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Murphy Brownback posted:I've never encountered people doing that kind of thing to be annoying, but I have definitely known people who start using british pronunciations and britishisms, even sometimes slipping into a fake british accent after watching dr who/downton abbey/etc. In those cases I think it's reasonable to be mad at the person because they're doing it for such a stupid reason. Also British people are garbage and we fought a war.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:How? Even if it was true they made some kind of deal for sex in exchange for the date wouldn't he be admitting to prostitution?
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Khazar-khum posted:Pats Definitely happened: http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/11/13/7218461/patriots-try-to-thank-all-their-fans-create-twitter-nightmare
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We've seen this topic come up a few times in this thread so I was really surprised to see it actually (sort of) happen. LUNCHROOM LUNACY: ISD COPS INVESTIGATE $2 BILL SPENT ON SCHOOL LUNCH The bill was so old its manufacture predated the counterfeit prevention measures that make use of a counterfeit checking marker possible so they actually had reason to believe it was a fake bill
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What bugs me about this one is that "they" is an lazy and incorrect but really handy shorthand for when you don't know or don't want to disclose someone's gender instead of some fumbly thing like "the customer" or "the person" so I the first thing I thought was weeeeeeellll maybe she's lesbian or bi and friends/family read her stuff and she doesn't want to disclose that she has a date with a girl maybe? But then cash crab posts the followup where she says he's male and she doesn't have a problem saying so. So no, lazy "they" pronoun when the language already has a perfectly good one for that case.
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"Do you think girls can be fighters, too?"
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# ? May 6, 2016 01:23 |
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Wait, so she brought a real sword to this ren faire's sword fighting ring?
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# ? May 6, 2016 01:26 |
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The use of the singular 'they' is perfectly acceptable. If it's good enough for motherfuckin' Shakespeare it's good enough for me.
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# ? May 6, 2016 01:28 |
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I know I'm late, but regarding the extreme couponing thing- some people do it just as a hobby and then donate the food they get to a food bank. You get a weird rush, forty bottles of free mustard, a chance to help people who rely on food banks, AND totally ruin a retail employee's day! What's not to love?
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bringmyfishback posted:I know I'm late, but regarding the extreme couponing thing- some people do it just as a hobby and then donate the food they get to a food bank. You get a weird rush, forty bottles of free mustard, a chance to help people who rely on food banks, AND totally ruin a retail employee's day! What's not to love? One of those things is terrible.
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# ? May 6, 2016 02:56 |
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Don't be an rear end in a top hat to retail employees, you rear end in a top hat
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# ? May 6, 2016 03:00 |
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They deserve it, with their lovely pay and their overworking bosses and the constant lack of respect, those bastards.
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# ? May 6, 2016 03:36 |
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I think she was being tongue in cheek.
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Boywhiz88 posted:I think he was being tongue in cheek. You can't assume anything when it comes to posters on something awful
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RareAcumen posted:They deserve it, with their lovely pay and their overworking bosses and the constant lack of respect, those bastards. Of course they do, they choose to work at a lovely job if they want more money they just have to bootstrap up and get an education
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# ? May 6, 2016 05:40 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:I think he was being tongue in cheek. Oh sure, give her the benefit of the doubt. HOOLY BOOLY posted:Of course they do, they choose to work at a lovely job if they want more money they just have to bootstrap up and get an education They should be glad to have a job at all the greedy bastards! drat entitlement generation wanting their jobs to pay them so well they don't have to be working and on welfare at the same time!
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# ? May 6, 2016 05:43 |
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More gambling stories STDH from these forums:jase1 posted:I have been to a few underground games where I felt like it wasn't on the up and up but I never felt cheated. Just felt like if I had a big winning session I might get robbed leaving the place. The thing is with the underground games is I have to be vouched most of the time and the person who would vouch for me would be someone I absolutely trust. the group of guys I know from poker knows everyone else so if someone was sending players to a game that was rigged they would be blacklisted and most likely bad things would happen to that person depending on who they screwed over.
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# ? May 6, 2016 06:17 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:Also British people are garbage and we fought a war. Sadly, we lost e: Oh you were talking about the US-UK thing back in the year knockwurst and sausage 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 07:58 on May 6, 2016 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:One of those things is terrible. Mustard is bad but I wouldn't say it's terrible
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# ? May 6, 2016 07:57 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:Mustard is bad but I wouldn't say it's terrible That depends, are we talking yellow mustard? Because yellow mustard is terrible. But poo poo like Grey Poupon or Colman's or whatever? Fantastic.
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Oh god I don't give a poo poo.
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# ? May 6, 2016 09:12 |
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Your mustard is a piece of poo poo regardless.
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Your Condiment Sucks
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# ? May 6, 2016 09:18 |
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kizudarake posted:More gambling stories STDH from these forums: "911? Our illegal high stakes poker game has just been robbed."
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# ? May 6, 2016 12:09 |
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I was loving joking. I've likely worked more retail than any of you.
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kizudarake posted:More gambling stories STDH from these forums: RNG posted:"911? Our illegal high stakes poker game has just been robbed." Imaduck has a new favorite as of 17:03 on May 6, 2016 |
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Imaduck posted:I'm not sure what you find so unbelievable about this. Home games getting robbed isn't that uncommon. I know several folks with similar stories It's more the fact that that particular guy has posted countless thrilling stories about his gambling adventures for years and always "remembers" a new one when the thread is slowing down. It's either fiction or embellished retellings of his and other peoples' stories.
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# ? May 6, 2016 17:09 |
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If you gamble a lot, you meet a lot of interesting people in interesting situations. It's part of what makes gambling fun and sometimes terrifying. This is doubly true if you're hustling people. I wouldn't be surprised if he's embellishing / misremembering / retelling others' stories, but there's enough realness in there that a lot of the situations seem true enough. Also, I'm pretty sure he told this same story before, so at least he's consistent if he's making it up?
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# ? May 6, 2016 19:42 |
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My favorite part of tumblr, reddit, or a/t stdh is the pretzel like twists people who got tricked go through to justify why they didn't catch on to the liar's bullshit. "Well, you see, if this happened on the day of the solstice, during a leap year, while the participant was wearing green socks then it could have happened, and nobody ever lies on the Internet. Plus this one piece sounds legit, so how DARE you say this guy is making poo poo up!" It's just always so grossly convoluted and I love it every time. Please keep it coming. Just source your quotes next time so we know where they came from Imaduck.
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He could be like me and have a large text file filled with bullshit stories. Like so:quote:In August 1985, the NFL and NBA co-sponsored an “Annual Sportsball Crossover Event”, where the LA Lakers were pitted against the Dallas Cowboys in a stadium that was half football, half basketball. One of the players on the Lakers’ side, sportsballman Carl Johnson, was the only player on the team adept enough to manipulate a football to the same degree of precision as he could a basketball. Tragedy struck, however, when Johnson was struck by a charging lineman (Tommy “The Train” Krichevsky) in the middle of a big sports ball maneuver.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Your mustard is a piece of poo poo regardless. Nope. Stone ground jalapeno mustard is awesome. bringmyfishback posted:I was loving joking. I've likely worked more retail than any of you. Nope. Pretty sure you are the wrongest wrong that ever wronged.
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Imaduck posted:If you gamble a lot, you meet a lot of interesting people in interesting situations. It's part of what makes gambling fun and sometimes terrifying. This is doubly true if you're hustling people. Well, I don't wanna do this, I have a bad feeling about it, but she keeps askin me, keeps askin me, finally I said okay 'cause I'm sick of listening to it. Well, we're picking this guy up at the train station. So we get to the train station, and we're waitin for the guy. Now I'm carrying the weed in one of those carry-on bags, and I gotta take a piss. So I tell the connection I'll be right back, I'm goin' to the little boys room. So I walk into the men's room, and who's standing there? Six Los Angeles County Sheriffs and a German Shepherd.
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Samizdata posted:Nope. Pretty sure you are the wrongest wrong that ever wronged. Seems to be the prevailing theme in the thread lately. Oh, well, more STDH, I suppose!
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RNG posted:Six Los Angeles County Sheriffs and a German Shepherd. It's a much better visual if it's an 18th century animal caretaker rather than a dog
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Twilightquote:I used to be pretty bad about this. I had decided my opinion about several things before I watched them. I finally quit it wean I watched the first Twilight movie. Agnostic quote:Once a friend of mine asked a second friend why he had chosen to be agnostic. For some reason a girl flipped out and started ranting about how people should choose and added "Why would you choose to be Christian?" and then said a lot of stuff about why Christianity was bad. This troper replied, "Yeah! For instance why would someone choose to be Buddhist?" The girl (who was a Buddhist) kicked this troper's shin and said (in a perfectly serious and angry voice), "It's rude to mock other people's religions, rear end in a top hat!" This troper suffered a Heroic BSOD upon hearing that and spent several minutes trying opening and shutting his mouth while pointing at her and making gurgling noises. Matrix quote:This troper's brother's friend's sister once complained that she didn't like The Matrix because they were always moving so slowly. Plot quote:"I hated the plot of Passion of the Christ, I honestly thought it was stale and overdone (Oh wow, the main character dies for the greater good of humanity, how many times has THAT been done), but at least the characters sounded realistic and they got the languages right..."
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I could see the second one being STDH, but the others just sound like "dumb opinions about movies". We've got to be at or very near the bottom of the barrel for troper content if this is any indication.
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Trooper tales are always at the bottom of whatever barrel you pull them out of.
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Darkhold posted:Trooper tales are always at the bottom of whatever barrel you pull them out of. It's like when they give mental patients crayons and construction paper to help them get out their problems, but in this case it's the internet and a self-referential vocabulary.
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bringmyfishback posted:Seems to be the prevailing theme in the thread lately. Oh, well, more STDH, I suppose! No offense intended. I have just worked a terrifying large amount of retail, ranging from health food to grocery to menswear to office supplies to a butcher shop to home electronics.
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Samizdata posted:No offense intended. I have just worked a terrifying large amount of retail, ranging from health food to grocery to menswear to office supplies to a butcher shop to home electronics. I worked retail back in high school and finally I said "f dealing with these idiots, I'm gonna get a desk job". So I got a job doing phone support for dial-up internet in 1998. hogmartin has a new favorite as of 20:04 on May 7, 2016 |
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