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The forum clock is behind again. There's about a three-minute difference.

Yeah or some MUD.

MUD1?

RuneScape

Betrayal at Krondor?

I haven't come across Sun-eating yet but that is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I wonder if that was invented by Trump supporters to explain why he looked directly at the eclipse that time.

One thing that gets me is that there are genuine flat-Earth believers out there. If it wasn't so scary it would be fascinating. It's not the fact that they think the Earth might be flat that gets me. It's the fact that they seem to genuinely believe it without any sense of irony or tongue-in-cheekness. I really struggle to believe that there's not some part of them who's just going along with it for a bit of fun.

I don't know if ‘Grinds my gears' is the right place for this. Maybe we need a ‘what makes me sick' thread.

I don't get why people post and share abuse videos on Facebook. Usually they're accompanied by captions like ‘this is sick, please share'. But my question is what good does sharing it do other than to upset people who follow you on Facebook? People who share these things do so because they rightly find it disturbing and must feel like it's helping somehow. But how?

I consider myself quite difficult to offend. I can stomach some pretty graphic stuff. But some things are just beyond sick and I find it so weird that otherwise normal intelligent people might think that it's somehow necessary to share something so horrific to their friends, some of whom may be extremely sensitive to certain types of abuse or violence.

I'm posting this because a friend of mine posted a video which just appeared on my timeline unsolicited and started autoplaying. I'll describe it in spoiler tags below but it almost brought me to tears moments before I was about to teach a kids class.

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Basically it's a video of a mother brutally whacking her small baby with a pillow.

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The only good thing to come out of the fact that I nearly cried and felt sick to my stomach is that I guess it means I'm not a psychopath.

Oh and Dawson from Dawson's Creek was in Varsity Blues, so we've got a connection with the What's on TV thread.

Weird Science?

Maybe I'm sensitive now but what really grinds my gears is when someone has written a really long post in a forum (that can also grind my gears if the point they want to make could've been done in the last 2 sentences or so) and people must quote the entire post only to say "I totally agree" not even adding something to the post...ooooh how it grinds my gears.

I totally agree

Was that blood dripping down the wall really from Big Bang Theory? That's a bit gory for a prime-time sitcom.

Hannibal?

Someone posted this picture of a sign with a funny mistake on it. So I've provided the corrected version.

I much prefer a human cashier to serve me... and I don't even like people.

Also you live in a country where cashiers almost never deviate from the script.

oh god yeah. Don't get me started on the cashiers here. They'll ask a question and then don't even listen to my answer before moving onto the next step of the transaction. Or they'll tell me the total price of the shopping before I've had a chance to tell them I want to buy a coffee and pay some bills when I'm clearly waving a handful of utility bills and looking at the coffee menu going 'ummmm'

I've worked in a corner shop, for six years. I know it can get repetitive but damn me Japan does repetition very very well. It's how they learn everything in school. It's why they can listen to the same peice of music, or even the same 10-second jingle over and over and over again all day long. I would go mental if I worked in “Bicu bicu bicu Bic Camera”

Self-checkout machines grind my gears too. I know the it's become a bit cliché to joke about ‘unexpected item in the bagging area' but when the only item in the bagging area is a frigging bag you know something is wrong with this technology. I much prefer a human cashier to serve me... and I don't even like people.

At first I thought it was something to do with Aladdin.

Here's one.

If you have me, you have less. But you look better. What am I?

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A haircut!

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Yep.

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I had just had my hair cut about 30 minutes before I set that riddle.

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At first I thought it was something to do with Aladdin.

Here's one.

If you have me, you have less. But you look better. What am I?

I can show you the world,
And yet hide it from you.
I can preserve a beautiful sunset forever,
So that you won't have to watch it.
I can give you contact with everyone you know,
But you'll rarely notice a new person again.
I can make waiting hours for a taxi not matter,
Because you're already home if you have me.

What am I?

Spoiler

a Smartphone?

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Yeah, that's when she blocked me. Haha.

It's so hard to keep up with, though. People seems to be constantly finding new things to be offended by and it's getting unreasonable. Of course anything racist is bound to be unacceptable, but then you get things like this:

One of the best ways to hurt an artistic person is to wait until right after they finish a long project and then ask them "so what's next?"

...and all the back-patting twitter hugs from everyone in the replies who have just realised that it offends them too, while all secretly wishing they had been the first one to have thought of this new angle, this new way to acquire twitter hugs.

Absolutely moronic. I even got blocked by someone because of that thread.

So no, giving up your seat for an elderly lady is not a problem. But when you wake up every morning and find that actually, now the done thing is to not use a seat in the first place, just in case an old lady needs one.... okay, so i'll Stand... but now apparently old ladies don't like seeing people standing because it reminds them of their lack of agility and they get upset. So now we have to use a seperate carriage. Before you know it, just mentioning trains will trigger all the old people, but more than that it will trigger everybody else as well because we all want to get offended on everyone else's behalf.

I will happily avoid racial slurs and I am in solidarity with everyone of all genders and sexual preferences. But there is a point where I will defend my right to ask an artist whose work admire “what's next?” And I will shout the word TRAIN in your face whenever the above hypothetical scenario occurs.

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bic

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