Eponine posted:

What do people who think a mediocre spaghetti dinner is romantic and fancy eat on the regular? This is a serious question. I'm not a great chef and it's not like I plate my meals, but what do you usually eat that makes that special?

Eponine posted:

What do people who think a mediocre spaghetti dinner is romantic and fancy eat on the regular? This is a serious question. I'm not a great chef and it's not like I plate my meals, but what do you usually eat that makes that special?

Christo posted:

I guarantee you that spaghetti is the fanciest thing he knows how to make by himself. He'd ask mom to make something fancier but then she'd ask why he needs two plates.

Eponine posted:

What do people who think a mediocre spaghetti dinner is romantic and fancy eat on the regular? This is a serious question. I'm not a great chef and it's not like I plate my meals, but what do you usually eat that makes that special?

Noyemi K posted:

Eponine posted:

What do people who think a mediocre spaghetti dinner is romantic and fancy eat on the regular? This is a serious question. I'm not a great chef and it's not like I plate my meals, but what do you usually eat that makes that special?

Primetime posted:

When you're trying to impress 14 year olds who don't cook for themselves you don't get called out for the fact that spaghetti takes like 10 minutes and zero effort to make

Deified Data posted:

Latest episode of F+ is topical.

Ytlaya posted:

Isn't that bra also really big? Like, in a "fat person" way rather just having a big chest.

MariusLecter posted:

Do you people not see the champagne glasses? Fancy as gently caress.

Verisimilidude posted:

Filled with what appears to be not champagne, which is fine, but it also makes this look like a bunch of kids having a fancy dinner. Which is cute I suppose. But then you realize it's a plea for help on imgurr of all places.

kimbo305 posted:

http://imgur.com/gallery/4ghAxNS
When I make a romantic dinner for two, I also plate the forks the same way and put glasses on the same side.

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Some gems from classes I've substituted for:
To students passing through my room from outside to the inner hall: "This is a toll room, give me a quarter!"
To a student wearing a cap backwards: "The last time wearing a hat like that didn't look completely stupid was The Eighties, and I don't think you were born yet!" (He wasn't)
To two kids who were arguing: "Quit doing that, before I take you outside and make you duel with cream pies!"
After being forced to show a Narmtacular movie: "That was so bad it broke the universe."
Does doing a lesson on comparative monomyths, comparing The Canterbury Tales and Dragon Quest IV, count?
Student: "You're really tall." Me: "Or everyone else is really short."
Immediate first thought: "I'll ignore one height crack. One."
"Don't get run over by football players!"
To a sick student: "Please don't puke on your fellow students. It's unsanitary."
To a student who said the room smelled funny: "Since it's an agribusiness class, maybe the smell was put there to add verisimilitude."
Regarding people playing iPods too loud: "If I had it to do over again, I would become an audiologist. I'd have lots of customers."
To two girls on the opposite side of a cabinet from me: "You guys aren't doing anything inappropriate over there that someone would want to film, are you?"
"Given the realities of biology, it would actually make more sense for women to wear pants and men to wear dresses."

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This Troper had a couple of these in secondary school (about the same as high school if you're American);
My RE teacher was a bit off, putting a class on hold because of the presence of a bee and claiming the Church Of Scientology was out to get her (although the former was because of an allergy and the later sounded semi-plausible).
My Geography and ICT teacher, Mr. Soden, enjoyed taking control of random students' computers and shaking their mouse around, he also gave this memorable exchange;
*I have just explained that my computer has just stopped working and asked if he knew what the problem was*
Mr. Soden: What happens when a lorry does this *he slides his hands along the desk until it reaches a wall*
Me: Er...it's crash-*realisation*...oh

Khazar-khum posted:

Gems

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Some gems from classes I've substituted for:
To students passing through my room from outside to the inner hall: "This is a toll room, give me a quarter!"
To a student wearing a cap backwards: "The last time wearing a hat like that didn't look completely stupid was The Eighties, and I don't think you were born yet!" (He wasn't)
To two kids who were arguing: "Quit doing that, before I take you outside and make you duel with cream pies!"
After being forced to show a Narmtacular movie: "That was so bad it broke the universe."
Does doing a lesson on comparative monomyths, comparing The Canterbury Tales and Dragon Quest IV, count?
Student: "You're really tall." Me: "Or everyone else is really short."
Immediate first thought: "I'll ignore one height crack. One."
"Don't get run over by football players!"
To a sick student: "Please don't puke on your fellow students. It's unsanitary."
To a student who said the room smelled funny: "Since it's an agribusiness class, maybe the smell was put there to add verisimilitude."
Regarding people playing iPods too loud: "If I had it to do over again, I would become an audiologist. I'd have lots of customers."
To two girls on the opposite side of a cabinet from me: "You guys aren't doing anything inappropriate over there that someone would want to film, are you?"
"Given the realities of biology, it would actually make more sense for women to wear pants and men to wear dresses."

sweeperbravo posted:

i hope this person sprains their ankle


Also me and my idiot boyfriend when we were freshmen in college set up a nicer dinner than that for ourselves and that was with dorm-rear end furniture and poo poo. He brought filet mignon he stole from his brother's wedding and my roommate lent us one of those tiny electric tea candles (since you weren't allowed to have an open flame )

walrusman posted:

What the gently caress?

sweeperbravo posted:

i hope this person sprains their ankle


Also me and my idiot boyfriend when we were freshmen in college set up a nicer dinner than that for ourselves and that was with dorm-rear end furniture and poo poo. He brought filet mignon he stole from his brother's wedding and my roommate lent us one of those tiny electric tea candles (since you weren't allowed to have an open flame )

kimbo305 posted:

He edited into his post a link to proof that he had a gf, but then removed it.

EmmyOk posted:

What was the link?

Primetime posted:

I think it's because spaghetti is the only food that doesn't have a "fast food" equivalent (barring people's opinions on olive garden). Mexican food, for example, is much more involved to make but since taco Bell exists it seems like meaningful in these peoples eyes.

When you're trying to impress 14 year olds who don't cook for themselves you don't get called out for the fact that spaghetti takes like 10 minutes and zero effort to make

Panfilo posted:

I think you guys are really stretching it with that picture. It's just a couple plates of spaghetti and some Champaigne or whatever. I've seen plenty of pictures/posts of people talking about their SO making them dinner with a mediocre photograph on Facebook and nobody gives a poo poo about the quality of the photo, or food, or whether the bra in the background was a fat lady's bra.

Panfilo posted:

I think you guys are really stretching it with that picture. It's just a couple plates of spaghetti and some Champaigne or whatever. I've seen plenty of pictures/posts of people talking about their SO making them dinner with a mediocre photograph on Facebook and nobody gives a poo poo about the quality of the photo, or food, or whether the bra in the background was a fat lady's bra.

Panfilo posted:

I think you guys are really stretching it with that picture. It's just a couple plates of spaghetti and some Champaigne or whatever. I've seen plenty of pictures/posts of people talking about their SO making them dinner with a mediocre photograph on Facebook and nobody gives a poo poo about the quality of the photo, or food, or whether the bra in the background was a fat lady's bra.

BrigadierSensible posted:

What is really sad, and awkward is the pimping out of the photo for internet points. The convoluted story, (I have a girlfriend, I really do), the desperation, (please like me, whoops I mean her. It is so important for her that you click the like button.), and the fact that it is probably all staged make it a thousand times worse than just a picture of some mediocre food.

Khazar-khum posted:

Gems

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Kind of both. Two dollar bills are sort of a novelty currency, they're legal tender but you need to go out of your way to get them.

BrigadierSensible posted:

Yeah, as sad as the spaghetti looks, it is sometimes an easy thing to cook. And indeed it could be some sweet kid who doesn't know how to cook anything else cooking up a sweet dinner for her boyfriend.

What is really sad, and awkward is the pimping out of the photo for internet points. The convoluted story, (I have a girlfriend, I really do), the desperation, (please like me, whoops I mean her. It is so important for her that you click the like button.), and the fact that it is probably all staged make it a thousand times worse than just a picture of some mediocre food.

Eponine posted:

What do people who think a mediocre spaghetti dinner is romantic and fancy eat on the regular? This is a serious question. I'm not a great chef and it's not like I plate my meals, but what do you usually eat that makes that special?

NAR posted:

PAWN SHOP, RETAIL | LOS ANGELES, CA | UNCATEGORIZED
(A customer enters our pawn shop, and I motion her over to my counter.)

Me: “What can I do for you today?”

Customer: “Yeah, I wanna pawn my internet.”

Me: “Do you mean your computer? If it’s complete and relatively new we’ll take it. You just have to bring it in so we can test it out first.”

Customer: *getting angry* “No, man, my internet!”

Me: “Umm…do you mean your modem? Because we don’t take modems or routers by themselves.”

Customer: “No man, I wanna pawn my internet! My INTERNET!”

Me: “Like…your AOL account or something? We can’t do that either.”

Customer: “No! I wanna pawn my internet, man! THE INTERNET!”

Me: “Ma’am, if you can actually bring me the internet, I’ll give you $100 out of my own wallet and you can keep it.”

Customer: *happy again* “Okay, I’ll be right back!”

(She never came back.)

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Takeout, breakfast cereal, frozen pizza, ramen, anything with instructions reading "remove film before microwaving"

I (briefly) had an SO in college that ate like that, and one day she invited me over to celebrate an internship that I'd just gotten. Said she'd spent a shitton of time getting everything just right. I get there, and in the middle of her coffee table, flanked by candles, is a serving plate.

I'll give you a chance to guess what this fancypants I-slaved-all-day meal was.

Hamburger Helper

Now I'm no five-star chef, and I've eaten some po-folk/lazy-folk food in my life, but I've never beamed with pride at my ability to brown ground beef and then dump poo poo in the pan. I was floored. At first I thought she was kidding, but nope. If social media had been around back then, there'd definitely be a badly-lit photo of a heaping plate of ground beef box dinner tagged #congratsfai #cookingformyboy #wifeintraining floating around somewhere.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Straight out of Facebook: