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Tiggum posted:Worse though are the people who assume that anyone who shares one of their interests must share all of them. "Oh, you play MtG? You must like anime, right?" And if you say no, they'll try to convince you you're wrong. No matter how much or little anime you've seen or how open or hostile you are to the idea, they just won't drop it. If you like one thing I like, you must like everything I like. "You'll see the light eventually!" And if you like something they don't, they'll be just as bad about trying to convince you not to like it. Anime 
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Yeah my biggest hobby is horror and cult film. I know a lot, but there are some who know infinitely more. I accept this no biggie. In my city there used to be a cult video shop (the harshest casualties of the netflix wars) and it was a really cool place totally suited to its college city area. Except the owner. He was "that guy" there we're talking about, pouncing on any chance to correct you or lord over you any knowledge he had. Made it hard being friendly any time he was in.
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Apr 27, 2016 14:16
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Hugoon Chavez posted:Here in Spain there're no medical marijuana dispensaries, but there's a bit of a gray area in the law were there can exist a smokers club in which you join and go into the clubhouse to smoke pot until you melt with the sofa. Did you show them this?
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Apr 27, 2016 14:55
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Tiggum posted:People actually believe that? I thought it was just a joke from TV shows, like "look how dumb this character is that he believes something so obviously nonsensical". I've never known of anyone who actually believed it in real life. Cops like to keep that rumor spreading because it makes their job so much easier. And a lot of criminals are really dumb.
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Apr 27, 2016 15:34
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WampaLord posted:Cops like to keep that rumor spreading because it makes their job so much easier. And a lot of criminals are really dumb. I always love the stories where cops tell people with outstanding warrants that they've won a free dinner or whatever, and then round them all up when they get to the restaurant.
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Apr 27, 2016 15:56
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My brother's gf apparently asked him the other day of you can eat the skin of a pear. Also; "The police can't ticket or arrest you on private property."
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Apr 27, 2016 16:14
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Crazyeyes posted:My brother's gf apparently asked him the other day of you can eat the skin of a pear. Don't forget: There are people who also think that the police are fine upstanding bastions of all that is good and right in the world, and have no problem consenting to searches without a warrant.
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Apr 27, 2016 16:25
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Tiggum posted:People actually believe that? I thought it was just a joke from TV shows, like "look how dumb this character is that he believes something so obviously nonsensical". I've never known of anyone who actually believed it in real life. It's a joke these days because enough people know it's bullshit, but I remember hearing it with all sincerity when I was younger. What this feeds into, though, is that like Hugoon Chavez, I wasn't in America, so even if the Feds have to admit they're a cop, why would that be true in Spain or England? But a surprising number of people don't seem to realize that laws and police requirements/procedures are different in different countries. I've heard of people in various countries thinking they're about to get off scot-free because during the arrest the cops didn't give the Miranda warning. 
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Apr 27, 2016 17:19
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Tiggum posted:Worse though are the people who assume that anyone who shares one of their interests must share all of them. "Oh, you play MtG? You must like anime, right?" And if you say no, they'll try to convince you you're wrong. No matter how much or little anime you've seen or how open or hostile you are to the idea, they just won't drop it. If you like one thing I like, you must like everything I like. "You'll see the light eventually!" And if you like something they don't, they'll be just as bad about trying to convince you not to like it. This is one of my biggest pet peeves, especially when they act like it is literally unbelievable that you have not seen a particular piece of media. Nothing ruins a perfectly good conversation than that gobsmacked expression followed by "You HAVEN'T seen Movie X?! How have you never seen it! Oh my God, I'm forcing you to watch it so this great injustice can be undone!" I get it, its a good movie. Great even. I might have even been interested in checking it out at some point but that sort of reaction puts me right off.
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Apr 27, 2016 20:34
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Christo posted:This is one of my biggest pet peeves, especially when they act like it is literally unbelievable that you have not seen a particular piece of media. Nothing ruins a perfectly good conversation than that gobsmacked expression followed by "You HAVEN'T seen Movie X?! How have you never seen it! Oh my God, I'm forcing you to watch it so this great injustice can be undone!" I get it, its a good movie. Great even. I might have even been interested in checking it out at some point but that sort of reaction puts me right off. I get this reaction every time I tell people I've never watched a Star Wars film. They're just not my thing!
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Apr 27, 2016 22:50
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Roro posted:I get this reaction every time I tell people I've never watched a Star Wars film. They're just not my thing! But... how can you know 
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Apr 27, 2016 22:56
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Mister Adequate posted:But... how can you know Well, when I say I've never watched one, I mean I've never watched one in its entirety. I've seen snippets of the various films, and they just didn't interest me.
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Apr 27, 2016 22:58
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Oh okay, that's fair enough then!
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Apr 27, 2016 23:07
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Given how inescapable Star Wars crap tends to be, I'm pretty sure that who has encountered western society in the last thirty years knows exactly what those movies are like.
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Apr 27, 2016 23:09
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Christo posted:This is one of my biggest pet peeves, especially when they act like it is literally unbelievable that you have not seen a particular piece of media. Nothing ruins a perfectly good conversation than that gobsmacked expression followed by "You HAVEN'T seen Movie X?! How have you never seen it! Oh my God, I'm forcing you to watch it so this great injustice can be undone!" I get it, its a good movie. Great even. I might have even been interested in checking it out at some point but that sort of reaction puts me right off. I used to have a co-worker like this - but always with really lovely movies. Like, movies no reasonable person would expect me to have seen. I was a single dude in my early 20s at the time, and she would always react in shock that I hadn't seen any specific dumb romantic comedy or Nicholas Sparks movie. This will sound like STDH, but I swear she once said to me "What!? You haven't seen Dude Where's My Car!? What is wrong with you?"
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Apr 27, 2016 23:35
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Choco1980 posted:Yeah my biggest hobby is horror and cult film. I know a lot, but there are some who know infinitely more. I accept this no biggie. In my city there used to be a cult video shop (the harshest casualties of the netflix wars) and it was a really cool place totally suited to its college city area. Except the owner. He was "that guy" there we're talking about, pouncing on any chance to correct you or lord over you any knowledge he had. Made it hard being friendly any time he was in. Are you annoyed by the torture porn horror kids? I have a good friend that is also super into horror and cult films, and people who think Saw and Hostel always wonder why he's talking about Hausu or Eraserhead when talking about great horror movies because they don't show eyeballs being scooped out. he showed me a thread in a horror group on facebook where some guy said "Why are you saying Reanimator is such a classic? There isn't even any rape" There are now 2 weed depensaries near me, and two idiot kids were looking in the window and one said to the other "we need to get fake ids. We can just go in there and buy weed!". When they are probably 13 at most. Plus I'm pretty sure you need a perspiration or some other thing that says you can buy medicinal pot.
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I work with a guy who can't get it into his head that I a) don't watch The Walking Dead and b) have no interest in ever doing so. Like he can't comprehend that someone would own a television and not watch that show.
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twistedmentat posted:Plus I'm pretty sure you need a perspiration or some other thing that says you can buy medicinal pot. yeah, my doctor prescribed me weed on account of how egregiously sweaty I am
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Tracula posted:I can imagine working at a smoke shop would be pretty enjoyable. Gonna take a wild guess that most of the people that come on are fairly mellow in general. Not even saying that they're high or whatevs but it just seems niche enough that the ones shopping there don't wanna be remembered as that dick head. I imagine this varies wildly regionally. In the southeast, having managed two smoke shops, a porn shop, and a liquor store my Sophomore year of college through a couple years post graduation, I can basically say this is completely wrong. The shops in lower income/higher crime areas have cooler regular patrons but you get robbed loving all the time and raided by the cops for bullshit reasons constantly (literally, twice we were raided for selling dildos, once I was the on-duty manager and they threatened to arrest me). The shops in higher incomer/lower crime areas the customers will constantly treat you like poo poo like you're "lesser" than them (18 year old kids telling you they pay your wage when you ask to see their ID, etc.). IMHO the best retail job I ever had was working for a high end gas station (QT, Wawa, Race Trac, etc.). The pay was extremely decent and people are generally in too much of a rush to be lovely.
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13Pandora13 posted:IMHO the best retail job I ever had was working for a high end gas station (QT, Wawa, Race Trac, etc.). The pay was extremely decent and people are generally in too much of a rush to be lovely. But when they are, Christ, are they lovely. I've been cursed at more at that job, than all of my other jobs combined. The thing about gas stations in America is that everybody drives, and needs gas. You get every shade of lovely people there is. Also gently caress any job where you have to sell Lotto. I'm spoiled by working for a good liquor company. I don't think I could go back to general retail.
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Old people who want 50 scratchcards redeemed at once then getting new scratchcards with their winnings and scratching them at the counter while you're busy redeeming the rest so you're caught in an endless scratchcard cycle while a huge queue forms behind them are the worst. There was one old woman we all hated because she was about a thousand and always did this. She'd also just completely blank you if you asked her not to do that. She wasn't deaf though because she could hear me across the shop if I said we had no All-Cash Gold left, loving cow.
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letthereberock posted:I used to have a co-worker like this - but always with really lovely movies. Like, movies no reasonable person would expect me to have seen. I was a single dude in my early 20s at the time, and she would always react in shock that I hadn't seen any specific dumb romantic comedy or Nicholas Sparks movie. wait have you seriously not seen dude where's my car?
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EmmyOk posted:Old people... are the worst There we go. They're always super loving picky, and as you said, will give you that blank stare if you say no to them. They always want immediate service, even if you have ten other customers waiting infront of them. Christ, boomers love to talk about kids being entitled, but in my experience, it's that goddamn generation more than anyone. I had this lady bite my head off over word searches once because I said that we would be getting no more in. This was after I'd run all over the store for her and even called up the manager twice. Retail has given me a constant low level disgust for humanity in general, old people and certain parents in specific.
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letthereberock posted:This will sound like STDH, but I swear she once said to me "What!? You haven't seen Dude Where's My Car!? What is wrong with you?" To be fair, that movie is hilarious.
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twistedmentat posted:"Why are you saying Reanimator is such a classic? There isn't even any rape" But there was an attempted rape in the film. Does that count?
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Apr 28, 2016 07:40
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There was a scene where a disembodied head gave a woman cunnilingus, though. That's pretty gnarly.
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Apr 28, 2016 10:32
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I thought that was the rape scene?
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While the titles were all mixed up I thought this was the Schaden thread and was getting really, really confused by these posts
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Choco1980 posted:Yeah my biggest hobby is horror and cult film. I know a lot, but there are some who know infinitely more. I accept this no biggie. In my city there used to be a cult video shop (the harshest casualties of the netflix wars) and it was a really cool place totally suited to its college city area. Except the owner. He was "that guy" there we're talking about, pouncing on any chance to correct you or lord over you any knowledge he had. Made it hard being friendly any time he was in.  How about the one where the dude snaps and strangles the obnoxious sperglord with his own tongue? That's bullshit. There's no such movie. No, there isn't.When I was in high school, I got called stupid by a bunch of other girls for saying The Shining was a better horror movie than Scream. I sometimes wonder if they ever realized they were scared of a parody.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:While the titles were all mixed up I thought this was the Schaden thread and was getting really, really confused by these posts I guess rape is technically schadenfreude.
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Canemacar posted:I guess rape is technically schadenfreude. Jesus christ.
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Roro posted:I get this reaction every time I tell people I've never watched a Star Wars film. They're just not my thing! You haven't seen Star Wars?! Wha- But- how- I don't- Are you even chipped? Have you even been synchronized?! You're not even feeling the mode, are you!
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13Pandora13 posted:I imagine this varies wildly regionally. In the southeast, having managed two smoke shops, a porn shop, and a liquor store my Sophomore year of college through a couple years post graduation, I can basically say this is completely wrong. The shops in lower income/higher crime areas have cooler regular patrons but you get robbed loving all the time and raided by the cops for bullshit reasons constantly (literally, twice we were raided for selling dildos, once I was the on-duty manager and they threatened to arrest me). The shops in higher incomer/lower crime areas the customers will constantly treat you like poo poo like you're "lesser" than them (18 year old kids telling you they pay your wage when you ask to see their ID, etc.). Dispensaries as well, at least in Los Angeles. I've interviewed a bunch of workers and they all say they get their share of rude dickhead customers, usually more than other jobs. Blows my mind: These people are selling you weed, man, what is there to be mean about?
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Drunk Nerds posted:Dispensaries as well, at least in Los Angeles. I've interviewed a bunch of workers and they all say they get their share of rude dickhead customers, usually more than other jobs. Blows my mind: These people are selling you weed, man, what is there to be mean about? Severe chronic pain? Cancer? I mean, neither of those tend to do wonders for the patience. In Mass half the time you go to a dispensary the state gateway system is down and they can't verify you're current on your registration so you have to stand around while someone calls someone and there's loving around for what seems like forever but is probably only 20 minutes. Anyway, it's a pretty infuriating experience though I try to remember it is not at all the employees' fault.
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Sic Semper Goon posted:But there was an attempted rape in the film. Does that count? Probably not, I've noticed that there is an non-significant portion of the horror movie fan community that primarily enjoys films for the amount of violence that is done to women. I need to take a picture of the new Dispensary near me, they're not even bothering to pretend its about medicine.
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RareAcumen posted:You haven't seen Star Wars?! Wha- But- how- I don't- Are you even chipped? Have you even been synchronized?! You're not even feeling the mode, are you! That's a really good impression of an overbearing Star Wars fan tbh. Is it a reference to the films or something?
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Roro posted:That's a really good impression of an overbearing Star Wars fan tbh. Is it a reference to the films or something? Hell if I know, I've only seen like forty episodes of the Clone Wars cartoon and nothing else. I was trying to go for a They Live sort of hivemind along with whatever that other movie where everyone's got tracers in them to make sure they don't go against the status quo and having any free will. Or something like that at least. 
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twistedmentat posted:Probably not, I've noticed that there is an non-significant portion of the horror movie fan community that primarily enjoys films for the amount of violence that is done to women. Do you mean non-significant or non-trivial?
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Amoeba102 posted:Do you mean non-significant or non-trivial? Non-trivial is probably better; as in there are not too many of them, but there's enough to be concerned. I love horror movies, but mostly ones with monsters or supernatural aspects, and less serial killers and torture porn, but I've had people say they didn't like Hellraiser because "that bitch didn't get what she deserved" or something else akin to that.
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