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I think a story says a lot more about you than you think it does when you open it with "I keep getting expelled from schools and I need to carry a box of wipes around with me because I can't properly clean my rear end with toilet paper."
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Whoever wrote this probably hasn't even played Pokemon Go. The same Pokemon are available to everyone in the same area, but they're unique instances on each phone (so if one player sees an Eevee in a place, everyone else can catch an Eevee there). It's impossible to "steal" a Pokemon from anyone.
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Jul 10, 2016 04:01
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Someone Awful! posted:
I looked this post up because the Tumblr URL was in it and she edited the post to read: quote:I was just at the beach, walking around and looking for water type pokemon when this guy came up to me and asked if I needed help because I looked lost. He had this poo poo eating grin on his face and I could see the group of dudes a few feet away from him. I guess she had to call him "basic" to really make it sting.
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Jul 11, 2016 13:50
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MonoAus posted:gently caress boys? Not a joke answer: "gently caress boys" are those teenage and twenty-something guys who behave in really similar, awful ways toward women. Like the ones who respond to questions of what to do with a "send nudes  " text, or when a girl says they're going to take a shower they say "without me? ". They just say really dumb, sometimes awful, always perverted stuff all the time to try and gets nudes and/or sex and then whine about how a girl is a bitch or "not that hot" or, ironically, call them a dumb slut when they get told to gently caress off instead of being sent nudes.I think it started as black American vernacular and disseminated through the internet.
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Jul 11, 2016 18:54
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In another thread, people (myself included) were sincerely wishing that Pokemon Go really did have unique Pokemon that people could steal and were located in really specific places like people's backyards, just for the chaos it would cause.
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Jul 11, 2016 21:08
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Fathis Munk posted:I remember recently leafing through 20 minutes, one of the free daily "newspapers" while I was at work. In the sports section the journalist titles his article "French team trolls Iceland team", an article talking about the football game of the previous day that had absolutely nothing to do with trolling. I mean they won with a big score difference but trolling ? Do you mean "big score difference" like 3-10, or "big soccer score difference" where it's 0-1 and the newspapers keep calling it a humiliating failure for Iceland?
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Jul 15, 2016 02:59
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hyperhazard posted:I mean, virgins aren't more likely to bleed than non-virgins, unless they have a medical condition. I know the STDH thread isn't the place to go into it, but I'd love to know why the bleeding = virgin myth became a thing. I think it's because clumsy, unlubricated sex can result in pain and tearing of the hymen that results in bleeding. Ostensibly a woman is supposed to remain a virgin until her wedding day and the guy banging her probably isn't the smoothest operator in the village/castle/tribe, so he'd make a mess of things so consistently that eventually it becomes "common knowledge" that losing your virginity is bloody and painful and that you're supposed to be tearing the poor girl to shreds with your dick.
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Jul 16, 2016 14:35
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Telemaze posted:Tropers seem bizarrely obsessed with pencils. I swear every other story from there has someone getting stabbed with one. Most tropers who tell these stories are schoolkids or their time in school had the stories they tell to try and seem badass. Pencils and pens are the only weapons they have available.
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Jul 16, 2016 15:08
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Kajeesus posted:Hikikomori basically just means shut-in, but to the extent that you never go outside, and have parents (or other caretakers) who provide for you but otherwise pretend you don't exist. It's an appealing livelihood to a very certain kind of person. I think some people suggested that the hikikomori phenomenon is due to the great pressure Japanese society puts on youth to succeed and excel above their peers while also following their superiors and not really rocking the boat in terms of societal change. Some people just crack under the pressure and become complete shut-ins. I think the same thing is also one of the reasons Japan has such a high suicide rate.
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Jul 17, 2016 02:43
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I kept reading to the end and it was actually pretty drat funny. "Inside, the theater was completely empty (Makes sense though honestly. it was a p.late showing, you rarely see people at 9pm Friday night showings so it didn't bother me much. Didn't bother me much at all really.) so we had our pick of seats. We sat down front and center, and let the magic wash over us. Two hours later, I felt like I had been reborn."
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Jul 17, 2016 15:23
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You know it's all a big joke, right?
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Jul 17, 2016 19:28
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Khazar-khum posted:Tony This is believable, just not really a Crowning Moment of Anything. Back in high school we did Romeo & Juliet set in the 1960s in some weird meta-play that probably nobody gives a poo poo to hear about. We had a Bruni Olympic 6, a .22 Acorn blank gun, that would be used by Romeo to shoot Tybalt. The director wanted to acclimate everyone to the noise, so she sat the whole cast down and then just had them do the shooting with no warning on stage. There was a lot of screaming.
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Jul 25, 2016 13:55
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Evelyn Nesbit posted:"Romeo & Juliet set in the 1960s" so West Side Story? Sort of? The drama teacher did this weird meta plot where the story was that you were actually in a 1960s community center watching the hippies and white collars put on a play to settle their differences at a time when the Vietnam protests are increasing tensions. Every real life actor also had a second character (their 1960s actor in the play) with their own backstory and connections to the rest of the cast. No dialogue was added, so it all got conveyed through information in the program and having the actors occasionally "devolve into fighting" during the performance. What happened in the story is that the Tybalt and Mercutio actors got into a fistfight after their play sword fight, which led to Tybalt's actor pulling out a "real" knife and stabbing the other actor. Then Romeo gets loving pissed and grabs his bag and pulls out a "real" gun, which he uses to "really" shoot the Tybalt actor. That drama teacher was a weird hippie. quote:Also, using blanks on stage isn't the poo poo that didn't happen in this story. If anything, the stdh is that they didn't warn the audience. I don't think I've ever been to a play that warned the audience that a gun was going to be fired, except maybe some theme park shows. Phantom of the Opera and Misery on Broadway both didn't do it. chitoryu12 has a new favorite as of 18:02 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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Jul 25, 2016 18:00
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Evelyn Nesbit posted:There are loads and loads of equity regulations for if a production is going to use a real firearm, as opposed to a fake gun with sound cues. You're not required to post a warning, but it's generally accepted that you should, just like you warn for smoking on stage or strobe lights. Usually it's just a sign posted on the door or a slip in the playbill or something, but it is definitely a thing that is done. A lot of smaller theatres will also contact the police or the sherif's office ahead of time and let them know when and how many shots there will be. If they posted a warning on Broadway, it was easy to miss because I never saw it for two plays.
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Jul 26, 2016 01:09
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Geniasis posted:I actually kinda like that concept, far out as it is. I mean, I love standard Shakespeare as much as the next guy, but it's fun to see people reinterpret or reimagine it in a different context (more than just costuming, I mean) I agree, but it's not really something that you can easily pull off in high school. A better play would have actually explained the backstory of the "actor character" behind each Shakespeare character in the program or something so the relationships would be understandable, instead of hoping that your teenagers can have enough subtle influence on their acting to express all of it without changing a single line of dialogue from the Bard's original.
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Jul 26, 2016 14:48
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Khazar-khum posted:Masquerade This one's probably true. I saw a proposal during a costume contest a few years ago, and I talked to someone about it who goes to way more conventions than I do. He said that it's actually so common for cosplayer couples to do proposals during a costume contest performance that it's almost cliche.
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Jul 28, 2016 14:10
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Solid Cake posted:The Pokemon that spawn nearby spawn for everyone in the area, not just for one person, and everybody is given the opportunity to catch it independently. So all of these stories about people racing to catch a Pokemon and steal it from each other is bullshit. Even if it is meant as a joke, their target audience is obviously people who play Pokemon Go, so why even bother when the core information in the joke is wrong? Also, the wrist thing just automatically catches Pokemon for you and buzzes to let you know it caught one.
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Jul 29, 2016 17:07
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Tunicate posted:It was a rule that you shouldn't use first person so naturally they just referred to themselves as 'this troper' instead of 'I' because They dropped that after a while, but people still kept doing the "This troper" thing. Or worse, starting with "This troper" and then switching into first-person after the first sentence. Khazar-khum posted:Disney Somehow I find the growling the funniest part of this, like the kids are so obsessed with seeming cool that they literally bare their teeth and growl at Disney. quote:Expelled This might be the absolute stupidest one of the bunch. "This teacher who wasn't supposed to run the club told a girl that she was kicked out, which nobody was allowed to do anyway. We did not respond to this simply by laughing at her and ignoring it."
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Aug 1, 2016 13:00
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Aphrodite posted:I can't even say off hand which Disney movie that song's from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25QyCxVkXwQ
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Aug 1, 2016 14:18
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VioletCorsica posted:Same source as MonoAus This is such an incredible subreddit for this thread. It looks like most of them are "I was mistaken about something. Are we sure reality didn't just break and I was right all along?"
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Aug 2, 2016 13:28
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hallo spacedog posted:I mean there was that gbs pig killer guy so I don't even know anymore. I'm just gonna assume it was him. Imagine if he had dropped a pumpkin on their fire instead.
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Aug 2, 2016 22:11
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A Tumblr post that I saw today:quote:list of bullshit i pulled in high school
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Aug 3, 2016 13:46
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My favorite part is that apparently the teachers all just went along with everything and kept loving him and giving him passing grades when he did poo poo that, in real life, would make their jobs miserable.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:04
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Jerry Cotton posted:poo poo that doesn't happen: teachers who aren't miserable anyway all the time. My Astronomy teacher was almost always in a good mood, but that's probably because he's a mega nerd who finds teaching about science to be incredibly fun. He would always get really giddy when talking about his personal projects. Like once he hooked up an electronically controlled telescope to a laptop and rigged up a PS2 controller to remotely turn it, and used this ghetto setup to take photographs (through screenshots on the laptop) of the ISS as it passed overhead.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:39
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Costume contests at cons also often have the cosplayers perform little skits or lip sync routines instead of just doing a runway walk. That's where I saw a proposal happen between an Anna and Hans.
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Aug 7, 2016 23:14
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hyperhazard posted:
shit_that_didnt_happen.txt: As I was doing so, I suddenly had some vivid memories of my past life as a tortoise. I think they were triggered by the Japanese food I had eaten. I wish it would fit.
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Aug 12, 2016 15:02
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Nckdictator posted:This happened. I think I've met someone this insufferable exactly once.
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I mean, it would be fun to spend a week living that kind of lifestyle just for the sake of immersive research. I just can't see anyone deciding that it's actually preferable. Also, this part annoys me: quote:Modern commentaries on the past can get appallingly like the game "telephone": One person misinterprets something, the next exaggerates it, a third twists it to serve an agenda, and so on. Going back to the original sources is the only way to learn the truth. Yes, primary sources can be better than half-remembered and intentionally edited secondary sources from later. But you still need to account for those primary sources being wrong about poo poo sometimes. I have a book where a woman had to assemble an image of the daily life of medieval peasants from things like coroner's records, because nobody back then cared enough about the peasants to write poo poo down (and what they did write down wasn't a priority for being saved) and the surviving historical texts are generally biased royal opinions. chitoryu12 has a new favorite as of 13:22 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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sweeperbravo posted:A nitpick- shoudln't he like, not be wearing a wedding ring? At first I forgot the context and thought of a different picture entirely.
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Aug 18, 2016 01:40
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Bertrand Hustle posted:
The analogy is now "With appropriate tools and manipulation, you can make people forget about how you hurt them before."
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Aug 18, 2016 13:42
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hogmartin posted: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: That channel is the poo poo. I have some recipe cards from the US Navy from the 1950s and 1960s that I want to try out to see how they tasted.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:22
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Cut out the last 3 lines and this probably happened.
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Aug 18, 2016 20:03
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tacodaemon posted:What is up with the repeated non sequitur "I wasn’t the jock" thing I think he's one of those weird guys who thought that school was a "Jocks vs. Nerds" stereotype, where the athletes and cheerleaders rule everything.
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Aug 22, 2016 20:41
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mostlygray posted:Getting picked on is a thing. It will always be a thing. My daughter gets picked on all the time just as did I in school. She's nerdy and has dyslexia so she's behind in reading. She gets teased for that from time to time. I just remind her to ignore them. They'll go away. It worked for me. It's really weird seeing a video of him without makeup back then.
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Aug 23, 2016 03:57
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Byzantine posted:I think it's funny how they think a "mean look" in the real world is something intimidating. The "death glare" probably does work like they say it does, just not for the reasons they think. It's probably less "I'm terrified of this guy and will do whatever he says so he doesn't hurt me" and more "Ugh, can we just not loving deal with this creep?"
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Aug 25, 2016 19:55
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The gently caress is a Humphrey?
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Aug 26, 2016 13:28
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Thanks. That one was especially painful to read. I know TV Tropes likes to pothole to trope pages all the time, but I think half the text in that story was trope language.
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Aug 26, 2016 20:26
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I came very close to doing something much more awkward on the way to Naples back in June. We stopped at McDonalds for some food at the halfway point in the drive, with my mom staying in the SUV because she was feeling sick (we didn't know at the time, but she had an umbilical hernia for the past 5 years and it was just starting to get bad enough to require emergency hospitalization as we drove south). My girlfriend and I walked up to a red Santa Fe and began to reach for the door handle....only to stop upon seeing a person in the seat. We had parked next to an identical vehicle, only this one had passengers in it that we were about to accidentally try and carjack.
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Sep 10, 2016 02:25
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FrozenVent posted:The keys for new car have these chips in them nowadays that should prevent starting the wrong car, I think? The latest plastic key fobs have little circuits in them that are energized by a radio signal from the car's computer when inserted into the car, and send a signal back to the car. The keys look identical from the outside and may still fit in the ignition, but the car will refuse to turn on or even be totally immobilized by inserting the wrong one. This removes the threat of key copying from most thieves, as you'd need to perfectly duplicate the circuitry in the key, and you can't simply force the ignition cylinder to turn..
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"I'm so proud when my child hurts a stranger's feelings for being nice to her!"
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