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"Meninist". I had to read that twice before I realized that it doesn't mean "subscribing to the theories of misogynist social philosopher Dr. Menin, whom I have never heard of". Maybe it's because it's capitalized for some reason. Also, I'm not terribly bright. e: oh, or maybe she misspoke and meant to call him a Mennonite. hogmartin has a new favorite as of 21:02 on Apr 16, 2016 |
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Khazar-khum posted:Letters I was going to refute the hell out of the synesthesia thing because who doesn't see things like that when they're a little kid? Except when I looked it up, that actually is a symptom. So, the bad news is it turns out that numerals actually didn't have genders ca. 1985. Good news is, y'all can go ahead and put on your resumés that you know someone on the internet who used to be legit ~qUiRkY~ and ~sPeCiAl~
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Apr 19, 2016 22:12
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Straight out of Facebook: eh, sounds plausible. Seems more like a 3rd person post for https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3711921
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Apr 21, 2016 22:04
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What bugs me about this one is that "they" is an lazy and incorrect but really handy shorthand for when you don't know or don't want to disclose someone's gender instead of some fumbly thing like "the customer" or "the person" so I the first thing I thought was weeeeeeellll maybe she's lesbian or bi and friends/family read her stuff and she doesn't want to disclose that she has a date with a girl maybe? But then cash crab posts the followup where she says he's male and she doesn't have a problem saying so. So no, lazy "they" pronoun when the language already has a perfectly good one for that case.
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May 6, 2016 00:36
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Samizdata posted:No offense intended. I have just worked a terrifying large amount of retail, ranging from health food to grocery to menswear to office supplies to a butcher shop to home electronics. I worked retail back in high school and finally I said "f dealing with these idiots, I'm gonna get a desk job". So I got a job doing phone support for dial-up internet in 1998. 
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May 7, 2016 19:59
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Filox posted:Small world. 'Cause there was, like, one dial-up internet support guy for the entire world in 1998 and you kept me on hold for six months before I gave up. Ugh, sorry about that. Try removing/reinstalling dial-up networks (hope you still have the Windows CD). There are also some modem init codes that we can try, thank you for calling.
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May 8, 2016 07:47
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If there wasn't a skull-and-crossbones puff of smoke that came out of the drink when he used his "little black vial" then it isn't drugged, quod erat demonstrandum.
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May 29, 2016 22:31
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chitoryu12 posted:Actually, birdshot's been tested and it's pretty lovely as a defensive load. A lot of people mistakenly think that at close range the mass of shot acts like a slug or buckshot and just blows up whatever it hits. But it turns out that the actual penetration really is affected by the size and mass of the projectiles, even though the total mass is the same as a more powerful load. So he's actually using successively more deadly loads in his fake story. In addition to being really ineffective as a defensive load, it's also legally considered lethal force. So, he shoots to 'warn' the guy, and even if he hits, in the time it takes to rack the next shell, the guy could realistically have tackled him. Congrats, now your attempt to stop the assault has utterly failed, but don't worry! In the eyes of the law, you also used lethal force!  It's about as bright an idea as people who carry airsoft/pellet pistols as a substitute for a real gun, because it's the worst of both worlds.
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Jun 2, 2016 22:23
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Henchman of Santa posted:It can't even be very effective since he hates people seeing his eyes. pfft. like he needs those.  p.s. if you liked that movie when it came out do yourself a favor and don't see it again 
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Jun 3, 2016 14:14
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System Metternich posted:I haven't got the first idea about military stuff, but are bayonets really 43 inches long? That's like 1,30m, wouldn't it be unwieldy as hell? Murphy Brownback posted:I'm guessing he meant to type 43 cm. The P-1907 bayonet for the Enfield is 17" which is 43cm so yes.
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Jun 4, 2016 14:10
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That font is a war crime.
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Jun 4, 2016 18:34
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Jun 8, 2016 22:23
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fliptophead posted:Every time I cmoa I read it as choose my own adventure and picture this troper with fingers in the pages picking the most bestest outcome for the tale of poo poo that never happened Same, except it's always such mundane poo poo. If your pinnacle of achievement is imagining something that never happened in your high school gym class, I have bad news for you my friend.
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Jun 11, 2016 11:26
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Non Serviam posted:I didn't feel that it was a sexual innuendo. It's STDH anyway but I read it as more "I'd pay you back for your kindness but I'm sure you wouldn't let me because people who are legitimately giving and generous to total strangers would never expect, much less accept, compensation for their generosity". Also Eid mubarak ibntumart get y'all eat on.
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Jul 6, 2016 16:53
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Nyarai posted:Eid mubarak, ibntumart! Thanks to you, I learned some stuff about Ramadan. (I think it's cool that there are a bunch of reasonable exceptions for the fast.) eh, I can relate. 
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Jul 6, 2016 21:05
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Noyemi K posted:
There is a Remington Model 11 semi-auto shotgun though. Except once we start trying to devil's-adovcate STDH then we all lose so pretend I didn't say that.
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Jul 9, 2016 23:18
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knife posted:I clamped down on the pain long enough to pull the knife out of my shoulder, give the guy a Kubrick Stare over the tops of my glasses, and ask, "Did it ever occur to you that I might be purely a figment of some sad person's imagination?" and then I disappeared because I don't exist.
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Jul 16, 2016 22:10
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Captain Monkey posted:People rabidly defend their right to be lied to. It's, frankly, ridiculous. They get so wrapped up in this thing existing that they go nuts about someone doubting it. This guy debunking the 'filmed in a studio on earth' thing about the Apollo missions has a relevant bit about that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU&t=665s hogmartin has a new favorite as of 16:01 on Jul 18, 2016 |
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Jul 18, 2016 15:58
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quote:6. I opened up the fridge and got out the jar of peanut butter intending to eat it since she said I could. Being a reincarnated Japanese tortoise is more believable and less bizarre than someone keeping peanut butter in the refrigerator.
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Aug 12, 2016 12:45
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Natural peanut butter (no ingredients other than peanut butter and maybe salt) should be kept in the fridge to prevent the oil from separating out. Peanut butter that doesn't separate at room temperature achieves this feat by the addition of hydrogenated fats that are solid at room temperature. Well that's the kind most people have, isn't it, the emulsified kind? Plus the people I know who use the natural stuff just keep it in a cabinet and stir it before using it, I don't know anyone who keeps it in the refrigerator. Tahini separates too, just mix it and it's fine. Now I'm discussing peanut butter storage as it relates to a story that didn't happen about a girl who either believes or is pretending to believe herself to be the reincarnation of a Japanese tortoise. ARE YOU HAPPY, INTERNET?
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Aug 12, 2016 14:16
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Drunk Tomato posted:Here's a hint: Well there was that one guy who got himself all tigered up. I can appreciate taking the piss out of people as much as anyone but when you're a grown-rear end man getting elective surgery to resemble the tigress you believe yourself to be, it's probably not a prank.
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Aug 12, 2016 17:49
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There are aspects of reliving historical experience that can be enlightening and instructive, like military reenactors or the people who work at historical museums and dress up and show how people did stuff. There's youtube channel where a guy cooks 1700s recipes that is way more engrossing than it has any right to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM3d8W34anQ Going through life half-assedly aping another time, poorly, and saying that things were unilaterally better then, on the other hand is probably not the same thing. hogmartin has a new favorite as of 13:52 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Aug 17, 2016 13:48
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Whenever I see one of these that isn't a mess of JPEG compression artifacts it triggers the nagging feeling that it may actually have happened. A story being nearly illegible from horrible compression artifacts is like the Pinocchio nose of STDH and when it's not there (and when it's not an iPhone screenshot) it makes me wonder.
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Aug 21, 2016 17:14
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quote:Got school lunch (I got pb&j and chocolate milk. Don’t ask. I have really good memory of things but it’s hard to explain) Not sure why this is the one thing that gets me from that story, but you could throw a dart at my life from ca. 1984 up to about 1992 and have about 85% odds that I was having PBJ and chocolate milk for lunch. It's not a stark crystallized moment in time, it's kid's food for a kid.
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Aug 22, 2016 20:59
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sweeperbravo posted:black people, the most amusing race He didn't even offer to trade Pokemon with them on the bus
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Kind of plausible? When you work at CompUSA in high school and swing by Meijer after work, about once a week someone's going to see red polo shirt and khakis and ask you where something is. I always just said "I don't work here", though.
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Aug 28, 2016 19:29
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Leavemywife posted:But we wear blue shirts now! Then people can mistake Best Buy employees for you 
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RillAkBea posted:This story is incredibly stupid. Ignoring the fact that an automatic shifts literally nothing like a manual so it would be very difficult to mistake the two, the force with which you press a clutch in would produce some magnificently jarring braking at that speed at which point you would probably realize there was a problem before you proceed with the gear change. I once rented a Jetta automatic with the flippy shift notch on the selector and was having some fun with it since I'd never used one of those before. A light turned yellow up ahead so I instinctively "clutched" on the brake to go to neutral and yeah, it's pretty much like you said, whiplashy "ok, this is not right, just let go of everything but the wheel and reevaluate". Ever since, I drive rentals strictly in automatic mode because I can't be trusted not to get into manual mindset if I use the up/down automanual gadget.
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Author did not hook up with Casey, 3/10 e: waitwaitwait, how many Kosher delis sell BLTs? Isn't the 'B' part pretty, uh, treif? Guys, I'm starting to think this poo poo didn't happen. hogmartin has a new favorite as of 00:07 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Compared to "I like animes and a mean kid at school didn't but then my teacher said he liked the same animes and it was awesome" that's actually a little amusing.
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Didn't someone say that they spun off the discussion site somewhere else? So there's one place talk about how this movie has Hard-Assed Sergeant With a Heart of Gold or this one has Disrespected Girl Who Shows Everyone That She's a Beautiful Person In The End and another for people to talk about 'lol I stuck pencils in my nose in middle school I'm so ~random~'
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Nov 2, 2016 15:26
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I've actually seen this happen IRL. Out of a whole class of maybe 30 qualifying on pistols, the guy who smokes everyone is from England and has never held a gun in his life. He didn't attribute it to arcade games though, just said that he didn't know what he was doing so he paid attention to everything the instructor said. Which kind of makes sense if he's up against 29 guys with an "I know what I'm doing, just shut up and let me at it" attitude.
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Nov 21, 2016 14:40
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The Snoo posted:I called out an rear end in a top hat at a mcdonalds for being a horrible jerk to the cashiers (called one a bitch for trying to explain to him why it took 'so long' for his food during the lunchtime rush) and I was shaking because I have exxxtreme anxiety Same, except I commiserate to the unfortunate person behind the counter loudly enough that the jerk walking away can hear, because I'm a passive-aggressive doof like that. Also I care more about cheering up the cashier than scolding the jerk, because they're not going to change anyway. Never been shaking while doing it though.
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Nov 29, 2016 13:57
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jodai posted:No it can't and it's super sad to see page after page of people who, if they even actually fought someone, probably started crying and flailing at them until the other person felt bad for them and left. It can if you weigh twice as much as the little poo poo who's messing with you and you just piledrive him into concrete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82sxRBNSteA
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Nov 30, 2016 16:45
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"...this older fellow sporting a look that we in Chicago like to refer to as 'downstate', because they're all ignorant assholes who immediately prejudge people based on their appearance, which is something we innocent blessed Chicagoans would never do. Anyway, this redneck cousinfucker said..."
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Joey Freshwater posted:I live in Chicago and have no loving clue what this means. What is a 'downstate' look? Never lived in Illinois, but you can pick up the meaning from context and it's not uncommon in other states that have a big metropolis and everywhere else is rural. It's probably the same for Seattle/Tacoma vs. everyone east of the Cascades, or NYC vs. everyone upstate. People who live in the city can tell just by looking at them that they're all backwoods racist rednecks who immediately judge people based on what they look like.
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Dec 2, 2016 13:59
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quote:This troper is a complete dick... and also accomplishes such feats as FIGURING OUT SEX using merely logic and the process of elimination (figuratively speakng, of course). This has to be a parody, someone trolling them.
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Dec 4, 2016 15:27
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Palisader posted:I can't decide whether the person who wrote that is a 30 year old smug rear end in a top hat or 70 year old smug rear end in a top hat. Gonna go with 30 year old smug rear end in a top hat trying to sound like a 70 year old smug rear end in a top hat, with delusional memories of events before 1980. The Vaughan Williams thing is spot on though, can't argue with that point.
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:being old is no excuse for writing like a huge rear end in a top hat imo I kind of think it is. The point of retiring is not that you don't have to work anymore, it's that you no longer have to care what anyone thinks about what you say.
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sweeperbravo posted:Just a porn on a laptop, unwatched. If I've got that stuck in my head now to the tune of "shave and a haircut", then you all might as well too. Enjoy.
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