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Paladinus posted:Now I firmly support a no deal Brexit.  fat goony fedora catmen. anime has gone to far 
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oystertoadfish posted:i think people were zombies before phones in situations like 'sitting on the bus' and 'walking around amongst strangers', they just stared into space like, uh, zombies instead of immersing themselves in the world their cell phone opens to them  I'm a millennial, but still old enough to have grown up for part of my life without daily Internet access and never had a smartphone until I was an adult. When you didn't want to be social, you just read a book that you brought or stared into space. It's not like people were chatting constantly with strangers because they had nothing better to do.
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Mar 28, 2019 14:03
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It was much easier to hide behind a newspaper.
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Mar 28, 2019 14:12
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It's also how a down on their luck private eye could stealthily track the low level mob affiliate who stole the young widows antique brooch before being dragged into a life changing case with ramifications spreading all the way to the LA governor's office. edit: Guess that's just a longer way of saying hide yourself, but used for good.
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Mar 28, 2019 14:15
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"How do you do, chum. Might I trouble you for the time? My pocket-watch has- ah, I see. You've your airpods in. Cheerio."
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Mar 28, 2019 14:16
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Ugh, the worst is when you have headphones on and you're reading something and people still try to talk to you.
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Mar 28, 2019 14:32
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Bees on Wheat posted:Ugh, the worst is when you have headphones on and you're reading something and people still try to talk to you. I bring books into work and people constantly ask me what I'm reading. I wouldn't mind except I mostly read pulpy sci fi/ fantasy and I'm too embarrassed to explain the premise.
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Mar 28, 2019 14:40
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grittyreboot posted:I bring books into work and people constantly ask me what I'm reading. I wouldn't mind except I mostly read pulpy sci fi/ fantasy and I'm too embarrassed to explain the premise. I stopped asking what people were reading when literally every time I saw a co-worker reading a book they'd start with "oh so this girl gets abducted, raped, and brutally murdered so--" or "this woman gets raped so--" and I decided there was a genre there I wasn't into hearing about.
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Mar 28, 2019 14:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9u7GWKh-s
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Mar 28, 2019 14:53
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grittyreboot posted:I bring books into work and people constantly ask me what I'm reading. I wouldn't mind except I mostly read pulpy sci fi/ fantasy and I'm too embarrassed to explain the premise. THE SCIENCE OF SODOMY AN EROTIC CYBORG ADVENTURE
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Mar 28, 2019 16:43
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This is so loving painful.
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Mar 28, 2019 17:31
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I was fully expecting them to dab at the end.
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Mar 28, 2019 17:42
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chitoryu12 posted:
Older millennial here. I can confirm this.
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Mar 28, 2019 18:36
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Older millennial here. I can confirm this. To this day sometimes I just wear headphones so people won't talk to me. They're not even attached to anything.
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Mar 28, 2019 18:45
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Headphones aren't a deterrent if you're a lady. Too many times I've had men mime talking at me to get my attention and then laugh about how I couldn't hear them even though I could hear just fine, and if I say that with headphones still in place, I get the "Awww you're no fun!" And then if you happen to be reading something they tell you to smile more. My response is always deadpan "I'm reading." but they keep trying to talk anyway. I hate people.
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Mar 28, 2019 18:51
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Picnic Princess posted:Headphones aren't a deterrent if you're a lady. Too many times I've had men mime talking at me to get my attention and then laugh about how I couldn't hear them even though I could hear just fine, and if I say that with headphones still in place, I get the "Awww you're no fun!" Yeah but if he just tries hard enough you’ll see what an awesome guy he is.
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Mar 28, 2019 19:01
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But why would  not want to talk to me, the guy who asks them to stop what they're doing so I can stutter and sweat at them?
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Mar 28, 2019 19:13
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Yup  (Artie Lange)
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Mar 28, 2019 21:08
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Picnic Princess posted:Headphones aren't a deterrent if you're a lady. Too many times I've had men mime talking at me to get my attention and then laugh about how I couldn't hear them even though I could hear just fine, and if I say that with headphones still in place, I get the "Awww you're no fun!" Can confirm. I was on the metro once, and the douchebag next to me pulled out one of my earbuds to tell me I smelled nice.
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Mar 28, 2019 22:53
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LadyPictureShow posted:Can confirm. I was on the metro once, and the douchebag next to me pulled out one of my earbuds to tell me I smelled nice. 
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Mar 28, 2019 22:58
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I am an extraordinarily chill person and having an earbud accidentally torn out of my ear by my own movement makes me unjustifiably angry. I cannot imagine the gall of someone who would do that on purpose to someone else. They have to know they're pissing you off.
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Mar 28, 2019 22:59
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Was he saying you smelt nice or the earbud? Dude is probably an ear-wax freak.
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Mar 28, 2019 23:03
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steinrokkan posted:Yup I'm just constantly amazed he is still alive.
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Mar 28, 2019 23:05
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chitoryu12 posted:
this reminds me of how ubiquitous newspapers were, at least in the big cities. in New York or London I get the impression you had multiple competing papers, all in their own ideological bubble, in like four time slots: the morning paper you read at breakfast and on the train, the lunch paper you read while pretending to work, the afternoon paper for the train ride home, and a night paper for sitting around at home now I'm surely exaggerating a little, likely especially about the time slots, but mass produced newspapers are arguably the first time humankind found out how addictive content is, as we call it now that picture also reminds me of some author talking about how her dad took that long island railway home from work every day and at least some of them just drank like insane people on those trains so they could be hardcore drunk by the time they had to see their family again. also there was a really bad train wreck that got talked about in that book I realize this isn't AUG but I post in defiance
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Mar 28, 2019 23:25
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text me a vag pic posted:THE SCIENCE OF SODOMY AN EROTIC CYBORG ADVENTURE
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Mar 28, 2019 23:30
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I remember the free papers that existed solely to be read on the train/bus on the way home from work. (In Melbourne it was MX, I think Sydney's was SX?) There would be people stood at the gates of the stations in the City Loop from 4-5PM handing them out. They were lovely tabloid rags, but if you were going all the way to Frankston, (as I was), it gave you something to do on the train. I haven't had to 9-5 weekday commute in Australia for years now, so I dunno if they still exist.
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Mar 29, 2019 00:09
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Deified Data posted:I am an extraordinarily chill person and having an earbud accidentally torn out of my ear by my own movement makes me unjustifiably angry. I cannot imagine the gall of someone who would do that on purpose to someone else. They have to know they're pissing you off. Like, a normal person would probably tap a person on the shoulder and say 'I like that perfume you have on.' But nooooo, that would respect personal space. It only ranked slightly lower than the other thing that creeps me out ear-wise. I have a lot of blingy ear piercings. Normal people might say 'I like that blue and white piece' or pinch their own ear to indicate which one they mean. Weird assholes reach out and touch my ear, even if it's one of rook or conch piercings, which is inside my ear.
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Mar 29, 2019 00:09
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oystertoadfish posted:there was a really bad train wreck that got talked about in that book Atlas Shrugged? The train wreck IS the book though so it might not be it
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Mar 29, 2019 00:34
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the actual book I was thinking of was this by a historian who decided to write about her childhood as a dodgers fan https://www.amazon.com/Wait-Till-Next-Year-Memoir/dp/0684847957 and I think this was the train crash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kew_Gardens_train_crash just to put that out there
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Mar 29, 2019 00:44
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Crossposting from GBS A site called Cameo was discovered that let's anyone sling some cash to c through z grade celebrities in exchange for short little messages. Most are harmless little marriage proposals, get wells, or happy birthdays. Some are hilarious (Norm MacDonald and most of the pro-wrestlers who are too carny to give a gently caress). Unfortunately though some are the most awkward poo poo that's ever been filmed: Tip posted:Sean Astin has low self esteem, every video he made includes a part where he says, "I don't know if you know who I am... I'm Sean Astin, you know, the actor from Lord of the Rings and Rudy? Encino Man?" How's your favorite D+ celeb faring?
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Mar 29, 2019 01:19
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BrigadierSensible posted:I remember the free papers that existed solely to be read on the train/bus on the way home from work. (In Melbourne it was MX, I think Sydney's was SX?) There would be people stood at the gates of the stations in the City Loop from 4-5PM handing them out. They were lovely tabloid rags, but if you were going all the way to Frankston, (as I was), it gave you something to do on the train. Sadly MX has been dead for 3-4 years. I miss reading the horrifically awkward missed connections section on the ride home.
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Mar 29, 2019 08:24
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I'd tear through the crossword puzzle in the free conservative rag on the subway to work. Then on my way home I'd challenge myself to completing the slightly harder free liberal rag crossword puzzle.
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Mar 29, 2019 14:15
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Crossposting from GBS 
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Mar 29, 2019 16:53
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steinrokkan posted:Yup Dude looks like a pug given human form.
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Mar 29, 2019 17:10
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Kaethela posted:Dude looks like a pug given human form. 
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Mar 29, 2019 17:57
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The penis really draws the face together.
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Mar 29, 2019 23:26
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the tiny little testicles pretending to be weird protuberant nostrils (assuming bilateral symmetry) are a great touch
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Mar 29, 2019 23:59
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Crossposting from GBS Fuckin hell he clearly did not sign up for this kind of poo poo but the guy paid him probably a fair bit of cash and uh well better take a crack at it I guess. Poor Sean Astin, he seems a really nice guy doing his best 
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Mar 30, 2019 00:23
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LadyPictureShow posted:Can confirm. I was on the metro once, and the douchebag next to me pulled out one of my earbuds to tell me I smelled nice. Yep, same thing happened to me in San Francisco but to tell me I looked nice.
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