo poo that is literally happening every day.
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Gymquote:This happened in this troper's gym class. It started off as a class wide game of volleyball (minus the net, which nobody in the school thought to buy). Because there were so many people, two more volley balls were added. Then somebody got annoyed, and spiked one into another person's face. Another ball bounced off the wall and through a basketball hoop. And just to make it a little more confusing, people decided they were tired of hiting with their hands, and began kicking the balls. One confusing session of basket-dodge-volley-kick-base-soccer-steal-the-bacon later, everyone in the class was sweating, laughing, and getting along, which was unheard of. To this day, the game has sadly not been rediscovered. Bucket quote:Well, not really Can You Hear Me Now, but his friends and This Troper love to screw around. One such conversation sounds a lot like Can You Hear Me Now, because... well, just read below. Beer quote:This troper officially hates beer after being tricked into drinking some. Her family owns a bunch of glass mugs you put in the freezer like the ones from the A&W restaurants, and this troper loves root beer. One day, at lunch, her father decided to put a dark ale in one of the mugs and set it at her place. Really, she should have thought about why there would be a mug of root beer waiting for her, but nonetheless, she sat down, picked up the mug and took a chug or two. Cue her pausing at the horrid taste, then spitting what she had in her mouth back in. Her father wasn't amused after that (but he drank it anyway, as it was a waste of beer otherwise), and she felt sick to her stomach for the rest of the day. She's sworn off alchohol since (and she's not even of legal drinking age yet!)
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Khazar-khum posted:Bucket beer is supposed to be gross. nobody tastes a beer for the first time ever in their life and goes "yummy yummy!" and the bucket one is hilarious in its earnestness. "This doesn't actually fit the trope but I MUST shoehorn in this lukewarm joke a friend and I made!! People interact with me!"
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From my hometown facebook group page: quote:
So much about this annoys me. The unnecessary spacing between sentences, the "please pat me on the back" garbage, the fact that anyone can take a picture of a 100 dollar bill next to their receipt and replace it with the real tip...and yet people lap it up and post about how they're crying, they just called their mom, etc. e: also where is the evidence that the waitress is even a single mom? yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 18:26 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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Mar 19, 2016 18:21
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Why is it a standard response for whiny poo poo like that to say they're going to call their mothers or how they're crying or even worse, "onions"
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Mar 19, 2016 18:27
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Love when STDH makes the national news. I know it's a lovely tabloid, but still.
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Mar 19, 2016 18:34
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Here's a weird Common Core protest story about a dude defending his daughter against The Man/school administrators for saying that 999 is the largest "number" you can represent with three digits, not 999. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-largest-number-you-can-represent-3-digits-nope-its-ed-trice It reads as a really poor humor piece that never heightens or gets its fundamental joke in. Saw it on Facebook; some people seemed to like it without being in on the joke (if there is one?) although someone was immediately arguing against it.
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Mar 19, 2016 18:58
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by that logic the largest number you can represent with three digits is f(999) where f(x)=infinity
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Mar 19, 2016 19:08
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Even if the math were correct, it is obviously a manufactured scenario that never happened - the question is, as the story itself acknowledges, very vague and it'd never be asked.
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Mar 19, 2016 19:12
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My first thought was to just keep increasing the base of the system. See, F^F^F is larger than 9^9^9 if you start using hexadecimal but you can theoretically create numbering systems of any base so...let's just assume that & = infinity. So &^&^& is the biggest number in three digits.
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Murphy Brownback posted:From my hometown facebook group page:
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Stroop There It Is posted:Also lol that he just had to mention it was a white woman working at a Chinese place the rockiest of rock bottoms
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Stroop There It Is posted:Also lol that he just had to mention it was a white woman working at a Chinese place It's kind of hilarious because it implies he wouldn't have done the same thing had the waitress done exactly the same thing but been Chinese instead.
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sweeperbravo posted:It's kind of hilarious because it implies he wouldn't have done the same thing had the waitress done exactly the same thing but been Chinese instead. Chinese have no expression or the ability to be single parents.
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Mar 19, 2016 21:37
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Murphy Brownback posted:From my hometown facebook group page: Am I crazy or is that a one person meal?
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Furia posted:Am I crazy or is that a one person meal? It's a little scanty but if each person orders one thing (and it's just the OP and the son) it's not unreasonable, depending on portion size and if they give you rice and stuff
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Mar 19, 2016 22:56
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That is easily a two person meal with some leftovers. They're not getting much varieties, but those are the prices for two full meals around here, not pints.
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sweeperbravo posted:It's kind of hilarious because it implies he wouldn't have done the same thing had the waitress done exactly the same thing but been Chinese instead. The great thing is that a Chinese waitress would probably be paying off her trip over or trying to support family back home, but let's give the white woman they hired to answer the phones the big tip. (Also STDH just from the picture, congrats on having a $100 bill.)
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This troper has been the subject of bullying for many years, but took it all in stride. After watching Dragon Ball Z for many years, I knew the art of patience and how to conserve my power for when it was needed most. One day when Jeremy, a huge bully to this troper, but not the biggest, (you might consider him my Freiza), decided to come up behind me while I was walking through the hallway to my next class and steal my trilby. As I went to get it back, he pushed this troper down and proceeded to spit in my face. I knew it was time to end this farce for good. I began my power chant under my breath..."ka......me.....ha....." Jermey told everyone to come see what the nerd was chanting in asian. "ME.....HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" This troper jumped up and shouted so loud that the Freiza bully dropped my hat and ran the other way, with the power of my force following him. After that, no one messed with me ever again, even this tropers Majin Buu.
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Boofchicken posted:This troper has been the subject of bullying for many years, but took it all in stride. After watching Dragon Ball Z for many years, I knew the art of patience and how to conserve my power for when it was needed most. One day when Jeremy, a huge bully to this troper, but not the biggest, (you might consider him my Freiza), decided to come up behind me while I was walking through the hallway to my next class and steal my trilby. As I went to get it back, he pushed this troper down and proceeded to spit in my face. I knew it was time to end this farce for good. I began my power chant under my breath..."ka......me.....ha....." Jermey told everyone to come see what the nerd was chanting in asian. "ME.....HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" This troper jumped up and shouted so loud that the Freiza bully dropped my hat and ran the other way, with the power of my force following him. After that, no one messed with me ever again, even this tropers Majin Buu. My life story
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Furia posted:Am I crazy or is that a one person meal? While I can and often do eat two take-out entrees, I'm never proud of it.
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Boofchicken posted:This troper has been the subject of bullying for many years, but took it all in stride. After watching Dragon Ball Z for many years, I knew the art of patience and how to conserve my power for when it was needed most. One day when Jeremy, a huge bully to this troper, but not the biggest, (you might consider him my Freiza), decided to come up behind me while I was walking through the hallway to my next class and steal my trilby. As I went to get it back, he pushed this troper down and proceeded to spit in my face. I knew it was time to end this farce for good. I began my power chant under my breath..."ka......me.....ha....." Jermey told everyone to come see what the nerd was chanting in asian. "ME.....HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" This troper jumped up and shouted so loud that the Freiza bully dropped my hat and ran the other way, with the power of my force following him. After that, no one messed with me ever again, even this tropers Majin Buu. 
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