



TVTropes, which started as an offshoot of a Joss Whedon messageboard


Locke wrote:TVTropes, which started as an offshoot of a Joss Whedon messageboard
Originally Posted by rorymac View Post
What's wrong with people supporting gays?

waldojeffers1 wrote:http://www.someplacesomewhere.com/viewt ... =5&t=34723
This is funny, funny stuff. 19 young, middle-eastern Muslim men fly planes into buildings, ergo, we must have people take nudie pics of Lutheran grannies at the airport, and, on occasion, feel them up. Most people seem incapable of piercing the absurdity masquerading as logic. Benny Hill and Monty Python didn't even come remotely close to the humor provided by the buffoons in Washington.
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Jeremy wrote:You might know that TVTropes sucks, but do you recognize the fact that it's a den of pedophiles?
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3470622
I genuinely hate SomethingAwful and whenever one of them has their views on literature it's garbage but yeah, the TVTropes thing is an amazing singularity of drama and pedophilia.

ottbot wrote:God that album.

ottbot wrote:God that album.

Jeremy wrote:You might know that TVTropes sucks, but do you recognize the fact that it's a den of pedophiles?
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3470622
I genuinely hate SomethingAwful and whenever one of them has their views on literature it's garbage but yeah, the TVTropes thing is an amazing singularity of drama and pedophilia.

This troper took a few levels when, after years of being a Woobie so pitiful Shinji would say what the heck is wrong with you, I had enough of a girl I liked always going for this tall, blond guy. When they were talking right in front of me in the street and holding arms and talking and all that, I said, "Shut. The. Hell. Up." The boy looks around and walks over, trying to look menacing. Martial arts studies come in. I take a punch to the forehead and then slide under and punch him in the stomach, he goes backwards and I land another one to his face. I then go berserk and full body tackle him. He managed to crawl away, and say, "That kid...is inhuman!" Another level was taken when I knocked a knife out of Joseph Stubb's hand
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ottbot wrote:God that album.

I was just revisiting boards I posted on awhile back, was surprised at the amount of hate against the, "My parents give me $6,000 in NYC..." gal and the apparent obsession on this board, topped only by hotness and race, with the fact that these girls are rich and privileged.
There is nothing necessarily noble about working for a living. For example, I knew an artist; let's call him "Dude." Painted surfboards and murals, lived off his parents. Lots of people gave him a lot of grief over it, of course, until one day his parents cut him off. Now he drives a Pepsi Cola delivery truck, is fat and depressed, but people respect him because he "works for a living."
I've worked for a living my whole life. Most of college off loans, not one penny from my parents, so I'm exactly the opposite of the 1%, but jealousy is just an ugly, pointless emotion.
Last year, after 9 years of 50 to 60 hour weeks, I had saved up enough to take a year off. Everyone commends me for this, because I EARNED THAT MONEY. I'm travelling around the world, and running into a lot of rich travelers who did not earn their money, and you know what? I don't feel the least bit superior to them. Some of them put me to shame; they really know how to enjoy their lives, while I'm kinda drowning in all this free time. In Sept, I go back to my old job.
In America, we obsess over the self-made man. "Dude" isn't a better person now that he has a job. We have this desire to feel noble and gritty and beleaguered and special, and since most of the people we know are like us, work for a living, we unleash that sense of nobility and superiority anywhere we can manage, like the one rich friend we have, or message boards on Girls. This show is about so many things, but I fear that all a lot of people will see, particularly because of the opening episode, is a show about people richer than them.

You are profoundly intelligent for recognizing this meme in our society, more so for having been a part of majority who works, and not the minority who doesn't. I applaud you for having the critical thinking skills and intellect to draw this conclusion. It is VERY rare, though, that anyone on here (or anywhere) will agree with you.
I'm 30 and currently being supported by my parents full time. I do have a bit of savings but that goes mostly to my credit card bills and when I go out. I don't feel better or worse than any person who must work for a living. I only feel fortunate. My parents are retired but they were hard workers and had good jobs and saved. They're not rich by any means but I'd say we're upper middle class. I do NOT feel that my parents *owe* it to me to pay my way. I have a Masters degree but physical limitations combined with a poor economy (combined, I admit, with about 33.3% laziness) put me right now at being unemployed. But like I said before, I don't feel better or worse than the next girl, just fortunate. And I don't think people less fortunate should spite me for my fortune.

Oroku wrote:You are profoundly intelligent for recognizing this meme in our society, more so for having been a part of majority who works, and not the minority who doesn't. I applaud you for having the critical thinking skills and intellect to draw this conclusion. It is VERY rare, though, that anyone on here (or anywhere) will agree with you.
I'm 30 and currently being supported by my parents full time.

A sequence I want to see, just once, in a movie set in ancient rome
Someone climbs the steps of an insula, puts a key into a lock, and turns it.
That's it.
Is anyone with me?

