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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70890 on: February 27, 2015, 04:42:31 pm »

Not only is XKCD's comic today on the dress (everything is, irrelevant), but it also mentions the Monty Hall scenario - another topic which has taken up a few 50ppp.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70891 on: February 27, 2015, 04:44:22 pm »

Even one of Zicit's posts on Kong was three words.

"Blue and Black"- Zicit.

I wonder what he's talking about.....
Really? That's... that's actually kind of impressive. It's one of the funnier things I've heard today, because that poster saying it implies it's as monstrous as the shock image spam. There's an interesting juxtaposition - one of the best things about this day for me exists directly because of one of the worst.
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In fact, since that post was made before he had his....well.....episode, I firmly believe that dress drove him mad.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70892 on: February 27, 2015, 05:05:27 pm »

I don't get what people are so angry about. It's an interesting thing to discuss!
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70893 on: February 27, 2015, 05:10:26 pm »

Not only is XKCD's comic today on the dress (everything is, irrelevant), but it also mentions the Monty Hall scenario - another topic which has taken up a few 50ppp.

He is amongst us, I fear.

A couple of his comics reference Dwarf Fortress, it wouldn't surprise me. The real question is, is he a just lurker?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70894 on: February 27, 2015, 05:11:43 pm »

In fact, since that post was made before he had his....well.....episode, I firmly believe that dress drove him mad.
Dammit. That ruins the humor, then. Now I have enough information to know that the dress comment was totally unrelated to the shockspam.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70895 on: February 27, 2015, 05:13:17 pm »

Damn you all. I really want that dress now.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70896 on: February 27, 2015, 05:18:07 pm »

Mormons came by unexpectedly in ~30 degree weather to spread the word of mormon stuff. Me being me, caught in an unexpected situation requiring me to talk to people, it was an awkward couple minutes before I shooed them off. Ugh. Probably could've handled that better.

Huh WTF, they came to me today too.  Weather's "only" 35 up here but still.  I was polite (They couldn't have known they'd be waking me up, also this weather is cold) and I was a bit surprised, since it's been about a year since they came by.  Maybe their church did a major push right after the cold snap ended?

They offered to come by later and I kinda regret turning them down.  I'd probably feel more comfortable going to them anyway, though.  Might do that sometime.  Not that I expect to be convinced in a million years, but I'm sure to learn something interesting.

Edit:  How it went, paraphrased, "Do you have a minute?"  "No sorry, I'm busy [also obviously threw on some clothes and my hair is down and messy]" "Is there a better time we could come back?"  "I don't think so [pause] Have a good day, though."

It can be really awkward turning down telemarketers and missionaries, but these were understanding.  And I do hope they had a good day.
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« Reply #70897 on: February 27, 2015, 05:19:57 pm »

We need to weaponize it.
Airdrop one of those dresses into an enemy country, sneak in whilst they're arguing over what colour it is, assassinate their leaders and install a puppet government.
No one would be any the wiser. :P
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70898 on: February 27, 2015, 05:32:48 pm »

Mormons came by unexpectedly in ~30 degree weather to spread the word of mormon stuff. Me being me, caught in an unexpected situation requiring me to talk to people, it was an awkward couple minutes before I shooed them off. Ugh. Probably could've handled that better.

Huh WTF, they came to me today too.  Weather's "only" 35 up here but still.  I was polite (They couldn't have known they'd be waking me up, also this weather is cold) and I was a bit surprised, since it's been about a year since they came by.  Maybe their church did a major push right after the cold snap ended?

They offered to come by later and I kinda regret turning them down.  I'd probably feel more comfortable going to them anyway, though.  Might do that sometime.  Not that I expect to be convinced in a million years, but I'm sure to learn something interesting.

You could see how they respond if you invite them in eagerly, then ask all the fucked up, perverse, and misogynistic polygyny-related questions you can think of, act really into it, &c. Make sure to tape it for Youtube posterity.

Alternatively, figure out where they live and evangelize for a niche religion.

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Own WTF/rage here. So, myself and the only other competent employee where I work have been slowly getting my supervisor to go through the process of hiring more student workers, as we'll be gone soon and the rest have been fired for being lazy irresponsible shitheads. We've narrowed ~120 applicants down to two acceptable candidates for her already (it doesn't help that other departments pick the applications over before we do); both of them are freshmen, responded promptly to email, aren't in frat/sorority life or theatre/sports/band (all of which offer plentiful excuses for skiving off work). One of those two came in today to follow up. What my supervisor knew: he bothered to respond to her email, he's a freshman, he's a youth leader in a church, he's not involved in any groups that'd eat up time.

When we talked to him, he even let us know that he's going to be in town over the summer -- we stay open, but she won't have a worker as things currently stand. He was friendly, he came in on his own to follow up, so on and so forth. The only thing my supervisor didn't know was that he was also an immigrant from Nigeria. As soon as he left, she called me into her office, suddenly sort of rushed, and when I asked her what she thought, I got this in response:

"Oh, I don't know, he was sort of scary."

Dude was around my height, slightly more built, and clean-shaven. He was cheerful and seemed happy about the opportunity. And he was pretty much our ideal candidate: going to be around for several years, self-motivated enough to respond and show up, no major external responsibilities. At least she managed to keep her racism to herself and let me talk her around eventually. See: thread title. :I
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70899 on: February 27, 2015, 05:36:13 pm »

Here. "Watch me plow the bay12forums."

my favourite part about this is that the third post is someone going "oooh spooky scary skeletons"

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« Reply #70900 on: February 27, 2015, 05:45:25 pm »

Here. "Watch me plow the bay12forums."

my favourite part about this is that the third post is someone going "oooh spooky scary skeletons"

I think that's just their signature.
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« Reply #70901 on: February 27, 2015, 05:56:15 pm »

"Watch him get banned in like 5 seconds"
If only Toady was here...
I remember PMing Toady on the off chance that he got emails from PMs.

Man, that guy sucked. Scared the crap out of me when I pulled open Bay12 for a sec to check for FG&RP updates before heading off to school.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #70902 on: February 27, 2015, 05:58:17 pm »

Toady was offline.

But really, it's sort of sad if the guy thinks spamming vanilla porn and mild gore is offensive or remarkable. Even over there nobody gave a shit.
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« Reply #70903 on: February 27, 2015, 06:05:03 pm »

Man, that guy sucked. Scared the crap out of me when I pulled open Bay12 for a sec to check for FG&RP updates before heading off to school.
Damn he scared the hell outta me too. The first porn pics were like "Wow how can straight people enjoy this", but as soon as I saw the pic of the woman cut in half and the other unidentified bloody mess I was like "Oh hell naw I'm outta here".

Barely managed to click the first one I saw away when my father entered my room.
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« Reply #70904 on: February 27, 2015, 06:06:14 pm »

On an unrelated note, I just got a totally random nosebleed.

Yeah! Blood!
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