Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[TNP]

@lithium said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@derp Hate to break it to you, but there hasn't been an evolutionary leap in the past 20 years.

No but it is possible to get better at a skill and multitasking is something that you can improve at. Not going to argue about studies or whether they're correct or not, but speaking from experience, I'm a lot better at multitasking now than I was pre-internet.

I'm also a lot better at judging when not to multi-task.

[Thenomain]

@surreality

Here's your honorary Kids These Days pin. You are officially old.

[surreality]

@thenomain I have been officially old for a long time. That it's taken until now for somebody to say so? I will still count as a win!

[FirePuff]

@thenomain
I watched the new Jumanji today and one of the characters is from the 90s and used the term "fly" and the rest of them looked confused.

I was equally confused as I don't remember that word going out of style... I guess it just disappeared one day.

[Auspice]

I referenced goatse today when 'weird internet shit' came up at work. (The younger guys were talking about when they were first shown 2girls1cup.)

A coworker said 'I don't want to know about that crazy shit from back in your day.'

[Thenomain]

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I referenced goatse today when 'weird internet shit' came up at work. (The younger guys were talking about when they were first shown 2girls1cup.)

A coworker said 'I don't want to know about that crazy shit from back in your day.'

You know what this means?

That the Internet is as deviant as it can ever get. We made it to the top of that hill before anyone else. Everyone after our generation will be following in our footsteps.

We won.

[Auspice]

@thenomain said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I referenced goatse today when 'weird internet shit' came up at work. (The younger guys were talking about when they were first shown 2girls1cup.)

A coworker said 'I don't want to know about that crazy shit from back in your day.'

You know what this means?

That the Internet is as deviant as it can ever get. We made it to the top of that hill before anyone else. Everyone after our generation will be following in our footsteps.

We won.

It's true. When they're wigged out by 2girls1cup and some minor BMEzine stuff and you're thinking something along the lines of "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.."

Maybe we won. But was it really winning?

[TNP]

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Maybe we won. But was it really winning?

I'd call it a Pyrrhic victory at best.

[Thenomain]

@tnp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Maybe we won. But was it really winning?

I'd call it a Pyrrhic victory at best.

We can make Pyrrhic pretty deviant, too.

[surreality]

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@thenomain said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I referenced goatse today when 'weird internet shit' came up at work. (The younger guys were talking about when they were first shown 2girls1cup.)

A coworker said 'I don't want to know about that crazy shit from back in your day.'

You know what this means?

That the Internet is as deviant as it can ever get. We made it to the top of that hill before anyone else. Everyone after our generation will be following in our footsteps.

We won.

It's true. When they're wigged out by 2girls1cup and some minor BMEzine stuff and you're thinking something along the lines of "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.."

Our 'grandpa/ma on the rockin' chair' stories are going to make the boomer tales about Woodstock and whatnot look like a Disney film, and that is absolutely winning.

It may be a ways off yet, but some day, we're going to be those old farts that have their kids covering their kids' ears and going, "MOOOOOOOOOOM!" before the grandkids rush off to whatever replaces whatever replaces google, which will probably run so fast that the moment the words are out of our mouth, a little readout will appear on the contact lens our grandspawn is wearing.

In other words, by the time we horrify our kids, their kids will already be giggling like mad or starting to cry or scheduling their own appointment with a therapist.

[Derp]

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Our 'grandpa/ma on the rockin' chair' stories are going to make the boomer tales about Woodstock and whatnot look like a Disney film, and that is absolutely winning.
It may be a ways off yet, but some day, we're going to be those old farts that have their kids covering their kids' ears and going, "MOOOOOOOOOOM!" before the grandkids rush off to whatever replaces whatever replaces google, which will probably run so fast that the moment the words are out of our mouth, a little readout will appear on the contact lens our grandspawn is wearing.
In other words, by the time we horrify our kids, their kids will already be giggling like mad or starting to cry or scheduling their own appointment with a therapist.

Life goals.

[surreality]

@derp Bonus: I am just a... second cousin (my cousins all have kids, I have no siblings) so none of the therapy bills will ever end up on my account.

[Cobalt]

Less of a peeve and more of a discomfort:

It is VERY COLD yes. But I’d appreciate it more if you had your money ready to go when I get to your door more than you inviting me to step into your home. I am NOT supposed to go into your home. Also I am sure you are very nice, but I don’t know you from Bob. For my safety AND comfort please don’t invite me inside no matter how cold it is.

Just have your stuff together so we can make our transactions and I can get back in my car.

[Ganymede]

@thenomain said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

We won.

To be honest, 2girls1cup never freaked me out. Nor did countless links friends sent to me of purportedly "disturbing, sick hentai."

This is when I knew that my journey to the Dark Side was complete.

I became a lawyer.

[Cobalt]

@ganymede Let’s see... I got linked to 2girls1cup, tubgirl*, Mr. Hands**, goatse, and a dead body being violated***.

Mr. Hands and the last are the ones that upset me. Mr. Hands because I have vague memories of the dude screaming in pain and bestiality and the latter because of the violation of some poor girl’s body and the implication that I’d just witnessed murder photos.

The rest was just gross not upsetting.

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• • Actually someone posted a gif of it to WORA.

• ** This is what I think that video of the dude being fucked by the horse is called.

• *** Again this was posted in WORA. Thanks WORA some really awful shit happened on you.

[Cupcake]

Wasn't that back when someone got all "hold my beer" about posting that shit on Seiche's livejournal?

It took a girl's dead body being violated for someone to say "oh hey, maybe we're taking this too far."

[surreality]

@cupcake I wasn't around for any of that so far as I recall, in my 'chased off by Spider' period, but the way this is phrased? Really reads like...

"A WORA poster went out and filmed themselves violating a dead girl's body to post a picture of it to a site of someone they don't like."

And I am hoping that's not what was meant, but it's really reading that way.

Can someone please clarify?

[Cupcake]

@surreality Someone from WORA decided to go to Seiche's livejournal and posted photos on it of a female corpse and a guy doing things to it that I'd rather not recount. I don't know if the guy in the photos was the guy on WORA, or if he just found the photos from some gross website.

There was a whole kerfluffle about whether or not he would actually do something, he went and did it, and WORA admins banned him.

[surreality]

@cupcake Gotcha.

It initially read like this person went out to violate a corpse explicitly for the purposes of posting that, which... is a magnitude of difference re: levels of vile.

I suppose we're left with only 'let's hope not'.

[Tinuviel]

@surreality That's certainly a very... interesting way of reading that.