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Samizdata
May 14, 2007

sebmojo posted:

Mousing left hand is a really good way to prevent OOS. it's no good for gaming but fine for work once you're used to it.

I just can't. Lord knows I have tried. My Dad (rest in peace) was a southmouser and that anything else was absurd. (He also hated the keypad.)

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Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Elizabethan Error posted:

it's Magemage, you're both being redundant

<hides under his desk in the hopes a mod doesn't stop by>

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Volcott posted:

Since we're on the topic, I'd like to confirm something. When someone adopts a new gender identity, do you use that identity when referring to events in the past when they had not yet done so?

Case by case basis. Although those that don't like it refer to it, perjatorively, as deadnaming.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Fathis Munk posted:

Idg the phagocytosis one, how do you pronounce that word for it to make a class giggle?!

Maybe it's because I'm a) not a native English speaker and b) a biologist, but I don't see what's so funny about it :confused:

Imagine the first syllable being heard as a homophobic slur.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Fathis Munk posted:

Oh that's it? Disappointing.

Yeah, innit?

dovetaile posted:

Deadnaming is actually just using the trans person's old name! We uh we don't like it when you do that.

Sorry about that. I clearly did NOT grok in fullness.

The trans woman I used to date was confusing. She used a gender-shifted spelling of her previous name (which sounded exactly the same).

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

TheMostFrench posted:

Security didn't even ask the guy the recite it from memory, which he did successfully with hand on heart, followed by everyone in the queue singing the US national anthem? STDH isn't what it used to be!

Nor did anyone salute Einstein for being a veteran and offer to pay for his plane ticket, which didn't matter, since the airline gave him free first class passage because of his service which was handy since he needed his carry-on bag full of guns he used to kill bin Laden...

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

ilmucche posted:

So you want us to use your mom?

I call seconds!

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

THE BIG DOG DADDY posted:

I got a tip for you: abandon your poor rear end friends

Edit: I thought this was the economic doomsday thread, where that joke would have been topical

No, pour rear end friends is a French term, you uncultured boor!

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Drunk Tomato posted:

"Guy Gets a Letter From The Pentagon"



r/humansbeingbros is so chock full of pure wankers. Is this patient zero of the "reply letter that unrealistically references every detail of the wacky/zany/cute initial letter so that an audience can read it and know exactly how wacky/zany/cute the writer is" trope?

But a Pentagon is that mall place with sticky sweet rolls.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

gschmidl posted:

That was Lupus.

No, it's never lupus.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I use both you're welcome and no problem :shrug: they have different implications imo. You're welcome is sort of formal and gracious, while no problem is more of a friendly "I was happy to do it!"

That's the same way I see it, and I am a little notorious for being rather informal whenever possible.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Ibblebibble posted:

I've just appropriated the Australian "No worries" and given myself a new problem.

I'm worse. I tend to say "No wahala" (accent on the second syllable - It's Nigerian-American pidgin. Wahala is like headache and stress and worry all rolled into one). Actually, nobody's said anything about it. They just sort of smile at the sound of the word.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Katt posted:

I had an unfortunate acquaintance who celebrated 24 hours drug free. A few days later he stopped counting and then never talked about it again.

It reminds me of this third party situation you can get into. When someone (most commonly) quits smoking, and you're trying to be all supportive and then when they start smoking again. You have to act like nothing but still somehow be able to channel enthusiasm the next year when they quit smoking again.

Like psychological second hand smoke.

Or worse, like back when I was married. I was trying to quit and had gone all day. I was hanging on by my fingernails when my wife looks at me and says "Jesus, you're being an rear end in a top hat. Wait, you haven't had a cigarette all day! Let me go get you some...", gets up, puts her coat on and heads out the door.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Comptroll The Forums posted:

Buddy, it's been three years. She's not coming back with cigarettes.

:golfclap: :lol:
She did come back. We got divorced two years later. :sigh:

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Field Mousepad posted:

Well why can't it be?

Doesn't burn worth a drat?

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

grittyreboot posted:

I had an English teacher in high school that talk about how she would hold up the line at the grocery store to correct an employee's grammar, so I buy this 100%.

Here's some content for ya



Wait. How can someone be Antifa AND a neo-Nazi? :psyduck:

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Fathis Munk posted:

Haha I love the people in this thread who hadn't previously encountered the "leftists are the true Nazis" narrative!

You see, the Nazis were national socialists, ergo they were leftists and progressives and communists, ergo Antifa are Nazis.

It all makes seeeeense.

In response I am going to refer to your avatar and avvie text. Because all I can see is, yeah, no.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Antivehicular posted:

I think I need to send my dad a "Thanks For Not Giving Me Saccharine Quasi-Sexual Nicknames and Making Everything About How Much I 'Loved My Daddy'" card now. Does Hallmark make those?

You have a printer, right?

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Kevin Palpatine posted:

they should just start hiring 5-year-olds to do bank security...they can give them adorable little pink kevlar vests and everything

Barbie's First AR-15, with My Little Silencer and Polly Bumpstock.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

BrigadierSensible posted:

As someone else on the internet, I must now tell you why I disagree with this post. And also how much I don't care about it. Repeatedly, and at length.

HA! I didn't care before it became cool to not care. Sell out.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007
I watched (for only about a minute) a racist fight break out in a showing of the first Candyman.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Arivia posted:

gonna be honest I can see this happening but I think the dude should have just driven away

They couldn't though, because -

A] They couldn't reinforce their basic compassion and
B] They couldn't get acclaim and reposts on their wacky story.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Furia posted:

Hamlet but with a really short protagonist

I’ll call it Manlet

Hamlet atop a County Kildare brewing company?

Hamlet On Rye

Don't blame me. YOU STARTED IT! I LEARNED IT FROM YOU!

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Ein cooler Typ posted:

I'm looking for a Chinese girl with green eyes.

Jade green eyes...

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

oldpainless posted:

OTOH lollin at that fuckin fat bitch

More like OldCompassionless.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

El Padrino posted:

Is your girlfriend Albert Einstein

Yeah, I am NOT standing up and gently caress clapping.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

RabbitWizard posted:

Have to share this
I finally snapped at someone. They found out I was an IT-tech and past first-level-support, so of course their reaction "Oh wow you see some funny stuff"
My response this time:
I watched a supervisor tear a page while pulling it out the printer, causing a jam, lying to my face about it. I saw an elderly woman hammering the print key, then calling me over because the printer printed too much. I restored an email-backup for someone for the third time this month because he deleted the important messages AGAIN by accident. I've seen my old boss go, leaving just 8 binders with his printed emails behind and no other data.
So, yeah I see funny stuff. And I save peoples asses too.. what's your super power?
They just said, Oh and walked away.........:words:

:golfclap:

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Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Dixville posted:

Crystles absorb poo poo energy, this is then cleansed by sea water. Seems legit, not sure what your problem is!

So, one crystal, five minutes and ALL the Goonposts go away? And some seawater will reset it?

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