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chitoryu12 posted:This is believable, just not really a Crowning Moment of Anything. "Romeo & Juliet set in the 1960s" so West Side Story? Also, using blanks on stage isn't the poo poo that didn't happen in this story. If anything, the stdh is that they didn't warn the audience. Edit: new page, here's some weird poo poo 
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Jerry Cotton posted:This isn't made up. The US really doesn't have basic human rights. do millennials literally think that slacking off is a basic human right?
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Jul 25, 2016 16:42
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Ein cooler Typ posted:do millennials literally think that slacking off is a basic human right? Your employer not being able to steal your personal property is. Also, what's a millennial, dear?
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Jul 25, 2016 16:48
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millennials are the people who are always staring at their cell phones
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Jul 25, 2016 16:49
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I understand not wanting employees loving with their cell phones all day but the 'basic human rights' thing is more about some internal regime where someone is always watching you and if you do something as simple as read/send a text, they'll take the phone from you and hand it back at the end of the day. In the story it reads like they're all 'adults' in an office setting, not middle school. My 60 year old mother never puts her cell phone down...does that make her a millennial?
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Jul 25, 2016 17:18
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A phone is a privilege, not a right.
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Evelyn Nesbit posted:"Romeo & Juliet set in the 1960s" so West Side Story? Sort of? The drama teacher did this weird meta plot where the story was that you were actually in a 1960s community center watching the hippies and white collars put on a play to settle their differences at a time when the Vietnam protests are increasing tensions. Every real life actor also had a second character (their 1960s actor in the play) with their own backstory and connections to the rest of the cast. No dialogue was added, so it all got conveyed through information in the program and having the actors occasionally "devolve into fighting" during the performance. What happened in the story is that the Tybalt and Mercutio actors got into a fistfight after their play sword fight, which led to Tybalt's actor pulling out a "real" knife and stabbing the other actor. Then Romeo gets loving pissed and grabs his bag and pulls out a "real" gun, which he uses to "really" shoot the Tybalt actor. That drama teacher was a weird hippie. quote:Also, using blanks on stage isn't the poo poo that didn't happen in this story. If anything, the stdh is that they didn't warn the audience. I don't think I've ever been to a play that warned the audience that a gun was going to be fired, except maybe some theme park shows. Phantom of the Opera and Misery on Broadway both didn't do it. chitoryu12 has a new favorite as of 18:02 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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chitoryu12 posted:
There are loads and loads of equity regulations for if a production is going to use a real firearm, as opposed to a fake gun with sound cues. You're not required to post a warning, but it's generally accepted that you should, just like you warn for smoking on stage or strobe lights. Usually it's just a sign posted on the door or a slip in the playbill or something, but it is definitely a thing that is done. A lot of smaller theatres will also contact the police or the sherif's office ahead of time and let them know when and how many shots there will be.
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CannedMacabre posted:So apparently STDH stories ending with "Loch Ness Monsta!" is now a thing imgurians find to be the height of hilarity. Imgur people often find "black people" to be hilarious in a semi-racist way that I'm pretty sure comes from a sheltered upbringing and very limited exposure to actual black people. They are like middle-class people in the Midwest who loved the poo poo out of minstrel shows 100 years ago. Lots of internet memes come from this general attitude.
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Joey Freshwater posted:My 60 year old mother never puts her cell phone down...does that make her a millennial? No. Just a oval office. (my mother is 66 and will not put hers down when we're watching the goddamn Wire)
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oldpainless posted:A phone is a privilege, not a right. oldpainless? More like oldphoneless HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO edit: ^^^^^^^^^ BoyWhiz88 aren't you the goon who posted about working at Best Buy and talked about your Customers and Clients with a Capital C or somesuch?
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Evelyn Nesbit posted:There are loads and loads of equity regulations for if a production is going to use a real firearm, as opposed to a fake gun with sound cues. You're not required to post a warning, but it's generally accepted that you should, just like you warn for smoking on stage or strobe lights. Usually it's just a sign posted on the door or a slip in the playbill or something, but it is definitely a thing that is done. A lot of smaller theatres will also contact the police or the sherif's office ahead of time and let them know when and how many shots there will be. If they posted a warning on Broadway, it was easy to miss because I never saw it for two plays.
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chitoryu12 posted:Sort of? The drama teacher did this weird meta plot where the story was that you were actually in a 1960s community center watching the hippies and white collars put on a play to settle their differences at a time when the Vietnam protests are increasing tensions. Every real life actor also had a second character (their 1960s actor in the play) with their own backstory and connections to the rest of the cast. No dialogue was added, so it all got conveyed through information in the program and having the actors occasionally "devolve into fighting" during the performance. What happened in the story is that the Tybalt and Mercutio actors got into a fistfight after their play sword fight, which led to Tybalt's actor pulling out a "real" knife and stabbing the other actor. Then Romeo gets loving pissed and grabs his bag and pulls out a "real" gun, which he uses to "really" shoot the Tybalt actor. I actually kinda like that concept, far out as it is. I mean, I love standard Shakespeare as much as the next guy, but it's fun to see people reinterpret or reimagine it in a different context (more than just costuming, I mean)
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Friendquote:This troper is not a good friend. I know it, I'll be the first one to tell you that. I cannot open up to someone, due to my mother leaving me when I was twelve. I hate myself, I barely feel emotion, and I'm prone to depressive episodes where I contemplate suicide, murder, running away and other such delightful things. Everyone in my eighth-grade class stayed away from me, I was a little lonely at times, but I figured that it if everyone stayed away from me, I couldn't hurt anyone. However, there was this one girl named Helena, who kept sitting next to me in class and lunch, walking with me in the hall, talking to me, asking me for help on homework, etc. Finally, one day I snapped and demanded to know why she didn't just leave me alone. It went something like this: Sister quote:In the rankings of sisters, I am most likely quite low on the list. I often treat my younger sister by five years like crap, never really thanking her for all the nice stuff she's done (she once spent an entire night making me a very complicated and beautiful papercraft doll for my birthday and I never said thank you, for instance), making her work herself half to death, and overall being a bitch. But, one year, while I was in college and vowing not to come home for the holidays because of a (admittedly stupid) argument with my parents, they still sent me a few things my sister wanted for Christmas. The usual, Harvest Moon DS Cute, Super Mario Galaxy, Ni GH Ts Journey of dreams... And most of all, a hug from her sister. Even after all the crap I put her through, she still loved me. In tears, I packed a makeshift travel bag, roadtripped down there, and basically broke into my house using some old lock breaking techniques. And there was my little sister, passed out in the living room while the DVD menu for Nightmare Before Christmas flashed on the TV. I tackled her, hugged her, I cried, she cried, we woke up my parents, group hug. Best Christmas ever. Drill quote:This troper invoked this trope, and probably failed at it, recently. A girl named Roselynn who I happen to be good friends with recently broke up with her Jerkass boyfriend. She was, well, broken up about it. I walked up to her, and said, right to her face: Hallelujah quote:Though more a 'reader of tropes' than a 'troper', this troper just had to share one of his experiences in Germany. He was stuck in one of the narrow stairwells at the Cathedral in Cologne, with hundreds of people packed in shoulder-to-shoulder above and below him. Nothing was moving, and everyone was grumbling - right up until the point where someone started in with Hallelujah. The version from Shrek. He got about to the third line, when someone else joined in, and another, and another, and by the first refrain everyone in earshot was singing and smiling, their voices shaking the walls of the cathedral. The line began to move moments later, and everyone from the top of the tower to the base of the stairs sung their way down - and were met at the bottom by a solid line of strangers, twenty long and deep, cheering, applauding wildly, even crying. Folks from the stairwell rushed over and embraced family or friends that had been waiting for them, and the initial singer ended up being praised in about four different languages as he made his way to the door. This could also be a Crowning Moment of Awesome, if read that way. Oh, and though I hope I hardly have to say it - I was the guy who started singing.
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Khazar-khum posted:Friend "I don't have any emotions and that makes me really sad"
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I've visited that cathedral in Cologne and those queues are hellish and claustrophobic. If some twat started singing Hallelujah, that would have made the experience so much worse.
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Jul 26, 2016 07:51
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"The version from Shrek."
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Khazar-khum posted:Drill I chose to believe this was said in the same sad, flat affect that it's written in. Fat anime nerd awkwardly quoting a bad anime to a crying girl e: like a depressed squidward
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Jul 26, 2016 08:12
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ghost emoji posted:"The version from Shrek." New title.
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Khazar-khum posted:Friend depressing as gently caress Khazar-khum posted:Sister this didn't happen as gently caress Khazar-khum posted:Drill cringey as gently caress Khazar-khum posted:Hallelujah the version from shrek as gently caress
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Khazar-khum posted:Oh, and though I hope I hardly have to say it - I was the guy who started singing I wanna slap the smug outta his face.
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Jul 26, 2016 10:29
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I have a harder time reading these than I do reading about terrible diseases
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Geniasis posted:I actually kinda like that concept, far out as it is. I mean, I love standard Shakespeare as much as the next guy, but it's fun to see people reinterpret or reimagine it in a different context (more than just costuming, I mean) I agree, but it's not really something that you can easily pull off in high school. A better play would have actually explained the backstory of the "actor character" behind each Shakespeare character in the program or something so the relationships would be understandable, instead of hoping that your teenagers can have enough subtle influence on their acting to express all of it without changing a single line of dialogue from the Bard's original.
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Jul 26, 2016 14:48
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Whats different in the Shrek version? If it is different enough, why would ANYONE know that version by heart instead of the extremely well known original?
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Jul 26, 2016 18:56
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Nuclear War posted:Whats different in the Shrek version? If it is different enough, why would ANYONE know that version by heart instead of the extremely well known original? It's not different. Kids first heard the song in Shrek so that's how they refer to it. I assume by "Shrek version" they mean as opposed to the hymn. Hardcordion has a new favorite as of 19:07 on Jul 26, 2016 |
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Jul 26, 2016 19:03
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Christo posted:It's not different. Kids first heard the song in Shrek so that's how they refer to it. I assume by "Shrek version" they mean as opposed to the hymn.
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Jul 26, 2016 19:32
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He needed to specify it was the Shrek version for [reason], he didn't want you to have the wrong mental versimillitude
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Jul 26, 2016 21:07
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Khazar-khum posted:they still sent me a few things my sister wanted for Christmas. The usual, Harvest Moon DS Cute, Super Mario Galaxy, Ni GH Ts Journey of dreams... And most of all, a hug from her sister. What? I'm sure this makes sense somehow...but OP's parents sent her things that her sister wanted (?!), which included a hug from the sister's sister, the OP?
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Jul 26, 2016 21:31
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Her sister wanted that poo poo, which they mailed, and also a hug, which they did not. Tropers are terrible writers, that's all.
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Jul 26, 2016 21:36
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but why did they send her things that her sister wanted?
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Jul 26, 2016 21:40
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I think it's meant to be that they sent her the sister's Christmas list, not the actual items.
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Enfys posted:but why did they send her things that her sister wanted? They sent her the things her sister wanted her to have.
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Is this a dialect thing? because it barely makes sense. It has to be this: quote:they still sent me a list of a few things my sister wanted for Christmas so I can buy them as her present. The usual items were on the list,, Harvest Moon DS Cute, Super Mario Galaxy, Ni GH Ts Journey of dreams... but it's just so awkwardly worded.
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Jul 27, 2016 09:18
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Don't start trying to make troper tales more understandable, that way lies madness.
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jodai posted:Don't start trying to make troper tales more understandable, that way lies madness. Nah, it's pretty easy and can be done fairly quickly with little threat to your sanity: "This troper had a Crowning Moment of Awesome when a bully [3k more words go here]" is actually "One time a bully said a mean thing and I stared at the floor, trying to hold back tears. I spent the rest of the day imagining fantasies in which I brutally owned him somehow despite being ridiculously awkward and a big fat baby"
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Does anyone have that story where a guy and his sister go to the doctor, and his sister enjoyed every minute of it and pretended she did that thing with her hair?
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I've heard it used fairly frequently in Australia, don't know about elsewhere. I always get emails from my mum telling me to "send me what you want for Christmas/birthday". Same from my northern English Granny when she was alive. It's one of those things like "bring a plate" where extra information is assumed (send me a list of what you want, bring a plate of food). I always find it weird and jarring when people say "he wrote me" rather than "he wrote to me", similarly.
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Paladinus posted:Does anyone have that story where a guy and his sister go to the doctor, and his sister enjoyed every minute of it and pretended she did that thing with her hair? i got u fam quote:My mom called my doctor and said to him "What's the most accurate measurement for weighing?"
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What. How is that even a story.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:i got u fam Cheers. Fathis Munk posted:What. How is that even a story. Oh, but there's more. http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/wow-i-cannot-believe-my-mom-stooped-so-low.136316639/
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