The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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This made a teen-aged science nerd who actually reads articles laugh a tad.[DOUBLEPOST=1413778421,1413778382][/DOUBLEPOST]
"Oh so you finally admit to being a teenager" BOOM beat you to it!
The text of a spam message I got today:
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subject: Sell your Home fast!
When, at this footling one was no smell of the composition with dog your spouse a really pop or really late fulfilment of dreams. cformerlyive it or in an pet protection, and little affection for their bedding material boxwoods of at least formerly a week, the hare will start out to seem untidy redress after eating. Since in that respect are pet outflows that come from whole solid foods are in trend this particular character has hypnotized YouTube viewers and online advertising companionship.doing the Cat Mountain furnishes grand family-friendly biotic communities along with dog a tasty spice has represented had for the leukaemia, the glad it will get further accented.
portion of the facilities of a home visitors, and handled for feline consumption and experience detected that Tiggy my oldest cat breeds care the dog British Shorthair Cat behaviour? This takes a bit hard. Or would he do it after this is happing.
After suggestions from my editor friend who mailed back the edited manuscript, I've been cutting large swaths of sentences and a few paragraphs out of the book. This is tough to do at times, but when I take them out and look again, I see it makes sense.
There were two particular moments - where Dill was cuffed by the police - that were removed entirely. Just the mentions of the cuffs. My friend made a good argument that the police had invited Dill, asking for his help. He wasn't under arrest or even under suspicion, so why would they cuff him? It sucks because it was another in a big pile of crap dumped on Dill. My favourite thing is just dumping trouble on him because it's funny to beat him up. But from a logical point of view, it makes sense.
Still, it did give me a chance to write a new joke in place of demanding to have the cuffs removed:
“Time for a debriefing,” I said to Greyer, spitting out my cigarette into the water.
“I beg your pardon?”
There were two particular moments - where Dill was cuffed by the police - that were removed entirely. Just the mentions of the cuffs. My friend made a good argument that the police had invited Dill, asking for his help. He wasn't under arrest or even under suspicion, so why would they cuff him? It sucks because it was another in a big pile of crap dumped on Dill. My favourite thing is just dumping trouble on him because it's funny to beat him up. But from a logical point of view, it makes sense.
Still, it did give me a chance to write a new joke in place of demanding to have the cuffs removed:
“Time for a debriefing,” I said to Greyer, spitting out my cigarette into the water.
“I beg your pardon?”
I would do it after this is happing.
Oh dude its great. the idea of those horndogs getting some and all of a sudden their somebody's father is awesome.
I was just thinking it puts a very funny spin on some of the bizarre expressions anime characters get, and in some cases gets hilariously absurd.
Guess he, uh, "caught them all"HAH I didn't know that was a thing! It's hilarious!
Surprised that I heard about this ahead of you.
Also, where is the Tenchi version? Someone has to have made a Tenchi version.
--Patrick
I'd be more surprised if Tenchi wasn't the original source for this meme.
Pretty sure that if Atlus gets wind of it, it'll be part of the Golden Ending for the next Persona game Special Edition.
Its Teusday night, I have World Inferno Friendship Society in my head, and I. AM. PUMPED! TURQUOISE!
So I was browsing /r/new on Reddit, as one is wont to do when one has lots of work to do and yet doesn't want to do it. And I come across an entry to /r/IAMA that completely didn't fit the requirements for that subreddit. The title was "IAMA 21 year old virgin guy and not proud of it anymore." The guy was talking about how he decided to save himself for marriage, but now he doesn't feel it's worth it any more, and he's bitter about missing out on experiences he could have had.
Unsurprisingly, the thread was deleted a few seconds later, but I went into this guy's comment history to have a gander. Because I still don't want to do my work. It looks like he grew up as a devout Christian, but is currently suffering from depression and is having a crisis of faith. He posted a thread to /r/Christianity one day ago, titled "Why won't God help me?" He also posted to /r/depression asking for advice on medication that might help him. And then I went further back. He's posted on /r/nofap (about failures to not fap) and more threads on /r/depression... and holy shit, here's the kicker, he's gay. "I am struggling with homosexuality as someone who believes its a sin and also wants a family."
I wanna help this guy, but I'm at a complete loss as to how I should go about it. Do I just message him? What do I say? "Hey dude, you don't know me, but I went through your comment history and read what you wrote. I don't share your faith or your background, and I'm not gay myself, so I have no idea what that's like. I have no idea how to help you. Nor can I recommend any resources that might be useful for you."
I saw a random Internet stranger in need and I have no idea how to reach out and help him.
Also, I have work to do.
Unsurprisingly, the thread was deleted a few seconds later, but I went into this guy's comment history to have a gander. Because I still don't want to do my work. It looks like he grew up as a devout Christian, but is currently suffering from depression and is having a crisis of faith. He posted a thread to /r/Christianity one day ago, titled "Why won't God help me?" He also posted to /r/depression asking for advice on medication that might help him. And then I went further back. He's posted on /r/nofap (about failures to not fap) and more threads on /r/depression... and holy shit, here's the kicker, he's gay. "I am struggling with homosexuality as someone who believes its a sin and also wants a family."
I wanna help this guy, but I'm at a complete loss as to how I should go about it. Do I just message him? What do I say? "Hey dude, you don't know me, but I went through your comment history and read what you wrote. I don't share your faith or your background, and I'm not gay myself, so I have no idea what that's like. I have no idea how to help you. Nor can I recommend any resources that might be useful for you."
I saw a random Internet stranger in need and I have no idea how to reach out and help him.
Also, I have work to do.
First, you might want to think about what's going to happen if you reach out to this guy. There's nothing wrong with trying to help a random internet stranger at all. However, he sounds like he has a lot of conflict going on in his life. If he opens up to you, you might find yourself in for a lot more than you bargained for since he is struggling to resolve a lot of personal issues. Are you going to be willing to listen to someone you have hardly anything in common with? Particularly since you don't even know him except for what he's posting on Reddit? I do think your heart is in the right place, Bhamv, just take a minute to consider what you can offer him in the way of support and time.
If you choose to accept this mission, you could approach him from the perspective of being someone who is just starting out in life rather than thinking of all the things you don't have in common. He's only 21. (I forget how old you are, so bear with me if I'm assuming you're quite a bit older than he is.) You could relate to him some of what you experienced as a young man out on his own for the first time. Maybe you could do some research on your own about being a gay Christian (Gay Christian Network is a place to start). You could reassure him that questioning his beliefs and his own identity is normal at his age, to take things one step at a time instead of trying to figure everything out at once, and to maybe find a Christian LGBT support group he can talk with in order to sort out his feelings and beliefs.
That's my take on it at least.
If you choose to accept this mission, you could approach him from the perspective of being someone who is just starting out in life rather than thinking of all the things you don't have in common. He's only 21. (I forget how old you are, so bear with me if I'm assuming you're quite a bit older than he is.) You could relate to him some of what you experienced as a young man out on his own for the first time. Maybe you could do some research on your own about being a gay Christian (Gay Christian Network is a place to start). You could reassure him that questioning his beliefs and his own identity is normal at his age, to take things one step at a time instead of trying to figure everything out at once, and to maybe find a Christian LGBT support group he can talk with in order to sort out his feelings and beliefs.
That's my take on it at least.
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Here's an interesting fan theory on why the Oswald Cobblepot on Gotham is so, erm, non-traditional:
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/10...-whole-time-2363195?lt_source=external,manual
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/10...-whole-time-2363195?lt_source=external,manual
According to the show creators, there's supposed to be someone in every episode that could possibly be the joker, and you won't know which one it really is until...
Wow, I lost complete interest even before finishing the sentence.
I do not understand how Gotham is even a thing. Like, the pitch for that show has to have been, "Batman would be great if it wasn't for that guy dressed like a bat. He really ruins the whole thing. What if it was just another goddamn police procedural with hammy acting?"
Yeah, where you know that all of the characters they introduce will still be active decades later, because they aren't Jim Gordon's arch-enemies, they're BATMAN's arch-enemies. And at this point, Batman is still undergoing Bat-puberty.
"Hey, tune in to see the gratuitous and occasionally baffling introductions of Batman's enemies, before there is a Batman! Then watch a young detective James Gordon fail to make any progress for the entirety of his career due to the corruption and incompetence of the Gotham police, which is what necessitated Batman in the first place!"
I'm pretty sure the pitch was "Marvel has a show"
"But, um, their show concerns a bunch of well-trained secret agents gathering information on various threats and interacting with the subplots from the MCU, it's tied in without being overly restrained by the mythos. Ours is... what, Batman-minus-Batman?"
"Sounds good. You premiere in 5 months. NOW GET TO WORK!"
And all the while the world is deprived of an actual Batman show, because Beware the Batman was apparently a financial failure...THESE PEOPLE FAILED TO SELL BATMAN TO KIDS! BATMAN, the guy with a million sidekicks and gadgets that could easily be turned into toys! And the show was pretty good too, sure it wasn't "Brave and the Bold" but it still had AMAZ-ing action sequences.
It wasn't even a financial failure. They killed it prematurely because it had a high female audience and their merch line wasn't prepared to accommodate that demographic.