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spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

ate all the Oreos posted:

There was someone on the radio the other day who talked about trying to turn down drinks in different parts of Europe iirc and depending on the crowd they'd get really suspicious or mad at you

Yeah, a lot of europeans don't like isalm.

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Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Phrosphor posted:

Australians are mad.

In the UK, you 'go for a drink' pretty much anytime after work or even at lunch and maybe have a couple and thats it.
In the US, you 'go for a drink' on a friday evening and have exactly one drink and everyone drives home.
In Australia, you 'go for a drink' because something positive may have happened and wake up on tuesday in a bathtub out deep in walla walla with a stuffed koala.

There is no middle ground between 'not drinking' and the example above.

Mate, the koala is stuffed if you're lucky, if not you probably just caught chlamydia.

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
My sis in law got a bit of flack when we were in Peru because she's vegetarian. Some people seemed weirded out, others thought it was some sort of allergy thing and expressed pity.

Truth is, while she doesn't eat meat because she was raised vegan and just didn't develop a taste for it as an adult.

Her parents on the other hand chose veganism along with hitching their wagon to the Adventist cult, along with not drinking, not watching TV, and doing/not doing a lot of other things as a way of purposely alienating themselves and their children from society at large.

So sometimes not drinking (or not eating meat) is just normal but ya sometimes when someone says they don't eat drink or otherwise consume something that society at large does it's because they're a weirdo.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

EvilJoven posted:

when someone says they don't eat drink or otherwise consume something that society at large does it's because they're a weirdo.

Capitalism! *jazz hands*

Tetracube
Feb 12, 2014

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN



:colbert:

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

yeah, looks like there's a road specced there that has never been built. The developer probably FYGM right out of there because someone signed off on it early.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Yeah I think google's routing algorithm is just poo poo for this particular case for whatever reason, there's clearly a ton of different surface streets unless somehow that entire half of the town is completely disconnected from the other half

MRC48B
Apr 2, 2012

It looks like a gated community full of mcmansions, so no streetview.
The path in red you outlined tries to go through the perimeter wall.

Crypto Cobain
Jun 17, 2018

by Reene

MRC48B posted:

It looks like a gated community full of mcmansions, so no streetview.
The path in red you outlined tries to go through the perimeter wall.
That's why I drive a bulldozer.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

ENHANCE



CHANGE ANGLE



:colbert:

Platystemon has issued a correction as of 05:27 on Aug 23, 2018

Modus Pwnens
Dec 29, 2004
Oh, there's the mistake. They have travel by "car" selected instead of "killdozer"

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Modus Pwnens posted:

Oh, there's the mistake. They have travel by "car" selected instead of "killdozer"

If ever there was a neighborhood that looked in need of a killdozer

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



Its a lovely upper middle class gated community. The walls are there to keep their stupidity in, not to keep the poors out.

Crypto Cobain
Jun 17, 2018

by Reene

Powershift posted:

If ever there was a neighborhood that looked in need of a killdozer
nice av/post combo bud

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!




The headline should really be 'Little girl about to learn that boot straps don't save lives.'

dee eight
Dec 18, 2002

The Spirit
of Maynard

:catdrugs:
The condensed version of a shift meeting yesterday:

"Due to an ill-considered and failed strategy by management, we will probably be working mandatory overtime for the next 6 months to a year. Prepare your asses."

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

EvilJoven posted:

when someone says they don't eat drink or otherwise consume something that society at large does it's because they're a weirdo.

Sounds about right

Calico Heart
Mar 22, 2012

"wich the worst part was what troll face did to sonic's corpse after words wich was rape it. at that point i looked away"



Maybe a small lol but I was listening to Spotify and the ad very proudly featured a woman talking about "being a free spirit, dreaming of the weekend, so we can forget about everyday life!"

and something about the brazen admission of hating existing to cheery music said in an inspiring way really hit my brain the right way

Kullik
Jan 5, 2017

I made a coworker pretty weirded out by saying that i've never been to a bar or pub or club in my life.
I live in the north of Scotland, and it seems like literally everyone my age is either a shutin playing video games all day like me or goes out to drink every single weekend.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Kullik posted:

I made a coworker pretty weirded out by saying that i've never been to a bar or pub or club in my life.
I live in the north of Scotland, and it seems like literally everyone my age is either a shutin playing video games all day like me or goes out to drink every single weekend.

Isn’t the weird part here not not drinking but not having a social life that involves friends who do

Kullik
Jan 5, 2017

Pirate Radar posted:

Isn’t the weird part here not not drinking but not having a social life that involves friends who do

lol ye i have a bunch of mental problems that kinda stop me having much of a social life.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
Thanks for sharing

Kullik
Jan 5, 2017

Zzulu posted:

Thanks for sharing

np im really happy to be here

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Kullik posted:

lol ye i have a bunch of mental problems that kinda stop me having much of a social life.

:capitalism:

Car Hater
May 7, 2007

wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!

Peter Daou Bundy posted:

actually I can get a halal snack pack and any kind of Lebanese /Iraqi/Yemeni /Turkish /Albanian /Bosnian food I want because Dearborn , Michigan .

Ironically mega racist Henry ford is why we have so many food options . That's capitalism

And this is pretty much why I'm still here despite not wanting to work in the auto industry anymore.

Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Platystemon posted:

ENHANCE



CHANGE ANGLE



:colbert:

im glad mcmansions are at least contained in 20 ft tall brown walls

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


Keep drinking and accept your capitalism!

Dull your mind so the rich can enslave you because you're too hungover and stupid to revolt.

is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

I went to a movie last night and I had to sit through literally 20 minutes of trailers before it started.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
The monstrous roof arrangements on McMansions always make me wanna puke, can't the idiots making them at least build something that doesn't look like toddler's first go at building a house in The Sims

Ergo Propter Hog
Jul 21, 2014





Mortgage ads while I pump gas, awesome!

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

steinrokkan posted:

The monstrous roof arrangements on McMansions always make me wanna puke, can't the idiots making them at least build something that doesn't look like toddler's first go at building a house in The Sims

I noticed the same thing, it's loving ridiculous

Modus Pwnens
Dec 29, 2004

Mamma Lucia posted:



Mortgage ads while I pump gas, awesome!

I've driven to a farther gas station just to avoid that. Plus they tend to be literally painfully loud.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 6 minutes!

Mamma Lucia posted:



Mortgage ads while I pump gas, awesome!

I hate that poo poo it makes me want to leave a hammer in my car

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

GSTV: Gas Station Television

Tetracube
Feb 12, 2014

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
https://twitter.com/its1833/status/1032419214320173056

:thermidor:

Kullik posted:

lol ye i have a bunch of mental problems that kinda stop me having much of a social life.

well yeah why else would you sign up for SA

Apprentice Dick
Dec 1, 2009

steinrokkan posted:

The monstrous roof arrangements on McMansions always make me wanna puke, can't the idiots making them at least build something that doesn't look like toddler's first go at building a house in The Sims

I always laugh when I see ridiculous roof layouts because you know with the lovely build quality of those that the roof will be leaking at every joint and need major repair in a few years.

Ixian
Oct 9, 2001

Many machines on Ix....new machines
Pillbug



I got sent a story linked on Digg (ugh) the other day and spotted this. Seems appropriate for this thread.

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

Mamma Lucia posted:



Mortgage ads while I pump gas, awesome!

It could also be the start of a high-class porno.

Tetracube
Feb 12, 2014

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Platystemon posted:

ENHANCE



CHANGE ANGLE



:colbert:

I'm not sure what to make of that, clearly some of the dirt road leads directly into it

I guess they recently built a wall so they couldn't catch a glimpse of a poor by accident?

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Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Fried Watermelon posted:

Keep drinking and accept your capitalism!

Dull your mind so the rich can enslave you because you're too hungover and stupid to revolt.

If we eat the rich we can also drink their booze!

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