Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"You can't gatekeep me, I'm gatekeeping you!"

 

[billd91]

Passive aggressive? Ain't no passive about it.

 

[RealAlHazred]

About a week before Christmas, the local water company here sent me a robocall to let me know they were aware of odor and taste issues with my local water. My wife is hypersensitive to those things and hasn't noticed any issues. They have called every day since then to let me know they are continuing testing and have not found any issues. Today, they robocalled five times to tell me there is no news.

With increasing automation in our daily lives, this is only going to get worse. This is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with an endless series of increasingly unnecessary and frequent robocalls.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If a subject is going to trigger you, maybe skip those threads.

 

[Deset Gled]

If a subject is going to trigger you, maybe skip those threads.

But then how will I let everyone know that I'm triggered?

 

[trappedslider]

You realize that idiots will still do idiotic things right?

 

[overgeeked]

I just love being told what I've been doing at the gaming table for 40 years is not possible.

As always around here, "It works in practice but it doesn't work in theory."

 

[Velderan]

I just love being told what I've been doing at the gaming table for 40 years is not possible.

As always around here, "It works in practice but it doesn't work in theory."

Basically. I don’t mind people explaining why something didn’t work for their table, but when people go a step beyond that to proclaim something is impossible to have happened because it didn’t happen for them it gets a bit tiresome.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Basically. I don’t mind people explaining why something didn’t work for their table, but when people go a step beyond that to proclaim something is impossible to have happened because it didn’t happen for them it gets a bit tiresome.

That's why the worst I'll ever do is say "I can't think that's at all common", but you'll never hear "Never happens" out of me; there's too much variance in people for that not to be a fool's game.

 

[prabe]

That's why the worst I'll ever do is say "I can't think that's at all common", but you'll never hear "Never happens" out of me; there's too much variance in people for that not to be a fool's game.

I might go as far as "I've never seen that," but it's aiming at similar points, I think--though I do prefer to deploy that when what I've never seen is a thing someone says is inevitable.