why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

finger on the pulse of the national conversational style

“What an old coot.”

Possible mishearing.

"The stupid Republicans want us all to starve to death so they can inherit all of the power."

this is a fascinating window into the mental processes at work here. not starving to death doesn't compute as an end in itself, it has to be recast in terms of relatable motivations, i.e. as a means to stop republicans inheriting all of the power, whatever the fuck that might mean.

After all that "there's no such thing as a free lunch" pontificating, the guy gets a free meal out of it?

this is a fascinating window into the mental processes at work here. not starving to death doesn't compute as an end in itself, it has to be recast in terms of relatable motivations, i.e. as a means to stop republicans inheriting all of the power, whatever the fuck that might mean.

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:47 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. If anything this is an incite into how right-wingers think left-wingers think. It's amazing really.

I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation

The elderly man chuckled as his wife tried to restrain him

that's one violent chuckling style

And then an old man offered to pay for my meal.

"Why would you do that, old man?" I asked..

(to be continued....)

no such thing as a free lunch for Positivist ubermenschen like our hero Clifford.

leaving the restaurant somewhat humbled

^^ ^^
Standout whopper.

tbf it was a free breakfast, not a free lunch. A breakfast which, as noted in the first paragraph, he couldn't finish. Joke's on the old man.

After a few moments of unrepeatable comments and slurs, I revealed my true intent.

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what is this, readers' digest fanfic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH8b03cEt6k

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Is this passive aggressive or just aggressive aggressive?

God Bless Our Troops and Fuck You, Buddy.

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From "Fuck fake relationships i prefer to be real." Not sure why the date earns the heart.

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Sigh.

"I have only seen this reposted one time"

So it was reposted before it was even created WTF? Reminds me of the chainletters you used to get that said "this letter has been going for 6 years and has been to countries including South Africa, Japan and Indonesia. Copy it to the letter and send it to 10 people you know" - if you copy it to the letter, how did the original sender know where and how long the letter had been passed around?!

I thought the "I" in "team" thing was funny when I first saw it, but it didn't have the whole thing about the A hole, which is just retarded.

dunno, it's like the hammering it into place.

Bob Marley.

Unless that 'i in team' thing was made by ee cummings I'm not having it.

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The guys who concoct these little fantasies sure have a shitty idea of what "good writing" is. You ever notice they're all written in that florid, I-own-a-thesaurus, self-congratulatory manner?

Seriously. The dialogue coming out of the old coot character reads a lot like it should be spoken by a vengeful Ricardo Montalban.

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that florid, I-own-a-thesaurus, self-congratulatory manner

yeah, but how one reacts to this style is based largely on class identity. if you handed a plumber $10,000 to buy a "ritzy" wardrobe, what they'd buy would never resemble what someone raised with "old money" would buy with the same budget, but it would impress the hell out of all their friends.

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I appreciate that Dr. Benjamin Montgomery employed some frowny faces to adequately communicate his distress over the impending death by crystal meth OD of your elementary school children.

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Truth bomb.

Oh nerds.

http://i.imgur.com/Mz08u.jpg

I lol'ed u_u

nathan anderson, browns fan

He wants us to feel his pain. He can fuck right off.

do people who don't like sports really get talked at about sports that much, or at all really

i don't mean "talked to at all" i mean "talked to about sports at all" but if you're wearing a fedora or a my little pony shirt all bets are off i guess

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do people who don't like sports really get talked at about sports that much, or at all really

― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:14 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, seriously, this does happen a lot. Usually when you're in the company of more than one other person, but it does happen frequently.

moneyball turned modern sports talk into something i imagine is now insufferable to old-timer sports fans.

but is that people talking at you about sports or talking to each other while you thirdwheel it xp

like sports talk today is: math math math math actuarial tables math math math mark cuban.

you don't ever want to visit ILB

Well, yeah, that's why I said the second sentence, b/c it happens more to me as a third wheel. But then, I've not been in a work environment for a while, last time I was it was very much a terrible cliched situation of people only ever talking about sports or babies.

i'm introverted and i lack a fundamental understanding of whatever brainwave makes people start talking about sports with people who have never shown an interest in sports

there are just generally a lot of people who will talk your ear off about their pet interest whether or not you share their passion for it

i like only talk about work irl, good thing i'm a major league baseball player

there's a curt schilling joke in here somewhere

All I ever hear in my office is fucking football nonsense. 365 days a year. IN CLEVELAND.

I always try to get in little digs, though. Last time the NFL draft came up, I needled the worst offender constantly about his endless draft talk. "Unless you are actually in the draft or own a football team, you're kind of crazy to give a shit about this and even crazier to watch it on TV" etc.