I buy my dress clothes at Kohl's because I make $10,000 a year
I do it because I'm cheap and don't care. Not that I have anything besides my one suit that people would call "dress" clothes anyway. Lots of khakis and polos, though.
People seem to think that expressing stuff you like is some kind of sacred right, but that expressing stuff you don't like is petty and nasty.
Have some damn courage of your convictions. If you think anime is cool, fine. I might look down my elitist nose at you. If you can't live with that it honestly says more about you than me. (I'm actually OK with anime, its just not for me. But to use the example that's being tossed around). If you want to be an individual, be a fucking individual. Part of that is people disagreeing with you.
A short list of things I don't like: Homestuck, most JRPGs, regular (as opposed to diet) soda, first-person shooters based in real-world environments (eg, Call of Duty), the movie Memento, the current cultural trend of putting bacon on fucking everything, India Pale Ales, and getting up before 10am.
I will be adamant and harsh about some of the things. I think Memento is a steaming pile of shit that is only interesting because of the chronological gimmick.
But I try not to be insulting towards the people who like them. Maybe you like Memento's visual style. Maybe you like Guy Pearce. Maybe you just disagree with me that the story sucks.
I'm going to try to avoid being, "Ew! Memento fans!" or "Guy Pearce fans gross me out!" I don't always succeed, but I try. There's a difference between expressing disgust towards a thing versus expressing disgust towards a person (or class of people). I think it's okay to sometimes express disgust or hatred towards people, but I feel pretty strongly that we should reserve that sort of thing against the behaviors that really matter morally.
For some forms of art that line isn't so bright. Art that sexualizes children for instance - which puts some (not all!) anime in a weird spot. But Memento isn't cartoon child porn and neither is Call of Duty.
Sometimes I'll get really frustrated when it feels like the popularity of one thing overshadows the thing that I like. There were a few years where every damn FPS coming out was WWII-themed. Or when fans of something just get in my way, like when I used to work right next to a major ballpark. "Ugh, Giants fans! I just want to go home." But I try to recognize that karma comes full circle and there are times when I get to talk about Mass Effect for days or the concert I've lined up for is blocking traffic on the highway.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
man fuck people who express the things they like to others in public, the nerve
you're supposed to be a bitter emotionless bundle of conformity like me who derives nothing from day to day existence
i definitely have this issue
i guess i want so strongly not to be typified or pigeonholed that i try and not really associate with anything: guns, jiu jitsu, running, video games, fashion
everything has its negative connotation and i don't want some theoretical funeral for me to be 'john chu: in total, a man who loved outkast, blowjobs, and sichuan food'
it is a p stifling, world-is-closing-in-on-me feeling, that i am reducible to certain things
so i guess i only really want to show off or advertise those interests of mine which are sort of sterile and mature and hard to use as ammunition for typification of my character
nobody I work with even knows I play video games and its like a huge part of my life, I'm afraid to even talk about movies because if I let on that I thought Frozen and Lego Movie are two of the best movies of the last year they might think I'm childish or a pedophile or something
so I just pretend to like the packers and alcoholism and other stuff adults in wisconsin are supposed to like
like i don't even wanna be the packers guy or the alcoholism guy
i guess in my ideal world i know a lot about everything, i can talk intelligently on a given topic
but i'm so stingy with my interest, focus, and passion that i'm not 'given' to any one thing and no one thinks of me as the ____ guy
no posters, no stickers, no fandom, no attending concerts, no going to sporting events
because i can't like a certain thing, i must be aloof for fear of social compartmentalization
it is horrifying
This is incredibly sad.
Life shouldn't be that. I've spent far too much time with people who were dying and regretted every moment of not being who they really were much of their lives, regretted conforming rather than living for me to think it's every okay to live out of fear of other people's judgement. In part because you're going to get judged, you just are, it's part of life...so, why not enjoy yourself along the way?
I get that there's some amount of conformity that comes down to being polite, and, as I've taught my kids, we're polite because it makes other people comfortable. And that there's some that could be argued to really be about morals (be excellent to each other). In my experience (which I have a lot of as an openly Christian - yeah just try and tell me I'm not inviting all kinds of shit by saying grace before eating when I'm at Whole Foods -, overweight, middle aged, woman who until last week had bright blue hair), being genuine only brings negativity from people who feel so trapped they can't stand that you're okay with who you are. And those instances are really pretty few and far between, plus they give one an opportunity to help the other person see it's really alright to be who they are. The vast majority of interactions end up having actual depth and bring about real connection even if it's two minutes in the grocery store line.
In short, I think John Green does a very good job, through the language of the nerd, of making my point:
"Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff.
Nerds are allowed to love stuff - like, jump-up-and-down-in-your-chair-can't-control-yourself love it.
When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is 'you like stuff,' which is not a good insult at all.
Like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness.' "
here lies chu: as he lived, i always considered him to be the kind of guy you could just, you know, relax and have a beer with, and it is only now that he is dead do i realize we never relaxed and shared a beer together, which is weird because i considered that a cornerstone of my life, my chu brews
ok fine. i love hip hop. i love 90s and early 2000s r&b. i love medium-rare steaks and also kraft dinner. i miss coca cola every day of this gay soda-free existence. i absolutely love a slim fitting ocbd, in white or pink
also i love knit and textured ties
i'm a big fan of leather shoes- especially the ae strand (in walnut) and almost anything from red wing in terms of boots
i also like some street wear, like throwing in running shoes into very dressed down casual outfits- like nike roshes or flyknits (despite the ugly, chunky sole)
also i love rick and morty and archer and venture bros
i sometimes worry i'm a burgeoning alcoholic but i am also very inclined to just control myself and not 'quit drinking' because i want to be a stronger person than my bio parents
also i am pretty liberal on the israel issue nowadays
i hate the dallas cowboys, their uniforms are the gaudiest since the grecian loin cloth of yesteryear
i don't like coconut or coffee or beer
i want to be a programmer but i'm worried i'll fail and be making ~10 bucks an hour for the rest of my life
i can't wait until i can loser weight and stop hating myself
i'm p sure i need to get medical insurance again and get more adderall or i am gonna be a worthless, unsuccessful human being
mumia definitely shot that fucking cop
*weeps hysterically into's korean eddy's breasts*
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Man, you know you cook good chili when the day after you feel like shoving a couple tonnes of ice into your butt would be a good idea.
There is literally nothing stopping you
This is such an important fact of life, and I'd like to expand on it a bit.
Yesterday, my buddy and I were discussing hiring a stripper for his upcoming birthday.
And then I remarked ... why not have a stripper here every Saturday night?
And we couldn't come up with a good reason because we're adults dammit and we can do whatever we want.
Is there a reason we shouldn't have a weekly stripper appointment that I haven't considered, chat?
These are the big problems in my life.
Well. The price.
Strippers be expensive dude. Unless you're just grabbing the nearest bag lady off the street.
There are currently too many of us living in too few houses, and unless one of us really ups our ambition / income, we're all quite comfortable with the circumstances.
I mean, are there a million better things to spend money on? Sure.
But should I worry about those things? That's the real question.
oh oh also when 9/11 happened it terrified me. my uncle died and i was legit scared of nyc for 5~ years and wouldn't go there. the terrorists won with me until i turned 19 or so and decided i wanted to fuck incredibly hot girls in ballet flats who went to nyu more than i wanted to be afraid
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ok fine. i love hip hop. i love 90s and early 2000s r&b. i love medium-rare steaks and also kraft dinner. i miss coca cola every day of this gay soda-free existence. i absolutely love a slim fitting ocbd, in white or pink
also i love knit and textured ties
i'm a big fan of leather shoes- especially the ae strand (in walnut) and almost anything from red wing in terms of boots
i also like some street wear, like throwing in running shoes into very dressed down casual outfits- like nike roshes or flyknits (despite the ugly, chunky sole)
also i love rick and morty and archer and venture bros
i sometimes worry i'm a burgeoning alcoholic but i am also very inclined to just control myself and not 'quit drinking' because i want to be a stronger person than my bio parents
also i am pretty liberal on the israel issue nowadays
i hate the dallas cowboys, their uniforms are the gaudiest since the grecian loin cloth of yesteryear
i don't like coconut or coffee or beer
i want to be a programmer but i'm worried i'll fail and be making ~10 bucks an hour for the rest of my life
i can't wait until i can loser weight and stop hating myself
i'm p sure i need to get medical insurance again and get more adderall or i am gonna be a worthless, unsuccessful human being
mumia definitely shot that fucking cop
*weeps hysterically into's korean eddy's breasts*
You love Archer.
That is literally all I saw.
Thus you are awesome.
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To be fair, Guy Pearce fans are pretty revolting. It's like, isn't Brad Pitt fucking good enough for you?
... have never fully liked that initialism. I mean, I get it.
anyway
the bbc on-screen keyboard has a very odd symbol between the percent and ampersand buttons. Apparently this is the ^, though it bears no resemblance to one
about 8 years ago i took frankie up to salem for her birthday to see, like, all the witch stuff. she loves horror movies and, some associated ghostie morbid stuff.
and this russian woman had set up this little vintage-photography store where you could, like, dress up like a witch and have your picture taken
so i bought her some photos as kind of a little birthday present and then posed with her all dressed up like a witch in front of a cauldron and backdrop.
and then i took her on a "hunted salem tour" that night with some tour guide who was a larper with a lantern
i did all that stuff because i love my girlfriend, not so much because i like magic dress-up.
but then made the mistake i guess of posting the photos on like facebook maybe? or maybe they were in my photobucket? i dunno. maybe i even put one up on the forum. anyhow, dyna got hold of it.
i'm not really even embarrassed by it, but i guess it's kind of tiresome to explain it over and over.
i don't like being pigeonholed either but i am, thoroughly, pigeonholed
though it does make it more satisfying to surprise someone with another interest or pursuit!
My OKCupid profile literally says "I am not a pigeon, despite fitting well in certain holes" which I realize now sounds sexual and I should probably remove it
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
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I do it because I'm cheap and don't care. Not that I have anything besides my one suit that people would call "dress" clothes anyway. Lots of khakis and polos, though.
but I find his personal acting style to be kind of obnoxious
maybe that's intentional to hide his true genius
or maybe he's just a comedian who I don't really like who happens to have really awesome taste in things
u should be so lucky
do you still have that warlock hat
can I have it
I will be in boston in a few weeks
I've never been to one.
yea
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This is such an important fact of life, and I'd like to expand on it a bit.
Yesterday, my buddy and I were discussing hiring a stripper for his upcoming birthday.
And then I remarked ... why not have a stripper here every Saturday night?
And we couldn't come up with a good reason because we're adults dammit and we can do whatever we want.
Is there a reason we shouldn't have a weekly stripper appointment that I haven't considered, chat?
These are the big problems in my life.
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It's a decidedly mid-range department store. Better than Wal-Mart, "worse" than Mall-level stores like Belk or JC Penney.
My mall has a Von Maur in it. That shit is hilarious. $300 for a fucking cardigan, come on.
Well. The price.
Strippers be expensive dude. Unless you're just grabbing the nearest bag lady off the street.
A short list of things I don't like: Homestuck, most JRPGs, regular (as opposed to diet) soda, first-person shooters based in real-world environments (eg, Call of Duty), the movie Memento, the current cultural trend of putting bacon on fucking everything, India Pale Ales, and getting up before 10am.
I will be adamant and harsh about some of the things. I think Memento is a steaming pile of shit that is only interesting because of the chronological gimmick.
But I try not to be insulting towards the people who like them. Maybe you like Memento's visual style. Maybe you like Guy Pearce. Maybe you just disagree with me that the story sucks.
I'm going to try to avoid being, "Ew! Memento fans!" or "Guy Pearce fans gross me out!" I don't always succeed, but I try. There's a difference between expressing disgust towards a thing versus expressing disgust towards a person (or class of people). I think it's okay to sometimes express disgust or hatred towards people, but I feel pretty strongly that we should reserve that sort of thing against the behaviors that really matter morally.
For some forms of art that line isn't so bright. Art that sexualizes children for instance - which puts some (not all!) anime in a weird spot. But Memento isn't cartoon child porn and neither is Call of Duty.
Sometimes I'll get really frustrated when it feels like the popularity of one thing overshadows the thing that I like. There were a few years where every damn FPS coming out was WWII-themed. Or when fans of something just get in my way, like when I used to work right next to a major ballpark. "Ugh, Giants fans! I just want to go home." But I try to recognize that karma comes full circle and there are times when I get to talk about Mass Effect for days or the concert I've lined up for is blocking traffic on the highway.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
This is incredibly sad.
Life shouldn't be that. I've spent far too much time with people who were dying and regretted every moment of not being who they really were much of their lives, regretted conforming rather than living for me to think it's every okay to live out of fear of other people's judgement. In part because you're going to get judged, you just are, it's part of life...so, why not enjoy yourself along the way?
I get that there's some amount of conformity that comes down to being polite, and, as I've taught my kids, we're polite because it makes other people comfortable. And that there's some that could be argued to really be about morals (be excellent to each other). In my experience (which I have a lot of as an openly Christian - yeah just try and tell me I'm not inviting all kinds of shit by saying grace before eating when I'm at Whole Foods -, overweight, middle aged, woman who until last week had bright blue hair), being genuine only brings negativity from people who feel so trapped they can't stand that you're okay with who you are. And those instances are really pretty few and far between, plus they give one an opportunity to help the other person see it's really alright to be who they are. The vast majority of interactions end up having actual depth and bring about real connection even if it's two minutes in the grocery store line.
In short, I think John Green does a very good job, through the language of the nerd, of making my point:
"Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff.
Nerds are allowed to love stuff - like, jump-up-and-down-in-your-chair-can't-control-yourself love it.
When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is 'you like stuff,' which is not a good insult at all.
Like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness.' "
On the black screen
also i love knit and textured ties
i'm a big fan of leather shoes- especially the ae strand (in walnut) and almost anything from red wing in terms of boots
i also like some street wear, like throwing in running shoes into very dressed down casual outfits- like nike roshes or flyknits (despite the ugly, chunky sole)
http://i.imgur.com/oFIIo8E.jpg
so good
also i love rick and morty and archer and venture bros
i sometimes worry i'm a burgeoning alcoholic but i am also very inclined to just control myself and not 'quit drinking' because i want to be a stronger person than my bio parents
also i am pretty liberal on the israel issue nowadays
i hate the dallas cowboys, their uniforms are the gaudiest since the grecian loin cloth of yesteryear
i don't like coconut or coffee or beer
i want to be a programmer but i'm worried i'll fail and be making ~10 bucks an hour for the rest of my life
i can't wait until i can loser weight and stop hating myself
i'm p sure i need to get medical insurance again and get more adderall or i am gonna be a worthless, unsuccessful human being
mumia definitely shot that fucking cop
*weeps hysterically into's korean eddy's breasts*
There are currently too many of us living in too few houses, and unless one of us really ups our ambition / income, we're all quite comfortable with the circumstances.
I mean, are there a million better things to spend money on? Sure.
But should I worry about those things? That's the real question.
You love Archer.
That is literally all I saw.
Thus you are awesome.
that's unusual
... have never fully liked that initialism. I mean, I get it.
anyway
the bbc on-screen keyboard has a very odd symbol between the percent and ampersand buttons. Apparently this is the ^, though it bears no resemblance to one
though it does make it more satisfying to surprise someone with another interest or pursuit!
and also beat myself off
and also cheesecake
it was a one-shot
about 8 years ago i took frankie up to salem for her birthday to see, like, all the witch stuff. she loves horror movies and, some associated ghostie morbid stuff.
and this russian woman had set up this little vintage-photography store where you could, like, dress up like a witch and have your picture taken
so i bought her some photos as kind of a little birthday present and then posed with her all dressed up like a witch in front of a cauldron and backdrop.
and then i took her on a "hunted salem tour" that night with some tour guide who was a larper with a lantern
i did all that stuff because i love my girlfriend, not so much because i like magic dress-up.
but then made the mistake i guess of posting the photos on like facebook maybe? or maybe they were in my photobucket? i dunno. maybe i even put one up on the forum. anyhow, dyna got hold of it.
i'm not really even embarrassed by it, but i guess it's kind of tiresome to explain it over and over.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I haven't figured out an economical solution to destroy the world and global energy corporate lobbying is doing a better job of it anyway
it's really disappointing
aims right between target and wal-mart
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you know i think the world of you.
do you love booze?
come to the booze thing you #fivefigureballer
My OKCupid profile literally says "I am not a pigeon, despite fitting well in certain holes" which I realize now sounds sexual and I should probably remove it
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
you know nothing, skippy snow
definitely a superior selection to Target
dark souls 2