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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9000 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:19:39 »
A similar thing happened once before with him and I wrote him an email after it got to be too much for me to bear, he didn't seem to like that approach either ("too passive aggressive").

HOW IS AVOIDING CONTACT WITH YOUR EMPLOYEE NOT PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE??

Sorry for yelling, but seriously what the ****.

Seriously, that is some next level passive aggressiveness. What industry do you work in inanis?

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9001 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:21:25 »
A similar thing happened once before with him and I wrote him an email after it got to be too much for me to bear, he didn't seem to like that approach either ("too passive aggressive").

HOW IS AVOIDING CONTACT WITH YOUR EMPLOYEE NOT PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE??

Sorry for yelling, but seriously what the ****.

Seriously, that is some next level passive aggressiveness. What industry do you work in inanis?

I think, for some people, passive aggression is anything that's not direct face-to-face contact. A direct email to the person, though, I'd consider direct confrontation.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9002 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:21:33 »
**** Dave and busters. Racist mother****ers.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9003 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:22:41 »
**** Dave and busters. Racist mother****ers.

How so? I've been there a few times and never got chuffed. (I'm Latino, btw.)

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9004 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:23:34 »
**** Dave and busters. Racist mother****ers.

How so? I've been there a few times and never got chuffed. (I'm Latino, btw.)

Probably just his local ones.  They certainly don't have corporate-level racism in place (I hope! :eek: ).

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9005 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:26:19 »
A similar thing happened once before with him and I wrote him an email after it got to be too much for me to bear, he didn't seem to like that approach either ("too passive aggressive").

HOW IS AVOIDING CONTACT WITH YOUR EMPLOYEE NOT PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE??

Sorry for yelling, but seriously what the ****.

Seriously, that is some next level passive aggressiveness. What industry do you work in inanis?
I work in Operational Security, which I usually refer to as just "IT" since that is more common. As you can imagine, being in IT means our social skills are not usually high level.  :p
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9006 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:28:54 »
**** Dave and busters. Racist mother****ers.

How so? I've been there a few times and never got chuffed. (I'm Latino, btw.)

Just a bad experience. These ****ers had a security follow me around the whole night. I just felt uneasy there. Like its my fault people leave their phones for me to take (kidding).
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9007 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:42:18 »
**** Dave and busters. Racist mother****ers.

How so? I've been there a few times and never got chuffed. (I'm Latino, btw.)

Probably just his local ones.  They certainly don't have corporate-level racism in place (I hope! :eek: ).

Yeah, I figured; just wanted to know his personal experiences. Thankfully, I haven't been profiled much in my life, or at least not enough to warrant any sort of rant.
(Although someone did yell "s**c" to me once before. Didn't bother me as much as I thought it might.)

**** Dave and busters. Racist mother****ers.

How so? I've been there a few times and never got chuffed. (I'm Latino, btw.)

Just a bad experience. These ****ers had a security follow me around the whole night. I just felt uneasy there. Like its my fault people leave their phones for me to take (kidding).

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9008 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:47:35 »

Corner him in his office and ask him these exact words, "What the **** is your problem you lil *****".
He is short, so that'd really set him off. :)) On more than one occasion I have thought I should just quit because I have a hard time dealing with this. The thing is that when he is not like this, everything is wonderful. But that man harbors a grudge like no ones business. Things could go on like this for a month, or more.

She is, I must know how the boss's escapade to Dave and Buster's went! :P

edit: I missed the update lol. Sorry to hear your boss is being such a bad manager inanis. Strike when least expected :P and the gossiping? wow.
That is another incident where he got pissed off at me and stormed off. Then he never spoke of it again, even though I did try to explain myself.  Actually, now that I come to think of it, that is probably what started all of this in the first place. He has probably been mad at me since then and I only now picked up on it.

Damn, I'm slow. Good thing I have you guys.

A similar thing happened once before with him and I wrote him an email after it got to be too much for me to bear, he didn't seem to like that approach either ("too passive aggressive").

HOW IS AVOIDING CONTACT WITH YOUR EMPLOYEE NOT PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE??

Sorry for yelling, but seriously what the ****.

For real! And in the actual email contents I was super pointed. The tone of the actual content wasn't passive aggressive! This is what I mean...no matter what I do, I feel like I can't win. But only when he is in *****y mode.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9009 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:53:19 »
A similar thing happened once before with him and I wrote him an email after it got to be too much for me to bear, he didn't seem to like that approach either ("too passive aggressive").

HOW IS AVOIDING CONTACT WITH YOUR EMPLOYEE NOT PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE??

Sorry for yelling, but seriously what the ****.

Seriously, that is some next level passive aggressiveness. What industry do you work in inanis?
I work in Operational Security, which I usually refer to as just "IT" since that is more common. As you can imagine, being in IT means our social skills are not usually high level.  :p

Sounds like your boss is the sadly all too typical horrific tech "manager" with little to no management skills. The Peter Principle is usually all too evident in our field, and the company's don't really help much because his boss is probably just as bad and can't help him develop those skills either...

Ugh.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9010 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 10:15:12 »
I dunno
Sounds like some high school **** inanis
And he can't talk to you because he wants to bang you
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9011 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 11:00:15 »
My post count has been stuck at 963 for a few days. How am I supposed to know when I've hit my milestone post?!

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9012 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 11:26:06 »
My post count has been stuck at 963 for a few days. How am I supposed to know when I've hit my milestone post?!

Go to your "show posts" and go to the very last page, on the left will be the overall count of all your posts including ones that don't add onto your shown post count. This'll be my 530th post but only says 385 for me. Mainly due to classifieds and the current stoppage.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9013 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 11:36:52 »
My post count has been stuck at 963 for a few days. How am I supposed to know when I've hit my milestone post?!

Go to your "show posts" and go to the very last page, on the left will be the overall count of all your posts including ones that don't add onto your shown post count. This'll be my 530th post but only says 385 for me. Mainly due to classifieds and the current stoppage.

Dang! I hit 1000 a while ago and didn't even realize it!

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9014 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:37:03 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9015 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:39:27 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

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« Reply #9016 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:44:07 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

Can't do that anymore. Only nice demik now.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9017 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:44:27 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

careful, don't want to have your post removed.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9018 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:47:20 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

careful, don't want to have your post removed.

:rolleyes: :|

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9019 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 13:40:40 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

careful, don't want to have your post removed.

:rolleyes: :|

I jest, it's different to **** talking... promise
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9020 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 13:49:13 »
If you can't call your mate a worthless **** and constantly ask him/her to kill themselfs, then what the hell kind of friends are you?

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9021 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:36:09 »
**** everything

So remember that game I was looking for and wanted, well I ordered it yesterday now I just got a email saying in December they will be rerunning the game for another limited release K thanks should of waited another day .-. never mind its on its way to me just annoyed since the one I eventually got is german (just the box not the game it switches to english :p ) but I have a order for this on amazon now anyway for £24 hopefully I can get that then sell this german copy for £20-25 fyi I ended up paying £40 for the german one :X


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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9022 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:37:31 »
**** everything

So remember that game I was looking for and wanted, well I ordered it yesterday now I just got a email saying in December they will be rerunning the game for another limited release K thanks should of waited another day .-. never mind its on its way to me just annoyed since the one I eventually got is german (just the box not the game it switches to english :p ) but I have a order for this on amazon now anyway for £24 hopefully I can get that then sell this german copy for £20-25 fyi I ended up paying £40 for the german one :X


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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9023 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:50:55 »
**** everything

So remember that game I was looking for and wanted, well I ordered it yesterday now I just got a email saying in December they will be rerunning the game for another limited release K thanks should of waited another day .-. never mind its on its way to me just annoyed since the one I eventually got is german (just the box not the game it switches to english :p ) but I have a order for this on amazon now anyway for £24 hopefully I can get that then sell this german copy for £20-25 fyi I ended up paying £40 for the german one :X


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Project Mirai DX, I was looking for a good two months now for a PAL copy, which was made but in super low amounts unlike the US release I just I mean JUST last night at 11.47PM ordered one from Germany with the help of a lovely friend and now got a email for a sale or some newsletter and as I'm happyily reading down see that its up for order for another run in December ;-; I'm not even mad its being rerun but made that I now know I have a german copy with the german box on its way to me when I could get a UK box .-.

I just going to play it then sell the german one when I get the Uk release .-.


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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9024 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:54:12 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

careful, don't want to have your post removed.

:rolleyes: :|

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I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9025 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:55:48 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

careful, don't want to have your post removed.

:rolleyes: :|

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9026 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:57:11 »
What do they call banter in Russia?
"Speech".
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I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9027 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:57:25 »
I'm upset about being sick and miserable right now. Also some bull**** going down in my religious community of origin at the moment.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9028 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:57:26 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

careful, don't want to have your post removed.

:rolleyes: :|

I jest, it's different to **** talking... promise
Otherwise called banter which may confuse everyone outside of the UK
Breaking news: other countries also have banter.

Shut the front door, news to me. Here I thought us Americans are uptight with no sense of humor.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9029 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:58:55 »
I'm upset about being sick and miserable right now. Also some bull**** going down in my religious community of origin at the moment.
Yuck on both fronts. Hope you get to feeling better and if you ever wanna chat about the other hit me up.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9030 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 15:00:51 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

careful, don't want to have your post removed.

:rolleyes: :|

I jest, it's different to **** talking... promise
Otherwise called banter which may confuse everyone outside of the UK
Breaking news: other countries also have banter.

Shut the front door, news to me. Here I thought us Americans are uptight with no sense of humor.
It's quite possibly all countries besides the USA.
(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9031 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 15:27:51 »
Bored out of my mind at work today. Where is all the **** posting?

careful, don't want to have your post removed.

:rolleyes: :|

I jest, it's different to **** talking... promise
Otherwise called banter which may confuse everyone outside of the UK
Breaking news: other countries also have banter.

Shut the front door, news to me. Here I thought us Americans are uptight with no sense of humor.
It's quite possibly all countries besides the USA.
To be fair I honestly just thought it was a UK thing to call your best mate a **** for no reason, maybe not then
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9032 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 15:35:26 »
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9033 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 16:26:18 »
I'm upset about being sick and miserable right now. Also some bull**** going down in my religious community of origin at the moment.

:(  Hope you feel better soon, hash.

Also, nice new avatar.  :)

Breaking news: other countries also have banter.

Shut the front door, news to me. Here I thought us Americans are uptight with no sense of humor.
It's quite possibly all countries besides the USA.
To be fair I honestly just thought it was a UK thing to call your best mate a **** for no reason, maybe not then

We don't use the word "****" all that much, but we do call our friends mean names all the time.  :P

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« Reply #9034 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 16:35:10 »
My boss just banned me from using my SSK for the next 5 business days...

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9035 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 16:37:09 »
I'm upset about being sick and miserable right now. Also some bull**** going down in my religious community of origin at the moment.

:(  Hope you feel better soon, hash.

Also, nice new avatar.  :)

Breaking news: other countries also have banter.

Shut the front door, news to me. Here I thought us Americans are uptight with no sense of humor.
It's quite possibly all countries besides the USA.
To be fair I honestly just thought it was a UK thing to call your best mate a **** for no reason, maybe not then

We don't use the word "****" all that much, but we do call our friends mean names all the time.  :P
Phew, even Murica is in the list.
(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9036 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 17:10:25 »
it was a UK thing to call your best mate a **** for no reason,

Probably like the way it is OK for black people to call each other "nigger" but if a white person does it, it is a major insult.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9037 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 17:27:24 »
We've talked about the word **** on this forum before. It's just not used as much in the US, and carries a harsher feel. It's not that we don't swear a lot, we ****in do. It's just we don't tend to use that word casually.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9038 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 17:43:54 »
it was a UK thing to call your best mate a **** for no reason,

Probably like the way it is OK for black people to call each other "nigger" but if a white person does it, it is a major insult.


nah.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9039 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 17:51:07 »
We've talked about the word **** on this forum before. It's just not used as much in the US, and carries a harsher feel. It's not that we don't swear a lot, we ****in do. It's just we don't tend to use that word casually.
Ohh wait is it against the forum rule? sorry if so, personally I didn't even know it carried much of a offence as its used more or less everyday here
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9040 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 18:02:07 »
We've talked about the word **** on this forum before. It's just not used as much in the US, and carries a harsher feel. It's not that we don't swear a lot, we ****in do. It's just we don't tend to use that word casually.
Ohh wait is it against the forum rule? sorry if so, personally I didn't even know it carried much of a offence as its used more or less everyday here

It's not specifically against forum rules to use the word ****. Just be aware that people in other parts of the world have different understandings of the severity of words. :)

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9041 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 18:08:42 »
Demik was right.
(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9042 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 18:13:59 »
No, he’s not around. How that sound to ya? Jot it down.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9043 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 18:15:12 »
Demik seems upset lately I don't know why.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9044 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 18:17:11 »
and it doesnt matter
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9045 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 18:39:31 »
Got involved in a discussion and had the contrary opinion to the user's post, cireclejerk ensued, can't have an opinion in this world.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9046 on: Fri, 06 November 2015, 19:54:44 »
I knew "****" was on Carlin's 7 Dirty Words List, but I didn't know it was unacceptable anywhere in the US. I mean, "****" is about as naughty an insult as "fool", so it ought to naturally follow...

I guess it's one of those weird regional things.

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9047 on: Sat, 07 November 2015, 00:10:48 »
Got involved in a discussion and had the contrary opinion to the user's post, cireclejerk ensued, can't have an opinion in this world.

tell me more about it son

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9048 on: Sat, 07 November 2015, 00:50:52 »
Got involved in a discussion and had the contrary opinion to the user's post, cireclejerk ensued, can't have an opinion in this world.

tell me more about it son

Naaaaaaaaaaaah, it's pretty pointless. Circlejerk may have involved Fallout 4 though.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #9049 on: Sat, 07 November 2015, 00:59:11 »
Got involved in a discussion and had the contrary opinion to the user's post, cireclejerk ensued, can't have an opinion in this world.

tell me more about it son

Naaaaaaaaaaaah, it's pretty pointless. Circlejerk may have involved Fallout 4 though.

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