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01-13-2015, 05:10 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
Today I saw the City of Sand Springs had assigned a crew of two and a truck to yank up bandit signs. In the time it took to sit through the traffic light, I saw them pull up and throw into the back of the little dump truck at least a dozen signs, some of them sturdy angle-iron and sheet metal repurposed realtor signs.
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01-14-2015, 12:33 AM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
You should take a flamethrower to them. That's not theft.
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01-14-2015, 02:00 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
Or just change the phone numbers on the signs, directing people to phone sex lines or to someone you hate.
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01-19-2015, 04:08 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dingfod
Today I saw the City of Sand Springs had assigned a crew of two and a truck to yank up bandit signs. In the time it took to sit through the traffic light, I saw them pull up and throw into the back of the little dump truck at least a dozen signs, some of them sturdy angle-iron and sheet metal repurposed realtor signs.
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One of the sturdy angle-iron and sheet metal repurposed realtor signs painted over indicating firewood for sale was back. I guess realtor signs are easy to come by.
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01-20-2015, 06:58 AM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dee Cee
Gender: Male
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
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Originally Posted by Dingfod
Or just change the phone numbers on the signs, directing people to phone sex lines or to someone you hate.
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Putting phone sex lines on there seems like it could harm the people trying to call in as well (due to accidentally incurring charges).
One thing that comes to mind is switching the numbers among the signs for unrelated businesses. That way their advertising didn't work AND you make them have to deal with frequent wrong number calls.
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02-01-2015, 12:10 AM
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liar in wolf's clothing
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Frequently about
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
I was pretty pumped to find a little massage place right across the parking lot from work, in the same office park. That means I could schedule a massage over lunch or right after work and just walk over there. I made my first appointment, and told the massage therapist the usual thing: I just want a relaxation massage, I spend my day sitting hunched over my desk doing a stressful job, and I keep my anger in the middle of my back.
After a few minutes of working on my back she asked if I had ever done any "energy work," to which I replied no, that I didn't know what that means. She asked if I wanted to try reiki (for free!) and I was like "uh, sure." I had heard that word before but I thought it was just another style of massage, like shiatsu. So it was confusing when she said "You may not feel anything." But she was right because she didn't fucking do anything. I didn't comment when she told me to breathe into my back, but after like two minutes of her kind of lightly resting her palm on my back, I was like "Yeah, let's get back to the massage like we talked about."
I read the Wikipedia article and I get that this is woo, but really, is that it? Like, you buy a massage and somebody just rests their hand on you for a few minutes? Is that all there is? That is like homeopathy-scale scammy. When I go for a massage, I'll go along with whatever dumb shit works for you, as long as you stay reasonably quiet and rub my fucking back like I am paying for. If you want us to meditate together, I'm down, I'll zone out; the quiet is a big part of it too. If you want me to focus my energy and be aware of the toxins being released and flushed out, I will open my third eye and watch those toxins float away like so much phlogiston into the aether as long as you keep rubbing my back.
What is not cool is when it stops being a massage and becomes me just laying there nekkid at $1.50 a minute.
In conclusion, reiki, fuck that noise.
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02-01-2015, 12:16 AM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Bay Area
Gender: Male
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
At least she touched you, there's multiple types of 'energy work' where the person waves their hands like 2 feet above you for 30 minutes because they are massaging your aura. I know multiple people that believe in Reiki and have taken classes on how to perform it (cash up front of course), I try not to giggle when they talk about it.
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02-01-2015, 01:54 AM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Bay Area
Gender: Male
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
I've never listened to Deepak Chopra talk before.
Wow what a pseudo science spewing, manipulative douchebag.
I knew he was a pseudo scientist I didn't realize he is an obvious con-artist who sits in his giant mansion scamming sick people out of money while he tells them that materialism and lack of faith is the cause of their disease.
Disgusting piece of human filth.
Swears: Quantum entangled fecal vibrations of gravitational waveform sphincter emanations.
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02-01-2015, 02:24 AM
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Vaginally-privileged sociopathic cultist
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: La Mer
Gender: Female
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
There's a place on my main street that does reiki, crystal healing, and all sorts of ridiculousness. My personal favorite was the sandwich board proclaiming "Angel intuitive psychic" whatever.
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02-01-2015, 02:40 AM
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NeoTillichian Hierophant & Partisan Hack
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Iowa
Gender: Male
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
That's a psychic whose predictions cover every angel.
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02-01-2015, 03:57 AM
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Vaginally-privileged sociopathic cultist
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: La Mer
Gender: Female
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
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02-01-2015, 07:47 AM
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puzzler
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: UK
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
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Originally Posted by ChuckF
I spend my day sitting hunched over my desk
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What became of the stand up desk?
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02-01-2015, 03:20 PM
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liar in wolf's clothing
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Frequently about
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Two Minutes Hate
Mainly I got a new office with a comically huge desk that can't really be moved. Secondarily, there was and continues to be chatter about moving to a new office, so maybe then.
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02-06-2015, 12:41 AM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
I got a massage on Tuesday to work out the kinks from traveling over the weekend. On the information sheet you could check for "light conversation" or "no conversation". I went with no, and then part way through remembered that was why it was so wonderfully quiet during my massage.
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03-04-2015, 11:20 PM
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Coffee, tea, anti-Nazi
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Female
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
This deserves way more than two minutes. This happened about 20 feet from my house. I heard it. I feel so sick right now.
Police: Dog viciously stabbed - Atlanta News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | FOX 5
Let's all reach in our little hearts to hope this asshole stays in jail. Motherfucker.
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04-23-2015, 09:59 PM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
It boggles the mind that this managed to get made and released.
You think about the fact that a whole lot of people were involved in making a movie like The Day the Clown Cried, but even those people--even the people who devoted their time, energy, and money to making a Holocaust clown movie--came to their senses at some point during the process and have been furiously trying to bury it ever since.
Not so with this one. This movie was written, filmed, edited, marketed, and released.
Little Boy / The Dissolve
Review: Little Boy is a shockingly miscalculated World War II fable · Movie Review · The A.V. Club
Go ahead and read the spoilers. They contain the revelation that the title refers to exactly what it obviously does, among other things, among other nauseating and offensive things. If I'd been the boss of that, I would have just folded that all into the main review because fuck you:
Spoiler space: Little Boy · Spoiler Space · The A.V. Club
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04-23-2015, 11:42 PM
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Just keep m'nose clean, egg, chips & beans, I'm always full of steam
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: so far out, I'm too far in
Gender: Bender
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
Wow. That entire concept could've worked, just by tilting it on its side and reversing the tone. America as a Little Boy who wants something painful to end, does something horrific to stop it, and doesn't have the emotional capability to understand the implications. Maybe it started as an art film but ended up on the other side of the moviegrinder as a Feel-Good Film.
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04-24-2015, 01:22 AM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
I decided to look the director/writer up, and found that he co-wrote a short movie that Justin Bieber's mother had something to do with called Crescendo. And it was on YouTube, so I watched it so you don't have to.
So a very beautiful lady has a mean husband who is MEAN. And she is pregnant! And then she walks down the street, thinking about all the sad things that have ever happened to her, and then she goes to a tea store and buys poison tea to commit suicide, and she makes the suicide tea, her husband comes in and tells her she is an ugly piece of shit, and then he leaves, and the lady goes to drink the tea, and then a bunch of guys in a cart CRASH THROUGH THE FUCKING WALL AND SMASH HER TEA, and then she has that stupid babby.
And that babby is Marine Todd or Einstein or someone!
J/K it is that Beethoven guy from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
So I'm guessing that, while someone else could have done something with that concept, this guy made the movie he set out to make, for an audience for whom the significance of the name Little Boy is actually a spoiler.
I have had a painful throbbing hate-on over this movie for longer than four hours!
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04-24-2015, 02:27 AM
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Coffin Creep
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The nightmare realm
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
Was it a shopping cart?
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05-15-2015, 03:05 AM
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
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06-22-2015, 03:22 PM
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Quality Contributor
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Luxembourg
Gender: Male
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
The new Netflix UI. Jesus Christ, did someone actually get paid to design this shit? Seriously?
Also: First World Problems! I has them!
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06-22-2015, 05:01 PM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
Holy shit. I complained about this in the Netflix thread yesterday. It does suck. Every time they change something in one of their interfaces, they make it worse. Remember the olden days when the TV app could display your very own queue in a grid, rather than as one of a bunch of different lists that you have to scroll through horizontally?
So I was going to show you the Netflix God Mode bookmarklet, which you could use to force Netflix to display your queue in a browser in grid style, rather than as a single horizontal scrolling line.
But look:
Netflix God Mode Bookmarklet
You can't download it now because they say Netflixed fixed it with the redesign. THIS IS A LIE. THIS IS NOT TRUE. WHY ARE THEY SAYING THAT?
I still have it, though, and it still works, so if you can't find it somewhere else, maybe we can figure out how I can send it to you or something.
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06-22-2015, 06:40 PM
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Member
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Nashville, TN
Gender: Female
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
Grr!! Netflix!
I was trying to show my dad how to navigate it yesterday. It's almost like they don't want people afflicted with The Olds to use it.
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06-22-2015, 07:36 PM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
I'm having a hard time imagining that even stupid youths would like this, though. Unless you're just super boring and impressionable or something, I would imagine that most people would appreciate the ability to see their own fucking queue without having what are essentially ads and promotions taking up some huge portion of the screen.
And some of their recommended stuff is actually offensive. It took me just about for-fucking-ever to convince them that, no, I would not enjoy watching the comedy stylings of the odious, virulently misogynist Bill Burr. I kept selecting "Not interested" every chance they gave me, and they kept fucking popping his fucking face back up again, and at first I'd be like "Why are you showing me a picture of a potato?" and then I'd realize that it was him again.
And I watched some movies (Lars von Trier and Gaspar Noe I think were the culprits) that made Netflix decide that I wanted to see cheap half-assed softcore porn. Which: If I actually were the kind of fucked up monster who was really into kind of thing as pornography (and why would you even attempt to cater, Netflix?), I would likely have sources for something a little harder core than movies about bi curious ladies taking showers together.
That's right. I am not only outraged by the technical implementation and user interface, but I have managed to muster actual MORAL outrage at Netflix as well.
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06-22-2015, 09:54 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Two Minutes Hate
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Originally Posted by lisarea
Holy shit. I complained about this in the Netflix thread yesterday. It does suck. Every time they change something in one of their interfaces, they make it worse. Remember the olden days when the TV app could display your very own queue in a grid, rather than as one of a bunch of different lists that you have to scroll through horizontally?
So I was going to show you the Netflix God Mode bookmarklet, which you could use to force Netflix to display your queue in a browser in grid style, rather than as a single horizontal scrolling line.
But look:
Netflix God Mode Bookmarklet
You can't download it now because they say Netflixed fixed it with the redesign. THIS IS A LIE. THIS IS NOT TRUE. WHY ARE THEY SAYING THAT?
I still have it, though, and it still works, so if you can't find it somewhere else, maybe we can figure out how I can send it to you or something.
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I can't find it somewhere else Everything points back to the same link.
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