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908216
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Post by
Rankkor
wow I've been away too much lately
Ok something stupid someone has said recently? A tall order, internet is made of 90% stupidity.
But I'd say the most stupid thing I've seen in the last 48 hours is a post on (no surprise here) MMOChampion's subforum for Guild Wars 2. Someone criticizing the game, and drawing a comparing parallel to wow, immediately was jumped by a dummy who said and I quote: "You are just being paid off by blizzard to critizice this masterpiece"
This is by far the most retarded, half-assed, stupid, fallacious and nonsensical comment anyone can make when it comes to criticizing games. Go said something nice about GW2 on the blizz forums? Someone sooner or later will accuse you of being paid off by ArenaNet. Go say something nice about SWTOR on the GW2 Forums? someone will accuse you of being in Bioware's Pockets to advertise the game. Go say something nice about wow ON EVERY FORUM OF EVERY MMO EVER and someone will accuse you of being paid off by blizzard to spread lies and slander.
I can't help but facepalm when I see stupidity of that caliber. As if companies had nothing better to do with their money than pay off random joes to go chat on forums, when people already do that for free.
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Adamsm
170: The most recently locked thread.
Post by
Rystrave
When I heard that new Pink song on the radio and it said "whiskey *!@#" in it.
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134377
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Post by
ElhonnaDS
I meant to expound on this question, but Wowhead hasn't been working for me for like 4 hours. I had to boot up IE (yuck) to get on.
#170- What's the most ridiculous thing someone said in the last 48 hours? Either something you heard or something you read.
Post by
Interest
I meant to expound on this question, but Wowhead hasn't been working for me for like 4 hours. I had to boot up IE (yuck) to get on.
#170- What's the most ridiculous thing someone said in the last 48 hours? Either something you heard or something you read.
Something about how American males have a huge superiority complex. The irony is it's from someone with an equal or worse superiority complex.
Post by
Skithus
The Professor of my Network Management class told us the 4 rules of being a network administrator today.
Number 1 - Always.. Always get paid hourly
Number 2 - Never pick up your phone unless you are prepared to talk to some idiot on the other end for at least 30 minutes.
Number 3 - Never leave your computer if you can handle the situation remotely
Number 4 - You control everything, and have power over everyone. It doesn't matter if you're working for a Dr or a Lawyer, mess with their computers and their world comes crumbling down. Being a network administrator is as close as you will ever come to feeling like god.
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322702
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Post by
gamerunknown
There are a lot of competing incidents.
Sean Connery on domestic abuse
(the popularity of his sentiments disappoints me too).
This
(requires a bit of context: this woman consistently votes Republican and collects Social Security, they're unemployed, not retired and as far as I'm aware, they believe in mandatory abortion for the unemployed).
This
is a strong contender too.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
So it won't let me rename the thread, because of all the certificate errors it is apparently having. I will change the question at home tonight, where everything is working fine.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
#171- What's your favorite story to tell people about your life? A lot of people have a story they love to tell about this one crazy thing they did, or this amazing experience they had, or about this really funny thing that they saw happen. What's yours?
Post by
HiVolt
#171
My favorite story of my life to tell people is from two summers ago when I went to a hippie music festival. There are many drug references and I know that's kind of a no-no here, so I'll vague and brief.
In 2010, I went to the Sunshine Daydream festival outside of Pittsburgh just across the state border in West Virginia. My friends and I took a tent and set up there for two days. While I was there, I experienced altered states. It was beautiful: a spiritual experience. I can remember the music from the stage drifting lazily across the field, the cool touch of the dew-soaked grass, the intense and completely positive vibe given off by everyone in attendance. I still can't come up with adequate descriptions for the things that I saw, heard, and felt. I would recommend anyone to have this kind of experience at least once in their lives.
Post by
Rankkor
When I saved my mom. Even though it brought me a CRAPLOAD of problems, it makes me proud to say that when she needed me, I was there, and saved her life.
The second story would be about my first kiss with Reina :P
Post by
ElhonnaDS
@Rank- you should tell the story from last week- lol. THAT was a pretty great story. Especially the part at the end where Reina makes him apologize.
Post by
Rankkor
ohhh :P ok. (Warning, INCREDIBLY LONG TALE HERE)
Well, last week, I went to pick my wife from work, when we're walking towards the car, a dude approaches us. I dunno why, maybe it was my time in sabaneta but I got a sixth sense for danger, and when I saw that guy, a scrawny kid, maybe 20-something, all my warning flags went up.
He asked my wife what time was it, but when he was close enough, he pulls a gun on us and says this is a robbery. He asked me for my wallet. I told him that I don't use wallets (Its the first thing thieves go for, I can replace lost money, but replacing photos, drivers licence, ID card, and other documents is much much harder) that I could give him my money if he wanted to.
He then còcked his gun (as in he pushed the slide back to load a round from the clip to the chamber) and repeated in a slurry way "just gimme your wallet". I calmly explained to him that I don't use wallets, that he could either take my money, or he could let us go.
That's when he made his mistake. He tilted his head (as if not processing the information) and then proceeded to còck the gun again.
See, this is a classical mistake people make. Just because in movies and specially videogames, the protagonists and bad guys often còck their guns, doesn't mean in real life weapons work that way.
You only do that ONCE to load a round from the clip, to the chamber, and ONLY if you first depleted the entire bullet reserve on both clip and chamber, because if you reload without fully emptying your clip, that means your chamber still has a round loaded, and thus, no need to còck your gun. If you còck your gun again without even firing, then the bullet already in the chamber is ejected on the side, to make way for the new bullet on the clip to be stored on the chamber.
Of course, people who aren't familiar with guns (Which is almost everyone, since firearms are VERY restricted in my country) don't know this, and maybe this punk is used to intimidating folks who don't know this, and thus he còcks the gun several times to scare them.
Me? the moment I saw him do that again, and no bullet was ejected from the chamber, I came to the conclusion that A: either his gun was a fake, or B: His gun had no bullets in it.
So I didn't wasted any time and thoroughly disabled the guy. Upper cut to his nose, breaking it in the process, to disorient him, twisted his hand counter-clockwise, to make him drop the gun, twisted his arm behind his back, and slammed all my weight on it, breaking it, to prevent him from using any other weapon he may have had hidden on himself, 3 quick jabs to the ribs, to discourage him from doing anything stupid, (Which ended up cracking 3 of them) and finished him off by slamming him face-first into the curb. More or less in about 13 seconds.
Of course, my plan was to call the cops and an ambulance and get the hell out of there........... but of course, my wife is a pacifist, and a very devout religious woman who believes in non-violence, and gave me the scolding of the century :S
Saying I was overly violent on the kid. Of course, I felt my actions were justified, the kid (as we found later) was REALLY high on cocaine, and he had another weapon on him, a big serrated knife, which I'm sure he would had used once he realized his gun wasn't intimidating me anymore. I would had probably gone softer on him if I was alone, maybe just do the jab on the nose and twist his hand to disarm him, then I'd back off and let him make the next move, run away or continue figthing, but I was with my wife, who's life is more precious and valuable to me than anything else. I had to disable him right then and there, and IMO, I had enough self-control to know when to stop, if I wanted to I could had done A LOT more damage to him than I did.
Anyways, Reina made me drive the little punk to a hospital :S
She even brought him food, and started preaching to the kid (I'm only using the word "kid" in a metaphorical term, he was already a full grown 21 year old man). Of course the cops questioned him, and me on the hospital, but thankfully, the arresting officer was pretty reasonable, he said that drugged people are unpredictable, and are just as likely to be completely harmless (due to being wasted) as they are to being unbelievably dangerous (Due to deadened nerves, and overstimulated adrenals running on their system). That he once saw in his career a highly drugged suspect take 8 shots in the chest without slowing down, and that the amount of force I used was within justifiable limits
I still had to go to the precinct the next day, both me and my wife to give full statements, formally press charges, do all the paperwork, and worse.......... endure the parents (or to be more accurate, the mother) of the kid.
She spent the entire morning calling me a monster for putting her "precious little angel" in a hospital bed. How convenient of her to forget that her "little angel" was very VERY high on cocaine, was packing a knife, a gun, 2 stolen wallets, 1 stolen cellphone, a syringe which was recently used to administer his drugs, and even his shoes were stolen.
And I had to put up with that hag for 5 hours. LONGEST.FIVE HOURS.EVER!
Ohh if my parents hadn't taught me since childhood to respect my elders, I would had given that witch a piece of my mind, about her "wonderful" way to raise a child.
Anyhows, I got off the hook since the arresting officer vouched for me, and added that it was highly humanitarian of me to drive the mugger to the hospital after he tried to rob me, and threatened me and my wife with a gun. The kid got 6 months of prison (I know, I know, 6 months for armed robbery is a slap in the wrist, but I guess they took pity on the miserable shape I left him on)
And the incredible part, is that my wife, and her church (who do missionary work on hospitals, jails, orphanages, and such) continued to preach to the kid. My wife even convinced him to apologize to me o_O. And from the way he said it (Sobbing like a baby) it sounded very sincere too. He admitted he has a drug problem, and that all the stuff he stole was to pay for his addiction.
Of course, I sadly didn't got out of that one unscratched. Turns out I'm not 15 anymore, and when I punched him in the chest, dislocated my middle finger on my left hand, which was HURTING LIKE CRAP for the past 4 days =S
maybe next time I'll stick to punching soft tissue rather than bones.
/sighs, it would had probably been easier if the kid had just taken my money and gone away (I only had like 30000 bolivares anyways, a paltry sum, and nowhere near worth having to pay a medical bill to fix my hand, having to pay a nanny to take care of the kids while me and the wife were at the precinct almost all day giving the statement, having to endure the scolding of my wife (Who later admitted she over-reacted, she disapproves my methods, but appreciates my intentions of protecting her), and worse of all, having to endure the endless high-pitch high-velocity nagging of the punk's mother.)
Post by
Interest
All my trips to Korea and China, such as when I went to the DMZ and we messed around in one of the border houses =). I still have my souvenirs from there.
Post by
Rystrave
I've got three.
1) When I busted a window open with my arm.
2) When I got caught drinking by my folks.
3) The fact that I fell in love with my first love again.
Post by
Rankkor
I've got three.
1) When I busted a window open with my arm.
2) When I got caught drinking by my folks.
3) The fact that I fell in love with my first love again.
Auch. That must have hurt :P
Unless you protected your hand first.
Post by
Rystrave
I've got three.
1) When I busted a window open with my arm.
2) When I got caught drinking by my folks.
3) The fact that I fell in love with my first love again.
Auch. That must have hurt :P
Unless you protected your hand first.
It didn't hurt until I got out of shock. I didn't even cry, even though I was like 11 and was bleeding profusively. All I knew is that my mom was going to be pissed and that I didn't face that wrath at all lol
It's also the beginning of my sheer dislike for owls.
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