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RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - MaxieSatan - 08-17-2013 (08-17-2013, 01:47 PM)Superfrequency Wrote: » Boneless Wyngz: Legally Speaking, If We Don't Spell It "Wings," We're Not Saying It Came From An Actual Bird's Actual Wing™ RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - BRPXQZME - 08-17-2013 I am not sure why I wrote that. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Stovie - 08-18-2013 Just set the new message box to default to full-screen mode. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Granolaman - 08-18-2013 I'm weird and send my gmail account to microsoft outlook. Plenty of buttons over here. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - AgentBlue - 08-18-2013 I've used Thunderbird, as far as I know it's still viable to use it with the latest version of Gmail and it's a pretty good system. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Akumu - 08-18-2013 (08-18-2013, 06:17 AM)Superfrequency Wrote: »It should not take three clicks to italicize text in a rich text editor. I'm just gonna give Thunderbird a go. Not trying to talk you out of looking at other options, but you can just Ctrl-I for italics, and similar for at least bolding and underlining. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - BRPXQZME - 08-18-2013 The Ctrl key shortcuts were never supposed to cause emacs pinky. A pox on whoever decided it should! (Apple is always giving me more and more reasons to stop giving them business every year, but the fact that they haven’t moved the ⌘ key is in and of itself a pretty compelling reason to stay.) RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Coldblooded - 08-19-2013 (08-18-2013, 08:25 PM)Wheat Wrote: »Giant Eagle is a regional entity! When I first went into eastern Pennsylvania, I was oddened to find that it there was a supermarket with the exact same signage of Giant Eagle, but without the Eagle. A very sad state of affairs indeed. No American should be forced to live without more eagles in their lives. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Kíeros - 08-19-2013 The best part of LA is "its"1 AL baseball team. The Los Angeles2 Angels3 of Anaheim4. And yes, I am aware the conversation has moved on past this, but I am so annoyed with this I just have to get it out. 1: Actually in Anaheim. 2: False; see 1. 3: Redundant; Los Angeles = The Angels, so it's The The Angels Angels. 4: Contradictory; How can they be in both Los Angeles and Anaheim? RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - weirdee - 08-19-2013 i'm just delighted to find out that there is a chain of stores called "Giant Eagle" which have nothing to do with giant eagles so everybody acts like it's normal i will also comment that it seems like the same-ification thing happened to China when it decided to become modern by making a whole bunch of identical looking buildings with storefronts and billboards in them and then all of the cities copied each other RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Stij - 08-19-2013 We should change the name of the forum to Giant Eagle Time and rake in those sponsorship $$$ RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - ICan'tGiveCredit - 08-20-2013 Stij, I think that is illegal and is one of the prime (*beef) reasons that Mad Men needed a permit to use Coca-Cola in their show! *We are now offering prime beef ribs on sale as well as whole grain Kellog's in the cereal aisle! Buy Now! -Giant Eagle Time RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Gnauga - 08-20-2013 Can we make Giant Eagle Time a skin option, where all the font sizes are doubled? RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Nopad - 08-20-2013 Come to the Silicon Valley! It's like San Francisco without all the cold and fog, but with all the tech jobs and that devastating earthquake coming in the next few years that we're all just ignoring! (At least it only took us 23 years to (temporarily) repair our most vital piece of infrastructure!) e: also we have it's-its RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Nopad - 08-20-2013 what about my jokes about "south san francisco: the industrial cityland" RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - BRPXQZME - 08-20-2013 As Bodhi (or not) said to Shinji-san in the floating world of indeterminate duration: y/n, n/y. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - MaxieSatan - 08-20-2013 (08-20-2013, 11:55 AM)Superfrequency Wrote: »I have ascended into the top five most prolific human posters on this board, knocking MrGuy into sixth place. Of the top five, I am the only one to not post in any creative writing or game threads, meaning all of my content is meaningless blather in this forum.Fuck, I've lapsed. I've let you all down. This is the end of an era. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Jacquerel - 08-21-2013 RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - BRPXQZME - 08-21-2013 Not to be confused with Absolutwurst, a physically impossible form of sausage. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Stij - 08-21-2013 Alternatively: An awful flavored vodka. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Infrared - 08-27-2013 I think it's because people don't want to be alone, also regular, non-passionate people have regular interests so they can find something to talk about with most people. Also because that's a thing "normal" people do and so it shouldn't be questioned. I was just thinking the other day about attractive people that are terrible and how weird they make me feel. E: I don't disagree with you, i hate small talk. I remember reading something about introverted and extroverted people and how their brains were wired differently and that caused people to behave differently but i'm lazy and i don't want to look it up. It also said something about the percentage of introverted vs extroverted being something like 20 to 80%, so there you go, you're part of another minority. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Jacquerel - 08-27-2013 I don't think I know anyone that I don't share at least one mutual interest with but that mutual interest was more of an introductory point than the sole topic on which we talk. When people are talking about things I am entirely not interested in then it is usually in a group setting and I can just tune out or switch to a different IRC room until the conversation turns back to something I actually have opinions about or want to know more about, or to make asinine jokes taking the previous line of conversation out of context. But I'd say yeah I usually enjoy people for their company rather than interests then? Having both is good but a lot of the people I regularly associate with I do so because they talk about things that are interesting or funny or in some other way entertaining but not necessarily related to something I do personally. I don't think I actually spend much time talking about my hobbies and interests at all really. I only talk to like two people one-on-one on a regular basis though so in that way I guess I'm not sure I'm quite talking along the same lines as you are. If I need to fill a silence when it's just me and someone else I dry up pretty quickly. That doesn't mean I don't count the people I don't regularly talk to on their own as friends though? I have a lot of people I'd even regard as close friends that I just never seek out to talk to on their own because I'm not good at that. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Infrared - 08-27-2013 But how can you enjoy someone's company if you have absolutely no reason to care about them in any meaningful way? Like, what do you do? Just stare at each other? You have to talk about something you're interested in, right? RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Coldblooded - 08-27-2013 (08-27-2013, 09:50 AM)Ed Wrote: »I remember reading something about introverted and extroverted people and how their brains were wired differently and that caused people to behave differently but i'm lazy and i don't want to look it up. It also said something about the percentage of introverted vs extroverted being something like 20 to 80%, so there you go, you're part of another minority. I'm not sure where exactly you heard that statistic, but I probably wouldn't want to trust anything else from that source in the future if I were you. The actual percentage is a lot closer to 50-50. (The Myers-Briggs website was the most reliable looking source I find, and it claims introverts as being 50.7% of the population to extroverts' mere 49.3%) The problem of course, is that for people on the far end of the introvert bellcurve, (such as myself and probably a good number of other people on this site for instance) even the "moderate" introverts tend to look a lot like extroverts. Which is probably the same part of the population where most of the ~15-20% estimates come from. RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff - Jacquerel - 08-27-2013 Shared interests are a good way to meet people but I can definitely still be interested in watching people talk about things they are interested in but I'm not? I also really don't think shared interests can be described as "the only meaningful reason to care about someone"... Frankly I am usually a passive rather than active conversational partner in the first place, I just react to people rather than raising my own topics unless I have some burning question or problem I need solving. A lot of people I know are witting or funny or interesting or passionate almost regardless of what they are talking about and this makes for a fun conversation even if it is one in which I am playing the role of someone who doesn't even know what they are talking about let alone have any particular investment in it. Shared interests aren't the only conversational topic which it is possible to bond over, people can talk about what they did in the day, what they are planning to do, how they are feeling... Those don't last very long as subjects of themselves but they branch out once you get going (which is easier and more likely when there is more than one person you are talking to, which is why that is what I do more commonly) and you share anecdotes and make dumb inside jokes and make people laugh. Making people laugh is fun, I can do that regardless of whether I am interested in the particular topic they are talking about. e: I have a terrible habit of rereading and editing posts I make at least three times and I swear people are already replying to the original version by the time I'm satisfied, I should probably think things through before hitting Submit. |