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RenegadeStyle1 posted:People who blast their Facebook walls about how Valentine's Day is a consumer holiday and all the sheep's are buying choclate and marked up presents. We all get it, you're super *~*~enlightened~*~*. Everyone knows all of this. I'm sure people sent flyers about it in the 80s. Similarly, the people complaining about "Singles Awareness Day" also kind of annoy me. Like, sure, if you're single and you see a bunch of couples together on that day, it can be a little frustrating, but venting about it passive aggressively isn't really gonna help that!
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My wife and I had a daughter about six months ago, and the amount of people who have told me to buy a shotgun is ridiculous. Or, the other favorite, to get a big bat. For when the boys come around, I'm clearly supposed to be willing to murder them for the sin of liking my daughter and wanting to take her out. I don't get that sort of poo poo. Why do I need to be an overprotective father? What's wrong with trusting my kid? Isn't being the overprotective dad the thing that'll push her into the behavior they're afraid of? I've never understood that, and I never will. I don't even live in the South, where purity balls are a huge thing.
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Feb 15, 2017 20:20
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For most people it's just a joke. People aren't just hyperbolic for humor on the internet. That's not to say there aren't people who mean that kind of thing literally, but it's pretty safe to say most people don't.
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Feb 15, 2017 20:22
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The Snoo posted:ew that reminds me, we're currently using comcast since it's all this apartment has, and the new place we're moving to has both comcast and verizon, the latter of which is preferable, and I'm not looking forward to cancelling w/ comcast lol I do client retention for a smaller company but it works the same. Make sure you know your contract dates if you have any, they will try and surprise you with terms otherwise. If you want to negotiate you can get a price quote from Verizon and tell them to do better, they likely will. If you just want out, make sure you use short, preferably one word answers to their questions, otherwise they are going to pick apart your responses and try and make you stay.
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Feb 15, 2017 20:24
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Leavemywife posted:My wife and I had a daughter about six months ago, and the amount of people who have told me to buy a shotgun is ridiculous. Or, the other favorite, to get a big bat. For when the boys come around, I'm clearly supposed to be willing to murder them for the sin of liking my daughter and wanting to take her out. Is your username just a filthy lie?
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Feb 15, 2017 20:52
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Sloober posted:Is your username just a filthy lie? There's a time and place for everything.
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Feb 15, 2017 21:13
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The time is now, the place is, uh, also now.
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Feb 15, 2017 21:14
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Leavemywife posted:There's a time and place for everything. Please don't leave my wife
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Feb 15, 2017 22:29
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Leavemywife posted:My wife and I had a daughter about six months ago, and the amount of people who have told me to buy a shotgun is ridiculous. Or, the other favorite, to get a big bat. For when the boys come around, I'm clearly supposed to be willing to murder them for the sin of liking my daughter and wanting to take her out.
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Feb 15, 2017 22:58
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oldpainless posted:Please don't leave my wife More like old wifeless. We're still doing this gag, right?
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Feb 15, 2017 23:03
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^ yesI am Lono posted:I do client retention for a smaller company but it works the same. Make sure you know your contract dates if you have any, they will try and surprise you with terms otherwise. If you want to negotiate you can get a price quote from Verizon and tell them to do better, they likely will. poo poo I remembered that our contract is probably like a month over our lease bc we didn't get internet until a month into our lease.... aaughhh that doesn't sound fun to deal with
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ChaosArgate posted:Similarly, the people complaining about "Singles Awareness Day" also kind of annoy me. Like, sure, if you're single and you see a bunch of couples together on that day, it can be a little frustrating, but venting about it passive aggressively isn't really gonna help that! Singles Awareness Day is the sportsball of love
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Feb 16, 2017 01:58
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Avshalom posted:my diet is at the core of my identity. i'm guided in my eating choices by the understanding that i have a duty of respect to all my sisters in life. not wanting to rob the bees, i only eat virgin honey that has dripped out of the hive due to gravity. mindful of the bodily autonomy of cows, i've replaced all dairy with ethically sourced coconut products. before consuming salt, i purify it with my sacred fluids. the flesh i consume is harvested from grown men and warmed to room temperature between my cataclysmic breasts before being lightly seared so as to achieve the perfect juicy medium-rare finish. i won't eat a lamb unless it died of a natural accident such as a lightning strike. i will only eat eggs that i laid myself. i am no mere vegan: the truth is far more complex and more terrible. I only eat animals who have agreed to give their lives up in exchange for food and housing for their wives and children. I forgot where this joke is from 
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Feb 16, 2017 04:16
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I made a deal with the rabbit that he wont eat my steak and I wont eat his carrot. 
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Feb 16, 2017 05:57
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Tarantula posted:Skinny people who take their weight for granted, watching my friends eat like crap never put on weight and then complain they want to put on muscle, meanwhile I eat nowhere near as badly as them (not great or anything i'll freely admit) but I work out 5 days a week and make slow improvements. Mostly it's working hard at the gym and watching people laze around and not take it serious because they don't need to irritates me. How do you know what they eat at all times? Normally people only see what others eat on the occasion they go to restaurants or possibly during lunch each day. Also most people don't have a good understanding of what eating habits actually result in gaining weight. I definitely agree that it's unfair that skinny/non-fat people have generally been fortunate enough to be raised with good eating habits, and it's wrong for a skinny person to call a fat person lazy if they've never had to deal with being overweight themselves. Like, I've never been fat, and it's not because I'm disciplined or anything - it's just because I was lucky enough to have parents who raised me with a healthy diet, so I never picked up a lot of those bad habits. If someone is unlucky enough to have been raised fat, they're basically stuck with this very difficult challenge that other people never have to deal with. It's also apparently true that a fat person needs to eat less than a person who has never been fat to maintain a lower weight, at least for a while until your body adapts. So a person who went from 250lb to 170lb would need to eat less to maintain that weight than someone who was always 170lb, at least for a while. Though I think in most cases people are just very ignorant about how to lose weight and what sort of eating habits lead to gaining weight.
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Feb 16, 2017 06:41
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People are incredibly lovely to fat people on the whole.
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Feb 16, 2017 07:26
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I also hate it when people assume I'm hen-pecked or constantly nagged. I'm happily married; why does my marriage have to seem like one from a lovely sitcom?
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Feb 16, 2017 08:50
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Donald Trump is not orange and his hair's not that weird. I think maybe those claims used to be more accurate, but he's pretty normal-looking now, and going on and on about his appearance just makes you look really dumb. Also, I'm really sick of Americans complaining about him (or his family) doing things that they wrongly assumed weren't allowed. The fact that you don't know how your own government/laws work is not Donald Trump's fault. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms that can be made of him, and plenty of things to make fun of about him, so stop picking the things that make you look dumber than him.
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Feb 16, 2017 09:25
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That plus the small hands thing. I mean, it was kind of funny at first considering they got him to comment on it in a presidential debate, but people are still beating that horse. I mean, the people who say these things aren't wrong, his hair is fairly ugly, but they are forgetting he's a 70 year old man. Who cares how he looks? You get less attractive as you get old, it's just what happens. Most people end up looking even worse at 70 if they even make it to that age. In the end though it has absolutely nothing to do with his ability to lead. Political leaders don't have to be Obamas or Putins in terms of physique.
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Feb 16, 2017 09:31
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Tiggum posted:Donald Trump is not orange and his hair's not that weird. I think maybe those claims used to be more accurate, but he's pretty normal-looking now, and going on and on about his appearance just makes you look really dumb. He's legitimately made more mistakes in his first month of presidency than most presidents make in a four year term. Some of them probably impeachable. The man himself doesn't know how government or law works
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Feb 16, 2017 09:32
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Aesop Poprock posted:He's legitimately made more mistakes in his first month of presidency than most presidents make in a four year term. Some of them probably impeachable. The man himself doesn't know how government or law works Exactly my point. There are tons of legitimate criticisms to be made, and yet so many people are getting caught up on dumb bullshit.
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Feb 16, 2017 09:39
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Tiggum posted:Exactly my point. There are tons of legitimate criticisms to be made, and yet so many people are getting caught up on dumb bullshit. Like what? Since he's been president I've mostly noticed actual investigative news being done on him. People don't regard him as a joke anymore, he's an actual threat and he's being treated accordingly
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Feb 16, 2017 09:51
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Unrelated, but I get annoyed when asking people for sources or information on what they're ranting about is taken as a disagreement. Like, gently caress off, I know Donald Trump is a terrible person, I'm just asking you to shut up ranting for five seconds and tell me exactly what the problem is so I understand what it is he's actually done. 
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Feb 16, 2017 10:03
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I called my internet/tv/phone company telling them I was moving away and they actually asked if I'd consider staying if they took off 25% a month. I get that you have to ask anyone cancelling but the script should include some common sense. You aren't going to retain a customer moving out of your service area no matter how hard you try, sorry. I got that from Comcast when I was moving; the guy at the other end was relentless trying to talk me into staying if he reduced the package (and I was also in the situation where I was paying for a phone service I didn't have, and cable TV that I didn't have; I just wanted internet, dammit). In my case I was moving to another country, but even that didn't discourage him. Trying actually to go to the physical Comcast office in my area (near Newark, DE, for the record) was not unlike Arthur Dent's attempt to find the city planning office to get the paperwork related to the demolition of his house.
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Feb 16, 2017 10:29
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Ms Boods posted:(and I was also in the situation where I was paying for a phone service I didn't have, and cable TV that I didn't have; I just wanted internet, dammit). You'd think there'd be a federal oversight body in charge of looking into poo poo like this. Everyone I've talked to that wanted just Internet had to fight for months to get the plan they asked for despite being promised that all they'd be billed for was the basic Internet plan. Oh, wait, there is an oversight body at the federal level! It used to be run by a telecom lobbyist and is now run by an anti-net neutrality douche who used to work for Verizon
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Feb 16, 2017 14:17
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yeah I eat rear end posted:That plus the small hands thing. I mean, it was kind of funny at first considering they got him to comment on it in a presidential debate, but people are still beating that horse. People mention the small hands because it really bothers Trump. Some magazine mentioned his small hands in the 1980s, so he drew a outline of his hands in Sharpie and sent it to the author. Trump is a bully and it's funny when people bully him back because it irritates him so much. SNL wouldn't devote numerous skits to him and his Administration if he didn't whine about it the next night. They know he's watching and they know it bugs him. Is it childish? Yeah but drat if it isn't fun. It's irritating when people make claims and then expect you to research for them. "Google it yourself". No, how about you do your own homework, I'm not doing it for you.
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Feb 16, 2017 16:24
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This is something that's going to sound like supporting Trump, so let's just put that to bed. I said as early as the primaries that I could never vote for him, and I didn't. I think he's a terrible president and a crooked, broken human being, and the world is a worse place because he got elected. Okay? Okay. Why do people think annoying him is a worthwhile endeavor? Someone set up a Twitter account for a literal onion and the selling point was "boy, Trump sure will be pissed if this onion gets more followers than him!" That's just one example, but it really crystallized what I'd been noticing for a long time - same as the hands thing, or the hair, or whatever. Maybe during the campaign I could see deliberately baiting him in the hopes that he'd do something rash to make himself unelectable (great work guys) but he won and he's in charge now. What purpose could pure, aimless antagonism serve? Is it just people's way of resisting without having to actually think or work or penetrate their veil of ironic detachment? He's like an insecure kid on the playground, being surrounded and teased until he cries, except he has nukes.
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Feb 16, 2017 16:41
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walrusman posted:What purpose could pure, aimless antagonism serve? Is it just people's way of resisting without having to actually think or work or penetrate their veil of ironic detachment? Did you ever watch The Daily Show? It's a release valve, a way for people to express their concern, or people just like making jokes.
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Feb 16, 2017 16:48
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The Daily Show has actual politics, though - here's what's going on, here's why that's bad, here's what you can do about it, plus some jokes to make people tune in. MAKE MAN ANGRY is a different goal.
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Feb 16, 2017 16:51
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It's because he actually notices and follows this stuff and gets really mad about it, which is good because it interrupts his baseline desire to be the most respected person in the room at all times.
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Feb 16, 2017 19:36
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Because if I have to live in a constant state of terror and dismay as my country dismantles itself and sets itself on fire while giggling, then the chief architect of my terror can drat well have dumb jokes made at his expense..
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It's because he actually notices and follows this stuff and gets really mad about it, which is good because it interrupts his baseline desire to be the most respected person in the room at all times. He notices things like SNL, but not the legions of people who think they're making a difference by stringing 40 tweets together in his replies.
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Hitler has only got one ball Göring has two but they are small Himmler's got something sim'lar But poor Goebbels has no balls at all - pointless antagonism
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bean_shadow posted:It's irritating when people make claims and then expect you to research for them. "Google it yourself". No, how about you do your own homework, I'm not doing it for you. Ugh, this is such a classic "I have no idea what I'm loving talking about" tactic. "But what you're saying is--" "LOOK I'M NOT GOING TO DO YOUR RESEARCH FOR YOU. There are tons of studies that back up my point, go find them." Buddy, you didn't shut me down with that interruption--I stopped asking questions because I realized you were a goddamn idiot and I was wasting my drat breath.
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My company hasn't raised its prices in 7 years. We just recently raised the price of some things and my God people act like we tripled the price of everything and slapped their faces to boot.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:That plus the small hands thing. I mean, it was kind of funny at first considering they got him to comment on it in a presidential debate, but people are still beating that horse. Same with the Drumpf thing. I think a big reason people do this is because, in our current political climate, if you're a liberal saying any sort of bad thing about Trump (or making fun of him) will get a positive response from other liberals. So it's basically an automatic "thing you can say that will be received positively by your peers." And, generally speaking, people get a warm, fuzzy feeling from agreeing with other people, which leads to a situation where people circle jerk over how much they agree about Trump being bad (or whatever) and bask in feelings of social acceptance. I mean, Trump obviously is super bad, but there's definitely a significant portion of liberals who derive some level of enjoyment from having the opportunity to make fun of dumb Republicans/conservatives. This is reflected in the popularity of shows like The Daily Show.
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bean_shadow posted:It's irritating when people make claims and then expect you to research for them. "Google it yourself". No, how about you do your own homework, I'm not doing it for you. Heh, I had this a while ago with someone's vague utopia which would happen if they could just hang whoever from the lampposts. "It's not my job to educate you"  walrusman posted:This is something that's going to sound like supporting Trump, so let's just put that to bed. I said as early as the primaries that I could never vote for him, and I didn't. I think he's a terrible president and a crooked, broken human being, and the world is a worse place because he got elected. Okay? Okay. I think he's just clearly a horrible person and people want to hurt him. It's not politically savvy or anything 
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There's a gambling machine at a place I visit regularly that's Greek-themed, and the advertising/attracting image is a nearly-identical-but-different-enough-so-we-don't-get-sued version of Zeus from Age of Mythology. I should get a picture of the gambling machine version, but it's quite similar. My pet peeve is that I notice this every time it shows up on the screen when I walk by, and I should've stopped having that "wait, is that frok.. no, it's not" reaction weeks ago, but I still do. Maybe it's because I really liked AoM.
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I agree about the Trump thing. He has plenty bad things just since January 20th you can talk about. I don't think it's morally wrong or bad to make small hand or Drumpf jokes. I just think it's useless and kind of childish.
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Henchman of Santa posted:He notices things like SNL, but not the legions of people who think they're making a difference by stringing 40 tweets together in his replies. I should rephrase that - because it's well-know that he reacts violently and pathetically to even the most childish of slights, it's appealing to put your voice into a sphere that he regularly inhabits on the off chance that it might personally piss him off.
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