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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you
2014 Sep 28, 18:53:42Quote from: StarSong on 2014 Sep 28, 14:57:03Quote from: Midnight Breeze on 2014 Sep 28, 14:54:14
Well 'distracting men' is a poor explanation, but showing up to school practically half-naked is just plain distasteful and it should be against the rules.
Whenever I see someone dressed in something like a miniskirt and a tubetop, my first thought is "Um, forget to get dressed this morning?" Why even bother wearing clothes if they don't cover anything? Might as well just show up in your underwear.
This is something that annoys me.
It's our body.
We can put whatever we want on it. Even if we choose to not put anything on it tbh.
Ah this argument. Fun.
Thing is, that goes when you live on your own and are enjoying your free time. However if you still live with your parents, go to school, or go to work, you are NOT free to wear what you like. Others will dictate what you wear in quite a lot of places, your parent have the liberty to decide what you wear (even if they dont/fail to), you will not be getting hired for/keeping very many jobs wearing miniskirts or old smudged t-shirts and plenty of schools have limits on what is allowed.
Yes strictly speaking you have complete liberty in what you put on yourself... except wearing nothing in public, or wearing masks in public, or wearing SS uniforms, or at work, or when your parents tell you not to, etc.
Like all 'freedom' it comes with caveats and exceptions as well as the responsibility to not do anything too stupid with it.
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The Retirement Home / Re: The object to your left is your cutie mark
2014 Sep 26, 08:16:47
Big black coffee mug. With big red letters spelling coffee.
I can make that work!
I can make that work!
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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you
2014 Sep 24, 13:30:51Quote from: Ramisha on 2014 Sep 24, 02:03:50Spoiler: show
Once I was just standing by myself like I usually do and a girl came up to me and asked me if I was ok. Beat that.
I don't understand, is being alone really that odd?
Its not so much being alone as being alone in a crowd that sets people off. Makes em think your having trouble with something or that you don't like any of the people around there enough to hang out with them.
And then there is the subset of highly socially dependent people who find it painful to be alone and cant imagine anyone else being any different. The girl that asked if you were ok might just have been genuinely concerned. Ignorance rather than malice and all that.
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The Retirement Home / Re: Bad translator game
2014 Sep 22, 11:36:35
Original text:
"Give me a bucket, then I will show you a bucket!"
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"The door and said, ' how are you?"
"Give me a bucket, then I will show you a bucket!"
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"The door and said, ' how are you?"
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The Retirement Home / Re: The game where nopony knows what to do
2014 Sep 20, 18:54:30QuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteIts a pyramid!
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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you
2014 Sep 19, 14:35:47
There I was, starting a day with lovely weather and no problems in sight.
Next thing I know I got 3 months to find a new job.
And now here I am, smiling people enjoying the lovely weather everywhere, while I just want to see stuff burn...
Next thing I know I got 3 months to find a new job.
And now here I am, smiling people enjoying the lovely weather everywhere, while I just want to see stuff burn...
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The Retirement Home / Re: how will you wake up the pony above you
2014 Sep 15, 11:35:09
Switches out his pillow for a badger.
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The Retirement Home / Re: The ultimate yelling and pointless game
2014 Sep 14, 13:59:00
♫♪♫♫♪ ♪♫ ♫♫♪ ♪♫♫♪...♪‼
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The Retirement Home / Re: how will you wake up the pony above you
2014 Sep 14, 13:55:26
Magic him into the middle of the marketplace, bed and all.
Which is far less cruel then what he did!
Which is far less cruel then what he did!
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The Retirement Home / Re: OC scenario game
2014 Sep 14, 13:50:57
*wears matching sunglasses and grows matching beard*
Off to hack Joe's donut vending machine!
Your OC got a bouquet with poison joke from an unknown sender.
Off to hack Joe's donut vending machine!
Your OC got a bouquet with poison joke from an unknown sender.
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The Retirement Home / Re: The ultimate yelling and pointless game
2014 Sep 13, 05:58:57Quote from: Ramisha on 2014 Sep 13, 05:19:21
WARNING MAJOR SPOILERSpoiler: show
[glow=black,2,300]I suppose I will leave out Private Parts[/glow]
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The Retirement Home / Re: The ultimate yelling and pointless game
2014 Sep 12, 17:00:18
IS IT DOUGHNUT OR IS IT DONUT¿
SO CONFUSING!
SO CONFUSING!
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The Retirement Home / Re: The ultimate yelling and pointless game
2014 Sep 12, 13:46:48
*Inhale* Its a silent shout!
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The Retirement Home / Re: If apple bloom was a janitor, her name would be apple broom.
2014 Sep 12, 07:40:00
If rarity had scales as a cutie mark her name would be Parity.
And if were a carpenter it would be Chairity. Or Stairity?
And when Pinkie Pie is lost in the desert she is Pinkie Dry.
And if were a carpenter it would be Chairity. Or Stairity?
And when Pinkie Pie is lost in the desert she is Pinkie Dry.
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Off-Topic Archive / Re: OH SNAP, VIRUSES.
2014 Sep 12, 06:59:53
I think Avira has a decent free offering, heard some mixed stories about AVG. Malwarebytes is also good as a secondary, you can use it to scan for some sorts of malware that AV often misses. Just make sure to download the program from the makers site, not some knockoff 3rd party offering you paid stuff for free. (or free stuff with malware added...)
Also FBI virus. There were actually variants made for that virus for other countries (badly translated, but with a completely accurate copy-paste of anti piracy laws). It completely freaked out the paranoid roommate I had at the time, who was not just generally suspicious but actually diagnosed by a psychologist with paranoia and PTSD so yeah, it took quite a lot of convincing to get him to realize it was just a scam.
Also
FBI virus. There were actually variants made for that virus for other countries (badly translated, but with a completely accurate copy-paste of anti piracy laws). It completely freaked out the paranoid roommate I had at the time, who was not just generally suspicious but actually diagnosed by a psychologist with paranoia and PTSD so yeah, it took quite a lot of convincing to get him to realize it was just a scam.
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The Retirement Home / Re: The ultimate yelling and pointless game
2014 Sep 11, 16:42:16
I THINK I SEE HOW THIS GAME WORKS
Post Merge
ONIONS ARE DELICIOUS
I WILL EAT ALL YOUR ONIONS
Which would sound all sorts of weird out of context.
Post Merge
Quote from: StormDancer01 on 2014 Sep 09, 18:44:24
ONIONS MUST DIE!!!!! BECAUSE THEY'RE GROSS!!!
no offence.
ONIONS ARE DELICIOUS
I WILL EAT ALL YOUR ONIONS
Which would sound all sorts of weird out of context.
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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you
2014 Sep 06, 08:33:34
PRINTERS!
They are things of EVIL! Forged in the fires of HELL! Exclusive design by SATAN!
And its not just the crappy consumer printers that come with half-filled cartridge/toners, but also the 6-grand enterprise models at my work. Why is it that with two identical printers, with identical firmware, drivers, settings, windows print settings, and same file being printer from the same program, one of the printers cant sort pages right? I swear printers get programmed with 1% chance of a random brainfart just to keep printer engineers employed.
MALWARE!
And the legal system's inability to prosecute its makers.
I'm not even talking about the obviously criminal ones like cryptolocker, but things like that http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=2470.0">Read the forum rules.ed ask.com toolbar, 'optimizer pro' and 'search protect'. They are of no use whatsoever to the user, most of them just do stuff like relaying a Google search and adding their own ads or spreading ads random all over webpages, but other are a lot more harmful and do stuff like bringing in other malware, selling users fake antivirus, or even hijacking computers to mine bitcoins.
And heres the best part: Lots, if not most, of these are made and spread by registered US companies. They pay legitimate software makers to sneak they poison along (looking at you, Filezilla, Adobe and Java!), sneak ad profits from giants like Google, exploit naive computer users, cause general discomfort, annoyance and high energy bills all to no benefit to the end 'user' whatsoever. And its all possible because of those EULA things nobody ever reads and the fact that its legal to put stuff in there like 'we can use your computer however we see fit' or 'we can take any information from your computer we like and sell it to whoever we like'.
... and I could go on but thats enough of that for now. Working in IT can be a blast
They are things of EVIL! Forged in the fires of HELL! Exclusive design by SATAN!
And its not just the crappy consumer printers that come with half-filled cartridge/toners, but also the 6-grand enterprise models at my work. Why is it that with two identical printers, with identical firmware, drivers, settings, windows print settings, and same file being printer from the same program, one of the printers cant sort pages right? I swear printers get programmed with 1% chance of a random brainfart just to keep printer engineers employed.
MALWARE!
And the legal system's inability to prosecute its makers.
I'm not even talking about the obviously criminal ones like cryptolocker, but things like that http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=2470.0">Read the forum rules.ed ask.com toolbar, 'optimizer pro' and 'search protect'. They are of no use whatsoever to the user, most of them just do stuff like relaying a Google search and adding their own ads or spreading ads random all over webpages, but other are a lot more harmful and do stuff like bringing in other malware, selling users fake antivirus, or even hijacking computers to mine bitcoins.
And heres the best part: Lots, if not most, of these are made and spread by registered US companies. They pay legitimate software makers to sneak they poison along (looking at you, Filezilla, Adobe and Java!), sneak ad profits from giants like Google, exploit naive computer users, cause general discomfort, annoyance and high energy bills all to no benefit to the end 'user' whatsoever. And its all possible because of those EULA things nobody ever reads and the fact that its legal to put stuff in there like 'we can use your computer however we see fit' or 'we can take any information from your computer we like and sell it to whoever we like'.
... and I could go on but thats enough of that for now. Working in IT can be a blast
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Pony Off-Topic Archive / Re: Is the "Ponies for Little Girls" thing going to end someday?
2014 Sep 03, 14:58:38
DawnsEmbrace actually has a point. Its kinda weird how quickly horses fell out of fashion as a manly thing, just about a hundred years ago it was considered the epitome of manliness to sit on a horse while it charges at your enemies! Before horses become obsolete as a mode of transport, labour and warfare (which I should add was only around the 1960s for the first two) the stereotype was pretty much the other way around. Horses were rode into combat by men, taken care of by men (squires and stable mates, which were exclusively male, to Night Pony), and a woman riding a horse was considered inappropriate.
The 20th century was a massive shift in western culture though. So much changed from 1900 to 2000 its not entirely surprising that the stereotype surrounding horses went and flipped about, though still kind of disappointing. It just went from one kind of stupid to another.
Also its pretty much unavoidable for terrifying, evil myths and even real people to get cutyfied (at most) a hundred years later. Vlad the Impaler? Sparkly whiny teenager. Pirates? Kid show presenter. Dragons? Spike the dragon... And if you don't believe me, look up 'Cure Hitler fashion Thailand'. Wish I were kidding.
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The 20th century was a massive shift in western culture though. So much changed from 1900 to 2000 its not entirely surprising that the stereotype surrounding horses went and flipped about, though still kind of disappointing. It just went from one kind of stupid to another.
Also its pretty much unavoidable for terrifying, evil myths and even real people to get cutyfied (at most) a hundred years later. Vlad the Impaler? Sparkly whiny teenager. Pirates? Kid show presenter. Dragons? Spike the dragon... And if you don't believe me, look up 'Cure Hitler fashion Thailand'. Wish I were kidding.
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Quote from: DawnsEmbrace on 2014 Sep 01, 20:05:46
I'm not even going to get into Perseus, or we'd be here all day.