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Deified Data posted:I hope I didn't write like this at 19 this fuckin sucks That is the great thing for social media, if you've ever wondered what horrible things you said or posted even two or three years ago, I'm sure you can find it on your Twitter feed or anyone else can find it.
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It drives me insane when people write like 6 paragraphs where 6 sentences will do. Why do they do that? I mean it's a great window into what's wrong with their brains because often they have a simple problem with a simple solution. Is it a defensive mechanism to help them ignore how obvious the answer is by making it seem more complex? Like instead of: "I'm routinely late coming home from work because I have a hard time saying no to my co-workers asking me for help at closing, or being invited to socialize after work. This is making my wife really upset because she barely gets to see me and she's left to do all household chore by herself" They'll instead write some 8 paragraph sprawling story with the entire first paragraph explaining that due to some of their co-workers possibly also using reddit they aren't using real names, that they're posting on mobile, that english isn't their first language, that they created this account just to post this story. We'll hear about how they met their wife and other unrelated issues in their marriage, we'll learn about his previous 2 jobs, paragraphs of totally irrelevant details about their current workplace, a paragraph tangent about how one of their co-workers has trauma related to hair cutting and keeps their hair very long and it feels like maybe this is building up to have something to do with why the OP is always late coming home but it never connects. A weird tangent about the exact way his wife cleans the floor written as if it's actually a key part in ruling if he's an rear end in a top hat or not. And throughout it all they'll leave out tons of important details that the replies have to drag out of them. Like that they aren't being paid for the overtime they're putting in. Or that they have a newborn baby and his wife is desperate for his help after work.
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Nov 8, 2023 19:07
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Cowslips Warren posted:That is the great thing for social media, if you've ever wondered what horrible things you said or posted even two or three years ago, I'm sure you can find it on your Twitter feed or anyone else can find it. According to Facebook I was really, really bored when I was 19
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Nov 8, 2023 19:14
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Baronjutter posted:that english isn't their first language sometimes i wonder if this detail is so popular because they're fishing for compliments on how good their english is to get a similar but more socially acceptable endorphin rush than that of the more taboo option of fishing for compliments on how good they are at
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Nov 8, 2023 19:17
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Nov 8, 2023 19:21
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Nitnen posted:sometimes i wonder if this detail is so popular because they're fishing for compliments on how good their english is to get a similar but more socially acceptable endorphin rush than that of the more taboo option of fishing for compliments on how good they are at Probably more to avoid replies that say "could of? YTA" or other pedantry regarding minor misspellings/typos.
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Nov 8, 2023 19:33
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:I like girl, what do? Be a garrulous shitbox.
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Nov 8, 2023 19:33
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tinytort posted:
Finally a use case for the breast milk ice cream guy.
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Nov 8, 2023 19:35
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Baronjutter posted:It drives me insane when people write like 6 paragraphs where 6 sentences will do. Why do they do that? I mean it's a great window into what's wrong with their brains because often they have a simple problem with a simple solution. Is it a defensive mechanism to help them ignore how obvious the answer is by making it seem more complex? This happens because these people are posting the same way they talk and tell a story or ask for advice face to face. I have absolutely say there while my mother in law well spend a full 30 seconds arguing with her husband about if it was Tuesday or Wednesday when they were at the grocery store and if the eggs were 89 or 88 cents for a dozen. The story is about her sister who's in the hospital and I'm suffering through this whole the meander their way to 'oh it's not serious she had a sinus infection'. Repeat for the entire duration of the visit. It has to be inherited, I have to stop my wife and tell her the time of day and color of a car are irrelevant to setting the scene that takes place somewhere else and involves neither of those things. But then I'll get a flipped "oh my boss got arrested today" an zero other details. The company is 4 people do you still have a job if the owner is in jail? "Probably, it's not the first time. He once got arrested in Saudi Arabia." !!!!!????? No further details. People have a strange value of what matters.
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Nov 8, 2023 19:45
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I got married at twenty-three because I was a goddamn loving idiot.
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Nov 8, 2023 19:46
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Evil Willow posted:Boyfriend (27M) embarrassed us (27F) by insisting to our friends (27F) that she opens her relationship while she recovers from surgery. Bet you a dollar that he'd try to uhhhh 'find sex elsewhere' as soon as she got pregnant. Peg Sliderskew posted:It's "... the emotional rut in which I had previously been mired" you absolute ballsack! “That, sir, is arrant nonsense, up with which I will not put.” —Winston Churchill
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Nov 8, 2023 19:47
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Baronjutter posted:It drives me insane when people write like 6 paragraphs where 6 sentences will do. Why do they do that? I mean it's a great window into what's wrong with their brains because often they have a simple problem with a simple solution. Is it a defensive mechanism to help them ignore how obvious the answer is by making it seem more complex? this post could have been written as “i don’t like when posts are overly discursive”
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Nov 8, 2023 19:52
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:I like girl, what do? i like girl and girl like me back, should i change my name and leave town forever
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Nov 8, 2023 19:54
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mediaphage posted:this post could have been written as “i don’t like when posts are overly discursive” "post bad"
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Nov 8, 2023 19:54
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haveblue posted:"post bad" drat it
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Nov 8, 2023 19:59
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:i like girl and girl like me back, should i change my name and leave town forever My favourite genre of post is "I like girl and we live together, and at night as we cuddle in bed she kisses me on the forehead and says that I'm her everything and she would die for me. Does girl like me back?"
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Nov 8, 2023 19:59
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I got married at twenty-two and we're forty-two years married and counting. You're loving old lol
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Nov 8, 2023 20:06
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Theophany posted:I am extremely caremad about calling your child Silyndyr and gleefully explaining that it is pronounced like the shape with nary a second to consider whether you are actually brain damaged. Counterpoint: Thelonious Sphere Monk was a cool dude, and his parents did a good job.
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Nov 8, 2023 20:09
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Ravus Ursus posted:This happens because these people are posting the same way they talk and tell a story or ask for advice face to face. I’ve routed around this by saying “imagine you’re on a pay phone and have only 30 seconds to share the juiciest gossip you have. Give me the juice now.”
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Nov 8, 2023 20:14
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:i like girl and girl like me back, should i change my name and leave town forever You should pretend to be a cat and crawl out of the room meowing.
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Nov 8, 2023 20:16
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Cowslips Warren posted:
Oh poo poo, this is what we've been working on with the kid for months now. "If you don't want the (peas/apples/noodles/etc) just set them to the side and eat the rest of your food. Yelling or throwing or theatrically spitting out the half chewed food is not ok." She's 2 Glad we're nipping this in the bud now, that's just insufferably rude.
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Nov 8, 2023 20:18
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selec posted:I’ve routed around this by saying “imagine you’re on a pay phone and have only 30 seconds to share the juiciest gossip you have. Give me the juice now.” What's a pay phone Grandpa? And why are you wearing an onion on your belt?
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Nov 8, 2023 20:24
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wheatpuppy posted:What's a pay phone Grandpa? And why are you wearing an onion on your belt? “Okay, you know when you spend ten bucks to superchat the pedophile playing Minecraft you love and they have to read it out loud, but you can only fit in so many words into the superchat box?”
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Nov 8, 2023 20:27
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Ravus Ursus posted:This happens because these people are posting the same way they talk and tell a story or ask for advice face to face. Yeah it's a real issue with my kids. Whenever they hand something in that just meanders forever before getting to the point, I usually just give them a simple response: land the plane. Basically, cut down the unnecessary poo poo, get to the point and resubmit that.
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Nov 8, 2023 20:28
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People need to front-load their writing much more often. Put the main most important point right at the start, then follow that up with the evidence or context or story. At my work we had a lady come in and give a whole writing class on how to be concise and straight to the point. There's a tendency a lot of people have to put the actual main point last and force the reader to go through a slow buildup before reaching it. Like if your point is that you're planning on breaking up with your girlfriend, say that first right off the bat and THEN go into the details why. "My relationship sucks so I'm planning on breaking up with my girlfriend. Every since we met there's been communication issues. There's also the problem of her not wiping" and so on. Even if the "why" for your main point is long, always front-load because then the reader has the context for all the details. Don't start off with how you met, what your early relationship was like, your first big argument, the time you took a break and got back together, all the little things she does that annoy you, and then finally only at the end mention that because of all this you're planning on breaking up.
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Foo Diddley posted:AITA for posting a topless picture? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHC1230OpOg&t=4s Theophany posted:Is this like a bacterial sample? Nah, just sounds less perverted than "hot Finn yogurt" Ravus Ursus posted:People have a strange value of what matters. Feels like a whole lot of "this didn't affect me or my family/friends directly so it's not important"
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Nov 8, 2023 20:51
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Modal Auxiliary posted:I loving love this, I had no idea how much I needed a Leo Tolstoy e/n post in my life until today. I'm really tempted now... Write a bot to find an AITA post with less than 500 votes, and have chat-gpt rewrite it expanding it's length by at least ten fold in the style of: Tolstoy, Proust, Dickens, Walt Whitman, Meville and see if it gets more or less upvotes than the original.
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Baronjutter posted:People need to front-load their writing much more often. Put the main most important point right at the start, then follow that up with the evidence or context or story. At my work we had a lady come in and give a whole writing class on how to be concise and straight to the point. There's a tendency a lot of people have to put the actual main point last and force the reader to go through a slow buildup before reaching it. two hundred words to explain that people should get to the drat point
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edogawa rando posted:Yeah it's a real issue with my kids. Whenever they hand something in that just meanders forever before getting to the point, I usually just give them a simple response: land the plane. Basically, cut down the unnecessary poo poo, get to the point and resubmit that. If it's being "handed in", that sounds like it's for school. School taught me to meander forever before getting to the point, because getting to the point was too few words for the required assignment size.
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Pirate Radar posted:gently caress I should watch that movie again I love it a lot but the soundtrack is such a bizarre choice - wtf Andrew Powell? A rerelease with a more conventional soundtrack would be great but I don't think it's ever going to happen.
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Nov 8, 2023 21:10
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I got married at twenty-two and we're forty-two years married and counting. good job 
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Modal Auxiliary posted:You're loving old lol (turns it back on) Oh my God, he's right!
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Ravus Ursus posted:This happens because these people are posting the same way they talk and tell a story or ask for advice face to face. My God my in-laws are that way too. My sister in law once took five godforsaken minutes to share a story that did. not. need. to be five minutes long. Here is that story minus all the superfluous nonsense: One day, she saw a male cardinal bird. A couple days later, in a different neighborhood, she saw a female one. Lord I'm not looking forward to the holidays lol
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Baronjutter posted:People need to front-load their writing much more often. Put the main most important point right at the start, then follow that up with the evidence or context or story. At my work we had a lady come in and give a whole writing class on how to be concise and straight to the point. There's a tendency a lot of people have to put the actual main point last and force the reader to go through a slow buildup before reaching it. As an autistic person with a lot of autistic friends this might have just changed my whole life, I have never been able to put my finger on what annoys me about their style of storytelling and I have caught myself in the midst of doing exactly this and thinking "this is going terribly I am explaining myself awfully everyone hates me and I don't know why" more than once... I think this is it. And it's so simple and easily corrected... at least in theory. Something I can practice and communicate boundaries around at least. TY
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Arsenic Lupin posted:(turns off monitor) lmfao this is an excellent post and I appreciate it
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I had a coworker tell me about the airline losing his luggage once and how he had to try and buy underwear in a foreign country. This story took about 20 min, and it wasn't until the end that he also mentioned offhand that the reason it was so difficult to buy underwear was that a hurricane had just come through, and the building he was staying in had collapsed. 20 min of clothes shopping story, 10 second of fighting for his life mentioned as an aside.
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AITA For crying over my birthday dinner Hello Reddit, quote:
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For some context for this story, my brother aged twenty-three is a soldier in the army and just so happened to be able to visit us for my birthday! It was just the three of us for a long time, but my brother, like our father decided to join the military.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for striking out my own son? I'm so glad my dad was too much of a fat drunk to try being athletic when I was a kid because this would have 500% been him.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA For crying over my birthday dinner family looks out for one another, and sometimes that means keeping the peace while the golden child drinks your birthday dinner but seriously, lmao at this guy lining up multiple shots just going out to dinner with his parents. i wonder how long he'll be able to coast on his star student achievements
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Hughlander posted:I'm really tempted now... Here's Leo Tolstoy, who is annoyed that his siblings chew with their mouths open: Leo Tolstoy posted:Allow me to regale you with a tale of domestic torment, where my two elder siblings have emerged as the cacophonous protagonists in an enduring saga of auditory dissonance. Picture this: a respite before the flickering television screen, the tranquil hum of household life, disrupted by my brother's uncouth chewing and slurping, an auditory assault that drowns all other sounds. My sister, no less offensive in her gustatory display, indulges in a symphony of lip-smacking and raucous mastication. And, dear reader, I must clarify that this discord is not confined to the realm of crisp comestibles; rather, it is the very essence of their dining rituals. aita: i am declared the tormentor
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