GirlBones posted:

Well this thread took quite a turn...

Shai-Hulud posted:

Well if I learned something from romcoms is that it's really hard for Americans to say "I love you" and it's a really big deal if they do. Real life is like the movies right?

Triskelli posted:

Okay, *I* refuse to believe this is anything other than a lovely troll. No one could (or should) think they can tell lies like these and still be taken seriously.

WickedHate posted:

Great story about committing fraud and manipulating people.

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

If you've found an idiot willing to throw money at you for nothing, there's nothing wrong with taking it, in my opinion. I'd just be worried about some crazy Wiccan tracking me down because my druidic shaman luck spell didn't work or whatever.

Then again, from what I've seen of the user feedback on those pages, it makes it seem like the act of paying for a spell works as a placebo and they actually believe that they're luckier or people find them more attractive or whatever they paid for. So I guess it works out well for everyone in the end.

Imaduck posted:

poo poo man, that's bonkers. Truly a zany crew.

Pththya-lyi posted:

Speaking of Queen songs, I was at a bar last night and a bunch of people sang "Bohemian Rhapsody. . ."

. . . It was a karaoke bar.

But I swear, that song is following me!

Gaunab posted:

This is on the front page of imgur. Stories came from reddit.

sweeperbravo posted:

A migraine is just a big headache right? Literally exactly the same, right? I just get cool martyr cred for calling it a migraine instead of a headache?

Araenna posted:

I get those sometimes.

Also, what's with all of you taking Excedrin. Go get some imitrex. I inject it, migraine goes away.

Khazar-khum posted:

After a while, Imitrex stops working for some people. Then you graduate to Relpax.

No headache with migraine is because it's a neurological disorder, not just head pain.

tacodaemon posted:

Breaking News from Huffington Post: The Guy Who Wrote About Buying All Of Burger King's Pies Disappeared

(Disappeared from Reddit, that is.)

quote:

"At the time my apartment was ridden with both roaches and bedbugs, I threw away nearly every possession I own and then went through great expense while moving to ensure my problems did not come with me, thankfully it worked. Since that time I have moved across the country twice."

bringmyfishback posted:

Where is eighteen not a plus size? If she's in the UK, it's on the lower end of plus, but still plus.

InediblePenguin posted:

Non-plus sizes go up to 18 at Walmart, Target, JC Penney, and Sears in my experience, even when those stores do have a plus section and that plus section also includes size 18W. My mother wears a size 18 but not an 18W so I have seen where they stock that size in a variety of stores. I cannot explain why our individual experiences seem to differ.

Tunicate posted:

I think the law has to take into account two-year-olds. Who are pretty stupid.

jodai posted:

We were the honors class. You know, with the 16 year old 7th grader and the kid who proudly pissed his pants. The height of wit was "That's what she said". We were just a bunch of smart kids, with our own bus and everything.

Sentient Data posted:

I'm still just confused why everyone is suddenly calling them balaclavas instead of "ski masks" which is what they've been known as in the US (for the past few decades, at least). Is everyone so swept up in the fear porn that they default to a word that sounds foreign so they can make the person seem more threatening?

Minarchist posted:

Holy poo poo its just epinephrine it's not like it's going to become the new hot street drug. What kind of rear end in a top hat judge would fault anyone for using it to save someone's life or take away their license to operate over it?

SodomyGoat101 posted:

Y'all are pretty hosed up.

quote:

It’s bad enough that we’re forced to go with providers who have legit monopolies, but to be told flat out by a technician that my kids can’t watch their favorite show on Netflix because they’re in “negotiations” and instead I have to wade through the Pornographic Pool of Filth (not that I”m complaining) that is HULU to find something kid-friendly because Comcast likes them best is decidedly poo poo

Araenna posted:

All else aside, just because you can stand doesn't mean you're not disabled. This is why when I was overweight, and say, in a lot of pain or recovering from surgery, I wouldn't use the carts anyway, or would be embarrassed to use my walker. It's hard enough being young and disabled, and getting stares for using things like that or using handicapped parking. God forbid being disabled lead to you gaining weight as well, now you're obviously just lazy.

phosdex posted:

Isn't that exactly what you'd do? Why would you even keep him as a customer to begin with? Willing to bet that place is out of business.

Also, my parents are from New Jersey, and ordering a pie was a phrase I've heard/used quite a bit.

Pakled posted:

Shintaro posted:

I actually consider this one believable, but the 10 year old isn't wise beyond her years, she's repeating something she heard an adult say as a joke, and took as truth. poo poo happens all the time.

axolotl farmer posted:

Being male sucks sometimes

During lunch today on recess from jury duty I went to a nearby McDonald's to eat since it was within walking distance. It's was a larger franchise with a Play Place(TM). I generally prefer to eat in those areas during school hours since they tend to be relatively deserted and less noisy.

While I was eating, a mother brought her 4-5 year old daughter into the area to play while she went to order their food. I don't think she saw me as I was sitting at a side table, slightly obstructed by a trash bin.

The little girl immediately commenced climbing and playing which brought a smile to my face. Her laughter and excitement was a welcome relief after hours of boring testimony and deposition for a truly mundane civil litigation trial.

I was mid-bite of my fish sandwich when the little girl fell hard and started bawling. My parental instincts kicked in (two boys, 12 and 7), and without even thinking I jumped up and ran to her to make sure she was okay. I was cooing and making soothing noises, telling her she was going to be okay while simultaneously looking for cuts, scrapes or potential broken bones. Again without thinking, after I saw she was physically unharmed, I hugged her tight and picked her up to comfort her. She was simply a bit shaken and frightened because of the fall. She did not seem afraid of me at all, and in fact hugged me back as tightly as I was hugging her.

Just then, her mother comes in and screams at me to put her daughter down "right loving now, pervert!"

I immediately start trying to tell the mother about her daughters fall as I am handing the little girl over to her. I am trying to get it out that the girl is okay, just a little shaken up, but the mother has gone ballistic, and I am slowly realizing how this situation must seem to her. I felt my face immediately flush red with shame although I know I did nothing wrong.

Insult to injury is added when the Manager and a few crew members rush in behind the still screaming mother and inform me that I need to leave or the police will be called. I look in their faces and see condemnation, judgment, disgust.... to them I am a monster, a pedophile about to hurt a little girl. Still in the grip of a feeling of shame I cannot overcome, I mumble some asinine apology and simply leave without even collecting my food.

I hate the fact that as a man I cannot rush to the aid of a child in need without having to worry about how it might appear to others, but that is the sad truth of our society. A man expressing any interest in a child, not his own, is immediately viewed with hostility and distrust.

Rationally, I know I did nothing wrong. The true fault lay with the mother for leaving her child unsupervised in a place where she might be injured. But all I can think about now is how quickly that feeling of shame washed over me. It was overpowering and almost immediate once my brain started processing the situation and how others must view it.

I apologize for the long post, but I had to get this off my chest. I feel like a little piece of my soul died today.

Noyemi K posted:

The guy styles himself as some kind of underappreciated great intellect and says he can tell you more about the history of philosophy and psychology than someone with a bachelors', and then proceeded (in later posts) to demonstrate no understanding of what life was like before his time. But anyway:

Someone helpfully pointed out that the definition of "morals" changes with the wind and the "good old days" idiots talk about are STDH. Way to know your history of philosophy and psychology better than someone with(out) a bachelor's!
"I'm not bitter and have an unhealthy view of women at all, they're just whores!" STDH bolded of course. Probably "fit" in the sense that the cheeto dust "fits" neatly into his neckbeard.

kirbysuperstar posted:

StealthArcher posted:

The term "breeder" at least to me seems to imply peerage. Can't really be peer to a mother you irrationally hate as a neckbearded dude.

Zaphod42 posted:

I remember when I saw Spirited Away in theaters, a bunch of parents took their young children because its a cartoon so obviously its for little kids. As soon as the scene happened where the girls' parents get turned into pigs, like half the audience erupted in loud crying and had to be taken out of the theater. What the hell people.

Rudager posted:

You know that "Mums and Bubs" sessions are a legit thing at movie theaters, they're usually on in the morning time on a weekday.

MindlessHavok posted:

That's not even the point I was trying to make to him. The point of charitable actions aren't for you to tell people how super awesome and giving you are, it's about doing something nice for someone else without regard for how it affects you. I told him it was ridiculous for the "person" to post in the way they did and it comes off as fake and self-serving.

Had it been the Uber driver with a post about "hey this cool thing happened today" it's much more believable.

He told me I didn't understand the value of giving and was a heartless person.

I help run a charity that has people dress up as Disney characters and visit terminally ill kids and he's dressed up as a character before at my request.

Murphy Brownback posted:

There are so many things about that Dr Who ringtone story that didn't happen. Has this person never seen a jeep? Unless you're wedged down on the floor in the back I can't see how you could possibly be laying down so nobody could see you. Also why was she letting the phone just ring without answering? You're supposed to be waiting for someone, it's probably them. Even if we assume there is a single person on earth (let alone 5, in the same parking garage at the same time) that would react that way to a ringtone, the story just makes no sense.

And even if we ignore all these things that didn't happen and accept it as true, it still is really sad if that is the greatest event in anyone's life.

Tunicate posted:

A compendium of Birthday_Sads_That_Didn't_Happen

https://imgur.com/gallery/oPZdl