Of all the unbelievable things "grown, adult people" like, this?Originally Posted by Sidian
Of all the unbelievable things "grown, adult people" like, this?
Same here, the 5th episode of that series had me in stitches. It's a shame that so much of his material gets lifted and turned into one-liners by panel show comics. Have you looked him up on youtube? Granted, the visuals for Fist of Fun haven't dated well but there's some other great stuff there too, e.g.
a joke that Joe Pasquale can't steal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YE9Kthyaco
on Dance of the Penguins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmyZoFChDOQ
This, and to a lesser extent why people let their children watch it.
Almost every episode I've seen has included at least one horribly contrived act of personal sacrifice where some poor bugger's seventh line is "I will hold this door shut and die while you guys escape because, for some reason, I can't just wedge a shoe under it or tie my belt around the handle".
Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against hackneyed drivel (I've played video games for the story), but keep it light. The deaths in Dr. Who are wretched, overwrought and unhealthy entertainment.
Edit: I just want to write about Stewart Lee, so maybe I'll make a comedy thread :)
Strangers who want to kiss you on both cheeks.
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Why the designers of spam posts think they can somehow slip under the radar by pretending to actually be part of the discussion, when they're really obviously fooling no-one.
Actually, spam in general. I genuinely do not understand the point of it.
"Moronic cynicism is a kind of naïveté. It's naïveté turned inside-out. Naïveté wearing a sneer." -Momus
In another forum I used to have, we had a bot that commented on topics with somewhat relevant stuff (but disconected enough to recognice it as a bot) and didn't ever rty to sell something. We were always looking forward to its next post as they were always hilariously on-topic.
I will never understand people blocking the aisle at grocery stores. Nope.
They usually do this by turning the cart sideways in such an optimal way that I'd figure their apparant dumbness would be incapable of producing. Sometimes it's done by having the cart on one side of the aisle, placing one hand on the cart, using the other hand to reach across to the opposite side of the aisle (can you picture that?), and slowly touching one product at a time. "Hmm, peas. And look, more peas! Yowza."
Sometimes it's done by parking the cart at the end of the aisle and heading over to the magazine section to read yoga magazines. Or, alternatively, if they meet some people they know ("Hey! How *ARE* you!?") they can all cooperate in defending the zone.
Another related thing I could never understand is standing there, doing one of these things, and having me push my cart up behind and not moving. Not only not moving, but not even being aware that I'm there. It boggles me because, if I'm on one end of an aisle and someone enters the opposite end of an aisle, I've now got them on radar. I was tracking them at 20 feet out. There is NO WAY you could walk up to me, especially pushing a cart with one square wheel, and have me not know it. I don't meant to brag like I'm the member of the X-men that got the awareness ability, because this "awareness" thing produces nearly no joy and gobs of frustration. Hey wait, that actually might mean I am a member of the X-men! Kewl.
Usually, if I begin approaching someone and see signs that they're going to be artful, I'll pull out and play with my car keys to add a greater sonic dimension. I think of it as giving them a +2 to their awareness roll. I throw it into the black hole of positive modifiers needed to overcome the many negative ones that they're carting around.
And everything I'm describing can be achieved, and has been achieved for years, without cellphone technology. If you throw a cellphone into the list of defenses, the rude and/or unaware become a fortress. Jingling keys, throat clearing, and even gentle ramming all have ethereal qualities at best against the Death Star that is cellphones.
I will not proceed further.
Lager. I swear, people must be pretending to like that stuff.
People who enter a shop and then stop as soon as they've entered the door, particularly if they've got kids.
Also, Nickelback.
You mean beer in general? or the beer flavored~ish water that lager is? the answer to the first is that it is an aquired taste and the second is whats wrong with water?
Why are you wearing that stupid human suit?
Celt - The way you described supermarket zombies ( +2 to awareness roll) was fucking excellent. The anger you commited to prose was eloquent and sublime. Thanks!
tl;dr: lol.
If you ask me 90% of beer tastes the same, like sour piss, just with different grades of sournes. I understand that people drink it, but I don't understand how they find it tastes good.
Italians generally do this and don't understand it when you cower away from them extending a hand that you expect them to waggle around a bit.
You have to get used to it. What I don't understand is why would you want to.
Because it gets you pissed?
because 90% (although maybe by volume in the US-home of the cheapest made water/rice beers) doesn't taste remotely like each other. Fermentation allows such variety and and difference in taste from essentially the same ingredients, anyway I'm letting my inner beer snob come out. What I will never understand is the people who only drink a single kind of beer, there are so many I feel cheated when I have something that I've tried before.
Why are you wearing that stupid human suit?
I suppose, but who would know if being drunk was enjoyable before they tried it in the first place?
It's probably silly of me to ask, but I did always wonder why one would start. When I did, it was all teenage nonsense (I think I was about 13) and it ended before I was of legal age to do so. Did anyone ever get a good taste out of alcohol from the first sip?
I hated olives the first time I tried them and now I find them delicious. The same with a lot of things.
Alcohol is like any drug- it changes your conciousness and perceptions, people use this to change the way they see the world.. sometimes it's healthy to try to see things from the other way around, to come at things from a different perspective...
Some drugs are used to divine meaning from our reality, alcohol is mostly used to celebrate events though, as it loosens inhibitions.
I was feeling fairly unsociable yesterday, but I went to the pub with two friends and after a few drinks I was in a great mood :)
Hmm.. maybe I should stop derailing this thread and write about something I'll never understand :)
Last edited by Donjonson; 17-06-2011 at 06:27 PM.
People who don't even attempt to write in anything resembling proper written English (if their first language is English, obviously).
It must take a lot more effort to teach yourself to write in a ridiculous amalgamation of English and txt speak than to just write straight English.
Along these lines, people who's first language isn't English, and they put in a huge amount of effort to learn this ridiculously convoluted language, and then just stop trying. So they're at the point where they're perfectly comprehendable 99% of the time, but still speak a broken version of English with the wrong prepositions and such, even though they have a massive vocabulary. It's like, your English is so good, if you just sit down and learn about 20 more things, you're done and we'll never know you're not a native speaker.
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