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Posted by Lira on Jul-26-2012 01:33:

Wow, lazy people are unbelievable.

I don't know if this exists in other countries, but there's usually a trolley cart or two in residential buildings here in Brazil so people can carry heavy stuff from their cars to their apartments. They're usually found in the garage, where it should be returned after use.

Tonight a woman simply left it in front of the lift and walked away. I was dumbstruck. How hard is it to spend 30 seconds of your life returning it if you bother to use the damn thing?
quote:
Originally posted by Lilith
Fledz is called Stimpy?


Posted by Sushipunk on Jul-26-2012 01:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Lilith
Fledz is called Stimpy?



Posted by Joss Weatherby on Jul-26-2012 01:54:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
Wow, lazy people are unbelievable.

I don't know if this exists in other countries, but there's usually a trolley cart or two in residential buildings here in Brazil so people can carry heavy stuff from their cars to their apartments. They're usually found in the garage, where it should be returned after use.

Tonight a woman simply left it in front of the lift and walked away. I was dumbstruck. How hard is it to spend 30 seconds of your life returning it if you bother to use the damn thing?



I like when you are at a grocery store or something and people get done with a cart and they just push it off with their foot and roll it across the lot into another parking space. I've seen people do that when they are literally right next to the cart return things... I think people do it because they are assholes not because they are lazy.

Actually now that I think about it I once saw someone push a cart they were using behind another car next to theirs so they could back out and just left it there...


Posted by Lira on Jul-26-2012 02:15:

I suspect this has something to do with big countries, such as the US, Brazil, and China, where population density isn't too high and you can be inconsiderate with others without wreaking total havoc.

I had never thought about it until I heard a Dutch primatologist (Frans De Waal) mention that this could be one of the reasons why Americans are a lot less community-driven than his fellow countrymen. Of course, I don't know how (and if) you can measure that, but I wonder if this could explain some of the differences... these people are too common to be considered outliers.


Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Jul-26-2012 03:57:

They just think someone else will do it. It's someone else's JOB, why not let them do their JOB, it's what they get paid for goddammit! In a perverted way, it makes some sense, though I always return carts as a common courtesy to the next person who might seek to use it.


Posted by Frenkieee on Jul-26-2012 06:37:

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
a common courtesy

This. I personally don't think it has do with being community-driven or not. I see it happen here too, but not that often. Just the assholes (with assholes as parents) do it.


Posted by Meat187 on Jul-26-2012 09:48:

I just gave a lecture / presentation to some students and one girl looked exactly like Banora. I found it weird and very irritating.

Damn you cor, for ruining my everyday life.


Posted by Fledz on Jul-26-2012 10:22:

Was it a real doll?


Posted by Meat187 on Jul-26-2012 12:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Fledz
Was it a real doll?


Judging by the interest she exhibited in what I was talking about yes, definitely a real doll.

It's really weird, when two people look the same my mind starts fusing them into one. If I ever have a student that looks like Lira I'll probably start trolling him for being a philosophy-loving hippie.


Posted by Vector A on Jul-26-2012 13:20:

Speaking of look-alikes, the other day someone at my bank claimed I had a "twin" who also banked there.


Posted by Lira on Jul-26-2012 15:58:

quote:
Originally posted by Frenkieee
This. I personally don't think it has do with being community-driven or not. I see it happen here too, but not that often. Just the assholes (with assholes as parents) do it.

Oh, well, then Frans de Waal's speculations are wrong.

For shame, it was a good hypothesis
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Originally posted by Vector A
Speaking of look-alikes, the other day someone at my bank claimed I had a "twin" who also banked there.

Back when I studied foreign affairs, I met a guy that looked an awful lot like me. The difference is that he was shorter than me and he was always wearing camo shirts/trousers, while I'm more of a plaid flannel kind of guy

The similarity was so striking I was once barred from using the copy machine because "I had just used it". The supervisor only let me use the damn thing after she realised I couldn't have changed my clothes so quickly.
quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
It's really weird, when two people look the same my mind starts fusing them into one. If I ever have a student that looks like Lira I'll probably start trolling him for being a philosophy-loving hippie.

Remember to take pics, I want to know who my trolled doppelganger is!


Posted by Lira on Jul-26-2012 16:03:

A question about Brian's avatar:

Does anyone else see a crisp/potato chip instead of the chair?


Posted by Vector A on Jul-26-2012 16:21:

Sure, if I defocus my eyes a lot.


Posted by Lira on Jul-26-2012 18:14:

I guess I need new glasses

By the way, today I woke up angry with my country. The public higher education institutions have been on strike for the last trimester, and I've had enough of these motherfucking syndicalists in my motherfucking university. Is there anything like a "scientific asylum"? I'm off to visit the British, the Dutch, and the Meaty embassies... I'm not willing to be in a PhD programme that may come to a halt whenever bureaucrats decide to quarrel with the government. This is not France, god damn it


Posted by Mattsanity. on Jul-26-2012 19:58:

You have to think you're never wrong.
You have to act like you're someone.
You want someone to hurt like you.
You want to share what you've been through.


Posted by Meat187 on Jul-26-2012 20:32:

You have to shut up.


Posted by Acton on Jul-26-2012 20:49:

quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
You have to shut up.


Posted by Lira on Jul-26-2012 20:53:

Back. The Dutch were awesome, the Brits were very supportive, the Krauts told me to wait and look for info on the internet because the person in charge of helping students wasn't available at the moment (but I could go back as soon as this person returned), and the Aussies told me they don't deal with pesky scientists.

Hmm.... now I need to find out if I can tell my country to sod off, or if I need to stay now that I'm being paid for the government to do bugger all in a university paralysed by this series of strikes...


Posted by Meat187 on Jul-26-2012 21:08:

Wait, does this mean you might be coming to Europe?


Posted by Mattsanity. on Jul-26-2012 21:09:

I don't even think you're kidding. You really do want me to shut up.

Forgive me yall. This account was intended as a temporary ALT and it has instead become my original account. To make amends with all my peers, I'm going to flagellate myself tonight in the name of yeshua.


Posted by EddieZilker on Jul-26-2012 21:14:

quote:
Originally posted by Mattsanity.
I don't even think you're kidding. You really do want me to shut up.

Forgive me yall. This account was intended as a temporary ALT and it has instead become my original account. To make amends with all my peers, I'm going to flagellate myself tonight in the name of yeshua.


Maybe, instead of beating yourself, you could make amends by having a little intellectual integrity and thinking before you post. Failing that, you could just shut up. Beating yourself is unnecessary and counter-productive. I'm sure Lira's not the only person to have given up on you but there is someone who still loves you.








It's Jesus, Matt. Shut up for Jesus.


Posted by Lira on Jul-26-2012 21:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
Wait, does this mean you might be coming to Europe?

I hope so. Last year some people in Nijmegen showed some interest in my research but things didn't really work out... because I'm already enrolled in a PhD course here, I didn't really insist or anything. Now that my research is being hindered by these tossers, I'm once again thinking of going back to the old continent.
quote:
Originally posted by Mattsanity.
I don't even think you're kidding. You really do want me to shut up.

Yes, we do. Just stop trolling, for Christ's sake (no pun intended).


Posted by Mattsanity. on Jul-26-2012 21:23:

Trolling is an art, but one thing I didn't troll is being a christian. I'm not that smart. If I faked being a christian this whole time, then that would've been the greatest troll work in online history.

Yes, I agree with thinking before I post. If the Holy Spirit guides me though, I'll have to say something even if I'm walking into a lion's den.


Posted by EddieZilker on Jul-26-2012 21:25:

Proverbs 12:8

"A man is praised according to his wisdom, but men with warped minds are despised."


Posted by Frenkieee on Jul-26-2012 21:28:

Kind of funny actually


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