Khazar-khum posted:

Grad Students. At the University of California, which requires high GPA plus the GRE to enter.

I wonder if they were trying to be 'sophisticated' and deny knowledge of sewing in case it made them look 'low class'. However, they didn't understand that anyone who could follow a pattern could also make something, even them. I think it was willful denial. My family, who should know better by now, are routinely startled to see that a pile of fabric somehow turned into a garment. It's magic, like sweeperbravo said.

Khazar-khum posted:

Home Economics--sewing & cooking--were only available as electives in middle school. With all the ridiculous emphasis given to testing, STEM, and whatnot, that's gone away.

Also, what kind of hellhole requires you to buy a license for a gotdamned sewing machine?

Fathis Munk posted:

Tbh I don't know much about walls but I figured a sheet rock wall would be something hard. Here in eurosocialist moonland I definitely would not like to dent a wall with my head.

tacodaemon posted:

What the hell does her German heritage have to do with anything in this story

Fathis Munk posted:

Uh, be strong punch hard.

It's not rocket science

sweeperbravo posted:

The priest stood up and clapped

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

"I was looking at my favourite video game shipping tags. An old lady looked over my shoulder and was like "noice this is the kind of game MY GAY LATINO SON NEPHEW would like". I just smiled and nodded because I was too awkward to say that doesn't actually happen in game. In conclusion, gay porn on the internet has done more for the LGBTI rights movement than any legislation ever could. Please, keep making gay porn on the internet, so that we may all live in harmony, but also so that I may wank schlick."

Khazar-khum posted:

NY

chitoryu12 posted:

The gently caress is a Humphrey?

Telemaze posted:

I hope I didn't already post this dumb bullshit.

Weatherman posted:

This isn't YOSPOS

Captain Monkey posted:

Yes and has been for years, I don't know if this and the red text mean you're a gimmick but on the off chance someone else doesn't know, then yeah, that's been one of many code words that have existed for a while.

Captain Monkey posted:

That's literally one of the things coding does, it hides words behind familiar sounding terms so that you can be a racist in plain sight.

Alaois posted:

i know from my time of lurking in TFR "post dumb poo poo from other forums" threads that people on gun forums are constantly talking about defending their homes from "goblins" and "zombies" and are almost universally talking about black people

Captain Monkey posted:

I guess I just don't understand your flipflop now - this dude's post was racially coded gun nut insanity. People familiar with watching that type of crazy person commented on the language to explain it to people who weren't aware of it.

You and non serial or whatever his name is proceeded to leap in here to defend this dude.

Now you're acting like everyone knows that gun nuts are racist and have code words they use to be publicly racist, just like in that post.

Good job finally catching up to the rest of the class, I guess.

Yestermoment posted:

But what I really came to post was this:

quote:

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One of the courses had a professor who was a vowed atheist and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, “God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you exactly 15 minutes.” The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.

Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, “Here I am God. I’m still waiting.” It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and lifted up his arm to strike him.

At that moment the professor was transformed into a 7-foot grizzly, wreathed in a halo of holy fire. The bear spoke: "Blasphemer thou art, thou thinkst to take the place of God? Those who deny me face eternal fire, but you who knows my work and yet commits the sin of Satan I curse a hundred times over!" The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently picking at his boils. Then Richard Dawkins burst into the room, wielding a copy of The Selfish Gene and crying "Leave that boy alone, you pathetic atavism!" As the holy bear whirled around, terrible light flashing in its eyes, Dawkins shed his mortal form, raised each of his seven horned heads, and hissed. "It'ssss me you want!". And then the Lord and the Antichrist joined in the final battle.

The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.

puck puck goose posted:

Murphy Brownback posted:

I know what they mean by context, but what the hell is a gruntle?

On the off chance it's true, why does he think sleeping at your post as a security guard is "stupid poo poo"? I mean, that's one of the only things you have to be able to do (stay awake) for that job. And really, how is leaving random trash around "revenge"?

Bertrand Hustle posted:

"lose one's gruntle" is their "clever" way of saying "disgruntled".

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Disgruntled means annoyed, so obviously if someone is annoyed with you they have lost their gruntle.

Can you ever be just "whelmed"?

Stoatbringer posted:

Wait, so what does it mean to be under-submerged?

flosofl posted:

How about irregardless.

Samizdata posted:

Ummmm, no. In Discworld it is a pune.

gaydad posted:

I don't know why Tumblr always wants to make any situation humorous as if it was sitcom waiting for a laugh track to laugh at their "wacky", random moment.

CannedMacabre posted:

I seem to remember a story about a guy who did not realize he had been struck by lightning until he went to a doctor days after with a migraine and they discovered Lichtenberg Figures. Perhaps he was full of poo poo too though.

Verisimilidude posted:

Fathis Munk posted:

Look at that awkward block writing, it just has to be a kid. What more proof do you need?

Alaois posted:

a teacher

PittTheElder posted:

So he did get the 2-for-1?