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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

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Redrum and Coke
Feb 25, 2006

wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

Two people wanted to mug me. I bought them stuff.

Thugs speak like Mr. T.

MrUnderbridge
Jun 25, 2011

"Give it up, fool" Jesus christ, is Mr. T really the last POC this guy has heard?

E: f,b

Redrum and Coke
Feb 25, 2006

wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

MrUnderbridge posted:

"Give it up, fool" Jesus christ, is Mr. T really the last POC this guy has heard?

E: f,b

They also fall silent before his white kindness.

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar
I think their silence was more because they were shocked they found such an easy mark. They got all they wanted and more. Any life lessons or ownings occurred entirely in the writer's head.

Ailumao
Nov 4, 2004

They closed over 1000 schools for h1n1 a decade ago.

wasn't as big as this obviously but also not small.

Fart.Bleed.Repeat.
Sep 29, 2001

Magna Kaser posted:

They closed over 1000 schools for h1n1 a decade ago.

wasn't as big as this obviously but also not small.

Wasn't that more of closing specific hot spot schools though? Source- my kid had the h1n1 during this and our district didn't close.

Sir Lemming
Jan 27, 2009

It's a piece of JUNK!

This really reads like one of those mjq jazz bar posts, or whatever their name was

Mr. Bad Guy
Jun 28, 2006

Sir Lemming posted:

This really reads like one of those mjq jazz bar posts, or whatever their name was

No poo poo, halfway through I was wondering why someone went to the trouble of transcribing mjq jazz bar into a tumblr post.

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?

https://twitter.com/prisonplanet/status/1243214849741651974?s=21



When you definitely know what black people "urban youths" do in their free time

e: piss that didn’t happen

System Metternich has a new favorite as of 07:21 on Mar 28, 2020

avoid doorways
Jun 6, 2010

'twas brillig
Gun Saliva

System Metternich posted:

e: piss that didn’t happen

https://twitter.com/CollapsePosts/status/1243155865160556544

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Why do they have a giant bag of piss at the ready? Even if I coincidently have to take a massive piss at the same time people are being obnoxiously loud underneath my window my first instinct wouldn't be to pee in a bag. Also people can't hold that much pee inside them, a woman died because she was trying to hold her piss in after drinking a single gallon of water (it was a radio contest when Nintendo Wii's were completely sold out called "hold your wee for a wii").

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad
Hitting someone on the head with that much water from that height could break their neck and/or kill them outright. That looked like at least a concussion.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
Had a look at this guy's account and there's a certain rightward slant to some of his titles

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?
Holy poo poo yeah, that account is bad as hell.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010


Who has a bag-o-piss?!?!??

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.


Piss? Pfft, amateurs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajeL87l3prM

El Padrino
Dec 24, 2005

No es nada personal, solo negocios.

Well it's not like they can throw a bag of turds, 'cause then they'd have to fling themselves out

walrusman
Aug 4, 2006


That has remarkably competent rapping and production. I appreciate the effort that was put into it.

GreenMetalSun
Oct 12, 2012

quote:

Sometimes I forget that I really am pretty weird and my experiences are fairly far afield from “normal.”

This girl who I vaguely knew from the coffee shop showed up one day and said she thought her mom had died that morning and I figured she was probably overreacting so I said I’d go check with her and it turns out her mom HAD died but we honestly weren’t sure when it had happened so I lifted her off the bed and attempted CPR and then ended up having to talk to cops and this poor girl’s family for HOURS as she called her dad and brothers and the cops wanted to know if the mom was on any medications or if she had been depressed and I was like “I have no idea, I had literally never met the lady and I don’t even know the family’s last name, the first ever full conversation I had with the daughter was this morning.” And apparently THAT was super suspicious or something.

So anyway that was a rough day and the next day I go into the coffee shop and the manager (who is basically never in) comes over and says “Debbie says you had a rough day yesterday.” And I was like “uh, yeah. It was pretty weird.” And then he was like “Debbie says that you handled it really well. And that you filled out an application to work here a couple weeks ago.” And I was like “I guess?” And he was like “Okay you can do a training shift today and you’re on your own tomorrow. We don’t normally hire people under 21 and we don’t normally hire regulars so don’t gently caress up.” (I was 18)

So I started working at the cash-only coffee shop that was patronized exclusively by the weirdest people in town (who had all slept with each other, had no money, and had the most drama of any group I’ve ever been part of) and was used to launder money made by the owner’s cocaine sales for the local gang.

The first shift I worked alone was the next night and when I called the manager and told him one of the regulars had been chasing people out of the parking lot to sell meth the manager told me to ban him so I was like “Hey dude, manager says you’re banned” and he was like “You’re a loving oval office and I’m going to wait until you’re alone and I’m gonna loving kill you” and then he drove around the block about twenty times and screamed “oval office” out the window every time he passed by where I was cleaning the patio.

One of the regulars, who was a nearly-seven-foot-tall hacker and gunsmith who worked graveyard in Hollywood, waited around for me to finish closing and then offered to drive me home because otherwise I’d have to walk three miles alone and there was that whole “circling meth dealer” thing going on. I decided to take a chance on getting a ride from tall, dark, and scary and that paid off pretty well because it’s been fifteen years and I’ve been married to that tall weirdo since 2011.

And that’s how I got my first non-porn job.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
Porn pays better and is probably less degrading than being a barrista. Especially at 18

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Her first non-porn job at 18. Was she doing porn underage?

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

chitoryu12 posted:

Her first non-porn job at 18. Was she doing porn underage?

Would it surprise you to learn there are a lot of underage women in porn? Porn producers are pretty relaxed about verifying the age of their actors, as gross as that seems. Also it's easier than ever to sell your own content these days, and I've got friends who were already finding that pretty easy like 15-20 years ago.

Joey Freshwater
Jun 20, 2004

Always playing with my meat
Grimey Drawer
The mental image I'm getting of someone circling the shop just yelling "oval office!" every time they pass by is pretty loving funny

MrUnderbridge
Jun 25, 2011

Joey Freshwater posted:

The mental image I'm getting of someone circling the shop just yelling "oval office!" every time they pass by is pretty loving funnyAustralian

Ftfy

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Joey Freshwater posted:

The mental image I'm getting of someone circling the shop just yelling "oval office!" every time they pass by is pretty loving funny

That's easily the most believable thing about the whole story.

GreenMetalSun
Oct 12, 2012

Joey Freshwater posted:

The mental image I'm getting of someone circling the shop just yelling "oval office!" every time they pass by is pretty loving funny

I mean, it’s not even really a shop, it’s a cocaine laundering front for a local gang. Makes you wonder what that guy was thinking.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
https://twitter.com/doubiebass/status/1251279576342421505?s=21

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

Lol


https://twitter.com/seanakthstewart/status/1251561602081579008?s=21

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

So AA works by kicking out people who fall off the wagon? Doesn't seem too effective :thunk:

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://twitter.com/haon182/status/1251417436370468865

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

3D Megadoodoo posted:

So AA works by kicking out people who fall off the wagon? Doesn't seem too effective :thunk:

Support groups can't really afford to keep members who aren't sober because they 1) are not committed to staying sober and 2) can influence other members to fall off the wagon. It's hard, but trying to fix people who don't want to be fixed is just a waste of time.

(Source: my therapist aunt who treats recovering addicts)

Content:
https://twitter.com/MisbehavinMaids/status/1107369541204627459?s=20

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Then they're literally not support groups.

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?

RoboRodent
Sep 19, 2012

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Then they're literally not support groups.

I mean, I've also spoken to former addicts who have nothing but disdain for the AA system.

Zipperelli.
Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost
I think my biggest complaint about a LOT of support groups is how intricately entwined with religion they are. Not just with meetings being held in churches, but the constant barrage of religious materials and the encouragement "look to god when things get tough" is really loving stupid. Addiction is a physical thing, not a fairy tale like god.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Zipperelli. posted:

I think my biggest complaint about a LOT of support groups is how intricately entwined with religion they are. Not just with meetings being held in churches, but the constant barrage of religious materials and the encouragement "look to god when things get tough" is really loving stupid. Addiction is a physical thing, not a fairy tale like god.

Marx wasnt wrong.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Zipperelli. posted:

Addiction is a physical thing

This is really wrong and a bad way to think about it. Addiction is often just as much a social problem as it anything else.

Also if you took away all the church-affiliated addiction services you'd just end up with far, far fewer addiction services. And to be honest it's really effective for a lot of people, as much anything because a church can provide a healthy and supportive community for someone to be a part of.

Maybe it's different in the states or wherever you are though? I know the US has a lot more lovely, exploitative, predatory church groups

Zipperelli.
Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost

bike tory posted:

This is really wrong and a bad way to think about it. Addiction is often just as much a social problem as it anything else.

Also if you took away all the church-affiliated addiction services you'd just end up with far, far fewer addiction services. And to be honest it's really effective for a lot of people, as much anything because a church can provide a healthy and supportive community for someone to be a part of.

Maybe it's different in the states or wherever you are though? I know the US has a lot more lovely, exploitative, predatory church groups

I'm in the southern United States, so yeah, churches are a problem around here.

Also, we're speaking about alcoholics anonymous, so framing it as a physical addiction is dead on balls accurate because alcohol is a literal physical dependence after long-term boozin'

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Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Zipperelli. posted:

I'm in the southern United States, so yeah, churches are a problem around here.

Also, we're speaking about alcoholics anonymous, so framing it as a physical addiction is dead on balls accurate because alcohol is a literal physical dependence after long-term boozin'

He's saying that for the most part people don't gain addictions in a vacuum, someone with a genetic predilection for addictive behaviors might never develop a problem if they grew up in a supportive environment where they're given the emotional and social resources they need to succeed and thrive, compared to someone who grows up in a poor and violent area with little to no one who gives a poo poo about them, or in an abusive household. The reason AA works for so many people is because it gives them that supportive environment they otherwise might lack.

People don't develop addictions just because they keep using a substance until they're physically dependent on it. I'm physically dependent on my sleep medication but I don't see it out as an emotional crutch, it's entirely utilitarian and if I wanted to I could wean myself off it like I have countless other medications and never think about it again or feel the desire to use it again, but I go through withdrawal if I stop cold turkey regardless. Physical dependency is not addiction, addiction places the psychological dependency full-front, otherwise most addicts would be cure as soon as the physical dependency was severed.

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