8-D
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― sktsh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
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― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2278/khan.png
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost
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.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
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Truth bomb.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Oh nerds.
http://i.imgur.com/Mz08u.jpg
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
I lol'ed u_u
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
nathan anderson, browns fan
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
He wants us to feel his pain. He can fuck right off.
― Aimless, Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
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, 13 December 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
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
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
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― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
― 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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
moneyball turned modern sports talk into something i imagine is now insufferable to old-timer sports fans.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
but is that people talking at you about sports or talking to each other while you thirdwheel it xp
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
like sports talk today is: math math math math actuarial tables math math math mark cuban.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
you don't ever want to visit ILB
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
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
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
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
― some dude, Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
i like only talk about work irl, good thing i'm a major league baseball player
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
there's a curt schilling joke in here somewhere
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
"unless you're actually in your favorite band you're kind of crazy to give a shit that they're currently in the studio recording a new album"
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Did he take that as an invitation to show you his fantasy league?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Fantasy LEAGUES. He also does fantasy basketball.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
gr80 otm. Forgive people their passions, such that you may care about something. Even if you feel not the need to vocalize.
― mh, Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
You'd have to know this guy and see how apeshit he goes over the idea of anyone not caring about football to get it. Obviously I understand that people have different interests. That's why I said "digs" rather than "serious observations."
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
ok yeah thats obnoxious.
personally i love:
1) food/eating2) watching/occasionally playing sports
but talking about them with friends and strangers and on blogs and message boards is the worst shit ever.
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
ILNFL crew you're allright tho
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
ILHoops ok
ILBB...
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/10346_10200101839770220_495281016_n.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
*whew*
― 乒乓, Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
see the good thing about talking about sports w/ people, esp people at work, is that it means you don't have to be talking about something else with them
― iatee, Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
if you can't handle me at my arguing about the value of tom glavine's batting WAR, you don't deserve me at my not doing that -- ILBB
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
i'd rather gossip about co-workers and inter-office politics but to each their own
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
only takes away time from talking about suburban sprawl tho xps
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
depends on the office tbh
I honestly look at 'talking about sports at work' as almost a social obligation I'm performing, it is one step away from talking about the weather
― iatee, Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
i build a wall of sports-talking so coworkers know not to come to me with their omg did you see the voice last night bullshit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/375563_4247659062992_1816774246_n.jpg
xp with current fb friends' posts
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 December 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
non-work-related conversation at work should be banned, I don't want to have to deal with that.
― wongo hulkington's jade palace late night buffet (silby), Thursday, 13 December 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
I have a bunch of friends and acquaintances who are huge baseball nerds and they all at some point expressed disappointment when they realized that I know and care nothing about baseball. But I love when any two of them somehow cross paths for the first time and five minutes later they're all into it and talking shit to each other, like I was some sort of matchmaker.
― joygoat, Thursday, 13 December 2012 06:27 (eleven years ago) link
there's all sorts of peripheral ways to be interested in baseball without actually being interested in baseball. the whole nate silver thing, how that logo to that one team looks like "elb", etc...
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 13 December 2012 06:49 (eleven years ago) link
my only genuine interest in sports is athletes' butts
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
don't think it would go over well if i jumped into a conversation about the patriots' post-season with "HEY HOW ABOUT GRONKOWSKI'S ASS, PRETTY NICE, AM I RIGHT?"
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
because it is fair to middling at best
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link