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by The Great Hippo » Wed May 02, 2012 8:18 pm UTC
TheGrammarBolshevik wrote:Look Hippo, I don't pass judgment on your sex life and I'll thank you not to do the same.
"If furiously masturbating while watching a man shitting on another man while he's bound and gagged is wrong,
then I don't want to be right!"
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by Karilyn » Wed May 02, 2012 8:50 pm UTC
The Great Hippo wrote:TheGrammarBolshevik wrote:Look Hippo, I don't pass judgment on your sex life and I'll thank you not to do the same.
"If furiously masturbating while watching a man shitting on another man while he's bound and gagged is wrong,
then I don't want to be right!"
Amen!
Gelsamel wrote:If you punch him in the face repeatedly then it's science.
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by addams » Thu May 03, 2012 8:50 am UTC
Did the tsunami of yellow, turn to piss?
Life is, just, an exchange of electrons; It is up to us to give it meaning.
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by J Thomas » Thu May 03, 2012 12:31 pm UTC
addams wrote:Did the tsunami of yellow, turn to piss?
Was there a time it wasn't?
The Law of Fives is true. I see it everywhere I look for it.
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by Nergye » Thu May 03, 2012 12:42 pm UTC
See? Who says we can't have an intelligent conversation without SirMustapha?
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by Роберт » Thu May 03, 2012 4:07 pm UTC
Nergye wrote:See? Who says we can't have an intelligent conversation without SirMustapha?
Win!
addams wrote:Politics is hard. I can't do it.
It takes a nasty Jr. High School Girl in a man's body to keep up.
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by The Moomin » Thu May 03, 2012 4:46 pm UTC
So all that setting someone as "foe" does is block their posts from your view?
I'm kind of disappointed by this.
I'm not entirely sure what, but I expected a whole host of shenanigans to ensue from declaring a foe.
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by bmonk » Thu May 03, 2012 8:18 pm UTC
The Moomin wrote:So all that setting someone as "foe" does is block their posts from your view?
I'm kind of disappointed by this.
I'm not entirely sure what, but I expected a whole host of shenanigans to ensue from declaring a foe.
Maybe after someone is a foe for a set period of time, the management arrange for a duel at dawn?
Down with categorical imperatives.
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by Роберт » Thu May 03, 2012 9:53 pm UTC
bmonk wrote:The Moomin wrote:So all that setting someone as "foe" does is block their posts from your view?
I'm kind of disappointed by this.
I'm not entirely sure what, but I expected a whole host of shenanigans to ensue from declaring a foe.
Maybe after someone is a foe for a set period of time, the management arrange for a duel at dawn?
For that to happen, you have to convince them to foe you back.
addams wrote:Politics is hard. I can't do it.
It takes a nasty Jr. High School Girl in a man's body to keep up.
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by The Moomin » Fri May 04, 2012 8:18 am UTC
Роберт wrote:bmonk wrote:The Moomin wrote:So all that setting someone as "foe" does is block their posts from your view?
I'm kind of disappointed by this.
I'm not entirely sure what, but I expected a whole host of shenanigans to ensue from declaring a foe.
Maybe after someone is a foe for a set period of time, the management arrange for a duel at dawn?
For that to happen, you have to convince them to foe you back.
Maybe if there was an automatic mail to the preson declared foe stating the enmity that now exists between the two of you and that there text is such a blight on humanity considerable effort has gone to shield your eyes from such poppycock.
Then their computer should give them an electric shock in lieu of slapping them round the face with a glove.
If they don't declare foe back then, nothing can entice them.
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by Роберт » Fri May 04, 2012 6:35 pm UTC
The Moomin wrote:Роберт wrote:bmonk wrote:The Moomin wrote:So all that setting someone as "foe" does is block their posts from your view?
I'm kind of disappointed by this.
I'm not entirely sure what, but I expected a whole host of shenanigans to ensue from declaring a foe.
Maybe after someone is a foe for a set period of time, the management arrange for a duel at dawn?
For that to happen, you have to convince them to foe you back.
Maybe if there was an automatic mail to the preson declared foe stating the enmity that now exists between the two of you and that there text is such a blight on humanity considerable effort has gone to shield your eyes from such poppycock.
Then their computer should give them an electric shock in lieu of slapping them round the face with a glove.
If they don't declare foe back then, nothing can entice them.
Except for the electric shock bit, you could always manually send a PM.
addams wrote:Politics is hard. I can't do it.
It takes a nasty Jr. High School Girl in a man's body to keep up.
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by Adavistic Puma » Fri May 04, 2012 10:36 pm UTC
Belial wrote:SirMustapha wrote:Belial wrote:Let's take a moment to discuss how drastically mis-calibrated your sense of what's "serious" is.
No, let's not. You carry on using your god powers to deliver poetic justice to the people you don't like
As you wish.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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by scarletmanuka » Tue May 08, 2012 3:53 am UTC
SirMustapha wrote:gmalivuk wrote:eran_rathan wrote:gmalivuk wrote:I'm pretty sure that "YMMV" is a TV Tropes invention.
[citation needed]
Yeah, it comes from the EPA estimated mileage for vehicles (and subsequent reporting requirements for manufacturers) - which, if I recall correctly, began in the late 70s or early 80s.
That's definitely where the phrase came from, but I think Mustapha is only contending that its use as an initialism was coined by tvtropes.
Not only as an initialism, but as an unnecessary, dumb replacement for something as simple and obvious as "that's subjective"; which is basically Rule Nº 1 of TV Tropes: NEVER use simple terms for simple concepts. And I definitely never saw that term being used before TV Tropes became this big phenomenon, not even in places such as Godawful Fanfiction, where that kind of terminology tends to catch like chewed bubblegum.
Not that it matters now... but "YMMV" was definitely current on Usenet in the '90s.
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