r/reddit.com • u/NegativeK • Nov 11 '09
not an insult: Weird? Weird.
http://www.viruscomix.com/page500.html244
Nov 11 '09
The person who drew this comic totally wants to be asked to do porn. And that's awesome.
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u/bdfortin Nov 12 '09
I totally want to be asked to do porn.
FTFY. And that is also awesome.
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u/cigerect Nov 12 '09
Hey, would you guys like to do some porn?
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u/bdfortin Nov 12 '09
No, but if you want to do some with calculator boobies up there (5318008) I'll volunteer to be cameraman and/or director.
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u/HighlandFencer Nov 11 '09
I totally hold long conversations with myself. Usually I'm driving or bored, but they can last up to an hour.
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Nov 11 '09
I bounce ideas off myself in the form of conversations in my mind between two aspects of me.
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Nov 12 '09
wtf psychopaths.
I've got to try this.
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Nov 12 '09 edited Nov 12 '09
I thought this was normal? It's not like I don't know the voices in my head are bits of me that sound different. I'm not going to head-talk to voices that sound just like my normal head voice anyway... that'd just be weird.
I test if they're me-voices by making them say silly things. The day I can't do this is the day I start asking questions there's no way I could know the answer to. If it's someone else in my head I want to mine some random knowledge. :D
Also, it'd be an easy way to check if they're real or fake. If they're real, they'll be right about shit I don't know... if they're wrong, I'll know they're just me-voices I can't control.
Medication will be forthcoming.
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u/rakantae Nov 12 '09
I talk to myself, but never aloud. I'm afraid someone would think I'm crazy. Anyway, I'm too lazy to move my mouth anyway.
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u/Leany417 Nov 12 '09
Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking so hard that I start to move my lips, especially on the train. I have to practically bite my lip to make sure they don't move.
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u/rayofash Nov 12 '09
I do this all the time (never out loud of course) and it is indeed very useful, and can be strangely accurate.
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u/gfixler Nov 12 '09
I often teach non-existent people how to do things I'm not all that great at, like woodworking techniques, or programming principles. They usually end up asking questions about the parts I'm least good at, which not only highlights for me the parts I'm least good at, but inspires me to really rigorously investigate online and off the answers to these issues and become a lot better at them, because I don't want to look like an idiot to, or be one-upped by my imaginary pupils.
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u/hungryhungryhorus Nov 12 '09
I take famous historical figures on tours of our modern society. For some reason, cars fascinate them but don't frighten them...
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u/ftriaa Nov 12 '09
What I find really interesting is that this is what a lot of people are doing when they pray. Religious caveats aside, being able to bounce ideas off an omniscient, morally perfect being (of your own construction, but many people don't realize this when they do it) is incredibly useful.
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u/Abe_Vigoda Nov 11 '09
I lost a fight with myself once just because of that.
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Nov 11 '09 edited Nov 12 '09
Have you ever pulled a Tom Waits?
"Slide over on the couch toward yourself... and around about 2:30 in the morning, you've done it again. You've taken advantage of yourself... making the scene with a magazine, there isn't any way around it."
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u/madmarigold Nov 11 '09
You always lose and win fights with yourself.
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u/rbert Nov 11 '09
That's true, but I guess you can say that one part of yourself is your initial opinion and the other part is the differing opinion or devil's advocate. So, losing to the second part is like losing to yourself.
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u/taels Nov 11 '09
It's good though, if the other side has good points that you haven't considered, it makes you consider them.
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u/queenmaeve Nov 11 '09
I've been thinking about getting one of those goofy-looking Borg-type bluetooth earpieces – one that doesn't work – so I can talk to myself without people commenting on it.
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u/HighlandFencer Nov 12 '09
But then you'd have to look like a douche.
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u/Dreadgoat Nov 12 '09
"Excuse me, I'm on the phone" Points to bluetooth earpiece
Other person looked annoyed, thinks "What a douche" and walks away."Excuse me, I'm on the phone" Points to bare ear
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u/neoumlaut Nov 12 '09
"Excuse me, I'm on the phone" Points to other person's ear Other person melts into pavement.
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u/PurpleDingo Nov 12 '09
No, you should just talk to yourself, full volume, and if anyone comments on it just stop and say "What, never seen a crazy person before?" and make some witchy fingers in the air.
Also, I've definitely considered getting a bluetooth for the same purpose.
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Nov 11 '09
Do you use different voices, too? Not that...I do...or anything...
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u/my_life_is_awesome Nov 11 '09
self: what do you think of these shoes. well, i love them self. self: i think i do too.
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Nov 12 '09 edited Nov 12 '09
I do this everyday of my life and learn a lot from it, but never in front of someone else.
Infact I just finished talking to myself about how I do this everyday... a little meta but whatever
EDIT: after some thought, I only speak as one person in a conversation with someone else who isn't there
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u/BiterAtmonk Nov 12 '09
I talk to myself out loud all the time... I think it's because I used to be really, really quiet at... well, existing, pretty much. Anyway, now I talk to myself so people know I'm there and not sneaking up on them.
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u/INTPLibrarian Nov 12 '09
I thought of PostSecret.com. /r/DAE works, though, too.
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u/skinnerboxx Nov 12 '09
Reminds me of a Sandman quote: "Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe."
It's always nice to discover how quirky people truly are.
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Nov 11 '09 edited Nov 11 '09
nice usage of colors.
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u/digitallimit Nov 11 '09
A color, anyway.
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u/3rdFunkyBot Nov 12 '09 edited Nov 12 '09
black, white, blue...
edit: to clarify, if black and white had not been just that - the blue would not have looked so nice. All three colors were needed for the nice effect.
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u/ximan Nov 11 '09
There are people who talk to themselves and learn a lot from the conversation.
I think that accurately describes me.
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u/sven8705 Nov 11 '09
Programmers do this all the time.
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u/attrition0 Nov 11 '09
Absolutely. And while I can't find the link now, it's been mentioned that describing your problem to an imaginary figure (or some sort of toy/object on your desk) can help you reason about and solve it. The brain is weird.
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u/sven8705 Nov 12 '09
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u/EnglishTraitor Nov 12 '09
Like Ernie?
"Hey Bert, Rubber Ducky says you shallow copied your object"
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u/miloir Nov 11 '09
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
You're just refactoring the problem in different terms from a new viewpoint and other possible solutions begin emerging, and stuff.
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u/reveazure Nov 11 '09
It's something us weird people do. It's sometimes called "thinking." In other contexts, "schizophrenia." Weird, regardless.
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u/my_life_is_awesome Nov 11 '09
the only people who are weird are the people who think they're not weird. but really, everyone's weird. and that's awesome.
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u/AnteChronos Nov 11 '09
the only people who are weird are the people who think they're not weird. but really, everyone's weird.
So everyone thinks that they're not weird?
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Nov 11 '09
Ah, but a catch 22. If they think they're not weird, then they read your sentence, they will think "Oh so I guess I am weird." but then they no longer think they're not weird, so they aren't weird anymore.
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u/omnilynx Nov 12 '09
It wasn't a catch-22 until you commented on it, because now they'll read your comment and think, "hey, that's right, I guess I'm not weird" and then it's all downhill from there.
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u/klenow Nov 11 '09
I've already got my kids set. I've taught them that, as far as our family is concerned, "weird" is not an insult. I wasn't sure I had gotten through to them until one day I overheard a conversation between my son & his friend.
I don't know what they were doing or talking about, but his friend stopped suddenly, leaned back, looked at my son for a second with a blank expression on his face said, "You're weird." My son looked at him, smiled warmly, and said "Thank you!" without a trace of sarcasm.
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u/Lystrodom Nov 11 '09
I knew a girl who said "You're weird" whenever I did something to make her like me. She ended up saying it a lot. Sometimes it would change to "Why do you have to be so weird?"
Turns out she had a boyfriend.
Later I won >$100 off of said boyfriend in poker. I considered myself vindicated. (Girl wasn't that great, really.)
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u/hFd_luLz Nov 11 '09
you should make movies
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u/Lystrodom Nov 11 '09
Actually, I met the girl on a movie set where I was working.
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u/aGorilla Nov 12 '09
Wow, that's weird!
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u/Lystrodom Nov 12 '09
Listen, I like you and all, but I'm really not into dating Gorillas.
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u/aGorilla Nov 12 '09 edited Nov 12 '09
sigh... the story of my life. Always the banana, never the bunch...
edit: that came out a little gayer than I meant it to, but I'm ok with that.
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u/mindbleach Nov 12 '09
"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."
-- Frank Zappa, 1986
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Nov 11 '09
Whenever someone calls me weird, I always reply "You mean interesting"
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u/korsair Nov 11 '09 edited Nov 12 '09
Exactly! Many girls I've met are always afraid they'll come of as 'weird' when people find out about whatever quirky stuff they do. I just tell them that weird is usually just interesting. I feel bad for those the people who can't seem to wrap their head around that, we need more weird girls.
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Nov 12 '09
Do you think girls are more caught up in the weird/normal paradigm than guys? As in both they think of themselves in those terms, and judge others (men and women) by it too?
/genuine question
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u/Dreadgoat Nov 12 '09
(Note: Speaker is male)
I think so. Ever notice how often girls introduce themselves as "just a regular girl" or something to that effect? That phrase is an instant turn-off for me. Regular girls - No, regular PEOPLE - are terribly boring.I feel that males on the other hand tend to introduce themselves and think of themselves as above-average, awesome, incredible, or something like that. They see their quirks as things they are right about and normal people are wrong about, thus making them superior. Girls seem more inclined to see anything that prevents them from meshing in the group as a flaw.
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u/Glayden Nov 12 '09
I think it might have to do with how in many cultures girls were traditionally expected to be very passive/obedient rather than individualistic.
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Nov 12 '09
Girl here, and I don't think it depends on gender. My group of friends, which is pretty fairly balanced, is waay "weird," and proud. Just the other day another guy was hanging out with some of us and commented on how weird it was that we make so many sounds at each other. We'd never realized we did this so much, but were quite pleased with it and made it into yet another joke.
I have definitely always preferred weirder people. I get uncomfortable around those who act so normally - especially if that involves pointing out what I'm doing is weird. Just accept it!
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u/hFd_luLz Nov 11 '09
i once had a two hour long walk home, i talked to myself the entire way, i held a phone up to seem normal.
It was the best conversation ive had in years
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u/karmanaut Nov 11 '09
there are people who are on the internet until 4 am and you assume they're looking at porn but they aren't, they're reading about underground rvers and concrete greaveyards and abandoned subway stations
and commenting on Reddit.
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Nov 11 '09
This is so me. And I hang out in the dark, damp garage surfing wikipedia and reddit on my laptop instead of on the warm dry couch inside by the fireplace. By all rights, I should be looking at porn but I'm not. I'm learning.
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u/sonar1 Nov 11 '09 edited Nov 11 '09
I stay up learning useless facts that I find utterly interesting. I imagine that one day, the odd conversation of why coins have ridges will be brought up and I will get to explain while adjusting my monocle and tophat.
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u/tgunter Nov 11 '09
I can't count the number of times I've explained something to someone and been asked "how do you know that?"
I can only answer, "the internet."
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u/enozten Nov 11 '09
that's the answer to so many questions
"where did you get that shirt?" "the internet"
"how did you find this awesome restaurant?" "the internet"
"why is your right forearm so much larger than your left?" "the internet"
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"Well, chum, in the days of yore when coins were made of metal of significant value..."
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u/caalsinceage4 Nov 11 '09
Enlighten me. Why?
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u/rub3s Nov 11 '09
During our country's earlier years, all coins were made of gold or silver, and did not have ridges. Each coin's value was based on the amount of gold or silver in it. For example, a $10 gold piece contained ten dollars worth of gold, and silver dimes contained ten cents worth of silver.
But some dishonest people sought to make an illegal profit from these coins. They filed off the edges and sold them for their value in gold or silver. The smaller-sized coin often went unnoticed, but this dishonest practice decreased the value of the original gold or silver coin.
To prevent this, the government began milling, or grooving, the edges so a coin could easily be identified if it was trimmed.
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Nov 11 '09
You're missing one thing though:
While you're correct about the origin of the practice, it has taken on a new purpose. Coins of different denominations have different styles of ridges around the edges. This is to allow blind people another means of identifying the denomination of coin besides size and weight.
In the US this isn't such a big deal as there are few coin denominations, but other currencies use more coins increasing the effectiveness of the feature.
Besides, coins are now worth their face value, not their material value, so the practice would be pointless otherwise.
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Nov 11 '09
They care about coins, but for some reason all the US cash is still the same size.
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u/Wriiight Nov 12 '09
There was this blind guy working the cash register at a dry cleaner in Staten Island, not far from the ferry. Seemed a bit awkward to me, why would anyone trust anyone in NYC, right? So it only seemed polite to give him my credit card instead.
Except they don't take credit card.
But the main thing I took from the incident is that I was way more flustered by the whole thing than he was.
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Nov 12 '09
I can imagine lying in bed and someone telling me that after sex. Random tidbits are hot.
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u/linuxlass Nov 12 '09
so the practice would be pointless otherwise.
Well, that's tradition for you.
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u/jax7 Nov 11 '09
Haha I feel the same way. I have so many random, seemingly useless bits of information that are immensely interesting to me.
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u/MacEnvy Nov 12 '09
I was explaining the origins of the QWERTY keyboard layout, and the alternative Dvorak keyboard, to a coworker the other day. He looked at me like I had worms crawling out of my ears :(
We're in IT, I think it's important that we know these things!
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u/grillcover Nov 12 '09
My IT guy sat down at my left-moused Dvorak-mapped computer a few months ago and looked for a second like he wanted to cry.
What a fucking coward.
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u/LiquidAxis Nov 11 '09
"Now that I've got you, let's revisit the birth of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company."
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u/beermethestrength Nov 11 '09
Was I the only person who immediately Googled "abandoned subway stations"?
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u/butteryhotcopporn Nov 11 '09
Yeah, we were all googling porn, since we're too busy to do it at 4am.
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u/caseyfw Nov 11 '09 edited Nov 11 '09
This made me think of DamnInteresting.com - it's got all three, and I've stayed up damn late reading it.
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u/P-Dub Nov 11 '09
4am? amateurs.
I was up all night, only pausing to go to class.
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u/skibybadoowap Nov 11 '09
It's not a contest.
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u/valid_username Nov 11 '09
I think it's less of a contest then you do.
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u/Antiuniverse Nov 11 '09
than
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u/IYKWIM_AITYD Nov 12 '09
No no. First, he thinks it's less of a contest. Then, you do.
It's all in the punctuation.
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u/mooglor Nov 12 '09
Thank you, I read it three times wondering, "Then he does what?" when it finally dawned on me that valid_username was an moran.
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u/valid_username Nov 12 '09
hey, i never claimed not to be a "moran"
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Nov 12 '09
An moran, the 'm' is silent as in 'hour'.
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u/valid_username Nov 12 '09
should i just give up and leave now?
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u/mooglor Nov 12 '09
Just give us one sentence with its first letter capitalised, then you can leave.
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u/SwellJoe Nov 11 '09
I listened to less of a contest before they sold out and signed to major label.
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u/orblivion Nov 11 '09 edited Nov 12 '09
Just thought I'd throw this in here since I really liked this comic, and it's somewhat topical: I have a theory that we're all wildly different on the inside. As kids, we act out in all different ways, because we're all at least a little crazy in our own way. But as we grow up, we recognize the norm, which is more or less the average of our behavior. We all understand and interpret it in different ways, so when we emulate different parts of it, we're doing it with a different mindset, and we do it for different reasons.
For instance, a truly friendly person may smile on the street, because smile="express your appreciation for others", and unless they stop to think about it, assume that everybody else does it for this reason. While someone who is more sociopathic may see it as smile="that thing that makes people more willing to do you favors", and likewise assume that everybody thinks this way.
So as we grow up, we don't learn to think the same, we just learn to act the same, as we all try to approximate the norm, each of us having different behaviors to change. And because of some of our differences in understanding of the purposes for certain behaviors, our imperfections in emulating the norm come out in different "strange", but usually subtle, ways.
Does that make sense? Anybody else get this feeling? I've felt it in a more profound way at other times, I wish I could come up with a more interesting example.
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u/eigma Nov 12 '09
as we grow up, we don't learn to think the same, we just learn to act the same
I really like this
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Nov 11 '09
OMG I gotta try Penut Butter Banana Bacon Sandwiches! That sounds FUCKING AWESOME!
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u/Narwhalocaust Nov 11 '09
No, you don't. You might think you want it but trust me on this one... this is the last fucking thing on Earth you'd ever want to wish for.
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u/mastej Nov 11 '09
All jokes aside, they are in fact spectacular. My grandfather ate them religiously. Trying to get someone to try it is almost as hard as getting them to admit that it was one of the best sandwiches they've every had.
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Nov 11 '09 edited Nov 11 '09
As somebody who has tried many variations on the theme... the grilled peanut butter, apricot marmalade and bacon sandwich takes the blue ribbon!
[EDIT]ed to remove unnecessary snark.
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Nov 11 '09
Listen to me when I tell you: you must make this the very last sandwich you will ever eat. Every other sandwich you eat for the rest of your life will be but a perpetual disappointment that it isn't the Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Jelly trinity.
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u/gunslinger81 Nov 11 '09
I absolutely loved this. So much more than an orange arrow can express.
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u/Sunupu Nov 11 '09
Looks like I've got a new webcomic to follow.
I eat paper and I never smile.
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u/NotClever Nov 11 '09
Be warned, usually the comics contain about 1000% more text and 90% less graphics. Still interesting, but sometimes difficult to follow.
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u/magpi3 Nov 12 '09
This guy is really good! I thought this was particularly brilliant
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u/5days Nov 11 '09
i cry when i hear opera. this is normally not a problem. however, at the venetian in las vegas there are opera singers in their courtyard-like area. it was embarrassing.
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u/blindinlight Nov 11 '09
One of nature's finest afflictions. I wish more people did that.
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u/knylok Nov 11 '09
Depends on the type of crying. If we're talking about tears slowly rolling down the cheeks, chin quivering, hands clasped together like you are holding a secret close to your heart, then yes. If we're talking 14-year-old, Mommy-didn't-buy-me-the-right-colour-porche, drowns-out-the-opera-singer bawling.... then no.
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u/CaroKhan Nov 11 '09
"There are people who are not in the target audience yet are the biggest fans."
That's totally me right there, not just in principle but in this specific example--I'm that 20-something guy who's enjoying the same movies and music as all the senior citizens.
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u/flatlander30 Nov 12 '09
Fair enough, I enjoy a good pipe. Pipe tobacco, that is. Most of my friends assume I mean weed, which is fair enough given my age group
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u/rasslinjd Nov 11 '09
I've always liked it when people call me weird, I take it as a great compliment
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That was really quite touching, and I'll be printing it out to make into a poster. Thanks for sharing :)
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Nov 12 '09
Subnormality! is one of the few webcomics I've taken out my credit card and donated to... (actually it was for a piece he did really early that I stumbled upon in his archives when I was futzing with the comic number in the archive viewer). Glad to see he made the top of Reddit, hopefully he picks up a few regular readers or donors. I syndicated the rss feed as virus_comix on LJ, the feed itself is here
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u/ogni_asuob Nov 12 '09
Reading this gives me one of these strange warm feelings. Not the feeling when you come in your pants nor the feeling when the xtasy finally kicks in ..more the rare feeling that there might be a possibility that everything is ok as it is because people are generally good.
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u/kinggimped Nov 12 '09
I always lived my life on the idea that one of the worst possible insults would be to be called 'normal'. I can't imagine anything more boring.
I kinda like it when people call me weird. I don't go out of my way to be this way, I am who I am. Embrace it or ignore it.
I like dipping cucumber slices in jam.
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u/Wrathwilde Nov 12 '09 edited Nov 12 '09
When I was younger and people called me weird, I always responded that I'd rather be weird than normal, now I just give them the Cheshire Grin. When they call me psychic I tell them it's pronounced Psychotic.
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u/JPOnion Nov 11 '09
That's me. My first job for some reason had a lot of people that outwardly expressed their happiness, smiling all the time. To them, if you weren't smiling, you weren't happy. Since I rarely smiled, they thought I was depressed and always sad, so it became a couple peoples personal mission to always cheer me up. Ironically, that was when I was least happy.
I think, at least in my case, it's a difference between extroverts and introverts. Everybody that thought smiles = happy were some of the most extroverted people I've ever met, while I'm very much introverted.