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Idiot coworker just posted the Texas A&M names Obama 5th best president! poo poo. I think the guy's an A&M alum, so should I tell him to squeeze is balls in addition to telling him that's not how tied rankings work?
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Mar 23, 2014 18:33
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Post the picture from the Olympics where there was a tie and see if they get the reference
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Mar 23, 2014 18:47
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Guilty Spork posted:How am I supposed to read this as anything other than, "My parents are easily provoked to murder?" Grandparents, actually. Your parents are apparently too wussy to give you the murder you deserve.
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Mar 23, 2014 19:00
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LeJackal posted:
I tend to reply with the good old Socrates quote from 2600 years ago: some dead Greek geezer allegedly posted:The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. And then point out that as a teen you generally don't notice the shittier behaviour that your peers are doing, but as you grow up you don't see the well behaved kids and notice the arsehole teens stinking the place up more more.
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Mar 23, 2014 19:16
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LeJackal posted:Would you be as upset if they described the First Amendment as the right to an Abrahamic religion and a state-run newspaper? Or that the USA has a tricameral legislature? Or that George Washington was appointed president for life? The problem is that they were misrepresenting basic historical and factual civics. There are a lot of good responses to something this stupid but if their parents would have murdered them for not showing the appropriate level of "respect" then they are real shitbags and would have been imprisoned for life if they had followed through with that threat.
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Mar 23, 2014 20:17
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Apparently I don't get the joke. I initially wrote "Obama's a friend of the family?" and then changed it to "Pee pee doo doo obamas a bad president". I should just post the Aggie ball squeezing and the abused border collie.
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Mar 23, 2014 20:18
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For me the boomer dismissal of millenials was perfectly summed up by the goon in the freep thread or somewhere who is a Marine, fought in Fallujah and had PTSD. His dad kept giving him poo poo for being on disability. His dad, who was in the Air Force, never was in combat and was drawing disability himself 
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Mar 23, 2014 20:37
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SedanChair posted:For me the boomer dismissal of millenials was perfectly summed up by the goon in the freep thread or somewhere who is a Marine, fought in Fallujah and had PTSD. His dad kept giving him poo poo for being on disability. His dad, who was in the Air Force, never was in combat and was drawing disability himself Fortunately, the other goons/millenials are helping me deal with it  cuz drat, I was pretty overcome when he did it.
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Mar 23, 2014 21:24
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Mr Darcy posted:I tend to reply with the good old Socrates quote from 2600 years ago: I need more fonts for it to be a real image macro  
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Mar 23, 2014 23:16
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That's very well done. Bear your audience in mind- they're fairly old, and they won't be able to read that tiny grey text.
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Mar 23, 2014 23:47
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ClownSyndrome posted:I need more fonts for it to be a real image macro You do realize this will eventually find itself being forwarded in the right wing-o-sphere. Mr Darcy posted:And then point out that as a teen you generally don't notice the shittier behaviour that your peers are doing, but as you grow up you don't see the well behaved kids and notice the arsehole teens stinking the place up more more. Back when I worked as a cashier, the rudest customers were always at least in their 40s; I liked teenage customers because they tended to just get their stuff and get out. Blarghalt fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 23:52
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Blarghalt posted:Back when I worked as a cashier, the rudest customers were always at least in their 40s; I liked teenage customers because they tended to just get their stuff and get out. Well, you weren't their elder! "Respect your elders" doesn't say poo poo about "respect those idiot moocher millennials getting by on easy part time jobs" 
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Mar 24, 2014 00:14
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Blarghalt posted:Back when I worked as a cashier, the rudest customers were always at least in their 40s; I liked teenage customers because they tended to just get their stuff and get out. Whenever I see those silly fake stories about professors being smacked down by their dumbass students confirms to me that the author has never been in a college classroom.
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Mar 24, 2014 00:42
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One time, I was in a college class, and the professor asked a question, and I answered it right before anyone else and stunned her into silence. She was my mom and I was 9.
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Mar 24, 2014 01:03
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Blarghalt posted:Back when I worked as a cashier, the rudest customers were always at least in their 40s; I liked teenage customers because they tended to just get their stuff and get out. I work at a feed store and I've noticed the same thing; the old men in cowboy hats are always the one who talk down to me or throw a shitfit about the price of propane going up or their favorite item being out of stock. The other day I actually had a coworker lecture me on being respectful right after complaining about how lazy and stupid the homeless are for not having jobs.
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Mar 24, 2014 01:05
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Blarghalt posted:You do realize this will eventually find itself being forwarded in the right wing-o-sphere. You have to move the actual sourcing to where it can't be easily cropped out. Probably over the photo, too.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:36
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VideoTapir posted:You have to move the actual sourcing to where it can't be easily cropped out. Probably over the photo, too. Curl it around some part of Cosby's head, where most Photoshop attempts are going to become really obvious thanks to loss.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:40
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And change the photo to a someone other than Bill Cosby. I bet hardly any conservatives will notice.
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Mar 24, 2014 03:23
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VideoTapir posted:You have to move the actual sourcing to where it can't be easily cropped out. Probably over the photo, too. Don't be silly. Remove the sourcing and release it into the wild.  I'm still waiting for this thing I made to come back:  It's a slight edit of an actual chart:  Like a time capsule, one day may it return to me as one part of a 10 chain long "RE:RE:RE YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS OH WOW GIRL SAYS IT RIGHT" and I will know my part in the monstrosity.
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Mar 24, 2014 03:26
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Cross-posting this from Idiots on Social MediaMedieval Medic posted:I nearly had an aneurysm when I saw a friend post this. The irony is she got pregnant as a teenager and is a single mother, living off her parents. Most, if not all, are either pretty huge lies or stretching it reaaaally far. You'd think we live in a socialist paradise. It's as if developing a cranky, paranoid and bigoted conservative movement is a right of passage that occurs once a given nation reaches a prescribed level of income per capita.
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Mar 24, 2014 05:00
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Taaaaaaarb! posted:It's as if developing a cranky, paranoid and bigoted conservative movement is a right of passage that occurs once a given nation reaches a prescribed level of income per capita. Honestly, that wouldn't surprise me. In my experience, richer people tend to be more conservative (at least fiscally), and paranoia would come with wanting to protect your money. That said, I can't actually figure out why that would engender bigotry.
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Mar 24, 2014 05:21
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Moatman posted:Honestly, that wouldn't surprise me. In my experience, richer people tend to be more conservative (at least fiscally), and paranoia would come with wanting to protect your money. Me and people like me got where we are because we're just so awesome. People that are not like me did not do as well in life because they are inferior. Wealthy people tend to be white guys.
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Mar 24, 2014 05:24
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Moatman posted:Honestly, that wouldn't surprise me. In my experience, richer people tend to be more conservative (at least fiscally), and paranoia would come with wanting to protect your money. Because in a class-based society, the accumulation of wealth is accomplished only by directly or indirectly oppressing some other people, probably a large group. Oppressing people is emotionally very difficult, and one of the major psychological defenses against this is to dehumanize the group you're oppressing. Further, there's always a background level of fear associated with the process: what if they take back my ill-gotten gains? What if they gain the upper hand and act like I do? Once you have a class of people who you consider your lessers, but nevertheless fear, outright hatred and intentional suppression follow naturally. See: rich white Americans vs poor and/or black people.
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Mar 24, 2014 06:42
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Mornacale posted:Because in a class-based society, the accumulation of wealth is accomplished only by directly or indirectly oppressing some other people, probably a large group. Oppressing people is emotionally very difficult, and one of the major psychological defenses against this is to dehumanize the group you're oppressing. Further, there's always a background level of fear associated with the process: what if they take back my ill-gotten gains? What if they gain the upper hand and act like I do? And thats why all rich people are complete inhuman monsters. Yep, each and every one. Nothing good has ever come from a rich person - nobody ever got rich and then started a charity. Lets try not painting with the same size brush as them, and inset some social nuance, hmm?
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Mar 24, 2014 08:33
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Fulchrum posted:And thats why all rich people are complete inhuman monsters. Yep, each and every one. Nothing good has ever come from a rich person - nobody ever got rich and then started a charity. I'm not saying I 100% agree with Mornacale, but this is a pretty ridiculous interpretation of what they posted.
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Mar 24, 2014 09:20
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Leospeare posted:I'm not saying I 100% agree with Mornacale, but this is a pretty ridiculous interpretation of what they posted. Mornacale posted:Because in a class-based society, the accumulation of wealth is accomplished only by directly or indirectly oppressing some other people, probably a large group. "interpretation"? He's saying quite plainly that wealth can only be gotten through oppression. Either he's trying to say that every single person with a net worth of 7 figures or more is a dickensian factory owner, or he's doing that retarded thing again where he describes the actions of Bill Gates and Jeffrey Brotman as oppression.
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Mar 24, 2014 09:50
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Fulchrum posted:"interpretation"? He's saying quite plainly that wealth can only be gotten through oppression. Either he's trying to say that every single person with a net worth of 7 figures or more is a dickensian factory owner, or he's doing that retarded thing again where he describes the actions of Bill Gates and Jeffrey Brotman as oppression. Yes, interpretation. You're reading his post through the lens of your own prejudices and experiences and viewpoint, just like the rest of us. There are more ways to interpret what he said than distil it to those two cartoonish extremes. I don't think Mornacale encapsulated the entirety of wealthy human existence in two paragraphs, nor was he trying to.
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Mar 24, 2014 10:20
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Mornacale made a categorical statement about wealthy humans, so even if he wasn't trying to, he was in fact "encapsulating their existence". I am aware that the social construction of meaning is a thing that exists, but it doesn't justify his overly broad assertion- or your bizarre attempt to use two levels of meaning for interpretation to defend him.
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Mar 24, 2014 13:19
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Mo_Steel posted:Don't be silly. Remove the sourcing and release it into the wild. I love your disclaimer.
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Mar 24, 2014 13:57
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He also says indirectly and yes Bill Gates does oppress people indirectly.
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Mar 24, 2014 13:57
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Discendo Vox posted:Mornacale made a categorical statement about wealthy humans, so even if he wasn't trying to, he was in fact "encapsulating their existence". I am aware that the social construction of meaning is a thing that exists, but it doesn't justify his overly broad assertion- or your bizarre attempt to use two levels of meaning for interpretation to defend him. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyperbole?s=t Maybe you should take another look at your custom title.
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Mar 24, 2014 14:13
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Fulchrum posted:And thats why all rich people are complete inhuman monsters. Yep, each and every one. Nothing good has ever come from a rich person - nobody ever got rich and then started a charity. Amen! Or at least, they never started one that was good enough to cancel out their crimes. Their bullshit charities aren't worth it. I know you said something about nuance later in your post but the first part was so accurate that I left it off.
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Mar 24, 2014 14:34
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Whenever I see those silly fake stories about professors being smacked down by their dumbass students confirms to me that the author has never been in a college classroom. Not sure if this is entirely in the spirit of this thread, but I was going through the trailers on Hulu and came across this one. My roommates and I watched it a couple times laughing hysterically. It is the ACLU LIEBERAL PROFESSOR LAWYER/screenplay writers never been to college/Christian persecution complex rolled up into what looks like the most boring movie ever made. Plus Hercules AND Superman are in it. Amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMjo5f9eiX8 edit Oh god the part at 1:44 is amazing. Hackers film 1995 fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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Mar 24, 2014 14:40
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LeJackal posted:Would you be as upset if they described the First Amendment as the right to an Abrahamic religion and a state-run newspaper? Or that the USA has a tricameral legislature? Or that George Washington was appointed president for life? The problem is that they were misrepresenting basic historical and factual civics. 
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Mar 24, 2014 16:28
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That's a really nice parody- great job matching the artifacting on the original.
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Mar 24, 2014 17:10
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Discendo Vox posted:That's a really nice parody- great job matching the artifacting on the original. I've been reading this thread too much, because that was the first thing I noticed too.
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Mar 24, 2014 18:21
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Not sure if this is entirely in the spirit of this thread, but I was going through the trailers on Hulu and came across this one. My roommates and I watched it a couple times laughing hysterically. It is the ACLU LIEBERAL PROFESSOR LAWYER/screenplay writers never been to college/Christian persecution complex rolled up into what looks like the most boring movie ever made. Plus Hercules AND Superman are in it. Amazing. While waiting for a haircut, a lady pulled that classic southern social test, "So where do you go to church?" and was shocked by my atheism. She asked whether I believe in evolution (yes). After talking about evolution for a short while it was clear she lacked a 9th-grade understanding of biology, and she asked "So how does that explain the universe?" I honestly couldn't think of a concise way to explain origin != abiogenesis != evolution, or that evolution has nothing to do with the big bang etc, especially to a teacher in her 50s (special ed, don't worry). My silence was caused by trying to analyze her understanding of things and how wrong it was, but it's easy to imagine her typing up a forward-worthy story about winning a fight for God. Same for someone conflating expectation with faith, I've had several people say things like "You've never seen [$1M/Oxygen/China], but you have faith it exists!" and again, it's stunning for a bit when you haven't heard someone earnestly say it before. And it's always been the religious person starting it with some social test or personal line of questioning, I'm not a proselytizer.
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Mar 24, 2014 18:33
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VideoTapir posted:I love your disclaimer. I felt like roughly saying  was appropriate, particularly with it hidden just outside of plain sight.sweart gliwere posted:Same for someone conflating expectation with faith, I've had several people say things like "You've never seen [$1M/Oxygen/China], but you have faith it exists!" and again, it's stunning for a bit when you haven't heard someone earnestly say it before. And it's always been the religious person starting it with some social test or personal line of questioning, I'm not a proselytizer. Yeah, the important thing you realize once you've actually been confronted with that question is that, no, you don't have faith China exists. You believe China exists, and if you were so inclined you could test and disprove that belief. The disprovability part is important in distinguishing belief and faith.
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Mar 24, 2014 18:45
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sweart gliwere posted:Same for someone conflating expectation with faith, I've had several people say things like "You've never seen [$1M/Oxygen/China], but you have faith it exists!" Yes, I have But really, the response to "I don't know" is not "GOD!" Why is the sky blue? Don't know? GOD! atmospheric pressure, composition, refraction, etc.
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