Random.

JCC · 10-02-2008, 08:59 AM

I'm fed up of people fucking murdering this word. "Oh I'm so random, I throw straws at people and say funny words like 'jizzbrain'"

That's not random!

Something that is random is an effect without a cause, and that can't even fucking happen. Doing something that your stupid friends would classify as 'random' is actually not random at all, because you meant to do it all along.

I hate people who say random. Hate hate hate.

stolide · 10-02-2008, 09:07 AM

I only ever knew one person that was close to random, and that was for one day... He rolled percentile dice to decide his every decision... It was quite funny especially when he responded to questions with phrase that had nothing at all to do with what was asked.

That wasn't really random, but it was the closest thing I've seen.

Other than that I heartily agree with you.

Mir · 10-02-2008, 09:07 AM

I'm so random.

Slap Your Love · 10-02-2008, 10:10 AM

Oh Mir you're so random.

Solumina · 10-02-2008, 10:51 AM

I use the word random quite a bit, though it is generally in reference to statistical data that I am collecting and/or analyzing so it is actually supposed to be randomized, does that still mean you hate me?

JCC · 10-02-2008, 10:52 AM

It means I hate that you use the word random, but I could never hate you.

Solumina · 10-02-2008, 11:18 AM

Yay, I promise to keep the word random in my stats and psych classes

a morbid curiosity · 10-02-2008, 11:29 AM

My friend's sister says "That's totally random" CONSTANTLY, and shrugs her shoulders as if to reinforce the epic randomness of her statement.

It irritated us so much we started mimicking her every time she did it, and now we keep accidentally misusing the word "random" and we feel really ashamed of ourselves.

She's also one of those people that says "literally" all the time. Grr.

Saya · 10-02-2008, 11:43 AM

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She's also one of those people that says "literally" all the time. Grr.

I really hate when people say that. A friend of mine did it for a long time until I started saying "Yeah! Not metaphorically, not symbolically, not allegorically, not figuratively, not theoretically, but literally!" every time she did it.

Joker_in_the_Pack · 10-02-2008, 12:01 PM

A piano spontaniously falling out of the sky and landing in a city park is random, a person throwing straws and saying nonsensical words is stupid. I share your anger JCC, as I've got a few friends like that.

Mir · 10-02-2008, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Slap Your Love

Oh Mir you're so random.

Oh HappySlap, you make me hot under the collar.

honeythorn · 10-02-2008, 12:14 PM

You didn't answer my text. Bitch

gothicusmaximus · 10-02-2008, 01:21 PM

I don't hate people who use the word random, just people who use it incorrectly. A statement or occurrence can be random, but an individual can't. If you and your friends are talking about baseball and suddenly you scream "MELLONSQUIRTS", you have just made a random interjection, but neither you nor your gratingly insipid, contrived personality is 'random'. Relatedly, you're a piece of shit.

Corpsey · 10-02-2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by gothicusmaximus

If you and your friends are talking about baseball and suddenly you scream "MELLONSQUIRTS", you have just made a random interjection, but neither you nor your gratingly insipid, contrived personality is 'random'. Relatedly, you're a piece of shit.

Are you refering to people who jump out with unexpected phrases or friends communicating with esoteric references?

What jibes me less is how people restrict their vocabulary with just one phrase to describe a situation with just the word 'random'. Hell, for any occasion they could use "bizzare/odd/queer" but instead limit it to just 'random'. Ih.

dabbadmc · 10-02-2008, 02:08 PM

God, I completely agree. It annoys the fuck out of me. My friend uses it in about every other sentence. Calling something random means that it is not random anymore...and don't get me started on 'randomness.' >.>

JCC · 10-02-2008, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by gothicusmaximus

I don't hate people who use the word random, just people who use it incorrectly. A statement or occurrence can be random, but an individual can't. If you and your friends are talking about baseball and suddenly you scream "MELLONSQUIRTS", you have just made a random interjection, but neither you nor your gratingly insipid, contrived personality is 'random'. Relatedly, you're a piece of shit.

That interjection would not be random unless absolutely no cognitive processes went into saying "MELLONSQUIRTS", which is an impossibility. By contemplating it, it becomes a choice, and NOT a random effect.

Joker_in_the_Pack · 10-02-2008, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by JCC

That interjection would not be random unless absolutely no cognitive processes went into saying "MELLONSQUIRTS", which is an impossibility. By contemplating it, it becomes a choice, and NOT a random effect.

There's a mental condition which causes people to yell out things without cognitive processes, I forget what it's called though.

gothicusmaximus · 10-02-2008, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by JCC

That interjection would not be random unless absolutely no cognitive processes went into saying "MELLONSQUIRTS", which is an impossibility. By contemplating it, it becomes a choice, and NOT a random effect.

As long at it's unsolicited and doesn't proceed logically from the conversation at hand, it's random. That's like saying the number drawn from a hat isn't randomly selected because the person who picks it has chosen to pull a number from a hat.

JCC · 10-02-2008, 02:20 PM

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There's a mental condition which causes people to yell out things without cognitive processes, I forget what it's called though.

Tourettes still wouldn't count as random though, because the processes ARE there, they're just involuntary as far as the mind of the person goes.

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As long at it's unsolicited and doesn't proceed logically from the conversation at hand, it's random. That's like saying the number drawn from a hat isn't randomly selected because the person who picks it has chosen to pull a number from a hat.

To be random is to lack order, picking a number out of a finite number of possibilities is not random.

Wednesday Friday Addams · 10-02-2008, 02:24 PM

Is anything truly random?

Joker_in_the_Pack · 10-02-2008, 02:26 PM

Random -
proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern

Randomhouse Dictionary.

JCC · 10-02-2008, 02:26 PM

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Is anything truly random?

No, which is why I have a personal vendetta with the word. The misconception that selecting a card without wanting a specific one from a deck is random is an annoying mistake, but justifiable. However, the parading around of misuse of the word by alterniteens and idiots makes me so fucking angry.

gothicusmaximus · 10-02-2008, 02:31 PM

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To be random is to lack order, picking a number out of a finite number of possibilities is not random.

I think you're transforming 'random' into some sort of unattainable ideal of pure chaos. Look it up, that's not what it is. As long as there is some element of chance involved in a process, some element in which conscious intent doesn't interfere, that process has a random component, and, likewise, any dramatic deviation from the parameters of a certain interaction, such as screaming, unprovoked, about fruit when engaged in a conversation about sports, is a random act.

MollyMac · 10-02-2008, 04:21 PM

Most people don't know the difference between ransom and arbitrary and use random because they cna pronounce it and hope that one day Webster's will list it interchangeably.

Mir · 10-02-2008, 10:31 PM

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You didn't answer my text. Bitch

I just did!