Jerry Cotton posted:

If you keep running your mouth, I'll loving light some candles swear on me mum!

baquerd posted:

Please do. Why should the fact that those in power are racist impact my moral decision-making framework?


Fair enough, but at a societal level, what other tools do we have?

Jerry Cotton posted:

In my mind I changed eyes of indeterminate colour to anus of indeterminate colour and it improved the story quite a bit.

areyoucontagious posted:

That's when you're supposed to attack. Three hits and it turns into the second form with tentacles and stuff

flosofl posted:

Yeah, they're actually doing better than their sister store: Sears.

But the entire Sear Holding Corp is slowly being driven out of business. Eddie Lampert is tries to run Sears and KMart as the prophetess Rand would want. As you can expect, it's not turning out well. Zero money is churned back to the stores or infrastructure. Instead they buy back stock and try to be a poor copy of Amazon online.

Khazar-khum posted:

Try taking their allowance away. Or make them buy their own toys/gum whatever.

Danaru posted:

Even ignoring the stdh, why would you put a brazzers decal on your car

Samizdata posted:

Because you are an ultrahot sex haver, who needs everyone to know it is with something other than your body pillow?

Zelder posted:

because the walls between the internet and real life are rapidly degenerating

Tunicate posted:

I pulled a thorn out of a lion's paw and all he gave me was an expired coupon to Wendy's.

Tired Moritz posted:

Isn't that normal? All my engineering friends do this. Well, maybe not exactly like that but I remember people talking about making their notes fit as much as possible.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

The most implausible thing is that the necklace is for a third party.

The average bird person would wear that parakeet bone necklace himself.

goose willis posted:

chitoryu12 posted:

Supernatural fans themselves aren't absolutely awful. It's when you get into the Superwholock fandom that it becomes a problem.

chitoryu12 posted:

Bask in the 12-year-olds.

Tired Moritz posted:

Remember when haha when people would photoshop dog dicks to the two dudes in supernatural haha HAHAHA

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Happy jacks also have a similar family flock structure built around supporting a central breeding pair. But I don't see anyone making porn of happy jacks

Eponine posted:

What about screened-in porches?

Bogan King posted:

If you hook up with Jesus though your going to have to meet a bunch of his friends and they're arseholes by and large.

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Also iced coffee in the dead of winter. We are a strange folk here in New England.

goose willis posted:

hyperhazard posted:

Somehow the gender politics are even creepier when it's kids.

"Here, daughter, dress up as someone we hate. Son, dress up as someone we love."

Catberry posted:

What is the origin of the caps lock and why did it ever seem like a good idea? Is it a programming thing?

Stoatbringer posted:

Hello, police? Yes, I'd like to report a gay yard. Relentlessly gay!

life is killing me posted:

My question is, how is it that hard to prove it's a pyramid scheme?

They survive off getting their customers to hock their poo poo so all they have to do is make an ineffective product that preys on people who think non-FDA-approved supplements actually do anything. But the real believers are the ones selling it, so they can go out and convince their mother that all she has to do to stay healthy is take Herbalife every day or drink a shake with no nutritional value or wear a bracelet. At the end of the day they are all just things that can't be accurately demonstrated, so they "work" because people believe, or want to believe they do.

Their whole shtick is based on the premise of, "we can't prove it works, but you can't prove it doesn't, sell our poo poo so we don't have to on the promise of a few bucks."

But the product doing or not doing what they claim is irrelevant to pyramid schemes. It's all just them getting their customers to be their underpaid, unofficial employees like all MLM.

The only difference between that poo poo and things like Mary Kay or Cabi (my wife is incredibly into Cabi) is that the latter offer incentives on their products based on what they sell. You can get a bunch of middle-aged women into a Mary Kay party, and you can get a bunch of women into a Cabi party. You can see makeup and you can see clothes. Herbalife and their ilk can't prove poo poo, but somehow they survive on a demographic of bored housewives who treat the products like a religion and defend them to the death.

E: the only good thing about Cabi and Mary Kay aside from making my wife look and feel pretty and happy, is the fact that when she hosts parties I get kicked out of the house for a few hours

ReidRansom posted:

Most humans. Not all. I'm immune. Maybe as many as 30% are, apparently.

Ein cooler Typ posted:

you can tell that's fake because in irl life females never reward you with hugs for defending their honor

Bogan King posted:

Nah, get polio, be stuck in a chair all their life and lose all their friends because they start talking about the error of their ways. Then die alone, unloved and unable to look after themselves.

Zipperelli. posted:

I once ran into a 7-11, bought a 6 pack of beer, paid, went to my car, then realized I forgot cigarettes. I ran back in, asked for the cigs, and the (same) cashier asked for my id. I was like "uh, dude. You JUST checked it for me to buy alcohol, so I'm over 21, so why do you need to see it again to buy something that's age restricted to 18?"

He kind of gave me a blank look for a minute and still asked for my id. Moral of the story: there are some people who just follow the rules really closely.

Sisal Two-Step posted:

things that happened: i found a really cute pair of anne taylor pants at the value village last week. they were petites and fit perfectly.

things that didn't happen:



"get a poop nicely"

kimbo305 posted:

Stdh: reading the thread

Bertrand Hustle posted:

1. Well, I'm a PTA (physical therapist assistant), so I'd bloody well hope I know what HIPAA is.

2. Wasn't that little window open? These made up stories are always so confusing. That kind of conversation should be happening in a private room, not at the front desk, which is not staffed by a nurse.

Besesoth posted:

and then the other person in the car stood up and clapped, and he was Albert Einstein.

life is killing me posted:

This sounds like a To Catch a Predator episode, except with more vandalizing of personal property belonging to people who had not actually committed a crime by waiting in a parking lot

life is killing me posted:

If only there was some kind of group of uniformed people with the resources to gather proof of sex crimes and try sexual predators in a court of law and send them to jail, or maybe a national register of sorts so that people would know who they are and where they live. IMHO this would be the best way to catch these people. Oh well, guess I'll go catfish some dudes with complete lack of proof they are the person I catfished or that they have even committed a crime so I can vandalize their cars, that'll show them! Everyone knows that vandalizing peoples' poo poo gets them to stop whatever they are allegedly doing, rather than going to the police themselves to report that their car was keyed and spray-painted by some teenagers who think they are contributing to humanity in any way

Trash Boat posted:

Well, I can't really blame the woman, I would probably be in awe too of such a top notch comeback.

BioEnchanted posted:

Really they should be thanking him - he just gave them an excuse to replay their old favourites, they can literally relive their childhoods instead of curating a digital museum to them.