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I just find it irritating because I can't stand the smell. There are lockers right behind my desk at work, so of course I often have a heavy smoker walking in after a smoke break, stinking up the air because his locker is right behind me, and it's just unpleasant.
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I had a similar irritation when I got the box set of One foot in the Grave and started watching it at home (I still lived with my parents at the time). My mom came in during the initial episode and when the character got into a funny situation she immediately ruined it by yelling "I don't believe it!" and it's just like, that's not an established catchphrase until at least season 2, and the first episode is actually quite somber compared to the rest of the series.
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Oct 5, 2015 06:19
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Also, in my experience the catchphrase, in-joke or signature scene is never the actual best part of the medium in question, they are only the easiest to run into the ground with no context. In musicals it is rarely the "Signature" song that I find my favourite, eg in Evita I find the "Waltz between Eva and Che" and "Goodnight and Thank you" to be far more memorable than "Don't Cry for me Argentina", but pop-culture doesn't ruin them because they only work in context. Also there are other jokes in the Portal series that are much funnier than the Cake, Lemons and Space trifecta, and I don't even find the lemon scene that funny, due to context. The Lemon Scene is Cave Johnson having a severe mental breakdown after being faced with his own mortality via space rocks coating his lungs, resulting in an inevitable and painful death, that panics him so badly he orders his employees to force his assistant's mind into a computer and force her to run the company when he dies.
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I hate stupid questions in response to doing something unusual. I went to see The Marriage of Figaro last night at my local cinema (being streamed worldwide from the Royal Opera House  ) and was telling my colleagues how good it was, and some were interested because it was unusual, but one of them couldn't help but ask the loving million-dollar question. Say it With Me Now:What did you do that for? Not "Why that particular opera?". Nothing intelligent. Just the most retarded, anti-intellectual standby he could think of. I just said "Because I wanted to, duh" but I internally was like "Well a mugger strapped a timebomb to my right testicle and was told that it would go off in 5 hours if I didn't go watch and opera RIGHT NOW! Why do you think, jackass?" Such an annoying question...
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Oct 6, 2015 21:49
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They're nurses. Every third word is likely a synonym for "poop" :P
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Oct 9, 2015 15:11
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cash crab posted:But it creates jobs To be fair, people leaving garbage everywhere is good for you. :P Also, on the sensitivity note regarding death, I'm not that bad but I tend to use humour as a coping mechanism, but it's always a ways removed from the actual death/event. Example: My grandfather dies a few months ago, and when chatting with the funeral staff after the service I said that the real reason people bowed their heads praying at a funeral specifically was so that they could be soothed by the Worlds Ugliest Carpet cheering them up. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 06:43 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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I grew up in a province that didn't have roaches and I saw my first one not more than two months ago. It was huge, and I am horrified to learn that they fly. Awful loving things.
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AlphaKretin posted:Sorry! Seems like an ironic way to lose friends if you singing Popular
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Ear worms annoy me too. My solution is to force something else over it - musicals help because a good one is pretty drat memorable. I accept no responsibility for loss of friends as a result of accidentally singing out loud when remembering Popular
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As far as I'm aware, no, but there is a PYF Musicals thread?
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Oct 11, 2015 05:38
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I have the smaller kind of Centipedes in my apartment but I'm ok with them, as they rarely come out. They live under the windowsill of my bathroom if they are even still there, but the only times I ever saw them was when I left a washcloth on the windowsill and it crawled underneath. My washcloths no longer live in the bathroom, now they just visit.
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On the 'invisible illness' front when I came down with appendicitis I had no idea that that was what it was. I initially dismissed it as a stomache bug and tried just staying at home and drinking water. When it didn't go away on it's own I made an appointment with a doctor for the end of the week (The next available time slot). I walked the mile and a half to reach the doctor's office, and was told about what was actually happening after a few tests (namely the finger-in-the-butt, where does it hurt? test) and immediately after my Brain heard the word appendicitis everything just stopped working properly. While waiting for the ambulance I had plastered the bathroom with vomit/bile and then stopped being able to stand up. Beginning of the day I was walking 1.5 miles, 4 hours later walking under my own power at all was difficult. It turned out that I got lucky - it had started leaking and by the time of the operation, a tube had to be put in my stomache cavity to drain the bile. If I had waited any longer to be seen I may have been looking at it bursting, and maybe killing me. loving close one. (In my defence I had never had appendicitis before [Of course :P] so had no frame of reference).
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Bear in mind with my appendicitis story I am in the UK so all the poo poo was on the NHS. I feel sorry for you guys with bills to worry about. 
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Oct 13, 2015 22:22
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Nettles Coterie posted:
Reminds me of at the Tesco trying to buy new exercise books, they were in packs of 3 but were being sold separately for some reason, but they hadn't made stickers for the individual books so there was no way to scan them.
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Nov 26, 2015 08:59
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On the subject of TV shows and bad storytelling a good comparison is Humans (about human-like sentient robots and societies distrust of them) and Dr Norrell and Mr Strange(about two men trying to restore English Magic to it's former glory during the napoleonic wars), as they both tell a story over the course of 8-10 episodes but Strange and Norrell just does it better. Humans is a very slow burn and doesn't really seem to do much at first, it's just build up. By the time the series is half over, most of the audience probably were in danger of losing patience and quitting watching, although the last few episodes were more interesting. Strange and Norrell however, kept attention much better by having a Big Effect Spell in each episode, and by the end of it multiple insane spells were being fired off all over the place as the tension between the tense Norrell who feared the faerie folk behind most old magic and would have nothing to do with them; Strange, who drove himself to madness because he believed it would make his magic better, and it did; and the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair who had his own dark motives as one of the fae folk previously mentioned.
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Dec 14, 2015 23:29
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The Sainsbury's in dronfield has a mirror that is placed in direct view of the urinals, facing the door. Anyone who enters gets a eyeful of the penis of the person nearest to it unless that person is trying really hard to hide it.
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Jan 18, 2016 07:48
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Screaming Idiot posted:How can you turn down Trent Reznor so quickly? Because she didn't want to get Nine inch Nailed.
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Jan 22, 2016 09:17
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Our cat was an independant indoor cat, in that she mainly lived indoors but liked to be let out do do cat things, like pooping and hunting, or just sleeping somewhere quiet. It took some time to get her to stop bringing her prey in but she stopped eventually, a few months into being ours. We had her for 10 years before her death. She made it to 11, something important just shut down. We'll never know exactly what killed her, just age related complications. She collapsed in the kitchen, held on for a few hours then went limp.
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Jan 22, 2016 22:57
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Ours used to enjoy sleeping on one of our beds, it varied. When she chose my parents bed I'd lie next to her and pet her a little, then just lie with her for a bit 
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Jan 22, 2016 23:03
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cash crab posted:
It's probably an easy mistake to make without prior knowledge considering most vertebrates start off in the womb/eggshell looking very similar, only differing after 5 weeks or so when specialisations like limbs and gills start coming in (There's an old diagram of the embryos of a Human, Chicken, Lizard (of some kind) and some kind of fish too, until 5 weeks (second layer) there is no real noticeable difference) so you could probably quite easily fall into the trap of "Oh, a mammal that gives live birth is bleeding from it's womb just before ovulation/heat, must be a period" Here's the Diagram in question: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~pine/book1qts/embryo-compare.html
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grate deceiver posted:Haeckel's embryo drawings are well known to be bullshit, it even says so in the picture you linked. Sorry, didn't notice that part of the text.
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Strudel Man posted:If we're talking about words - "diffuse" instead of "defuse." You don't diffuse a bad situation, dammit. I swear, it's at least twice as common as the correct word. You can too diffuse a bad situation. You just need to be creative how you delegate. If you need to harvest an enormous amount of crops that are going to go bad in a few hours due to age and all your equipment has broken down, give 3 friends extra scythes and voila! The problem has been split between 4 people, effectively diffused 
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Feb 1, 2016 23:56
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Strudel Man posted:If the crops are going to go bad in a few hours I'm not sure that harvesting them faster is really a solution to your problem. I said diffused not solved :P. Now it's everyones problem! Yaay sharing!
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Feb 2, 2016 13:41
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I hate when you're approaching a traffic crossing and you see the light has been red for a while so there's no way you'll make it before the light goes green again and traffic flows. So you end up just slowing down, ambling to the light waiting for it to turn so you can push the button and get a full cycle to cross the road with. I also hate when a car gets Stuck between the lights so it is straddling the crossing because it got cocky, it is rush hour and the cars in front have all stopped due to another light so you have to sidle around the drat thing:code:
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Feb 20, 2016 07:55
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On a similar note I believe all car horns should be made out of SPIDERS! That way people will only touch the loving thing when ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY! I believe this sums up my Driving Peeves nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWwiKjCli94
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One thing I've always hated is when people get bitchy about me liking "childrens' media" ie cartoons, family movies and stuff like that, or weirder stuff like LP videos. I've moved out of my parent's house, budget properly and eat well, It's not like I'm a tremendous manchild. I've got enough reality and I'm dealing fine, don't judge me for my taste in escapist media goddammit... Edit: It's probably partially because I don't enjoy a lot of media that people consider 'adult' media, though there are exceptions (I fell asleep during Casablanca but I fully enjoyed the Artist and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane). I've never seen some movies because I don't give a poo poo about the Genres as a whole, like I've never enjoyed mafia stories much because I can't bring myself to care about the characters because a lot of their problems are entirely their own fault. I understand that that is the structure of every tragedy, the main character undone by their own flaws, but often characters have things that you can like about them as well, and Tough and Loyal are not inherently likable things. They just make a bad person worse. The most egregious thing about those kinds of stories, for me, is that any talk of love for anyone or anything just falls flat. Like with Falcone in Gotham, my reaction to his refrain of 'I love this city' is 'Then why did you corrupt the poo poo out of it and turn it into a lawless hellhole idiot?' BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 23:02 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Also avoid getting caught in bad weather for the rest of your life. I hope your resigned to lugging an umbrella around everywhere forever. My cold came because of getting caught in a Hailstorm in Mid Spring! England's bizarre weather in action.
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Apr 12, 2016 22:05
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Wrath of Mordark posted:Wait, our weather carries viral infections now? I never implied that it did, but can't it lower your body temperature and weaken your immune system to make you more susceptible? I often get colds when caught in bad weather.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:12
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Short for "Casual". Diabeetus took to using it in RP videos a bunch a couple of years ago to piss Slowbeef off
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It reminds me of the time a few years ago when I still lived with my parents - I locked myself out of the house and got panicked and frustrated for a few hours as I couldn't get in contact with anyone. On a whim I decided to try my french window that led into my bedroom. It opened and let me in, to my surprise, and I realised that the last time we had it open on purpose was during a barbecue a few months prior. One of our back doors had been unlocked for months without us knowing about it. The best/worst part? My computer was directly by that french window. All a thief would have had to do was reach in and disconnect everything, they wouldn't even have really needed to enter the house. Long story short I was really lucky...
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May 27, 2016 16:49
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I always hate the subjective questions - "What is your favourite ____?" Well, I now have to remember when I set those questions up, and also remember what my favourite ____ of that time is. Other uunacceptable questions are "Name a memorable ____" because ironically by the time the question comes up I will have forgotten.
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May 30, 2016 06:50
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The worst thing about that is it's only the home version that has that problem. Skype for Business, which I've been using at work, has a gear icon that if you click on that, then on file, you can find an exit option that actually closes the program properly.
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Jun 1, 2016 04:24
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You should find and hit whoever pooped in your eye and failed to flush.
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I hate people who argue on bad faith, with dumb arguments. There was a guy tonight street-preaching about why we should vote to leave the EU (UK User over here), using the reasoning that "we fought 2 wars with the Germans so why work together now?" The last war with them ended 72 years ago. We've been over it for decades. Even he may not have been born when that war happened,. if he was he would have been ~10. How the gently caress is that wound still fresh for him? There are apparently lots of actual reasons for leaving the EU as well, involving tax hikes and more recent war clusterfucks that I don't know enough about to reach an opinion on, so he is deliberately sabotaging his argument by balancing it on weak foundations.,
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Whenever a spider gets in my apartment I can't stand it. It's not arachnophobia, I can take care of them myself, it's just really unpleasant. I think it's because of the way they move, they're really fast and completely silent, which is jarring when you see them scuttle, especially trying to catch one that's particularly tenacious.
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flavor posted:
Yeah, I once went to an amateur musician night, where a bunch of amateur musicians played one song each, and 2 of them played "gently caress you I won't do what you tell me". That song is WAY TOO LOUD and it is also a terrible song. It's just bitching and whining for 3 minutes about how ~unique~ a generic rock band are. From what I've heard RATM are more whiny than defiant. It's almost literally like a teenager being told to do the dishes and responding with "gently caress YOU MOM!" and you just know that they'll still need a ride to school the next day.
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MisterBibs posted:Animated gifs of someone saying a whole line but the animation is only of the last few words. THat always throws me off because my brain tries to read the lips moving in the Gif and attempts to match them to the line so if it doesn't I feel really uncomfortable.
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Ytlaya posted:My voice is naturally very loud (not just in volume, but in the sense that it seems to "cut through" other sounds), and I have to be very careful to avoid speaking too loud. Frequently what happens is that I'll be speaking at a normal volume and unknowingly gradually increase the volume until it gets way too loud. This is mostly an issue in restaurants. I have to make a conscious effort to always concentrate on how loud I'm talking. I've always had that problem as well. It can get really annoying but working in call centres has helped me modulate it a lot better, even if it still creeps when I get excited.
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Murphy Brownback posted:I have favorite actors too, but like if Russell Crowe kicked it tomorrow I'd just think "that's a shame", not rush to facebook to post about how I'm a sobbing mess and need to be cheered up and we've lost a Voice of Our Generation or whatever. And what a voice he was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E32UNz_t7Ws
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Cowslips Warren posted:Homes or businesses with lovely address markers. Like you order a pizza and the dude is late, so gently caress yeah, free pizza! But he's late because you didn't include the loving gate code on your order, and then your house number is so loving faded you can't see it from the street. Or businesses in a multiple story complex that don't include their business name or suite number on the delivery label, so I have 30 floors to search for a M. Mendez. THat pissed me off once because that made me late for a Job Interview. I couldn't find the building or at least an hour, I thought the business had moved (as did some of the local businesses I asked about it's wearabouts) and the address on the website just hadn't been updated. Needless to say, even though I found it eventually I didn't get the job.
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I hate when people assume that everyone has played everything. I mentioned once that I had a lot of trouble with the final boss of Suikoden 5, and got dogpiled by people who were all like "It's a pattern through the entire series though? How could you not know that the final bosses are all inherently magic heavy due to being True Runes. The answer? The only one I had beaten was Suikoden 4, which is the only one that doesn't fit the pattern. I had no way of knowing to prioritise magic defense because I hadn't been exposed to the pattern and didn't know what was coming.
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Dark Helmet is Anakin Skywalker's third-cousin twice removed. Spoilers.
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