Best posts made by WTFE

OK, that was actually really funny.

@Coin said in RL Anger:

@SG said in RL Anger:

@Coin You need one of these getups! http://www.startlr.com/will-a-bike-with-spider-legs-there/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J1KVNgNruc

That looks horrible and slow. XD

I presume by "horrible" you mean "fucking awesome!", right?

It's time for a flower garden…in your cup!

@Nietzsche said in RL Anger:

@Tyche said in RL Anger:

@Nietzsche said in RL Anger:

The amount of butthurt in this thread over the fact that I said 35+-year-olds typically can't use computers is hilarious, as though this is some kind of controversial opinion, as opposed to an observable fact. Sensitive, much?

Apparently millennials think phones are for sending text messages and desktop computers are for talking to people. Clearly this is ass backwards.

Apparently Gen X/Boomers don't realize that unless they're still using that rotary phone they inherited from their parents, their phone probably is a computer. It's a common misconception among people age 35 and older that if the operating system was released after Windows 98, or there is no CRT monitor, that it doesn't qualify as a "computer."

It's so cute to watch the "techie" call his phone A computer…

@Dumb Article said:

Many of them are fierce warriors who likely do not have time for waxing, bleaching and meeting society’s modern beauty standards.

You know, if you're going to directly or indirectly make arguments based on historicity, it may be a good idea to learn a bit of history. Or do the Spartans not count as fierce warriors? Because they TOTALLY FUCKING GROOMED THEMSELVES like, to, pretty fucking insane levels.

On a more serious note: give the prof what she asks for. Consider it valuable experience in the world of "keeping up with fucked-up client demands". Because your clients will demand more and worse things that will make you grind your bicuspids to powder.

Dont' USE the prof's version as your portfolio. Keep a proper, professional one. Just hand a fake one done the prof's way to the prof.

At the end of February I supported my third crowd-funding thing. While the first two were wargames, and were done by people I directly or indirectly knew, this third one was music and I'd never encountered the pair of musicians involved ever in any capacity. Their pitch video had enough intriguing strands of music that I suspected they'd put their most commercial foot forward for it and that their real music was something I wanted to listen to.

So I took a gamble and put in the highest tier of individual support.

Later I found some of their earlier work. I love it when my instincts are proved right.

@Shiggy said in RL Anger:

Because shouting at impoverished Midwesterners to check their white male privilege and vote for Hillary in spite of being told to pound sand sure did work out well for her, amirite?

This is what grinds my bicuspids to powder with the current age of leftists.

I'm a leftist from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay the fuck back. Name any thing a modern leftist activist believes in and I'm there. Racial and sexual equality? Fuck yeah! LGBT rights? I'm down with it! Single-payer, state-funded medicine? Preach it brother! Welfare? Bring it on!

But HOLY FUCKING SHIT are they incompetent at this game! The election of Trump should have been a major fucking wake-up call that their "tactic" (for want of a better word) of shrill, accusatory screeching is an unmitigated, disastrous FAILURE.

So what's their response?

Obviously they need to double down on the shrill, accusatory screeching because people didn't hear them the first time.

No, whackjobs. People heard you just fine. They voted the way they did to spite you because you fucking suck. And in the process you set your (and, ultimately my) goals back a decade or two (or more). And you want to make it even fucking WORSE!?!?!?

Thanks, assholes. Now I'm going to die without seeing the USA join the civilized world and have socialized medicine. Fuck you very much. Fuck you in the ear with a rusty chainsaw.

@Shiggy said in RL Anger:

@WTFE I mean, to be fair, the two major candidates we had on offer were pretty bad for different reasons. And while I'm all for gay wedding cakes and tranny bathrooms, I'm not all for telling me that I'm not allowed to say "tranny" anymore by pain of totally ruining my life. This might sound nuts, but I'm really quite reluctant to discard the Western liberal enlightenment in the interest of cheaper birth control for women or not offending Muslims.

I'm not down for that whole hypersensitivity-followed-by-dogpile thing either. It's the GOALS of the modern left I agree with and emphatically not the techniques.

So, yeah. I voted for Trump, because this election to me came off (in part, anyway) as being about having to choose between letting Trump say outrageous shit and letting Rachel Maddow et al dictate to me which opinions won't get me fired. I'm just plain not on board with living in a country where remarks like "maybe you should just pay for your own birth control" (a statement I don't even agree with btw) can provoke a large-scale public meltdown/riot followed by someone's permanent exclusion from polite society.

I'm not sure I would have actively voted Trump were I unlucky enough to be an American. I'd have inactively voted Trump by not voting at all. (I don't believe in the whole "you have to vote" bullshit because it puts forth a false dilemma whereas I believe I should have a "none of the above fuckers" option.)

Oh, it's so cute when it puffs up its feathers like it's a big, mean, ol' bird. Can we keep it Mom!?

@Shiggy said in RL Anger:

You even admit that you have a drinking game when you get blown the fuck out with this conversation.

Admit? Admit!? ADMIT!?!?!?!

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAA!

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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Good one dude! You had me going there for a sec... Wait, what do you mean he's serious?

OMFG, are you really this fucking clued-out? Man, back in the day trolls used to do a modicum of research on their targets!

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

I like my women how I like my coffee. Strong and bitter.

ITYM strong, bitter, and BLACK you misogynist racist you!

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@WTFE I can't be racist, I'm literally colour blind.

Best. Comeback. EVAR!

@Autumn said in RL things I love:

@WTFE said in RL things I love:

In China (for a variety of reasons, including one that's so funny you'd swear I was making it up if I told you so I won't) fountains are still the dominant writing instrument. Ballpoints are available and used, but most people reach for a fountain when doing anything serious. (Indeed you're NOT ALLOWED to use a ballpoint on some official documents for reasons which escape me!) As a result, I've gotten back into using fountain pens.

As a minor-league enthusiast for the fountain pen myself, I am now intensely curious as to the reason why fountain pens are still the dominant writing instrument there.

Until literally this year they were unable to make the balls for ballpoints themselves. This meant they had to import them which jacked up the cost.

(And now I need to go and get a whetstone and see if this can resuscitate some of my late father's delightfully retro but awkwardly scratchy vintage Parkers.)

A minimum of 4000 grit to shape (I use 5000) and 8000 grit to polish (I use 10,000). Anything lower than 4000/8000 and you'll make the pens worse, likely.

@Admiral Ah, man that sucks! Sorry to hear about that.

Me too, @Sparks. Me too.

@Cupcake Forgive the impertinence, but ... why aren't you saying "fuck it" and walking out the door? (Or, rather, why aren't you working your exit plan now so you can put yourself into a position to say "fuck it" yadda yadda yadda?)

@Sparks said in RL Anger:

Anyway, vaping's probably a lot better than normal cigarettes, you're not wrong. But it's not harmless, either ...

Well, I don't claim it's harmless. I was just dubious of "it's just as bad as cigarettes" since by all accounts this is emphatically not true.

@SG said in RL Anger:

Is vaping anything like using a hooka?

No. Hookas still use smoke, after all, bringing all the extra bullshit from the smoke along with it: fine particulate carbon, tar, CO, etc. Vaping is far less harmful than anything involving combustion byproducts.

@Meg said in RL Anger:

@ThatGuyThere said in RL Anger:

why is his mental health any less valuable then the couples.

If you truly don't understand why speaking up (even without DIRECTLY SPEAKING TO THE MAN) because their mental health in /this exact situation/ is /yes more FRAGILE not VALUABLE/ then-- I sincerely can't add anything else to this conversation.

Does that mean you're going to shut up about "microaggressions" then?

(Hint: probably not.)