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Topic: The Last Post Thread, The Next Generation
Dan_Frank
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posted April 02, 2012 10:42 PM
Ouch! I was thinking maybe some crazy KISS-style eye makeup.
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Dan_Frank
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posted April 03, 2012 05:07 AM
I never used windows XP, but whatever this new OS is called, it's pretty terrible. I need to get an Apple again.
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ricree101
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posted April 05, 2012 08:46 AM
But why do you say so.
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted April 05, 2012 11:14 AM
Because it looks like a little sideways Kiss head.
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vegimo
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posted April 05, 2012 12:50 PM
I thought that was a little sideways kiss head.
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted April 05, 2012 02:29 PM
Not kissing, Kiss the band...you know face paint, black leather, horrible, repetitive music.
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vegimo
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posted April 05, 2012 02:37 PM
Kiss the band? What if I don't want to? (Maybe Beth will.)
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vegimo
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posted April 05, 2012 04:26 PM
Never actually met her, but I can hear her calling.
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted April 05, 2012 10:48 PM
Did she rock and roll all night and party every day? Is she incredibly dated and lame?
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Tracy Allen
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posted April 06, 2012 10:31 PM
(Post Removed by Janitor Blade. Gold & Spam? What a delicious combination.) [ April 07, 2012, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: JanitorBlade ]
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Dan_Frank
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posted April 06, 2012 10:41 PM
Well, so long as you promise not to do anything untoward with my credit card information. I... I have your word, right?
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted April 13, 2012 10:39 PM
Now I wonder what Tracy had to say.
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LargeTuna
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posted April 14, 2012 11:33 AM
I'm not Tracy
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Marek
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posted April 17, 2012 10:26 PM
isn't spamming the last post threat kind of redundant?
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Dan_Frank
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posted April 17, 2012 10:57 PM
Tracy was a WoW gold farmer. Not very exciting.
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Marek
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posted April 18, 2012 09:03 PM
i rotate gold and silver crops, to save the soil
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Vasslia Cora
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posted April 19, 2012 12:27 AM
I had a bumper crop of copper last year.
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted April 19, 2012 02:26 AM
<Insert something witty here.>
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Mr. Y
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posted April 23, 2012 10:45 AM
<Insert something inane here.>
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vegimo
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posted April 23, 2012 02:50 PM
<Inserting something stiff between the lips> <no, a glass of bourbon, ya prevert>
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Dan_Frank
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posted April 23, 2012 04:19 PM
If you can't actually think of something witty, inane, or vulgar to say, why say anything? Wait, that sounds like I'm suggesting those are the only three reasons to... eh, whatever. That's fine.
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happymann
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posted April 23, 2012 04:23 PM
I don't get it.
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Dan_Frank
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posted April 23, 2012 05:29 PM
You'll understand when you've passed an arbitrary threshold of presumed competence based on a metric not directly related to that competence, and people become willing to treat you like an actual thinking human being.
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Marek
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posted April 24, 2012 12:35 AM
quote: Originally posted by Dan_Frank: You'll understand when you've passed an arbitrary threshold of presumed competence based on a metric not directly related to that competence, and people become willing to treat you like an actual thinking human being. Just so you know, no such threshold seems to exist in retail work. People don't ever feel it is time to treat cashiers like actual thinking human beings.
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Dan_Frank
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posted April 24, 2012 02:27 AM
Heh. In this case the threshold I had in mind was "post count," but other thresholds like "age" also fit.
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The Rabbit
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posted April 24, 2012 10:00 AM
I might be moving to London. Any suggestions?
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted April 24, 2012 11:42 AM
Learn to like bad food...and room temp beer.
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Dan_Frank
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posted April 24, 2012 02:37 PM
And a very weird blend of Imperial & Metric.
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Marek
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posted April 24, 2012 09:23 PM
I would never move there, I suck at learning new languages
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Mr. Y
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posted April 25, 2012 08:57 AM
You could just raise the volume of your voice and hope they understand you.
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted May 04, 2012 02:37 PM
No no, it's not raise your voice and hope they understand you. The American way is this: When in a foreign country you must speak extra loud and slow, and get very angry if people do not instantly understand you and then blame them for being uneducated barbarians with monopoly money. I believe it is in the constitution.
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Marek
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posted May 04, 2012 08:50 PM
dude! i should go to another country just to do this.
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted May 05, 2012 01:56 AM
Try Mexico before Europe...much cheaper...and they are used to it.
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Marek
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posted May 05, 2012 07:24 PM
i really want to call some one's currency monopoly money, what country has the most monopoly like money? Who gets the race car!?
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Lyrhawn
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posted May 06, 2012 02:59 AM
Where I grew up, that's how we referred to Canadian money. Sadly, Canadian money is worth as much as if not more than US money...so the joke's really on us now.
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happymann
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posted May 06, 2012 11:24 AM
This is dangerously becoming a thread. With conversations, and stuff. edited to add: We should just quit before it gets too out of hand.
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted May 06, 2012 12:30 PM
Zip Boom Bah! Crisis averted!
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Marek
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posted May 06, 2012 06:05 PM
The french money seems way too stylized
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted May 06, 2012 08:56 PM
There you go rerailing the conversation!
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LargeTuna
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posted May 06, 2012 09:03 PM
"french money" was this one kid's nickname back in the day
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted May 07, 2012 01:32 AM
Now that is more like it! We were in serious proximity to a discussion there folks, don't let it happen again!
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