"Just supply a PR"
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Did they have anything to say on the mater of rocking-horse shit
I'm not sure how exactly one mates with rocking-horse shit. I also have nothing to say about them, and I hope never to meet them either.
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I now have the unpleasant mental image of Disney's "Pinnochio" engaged in enthusiastic sexual congress with a pile of wood shavings.
Filed under : and now, so do you
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I now have the unpleasant mental image of Disney's "Pinnochio" engaged in enthusiastic sexual congress with a pile of wood shavings.
"Sorry, mate, my girlfriend had an accident with a garden shredder"
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I don't think I understand American politics.
It's not that hard. You have the sexual congress and the oral office.
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I now have the unpleasant mental image of Disney's "Pinnochio" engaged in enthusiastic sexual congress with a pile of wood shavings.
I thought wood shavings is what is left after he's done tbh...
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"Pinnochio - put that pencil sharpener down!"
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Did they have anything to say on the mater of rocking-horse shit?
Rocking-horse shit has a mother?
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Yeah, that's what drew my attention to the message. However, my impression was that that was interpreting “mater” as “one who mates” rather than the more correct “mother” (in Latin) and that required me to issue a notice of pedantry. I regret that my referencing of preceding posts was slipshod. Sorry about that.
(Of course, a mother also pretty much has to have been involved in mating. Or to have used a turkey baster. I think I'll stop there.)
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Of course, a mother also pretty much has to have been involved in mating. Or to have used a turkey baster. I think I'll stop there.
I unconsciously drew both meanings from the initial correction, thinking it a pun, hence my like on the post...
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I always find it amazing how many people read, "I don't know how X works", as "would someone explain how X works?"
If you don't want to know, why are you posting? You're wasting my precious neurons!
The alternative is "I wish to remain ignorant of X, but I'll criticise it and everyone who supports it anyway!", which is just being a dick.
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The alternative is "I wish to remain ignorant of X, but I'll criticise it and everyone who supports it anyway!", which is just being a dick.
You cracked the code!
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BUG:
necroing threads on discourse also necros them on the frontpage.
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On a related note - (not that it'll stop people) I'm certain the 180 days default is somewhat overoptimistic:
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this is the internet, I'm sure everything discussed in the last 6 months will definitely still be relevant.
but for sexy serious, that number should probably be more like 7.
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necroing threads on discourse also necros them on the frontpage.
Needs more heatmap.
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On a related note - (not that it'll stop people) I'm certain the 180 days default is somewhat overoptimistic:
Yeah, a couple of weeks is starting to enter necro territory around here, I think.
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I've changed it to 7.
I'm just hoping that, unlike certain heatmaps, it relates to the last post and not the first...
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That's what the "copy" says. Guess we'll find out.
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If you don't want to know, why are you posting? You're wasting my precious neurons!
The alternative is "I wish to remain ignorant of X, but I'll criticise it and everyone who supports it anyway!", which is just being a dick.
Humanity is especially good at criticising things they do not understand and may well suddenly about-face once they do understand them.
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may well suddenly about-face once they do understand them.
and thus @arantor's plan to turn us all into PHP devs is revealed.
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I'm not that unkind, plus even someone like me that is totally Stockholm-Syndrome'd into defending PHP at times is aware of Personal Hell Pit's foibles. They just don't bug me enough to do anything about it.
I just remember as a teenager being somewhat critical of Harry Potter until I sat down and read one of them.
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I just remember as a teenager being somewhat critical of Harry Potter until I sat down and read one of them
Yeah, my girlfriend did a deal with me that she'd read some sci-fi if I'd read Harry Potter. I was suprised when it was actually quite good.
I still hate that she's a so-so writer on the technical level and has got so much attention when other more brilliant authors haven't, but that isn't her fault.(My girlfriend welched on her part of the deal, and I was trying to get her to read Ian M Banks's Use Of Weapons which I thought she'd actually like)
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Yeah, my girlfriend did a deal with me that she'd read some sci-fi if I'd read Harry Potter. I was quite suprised when it was actually quite good.I still hate that she's a so-so writer on the technical level and has got so much attention when other more brilliant authors haven't, but that isn't her fault.
It all just seems so ad hoc. Every episode, there's some huge new thing of which there was previously no hint. It reminds me of a kid coming up with a story. Which is fine for a kid. Or a kids' story.
My impressions are based on the movies I've seen. I haven't read the books, but my wife has, and from conversations with her, I don't think reading the books would significantly alter my impression.
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I don't think reading the books would significantly alter my impression
I thought the book was better than the film (I've only seen/read the first one) but I don't think you'd get much more out of it if you didn't like the film that much. For a film adaption it was quite a good job.
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I thought the book was better than the film (I've only seen/read the first one) but I don't think you'd get much more out of it if you didn't like the film that much. For a film adaption it was quite a good job.
I should clarify: I enjoyed the movies, and books generally are better. But not the sort of thing I'm going to invest enough time to read those books for. OTOH, my wife loved them.
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I just remember as a teenager being somewhat critical of Harry Potter until I sat down and read one of them.
Sure I've mentioned this before, but for those who find Potter readable should give http://hpmor.com a look.
Edit: parallel bit in the canon is in book one after eventually reading the invite to Hogwarts. In this one, a scientifically sceptical Potter wants proof that magic exists. McGonagall turns up to the Potter household...
Harry was breathing in short gasps. His voice came out choked. "You can't DO that!"
"It's only a Transfiguration," said Professor McGonagall. "An Animagus transformation, to be exact."
"You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That's not just an arbitrary rule, it's implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signalling! And cats are COMPLICATED! A human mind can't just visualise a whole cat's anatomy and, and all the cat biochemistry, and what about the neurology? How can you go on thinking using a cat-sized brain?"
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If you have a reading level (do they do those any more?) above that of an 12 or 13 year old, you're gonna start finding Harry Potter tedious. It's fairly well written, but it's kids' fiction.
That said, it's better than Ayn Rand.
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Must send this to my son. He's both an HP fan and a physics geek (although he's only about to be a freshman, so I'm pretty sure he doesn't even know what a quantum Hamiltonian is, yet. (I probably did, sorta, once, but I've long forgotten.))
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I'm not that unkind, plus even someone like me that is totally Stockholm-Syndrome'd into defending PHP at times is aware of Personal Hell Pit's foibles. They just don't bug me enough to do anything about it.
I just remember as a teenager being somewhat critical of Harry Potter until I sat down and read one of them.
Just to add my 2%, The Naked Quidditch Match is darn good fan fiction in the Harry Potter realm.
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I just remember as a teenager being somewhat critical of Harry Potter until I sat down and read one of them.
Just to add my 2%, The Naked Quidditch Match is darn good fan fiction in the Harry Potter realm.Don't remind me, I had my HP phase. There's so many HP fanfictions out there you can actually find some pretty good stuff (albeit mostly uncompleted).
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Of course, if you ever wondered how would sado-mazo relationship between Harry Potter and Severus Snape (with jealous Draco Malfoy jumping in) play out, you can get that too.
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Of course, if you ever wondered how would sado-mazo relationship between Harry Potter and Severus Snape (with jealous Draco Malfoy jumping in) play out, you can get that too.
Can't say you make me curious.Anyway, I wrote my own version of book 7 with lots of sex & hate & violence just to see what it would be like but never put it online.
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Anyway, I wrote my own version of book 7 with lots of sex & hate & violence just to see what it would be like but never put it online.
Ah yes, there was an entire genre of Harry Potter FF that was based on that, especially after book 5 (once the story veered away from DnD style magic upgrades). Basically, Harry decides the whole power of love thing is bullshit (usually orchestrated by Dumbledore for his selfish reasons), gets really good at magic, kills a bunch of death eaters and gets to bang many girls (not Ginny, because she turns out to be a slut).
Ahh, good times. Google Independent!Harry some time (I think that was the notation).
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Can someone explain how we got to Harry Potter slash fiction from git pull requests?
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Because we aren't Jeff and can tolerate going off topic?
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Of course, if you ever wondered how would sado-mazo relationship between Harry Potter and Severus Snape (with jealous Draco Malfoy jumping in) play out, you can get that too.
While we're on topic...
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6829556/1/My-Immortal
Or, if you value your residues of sanity, TVTropes has you covered.
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Can someone explain how we got to Harry Potter slash fiction from git pull requests?
RTFT ;-)
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Surprisingly good :)
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Some clown necro'd a not-really-that-old thread, TDWTF commenters did what they do. I don't know how we could not get from "git pull" to Harry Potter slashfic.
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My faith in the awesomeness of this community continues to be rewarded.
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My faith in the awesomeness of this community continues to be retarded.
FTFY. HTH HAND
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I wouldn't disagree.
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Can someone explain how we got to Harry Potter slash fiction from git pull requests?
I read this as:
Can someone explain how we get Harry Potter slash fiction with git pull requests?
I thought maybe it was a new feature. Every PR comes with Harry Potter fanfic. Yeah, time to go to bed.