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join the growing and soon to be culled crowd

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:36 (eleven years ago)

wow! i had totally forgotten about that

Mordy, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:49 (eleven years ago)

mods plz change board description to "free speech online community" ty

lag∞n, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:51 (eleven years ago)

how could it still be september if no one uses usenet now

we should use usenet again, why was it we quit

j., Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:53 (eleven years ago)

lol because of Eternal September!

DJP, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:56 (eleven years ago)

those ppl gotta be all gone now, faceborkin on teh phones

j., Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:58 (eleven years ago)

we're clear

j., Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:59 (eleven years ago)

Someone should wake that Green Day guy up!

pplains, Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:39 (eleven years ago)

(Now I'm scared someone's going to think I sincerely made a dad joke just then.)

pplains, Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:42 (eleven years ago)

I am so vehemently in favor of aggressive modding everywhere at all times
Let them come and be modded into dust

demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:47 (eleven years ago)

Im sure 4chan will welcome them all back

panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:18 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/CvmzNzz.png

i've changed my mind about reddit. reddit needs to be preserved at all costs

, Friday, 12 June 2015 20:53 (eleven years ago)

legaladvice and relationshipadvice are both unalloyed gold

goole, Friday, 12 June 2015 20:55 (eleven years ago)

kinda lol but mostly sad

appropriation and whatnot (stevie), Saturday, 13 June 2015 19:06 (eleven years ago)

misread "resume tweaking" as meaning "going back to meth", thought his parents had a point

as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 02:18 (eleven years ago)

if only

lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 06:42 (eleven years ago)

He has no meth and he must scram :-(

fear of a nakh pan itt (wins), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 06:57 (eleven years ago)

<applause>

as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 07:07 (eleven years ago)

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3a6yi0/internet_lawyer_updates_paomustresign_on_plans_to/cs9x2ry

got bent (mild cheezed off vibes) (s.clover), Thursday, 18 June 2015 14:14 (eleven years ago)

http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/39r6vq/my_26m_girlfriend_24f_of_two_years_always/

My [26M] girlfriend [24F] of two years always includes poetry in cards she gives me. I'm not into it.Relationships (self.relationships)

submitted 8 days ago by nomorepoetry

I'll start by saying I love my girlfriend. I think she's beautiful, intelligent, and very caring. We get along together extremely well. We moved in together after only 2 months but have never had any major fights. We just work. It's a great feeling

Which makes me realize that this gripe is minor, so I don't know how to address it. Every card I have ever received from my girlfriend (birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's day etc) has included poetry. On one side she'll write something short, but sweet and thoughtful, which I like. On the other side, she'll write a few lines from a poem or other classical literature. I get that she is a librarian and literature is something she's studied extensively and cares about. Frankly, it leaves me cold. I was a stem major and work in a scientific field now, and classical literature, ESPECIALLY poetry, do not interest me in the slightest.

I figured she would pick up eventually that I don't care about the fancy words and much prefer her own, but my birthday recently rolled around and there was poetry in the card. She even made a point of repeating the passage to me. I asked her why she always felt the need to use someone else's words, but she just replied that the words were beautiful and she felt a connection to them and us.

I don't know how to broach this topic without hurting her feelings. I would be fine if she just signed the card, or no card at all. I love this girl, but I'm tired of the poems.

tl;dr: How do I tell my girlfriend to leave the poetic craps off when she writes cards?

goole, Monday, 22 June 2015 19:48 (eleven years ago)

and he's getting absolutely taken to the cleaners over that post

AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 June 2015 19:53 (eleven years ago)

yeah true

goole, Monday, 22 June 2015 19:55 (eleven years ago)

all these are very strange fantasies

lag∞n, Monday, 22 June 2015 19:55 (eleven years ago)

what a moron

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2015 19:56 (eleven years ago)

thinkpiece abt how the extreme mundanity of the reddit storytelling house style is destroying virgins sexual imagination

lag∞n, Monday, 22 June 2015 19:57 (eleven years ago)

if only she knew that algorithms were the way to my heart

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 June 2015 20:01 (eleven years ago)

goole has got me into reading that relationships reddit and I think I am angry about it

Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 22 June 2015 20:03 (eleven years ago)

Just email attached research on oxytocin and orgasms.

We'd like to conduct a wobulator test here (Sanpaku), Monday, 22 June 2015 20:09 (eleven years ago)

lol

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 June 2015 20:30 (eleven years ago)

roses are red
violets are too
i am not real
your STEM job will suck

mad maxwell's wasteland death suite (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 June 2015 20:37 (eleven years ago)

goole has got me into reading that relationships reddit and I think I am angry about it

― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, June 22, 2015 3:03 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it gets better when you imagine them all written by the same 6-10 dudes, a fact that every commenter knows

goole, Monday, 22 June 2015 20:40 (eleven years ago)

they're all really obvious or really depressing, followed by the two token commenters on each thread who say the most vile shit

Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 22 June 2015 21:04 (eleven years ago)

"Two of the site’s most popular posts ever are AMAs: the one with Barack Obama and a conversation with a man with two penises."

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/reddits-ama-subreddit-down-after-victoria-taylor-depature-2015-7

Evan, Friday, 3 July 2015 03:43 (eleven years ago)

Someone please dox that guy and let his girlfriend know what she's gotten herself into.

I was a stem major and work in a scientific field now, and classical literature, ESPECIALLY poetry, do not interest me in the slightest.

how many posts does he have in r/hardscifi?

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 3 July 2015 04:07 (eleven years ago)

Hearsay, but

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI9iYW7VAAAzzJN.png

StanM, Friday, 3 July 2015 06:00 (eleven years ago)

TIL there's a bad Jesse Jackson

StanM, Friday, 3 July 2015 06:02 (eleven years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJAMaLZUAAAATOK.png

mookieproof, Friday, 3 July 2015 16:30 (eleven years ago)

what is anybody supposed to get out of that screenshot

i'm not a dogg (sleepingbag), Friday, 3 July 2015 16:31 (eleven years ago)

reddit is the nerd drama place online

lag∞n, Friday, 3 July 2015 16:34 (eleven years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI_3ancWEAAx1R4.png

lag∞n, Friday, 3 July 2015 16:43 (eleven years ago)

redditors are revolting lol

2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 3 July 2015 16:50 (eleven years ago)

keep reddit dark forever imo

doug ellin (Lamp), Friday, 3 July 2015 16:51 (eleven years ago)

its good

lag∞n, Friday, 3 July 2015 16:53 (eleven years ago)

the forces of S.T.E.M.

doug ellin (Lamp), Friday, 3 July 2015 16:57 (eleven years ago)

i fucking love silence

lag∞n, Friday, 3 July 2015 16:57 (eleven years ago)

lol

goole, Friday, 3 July 2015 18:07 (eleven years ago)

it's absolutely insane that redditors feel that they need to know who is getting fired before the person that is getting fired does.

Cory Sklar, Friday, 3 July 2015 19:30 (eleven years ago)

I guess celebrities will just have to answer crowdsourced questions on other websites, talk shows, magazines, reality shows, news programs, etc.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:48 (eleven years ago)

It is funny that the decentralized utopia is falling apart because everyone relied on one person to do the heavy lifting.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:52 (eleven years ago)

theyll all be back shotrly cmon its the source of their meager power

lag∞n, Friday, 3 July 2015 23:52 (eleven years ago)


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