The New Thread About Nothing

[Versus]

I thought we established this.

[Saya]

I didn't think we did! I don't even know how you feel in terms of adoption vs fostering!




So I'm doing homework about media depictions of the paranormal vs belief in the paranormal, and while I think there's more to it than suggested (for example the conclusion of the particular study we're reading is that belief in the paranormal is positively correlated to exposure to the paranormal in media, provided you do not have any previous personal experience to the paranormal, but I'm thinking you need to have some cultural basis for what is absorbed. For example belief in fairies is pretty common here despite little media about it, and shows and movies about witches hasn't necessarily made a lot of people believe in witchcraft), it does kinda creep me out that we absorb beliefs from the media like that. I think I'm going to see if I can dig up similar studies in terms of bigotry (sexism, racism, transphobia, etc) vs media portrayals, it sadly wouldn't really surprise me.

[Acharis]

I saw a hilarious gif and was going to post it, but reconsidered due to risk of getting eye sporked.

[Geoluhread]

I missed this forum :/

[Catch]

I don't think fostering an alien mean becoming a guardian of an extraterrestrial.

[Timeless Rebellion]

Geo! Welcome back.
You came in the middle of a spamwave, but I hope you stick around

[BourbonBoy]

So I was finally able to reinstall Firefox and after getting rid of Chrome, they got their panties in a twist. After filling out why I didn't want to use them anymore, my malware software, in all it's great paranoia, said that Google likes to leave you with some malicious software.

Way to go Google, you act like a psycho former lover.

Greetings Geo! Come to the treehouse, we have lots of cookies and sweet loving pitbulls

[TheLonelyGhost]

I bought Gummy Bears today at the grocery store. Gosh, I love these candies. I can't stop eating them! =D

[Acharis]

They are. I need to buy some and give them a vodka soak ^_^


I can get behind these punctuation marks. I would probably use all of them on Gnet.
http://www.collegehumor.com/article/...ctuation-marks

[Timeless Rebellion]

People suck.
The worst part about them is that they exist.

Disclaimer: This naturally does not include people on GNet. You guys are amazeballs.

[Geoluhread]

Thanks Timeless and BourbonBoy. I noticed the activity going on the Facebook group, and I noticed there's still some people I recognise so why the hell not

If you'd like to listen to something for the lulz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3E6jH6iP5I

[Timeless Rebellion]

Did I mention? I loathe group work, at least at school....

I did not whip up a bad design to exaggerate.
This was an actual "product" from our last assignment held up against an early sketch of my portfolio.

In this group project, I was locked out from touching our code on day two.

For some reason, our "group leader" decided that because he was six months ahead of me in terms of time spent at school, I knew nothing about anything and should therefore shut up and keep my nose out of our project.

Needless to say, when all was said and done, he did not turn out to be very good at anything other than polishing his massive ego.

When we finished our project, we had a "product" that sucked so hard that any professional vacuum cleaning company would come up and ask us how we managed that.

I could have fixed a great number of our flaws had I only been allowed to touch our product and not bullied into shutting up.
Also, our design would not have looked like it came from "Top 10 Worst Websites on the Internet" -.-

*SIGHS*
I hate group work, ok?

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Timeless Rebellion

People suck.
The worst part about them is that they exist.

Disclaimer: This naturally does not include people on GNet. You guys are amazeballs.

Oh sweetie, if you keep thinking people suck then that's all they will do. Try and be positive like:

Yes, there are dickheads in this world... or even more positive - maybe they are having a bad day too...

Although I personally think there are a lot of dickheads in this world, and my job is to learn how to ignore them.

Turning my issues of people not supporting me in my new business venture, into fuel for my internal fire, to drive me forward, onward and upward.

[Timeless Rebellion]

I think we should just start introducing the people who suck to the dickheads </belowthewaistjoke>

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Timeless Rebellion

I think we should just start introducing the people who suck to the dickheads </belowthewaistjoke>

*sighs* Oh that joke was terrible :-D

[Miss Absynthe]

I'm coughing up green and red... because CHRISTMAS!

Also because I'm sick.

But.. CHRISTMAS!!

[Timeless Rebellion]

Fruity: I know, right? :P We're awesome like that!

Also:


Did this just happen????

[Timeless Rebellion]

Sorry for the double post, but...

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/31/...meme-to-movie/

Are we going to talk about this or pass it by in silence???

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Timeless Rebellion

Fruity: I know, right? :P We're awesome like that!

Also:


Did this just happen????

We are the definition of awesome.

13 days til Christmas. Friday the 13th tomorrow. What a treat to be surrounded with a lucky number.

So do you think that if you think positively about your goals, say 80% of the time, the other 10-15% your brain is thinking about having tea with ape, and the last 5% of the time, your brain is cussing all the stupid things that people do, well, do you think that counts as positive thinking?



TR... I warned you that cats were going to rule the world... In that movie, they will use some crazy cat mind control powers, you know the sort that have you rushing out of the house, to buy cat food at 10pm at night because kitty won't have any breakfast in the morning if you don't....They will have the entire audience trained up to be their army of servants...

... sigh.. I've spent too much time away from my creative writing pursuits....I'm making up stories about everything...

[Timeless Rebellion]

... so, we are going to be ruled by kitty overlords? I can deal with that :P

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Timeless Rebellion

... so, we are going to be ruled by kitty overlords? I can deal with that :P

Well That's okay for some of us... but for me, I'll be on the kitty litter duty.

[Solumina]

Anna and Kyle have their loaner furniture so they are out of their house, which makes me super happy. They are great people but getting settled is so much easier without extra people here.

Also painting really makes it feel more like home, I just wish that I had gotten an edger before doing the living room because tape did not do the trick thanks to the orange peel texture (I still have no idea why so many rental places use that stuff, it's awful), oh well I got one before doing any of the other rooms.

[TheLonelyGhost]

Well today has been going well for me today, I have a slight headache that won't seem to go away right now. Right now I feel completely relaxed, I haven't done much today but it feels good. For the last past weeks I've done nothing but freak out over things. Today it's finally nice to sit back and do absolutely nothing for once.

[Solumina]

We went to Costco today to get stuff for Christmas dinner and thankfully it wasn't mobbed, really glad we were able to go today and not wait until tomorrow.

[Azrath]

I was just told that Twilight was a legitimate movie franchise. my options are A sarcasm, B hit with him a text wall about every possible way Twilight is NOT a good film, or C walk away in utter disgust. any suggestions? I'm thinkin' A or C..