Politics category
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@boomzilla
Dood is dead in Dutch.
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@Luhmann Did someone kill him? Where's Dutch?
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@Luhmann said in Politics category:
You misspelled Vans, skaterboy
Those are my shoes. They don't sell groceries.
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@Luhmann said in Politics category:
Vans
Uhg. Okay, I know it's not the shoe company's fault, but...
Long time ago, a roommate would sneak in to my room while I was out and use the computer. He did this to avoid paying for part of the Internet bill. "I don't use the Internet", he said.
There were subtle things I noticed, like the mouse and keyboard being in different positions, or just OCD-shit that only I would notice. Like the desktop icon for the web browser still being highlighted. (ie: click to launch from desktop, close the window afterwards). I always used the taskbar. And I also hate having a desktop icon highlighted-- what if I accidentally press enter? In any case, the computer would be left in a state that I wouldn't leave it in (for stupid reasons, but still not a state I would leave it in).
All I had to do is say "If you're going to use the Internet, you have to pay for half of it."
Him: "How do you know I was using it."
Me: "I know."
Him: .... yeah, you probably do.
ANYWAYS he paid for half, and got his own computer anyways, so it wasn't a big issue.
So flash forward to a while later. He isn't a roommate anymore. I'm running low on hard drive space. Time to clean up my Thunderbird (this was a while ago). Do the usual. Purge deleted items, compress the inbox, then go into Sent to get rid of any large files.
And then I notice an email I know I didn't send. It's from me, but not FROM me. Apparently said roommate didn't know exactly what clicking a "mailto" link did.
So there's this multi-email thread there from Roommate, to the webmaster of a Vans Fetish porn site. Apparently to get access to the site, you had to email the webmaster and prove you were an ACTUAL Vans fetishist, and not just someone looking for cheap porn thrills (plus to prove your age).
The emails had explicit details about how it turned my roommate on.
There was also a heated argument, because my roommate claimed he'd been a fetishist for X years, and the webmaster was calling him a bullshitter because that would make him Y years old when he first started getting attracted to Vans. And Y is "too young" to have real sexual urges or to understand the concept of fetish. So my roommate must have been lying about his age. (He wasn't, he was in his late 20s at the time). And my roommate arguing back about how he was a young bloomer. And then there was a whole debate about sexual awakening in children, and the difference between being attracted to shoes vs. fetishizing them, and at what age someone's brain can actually form a fetish....
So short story long, any time I hear about the Van's brand, I get a little sick inside and-- even though I've changed furniture many times since-- want to bleach whatever computer chair I'm sitting on.
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That's unfortunate ... But the real kicker is that @boomzilla apparently wears Vans
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@Luhmann said in Politics category:
@boomzilla apparently wears Vans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXPlPAw117I#t=8m30s&end=8m37s
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@Lorne-Kates said in Politics category:
Like the desktop icon for the web browser still being highlighted. (ie: click to launch from desktop, close the window afterwards).
Vaguely related story:
One time I was messing around with a friend's Mac, and for some reason had highlighted everything on the desktop. I then wanted to get to the hard drive so I double clicked on it.
On Windows, the first click deselects everything else and the second counts as a double click. On a mac, it tries to open everything you had selected. My friend thought it was weird that I'd expect anything else, I thought it was weird that double clicking something opened a load of other stuff.
Fucking macs
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@Luhmann said in Politics category:
But the real kicker is that @boomzilla apparently wears Vans
Oooh yeahhhh!
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@Luhmann said in Politics category:
. But the real kicker is that @boomzilla apparently wears Vans
So do we hook the two up, or what?
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@boomzilla said in Politics category:
I don't believe those are yours. Insufficient grass stains from chasing kids off your lawn.
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@HardwareGeek said in Politics category:
I don't believe those are yours. Insufficient grass stains from chasing kids off your lawn.
Of course. I have an older pair that I use for stuff like yardwork.
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@boomzilla said in Politics category:
@HardwareGeek said in Politics category:
I don't believe those are yours. Insufficient grass stains from chasing kids off your lawn.
Of course. I have an older pair that I use for stuff like yardwork.
The paint was definitely photoshopped onto the shoes.
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@pydsigner said in Politics category:
The paint was definitely photoshopped onto the shoes.
I use Linux you insensitive clod!
Also, if that were true then last summer wouldn't have sucked as much as it did.
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@Lorne-Kates I have no idea what Vans shoes are, so for most of that I read it as vans (i.e. trucks) and assumed you were bad at capitalisation.
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@pydsigner said in Politics category:
The paint was definitely photoshopped onto the shoes.
That isn't paint.
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@dse said in Politics category:
@Arantor said in Politics category:
@dse How would I be responsible? I'm British and therefore not eligible to vote between the criminal or the buffoon.
Very easily! Immigrate here (illegally of course) and vote for the criminal, that would be business as usual! Buffoons are elected only once in a blue moon, but soon leave with cloudy mushroom that reaches to the moon.
And thank you fir demonstrating why I feel this category is necessary
You are welcome
A topic asking for a politics category... ends up being politics