ibntumart posted:

Geniasis posted:

I seem to remember that cats were part of either that experiment or a similar one only it ended up not working when the cats realized that they got a treat at the end regardless of their performance.

Fuckers.

ibntumart posted:

*fart noises*

sweeperbravo posted:

It's one of those types of things that could be lucrative, might be something you enjoy on a basic level, but always turns uncomfortable when the conversation topic at a party of adult grown-ups turns to "What do you do for a living."

ibntumart posted:

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

blue belt in taekwondo. You can get a blue belt in like six months by doing the bare minimum of effort. Source: I was higher than a blue belt in taekwondo

RenegadeStyle1 posted:

Oh really how many teenagers have you beaten up at once?!

lemonslol posted:

When I was in middle school there was this kid, Dalton--but Dalton went by Daisuke, Daisuke Takashi Smith. He liked anime and manga, I liked school wrestling, but our paths crossed one day and he and I ended up becoming friends. I started to read the manga, I couldn't watch too much anime though, but Daisuke had some sort of mailing list where he would send translators money and they would send him VHS tapes of anime in return, and after he watched them all he would give them to me. Daisuke was very passionate about anime, it consumed him. He would answer questions in class in Japanese, and then say " Whoops, sorry my inner NihonJin came out". A ninja manga, Naruto had just started being produced and he would get fan-translated copies shipped to him, and he started to convince people that he was a ninja, and that he had 'powers'.

Daisuke, got into an argument with some of the jocks on the bus home from detention once, and I happened to be there. He claimed that he had the power to numb his body, and the he would use this in a fight to not feel pain. Obviously middle school kids want to see that, and he called me over from the back of the bus and handed me an extremely sharp pencil. Then he began concentrating, flexing and muttering things in Japanese under his breath; all of a sudden he shouts " STAB ME NOWWWWW" I stabbed him so hard, that when the dust settled and I stared at his arm there was a pencil inside of it, and it was oozing blood. Tears ran down Daisuke's eyes, and he just pulled the pencil out, ignored that more blood was coming out at this point and said " told you guys" and pulled down his sleeve, and pretended he was okay. He ended up passing out on the bus, and we had to tell the bus driver, and the paramedics came and I didn't get home until very late. He ended up saying he did it to himself and transferred schools shortly after.

I ended up running into this guy well into college, he had started his own anime fan-dubbing studio, which he was so eager to show me. On the ride there I learned that he actually got " Takashin Jin Smith" as a tattoo on his upper arm, in old English font, and under it in Japanese. The studio was a shed, with one of those Dell XPS 400 computers in the back, and a couch, and walls covered with anime posters. It was also at the back of his parents home, though he framed that situation in a way where it sounded like his parents were living with him, I didn't believe him.



e: writing this I realized that my middle school had a lot of these zany stories. We had people having sex with sandwich baggies. This one kid got hit with a 2x4 by some rival gang, came to school and proceeded to staple his arm until the teachers would pay attention to him. I used to have "Roleplay Sex" with this girl who was way into anime roleplaying by passing notes to each other, and in the notes we would describe what our 'avatars' were doing to each other.
The boys at are school started this trend where we would pee on each others shoes at the urinal, and the staff had to do an entire assembly about it. There was also this game we played where we would hit each other in the nuts if you did something effeminate, and that lead to a lot of parents trying to sue; this was mostly because kids were taking it too far and one kid would hold your arms behind your head, and the other would just kick you in the dick. I lost my virginity in middle school, but most of my friends did--everyone was having sex, it's pretty disgusting considering that middle school is ages 10-13?

Middle school is weird, I taught high school for a bit, and aside from anime kids being anime, nothing like what I experienced ever happened.

kizudarake posted:

I used to have "Roleplay Sex" with this girl who was way into anime roleplaying by passing notes to each other, and in the notes we would describe what our 'avatars' were doing to each other.

Furia posted:

How much do you want to bet that was the other guys doing this to laugh at him?

kizudarake posted:

How much you wanna bet she looked like this?

cash crab posted:

This is incredible. Where did you find this?

Here's some wackiness that totally happened posted:

Dorothy and I were on our very first date. It was autumn. She had written to me (via e-mail) that she liked being spontaneous. I thought it would be fun to make a leaf pile and jump in it.

"When was the last time you did anything like this?" I asked her.

"Um... when I was five," she said uncomfortably.

When I finished putting the pile together (in record time. It was at least half as tall as she was, and she was a little over five feet), I invited her to have the honors of jumping into it first. I really wanted to jump into it first, myself, but this was a date, after all.

"Uh... no," she said, "I'm not five anymore."

I had made an awesome, colossal leaf pile, and wasn't about to leave it there for some random neighborhood rapscallion to jump into. The fruits of my labor were for none but myself and/or my loved ones. Therefore, I took a big running jump and pile-drove right into it. So many leaves. It was heavenly.

At some point, Dorothy pulled out her phone and said into it, "Hey. Can you come pick me up? The guy's playing in a leaf pile and won't stop."

The conversation up until then had been boring. The leaf pile was a far better date, and I told her so. She didn't say anything to that, but she went to a street corner where I'm assuming she was picked up by whoever she called or else abducted.

Surely a real OKCupid profile excerpt posted:

I'm really good at

I am a ventriloquist. That means I can make it sound like something else is talking while keeping my own mouth closed. This is a true talent and really works. One time I used it when a gun guy was chasing me with a friend and I made it sound like my friend said something and so the gun guy shot him and not me. I sometimes compete in competitions and win cash prizes.

Tunicate posted:

sweeperbravo posted:

kidna makes you wonder what's going on with Laura

Leavemywife posted:

Sounds like they should anthropologize.

VoteTedJameson posted:

Anthropologist here. I think the person who wrote that may be confused about what "anthropology" is.

sweeperbravo posted:

Lmao @ people who believe feminism entirely boils down to "men oppressing women." Yup, definitely no more nuance to it than that.

My fave line though:
" Just look at any society after a war...25% of the men killed...what would the women always do? They immediately run out and tried to find new men.""

Yeah, ladies, if your S.O. kicks it in the war, just spend the rest of your life sitting around alone. You don't deserve to ever have a loving, romantic relationship after that, you selfish whore. If the roles were reversed, men would remain chaste forevermore, certainly!


(Also, wasn't htere like, a serious issue in the Soviet Union during the postwar years where women outnumbered men really drastically so the surviving men could kind of go with whoever they wanted and a lot of women ended up alone because there were so few men? And I would imagine this has happened for other societies as well? Man, yeah, sure sounds like a feminist paradise to me)

nice


You mean it's not just ??????

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I've known quite a few female anthropologists academics and heard many horror stories about the sexism rampant

RNG posted:

Women don't know how good they have it trying to find any means possible of trying to feed their children whose father died in war.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Worse than death for the men is the knowledge that their widows automatically get full custody.