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Leavemywife posted:I know this doesn't need to be said, but who puts their wife in their phone as "My Wife"? Not saying this dumbass zoo story happened, but when I got married, I actually did this, changed her name in my phone. I thought it was cute that when she called the screen said "MY WIFE" on it. 
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trickybiscuits posted:An reverse viewpoint: My employer shared a fake email from me on Facebook. Even journalists don't fact check these days, so good luck getting the social media manager at a university to spend five minutes calling to verify that you really sent that. The obvious answer here is to cook up an STDH from the student to a fake student bragging about having cheated on an exam, upload it to social media under a false name from an off-campus computer, then link the professor the STDH. Duh. If you're really peeved, instead of cheating on an exam, use the STDH screenshot to implicate him or her in embarrassing, illicit, or illegal behavior 
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Frenchquote:This troper once grew very frustrated with a student she was tutoring in French, because he kept complaining that it was a dumb language and he shouldn't have to learn it anyway. When she told him that at this rate he'd never be bilingual, he claimed he already was. This troper then sarcastically said, "What's your other language, Klingon?" His face fell. God quote:This may be highly offensive for some, but my nickname in some circles is God. It's because I like to destroy peoples faith in all that is good, especially where religion is concerned. Also, according to some very friendly Catholic priests, I'm a blasphemer and an heretic monstrosity. Lately I've been trying to erase that nickname from memory. Video quote:This Troper, for his middle school graduation, had to make a video and picture montage. The easy part was spending three weeks of classes hanging out in the halls and snapping random school photos, but then came the required "musical accompaniment". So, I picked Goodbye Stranger since I thought it was about goodbyes and it was on The Office. Little did I know it's about a guy who has one-night stands and leaves before the women wake up. Luckily, nobody in my class had a knowledge of Supertramp, so I was thankfully spared. Until I was told the teacher would be using mine as an example in the coming years of the project. Name quote:This troper once went to school with a Ro-bear Ri-shard. Most of the time people called him Robert Richard the first time they read his name. One day a substitute teacher was taking attendance and correctly pronounced Robert's name. The substitute claimed he had not heard about Robert before, nor met any of Robert's brothers. The class later concluded the sub had to be psychic. CPR quote:Sometimes Truth In Television, as mentioned up above. This troper has worked as a first responder and has seen human bodies mangled and in pieces, scraped brain tissue of off walls and floors, and been in rooms with the smell of blood so thick you could taste it in the air. The one time I lost during an incident was when I was performing CPR on a baby and was told to stop as the infant was pronounced dead. The resulting dent in the wall from where I punched it stayed there until they moved to a new facility. Pig quote:This troper used to live on a farm. Having been extremely gawky and uncoordinated in his teenage years, he slipped many times during the grueling process of feeding the pigs, horses, and chickens. Due to these repeated events, he actually knows what he's talking about when he says that something "tastes like pig poo poo." Whenever he's called on this, the standard response is "Are you really sure you want to know?" This manages to scare most people off, due to his Cloud Cuckoolander ways. VHS quote:Me in 1999: "Come on, mom! Don't buy one of those new-fangled DVD players! They are just a fad, they'll never last! Be smart and stick with our VHS player!" Answers quote:LatwPIAT has asked a few times. Like, how would you best kill someone with a newspaper? How to best hide a corpse? How to make chlorine gas in your house? He usully reasons his questions with "useful to know" I've also answered these questions from time to time. However, I usually give more specific answers that most people ask. If anyone asks me how easily it is to build a nuclear weapon ("Why would you want to know that?") I'll tell them exactly how to make one, prompting "Why do you know that?"
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Khazar-khum posted:This may be highly offensive for some, but my nickname in some circles is God. It's because I like to destroy peoples faith in all that is good, especially where religion is concerned. Also, according to some very friendly Catholic priests, I'm a blasphemer and an heretic monstrosity. Lately I've been trying to erase that nickname from memory. I... I can't... I just.. 2euphoric4me.
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Khazar-khum posted:Name A substitute taking attendance pronounced a name correctly as it's written on the paper? MUST BE PSYCHIC! 
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'I need to erase my nickname from history, so I'll start by sharing the story of how I got it on the public internet'.
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I don't get the Video one. Why would the lyrics and/or the meaning thereof matter one bit? What the gently caress was he spared from?
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Zipperelli. posted:A substitute taking attendance pronounced a name correctly as it's written on the paper? MUST BE PSYCHIC! There's an actor named Robert Ri'chard, but that's as close as this gets to truth.
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trickybiscuits posted:An reverse viewpoint: My employer shared a fake email from me on Facebook. High five for another AMA reader 
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Zipperelli. posted:A substitute taking attendance pronounced a name correctly as it's written on the paper? MUST BE PSYCHIC! Apparently his name was spelled "Robert Richard" but pronounced in a French fashion, so somehow the teacher pronounced it in an unusual non-standard way for the country the writer is from without any prompting. chitoryu12 has a new favorite as of 00:01 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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I dom't understand the klingon one. Is it a burn calling him a nerd? I thought tvtropes love nerds
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Jerry Cotton posted:I don't get the Video one. Why would the lyrics and/or the meaning thereof matter one bit? What the gently caress was he spared from? That's the best one, frankly, because the guy can't even craft a good fake story. "I accidentally used a thematically inappropriate piece of music for a slideshow, but no one noticed and nothing bad happened" is the most banal story ever written, but the writer is desperate to be a part of the community that he thinks is full of real stories, so he writes it anyway. I mean, at the minimum he should have added someone getting upset, a bon mot, and making out with the head cheerleader.
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Fathis Munk posted:I... You just KNOW this is the kind of guy who takes pictures of himself posing with nerf guns as if they were real.
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Tired Moritz posted:I dom't understand the klingon one. Is it a burn calling him a nerd? I thought tvtropes love nerds No it's saying that if you think knowing Klingon (or any other idiot "language" like Tolkien Elvish or Esperanto) means you're bilingual, you're a moron.
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God I love troper tales
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This nickname being short for "God, your'e such an rear end in a top hat"
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BobbyK posted:God I love troper tales They're violently inane and I love them for it
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Fezz posted:This nickname being short for "God, your'e such an rear end in a top hat" "God, shut up already" taken autistically as a term of endearment  yeah everyone always calls me God
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Tired Moritz posted:I dom't understand the klingon one. Is it a burn calling him a nerd? I thought tvtropes love nerds I think the implication is that she's calling him a Klingon. Which is a terrible insult, because the Klingons are a noble, intelligent people 
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the punchline for the klingon one is that the guy actually was counting knowing klingon as being bilingual
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That seems... utterly believable and unremarkable? Edit: I guess except why it's posted to the internet.
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The point being that Dad could've just talked to his son like all our dads did when they found out we'd been browsing porn like normal adolescent males, instead of writing a note. This is pretty plausible though, outside the "dad" telling his "son" how to browse porn and not get caught, or the fact that said son has his own laptop. Granted, the latter may just be me remembering that all my porn browsing as an adolescent was done in 1999 and 2000 during the summer when the family computer was the size of an ENIAC and in my dad's room, and no one was home as I tried looking up pictures of Kathy Ireland naked and came away disappointed. There was always Total Annihilation, though
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baquerd posted:That seems... utterly believable and unremarkable? Edit: I guess except why it's posted to the internet. Yes, indeed.
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I can believe people assuming in 1999 that DVD would be a fad. It didn't really take off and surpass VHS til around 01
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The world would be a lot different if betamax had won
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life is killing me posted:The point being that Dad could've just talked to his son like all our dads did when they found out we'd been browsing porn like normal adolescent males, instead of writing a note. One look, a raised eyebrow, and "So I used your laptop earlier today..." and a few seconds of silence to let it sink in is way easier than getting paper and pen out to leave a note that granny might find, but then again I'm sure plenty of dads take the time to leave notes for their kids, photograph them, then upload them to social media
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 Holding this thread responsible, dont fink so mate
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Choco1980 posted:I can believe people assuming in 1999 that DVD would be a fad. It didn't really take off and surpass VHS til around 01 The way it's written and considering the typical age of tropers, it sounds like an exact quote by a 7-year-old in 1999 who thinks they're brilliant.
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quote:(I am working on restocking a display near the front of an art supply store. Of course, because of my high visibility, any customer with a question comes directly to me. This isn’t normally a problem, but we have a corporate visitor coming by in an hour, and my manager has asked me to complete the restock in less than thirty minutes, which would be pushing it even if we were closed. Because of this, I try to quickly direct customers in the direction of their needed item, or get a coworker to escort them. One lady, however, is not having that.) Never try to engage costumers who are sporadically transforming into a werewolf. Frostyhawk has a new favorite as of 00:37 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:One look, a raised eyebrow, and "So I used your laptop earlier today..." and a few seconds of silence to let it sink in is way easier than getting paper and pen out to leave a note that granny might find, but then again I'm sure plenty of dads take the time to leave notes for their kids, photograph them, then upload them to social media It would be the kid taking the picture to show how funny/clever their dad is.
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Trick question. There was no kid nor was there a dad. In fact there wasn't even a note.
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oldpainless posted:Trick question. There was no kid nor was there a dad. In fact there wasn't even a note. 
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oldpainless posted:Trick question. There was no kid nor was there a dad. In fact there wasn't even a note. Just a porn on a laptop, unwatched.
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sweeperbravo posted:Just a porn on a laptop, unwatched. For sale: laptop porn, never used
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sweeperbravo posted:Just a porn on a laptop, unwatched. If I've got that stuck in my head now to the tune of "shave and a haircut", then you all might as well too. Enjoy.
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Choco1980 posted:I can believe people assuming in 1999 that DVD would be a fad. It didn't really take off and surpass VHS til around 01 I knew a guy who would slap the floor demo DVD players, watch the image get garbled, and say that DVD sucked.
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hogmartin posted:If I've got that stuck in my head now to the tune of "shave and a haircut", then you all might as well too. Enjoy. lmao
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hogmartin posted:If I've got that stuck in my head now to the tune of "shave and a haircut", then you all might as well too. Enjoy. You can go right to hell for this
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