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Hawaii is about 2% black but I think we can all agree thats 2% too much.
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I think I'll go relax with a nice cinema show. Something light, what's playing? Amistad! That'll get my mind off those scary Hawaiians.
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Campingquote:Going on a two-week camping trip to Colorado was character development gold for this troper. At first, I didn't get along at all with the people I shared a tent with, (one a goth who hadn't been taking her depression meds, enthralled with the supernatural, and was contantly afraid of getting eaten by a bear, the other a stubborn, spunky blonde girl who always wanted to lead and have her way, who I frequent had power struggles with) and felt a general sense of loneliness and disconnect from the other campers. By the end of the first week, some serious heart-to-hearts with the other campers made this troper realize she was being a brat and had learn to work with and open up to other people more. This revelation came at the right time, because the blonde girl who I fought with developed a painful infection on her lip from a bad sun burn. While now I'm aware she treated other people badly at times, I went out of my way to help her and be nice to her, and we patched things up nicely. (This is also when this troper started to become a Team Mom. And by the end of the trip, there were hugs all around. Kirk quote:Troper here was part of an interesting story at one point as the New Transfer Student and The Kirk of the local Power Trio. He then got Put On A Bus, and now serves as occasional Voice With An Internet Connection to a variety of people. He would think he was just racking up Cameos for the sake of Author Appeal, but he's recently found himself an entire Five Man Band of Voices With Internet Connections. His luck may well be changing. Gamut quote:This trooper has run the full gamut of character types from his early life up until he was 18. Being a military brat, the growth seems to have coincided with each move. Moves Alaska and Virginia I was a Cloudcuckoolander. The England move warped me into an Ineffectual Loner Heroic Sociopath. The Florida move turned me into a male Tsundere that very nearly broke into deredere side full time before the next move to Nevada. Nevada at first warped this troper into an Ineffectual Loner Cukoolander, but now, on the cusp of the move back to Florida, I’m more like a Cukoolander Jerk With A Heart Of Gold with a dream of writing speculative fiction books.
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Mar 30, 2016 01:16
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What the gently caress is a Cloudcuckoolander
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Mar 30, 2016 01:22
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Some special snowflake bullshit, I'm sure. I don't want to go to the Tvtropes site so I'll just ask. Is it just a site with actual TV Tropes and these goobers have to make it about themselves with a bunch of self congratulatory subheadings for categories they made up themselves?
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Mar 30, 2016 01:36
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goose fleet posted:What the gently caress is a Cloudcuckoolander WHACHKY!
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Mar 30, 2016 01:52
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From context (in these stories and others), I'm picturing a spaced-out idiot who thinks her ~~random~~ humor makes her interesting. TVtropes is separate from Troper Tales, at least now. Although all the stories in this thread were written by the users who generate the content, the main site excised that cancer years ago. I'm assuming these quotes are pulled from the big archive that someone cleverly saved before the ax came down. You can use TVtropes without interacting with these degenerates.
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Mar 30, 2016 01:55
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With each additional string of capitalized words I frown more. e: how about some good old-fashioned NAR, they're much less confusing quote:Whoever Said Easter Isn’t Egg-citing Is Hopping Mad 
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Mar 30, 2016 02:09
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I try to use tvtrops sometimes but every article is written like those except imagine each capitalized phrase is a blue hyperlink and you have to click every single one to figure out what an article is trying to describe
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Mar 30, 2016 02:13
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quote:This troper graduated valedictorian (the teachers had some convoluted reasoning for this), 36'd the ACT, 2400'd the SAT, got a 45T on his MCAT, and is not going to recount his IQ score because no one has ever believed him without his producing the documentation. He was, at the time, the youngest member of Mensa in his state. He graduated High School with a 2.01, and almost lost his scholarship three times during university due to low grade point average. However, the threat was never carried over because he made their scores look good. Repostin dis because it's literally impossible to get a 45 on the MCAT, gg noob that S definitely DH
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Mar 30, 2016 04:01
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Darth Windu posted:I try to use tvtrops sometimes but every article is written like those except imagine each capitalized phrase is a blue hyperlink and you have to click every single one to figure out what an article is trying to describe That's how I feel whenever a movie does the really glib "what whacky cons are we gonna pull for this caper?" scene.
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Mar 30, 2016 04:06
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goose fleet posted:What the gently caress is a Cloudcuckoolander I know being "cuckoo" is kinda old timey way of saying you're crazy but the Cloud part of it was added because of the level in Banjo Tooie wasen't it? gently caress troupers if that's the reason why i never thought about it until now.
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:I know being "cuckoo" is kinda old timey way of saying you're crazy but the Cloud part of it was added because of the level in Banjo Tooie wasen't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_cuckoo_land It's quite a bit older than TV Tropes. Wolkenkuckucksheim
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Mar 30, 2016 04:24
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Dez Orwell posted:I don't want to go to the Tvtropes site so I'll just ask. Is it just a site with actual TV Tropes and these goobers have to make it about themselves with a bunch of self congratulatory subheadings for categories they made up themselves? Yeah. It's actually pretty neat to have a huge organized collection of various common threads/scenes/cliches throughout all media, but it also attracts the type of internet denizen who made Wikipedia's Knuckles the Echidna page longer than War and Peace.
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Sentient Data posted:I'm still just confused why everyone is suddenly calling them balaclavas instead of "ski masks" which is what they've been known as in the US (for the past few decades, at least). Is everyone so swept up in the fear porn that they default to a word that sounds foreign so they can make the person seem more threatening? it's because in Metal Gear Solid 2 they call it a balaclava that's where I learned the word
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Mar 30, 2016 05:14
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Sentient Data posted:I'm still just confused why everyone is suddenly calling them balaclavas instead of "ski masks" which is what they've been known as in the US (for the past few decades, at least). Is everyone so swept up in the fear porn that they default to a word that sounds foreign so they can make the person seem more threatening? Am I the only one who read "balaclava" and thought of the greek dessert?
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Mar 30, 2016 05:37
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Yes Because that's "baklava" Sorry for your lots
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Weatherman posted:Yes I hear people pronounce it that way all the time, though, so I can see where that could be confusing.
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Mar 30, 2016 06:02
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Why do Americans insist on saying stuff like "ski mask" instead of "balaclava" because the foreigny-sounding word is too intimidating/foreigny? Oh wait I answered my own question I sincerely hope this poo poo DH because if it is true that's creepy as gently caress.
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Mar 30, 2016 06:50
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Ein cooler Typ posted:it's because in Metal Gear Solid 2 they call it a balaclava Americans don't know the word balaclava except from a video game? Jesus gently caress colonials, it's the Queens English. Use it.
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Mar 30, 2016 07:06
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BrigadierSensible posted:Americans don't know the word balaclava except from a video game? Please don't put all colonials in the same basket. In Australia we know how to use foreigny words too. We just shorten balaclava to ballo because gently caress trying to pronounce four syllables without a drink
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Mar 30, 2016 07:27
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BrigadierSensible posted:Americans don't know the word balaclava except from a video game? if we wanted to call ski masks balaclavas we wouldn't have thrown all of your poo poo in the harbor and ran you out of town. 
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Mar 30, 2016 07:36
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Please don't put all colonials in the same basket. In Australia we know how to use foreigny words too. Mate, I'm Australian too. But we are convicts not colonial. And 'Seppo' didn't work for the joke.
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Mar 30, 2016 07:43
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:
I can guarantee you that this is not what teachers talk about. They spend too much time poo poo talking their bad students, and no teacher actually wants two kids dating in their class.
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Mar 30, 2016 08:25
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goose fleet posted:What the gently caress is a Cloudcuckoolander Its the name of a level in Banjo Tooie, Cloud Cuckooland was basically wackyland where nothing made sense. Its explained better above but the trope name I'm 99% sure comes from the game. Judge Tesla has a new favorite as of 08:58 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Mar 30, 2016 08:56
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Have people really not heard the expression "cloud cuckoo land" outside of a video game? It's a pretty common expression.
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Mar 30, 2016 09:01
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moerketid posted:Have people really not heard the expression "cloud cuckoo land" outside of a video game? It's a pretty common expression. 
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Mar 30, 2016 09:15
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Judge Tesla posted:Its the name of a level in Banjo Tooie, Cloud Cuckooland was basically wackyland where nothing made sense. Only about 2400 years off.
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Mar 30, 2016 09:31
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#JustPlainBullshit #SmellsLikeFreedom
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:
Children often memorise pointless stuff they hear on TV. My nephew, 5, have overheard some news report about drug trafficking one time (his parents are normally very careful about it) and he was reciting it for weeks in a lot of detail, incorporating it in his games, etc.
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Paladinus posted:Children often memorise pointless stuff they hear on TV. My nephew, 5, have overheard some news report about drug trafficking one time (his parents are normally very careful about it) and he was reciting it for weeks in a lot of detail, incorporating it in his games, etc. SSshhh! Children have always been revered as the highest in wisdom!! They're young so of course they're free of bias! They would never do something like lie, or worse, parrot back something they've heard from adult sources!
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Mar 30, 2016 12:17
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:
I think murder is too good for this guy
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Why do Americans insist on saying stuff like "ski mask" instead of "balaclava" because the foreigny-sounding word is too intimidating/foreigny? Oh wait I answered my own question This really speaks to the narcissism of the average teenager to think a bunch of adults have nothing better to do than speculate on your romantic life.
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As a teacher, can certainly testify that that poo poo doesn't happen. Furthest we'll go is the occasional idle comment that this or that couple of students might make a good pairing.
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Byzantine posted:Yeah. It's actually pretty neat to have a huge organized collection of various common threads/scenes/cliches throughout all media, but it also attracts the type of internet denizen who made Wikipedia's Knuckles the Echidna page longer than War and Peace. Wikipedia/TVTropes overlap. About Knuckles: " His reception from critics has been mostly positive; he has been praised frequently as tough and cool-looking." " Knuckles has a serious, determined personality, described as keeping cool in combat.[11] However, he sometimes loses his composure and gets in fights with other characters, and is sometimes shy around girls.[12]"
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Byzantine posted:Yeah. It's actually pretty neat to have a huge organized collection of various common threads/scenes/cliches throughout all media, but it also attracts the type of internet denizen who made Wikipedia's Knuckles the Echidna page longer than War and Peace. FWIW, the War and Peace page is now about 1.5x longer than the Knuckles page.
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moerketid posted:Have people really not heard the expression "cloud cuckoo land" outside of a video game? It's a pretty common expression. I have not.
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