Sticks carrying dogs thread (also cat [chat])

Nerdgasmic

(Neither.)

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

I think if you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose I would say McDonalds > Wendy's > Burger King

simonwolf

Mim wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

Mim wrote: »

People want trigger warnings and gender neutral pronouns on the english armadillo meme. Trigger Warning for the meme postings that end in "kill self".

goddamn it

why is everything good ruined by these people

I don't want to make anyone like, feel bad about themselves. For awhile I was all "maybe I should end it all" and then someone in another sub forum told me to kill myself over something else (they didn't know I was really contemplating it) so I can see their point. However, the meme I don't feel is to hurt someone. I don't know, its a fine line.

So here is my thing: I am completely fine with the adding of captions below the images to assist people with genuine disabilities. However, all this "gender neutral language" and "trigger warning" stuff just seems to be something that is indicative of the baby-proofing of society that I honestly cannot get behind. Obviously saying "hey buddy you should go kill yourself" is at a certain level, but needing to be warned when a picture with an armadillo is making a tongue in cheek suicide reference? Maybe they need all the triggers they can get.

Wash

Mim wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

Mim wrote: »

People want trigger warnings and gender neutral pronouns on the english armadillo meme. Trigger Warning for the meme postings that end in "kill self".

goddamn it

why is everything good ruined by these people

I don't want to make anyone like, feel bad about themselves. For awhile I was all "maybe I should end it all" and then someone in another sub forum told me to kill myself over something else (they didn't know I was really contemplating it) so I can see their point. However, the meme I don't feel is to hurt someone. I don't know, its a fine line.

There's a long list of things that can trigger a person. Physical abuse or violence of any kind, verbal abuse, swear words, Implied abuse or violence, sex, harm to animals, religion, racism, sexism, any form of bigotry, references to drugs or alcohol. The list goes on.

Drez

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

I think if you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose I would say McDonalds > Wendy's > Burger King

Are you insane?

Pony

jakobagger

I am so bad at going to bed, and I have to be at work in 5 hours. Half hour commute. Urrghh.

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

oh my god i am twenty years old and my father is interrogating me over what i ate for dinner.

Captain Carrot

pony

how is the conversion going?

Mim

simonwolf wrote: »

Mim wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

Mim wrote: »

People want trigger warnings and gender neutral pronouns on the english armadillo meme. Trigger Warning for the meme postings that end in "kill self".

goddamn it

why is everything good ruined by these people

I don't want to make anyone like, feel bad about themselves. For awhile I was all "maybe I should end it all" and then someone in another sub forum told me to kill myself over something else (they didn't know I was really contemplating it) so I can see their point. However, the meme I don't feel is to hurt someone. I don't know, its a fine line.

So here is my thing: I am completely fine with the adding of captions below the images to assist people with genuine disabilities. However, all this "gender neutral language" and "trigger warning" stuff just seems to be something that is indicative of the baby-proofing of society that I honestly cannot get behind. Obviously saying "hey buddy you should go kill yourself" is at a certain level, but needing to be warned when a picture with an armadillo is making a tongue in cheek suicide reference? Maybe they need all the triggers they can get.

I see. I don't know, definitely the English major meme isn't making me want to kill myself all over again. But I know a couple of advocates would be like "well that's all fine and dandy but we're here to protect the real victims". I just want like a line to walk I guess? Want them to feel good about themselves, not to feel bad..I don't know ahh its all very confusing and I feel like a giant ass.

cj iwakura

Pony wrote: »

Tav

Pony wrote: »

Spoiler:

jakobagger

Drez wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

I think if you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose I would say McDonalds > Wendy's > Burger King

Are you insane?

Yeah, whut? Wendy's is in another league than those two, and burger King is clearly better than McD.

Elldren

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

if i wasn't all punched out i would be an avatar of rage, existing only to spread death and destruction

as it is i'm sullenly drinking my coke and reading lol lore

could be worse, man.

*hugs*

Variable

friday with it

is the best one

Pony

Captain Carrot wrote: »

pony

how is the conversion going?

slowly

i have a lot on my plate right now

it's a complex setting with a lot of things to explain and shit

so

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

if i hear one more word about friday i am going to kill myself

jakobagger

trigger warning!

Wash

friday

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

so um my desktop's internet went down

working on fixing it but if i can't get back on just replace me

simonwolf

Mim wrote: »

I see. I don't know, definitely the English major meme isn't making me want to kill myself all over again. But I know a couple of advocates would be like "well that's all fine and dandy but we're here to protect the real victims". I just want like a line to walk I guess? Want them to feel good about themselves, not to feel bad..I don't know ahh its all very confusing and I feel like a giant ass.

It is difficult to take a stand on this and not feel like a dick, in some regards. I can understand why you would want people to be protected/feel good about themselves, but it feels like they're wanting to protect a small minority of people and push that protection onto everyone else at the same time. The fact that pretty much anything can be a trigger (from suicide jokes to videos of children being happy) means that "protecting" people from every trigger imaginable would just be an exercise in annoyance for the people who, you know, don't need protecting.

Nerdgasmic

the garbage day one will never be topped

skippydumptruck

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

so um my desktop's internet went down

working on fixing it but if i can't get back on just replace me

what the shit fuck is this

shit

Elldren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYBgpZdbKM

Eddy

I went with comedy option 3: Korean food! mmm.

cj iwakura

I enjoy:

simonwolf

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

so um my desktop's internet went down

working on fixing it but if i can't get back on just replace me

now accepting nominations for neo-cass

Elldren

I run into triggers all the goddamn time

If people warned me I'd just feel worse for inevitably ignoring it

Shazkar Shadowstorm

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatup

Drez

Rebecca Black - Drez's Friday

5:30am, waking up in the morning
Oh Jesus Christ, don't wanna go to work
Gotta get dressed, gotta find my wallet
Gotta find my tie, fucking shit where's my shoes
Time's ticking on, and I need my coffee
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see the bu-us

Dickhead in the front seat
Bitchface in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?

It’s Friday, Friday
Why I gotta go in Friday?
I am really lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Alcohol lunch on Friday
I am really lookin’ forward to the weekend

skippydumptruck

Shazkar Shadowstorm wrote: »

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatup

wasabi

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

so um my desktop's internet went down

working on fixing it but if i can't get back on just replace me

what the shit fuck is this

shit

I'm sorry dude, I reset the router and it's not fixing itself. Go without me.

Wash

Elldren wrote: »

I run into triggers all the goddamn time

If people warned me I'd just feel worse for inevitably ignoring it

and then there's shit you didn't know would set you off until it happens

and stuff you could handle before but things have changed

skippydumptruck

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

so um my desktop's internet went down

working on fixing it but if i can't get back on just replace me

what the shit fuck is this

shit

I'm sorry dude, I reset the router and it's not fixing itself. Go without me.

no you are the heart and soul of this team

don't make me do this cass

noooooooooooooo

Solomaxwell6

So I'm in a discussion with a couple of people on another site about whether nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. I'm saying no, since Japan had tried surrendering for about six months prior to the nukings (their one condition, keeping the Emperor, was kept anyway), it involved the murder of several hundred thousand civilians, and in hindsight it wasn't even really all that effective (the Japanese surrendered more because of the Soviet Union entering the war than the nukes). Their respective counter arguments are, and I quote:

you make baby FDR cry.

and

I'm sure that the people of Nanjing were delighted to know that principle [that the government shouldn't kill innocents] applied to them. Not to mention the Jews of Kaunas, Warsaw, Greece......

Responses like that are why I debating on the internet makes me cry (alongside baby FDR).

wazilla

So a trigger warning is like a spoiler for things that might hurt someone's feelings?

Elldren

Fluffy, Our Beloved Flopsy Bunny Friend wrote: »

Elldren wrote: »

I run into triggers all the goddamn time

If people warned me I'd just feel worse for inevitably ignoring it

and then there's shit you didn't know would set you off until it happens

and stuff you could handle before but things have changed

Like this shit

right here

HerrCron

Pony wrote: »

pony, i laughed too hard at that...

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

I would work out my aggression with some pushups but oh lord my entire upper body is stiff and sore

so I have my cat

he is such a whiny Winston

Eddy

skippydumptruck wrote: »

no you are the heart and soul of this team

read: the least untalented of us all