Shit that pisses you off, part II

[Feynman]

Oct 27, 2012 9:07:19 GMT -5 Super Orbus said:

Get a cat. That'll clear that right up.

I have two! They aren't nearly as effective as you might think! Oh sure, they keep mice away, and every now and then a bird gets a nasty surprise, but my cats seem perfectly happy to mostly ignore the spiders.

[TheGunheart]

Admittedly, multiple visits to www.bogleech.com have kinda left me desensitized of spiders. It's kinda comforting to know that aren't nearly as dangerous as popular opinion makes them out to be.

[The Great Klaid]

We get boxelder bugs, which come in droves. They cover they outside of our house... I couldn't exist with big spiders in my house. I have debilitating Arachnophobia. I can't even see pictures of them....

[Super Orbus]

Oct 27, 2012 17:35:13 GMT -5 Feynman said:

Oct 27, 2012 9:07:19 GMT -5 Super Orbus said:

Get a cat. That'll clear that right up.

I have two! They aren't nearly as effective as you might think! Oh sure, they keep mice away, and every now and then a bird gets a nasty surprise, but my cats seem perfectly happy to mostly ignore the spiders.

Hrm. Mine usually makes short work of them. Although there have also been times where he'll just stare blankly at bugs and not do anything. So go figure.

Also, hopefully they're not like this. Their legspan is apparently 5 1/2 inches:

SPOILER: Click to show

EDIT: Alright, alright. I decided not to scare klaid and put spoiler tags around the picture.

[thethird]

Christ, I really hope klaid doesn't come back into this thread. Brrr.

[Deleted]

He shouldn't watch "The Beyond", ever.

The concept of spider fangs piercing my flesh is what bothers me the most about them. I have held tarantulas though, they're kind of cute and cuddly (although fragile...apparently if you drop them they die painfully).

[Ike]

www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/sf2e7/i_sent_gabe_newell_a_question_about_what_his_life/c4dmknx

It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.

That said.

In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.

An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.

My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.

I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).

I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.

Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.

I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.

I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.

I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.

I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.

I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.

I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.

The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.

I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.

That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).

I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).

And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.

All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?

[Deleted]

Funny you bring that up. Reddit and people that use it are among the things that piss me off. I'm glad that one troll got outed though...For once a journalist actually used their powers for good...

[The Great Klaid]

Well, thank you Orbus. It really is awful. It'd have been pretty fun screaming at work about spiders.... Although if I may go to the OT. Spiders in Video Games piss me off! It's not terribly cathartic killing them for my phobia and Skyrim's opening was...more difficult for me then others. The HD generation has it's downsides.... Also, there was some MMO I played where the Dark Elf mount was a spider. I believe it was Vangaurd, but needless to say I travelled on foot.

[Ike]

Don't play Dark Souls then, one of the bosses is a giant spider woman.

[The Great Klaid]

Oct 29, 2012 10:31:31 GMT -5 Ike said:

Don't play Dark Souls then, one of the bosses is a giant spider woman.

That's not so bad usually. It's the "faces" that get me the worst. Something about WoW makes them ignorable. Several other games as well, but when they get the more realistic faces... I play D&D so for an analogy Driders don't bug me... Ettercaps do. I also have the Dark Souls and the guide. I remember seeing her. Thanks though Ike!

[vetus]

www.souvlakihut.com/
10 dollars for two pita with gyros? While they cost 2 euros each (2,5 canadian dollars) or less in Greece? That's rip-off! And why the hell are they called sandwiches? Is the owner from Thesalloniki? Please tell me that souvlaki restaurants in Canada and USA are not as expensive as SouvlakiHut.

[Scylla]

That's pretty typical. In fact, the average place in NYC charges more than that. They're often referred to as sandwiches in the US, yeah. Usually a menu will offer a "gyro platter" and a "gyro sandwich". There are a lot of differences. It's really rare to find a place that puts fries in the pita in the US, and pork is pretty uncommon. When most Americans hear "gyro", they think the lamb and beef mixture. Most places don't stack up the slices of meat either. They buy premade loaves where all the meat is finely ground and pressed into a cylinder.

[Super Orbus]

Oct 29, 2012 22:30:42 GMT -5 vetus said:

www.souvlakihut.com/
10 dollars for two pita with gyros? While they cost 2 euros each (2,5 canadian dollars) or less in Greece? That's rip-off! And why the hell are they called sandwiches? Is the owner from Thesalloniki? Please tell me that souvlaki restaurants in Canada and USA are not as expensive as SouvlakiHut.

2 for $10? That's a bargain! Welcome to North America.

[vetus]

Re-post from a different thread about pita being called sandwich:
vetus.deviantart.com/art/This-is-not-a-sadwich-327414619

It's ok for foreigners to call them sandwiches (heck, it's even ok to call tzatziki as yogurt sauce) but not for greeks.

Oct 29, 2012 23:06:15 GMT -5 Scylla said:

That's pretty typical. In fact, the average place in NYC charges more than that.

Why do ethnic restaurants all over the world charge so much even for cheap food? Just like in some japanese restaurants in Greece where they charge 10 euros and over for a little bottle of sake even if it's cheap sake you can buy at convenience stores.

Oct 29, 2012 23:06:15 GMT -5 Scylla said:

It's really rare to find a place that puts fries in the pita in the US...

Actually there are some places in Greece where fries are not standard and you have to ask from them to add fries (they don't charge you extra for that, thank Godness). And in some other places the standard pita is not with tzatziki but with ketchup and mustard. That's why every time I order pita I tell them by detail how exactly I want my pita.


In other news, some other shit that pisses me off:

Greece's situation is already shitty enough, we don't need fasist organizations to make it worse. Even if their supporters are minority it's paranoia that Golden Dawn is legal and being used by greek goverment and police. I don't know if it's the same shit with fasist organizations and political parties in other countries too so I would like from you to enlight me.