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[smeeprocket]

I don't want to say wtf so much as [le sigh], but I spent the last 2 hours listening to everything from Reiki energy to wicca to government time travel to ghosts to 'psychic bitchslaps' for ruining renaissance fairs.  Only so much disbelief I can politely shuffle away.

  Im willing to listen and talk with people, ,but when so much of it is . . . thrown at me at once when I'm tired I lose my coherency.  I sputtered off several times in the past 2 hours, despite 2 cups of coffee.

Were said people wearing tinfoil hats?

Makes me think of the nights I used to spend listening to Art Bell. Good times.

[SalmonGod]

Colbert was right!  Bears #1 threat!

[smeeprocket]

Hey, Colbert has come to terms (and then some) with bears

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/9dr12d/survival-tips-from--good-morning-america-

[MaximumZero]

sudo...

Heh.

You can't expect them to spell things properly.

It is spelled correctly, though.

Spoiler: relevant xkcd (click to show/hide)

[Urist Imiknorris]

I don't want to say wtf so much as [le sigh], but I spent the last 2 hours listening to everything from Reiki energy to wicca to government time travel to ghosts to 'psychic bitchslaps' for ruining renaissance fairs.  Only so much disbelief I can politely shuffle away.

  Im willing to listen and talk with people, ,but when so much of it is . . . thrown at me at once when I'm tired I lose my coherency.  I sputtered off several times in the past 2 hours, despite 2 cups of coffee.

I would love to be able to administer psychic bitchslaps.

[Comrade P.]

Enh, some people see the jar as half full, and some half empty.

And some people realize that the fluid in the jar is piss.

The full adage is: "The optimist sees the glass as half-full, the pessimist sees the glass as half-empty, the opportunist drank it while those two were arguing, and the fatalist knows the fluid in the glass was piss anyway."

Which leaves us with the question of "Who pissed in the glass in the first place?"
And that question, boys and girls, is how Marxism came to be.

This aslo has an alternative: optimist studies English, pessimist studies Chinese, fatalist studies small arms: design and usage.

[XXXXYYYY]

I don't want to say wtf so much as [le sigh], but I spent the last 2 hours listening to everything from Reiki energy to wicca to government time travel to ghosts to 'psychic bitchslaps' for ruining renaissance fairs.  Only so much disbelief I can politely shuffle away.

  Im willing to listen and talk with people, ,but when so much of it is . . . thrown at me at once when I'm tired I lose my coherency.  I sputtered off several times in the past 2 hours, despite 2 cups of coffee.

I would love to be able to administer psychic bitchslaps.

Who wouldn't want to be able to?

[Avis-Mergulus]

Enh, some people see the jar as half full, and some half empty.

And some people realize that the fluid in the jar is piss.

The full adage is: "The optimist sees the glass as half-full, the pessimist sees the glass as half-empty, the opportunist drank it while those two were arguing, and the fatalist knows the fluid in the glass was piss anyway."

Which leaves us with the question of "Who pissed in the glass in the first place?"
And that question, boys and girls, is how Marxism came to be.

This aslo has an alternative: optimist studies English, pessimist studies Chinese, fatalist studies small arms: design and usage.

I think the last guy in that one was supposed to be a realist. Never seen a connection between English and optimism, though - must be a late Eighties thing.

[Greiger]

Optimist thinks that English speaking countries will stay on top of the world for the near future, pessimist thinks the Chinese will usurp that throne soon, fatalist/realist is just prepared for shit to go down.

[Descan]

Existentialist studies whatever the fuck they wants to~

[Neonivek]

So at what point did "The Friend Zone" go from "You are such great friends with someone that you cannot or will not see them in a romantic light, or feel like they are more family then romantic"...

Into its current form, that I never hear of but people keep insisting is what people use it for, which is "Someone treating you like a friend so they don't have to sleep with you"

Because that is a REALLY weird shift in definition.

Since its original form is actually something that everyone can relate to. We have someone in our lives that we like or even love but if they asked to move the relationship to something amorous, we wouldn't want to or even be repulsed by it. It is something that people do need to express all the time and often the fear of being "put in the friend zone" stemmed more from a fear of having romantic feelings for someone who cannot reciprocate even though you two share such a close relationship.

Into its current definition which is so weird because, once again second hand because I NEVER heard friend zone used in anything but what I am referring to, you have people referencing the friend zone to refer to some sort of active vexing.  Like you go to a bar and hit on someone and if they like your company and they refuse to sleep with you... you have been "Friend Zoned"... Which isn't the friend zone.

What happened? Is this just another instance where I just seem to live in a better world then the rest of the internet?

[TamerVirus]

I don't want to say wtf so much as [le sigh], but I spent the last 2 hours listening to everything from Reiki energy to wicca to government time travel to ghosts to 'psychic bitchslaps' for ruining renaissance fairs.  Only so much disbelief I can politely shuffle away.

  Im willing to listen and talk with people, ,but when so much of it is . . . thrown at me at once when I'm tired I lose my coherency.  I sputtered off several times in the past 2 hours, despite 2 cups of coffee.

The only Reiki experts in my neck of the woods are....uh....fronts for prostitutes

[Sinistar]

Neonivek: you need to tumblr more.

[Putnam]

So at what point did "The Friend Zone" go from "You are such great friends with someone that you cannot or will not see them in a romantic light, or feel like they are more family then romantic"...

Into its current form, that I never hear of but people keep insisting is what people use it for, which is "Someone treating you like a friend so they don't have to sleep with you"

Because that is a REALLY weird shift in definition.

Since its original form is actually something that everyone can relate to. We have someone in our lives that we like or even love but if they asked to move the relationship to something amorous, we wouldn't want to or even be repulsed by it. It is something that people do need to express all the time and often the fear of being "put in the friend zone" stemmed more from a fear of having romantic feelings for someone who cannot reciprocate even though you two share such a close relationship.

Into its current definition which is so weird because, once again second hand because I NEVER heard friend zone used in anything but what I am referring to, you have people referencing the friend zone to refer to some sort of active vexing.  Like you go to a bar and hit on someone and if they like your company and they refuse to sleep with you... you have been "Friend Zoned"... Which isn't the friend zone.

What happened? Is this just another instance where I just seem to live in a better world then the rest of the internet?

Neither of those things ever really existed...

[Neonivek]

Neonivek: you need to tumblr more.

So... people are basing this change of definition off of pure stupidity?