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It's too bad she won't [CHAT]... but then again who does?

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  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    God damn.

    I hope I'm half as good as some of these people someday.

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited May 2010
    Edited in some NSFW tags into that link, sorry if anyone got fired in the meantime D:. Y'all ought to know better by now, guys.

    Also based on who they gave the scholarships to, it feels more like that $30000 is just, you know, an advertising cost for them. Even if the program isn't all it's cracked up to be (and I'm not saying it is or isn't one way or another, because I don't know), they'll still end up looking good in the press by being able to post up alumni work that's excellent, because the students didn't really need much, if any, additional education to begin with.

    I'd be a lot more interested to see the before and after pictures of the people that had to drop the best part of a year's salary in order to attend.

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  • J-PJ-P Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    stumptown.jpg

    I lurve this...And I was at that coffee shop earlier this year, I had no idea he was there. I know he moved to Portland Oregon when he made Goodbye Chunkie Rice, but I though he was long gone.

    J-P on
    Ray gun and sharpies.
  • NibCromNibCrom Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Happy Norwegian Independence Day!
    It's also my birthday.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    edit: Happy Birthday, NibCrom! Also happy independence day to Norway, I guess.

    Hey you guys know that second pic in Ken's link? The giant excavator?

    That ain't no sci-fi:
    2qi7mv7.jpg

    Tam on
  • NibCromNibCrom Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Thanks, Tam!

    NibCrom on
  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Nappuccino wrote: »
    I don't believe so.

    Well, fine.

    Based on your recommendation, I'll try to refrain from monologuing for my own amusement.

    So you it's up to you to entertain me.



    Go.

    I went to sleep right after my last post :lol:

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    we can safely assume that you failed.

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I didn't even know that challenge was present!


    I'd have failed anyway.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited May 2010
    THIS ISN'T OVER! YOU'RE STILL FAILING!

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    That's what you think.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited May 2010
    Nappuccino wrote: »
    That's what you think.

    You continue to fail to amuse.

    I am forced to conclude that my original conversational strategy of railing on about bullshit while the other participants are forced to endure my endless ranting in silence is the superior method.


    How does it feel to be so boring and wrong?

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Nappuccino wrote: »
    That's what you think.

    You continue to fail to amuse.

    I am forced to conclude that my original conversational strategy of railing on about bullshit while the other participants are forced to endure my endless ranting in silence is the superior method.


    How does it feel to be so boring and wrong?

    Pretty good.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited May 2010
    Nappuccino wrote: »
    Nappuccino wrote: »
    That's what you think.

    You continue to fail to amuse.

    I am forced to conclude that my original conversational strategy of railing on about bullshit while the other participants are forced to endure my endless ranting in silence is the superior method.


    How does it feel to be so boring and wrong?

    Pretty good.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLwAjOGQcHo

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Where'd my clothes go?

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited May 2010
    Nappuccino wrote: »
    Where'd my clothes go?

    It's pretty disturbing that that video got you that sexually aroused. o_O

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    How terribly appropriate?

    Paradise on
  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Nappuccino wrote: »
    Where'd my clothes go?

    It's pretty disturbing that that video got you that sexually aroused. o_O

    Who's boring now? :winky:

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • KendeathwalkerKendeathwalker Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Edited in some NSFW tags into that link, sorry if anyone got fired in the meantime D:. Y'all ought to know better by now, guys.

    Also based on who they gave the scholarships to, it feels more like that $30000 is just, you know, an advertising cost for them. Even if the program isn't all it's cracked up to be (and I'm not saying it is or isn't one way or another, because I don't know), they'll still end up looking good in the press by being able to post up alumni work that's excellent, because the students didn't really need much, if any, additional education to begin with.

    I'd be a lot more interested to see the before and after pictures of the people that had to drop the best part of a year's salary in order to attend.

    They seem to be billing themselves as a finishing school. The only aspect teaching the actual fundamentals(by fundamentals I mean how to drawing and how to painting) is the next gen atelier taught be Carl Dobsky. The only reason I even wasted money on the application was thinking about the networking oppourtunites at a school run by massive black.. Im sure I wouldve learned new things and listened to a lot of stories about what its like to work in the industry.

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited May 2010

    They seem to be billing themselves as a finishing school.
    Wikipedia wrote:
    A finishing school (or charm school) is defined as "a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities."

    That would be awesome, "For $30000, you get the opportunity and privilege of some of the hottest artists in the entertainment industry to teach you formal table manners and prepare you for a life of being married to a wealthy baron!"



    Also man talking with either of my parents on the phone is awkward- I never have anything of much interest to report, and to be honest, having a lot of issues resulting from how I was raised just makes me maintain a facade of politeness, while really I'm just waiting for them to say something remarkably insensitive so I have an excuse to give them both barrels. I really wish I had been raised by people that didn't respond to any challenge by either being dismissive or going fucking apeshit- some constructive social skills probably would have been a better thing to inherit than passive-aggressive tendencies and impotent rage.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Also man talking with either of my parents on the phone is awkward- I never have anything of much interest to report, and to be honest, having a lot of issues resulting from how I was raised just makes me maintain a facade of politeness, while really I'm just waiting for them to say something remarkably insensitive so I have an excuse to give them both barrels. I really wish I had been raised by people that didn't respond to any challenge by either being dismissive or going fucking apeshit- some constructive social skills probably would have been a better thing to inherit than passive-aggressive tendencies and impotent rage.

    Man don't fall into their trap. You know they've set something up and are just waiting for you to unload on them for some reason. Hell, being polite to them is probably driving them insane already and continuing to do it is just going to cause them to self-destruct eventually.

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  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots perth, ausRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I don't know, if I inherited all my social skills from my parents I'd probably be even less popular than I already am. And at some point you just have to say 'my parent is a total jerk, fuck that', and never speak to them again. ie My dad! But when I do see me behaving in similar ways to my father I make a conscious effort to do the opposite.

    Meanwhile talking to my Mum on the phone is pretty easy now. I make her laugh much more often than I used to, so it seems to be working.

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  • J-PJ-P Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I'm amazed how everyday I prove to myself that I'm an idiot...I just told a gay man that Lord Byron was a ladies man.

    I got him mixed up with some other dude...
    My mom is overly religious. I can't have a conversation without her going on about how the world is going to end.

    "Hey mom, this milk is going bad."

    "You know what else is going bad? This world we're living in. Its gone sour and clumpy."

    J-P on
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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I used to have an aunt that "talked to god" and directly translated the word "magic" to "demon summoning" in her fat fucking head. She and her husband would break into our house while we were gone and eat all of our food, change the channel to the all-religious station, and hide anything with the word "magic" associated with it. They thought they were doing us a favor. Well, my uncle probably didn't, he just liked free food.

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh look at me, I'm futureshops stupid website that says stupid may 15th for red dead redemption. But when Kochi goes to the store they'll be all, OOOH NO SORRY COMES OUT TOMORROW HOSER, then she'll go to two more stores and same story, because I'm a stupid release date that is totally wrong.

    *KICKS FLOOR*

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited May 2010
    I used to have an aunt that "talked to god" and directly translated the word "magic" to "demon summoning" in her fat fucking head. She and her husband would break into our house while we were gone and eat all of our food, change the channel to the all-religious station, and hide anything with the word "magic" associated with it. They thought they were doing us a favor. Well, my uncle probably didn't, he just liked free food.

    You should have written THOU SHALT NOT STEAL all over your cupboards and refrigerator.

    In magic marker.

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  • J-PJ-P Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    He couldn't, they hid the markers.

    ..Behind the deer sacrafice.

    J-P on
    Ray gun and sharpies.
  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I used to have an aunt that "talked to god" and directly translated the word "magic" to "demon summoning" in her fat fucking head. She and her husband would break into our house while we were gone and eat all of our food, change the channel to the all-religious station, and hide anything with the word "magic" associated with it. They thought they were doing us a favor. Well, my uncle probably didn't, he just liked free food.

    You should have written THOU SHALT NOT STEAL all over your cupboards and refrigerator.

    In magic marker.

    Hahaha, oh snap.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I used to have an aunt that "talked to god" and directly translated the word "magic" to "demon summoning" in her fat fucking head. She and her husband would break into our house while we were gone and eat all of our food, change the channel to the all-religious station, and hide anything with the word "magic" associated with it. They thought they were doing us a favor. Well, my uncle probably didn't, he just liked free food.

    You should have written THOU SHALT NOT STEAL all over your cupboards and refrigerator.

    In magic marker.

    As witty as that sounds, she had a defense: First off, god told her that he'd reward us for feeding her.

    In retrospect, considering the southern baptist god we worshipped at the time, the years of homelessness and unemployment were probably a fitting reward.

    Strangely, though, the magic marker itself was fine to use, but the word "magic" on the box would cause her fits of prayer and sermons until she or someone else scratched out the word "magic" and wrote "jesus" over it.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2010
    J-P wrote: »
    I'm amazed how everyday I prove to myself that I'm an idiot...I just told a gay man that Lord Byron was a ladies man.

    Well, he was. He was an everything man.

    tynic on
  • ChillyChilly Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited May 2010
    the word "magic" on the box would cause her fits of prayer and sermons until she or someone else scratched out the word "magic" and wrote "jesus" over it.

    :lol: Jesus Markers, huh?

    That's even sillier than taking your views on religion from Tom Waits:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5kHx1itU8c&feature=related

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Seeing as how she took religious advice from every tv evangelist that would point his pasty, bloated face at her, Tom Waits woud have been an improvement.

    Actually, an improvement would have been some fucking thorazine to stop the voices, but lets be realistic here.

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  • ShizumaruShizumaru Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    My first and only defense with dealing with overly-religious people is to stop them in their tracks right away, or just simply not talk at all.. I've yet to find any smoother way of handling it, and thankfully its not often it happens.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    thanks, I'll remember to ignore her if she comes back from the dead and breaks into my house in order to eat all my food.

    Metalbourne on
  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2010
    If you pay attention to zombies, you only encourage them.

    tynic on
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    you just gotta get some brains and throw them in your neighbors yard.

    Metalbourne on
  • J-PJ-P Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Everyday man...just...everyday...

    Skeeter, from Doug, is skater that likes to skeet...skeet ska

    J-P on
    Ray gun and sharpies.
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