annoying douche
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:15 |
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# ? Mar 19, 2024 10:47 |
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:15 |
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i dont like heinlein but sometimes it's useful w/ people who know what it means.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:16 |
Fergus Mac Roich posted:i dont like heinlein but sometimes it's useful w/ people who know what it means. lol please give an example of this being a useful thing to say in an actual conversation please
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:16 |
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Otto von Ruthless posted:lol please give an example of this being a useful thing to say in an actual conversation please look at this newb who doesnt grok itt
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:17 |
Otto von Ruthless posted:lol please give an example of this being a useful thing to say in an actual conversation please 1. you work in IT and have poor social skills
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:18 |
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Yeah I love referencing phrases coined by cannibal cults
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:18 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:19 |
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die-hard grokster checking in
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:20 |
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Otto von Ruthless posted:lol please give an example of this being a useful thing to say in an actual conversation please well for instance if you need to say "understand" but want to emphasize that the depth of the understanding is such that the knowledge itself is essentially perfunctory or natural. if I use a phrase like "really grokking C pointers" it gets across taht I mean that someone for whom this phrase is true doesn't just know, in an academic sense, how a C pointer works(as "really understanding C pointers" can encompass), they also don't have to think about it because the udnerstanding is so deep that it becomes natural. there are other ways to phrase it but sometimes you get part of the way through a sentence and realize you need to change words and so this can be less awkward. i use a programming example in particular because as a poster implied above if you have the opportunity to use it(the other person will know what it means immediately) you are probably talking about something nerdy.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:20 |
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actually it doesn't mean poo poo because almost nobody uses grok conversationally, at least not in like 30 years
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:06 |
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hey that's funny, these guys I used to roleplay an orc with in UO used to use "gruk" as understand http://www.shadowclan.org/catskills/language.htm#human Gib Shinies!!
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:20 |
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i don't grok the meaning of this thread
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:28 |
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I had a computer science professor who kept saying it, but pronouncing it as "grog", so it could be worse.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:38 |
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eggnog
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:42 |
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eternalname posted:annoying douche That was hella insightful.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:42 |
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:well for instance if you need to say "understand" but want to emphasize that the depth of the understanding is such that the knowledge itself is essentially perfunctory or natural. if I use a phrase like "really grokking C pointers" it gets across taht I mean that someone for whom this phrase is true doesn't just know, in an academic sense, how a C pointer works(as "really understanding C pointers" can encompass), they also don't have to think about it because the udnerstanding is so deep that it becomes natural. there are other ways to phrase it but sometimes you get part of the way through a sentence and realize you need to change words and so this can be less awkward. i use a programming example in particular because as a poster implied above if you have the opportunity to use it(the other person will know what it means immediately) you are probably talking about something nerdy. please don't read the jargon file
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:46 |
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grok this op *flips u off*
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:47 |
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a messed up horse posted:please don't read the jargon file good news I didnt and wont
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:48 |
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I think you need to immediately jettison yourself out of whatever cesspit you've ended up in because I have never ever heard anybody use that term.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 21:48 |
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was expecting "sociologist" but I guess they're equivalents
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:19 |
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You assume correctly op
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:20 |
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Otto von Ruthless posted:lol please give an example of this being a useful thing to say in an actual conversation please if you want to say 'understand on an intuitive leve but not on an analytical level' with less words
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:21 |
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Ocean Book posted:if you want to say 'understand on an intuitive leve but not on an analytical level' with less words it's only less words until the person you're talking to says "what the gently caress is a grok"
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:22 |
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I read Stranger in a Strange Land when I was 15 or something and didn't quite get it. The thing I did take away is anyone who says 'grok' is essentially a loving loser peado.
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:23 |
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Ocean Book posted:if you want to say 'understand on an intuitive leve but not on an analytical level' with less words If you can't explain something to somebody else, then you don't really understand it.
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:25 |
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nobody is saying grok is some great word invented by a guy who wasn't a dipshit and that people totally know what it means(don't use a word if your audience doesn't know what it means, duh), but it does potentially have a use case, because I've run into it.
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:28 |
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:nobody is saying grok is some great word invented by a guy who wasn't a dipshit and that people totally know what it means(don't use a word if your audience doesn't know what it means, duh), but it does potentially have a use case, because I've run into it. Hmm. Stfu
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:28 |
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a messed up horse posted:it's only less words until the person you're talking to says "what the gently caress is a grok" well its best to know your audience before using words, yes notZaar posted:If you can't explain something to somebody else, then you don't really understand it. there are mutiple stages of understanding something so 'really understand' is kind of a fuzzy arbitrary term here
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:38 |
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was expecting rob gronkowski
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 00:51 |
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To my great disappointment, I have met people in real life who use "grok" unironically in a sentence. Inevitably they barely finished high school/dropped out of community college and are breathtakingly arrogant about their 'superior intellect'.
Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Mar 28, 2015 |
# ? Mar 28, 2015 01:09 |
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i assume you are a beardy who gets paid a lot of money to type unix commands
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 01:14 |
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Im grokkin gay
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 01:19 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:To my great disappointment, I have met people in real life who use "grok" unironically in a sentence. Inevitably they barely finished high school/dropped out of community college and are breathtakingly arrogant about their 'superior intellect'. I was going to say that goons are one or two generations behind the hippie retards who actually threw this word around because Stranger In A Strange Land came out in 1961, but OTOH this sure sounds like goons
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 01:19 |
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I don't, but you can still assume that. Thanks OP, for understanding my special needs as a giant douche.
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 05:30 |
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I use it regularly and I usually wear t shirts featuring bigfoot or his Australian cousin the yowie!
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 07:04 |
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eternalname posted:annoying douche hey. I named a caveman actor that in a drawing game. does it mean something I"m not aware of? edit: huh. guess so.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok I was just looking for a name that sounded like a grunt.
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 08:04 |
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i defy anybody to describe the plot to stranger in a strange land without sounding like a dork it cant be done
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 08:06 |
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cto of my company is annoying douche and says it a lot. he also says "ontology" a lot
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 08:09 |
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# ? Mar 19, 2024 10:47 |
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Is it like a word from Harry Potter or something? I don't get it.
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# ? Mar 28, 2015 08:10 |