Lemniscate Blue posted:

Russian cursive, on the other hand, is loving insane.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Cursive is ugly and dumb

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Cursive is ugly and dumb

arsenicCatnip posted:

barbecue at the folks posted:

If you think cursive is dumb, try learning a classic German shorthand:

barbecue at the folks posted:

This means that if you want to read someone's personal notes now for research purposes, you have to spend months and even years getting comfortable enough with someone's thinking and writing to be able to confidently spell out all the little shortcuts they took to quicken their hand and to be able to read all the personal ciphers they used. Scholarship in the humanities can get pretty insane at times.

Grassy Knowles posted:

Here’s something up your alley

Captain Invictus posted:

I would rather read in this style forever than have learned cursive

Grassy Knowles posted:

Here’s something up your alley

Carthag Tuek posted:

i dont understand preferring not to have learnt a skill (even if its practically useless). i had a lot of incredibly lovely teachers but i dont think it ever rubbed off on the thing the lovely fuckheads tried to teach

the things i learned or didnt learn are separate from the garbage persons who hosed up the art of teaching

im probably lucky that i compartmentalized or something

Captain Invictus posted:

It was a waste of time that could have been used to learn something far more useful. the teachers were fine, I learned it fine, but I never used it outside of school and forgot it all years ago.

I get that you're a fan of it judging by your prior posts, but I'm not.

Triticum Guzzler posted:

There's a lot of hosed up and weird people, on this comedy forum website, who do not ever post jokes, do not enjoy jokes or indeed even laughing, and have coined a derogatory term for people who make jokes. They're all missionaries drawn here by the allure of the fertile lands of videos of a severely asthmatic man playing Megaman games, and interesting philosophical quandries posted by the fake PTSD guy about the nature of doors and windows in Dungeons and Dragons. They are wise men here to educate a savage, uneducated, indigenous sort. It is a sonorous, musical form of education; a greasy collective amasses on the front line of the battle against social injustice, the video game subforum on a message board that has a drop down menu that makes light of the holocaust on every single page, and sings a shrill harmony that permeates the very aether, making my pets feel unsafe, when a video game muscle man calls Catwoman a bitch. They have picked their battles well, and I note from my foxhole that I am running out of ammunition, chiefly in the form of the increasingly finite number of ways I can frame this absurd situation with the English language. I clench my fists and yell "anime" towards an uncaring, absent God, and swear solemnly to press my thumbs into Chocolate America's eyeballs until he is blinded, to directly emasculate sporting figures, to beat the poo poo out of tumblr users with baseball bats, and to quietly appreciate what Waylon Smithers being gay means to me.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Cursive is ugly and dumb

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

The FUNNY FORUM QUOTES thread, ladies and gentlemen. Now with 99% fewer funny forums quotes.

The 1% is what I'm posting here:

Cup Runneth Over posted:

quote:

I played Stockfish (white) against ChatGPT (black)

Wow yeah GPT is a real intelligence alright

TDepressionEarl posted:

stockfish isn't trying to follow a game with a chronological move order like us humans are.

stockfish is a chess engine that finds and calculates the best move in a position you give it. stockfish is blissfully unaware of how pieces got to where they are, stockfish only knows where they should go from here. stockfish brazenly pushes the king into the center in an endgame where it has no pieces left because that is the best move, drat your human timidity and biases.

chatgpt eats crayons.

Al! posted:

how to teach chatgot to use a chess buttplug

TDepressionEarl posted:

ah thats where the dark square bishop went

Colikar posted:

I had just arrived home when to my surprise a monkey had climbed into my window and was sitting on my couch. Now before any crazy ideas can be put forth as to my local I live in a northern latitude urban environment, a place not known for its monkeys. It was a small monkey with a long tail and black fur. I was equally surprised when it stood up, as proper as any beast could, and asked, "When do you plan on preparing our evening meal?"

"Of course!" I replied, "What a terrible host I've been." I immediately began preparing a meal of pancakes.

"You've met my mother?" the monkey asked as it followed me into the kitchen with a slightly akimbo elegance.

"Your mother?! But I've only just seen you for the first time moments ago and monkeys are not common things. As for our meal I am making banana pancakes with orange zest and a lite vanilla syrup."

"Let me begin with my mother. You have undoubtedly met her before, everyone has."

"I will not tell you again I have not! But if you please that picture there, above the table, is my own mother." The monkey looked over the photograph unimpressed as if it was some classroom photo taken in elementary school. Finally speaking up, "Did she love you? My mother always seems to put others to shame in that respect."

I growled deep in my throat in an inadvertent display of disgust at the question. "The meal is ready. Sit down and we shall eat," I said taking the food to the table and pouring glasses of water for the both of us.

The plates and silver clinked as we ate and they were the only sounds to be heard; we at in silence. I then cleared the table and poured us both a glass of port. With my digestion properly on course I asked about the monkey's mother.

"Oh surely you have met her. She seems to know of everybody, even you Wayne."

At this I was taken back for no introduction had been made. "You assume to know me? In my own house you insult me!" I jumped up form the table throwing my glass to the floor. "Monkey you will regret coming here!" I shouted into the black face of that monkey. The monkey jumped onto my chest and began tearing at my throat and making the most horrid shrieks that have come from any living creature, man or beast. I could feel the rip of flesh and the hot stream of blood course down my body.

"Your punishment has been decreed. My mother judged and I punished."

I laid on the floor feeling my blood drain out of my body into a large black pool on the floor next to me. The monkey climbed once more through the window leaving behind only a bloody trail of prints.

It was gone and I lay dying on the floor.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Colikar posted:

I do not want a critique or a response. I really do not care what your opinion is I just wanted to share my scribble. If this little bit of wasted time and space has angered you so much, and has defiled this so holy of forums because there is no point then simply ignore it.

Colikar posted:

If someone would have actually critiqued the writing or written a response to the writing that would be something new not yet posted on this thread. So far every post has only questioned the validity of making a thread. Even when I offered such activities as finishing the story only only questions about why the thread exists were posed and no response to the writing was generated. So you tell me if this is such a waste of time why do you waste you time posting without anything except complaints about how much of a waste of time this is? I did not realize that I had to explain such simple concepts in a forum meant for creative extrapolation.

So if you need guidance:
1. Finish the story
2. The story was written in a very Kafka style give a response
3. Critique the style of writing

I did not post this necessarily in order to get any of these points, and in all true honesty I thought a few hundred people my read it and then it would slide off the front page and not be seen again. However now that you demand reason I have given three so do what you will.

malkman posted:

With Colicker dead, the Creative Convention subforum was free to express and expose its hatred of his sub-par imagination, his lackadaisical writing skills, and overall terrible existence.

The monkey and malkman then went to ride huffy bikes to the malt shop.


I didn't even read this carefully enough to spell your name right

Clark Nova posted:

I’m disappointed that Throne of the Five Winds does not appear to be a fantasy novel about a magic toilet

EorayMel posted:

A picture perfect example of a butthurt baby who can't take criticism and, against the rules, closes his thread so the mean people can't say hurtful things anymore.

quote:

Black people!

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

barbecue at the folks posted:

BOOTY-ADE posted:

Michael J. Fox's grocery list

I'm sorry

malkman posted:

I didn't even read this carefully enough to spell your name right 

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

I have Parkinson's and nothing beats watching the realization dawn on someone's face whenever they unconsciously say "What's shakin'?" as their primary greeting.

fanny packin heat posted:

You had best un-gently caress yourself before I un-screw your head and poo poo down your neck.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

SilvergunSuperman posted:

Man looking at kelsey grammer's kid is weird

That DICK! posted:

dont write your headlines

Dip Viscous posted:

Shampoo and conditioner aren't two different variants of the same thing. They both lead to wet hair so I never gave it thought.

flavor.flv posted:

Wait, are you putting them on dry before rinsing your hair? Because if so there's a second thing you are figuring out today

Brawnfire posted:

It says "for extremely dry hair" right on the bottle!

EorayMel posted:

Worthless poster making worthless posts. Also you've been here less than a year and already have 2 bans and 4 probations.

Weatherman posted:

how is bbby formed

how guy get bnakruptt

Sapozhnik posted:

canyoneer posted:

my forbidden love

my haram bae

Chewbecca posted:

I wanna find the isolated enclave of SA posters who, to this day, have no idea lowtax offed himself

Dial A For Awesome posted:

Somewhere there is a forgotten sub-forum, isolated from the rest of SA. The atavistic members post like it is 2004, still wearing their jorts and “I can haz cheeseburger?” T-shirts, oblivious to the wider internet.

These poor natives have never built up immunity to 2020’s posting. One day, conquistadors from FYAD will find them and these delicate throwbacks will be wiped out by exposure to Star Citizen and NFTs.

oldpainless posted:

Sometimes I like to wake up early and sometimes I like to sleep late.


I hope I haven’t offended anyone with my controversial opinion.

Pththya-lyi posted:

Mods?!

oldpainless posted:

Mods please probate me for three days in penance


Just like Christ

OwlFancier posted:

What time will you be rising on the third day?

wakka wakka posted:

When both the big hand and the little hand have holes in them.

Platystemon posted:

Ariong posted:

Anderson Cooper at bat. He’s looking confident, especially since Rogan’s screwball has caused him a lot of trouble this election cycle. Here comes the pitch! Big hit!!! Cooper’s off like a shot as the ball goes sailing into the circle of trust. He’s around the hill as Gray scoops up the ball and throws it into tox-OH!!! HASAN FUMBLES THE BALL AS COOPER ROUNDS THE TIMES! The toxics are scrambling for the ball now as Cooper approaches Fox, but they can’t seem to get-oh, Pool throws to first as Cooper approaches home and-SAFE! It’s an unearned run for the mainstream media! Oh my lord! Do not go on Twitter tonight, folks!

Eason the Fifth posted:

Von Nukem: I'm here to suck rear end and kill myself, and I'm all out of rear end.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Just unfollowed that guy. Thanks for the heads up goons.

TotalLossBrain posted:

I don't think he's going to be posting much more, but good on you for unfollowing

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Not making the same mistake I made with Herman Cain thank you.