YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:

It's funny because the Beatles are just the Justin Bieber of the 60's.

Khazar-khum posted:

Was Bieber ever competent?

System Metternich posted:

Cool, a time traveller from 1997 when it was still feasible that a company owner would let some rando design the website.

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Domus posted:

I, a fully grown adult, felt so bad about being ignored by a toddler, I had to falsely accuse the adult and child of a crime. And apparently I want everyone to know this.

Never heard anyone referred to as having a watermelon head. Is it an attempt at racism or something?

Leon Einstein posted:

Toddlers have big heads in comparison to their bodies. Hth

TheKennedys posted:

I gotta say, the specific use of "watermelon" as a reference felt like a massive dogwhistle, but

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Olive Garden tonight! posted:

The tragic story of a schoolgirl whose lungs shut down but nobody could dial an ambulance because they were too busy clapping

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goose willis posted:

tight aspirations posted:

Olive Garden tonight! posted:

I'm imagining this squabbling crowd blocking the mother from her baby (who was stuck in what?) because of all these people who thought a baby screaming was unusual.

Tired Moritz posted:

stuck in what? this is some bad story telling.

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This troper had a history teacher who claimed his last name was "Sample" because, when his ancestors immigrated, they did not want an ethnic-sounding name, and chose the first thing they saw on the citizenship application.

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This troper's family legend states that we had no last name until a census-taker walked into the family pub and asked for one - at which point great(x)-grandpa looked around and saw a jug.

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This troper worked as a delivery driver for a chain Italian restaurant. However, in addition to being a delivery boy, he ended up doing nearly ALL the kitchen prep work not done by the cooks, because most of his fellow drivers would slack off during their shifts and leave him to get all their sidework done. For which he was paid a measly $3.50 per hour, because he didn't get tips when wasn't on deliveries. On top of that, he also had to serve as a fill-in as both busser and line cook when people didn't show up (or on one occasion, got arrested outside the restaurant), and usually worked upwards of fifty hours a week. Eventually, he had to quit to finish college. Within a year, the restaurant was out of business.

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Let's face it, in high school you knew/know someone who was the non-homicidal (hopefully...) version of this trope.
I'm not anything resembling homicidal, but I once pulled a knife on a kid that wouldn't leave me alone. We were off-campus, and my father had given it to me in case I ever got mugged, so... yeah, I don't think I was really in the wrong. Not like I intended to use it.
This troper wasn't just homicidal; he was omnicidal. Fortunately for the rest of existence, he got over it, and never actually killed anybody. He did put an end to one bully's dreams by shattering his knee with a sledgehammer, though.
I gotta say that while I don't necessarily condone going to such extremes. I'm also aware that if you choose to be a bully, you drastically increase your chance of someone loving up your poo poo at some point

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Let me tell you what an extreme schizoid like me is like. It's not that I can't have any friends, not even that I don't want any, I just can't see what's the big deal about having a friend. So, if it is more convenient to have no friend (as is generally is, a friend is only useful when you need help, it seems), I stay alone. If other people approaches me first, such that it would require more effort to push them away, I can socialise just fine, and even had some people who counted me as their best friend once. Naturally, I think nothing of them, I even told them so, and once it is no longer convenient to do so (e.g. I moved from that place), I just stop, as keeping in touch definitely qualifies as too troublesome. Being with other people can be fun, but certainly not more fun than other solitary activities like reading or games, and it generally requires more effort, so I think it is not very cost-effective. I can't quite comprehend the concept of loneliness (what's the difference between being alone and being with other people?), or of liking other people (romantically or sexually). I routinely went for weeks without speaking to anyone, beyond interacting to buy my food. And yes, this includes online activities, I usually don't post in forums or wiki, I just read them.

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This Troper generally doesn't see the appeal of friends, and hasn't had one in over ten years now. He's perfectly capable of getting along with absolutely anybody so long as he's interested in putting for the effort (at one point commenting, in response to being called Two-faced: "I take offense to that. I'm vastly more versatile than that. I have a face for every situation you can conceive of, and many more you can't!"), has never bothered to adjust to any changes in social norms (and has, completely by accident, had trends catch up to him on occasion. Bizarre experience), and has massive troubles holding a coherent conversation, in text or in person (some people say I have a problem with parenthetical asides and run-on sentences. Some people are probably right). The big problem in person is that a) I talk too fast for most people to really understand me, which leads to them repeatedly asking to repeat myself, which leads into b) My mind races WAAAAAY ahead of my mouth, so that I'm usually talking through one statement while thinking through how to phrase one a good two minutes down the line, and have absolutely no clue where I was when I got interrupted. This also occasionally leads to me swearing up and down that I have told somebody something, because I had certainly intended to, and had the phrasing all worked out, before I got interrupted, and then it just gets lost in the jumble.

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This troper is a misanthrope, and has been diagnosed by two different shrinks as having schizoid personality disorder. He got into computers because he figured that techies could earn a living without having to talk with other people. He was quite annoyed to find that this wasn't the case, and even more annoyed (at first, anyway) to find that he had a girlfriend despite never going out unless he had a specific purpose in mind, and never talking to anybody unless his purpose required it.

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... Well, This Troper has problem with socializing since... She remembers. Problem isn't her, it's that most people are extremely superficial and think fat people aren't humans at all and must be treated as inferiors. And I was fat since I was a kid, constant bully attacks from first Elementary School year to last High School one didn't help too much, either; always got PO'd, had an explosive temper, and avoided even group activities due to the constant Berserk Button pushing, to the point of nearly killing a kid at 5th grade, and almost killing myself in High's 3rd year... Some people consider me ugly like Hell, too, but others consider me beautiful, it's weird. Perhaps the beauty is all about how adorable and interesting can be to chat with me if I'm in a nice mood. Also, even if most kids from 5 and up look strange at me, most animals, in reality, like me (except the fierce ones, that want to attack anyone that gets closer). So, I can't be a bad person, can I?

Khazar-khum posted:

Bully

Khazar-khum posted:

Sample

Jiru posted:

That batch starts out lame enough, and then slowly dissolves into madness