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If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.

Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM

Keybreak Since: Apr, 2010
#146026: Dec 26th 2012 at 1:22:57 AM

Why is Christmas Eve the day before Christmas and not the evening of Christmas?

It'd be like calling Christmas Morn the day after Christmas.

edited 26th Dec '12 1:23:09 AM by Keybreak

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#146027: Dec 26th 2012 at 2:10:11 AM

Eve is on the eve of something, or just before it. Halloween is All Hallow's Eve (the v is dropped, which is why it often includes an apostrophe), and All Hallow's Day, or All Saint's Day, is the first of November. It appears to have the same etymology as evening, though.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
PeacefulApocalypse from Planet Fastoon Since: Oct, 2012
Keybreak Since: Apr, 2010
#146029: Dec 26th 2012 at 2:28:15 AM

Dumb language...semantics and irony are my two least favorite things that I always seem to talk about.

Also especially, the semantics of irony. ;/

Well, also randomly! I wish I got a Wii Action Replay for Christmas. Though I only learned tonight that it came out this year.

Oh well, how much would more time would I miss for a re-completed game library if I just bought it online?

InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
'80s TV Action Hero
#146030: Dec 26th 2012 at 4:50:14 AM

Dumb language...semantics and irony are my two least favorite things that I always seem to talk about.

Durn words, havin' meanin' and such! Don't hold with it, mahself...

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Keybreak Since: Apr, 2010
#146031: Dec 26th 2012 at 12:00:13 PM

Yeah, there should be a language that, the more nonsensical the words are, the more people would be able to understand.

Zersk o-o from Columbia District, BNA Since: May, 2010
o-o
#146032: Dec 26th 2012 at 12:02:17 PM

Oou? :p

Anyway, that just seems to be a side-effect of communication. :p As awesome as it is, language can be a bit limiting at times. Plus it changes and people have their own ideas for what a word can mean. Main thing we shouldn't do I suppose is nitpick about it. :p

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SBaneN The True Shane from Somewhere calm Since: Nov, 2012
The True Shane
#146033: Dec 26th 2012 at 12:11:56 PM

Blue Screens of death. SO annoying. I guess I'll get one on 1 January again sad

Worst of all, this means that I can no longer play Dragon Age Origins >:(
So now I've got thousands (well, probably only twenty) useless games on my computer. :(

(This post will probably reveal the truth.)
BrotherMycroft Dapper Gentleman Since: Jul, 2012
Dapper Gentleman
#146034: Dec 26th 2012 at 4:37:35 PM

So I searched TV Tropes on Tumblr out of idle curiosity, and a significant portion of the results are rather vitriolic and all-encompassing criticisms of the site. While spending any amount of one's time making logically fallacious arguments against a free, entertaining website would seem to be rather pointless, it is interesting to see how TV Tropes is generally perceived.

"And every life is a special story of its own." —The Stargazer, Mass Effect 3
Zersk o-o from Columbia District, BNA Since: May, 2010
o-o
#146035: Dec 26th 2012 at 4:38:38 PM

People are bored and need something to rant about, as silly as it seems I suppose. :3

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Sixthhokage1 Since: Feb, 2013
#146036: Dec 26th 2012 at 4:42:29 PM

I'm glad the This Troper video series stopped pretty much after covering the Second Google Incident drama >_>

ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#146037: Dec 26th 2012 at 4:46:09 PM

It's a strange and wonderful how old memories may be dredged up by returning to something old. In my case, they come from a re-playing of the old game CyClones (which I haven't played in many years indeed, I believe): miscellaneous memories (levels, half-watching ReBoot, waving my character's gun to the music, perhaps more yet); vivid, sweet and immaterial, like banks of inwardly-glowing clouds through which I pass as I run through the levels...

edited 26th Dec '12 4:51:26 PM by ArsThaumaturgis

My Games & Writing
MorwenEdhelwen Aussie Tolkien freak from Sydney, Australia Since: Jul, 2012
Aussie Tolkien freak
#146038: Dec 26th 2012 at 5:42:45 PM

"Evita, why are you wiping my butt?!" -Che

edited 26th Dec '12 5:43:24 PM by MorwenEdhelwen

The road goes ever on. -Tolkien
Ultimatum Disasturbator from Second Star to the left (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Disasturbator
#146039: Dec 27th 2012 at 10:48:57 AM

Ghost trick is too much fun,and the best part is;for the first time,I don't want to have the plot spoiled,but I get this urge to take a peek..resisting it right now.

Also I got Settlers 3 for Chirstmas,and it runs on my laptop!(although I had to install a patch to get it running!

New theme music also a box
SBaneN The True Shane from Somewhere calm Since: Nov, 2012
The True Shane
#146040: Dec 27th 2012 at 10:56:01 AM

I spoil everything. I make Walking Spoiler take a new meaning, I guess.

I just spoil everything, although here I don't because I'm afraid I'll get in trouble. Better safe than sorry, after all.

...

I think I use that phrase too much surprised

(This post will probably reveal the truth.)
MagicLaser missing since 1998 from higher than this Since: Jul, 2012
missing since 1998
#146041: Dec 28th 2012 at 1:07:34 AM

tvtropes, 4chan, Torweb, etc.

I am the ashtray wasp. Hiss hiss sting.

sometimes I feel like I know you from somewhere any information please call 555....
MagicLaser missing since 1998 from higher than this Since: Jul, 2012
missing since 1998
#146042: Dec 28th 2012 at 2:21:07 AM

Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not real.

sometimes I feel like I know you from somewhere any information please call 555....
SBaneN The True Shane from Somewhere calm Since: Nov, 2012
The True Shane
#146043: Dec 28th 2012 at 2:28:50 AM

People telling me that everything is an illusion really managed to get me so depressed right now -_-

It gives me nightmares...

edited 28th Dec '12 5:49:30 AM by SBaneN

(This post will probably reveal the truth.)
PretentiousSkyCat Since: Dec, 2012
#146044: Dec 28th 2012 at 3:37:08 AM

[up][up] Happens to me too. Most of the time I just acknowledge the fact that there is a good chance that I'm just a character in a fictional work. Never thought of myself as the main character. I don't know why.

And I constantly try to break the fourth wall, you know, just in case. (wink, wink)

[up] Aww, cheer up. It really wouldn't change anything, if it was true. Humanity(or what we think is humanity) will keep on moving as it did, does, and will do.

I realize that I'm probably making it worse. I'm sorry if I am. And not if I'm not, but you already know that, duh.

To the waking world I say,"Aha!"
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#146045: Dec 28th 2012 at 5:05:09 AM

If my life is a television programme, it would have been axed by the network by now. I think the "teenage boy growing up, finding love, hating family, dicking with friends" storyline is a bit old.tongue

PeacefulApocalypse from Planet Fastoon Since: Oct, 2012
#146046: Dec 28th 2012 at 5:10:18 AM

However, there is always the wide range of other characters that can get their own spin off. Like me, for instance.

ಠ_ಠ
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#146047: Dec 28th 2012 at 5:13:07 AM

You and I would make good characters in a film. I'm sure our adventures together would be much fun.

PeacefulApocalypse from Planet Fastoon Since: Oct, 2012
#146048: Dec 28th 2012 at 5:15:32 AM

And my depression would be taken to extreme levels.

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KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
literary masochist
#146049: Dec 28th 2012 at 5:27:36 AM

If my life were a show, it'd probably be in the middle of a montage right now.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
Until further notice
#146050: Dec 28th 2012 at 5:29:44 AM

The network once promised that my life would be back after a word from their sponsors. Then they pulled it off the air and started playing reruns.

Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.

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