It's strange to think that there are people out there who look at support form boards the same way the rest of us look at facebook, ilx, templeowlsbasketball.edu, etc.
― pplains, Monday, 17 February 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
As bad or worse, people who answer, "That's not possible." E.g.
Asker: How do I disable the Insert key on my keyboard? Answerer: I don't think you can do that. (others offer instructions for remapping keyboards)Answerer: I never heard of doing that. I don't see how that could actually work. Asker: Thanks, that worked!Answerer: That wasn't a good idea. You probably just ruined your computer. it's impossible THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOUa;dklfja;sd
― Je55e, Monday, 17 February 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
ASKER; Is there an easy way I can search for apps on my iPhone by typing in the name?ANSWERER: First of all, this forum is for unmodified iPhones still serviceable by Apple, not "jailbroken" ones...
― pplains, Monday, 17 February 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
People getting excited about thundersnow.
― Jeff, Monday, 17 February 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
two tortilla burrito would be p upsetting imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, February 14, 2014 1:36 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Two tortilla burrito" should be a phrase for something needlessly complicated. "How's the security line at the airport?" "Ugh, they make you go through this stupid maze even though no one's in line. It's such a two-tortilla burrito."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
I like that
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 04:33 (ten years ago) link
Man, this American bicameral legislative system is a real two-tortilla burrito
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 04:34 (ten years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 04:37 (ten years ago) link
as useless as tits on a bull a two tortilla burrito
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 04:39 (ten years ago) link
I like to think of the two-tortilla burrito as making the best of what you have.
― nickn, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:54 (ten years ago) link
what we think of the two-tortilla burrito says much more about us than the two-tortilla burrito
― a commentary on self-absorbed youth culture in the social media age (zachlyon), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:59 (ten years ago) link
the two tortilla burrito in you is the reality in you
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 06:05 (ten years ago) link
I am two-tortilla burrito!
― nickn, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 06:08 (ten years ago) link
god i could really go for two burritos
― j., Tuesday, 18 February 2014 06:27 (ten years ago) link
Books that are told in first-person viewpoint and recount long dreams full of dialogue quoted verbatim. Dreams do not work like that. And they're boring to hear/read about.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link
I have a facebook friend who posts his dreams all the time -- he's a good writer and they're very imaginative and poetic dreams and they're STILL boring as fuck to read about. I've only known one person ever whose dreams were interesting to hear.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:09 (ten years ago) link
And we all get free parking on his birthday every January.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
carl agatha is the only person I've know who can recount dreams in an interesting way. I can't figure out her trick. Probably she's a witch.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
I'm definitely a witch.
Also thank you.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
Here's one: I had a dream I was changing a baby (not Ivy, thank god) and instead of legs, it had catfish whiskers.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
What's your trick? Let's workshop my dreams.
Xp I hate you
― Je55e, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
It was really hard to get a diaper to stay on!
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Maybe she tells the interesting dreams to you only.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
The Xfinity One commercial featuring Abrams Spock and Abrams Chekov talking about how they must be in the future because of this awesome cable OS makes me fly into screaming rages
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
― Jeff, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:27 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Maybe I'm more interesting than you give me credit for!
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
oooooo
― j., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
We've got a drop-down menu list of photographers on one of our internal sites. This is what I see when I'm trying to search for an item by that category:
Fred AllenJim BakerArnold CoolidgeKim DavisKevin EffingtonZack FarnerNell GarlandPhyllis Hathaway
THAT IS NOT A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/dead-poets-society-is-a-terrible-defense-of-the-humanities/283853/
this is a shit article
shit
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
you really think so? I totally get where he is coming from. The brand of "reading" endorsed by Dead Poets Society seems ready-made for feel-goody high-concept advertisements.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
did someone think high school english as portrayed in a movie was the same as grad school critical theory? i bet they feel dumb now
― bnw, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
The brand of "reading" endorsed by Dead Poets Society seems ready-made for feel-goody high-concept advertisements.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:00 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
totally, i just feel like
- he didn't need 3500 words to make his sort of obvious point about a 20 year old movie- putting 'appreciation' in opposition to close reading is fucking nonsense
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
"everyone says english departments overanalyze things well thats stupid you have to analyze things instead of just having feelings about them"
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
its a spirited defense of bloodlessness
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
- putting 'appreciation' in opposition to close reading is fucking nonsense
^^^ a million times this
And it's what I think when people get het up about analyzing jokes. For me, picking apart a joke doesn't "kill it," it gives it a second life.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Otherwise entertaining podcasts where they can't be bothered to edit out the boring 20 mins at the start where set up and complain about Skype glitches, etc etc
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
How Windows 7 likes to display every new folder window with the following 'details':
#TitleContributing ArtistsAlbum
So instead of just me clicking a button or two so I can see file size and date, I have to unclick all these mp3-centric options and then click all the stuff 'on'. Thanks, MS.
Also, I have received multiple used printers that 100% work in other versions of Windows but REFUSE to do so in Windows 7. Ease of use w peripherals should be the fucking FOUNDATION of your OS. Otherwise this is just DOS in drag.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
the literary equivalent of fandom
god forbid people would be fans of literature
― j., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
Huge 2500 page print job, diligently replenish paper as I go so printer doesn't stop .... 10 sheets shy of finishing it's completely out of paper RAGH FUCK YOU
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:25 (ten years ago) link
also the printer trays hold -just shy- of a ream
hate that so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
ok that is ludicrous also i am so tired right now that i had to type ludacris next to that to see if i spelled ludicrous right, to make sure a red underline would appear if i didn't
― sent from my butt (harbl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
sad commentary on ludacris' fortunes
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 01:01 (ten years ago) link
people who are not a) e.e. cummings and b) i GUESS bell hooks but who c) foist their special snowflake requirement of only printing their name in lowercase on everyone who surrounds them
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
uncapitalization of a person's name actually has the opposite effect of what it purports to be for
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
there was someone like this at my last job—decidedly NOT an iconic anything—who did this and i never even met her just read her emails and the promotional materials put out by her office but STILL when i think about her i just wanna yell and capitalize things
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
there's basically no falser act of false humility, although I'm not sure people who do it now even recognize its origins in false humility
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
do they think of themselves as like orthographic bodhisattvas
what would they do if everyone else suddenly capitulated and de-capitalized themselves too
would the world become a better place
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
mAkEs YoU tHiNk . . .
― nickn, Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
BELL HOOS
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Thursday, 20 February 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link