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[Frumple]

So we keep using the bad choices until something better comes along or people get used to it. Either way's fine with me We need a pronoun to use when we've got no damn clue what gender people are, anyway. The internet would much appreciate it.

S'usually not really that hard to arrange your sentences to avoid ambiguity, though, and careful writing should read largely as smoothly with or without pronouns. Little more difficult, sure, but generally not much more of a challenge. It becomes more natural with practice, heh.

There was this fairly interesting piece of work I read a while back that identified the protagonist's gender like... twice, in something like 300k words of text. I got distracted part way through, iirc, so there may have been more after I stopped reading, but it took one missed early reference and said 300k words to hit the second and realize what the character's gender was... and I was mistaken the whole time. First person perspective, but still fairly impressive, ha.

[Vector]

It looks like this is his response.

Good to hear, I guess... ?  Man, I really don't know what to say.  Part of me feels like a bit of a tool.

[Xantalos]

It looks like this is his response.

Good to hear, I guess... ?  Man, I really don't know what to say.  Part of me feels like a bit of a tool.

You seemed polite enough in your message thing.

[MorleyDev]

Interestingly enough, some old English grammar rules do hold they as a valid gender neutral singular... for adult humans. Children and animals, by that rule, are to be referred to as 'it'. Recent convention is to not do the latter because some find it dehumanising. Oversensitive I say :p

[NobodyPro]

Dear residents of ████████ University.
If you must plug your laptops into the network using a cable, either bring your own ethernet cable or plug the computers back in after your finished. These things take fifteen minutes to start up.
-Nobody
Dear residents of ████████ University.
If you absolutely have to eat snacks while using a public computer, please do not eat them while using the keyboard. Having to shake ███████-brand chips out of the keyboard is not something I should have to do.
-Nobody
Dear residents of ████████ University.
If you feel that it is vital that you use a public computer while fighting the common cold, I would appreciate it if you cleaned up the tissues. Seeing a pile of used tissues next to a computer gives me the unpleasant feeling that you were ████████ ██████ ████ ████ ████ ██ ███ North Star.
-Nobody

[Sirus]

It looks like this is his response.

Good to hear, I guess... ?  Man, I really don't know what to say.  Part of me feels like a bit of a tool.

Y'know, I checked the Pacific Rim pages on TVTropes and couldn't find anything about the characters being based on anyone. Where did you see it?

[Shakerag]

The toilet-cleaners of the world will kindly thank you to sit down when you have explosive diarrhea, however. Cleaning a shotgun blast of crap off of a wall is not pleasant, and it happens with disturbing frequency, speaking from personal experience. We all have things that we could be working on other than someone's inability to control their basic bodily functions.

What makes me rage is when people don't flush. I hate wiping down the seat as much as the next guy (sitsters unite), but what truly fucking grosses me out is having to see what the last person left. And I mean, seriously, how big of a fuck up do you have to be not to flush the toilet? That's the evolutionary equivalent of shitting in front of a lion den and walking away from it.

It's stuff like this that is why I don't like public restrooms. I've seen some shit, man. I don't want to see that.

Even though I've seen some particularly nasty public restrooms in my time, according to my significant other women are the most disgusting creatures on earth.  I could retire right now if I had a dollar for every time she said, upon leaving a public restroom, "there was pee all over the place.  There was crap on the toilet seat, and on the walls of the stall.  Also there was blood smeared on the walls of the stall." 

Seriously, wtf women?  Based on the reports of my SO, I can only but conclude that women don't use toilet paper, but instead use their hands and clean off said hands on the walls of restroom stalls. 

[Vector]

Until I wrote that note, it said on the character page that Hermann Gottlieb was an expy of Alan Turing.

Now it doesn't anymore.

!!!!!

I'm actually really happy about this.

[Xantalos]

Until I wrote that note, it said on the character page that Hermann Gottlieb was an expy of Alan Turing.

Now it doesn't anymore.

!!!!!

I'm actually really happy about this.

You've made a difference! And now you know that you too can change the world!
AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE

[Neonivek]

I am suffering from so much emotional distress my mind has decided to translate that into a blinding rage.

I feel like I am mad at everything right now.

Usually I just break down in sadness.

[Baffler]

My university classes started today, and like a good student, I had purchased my books a few weeks in advance and even looked over the first sections of them. It was not until I actually entered the classroom that I heard from the teacher that we would not be using the book, and instead be using an online host. WHY! WHY WOULD YOU LET ME SPEND ████ ON BOOKS WE WILL BARELY FUCKING USE! And on top of that, I have to buy access codes for this online bullshit, some of which are as or MORE expensive than the book that I have just learned is not far off from a doorstop. Yes, the online thing is a bit more convenient than moving this book around, but I would like to have had at least some indication that the books are just print versions of what we will actually be using. I guess I can still study if the power goes out...

*Baffler continues grumbling incoherently*

[Graknorke]

Does the online thing add anything to the books?

[nenjin]

My university classes started today, and like a good student, I had purchased my books a few weeks in advance and even looked over the first sections of them. It was not until I actually entered the classroom that I heard from the teacher that we would not be using the book, and instead be using an online host. WHY! WHY WOULD YOU LET ME SPEND ████ ON BOOKS WE WILL BARELY FUCKING USE! And on top of that, I have to buy access codes for this online bullshit, some of which are as or MORE expensive than the book that I have just learned is not far off from a doorstop. Yes, the online thing is a bit more convenient than moving this book around, but I would like to have had at least some indication that the books are just print versions of what we will actually be using. I guess I can still study if the power goes out...

*Baffler continues grumbling incoherently*

Hah. I was just bitterly reminiscing over lunch today about buying books for college and even being forced to buy revised editions at double the price of used, because the teacher demanded we "have the most up to date texts." Really, it's just part of the game colleges play, so text book writers and book stores keep making a profit. When one teacher printed off the entire year's materials and put them in a packet he sold for $10, I could have kissed them.

[Baffler]

They sure fleece students for everything they're worth... gotta pay for that new stadium somehow.

The online thing does add extra practice problems, but it's mostly a convenience for grading. I don't blame the teacher for not wanting to sift through hundreds of papers every day, but I'm still not happy about it.

[nenjin]

What really pissed me off was the ~$50 electronic "response giver" for flash quizzes in one class. It's a little device tied to your student ID that teachers use so they can give pop quizzes to 100 students at once and get the results back almost immediately. Also for taking attendance.

Fucking thing, used it 4 times in one semester probably. Never used it again. I'm not sure they could even be reprogrammed for another class. It's wasteful, unnecessary spending like that, that caused me to nearly burst a blood vessel my junior and senior year whenever the college wanted money for something. It's always something. From books to tech to "special fees", you get taxed out the ass for a degree that you probably won't even use after college. It's really just a piece of paper that says "Yes, I had enough money/made enough sacrifices to pay into the system, now please give me a job."

At least it is for all the soft disciplines. I have more respect for math, science and engineering students because to me, that took actual work and thinking to do well at. People majoring in the humanities and business....so much useless information that costs so much, so you can have the right to have it spoken at you by a qualified professional.