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Seanan McGuire is a published, award-winning author. Of course it's fiction. I just like the idea of random grandmas coming out of nowhere.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Seanan McGuire is a published, award-winning author.
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Jul 21, 2019 19:06
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maswastaken posted:Should I be saying "Nice of her to save her Z material for Twitter" or simply, "How?" You'll find out by looking up who the award was given by. It's hardly some prestigious literature award. It's just an award given out at a convention almost 10 years ago.
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Jul 21, 2019 19:09
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yeah I eat rear end posted:You'll find out by looking up who the award was given by. It's hardly some prestigious literature award. It's just an award given out at a convention almost 10 years ago. She’s won a Hugo and a Nebula, which are legit sci-fi literature awards.
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Jul 21, 2019 19:18
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Arivia posted:She’s won a Hugo and a Nebula, which are legit sci-fi literature awards. That would have required reading more than the blurb on the side of the page from wikipedia when you google her name. It was hard enough getting past the word "filker".
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Jul 21, 2019 19:21
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Jul 22, 2019 01:09
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Idk that's kinda fun sounding and nobody clapped
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Jul 22, 2019 02:54
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fake bc anyone who works at joann fabrics would never be excited about the prospect of cutting faux fur
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Jul 22, 2019 02:58
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snoo posted:fake bc anyone who works at joann fabrics would never be excited about the prospect of cutting faux fur If it's anything like people at Lincraft, you do get the occasional employee who is just way, way, way too enthusiastic about fabric and craft supplies. Usually they turn out to be furries, sometimes ren faire types, frequently both.
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Jul 22, 2019 11:44
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Not the most outlandish story, but if he were embarrassed wouldn't he just say "I need it for like, a monster costume" without the added information that's ultimately not relevant
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Jul 22, 2019 14:42
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Sir Lemming posted:Not the most outlandish story, but if he were embarrassed wouldn't he just say "I need it for like, a monster costume" without the added information that's ultimately not relevant It's clear he was a self-hating furry, and the yeti thing was the best he could come up with on the spot.
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Jul 22, 2019 15:17
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Not going to lie, dressing in a yet I costume and chasing skiers sounds like a good time.
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Jul 23, 2019 01:10
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I ran across this bit about Hamilton on YouTube this morning, which I guess is from a recent Netflix special. The point isn't wrong, but the framing is ridiculous and also falls into the "I can't tell fiction from reality" trap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpL8C9r_GI
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Jul 24, 2019 16:02
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That's clearly a stand-up comedy routine and they're all do exactly this so I'm not sure we should count them as STDH
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Jul 24, 2019 16:29
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NtotheTC posted:That's clearly a stand-up comedy routine and they're all do exactly this so I'm not sure we should count them as STDH We have this discussion a lot about whether jokes count as STDH. All I can say is that I cringed instead of laughing when I tried to imagine this.
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Jul 24, 2019 16:39
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Jurgan posted:We have this discussion a lot about whether jokes count as STDH. All I can say is that I cringed instead of laughing when I tried to imagine this. I mean, it 100% didn't happen because Katherine Ryan is on TV a lot in the UK and a British audience would recognise her pretty quickly so the newspapers the next day would have been full of "Katherine Ryan shouts at actors on stage". Bu this type of story-telling-joke is pretty standard in comedy routines here. I wonder if it's a cultural thing. Does US standup focus more on observations and less anecdotes?
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Jul 24, 2019 16:52
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What didn’t happen for me is laughing. I sure don’t want to watch standup where large chunks of it are just Hamilton lyrics
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Jul 24, 2019 17:08
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I can't lie, the bit is pretty cringe-worthy and not really funny at all, so it could be considered STDH based on that in combination with the fact that it clearly didn't happen. Just happens to be in stand-up comedy, and the bit falls flat because it's so clearly contrived. Also seems stupid to hold an actor, playing a historical American Revolution figure in a well-known musical, responsible for holding up modern standards, or at least to make it seem so in a contrived story. NtotheTC posted:I mean, it 100% didn't happen because Katherine Ryan is on TV a lot in the UK and a British audience would recognise her pretty quickly so the newspapers the next day would have been full of "Katherine Ryan shouts at actors on stage". Bu this type of story-telling-joke is pretty standard in comedy routines here. I wonder if it's a cultural thing. Does US standup focus more on observations and less anecdotes? It just depends on who it is. Lots of well-known comics, both male and female, tell jokes in anecdotal form or switch between the two in the same routine. Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari, Dan Cummins, many others. But in the same way you're describing, many of those stories are at least half made-up because it suits the joke being told and makes it funnier. I just happen to think Katherine Ryan's joke here was not in any way plausible, to the point it was a lot less funny. Storytelling for jokes is pretty common here in the US, all things considered--it's just that most of the time those stories are at least halfway plausible, because in many ways the made-up parts are lying about small, mundane things like whether or not the comic watches a particular show, or what he or she did or said in a sexual encounter. It's probably more accurate to say they embellish things rather than outright lie. KR clearly lied about a big thing that people could verify, something we'd have heard about pretty quickly on social media. It just kind of takes you right out of the joke honestly.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:14
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:What didn’t happen for me is laughing. I sure don’t want to watch standup where large chunks of it are just Hamilton lyrics Holy poo poo are those actually the lyrics I thought she was making up deliberately stupid ones for comic effect.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:18
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NtotheTC posted:Holy poo poo are those actually the lyrics I thought she was making up deliberately stupid ones for comic effect. The ones I listened to were anyway, then I started skipping to the punchline. Didn't hear any made up ones.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:25
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Paladinus posted:self-hating furry don't sign my posts 
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Jul 24, 2019 17:52
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Jurgan posted:I ran across this bit about Hamilton on YouTube this morning, which I guess is from a recent Netflix special. The point isn't wrong, but the framing is ridiculous and also falls into the "I can't tell fiction from reality" trap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpL8C9r_GI We don't know exactly how it went down with Hamilton and Reynolds in real life, but by his own account he said that he really did walk her home and give her some money but she started flirting with him and one thing led to another. It led into her husband blackmailing him for money, and it's believed that (willingly or otherwise) she was actively participating in the scheme. So her punchline is just taking the lyrics from Hamilton at face value and making funny faces at them.
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Jul 24, 2019 18:35
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it's bizarre to post an actual literal stand up comedy routine in here as 'stdh' whether you think that comedy routine sucks or not, wth
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Jul 24, 2019 19:00
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I am starting to suspect that there was no baby selling cocaine on the street at 3am.
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Jul 24, 2019 19:34
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ulex minor posted:it's bizarre to post an actual literal stand up comedy routine in here as 'stdh' whether you think that comedy routine sucks or not, wth Could someone PM me the STDH manual? I never got a copy and I want to avoid breaking the rules again.
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Jul 24, 2019 19:52
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I think the point of stdh is people trying to present blatant lies as true. No one really expects the stories that stand up comedians tell to be true, do they? E: The last stand up show I went to the comedian actually riffed on this explicitly because he had a story from his early 20s about how his girlfriend had cheated on him with Rowan Atkinson, which he admitted sounded like the sort of poo poo people make up for their jokes. It did actually turn out to be true and verifiable voiceless anal fricative has a new favorite as of 20:26 on Jul 24, 2019 |
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Jul 24, 2019 20:21
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bike tory posted:I think the point of stdh is people trying to present blatant lies as true. No one really expects the stories that stand up comedians tell to be true, do they? I guess not, but it’s fun to pretend they are in the moment. If the story is too implausible then it stops being funny. And the trope of the one person standing up and bravely saying what needs to be said is classic STDH. The only thing missing is applause.
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Jul 24, 2019 20:24
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Jurgan posted:I guess not, but it’s fun to pretend they are in the moment. If the story is too implausible then it stops being funny. And the trope of the one person standing up and bravely saying what needs to be said is classic STDH. The only thing missing is applause. Ya this is true. I still enjoyed her bit, though not in a laugh out loud kind of way
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Jul 24, 2019 20:30
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It’s the kind of funny where you says”that’s funny” but you don’t smile or laugh
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Jul 24, 2019 20:40
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More like old mirthless
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Jul 24, 2019 20:56
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Jurgan posted:Could someone PM me the STDH manual? I never got a copy and I want to avoid breaking the rules again. no
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Jul 24, 2019 21:07
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A likely story.
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Jul 24, 2019 22:08
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Jurgan posted:Could someone PM me the STDH manual? I never got a copy and I want to avoid breaking the rules again. quote:However, there are some thing which resemble STDH but don't belong here, namely:
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Jul 24, 2019 22:09
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Decrepus posted:I am starting to suspect that there was no baby selling cocaine on the street at 3am. No poo poo. Everyone knows they're in beddy-byes by 12:30 at the latest.
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Jul 25, 2019 00:09
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EorayMel posted:I remember long ago there was a post on these forums about how a goon was doing vague white powder ">0.001milligram dosages will irreparably gently caress you up" tier drugs and his dad found his drug stash and rubbed some of it on his gums thinking it was sugar or something. I loving found it And apparently it was a stolen reddit crosspost after all 
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If anybody had the vaguest idea what I'm talking about or a link to it, that would be most appreciated.
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Jul 31, 2019 23:44
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sebmojo posted:who rubs sugar on their gums In the actual story he thought it was cocaine and was doing the TV detective “try a little to see if it numbs” trick.
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Jul 31, 2019 23:50
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Plus, that's what you do with the powdery remnants on your mirror after snorting. Just to get every penny's worth. Or so I'm told...
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